Nile Green to present on "When Hajji Baba Met Frankenstein: The Middle Eastern Encounter with the Scientific Revolution." Sponsored/Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Program on Central Asia, Dept. of History, and the Center for the Study of Religion. For more information, please contact UCLA Center for […]
Despite myths of a postracial world, racism is alive and well. In his “engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America” (Washington Post), the historian and 2016 National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi traces the arc of antiblack racist ideas from 15th-century Portugal to the founding of the United States, arguing that we must confront the […]
Karen Havey is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Sheffield. Her focus as a cultural historian is of the British long eighteenth century, with a special interest in gender.