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SUMMARY:Vulnerable Bodies: Roman Medical Research and the Enslaved
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series. Dr. Claire Bubb\, Visiting Associate Professor of Classics at USC\, will be joining us. She is a will be presenting “Vulnerable Bodies: Roman Medical Research and the Enslaved.” \nRoman doctors periodically required bodies\, both living and dead\, for medical demonstration and research. There were many vulnerable bodies in Roman society–animals\, the enslaved\, the impoverished\, the outcast\, and the conquered–and this talk will explore which bodies doctors seem to have favored for which purposes. As it turns out\, their use of the enslaved appears to have been surprisingly curtailed. The talk will therefore also address Galen’s perspectives on slavery and the enslaved and explore the potential boundaries to the exploitation of this particularly vulnerable population. \nSee you in the History of Science Room or via Zoom:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/QIkvfaYBTei-hPhAKDF0Pg
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/vulnerable-bodies-roman-medical-research-and-the-enslaved/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Science Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="History of Science%2C Medicine%2C and Technology Colloquium Series":MAILTO:jkaptanian@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260106T234321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T234321Z
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SUMMARY:From Face Blindness to Superrecocognition: The Discovery of a Spectrum
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to the first installment of the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series. Professor Sharrona Pearl of Texas Christian University will be presenting “From Face Blindness to Superrecognition: The Discovery of a Spectrum.” \nSuper recognition was clinically identified in 2009. That’s yesterday in scientific terms. In this talk\, Sharrona Pearl discusses how the face recognition spectrum was developed\, emphasizing the urgent need for the health humanities in clinical practice. (There will also be some games.) \nSee you in the History of Science Room or via Zoom:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/Ynw3Fc2GSdqcAfBEnXi_5g
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/from-face-blindness-to-superrecocognition-the-discovery-of-a-spectrum/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Science Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="History of Science%2C Medicine%2C and Technology Colloquium Series":MAILTO:jkaptanian@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260211T014918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T170148Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-covered-with-night-a-story-of-murder-and-indigenous-justice-in-early-america/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260123T013735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260123T220335Z
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SUMMARY:Teaching Talk #2: TEACHING WITH AI
DESCRIPTION:teaching talk 2 \n   \nTEACHING TALKS — a new series dedicated to the craft of teaching history \nTeaching Talk #2: TEACHING WITH AI \nFeaturing Chris Johanson\, Jamie Kreiner\, Elizabeth Landers\, Zrinka Stahuljak\, and Stefania Tutino \nWednesday 25 February\, 12:00 pm\, 6275 Bunche \nLunch provided by DataX; \n  \n  \nRSVP here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/teaching-talk-2-teaching-with-ai/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260120T175537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T180107Z
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SUMMARY:The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Coachmen and Abakuá in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Subjects and Agents of Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:José Ortega\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Whittier College \nPresentation: “Coachmen and Abakuá in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Subjects and Agents of Surveillance.”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-coachmen-and-abakua-in-nineteenth-century-cuba-subjects-and-agents-of-surveillance/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260120T180022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T224754Z
UID:17771-1772713800-1772719200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Mapping Seafarers and Black Women’s Networks in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Cartagena
DESCRIPTION:Viviana Quintero-Marquez\, UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow\, Departments of History\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, UC Merced. \nPresentation: “Mapping Seafarers and Black Women’s Networks in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Cartagena.” \nDiscussant: Nohora Arrieta Fernández\, Assistant Professor\, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese\, UCLA \nAlso on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98793935555
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-mapping-seafarers-and-black-womens-networks-in-eighteenth-century-atlantic-cartagena/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260202T211556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T211556Z
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SUMMARY:Eugenic Spectrums: Social Science\, Genetic Data\, and Disabling in the U.S. West\, 1900-1940
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, Isidro Gonzalez Granados\, will be presenting “Eugenic Spectrums: Social Science\, Genetic Data\, and Disabling in the U.S. West\, 1900-1940.” \nGonzález Granados’s fundamental historical question is: how were disabled people made? His book project\, Eugenic Foot Soldiers: Gendered Science\, Racial Defects\, and Disabling in the U.S. West\, 1900-1940\, interrogates how eugenics was from its inception a thoroughly interdisciplinary endeavor that reached the heights of national policy and social engineering\, as well as the intimate\, domestic\, bodily\, and molecular of American life. The foot-soldiers of American eugenics\, known as eugenic field workers\, extracted eugenic knowledge from bodies\, neighborhoods\, and the social worlds of institutionalized people by using such interdisciplinary methods. González Granados focuses on how these field workers\, sought out and revered for their “maternalist” observational prowess within the sciences\, created what he calls dysgenic data: the sociomedical\, aesthetic\, and moral information they assembled to identify individuals and families of Mexican\, Black\, Mormon\, and/or Catholic background\, as biosocially unfit. What eugenic field workers learned in the process was foundational to the expansion and durability of eugenic ideas across disciplines and institutions throughout the 20th century. \nSee you in the History of Science Room or via Zoom:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/e-YWC8wDSRilg1rILEbTdw#/registration.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/eugenic-spectrums-social-science-genetic-data-and-disabling-in-the-u-s-west-1900-1940/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Science Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="History of Science%2C Medicine%2C and Technology Colloquium Series":MAILTO:jkaptanian@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260211T012609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T235739Z
