Why History Matters: Making a Difference: Historical Scholarship and Social Justice (A Conversation in Honor of Gary Nash)
2021-11-11 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom RSVP
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Maureen Miller, "Material Culture and Narratives of the Medieval Past"
2021-11-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Location given upon RSVP

Performing Refugees: Asylum, Blackness, and Piracy in Santo Domingo/Saint-Dominigue, 1675-1700
2021-11-18 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
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Iris Clever, "The Afterlives of Skulls: How Race Science Became a Data Science."
2021-11-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Nov 29 Iris Clever (University of Chicago)
“The Afterlives of Skulls: How Race Science Became a Data Science.”
This talk will introduce anthropological practices that remain largely unexplored in the historical literature on racial science: biometrics. In the early twentieth century, biometricians analyzed skull measurements with novel statistical methods to demonstrate racial-biological differences. With skull-measuring instruments and formulas, they transformed skulls into data templates and quantified racial research. Using new archival material, the talk will also reveal how these biometric data practices challenged racist anthropology, in particular Nazi racial theories. This research thus reveals that the coexistence of antiracist and racializing practices was not paradoxical but an important feature of the anthropological study of human variation in the twentieth century.

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Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth College), “History, Liturgy, and the Formation of Christian France”
2021-11-30 16:00 | Location given upon RSVP
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L’Encyclopedie noire: An Assembly of Shadows
2021-12-02 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom RSVP
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Deadlock in Israel-Palestine Part 2
2021-12-05 11:00 - 12:30 | CA
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El Biombo de la Conquista y vista de la Ciudad de Mexico del Museo Franz Mayer
2021-12-07 16:00 | Zoom
The presentation will be held in Spanish.
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History of Science Colloquium: Charles Kollmer (Caltech)
2022-01-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom
“Industrial Accumulations: Microbes and Materials in Motion in the Late Nineteenth Century”
Beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century, across Western Europe, North America, and regions of the globe colonized by European nations, lines of scientific inquiry on the etiology of infectious diseases and the efficacy of industrial fermentations converged with longer-standing academic interests in single-celled life forms. Across varied contexts of investigation, researchers adopted similar techniques for cultivating microorganisms, developed on the premise that different varieties of microbes possessed distinctive nutritional needs and capacities for growth. To make these organisms into objects of scientific and technical knowledge, researchers assembled so-called “pure cultures” and “enrichment cultures.” These complementary approaches entailed manipulating the composition of growth media, which consisted of concentrated microbial sustenance separated from its surroundings by the walls of sealed glass containers. While ostensibly functioning to isolate cultivated microorganisms from the world outside, these containers remained in some meaningful sense porous, as researchers routinely incorporated into their growth media the products or byproducts of human affairs unfolding outside of the containers. Over the course of the talk, I will introduce several examples of such nested milieus, tracing connections between the life forms in- and outside microbial cultures. This exercise, I will argue, sheds new light on the molecular views of life that increasingly typified the life sciences over the course of the twentieth century. As researchers repurposed cultivated microorganisms as powerful instruments for probing nature’s order, they also recorded, sometimes unwittingly, a proliferation of humans’ technical interventions in that order.

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History of Science Colloquium: John Di Moia (Seoul National University/ UCLA Korean Studies)
2022-01-24 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
“From ‘Boxes’ to Containers: Containerization, Post-colonial East and SEAsia, and Re-evaluating Technology Transfer (1950-1973)”
When the United States became involved in the Korean War, its primary mechanism for conveying personal goods to the scene was the Transporter, a leftover from World War II, and the CONEX (Container Express) box, a predecessor to the more recent ISO (International Organization for Standardization), or intermodal, shipping container. These forms of conveyance transformed port cities such as Incheon and Busan from their recent history as part of Japanese empire (1910-1945). The subsequent “success story” of the ISO container, often told as a story of European shipping, or alternatively, American trucking, remains heavily embedded within a wartime context, in this case, the period preceding and leading up to American involvement in Vietnam (1965). A Los Angeles architectural and design firm, DMJM (Daniel, Mann, Johnson, and Mendenhall) helped to design plans for Vietnamese ports in the early 1960s, helping to ease the transition from French colonialism.
With the commitment to Vietnam, break-bulk shipping, with goods handled by teams of stevedores, needed to be replaced by containerization, especially at sites such as Cam Ranh Bay, one of the major intake points for goods. As a corollary to this rapid development of logistics, the various Asian subcontractors involved in this process borrowed and used this technology while participating in Vietnam but also while transforming their own domestic ports. This paper tracks one Korean shipping firm, Hanjin, and its use of the technology in Vietnam (Qui Nhon, Cam Rahn), and the movement of the technology to Busan by the early 1970s. Rather than a story of “technology transfer,” containerization in East Asia stands as a representative case of local actors repurposing and altering an existing technology.

