Alden-Berg Lecture ft. Stephen Aron
Kerckhoff Grand SalonDownload Flyer
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Kevin Dawson, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Merced “Surfing, Surf-Canoeing, and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
6275 Bunche HallAtlantic Africa—the region extending from Senegal to Angola—has few natural harbors, compelling Africans to cross through surf to reach fisheries and coastal shipping lanes. Sources suggest that one thousand years ago Africans independently developed surfing to understand how to design and surf waves ashore in surf-canoes loaded with fish cargo. Today, Atlantic Africans remain the only people […]
Dr. Kate McDonald, History of Science, “The Rickshaw Everyman: Transport and Memory in Postwar Japan”
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The History of Gender & Sexuality Group Graduate Student Workshop
6275 Bunche Hall
History Undergraduate Conference
6275 Bunche Hall
Clark Library Conference “From Bodies to Things: The Commodification of Human Life in the Early Modern Atlantic” organized by Tawny Paul and Andrew Apter (UCLA)
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, United Stateshttps://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/bodies-to-things-1/
Jane Moon, M.D., History of Science, “Pushing the Borders of Consciousness: A History of Ketamine and Dissociative Anesthesia”
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Michael Miller, “A French History of Rivers”
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Zev Yaroslavsky Reception
306 Royce HallJoin us to celebrate the release of a new memoir by a long-time member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and member of the Luskin Center of History and Policy Board of Advisors, Zev Yaroslavsky. Space is limited for this event. Please RSVP before May 15 to: luskincenter@history.ucla.edu.
