UCLA Department of History

Greg O’Malley - "The Escapes of David George: Using Flight to Ameliorate Slavery in Colonial British America”
2017-04-13 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall
Greg O’Malley is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of California in Santa Cruz. His research interests include colonial British America and the Caribbean, the Atlantic world, slavery and the slave trade.

Jan-Gerrit Schuurman, “Description and Experience: Why Representation Strategies Matter: From Early Renaissance and 17th Century Still-Life Painting to 21st Century Cancer Screening”
2017-04-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Dr. Verónica Gutiérrez - "Cultural Resilience: What We Can Learn From the Oldest City in the Americas"
2017-03-28 12:30 - 16:00
Former graduate student Dr. Verónica Gutiérrez is a featured speaker at Azusa Pacific University’s upcoming TEDx event. The event takes place Tuesday, March 28, from 12:30pm to 4pm. She is scheduled to speak at 1:15pm. She will be discussing Mexico’s rich cultural history using material that she researched while she was a graduate student at UCLA.
Her talk can be live streamed on the day of the event at: apu.edu/live and also viewed at http://www.tedxazusapacificuniversity.com/ within a day or two of the event.

Verónica A. Gutiérrez, MFA, Ph.D, spent a year researching indigenous-Christianity in Cholula, Puebla, México. During that time she resided in a former Franciscan convento (friary), built upon the remains of a pre-hispanic teocalli (“god-house”). Each time it rained, ancient pottery and obsidian shards would be unearthed in the backyard, examples of the richly-layered history of the area, the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the Americas.
Currently, Gutiérrez is an Associate Professor of Latin American History and the Director of Undergraduate Research at Azusa Pacific University. APU’s first Latin American specialist, she is passionate about challenging myths pervading native peoples of the Americas, ensuring her students understand that complex indigenous cultures did not disappear upon European arrival, but rather adapted and continue to thrive. Cholula, which witnessed several conquests and shifts in the dominant spirituality, today fashions itself as La Ciudad Sagrada, the Sacred City.

Samuel Redman - “Every Last Trace: Bone Collecting and Salvage Anthropology”
2017-03-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Winter Schneider - Debts of Independence: Property and Personhood in Nineteenth-Century Haiti
2017-03-09 12:00 - 14:00

David Barnes - “Rethinking Care and Cure, from Typhus in 1836 to Ebola in 2014"
2017-03-06 16:00 - 18:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

100 Years of Garment Work in LA: An International Women’s Day Celebration
2017-03-05 14:00 - 17:00
Location
UCLA Downtown Labor Center, 675 S. Park View St., Los Angeles, CA 90057

Contact
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Conference - "Three Hundred Years of Freemasonry: Its Meaning at its Founding and Today
2017-03-04 09:00 - 19:00 | UCLA Covell Commons
Contact: Said Chaaya

Alessandra Lorini, University of Florence - "The Many Journeys of Father Kino: From History to Memory in the Making of Modern Southwestern Public Culture"
2017-03-02 16:00 - 18:00

Dana Simmons - “Impostor Syndrome, a Reparative History”
2017-02-27 16:00 - 18:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Ellen DuBois Retirement Symposium
2017-02-24 09:00 - 18:00 | California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Join us as we celebrate the career of Distinguished Professor Ellen Dubois.
This event will begin at 8:30am with a continental breakfast. Please refer to the flyer for featured speakers and topics.

Sean Mills - The Poetics of Exile: Haitians and the Remaking of Quebec
2017-02-23 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Qing History Symposium: "Three Views from the Field"
2017-02-23 12:00 - 2017-02-24 15:00 | 11348 Charles E. Young Research Library
RSVP required for this two-day symposium.
Please download the flyer for the list of speakers and schedule for each day.
This event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the UCLA Department of History.

Minayo Nasiali and Lia Nicole Brozgal - "The Battle of Algiers" Film Screening and Discussion
2017-02-21 18:00 - 21:00

Why History Matters: Mayors Past on the Present and Future of Los Angeles
2017-02-16 19:30 | Schoenberg Hall
Please join us for a Conversation with Richard Riordan, James Hahn, and Antonio Villaraigosa.
This event will be moderated by Jim Newton – journalist, author and former editor of the Los Angeles Times.
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Photos from this event can be viewed here.

Joris van Eijnatten - "Mining an Uncharted Continent: Europe in Twentieth-Century Dutch Newspapers
2017-02-16 18:00 | California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
The UCLA Department of History
Invites you to attend the 12th anniversary celebration of the
Johannes Van Tilburg Lecture in Dutch Studies
Mining an Uncharted Continent:
Europe in Twentieth-Century Dutch Newspapers
presented by
Joris van Eijnatten
Professor and Chair in Cultural History
Department of History and Art History
Utrecht University
— Reception to follow —
RSVP
Parking available for $12 in Structure 2

History Minor Open House
2017-02-14 13:00 - 15:00

Matthew Hunter - “Space, Time, and Chemistry: Making and Defacing Enlightenment Photography” Perloff Hall, “Decafé”
2017-02-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Architecture and Urban Planning

Cam Grey - “Communities, Catastrophes, and Cannibals: Social Histories of Late Antiquity”
2017-02-09 16:00 - 18:00
Cam Grey (University of Pennsylvania) is a candidate for the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History.

Henrik Mouritsen - “New Perspectives on Rome as a Slave Society: Revisiting the Evidence from Herculaneum”
2017-02-07 16:00 - 18:00
Henrik Mouritsen (King’s College, London) is a candidate for the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History.

Elena Aranova, “Bridging Biology and Geophysics in 1970s California: Using Animal as Sensors in the US Geological Survey’s Earthquake Prediction Study”
2017-02-06 16:00 - 18:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

David Potter, “ Democracy, Plunder and the Invention of Italia”
2017-02-02 16:00 - 18:00
David Potter (University of Michigan) is a candidate for the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History.

"German Autos and the European Union: The Historical Role of Production and Distribution Networks in Postwar Integration"
2017-01-26 16:00
Refreshments will be served

Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
2017-01-26 12:00

2017 Alden-Berg Lecture
2017-01-24 19:00
The 2017 Alden-Berg Lecture
will feature speaker
Benjamin Madley,
who will be discussing his recent book,
An American Genocide.
RSVP for the Lecture

Marisa Fuentes, "'Refuse' Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade"
2017-01-24 12:00 - 14:00
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Maris J. Fuentes (Rutgers University, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and History)
“‘Refuse’ Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade”
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
6275 Bunche Hall, 12 PM-2 PM

'Refuse' Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade
2017-01-24 12:00 - 14:00

Amir Alexander - “A Space for Free Men: The Cartesian Landscape of America.”
2017-01-23 16:00 - 18:00

John Tutino - "The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History"
2017-01-23 11:00 - 13:00

Carla Pestana - “Quaker Mobility and the threat to English America”
2017-01-19 12:00 - 13:30
This talk considers the force and voluntary circulation of Quakers through the mid-17th century Atlantic.
–Part of the CRS Faculty Lecture Series–