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Spiritscapes’ as ‘Atlantic Modernities’ by Degenhart Brown
2022-01-27 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom RSVP
In this presentation I explore how the dense vectors of material culture and spirit possession established in the crucible of the modern era continue to inform the decisions of millions of west Africans as they navigate everyday realities at home and abroad. In the first half of this talk, I explore emerging themes in “fetish modernity” theory to demonstrate how, as mediators of modern history, “fetish” objects, through their own semantic and epistemological ambivalence, have changed the ways in which scholars interpret historical conventions. In the second half, I look at some examples of the confluence of possession rituals and slavery discourse across contemporary west Africa to illustrate how the relationships between northern and southern “spirits,” resulting from hinterland slave raids, inform local interpretations of the ongoing legacies of trans-Atlantic slavery. I conclude by engaging the work of Charles Piot to demonstrate how power objects and ritual acts of possession are in themselves “alternative modernities” that have remained crucial ontological technologies in west Africa due to their capacity to efface national and international efforts to define and control west African lifeworlds.
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History of Science Colloquium: Alexander Statman (UCLA, Law)
2022-02-07 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
“A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science.”
The idea of progress frames our modern understanding of understanding itself. It offers a historical account of the development of knowledge in space and time, with the natural sciences serving as both its mark and guarantor. This account has a distinctive history all of its own. Historians have long considered it to be a signature contribution of the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment. But to really understand how it came to be, we also have to pay attention to much that the European Enlightenment seemed to tell us to ignore.
In this talk, I show that ideas of progress at the end of the Enlightenment were shaped by a continuous and transformative engagement with Chinese science. In Beijing, the last survivor of the Jesuit mission, Joseph-Marie Amiot, studied qi, taiji, and yin-yang cosmology, sending authentic primary and secondary sources from China back to France. In Paris, his correspondents deployed them to tell new stories about the history of science, inventing modern esotericism in the process. When this work was reincorporated into post-Enlightenment progress theories, the past became a foreign country: both were made a window into a different way of knowing.
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POSTPONED - European Colloquium: Anthony Grafton's Talk
2022-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | TBD
POSTPONED: Anthony Grafton’s talk scheduled for February 9th 4-6PM has been postponed to Spring Quarter.
More information will be provided in the future.

