UCLA Department of History

Frontiers of Persian Learning: Dr. Ron Sela
2016-01-21 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall
“The Turkic Challenge to Persian Supremacy in Premodern Central Asia”

Atlantic History Speaker Series
2016-01-20 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“The Lives (and Deaths) of Caged Birds: Wild Animals and their Transatlantic Circulation from the Americas to Spain During the Eighteenth Century.” Martha Few, Dept. of History, University of Arizona

Elizabeth Hinton lecture
2016-01-19 14:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“Urban Removal: Police, Prisons, and Domestic Policy After Civil Rights”

Minayo Nasiali Lecture
2016-01-14 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

History of Science Colloquium
2016-01-11 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Matthew Sargent, Digital Humanities, University of Southern California: “Marriage institutions and the formation of cross-cultural knowledge networks in early modern Southeast Asia”

Discussion
2015-12-03 12:00 - 14:00 | UCLA School of Law Room 1347
On the Terrorist Attacks in Paris- Panel Discussion with Caroline Ford, James Gelvin, Asli Bali and Dominic Thomas
For more information and to RSVP, please visithttp://www.isop.ucla.edu/euro/event/11614.

Lecture
2015-12-02 16:30 - 18:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall
Sheila Fitzpatrick “Stalin and Postwar Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union”

Jan Event
2015-12-02 10:30 - 11:30 | CA

Jan Event 2
2015-12-02 10:30 - 11:30 | CA

“A Laboratory for Latin Eugenics: Corrado Gini and the Italian Investigation of Mexican Indians”
2015-11-30 16:00 - 18:45 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Luc Berlivet (INSERM, Paris), Co-sponsored by EpiDaPo UCLA

“Negotiating Political Challenges to the Integrity of Research: Islamic Studies and Stem Cell Science”
2015-11-23 16:00 - 18:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Axel Jansen and Andreas Franzmann (University of Tübingen)

Book Talk
2015-11-18 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
William Summerhill, “Inglorious Revolution: Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)”
The discussants for this event are Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, and Barry R. Weingast, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.

Why History Matters
2015-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 | CNSI

“The Immortal Archives: Nineteenth-Century Science Imagines the Future”
2015-11-17 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Lorraine Daston (MPI-WG, Berlin). European History Colloquium, cosponsored by History of Science.

“Thinking in Cases: Paper Technologies in Early-Modern Medicine”
2015-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Volker Hess (Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin)

Lecture
2015-11-12 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Dr. James Baida, Head of the Moroccan National Archives: “Academic Research on Moroccan Judaism: Historiography, Sources and Archives”

History Writing Center Workshop
2015-11-10 15:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“How to Write a Thesis”
Join us for our 4th workshop and learn how to master the elusive thesis statement, one of the most important elements of academic writing. “How to Write a Thesis” workshop will guide you through the process of constructing a thesis statement for history essays and will also provide guides on how to structure your supporting paragraphs. If you have an essay that you are currently working on, you are encouraged to bring that to the workshop so you can apply the tools that your learn directly to your work.
Please RSVP to uclahistorywritingcenter@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you there.

“Madness and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France”
2015-11-09 16:00 - 18:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Laure Murat (Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA)

Atlantic History Speaker Series
2015-11-06 12:00 - 14:00 | CA
Tomas Robaina, National Library Of Cuba, “The Black Press of Cuba: Nineteenth Century Sources”

“Pestifera bella civilia: The Roman Invention of Civil War”
2015-11-05 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Professor David Armitage (Harvard)

History Writing Center Workshop
2015-11-03 15:00 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“How to Write a History Paper”
This workshop will focus on introductions and conclusions, as well as different types of History papers. Please RSVP to uclahistorywritingcenter@gmail.com by Monday, November 2nd.

Colloquium
2015-10-26 10:00 - 12:30 | UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Region, Nation, Fiction
A Colloquium on Brazil-US Literary Relations

with writers
Karen Tei Yamashita, Daniel Galera, and John Freeman

“Exodus from the East: Emigration and the Making of the Free World”
2015-10-22 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Professor Tara Zahra (Chicago)

Atlantic History Speaker Series
2015-10-22 12:00 - 14:00 | CA
Aisha Beliso DeJesus, “Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion”

History Writing Center Workshop
2015-10-20 15:00 - 17:00 | History Reading Room, 6265 Bunche Hall
The History Writing Center is holding its first workshop for the Fall quarter on “Primary and Secondary sources analysis” with an added segment on reading maps and pictures. The workshop is taking place on Tuesday October 20th from 3-5 pm in the History reading room , (Bunche 6265). Please RSVP to uclahistorywritingcenter@gmail.com by Tuesday.

“On Call: Towards a Media History of Medicine”
2015-10-19 16:00 - 18:45 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Jeremy Greene (Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University) (Cosponsored by the History and Social Studies of Medicine Program.)

119th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
2015-10-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Schoenberg Hall
Arch Getty, “Dead Man Talking: Lenin’s Body and Russian Politics”

Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
2015-10-19 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A Book Talk by Professor Sarah Stein

Knowledge, Technologies, and Mediation: A Workshop in Honor of Norton Wise
2015-10-17 09:30 - 17:00 | CA
Sponsored by: UCLA History of Science Colloquium, Institute for Society and Genetics, Department of History, with additional support from Dean of Social Sciences and Executive Vice-Chancellor
PLEASE NOTE: All are welcome to the workshop. If you want lunch though, you must sign up! To do so, simply send an email to: nortonwisefest@gmail.com

Coffee: 9:30 am
Morning Session (10 am to 12 pm)
Mary Terrall: UCLA
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Kevin Lambert: CSU, Fullerton
“William Thomson’s Notebooks: How to do things with notebooks in Victorian Britain.”
Theodore Arabatzis: University of Athens
“A philosophical history of the discovery of argon”
David Aubin: (UPMC, Paris)
“Around the blocks: pathways to a history of flowcharts”

Lunch (306 Royce)

Afternoon Session (1:30 pm to 5 pm)
Suman Seth: (Cornell University)
“Polygenism in Print: John Atkins and Naval Medicine in the 1730s and 1740s”
Mi Gyung Kim: (North Carolina State University )
“A People-Machine: Balloons and the Republican Imaginary”
Tiago Saraiva: (Drexel University)
“Heidegger’s Pigs and Dewey’s Oranges: technoscientific organisms and the writing of history of science”
Alix Hui: (Mississippi State University) and Lino Camprubi: (MPIWG, Berlin)
“Testing the Underwater Ear: Hearing, Standardizing, and Classifying Marine Sounds during the Cold War”
Norton Wise: (UCLA)
Comments
— Organized by Mary Terrall, Suman Seth, and Kevin Lambert —

"War Against All Puerto Ricans"
2015-10-16 15:00 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall
Nelson Denis, the author of the new book War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony, will be discussing his book, The History of Colonialism in Puerto Rico, and The Plight of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera. The talk will also feature an introduction by Peter James Hudson of the Departments of History and African American Studies.
The event is sponsored by the Latin American Institute, the Department of History, and the Department of African American Studies. It will take place on Friday, October 16 from 3-5 PM in Bunche 10383.
