Casey 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 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 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 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 […]
This 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...
CISA 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 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.
Hinduism’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 […]
Alon Confino is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and at Ben-Gurion University. At the heart of his work are the imagination, sensibilities, and emotions that make the stories people tell themselves about their past to give meaning to their world. He has published extensively on modern German and European history, on […]
UCLA Royce Hall - Room 314
10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, United States
A conference organized by Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles; Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale; and John Christian Laursen, University of California, Riverside. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History; Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli; and Centro di Ricerca della Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. This conference explores philosophical writings that circulated clandestinely in the […]
This is an all day event, scheduled to begin at 8:45 and go until 4:00pm. You can view information and biographies about the speakers, the event program, and registration at this url.