Transatlantic Blues: A French Botanist Experiments with Indigo by Mary Terrall
2022-02-10 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
The French botanist Michel Adanson spent five years in pre-colonial Senegal in the 1750s, under the auspices of the Compagnie des Indes, collecting and cultivating African plants and mapping the landscape and natural resources of the region. He traversed this landscape with a variety of African interlocutors and guides, whose knowledge inevitably, if often invisibly, informed his collections, maps, and scientific works. With particular attention to the materiality of indigo,this paper follows the archival traces of Adanson’s engagement with African indigo, including experiments conducted in an ad hoc “laboratory” near the French fort of Saint-Louis. Making scientific knowledge for European audiences (including the royal scientific institutions and the Bureau of the Colonies) depended on various kinds of local African knowledge, as well as on Caribbean plantation experience. This talk will explore questions about the geographies of knowledge and French imperial ambitions, through close attention to the material properties of indigo, the practices associated with its transformation from plant to dye, and the material remnants of Adanson’s engagement with it in Africa. This is both a microhistory of encounters in and around a tiny island off the West African coast and a trans-Atlantic story connecting Senegal to Paris and to French colonies in the Caribbean (Saint Domingue and Guyana).
Hybrid Bunche 6275
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Oathbound: The Trelawny Maroons of Jamaica in the Revolutionary Atlantic World by Bradley Craig
2022-02-24 13:00 - 14:30 | CA
Forcibly removed from Jamaica in 1796 after waging war against the colonial state, the Trelawny Maroons boarded a ship bound for Nova Scotia, where they struggled against the colonial government until 1800, when they were relocated to Sierra Leone. This talk follows the Maroons across these three different British colonies in order to reconsider the political history of the Atlantic world. To tell the story of the Trelawny Maroons is to tell a characteristically Atlantic story whereby different groups reconstituted their sense of belonging in the face of flux and dislocation—an impulse common to Africans, indigenous Americans, and Europeans alike from the onset of the Atlantic age of exploration. War, enslavement, mercantilism, and imperial expansion facilitated the meeting of strangers and the making of kin. At the center of these Atlantic narratives are shared strivings—often violent, yet always creative—to persist in a world marked by rupture and discontinuity. I argue that the Maroons engaged in a radical worldmaking project rooted in an Atlantic political culture of oath-making that allowed them to recast their political subjectivity across different colonial spaces. The Maroons endeavored to bind themselves to a radical vision of fragmented sovereignty and a sense of diasporic community, revealing the deep historical connections between sovereignty and intimacy. By adopting a diasporic emphasis on ritual, materiality, and belonging, this project reorients a historiography of Black Atlantic revolutionary politics that too often emerges from a linear, progressive, and state-oriented perspective.
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"'Chi beve birra campa cent'anni!': Wine Beer, and the Question of Italian Identity under Fascism"
2022-02-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
EUROPEAN COLLOQUIUM
TALK BY WEBER POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR, BRIAN GRIFFITH
This paper analyzes the struggles between the Italian winemaking and brewing industries over the shaping of bourgeois Italian tastes and habits during the interwar decades. During the early 1920s, Fascist Italy’s Industrial Wine Lobby began unveiling a wide range of public relations and collective marketing campaigns, which were aimed at forging new ‘fashions’ among the country’s wayward middle- and upper-class consumers. The pro-wine lobby’s efforts, however, were obstructed by a variety of political and commercial challenges, including a growing competition with various ‘foreign’ beverage industries, such as coffee, cocktails, and, above all, beer. Between 1929 and 1931, Italian brewers’ commercial lobbying organization, the National Beer Propaganda Consortium, launched two ambitious collective marketing campaigns of its own, which were centered on discursively intertwining the beverage’s consumption with bourgeois sociability, domesticity, and ‘Italian’ identity. Unwilling to yield any commercial ground to domestic brewers, Italy’s Industrial Wine Lobby launched a follow-up, and wide-ranging collective marketing campaign in order to both defend ‘the world’s vineyard’ from the ‘invasion’ of ‘semi-barbarian’ beverages, as one wine lobbyist colorfully phrased it in 1935. By exploring these industries’ conflicts over the definition and articulation of ‘Italian’ taste and style during the interwar years, this study aims to shed further light on the complex relationships between consumerism, industrial ‘fashion’ dynamics, and national identity under Benito Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship.
