UCLA Department of History

Qing History Symposium: "Three Views from the Field"
2017-02-23 12:00 - 2017-02-24 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 11348 Charles E. Young Research Library
RSVP required for this two-day symposium.
Please download the flyer for the list of speakers and schedule for each day.
This event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the UCLA Department of History.

Minayo Nasiali and Lia Nicole Brozgal - "The Battle of Algiers" Film Screening and Discussion
2017-02-21 18:00 - 21:00

Why History Matters: Mayors Past on the Present and Future of Los Angeles
2017-02-16 19:30 | Schoenberg Hall
Please join us for a Conversation with Richard Riordan, James Hahn, and Antonio Villaraigosa.
This event will be moderated by Jim Newton – journalist, author and former editor of the Los Angeles Times.
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Photos from this event can be viewed here.

Joris van Eijnatten - "Mining an Uncharted Continent: Europe in Twentieth-Century Dutch Newspapers
2017-02-16 18:00 | California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
The UCLA Department of History
Invites you to attend the 12th anniversary celebration of the
Johannes Van Tilburg Lecture in Dutch Studies
Mining an Uncharted Continent:
Europe in Twentieth-Century Dutch Newspapers
presented by
Joris van Eijnatten
Professor and Chair in Cultural History
Department of History and Art History
Utrecht University
— Reception to follow —
RSVP
Parking available for $12 in Structure 2

History Minor Open House
2017-02-14 13:00 - 15:00

Matthew Hunter - “Space, Time, and Chemistry: Making and Defacing Enlightenment Photography” Perloff Hall, “Decafé”
2017-02-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Architecture and Urban Planning

Cam Grey - “Communities, Catastrophes, and Cannibals: Social Histories of Late Antiquity”
2017-02-09 16:00 - 18:00
Cam Grey (University of Pennsylvania) is a candidate for the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History.

Henrik Mouritsen - “New Perspectives on Rome as a Slave Society: Revisiting the Evidence from Herculaneum”
2017-02-07 16:00 - 18:00
Henrik Mouritsen (King’s College, London) is a candidate for the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History.

Elena Aranova, “Bridging Biology and Geophysics in 1970s California: Using Animal as Sensors in the US Geological Survey’s Earthquake Prediction Study”
2017-02-06 16:00 - 18:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

David Potter, “ Democracy, Plunder and the Invention of Italia”
2017-02-02 16:00 - 18:00
David Potter (University of Michigan) is a candidate for the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History.

"German Autos and the European Union: The Historical Role of Production and Distribution Networks in Postwar Integration"
2017-01-26 16:00
Refreshments will be served

Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
2017-01-26 12:00

2017 Alden-Berg Lecture
2017-01-24 19:00
The 2017 Alden-Berg Lecture
will feature speaker
Benjamin Madley,
who will be discussing his recent book,
An American Genocide.
RSVP for the Lecture

Marisa Fuentes, "'Refuse' Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade"
2017-01-24 12:00 - 14:00
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Maris J. Fuentes (Rutgers University, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and History)
“‘Refuse’ Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade”
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
6275 Bunche Hall, 12 PM-2 PM

'Refuse' Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade
2017-01-24 12:00 - 14:00

Amir Alexander - “A Space for Free Men: The Cartesian Landscape of America.”
2017-01-23 16:00 - 18:00

John Tutino - "The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History"
2017-01-23 11:00 - 13:00

Carla Pestana - “Quaker Mobility and the threat to English America”
2017-01-19 12:00 - 13:30
This talk considers the force and voluntary circulation of Quakers through the mid-17th century Atlantic.
–Part of the CRS Faculty Lecture Series–

European History Colloquium - Karen Harvey, "Rabbits, Whigs, and Hunters: Cultural History and Protest in Mary Toft’s Monstrous Births of 1726"
2017-01-12 16:00 - 18:00
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.

Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi & Brenda Stevenson
2016-12-04 13:30
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 history of racist ideas in order to grapple with racism’s insidious hold on America. UCLA Professor of History Brenda Stevenson joins Kendi in conversation.
A book signing with Professor Kendi follows the conversation.

Hippolyte Goux- “Class and Calculation: Liberalism and Market Technologies in 19th century France”
2016-11-28 16:00 - 18:00

Andrew Mendelsohn-“Criticism and the Growth of Method: Autopsy, 1650-1850"
2016-11-21 16:00 - 18:00

Histories of Data and the Database
2016-11-18 08:30 - 2016-11-19 17:00

How to use LinkedIn to get a job
2016-11-17 17:00 - 18:00

Benjamin Straumann - "Jean Bodin on the late Roman Republic and Constitutional Government"
2016-11-03 16:00 - 18:00
Refreshments will be served.

Ted Porter -“Turning the Tables on Degeneration”
2016-10-31 16:00 - 18:00

Installation celebration of Professor Brenda Stevenson as the Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History
2016-10-24 18:00

B. Harun Küçük -“The Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Prayer Compass”
2016-10-24 16:00 - 18:00

Dr. Nicholas Al-Jeelo, "Assyrian Continuity Post-Empire: The Relevance of Preserving Assyrian History and Heritage"
2016-10-21 19:00
Nearest Parking: UCLA parking structure P5

Nile Green - "When Hajji Baba Met Frankenstein: The Middle Eastern Encounter with the Scientific Revolution"
2016-10-20 16:00 - 18:00
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 Near Eastern Studies:
Tel: (310) 825- 1181
cnes@international.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/
