UCLA Department of History

Fisheries Science and Atomic Thresholds
2024-05-20 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 5288 Bunche Hall
Joshua McGuffie (UCLA)

Ruth Mostern "Placing Place in History: Digital Approaches to Spatial Insight about the Chinese and Global Past"
2024-05-20 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Melissa Morris “’Pirates Which Infest That Coast’: Illicit Trade and Imperial Rivalry in Seventeenth-Century Western Hispaniola”
2024-05-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6275 & Zoom
Dr. Melissa N. Morris is a historian of early America and the Atlantic World whose research is centered on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She is particularly interested in the cross-cultural interactions that defined colonial encounters, the role of plants in driving European expansion, the dissemination of geographic and agricultural knowledge, and colonial failures in the Americas. She completed her PhD in history at Columbia University in 2017. Dr. Morris’s first book project, “Cultivating Colonies: Tobacco and the Origins of Empires, 1580-1740,” considers how tobacco helped the Dutch, English, and French establish empires in the Americas. It looks in particular at how Europeans relied upon indigenous and Spanish assistance to learn to cultivate tobacco, a crop they grew in nearly all their early colonies.

Undergraduate History Research Conference
2024-05-29 10:00 - 15:45 | 6275 Bunche Hall

How to Paint Space: American Astronomical Illustration and the Settlement of the Space Age Landscape
2024-06-03 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Lois Rosson (The Huntington Library)

Violence in the Suburbs of France: A Tragic Cycle of Déjà Vus
2024-06-05 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
RSVP Here by June 3

UCLA History Department Open House
2024-09-25 14:30 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Incoming and returning students are invited to the History Department’s Open House! Make the most out of your UCLA experience and learn about:
· Academic Counseling
· Faculty-Student Engagement
· HistoryCorps Internships
· Public History Initiative
· Luskin Center for History and Policy
· Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society
· History Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB)
· and much more!
RSVP is encouraged, but walk-ins are always welcome! Please RSVP via https://forms.gle/oavBSVeDP2EWdtS3A.
Event details –
Date/time: Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 from 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: UCLA Campus, Bunche Hall, History Conference Room 6275
If you have any questions about this program, please contact undergrad@history.ucla.edu.
Refreshments will be served!

Rose Campbell, Bioarchaeologist and Egyptologist "Modern and Man-Made? Tracking Cancer through the Past"
2024-10-07 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Manuel Covo (UCSB), "Colonial Taxpayers in the Age of the French and Haitian Revolutions"
2024-10-07 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Elizabeth Hinton (Yale University), Criminal Injustice: Crack Cocaine Laws and Their Legacies
2024-10-09 16:00 - 17:00

Red, White and Black Turns Gold: Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium
2024-10-13 09:30 - 23:00
The Autry Museum of the American West and the UCLA Department of History (with support from the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History; Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History; Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World; and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History) is hosting an event marking the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Gary B. Nash’s Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America.
RSVP

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University: “On the Wings of Locusts: Ancient Rome and New Ecological Histories"
2024-10-14 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Amir Alexander, Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
2024-10-21 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Erik Linstrum (UVA), "Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire"
2024-10-28 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Why History Matters: Reproductive Rights and Justice
2024-10-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Royce Hall, Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

(Postponed) Ariela Gross, Of Coercion, Consent, and Concubines: The Regulation and Litigation of Interracial Sex and Marriage under Slavery in the U.S. South
2024-10-31 12:00 - 13:00
Event Details Coming Soon.

History of Gender and Sexuality Annual Graduate Student Workshop
2024-11-01 09:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Edward Polanco "In Cintli, In Pahtli: Corn as a Cure in Nahua Communities"
2024-11-04 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

A UCLA Veterans Remembrance: Conflict, Captivity and Peace
2024-11-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Collins Room, UCLA James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plz., UCLA Alumni Association, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

UCLA History Department Tea with Transfers
2024-11-18 12:30 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
You are cordially invited to the History Department’s Tea with Transfers event, hosted by the History Undergraduate Advisor Board. Stop by to make new transfer friends, reconnect with old ones, and learn how to make the most of your time at UCLA! Gain peer insight on topics such as:

The Honors Thesis Program
Communicating with professors & counselors
Important dates & opportunities

Refreshments will be served.

Alexander Martin (Uni Notre Dame) "The Pastor and His Afterlife: A German-Russian Microhistory of the Long 19th Century"
2024-11-18 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Pablo Gómez "Bloody Numbers: Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Human Body in the Early Iberian Atlantic"
2024-11-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Royce 306
Join via Zoom.

(Samuel Lamontagne) Pan-African Sounds: Archival Perspectives on Black Music
2024-11-20 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Meng Zhang, "Edible Birds' Nests and the Making of Medical Knowledge in Early Modern China"
2024-12-02 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall

CANCELLED - Nydia Pineda de Ávila (University of California, San Diego): “The Art and Politics of Early Modern Lunar Maps”
2025-01-13 16:00 - 17:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
This event has been cancelled.

CANCELLED - Charles-François Mathis (Panthéon-Sorbonne University): "Energy Cultures and Environmental Transition: Tracing the Roots of Our Imaginaries of Power"
2025-01-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Sharrona Pearl (Texas Christian University): “A Super Useless Super Skill: Super Recognizers and Face Recognition Technology”
2025-01-27 16:00 - 17:00

UCLA History Department Senior Honors Thesis Workshop
2025-01-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom RSVP
Interested in carrying out a year-long independent research project that will culminate in an honors thesis? Our department will be hosting a workshop for interested students on Tuesday, January 28th at 1pm via Zoom. Please RSVP via https://forms.gle/6cz8C7hDvn8gATiL6.

Oliver Cussen (UC Berkeley): "Colonial Enlightenment and Capitalism's Ecological Repressed"
2025-01-29 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Joan Flores-Villalobos (University of Southern California), "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal"
2025-01-30 15:00 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