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History of Science Colloquium: Alexander Kertzner (UCLA)
2022-02-28 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
“Polio, Adventism, and Rehabilitation Medicine in Los Angeles.”
Rancho Los Amigos was founded during the late nineteenth century as a poor farm but became a rehabilitation hospital for iron lung patients during Los Angeles’s 1950s polio epidemics. Following the polio vaccination campaigns, researchers received federal funding to test Rancho’s concept of care on other chronic patient groups and it became an internationally renowned rehabilitation center.
Various aspects of Los Angeles’s city life, including its unorthodox religious environment, tradition of popular medicine, and local industries, from Hollywood to aerospace, informed the process by which rehabilitation took shape at Rancho Los Amigos. My talk situates Seventh Day Adventism within this history. Many of the physicians who worked at Rancho Los Amigos during the years that it became a rehabilitation center were educated at the College of Medical Evangelists (now the Loma Linda University School of Medicine), an Adventist medical school in Loma Linda, California. I will discuss how life in Southern California’s Adventist community impacted not only the clinical practice of rehabilitation at Rancho Los Amigos, but the research conducted in its laboratories. In studying how Adventists, Department of Defense researchers, and local engineers designed rehabilitation technologies, we see how the region’s unique environment stimulated innovation in rehabilitation medicine, both locally and nationally.
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History of Science Colloquium: Devon Golaszewski (Loyola Marymount, LA)
2022-04-04 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
April 4 Devon Golaszewski (Loyola Marymount, LA)
“Medicalizing Childbirth in Post-Colonial Mali: Uterine Stimulant Drugs as Techno-Medical Tools and Social Cures”
By the 1970s, uterine stimulant and oxytocic drugs such as Pitocin and Methylergometrine were widely used to manage childbirth in Mali. Rural maternity wards stocked these drugs to stop post-partum hemorrhage and to speed labor, and health personnel moonlighting after-hours pushed their use to augment contractions. Why did these drugs become so widespread? On the one hand, biomedical obstetric workers used these drugs as a tool to respond to risky birth in a context of patchy infrastructure. The distance between rural clinics and reference hospitals, and the challenges of traveling between them, meant that health workers sought to avoid having to refer women. Uterine stimulant drugs thus served as a techno-medical tool to paper over systemic infrastructural challenges. But the use of uterine stimulant drugs as a “magic bullet” to solve a systemic health issue, a classic narrative of post-colonial African health policy, is only part of the story.Malian women also actively sought to avoid prolonged labor. For Malians, one possible explanation for a difficult birth was the woman’s sexual misbehavior, and prolonged labor opened Malian women to accusations of adultery. To avoid this risk, Malian women sought to manage childbirth in a way which would avoid any suspicions (including through the use of plant medicines with oxytocic properties). Some women thus welcomed pharmaceutical uterine stimulant drugs to speed labor and avoid the social risk of problems in childbirth. This paper explores how and why certain medical technologies are taken up, and the multiple origins of the “pharmaceuticalization” of childbirth.
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The ABC of Russian Imperialism, Willard Sunderland (University of Cincinnati)
2022-04-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Royce 306
A Weber Chair In Modern European History recruitment talk.
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Magdeburg, 1554: Flacius Illyricus Applies for a Grant
2022-04-06 17:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
A lecture by Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University).
Ecclesiastical history began in the 1550s, when the Lutheran Matthias Flacius Illyricus organized
a collaborative century-by-century history of Christianity. This confessional project never
reached completion, and its thick volumes met with severe criticism from co-religionists as well
as Catholics. Nonetheless, it provided a new model for the study of the past, inspiring a
revolution in historiography. That’s the standard story. It’s not wrong: Flacius did many original
things: for example, writing and submitting grant proposals. But it’s radically incomplete. This
lecture reinterprets Flacius’s project and reexamines its impact.
Sponsored by CMRS-CEGS and the European Colloquium of the Department of History.
5:00 pm PST in Royce 314 and live on Zoom.
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Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic
2022-04-07 12:30 - 14:00 | CA
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European History Colloquium: Susan Grayzel
2022-04-11 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Susan Grayzel’s talk on April 11th, from 4:00-6:00pm.More information will be provided in the future.

