April 18 Peiting C. Li (Cedars-Sinai) "When Herbs Become Drugs: Late Natural History and Early Clinical Trials in China" Zoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrce2vrDwuHtTE7HtTqJTG7iCo7vS39XWO In Person RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ILInDOwf0IzCN9TMRv9cMWhPxtUCe8PIFSgGKZaoi2w 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 […]
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 Zoom RSVP 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 […]
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
May 2 Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan) "From State Coercion to Reparative Justice? Histories and Legacies of Eugenics and Sterilization in California" Zoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvdOmqrjojEtRUCEXGyTS_3KjPNovF6r6L In Person RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VuNtVVC2wj5HhtXpY9FXKdf43Tgp4W118aSpFY95x-E 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 […]
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 […]
May 16 Ylva Soederfeldt (Uppsala/ UCLA) “Acting out Disease: Patient Organizations in Twentieth-Century Medicine” Zoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-qhqz0oE9RdqRTVRaedLGCFEIrVhUfd In Person RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b1K-Jc87ZdjECauHsSaH4JWGu4G-t30dAoQfsk3SHbQ
“Data Deluges: Histories Past and Present” a conference organized by Ted Porter September 14 and 15 Royce 306 RSVP: cbellwilson@g.ucla.edu For more details, click here