UID:18106-1775829600-1775836800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Lauren Derby - Bêtes Noires
DESCRIPTION:Professor Derby will launch her new book: Bêtes Noires  \nFurther information and eBook: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3601/Betes-NoiresSorcery-as-History-in-the-Haitian  \nPlease RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1I48dLzOKSnJIBwXWCIXZ3vI7FbrqmkGfIFLxqEojPdo/edit 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/book-launch-lauren-derby-betes-noires/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260409T180337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T180337Z
UID:18404-1776096000-1776101400@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mountains of Capital: Private Power Production in the Sierra Nevada
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series. \nMoorpark College Professor\, Joshua McGuffie\, will be presenting “Mountains of Capital: Private Power Production in the Sierra Nevada.” \n  \nOver the course of 1905\, the Nevada Power\, Mining and Milling Company \nconstructed a hydroelectric power system on Bishop Creek in the Sierra Nevada. \nTransmission lines crossed Owens Valley\, traversed the White Mountains\, and then \nmeandered eastwards to the silver fields around Tonopah\, Nevada. By 1920\, the \nCompany’s hydroelectric power flowed southward to the burgeoning cities of San \nBernadino\, Riverside\, and Redlands. \n  \nThis talk analyzes the role of private power production in the environmental and \nscientific histories of the Sierra Nevada. The Company\, in its many iterations\, built \ninfrastructure to transform flowing Sierra creeks into profit. Flowing water became \nkilowatt hours. Trees became power poles. Glacial till and granodiorite boulders became \nfill for dams. As the company transformed the mountains to produce power\, its leaders \nand workers developed the notion that they\, as private\, corporate actors\, served as the \nrange’s natural caretakers. The Company fought the Los Angeles Bureau of Water and \nPower and its Los Angeles Aqueduct. The Company worked to produce a privately- \nowned paradise for employees who vacationed at creek side cabins. In company hands\, \nthe Sierra acted as a bulwark against creeping socialism. Accounting for private power \nproduction in the eastern Sierra enriches regional histories that traditionally emphasize \nstate actors and public lands. \n  \nSee you in the History of Science Room or via Zoom\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/vLI7S0I3TsioQQj7GYDNZQ.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/mountains-of-capital-private-power-production-in-the-sierra-nevada/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Science Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T130000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260312T231514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T231602Z
UID:18291-1776254400-1776258000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:AI-Proof Assessments
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/ai-proofassessments/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/teaching-talk-3-Thumb.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260415T150004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T150004Z
UID:18425-1776272400-1776276000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA European History Colloquium Presents: Scales of Slavdom: Race and Geography in Yugoslav Communism\, 1941-48
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/ucla-european-history-colloquium-presents-scales-of-slavdom-race-and-geography-in-yugoslav-communism-1941-48/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:European History Colloquium,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260306T220727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260306T220727Z
UID:18242-1776859200-1776864600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Honors Thesis Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is designed for students embarking on their honors theses to meet fellow researchers\, hear from students who recently finished their theses successfully\, and learn how to kick off their project successfully. Lunch provided.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-honors-thesis-workshop/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260416T222838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T222903Z
UID:18447-1776877200-1776880800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA European History Colloquium Presents: The Jet Age in Eight Passengers
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that the next UCLA European History Colloquium will be held on Wednesday\, April 22\, at 5pm in Bunche 10383 and on Zoom. Please note the new location! \nLauren Stokes\, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University\, will be joining us to speak on “The Jet Age in Eight Passengers.”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/ucla-european-history-colloquium-presents-the-jet-age-in-eight-passengers/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall & Zoom
CATEGORIES:European History Colloquium,Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260416T070448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T070448Z
UID:18435-1777021200-1777046400@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The History of Gender and Sexuality Working Group Presents: The-Graduate Student Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-history-of-gender-and-sexuality-working-group-presents-the-graduate-student-conference-2026/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Women, Men and Sexuality Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260211T010700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T183324Z
UID:18092-1777552200-1777557600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Visualizing Place: Constructing the Caribbean through Postcards\, 1900-1930s
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 30th at 12:30 pm \nMandie Nuanes\, Graduate Student\, Department of History\, UCLA \nPresentation: “Visualizing Place: Constructing the Caribbean through Postcards\, 1900-1930s” \nDiscussant: José Luis Passos\, Professor\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, UCLA. \nJoin us for this talk in person (6265 Bunche Hall) or via Zoom (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98395630285?pwd=DybtCnwCewwImhTDuh7wPW1ZcGYuhm.1).
