Mary Terrall – “Michel Adanson’s Imagined Plantations: Secrecy, Botanical Knowledge, and French Colonial Policy after the Seven Years’ War”
5288 Bunche HallMary Terrall is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mary Terrall is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jean-Marc Dreyfus is Reader in History and in Holocaust Studies at the University of Manchester (History Division), United Kingdom. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Harvard and the Centre Marc-Bloch in Berlin. He is the author of six monographs, including L’impossible réparation. Déportés, biens spoliés, or nazi, comptes bloqués, criminels […]
Michael Rothberg is Professor of English and Head of the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. His latest book is Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009), published by Stanford University Press in […]
Nancy O. Gallman is a Ph.D. candidate in Early American History at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation, “American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida,” is a comparative legal history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish–Native East Florida. It examines the interactions between Spanish colonial law and the customary law of […]
Seventy years after the end of the war, the liberation of the camps is still relatively understudied by historians. In this lecture, Dan Stone will give an overview of the different sorts of liberation experienced by the victims of Nazism and explain the importance of the liberation and what followed for understanding the history of […]
John Laslett is an Emeritus Research Professor in the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on United States History: American labor and social movements; U.S., Asian, Black and Mexican immigration; and comparative Euro-American history.
Students and faculty are cordially invited to a presentation on the critically critically acclaimed TV Series JUANA INES. Juana Inés centers on the personal life of the renowned writer and poet of the Colonial times in Mexico: Sor Juana. She is considered an outstanding early feminist of the Americas. The academic literature on Sor Juana is […]
Please note: This meeting is designed especially for graduate students, and will be organized as a discussion of short essays about Kuhn and Gillispie. Essays will be circulated to history of science grad students; anyone else who would like to participate can get the papers from Iris (irisclever@ucla.edu)
Kathleen Murphy (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
This presentation invites us to imagine afrodescended Latin@s—who live, think, and feel colonial modernity between different nations, regions, and subaltern positionalities—as subjects with inherently fragmented and “entangled” ontologies. Drawing from the writings of the Martinican poet-philosopher Edouard Glissant about the protean condition of the Caribbean (post)colonial subject, we will analyze various Cuban and Puerto Rican […]