Michele Wallace- “The Myth of the Superwoman Revisited”
6275 Bunche HallMichele Wallace and Ellen Dubois
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History of Science Colloquium
5288 Bunche HallJean Pierre Beaud (CIRST, Université de Québec à Montréal) “What is a population? Reflections on two Statistical Descriptions of Canada”
Pamela Fuentes – “Madams, Pimps, and the End of Regulated Prostitution in Mexico City, 1940-1952”
6275 Bunche HallPamela J. Fuentes is a postdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de Mexico. She received a PhD from York University (Toronto, Canada) in 2015, an MA in Mexican History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2008) and BA from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on modern Mexican history, with […]
Winston James – “The Bolshevization of Claude McKay: The Radicalization of His British Sojourn, 1919-1921.”
6275 Bunche HallWinston James is a Professor in the Department of History at University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Caribbean, African-American, Black Britain, and the African Diaspora.
Casey Lurtz – “From the Grounds Up: Community, Exchange, and the Building of a Coffee Economy in Southern Mexico, 1867-1920”
6275 Bunche HallCasey Marina Lurtz is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She was previously the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and spent a year as a predoctoral fellow at the UC San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. She has articles forthcoming in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Business History Review, […]
María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni – “Concepts in Action: Sovereignty and Republican Political Culture in Post-Independent Mexico, 1821-1828”
6275 Bunche HallMaría Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni served as Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2014. She received a PhD (2008) and an MA (2005) in History from El Colegio de Michoacán and a BA in Culture Science from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on the political culture, […]
James Secord – “Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire”
5288 Bunche HallJames Secord is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. His research interests include social history of science since 1750, life and earth sciences, and the history of science communication.
Fernando Peréz-Montesinos – “The Liberal State and Purépecha Communities: Remaking Life on the Land”
6275 Bunche HallFernando Peréz-Montesinos received his M.A. in 2009 and his Ph.D. in 2015 at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Fernando writes, “My heart… remained with the history of indigenous people in modern Latin America. I thus embarked on a study of the Purépecha people of Michoacán (central-west Mexico) and examined how they coped with and contributed to shape a century-long process (1800-1914) of major land […]
Futures of History Conference
Palisades Room, Carnesale CommonsThis is a conference aimed at empowering the next generation of historians. Futures of History will be held on February 25–26, 2015 in the Palisades room on the third floor of Carnesale Commons. Breakout sessions will take place in Malibu, Venice, and Hermosa rooms on the second floor. More information about this event...
#StandWithJNU: A Forum on Nationalism and Dissent
11372 Bunche HallCISA and the South Asia Graduate Association Present: #StandWithJNU: A Forum on Nationalism and Dissent. Featuring talks by: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History) , Vinay Lal (History), and Aparna Sharma (World Arts and Cultures). Light refreshments.
Caroline Ford – “Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France”
5288 Bunche HallCaroline Ford is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include modern France, environmental history, and urban and architectural history. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department.
Vinay Lal – “The Politics of Internet Hinduism”
6275 Bunche HallHinduism’s adherents, particularly in the United States, have displayed in recent years a marked tendency to turn towards various forms of digital media, and in particular the internet, to forge new forms of Hindu identity, furnish Hinduism with a purportedly more coherent and monotheistic form, engage in debates on American multiculturalism, and partake of the […]