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-visualizing-place-constructing-the-caribbean-through-postcards-1900-1930s/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260204T075315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T235907Z
UID:17938-1777564800-1777570200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Weber Book Prize Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk of the 2026 Weber Book Prize awardee Catherine Tatiana Dunlop about her winning book The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France (University of Chicago Press\, 2024).
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/weber-book-price-talk/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260219T233511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T224932Z
UID:18164-1778666400-1778688000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:10th Annual Undergraduate History Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nThe History Undergraduate Advisory Board cordially invites you to our 10th Annual Undergraduate History Research Conference on Wednesday\, May 13th from 10am to 4pm. Support UCLA undergraduates as they present their research in front of various faculty and graduate students from the department. This event will be hosted in 6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room) and will be available via Zoom as well (Please RSVP for link below). \nPlease register for the event here!: https://forms.gle/V4y8bukVTgLvWhyh7. \n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/10th-annual-undergraduate-history-research-conference/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260211T011029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T173113Z
UID:18098-1778761800-1778767200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14th at 12:30 pm \nErin Budrow\, Graduate Student\, Department of History\, UCLA \nPresentation: “Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.” \nDiscussant: Soraya de Chadarevian\, Distinguished Professor\, Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics\, UCLA
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-martinique-in-the-time-of-yellow-fever-colonial-public-health-during-the-1908-yellow-fever-outbreak/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260528T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260528T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074938
CREATED:20260402T210202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T162958Z
UID:18387-1779971400-1779976800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Cudjoe's (Dis)Ability and Maroon (De)Formation
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Moulton\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography & Environmental Science\, Hunter College CUNY \nPresentation: “Cudjoe’s (Dis)Ability and Maroon (De)Formation” \nIn this talk\, Prof. Moulton presents a draft chapter that is part of his book project The Black Grounds: Marronage\, Black Placemaking\, and the Exercise of Freedom. The chapter focuses on Captain Cudjoe considering what else we might be able to apprehend about marronage\, the social life of fugitivity\, and the relations of disability in early colonial Jamaica. Captain Cudjoe of the Leeward Maroons is perhaps the most frequently invoked figure in discourses about marronage that following the hero-traitor narrational trajectories. The dichotomized reading of marronage gives us an iconography of Cudjoe as either an exemplifying Black liberatory impulse and placemaking vision\, or Black sycophantism and selfishness. The hero-traitor framework demands that we choose which Cudjoe is authentic\, a false dilemma fallacy based on a reductive narrative of Black sociality. Against the dilemma\, I read Cudjoe as evincing the contingent nature of social coalitions. Rather than one or the other kind of Black leader figure\, Cudjoe is a migrator figure. His shifts through character roles on relation to Black community and freedom show the varying relationship between resistance\, integration\, and recognition to racial formation and racial projects. I read a depiction of Cudjoe as having a sever spinal curvature as a metaphor for the disabling and deforming outcomes of efforts at Black placemaking and freedom in an antiblack world. I consider how the fact of Cudjoe’s ascent to the leadership of his community invites celebration of Black communal practices of care that refuse hierarchies of worthiness.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-cudjoes-disbility-and-maroon-deformation/
LOCATION:6265 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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