The Age of the Gas Mask: Susan Grayzel
2022-04-11 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Susan Grayzel’s talk on April 11th, from 4:00-6:00pm at 6275 Bunche Hall. Attendance for this event is also available via Zoom. Registration is required if attending via Zoom.
“The First World War introduced the widespread use of lethal chemical arms. In its aftermath, the British government, like that of many states, had to prepare civilians to confront such weapons in a future war. Over the course of the interwar period, it developed individual anti-gas protection as a cornerstone of civil defence. The Age of the Gas Mask traces the fascinating history of one object – the civilian gas mask – through the years 1915–1945 and, in so doing, reveals the reach of modern, total war and the limits of the state trying to safeguard civilian life in an extensive empire. Drawing on records from Britain’s Colonial, Foreign, India, Home, and War Offices and other archives alongside newspapers, journals, personal accounts and cultural sources, Susan Grayzel connects the histories of the First and Second World Wars, combatants and civilians, men and women, metropole and colony, illuminating how new technologies of warfare shaped culture, politics, and society.”

Pam Ballinger (University of Michigan), “Sovereign Anomalies: Postwar Trieste and the Problem of 'Hardcore' Refugees”
2022-04-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Royce 306
A Weber Chair In Modern European History recruitment talk.
Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. She holds degrees in Anthropology (B.A. Stanford University, M. Phil Cambridge University, M.A. Johns Hopkins University) and a joint Ph.D. in History and Anthropology (Johns Hopkins). She is the author of History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans (Princeton University Press, 2003), La Memoria dell’Esilio (Veltro Editrice, 2010), and the World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy (Cornell University Press, 2020). The World Refugees Made received the AAIS 2020 Book Prize (History, Society and Politics) and the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize (Society for Italian Historical Studies/AHA). Professor Ballinger’s areas of expertise include human rights, forced migration, refugees, fascism, colonialism/decolonization, seaspace, and modern Mediterranean and Balkan history.
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History of Science Colloquium: Peiting C. Li (Cedars-Sinai)
2022-04-18 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
April 18 Peiting C. Li (Cedars-Sinai)
“When Herbs Become Drugs: Late Natural History and Early Clinical Trials in China”
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This talk discusses investigations of a Chinese herbal tuberculosis treatment as a window onto shifts in the production of scientific
medical knowledge in 1920-1930s Shanghai. Once a remedy for consumption local to the mountains of southern China and known by a variety of names in gazetteers and botanical sources, by the 1920s it was sold in Shanghai as a trademarked tuberculosis treatment, advertised in newspapers, and tested by the state’s nascent public health institutions. Doctors sought to understand the herb in modes ranging from textual studies reminiscent of late imperial natural history to systematic evaluation of the effects of treatment in patients. Tracing changes in the ways doctors analyzed this herb reveals the increasing importance of quantification and experimentation in medical writing at this time.

Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University, U.K.), "The Black Sea and the Definition of Europe: War, Peace, and Empire"
2022-04-20 16:00 - 17:00 | CA
A Weber Chair In Modern European History recruitment talk by Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University, U.K.).
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Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and State Capture in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
2022-04-21 12:30 - 14:00 | 6257 Bunche Hall
James Sweet, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and State Capture in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
Location: Hybrid
Bunche Hall 6275
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Time: 12:30-2:00 pm
The slave ship Black Prince departed Bristol, England, in 1768, bound for Old Calabar in West Africa. Before reaching the African coast, the ship’s crew mutinied, murdering the captain and officers. The mutineers renamed the ship “Liberty,” elected new officers, and set sail for Brazil. This talk traces the dramatic story of the mutiny, as well as the merchant-owners’ response to the uprising. At the very moment that the American Revolution unfolded in North America, the Black Prince’s owners conducted a “shadow” revolution, mobilizing the power of the British Crown to seek justice and restitution on their behalf. This counter-revolution extended well beyond the realm of economic protectionism into corporate diplomacy, surveillance, arrest, extradition, and capital punishment. In this way, even in an era of professed liberty and freedom, the privatization of state power was already emerging, replacing monarchies with corporate oligarchies, presaging a new kind of political power in the Atlantic world.

Brian J. Griffith Hosting Book Talk on Dr. Diana Garvin's Feeding Fascism
2022-04-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Brian J. Griffith will be hosting a book talk on Dr. Diana Garvin’s recently published book, Feeding Fascism, in conjunction with his HIST 132 course on April 22nd from 11am to 12pm via Zoom.
Zoom registration: https://www.tinyurl.com/feeding-fascism

History of Science Colloquium: Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan)
2022-05-02 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
May 2 Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan)
“From State Coercion to Reparative Justice? Histories and Legacies of Eugenics and Sterilization in California”
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This talk explores the history and legacies of eugenics and coerced sterilization in California from three angles. First, I provide an overview of the archival and collaborative research involved in reconstructing the demographic and contextual history of compulsory sterilization during the era of eugenic legislation (1909-1979). Second, I discuss the relevance of this history to contemporary issues in society and genetics, ranging from debates over acceptable building names on university campuses to the insidious biases of some reprogenetic technologies. Finally, I conclude by reflecting on the benefits and limits of reparations for eugenics, with specific attention to the recently implemented compensation program for survivors of coerced sterilizations in state-run homes, hospitals, and prisons in California.

2022 Eugene Weber Prize Recipient Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir"
2022-05-03 16:00 - 17:00 | 6257 Bunche Hall
Judith G. Coffin, winner of the 2022 Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History, will speak about her beautifully written book, Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir, which explores the neglected archive of letters written to Simone de Beauvoir by ordinary women and men. This innovative cultural history examines the twentieth century as an embodied experience, showing the intimate connections between the geopolitical and the personal.
