Patricia M. Marcos, “‘True Sex’: Adjudicating Gender and the Sciences of Racial Improvement in the Portuguese Atlantic (1740-1790)”
2023-10-09 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 5288 Bunche Hall

Tanya Bride (UCLA History) - Trails of Hoof and Pawprints
2023-10-19 12:00 | Zoom
Please join us for our first lecture series of the 23-24 academic year featuring Tanya Bride who will speak on “Trails of Hoof and Pawprints: Tracing human-animal relations in colonial Mexico through the religious courts and Relaciones Geográficas”.
Please note: This event will only be held via Zoom. It will not be in person.
This event is part of the UCLA History Department Atlantic History lecture series.

Michael McGovern, “Quantifying Injustice: Law, Science, and History”
2023-10-23 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Zoom link here

Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa"
2023-10-26 16:00

Isabela Dornelas, “From Pelvic to Abdominal: The Development of Cesarean Section in Brazil, Mid-XIX Century.”
2023-10-30 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall

America on Strike: Labor Takes Center Stage
2023-11-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Founders Room, UCLA James West Alumni Center
—– RSVP: In-Person and Virtual —–

Thomas Barton (Univ. of San Diego) “Forbidden Love in the Archives: Exploring the Possibilities of Medieval Municipal Sources”
2023-11-08 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Mike Jarvis (Rochester) - Castle Cormantine and Early English Africa, 1632-1672
2023-11-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6275 & Zoom
The Atlantic History Colloquium generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of historical memory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise of abolitionist and Pan-African ideologies; and the dynamics of race, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world.
Please visit UCLA Atlantic History for more information and a complete schedule of events in 2023.

Stefan Rinke, "Doing Latin American History From a European Perspective During the Boom Times of the Global"
2023-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Sara McDougall (City University of New York) “Sex on Trial: a Tale of Survival from Late Medieval France”
2023-11-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia), "Vistas of the Mind: Cognitive Ethics and Practice in Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism"
2023-11-15 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Rewriting Comparative History: Engagement with the Work of R. Bin Wong
2023-11-16 09:00 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A symposium in honor of Professor R. Bin Wong on the occasion of his retirement from the UCLA history department. Distinguished scholars, including former students of Professor Wong, will lead conversations about major aspects of his far-ranging contributions to scholarship on Chinese history, comparative history, and social theory.
Schedule:

9:00-9:15 am
Welcome

9:15-10:05:
first session
“Collaboration Across the State/Society Divide”: Maura Dykstra (Yale University)

10:05-10:55:
second session
“Storage and Stability”: Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

10:55-11:10:
Coffee Break

11:10-12:00:
third session
“The Fiscal State and Public Goods”: Richard von Glahn (UCLA)

12:00-1:30 pm:
Lunch Break

1:30-2:20:
fourth session
“The State in Comparative Perspective”: Timothy Brook (University of British Columbia)

2:20-3:10:
fifth session
“Symmetry in Comparative Analysis”: Zhang Meng (Vanderbilt University)

3:10-3:25:
Coffee Break

3:25-4:15:
sixth session
“Theory and Contingency”: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (California Institute of Technology)

Danielle Carr, "SPACE/EARTH/BRAIN: The International Brain Research Organization and the Disciplinary Formation of Neuroscience."
2023-11-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche 5288 & Zoom
This event will be held in person and via Zoom.

Understanding The Israel-Gaza Conflict: Causes, Conduct, Consequences
2023-11-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom

Justin Dunnavant (UCLA Anthropology) - Denmark Vesey: A Caribbean Revolution in South Carolina
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6275 & Zoom

Celebration of the publication of Surgery and Salvation (UNC Press Nov 2023) by Elizabeth O’Brien
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche 6275 & Zoom
Celebration of the publication of Surgery and Salvation (UNC Press Nov 2023) by Elizabeth O’Brien (UCLA History Department). Co-Sponsored by the History of Gender and Sexuality Working Group. Details to follow.
This event will be held in-person and via Zoom.

Margot Canaday, "Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America"
2023-12-07 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Elizabeth Hinton: Racism, Law, and the Hidden Power of the Archive
2024-01-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Bunche 6275 & Zoom
Wednesday, January 10 at 4:00pm | Bunche 6275
RSVP Here

Alice Baumgartner, University of Southern California, “Slavery After Abolition: Seeking Freedom in Post-Emancipation North America”
2024-01-18 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Lisa Onaga (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
2024-01-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Bunche 5288 & Zoom
“Silk and Leather: Paths to Biomaterials Science in 20th Century Japan”
Link to Zoom Registration

Madina Thiam: “The Inland Shore: an Intimate History of Revolution and Decolonization in Muslim West Africa.”
2024-01-22 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

UCLA History Department Tea with Transfers
2024-01-23 14:00 - 15:30 | 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.

Emma Teitelman (McGill University), “Rupture and Reconstruction: Extractive Capital in the Post-Civil War United States”
2024-01-25 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Vivien Tejada (Duke University), “Geographies of Coercion: Conquest, Slavery, and Native Labor on the Upper Mississippi”
2024-01-30 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

UCLA History Department Senior Honors Thesis Workshop
2024-02-01 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 Thursday, February 1st at 1pm via Zoom.
Please RSVP via https://forms.gle/vaoaE2sd9wh2PVqp8.

Kara Schlichting (Queens College, CUNY)
2024-02-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Bunche 5288 & Zoom
“Summer Dangers: Climatological Understandings of Ill-Health in 19th Century New York”
Link to Zoom Registration

Meng Zhang (Vanderbilt University), “Empire of Impartiality: Cross-Cultural Debt and Qing Political Economy”
2024-02-06 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Book celebration for Kirsten Moore-Sheeley (Cedars-Sinai and Claremont Graduate University)
2024-02-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Bunche 5288 & Zoom
Featuring a panel discussion of Nothing but Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects (Johns Hopkins, December 2023) with panelists Chien-Ling Liu (UCLA) and Aro Velmet (USC)
Link to Zoom Registration

Stephanie Painter (University of Chicago), “What She Had: Women Managing Property and Confronting Financial Collapse in Mid-Qing China”
2024-02-20 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Mara Yue Du (Cornell University), “From Dynastic State to Imperial Nation: International Law, Diplomacy, and the Conceptual Decentralization of China, 1860s-1900s”
2024-02-29 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
