UCLA Department of History

127th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture - Brenda Stevenson, "Gifts of the Storyteller"
2019-10-30 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Schoenberg Music Building
The Los Angeles Division of the
Academic Senate of the University of California
cordially invites you to attend the
127th UCLA FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE
“Gifts of the Storyteller”
to be given by
Brenda E. Stevenson
Nickoll Family Endowed Chair
Professor, Departments of History and African American Studies
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Lecture at 3:00 p.m.
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Schoenberg Music Building
Reception immediately following
RSVP for the reception by Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Click here to RSVP
Inquiries: (310) 794-3272
uclarsvp@specialevents.ucla.edu
Additional Information:

Faculty Research Lecturer Recipients
News Release: https://history.ucla.edu/news/brenda-stevenson-named-university%E2%80%99s-127th-faculty-research-lecturer

Vivien Hamilton, “Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy”
2019-10-28 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Fall 2019 Colloquium
All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted.
October 28: Vivien Hamilton, Harvey Mudd College
“Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy”
For more information about the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology graduate field, click here.

Sari Siegel, “The Recruitment and Activities of Jewish Prisoner-Physicians During the Holocaust”
2019-10-21 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Fall 2019 Colloquium
All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted.
October 21: Sari Siegel, Cedars Sinai Program in History of Medicine and UCLA
“The Recruitment and Activities of Jewish Prisoner-Physicians During the Holocaust”

Jaimie D. Crumley - "Freedom Feelings: Womanism, Black Feminism, and The Politics of Black Women’s Liberation"
2019-10-18 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Jaimie Crumley’s research explores black freedom in antebellum America as seen through the lives and writings of black Christian women. She focuses on women who taught and lectured in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C. and England. These women provide insight into the role of Christian spirituality in shaping freedom for black women. Their histories underscore the complexities of race, gender, sexuality, and religiosity in antebellum United States. Her paper will be emailed a week in advance to members of the History of Women, Men, and Sexuality working group.
To RSVP or be added to the listserv, please email Rebeca Martinez: rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu.

Greg Woolf, "Alien Metropolis: Migration, Cosmopolitanism and the City of Rome"
2019-10-15 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Greg Woolf
Candidate for Mellor Chair
“Alien Metropolis: Migration, Cosmopolitanism and the City of Rome”
October 15, 4pm
Bunche 6275
Greg Woolf taught at Oxford and at the University of St Andrews. In 2015, he become Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. Woolf is a cultural historian with broad interests in the Roman Empire and Classical Antiquity in general. He has published on imperialism, on the ancient economy, on ethnographic writing and on European prehistory, and has edited volumes on ancient libraries, on literary, on women’s history in antiquity, and on the city of Rome. Most recently he has been writing on long term questions about evolution, urbanism and ecology.

William Sewell, "A Concrete History of Abstraction: Explaining the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France"
2019-10-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A Concrete History of Abstraction: Explaining the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
William Sewell
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History The University of Chicago
Thursday, October 10, 2019
4-6pm Bunche 6275
One of the most important changes introduced by the French Revolution was the codification of civic equality as a fundamental right. In the profoundly hierarchical society that was eighteenth-century France, establishing a norm of abstract equality among citizens was an extremely radical act, one that undermined existing assumptions about how politics and everyday social relations should be structured. Yet the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was passed virtually without dissent by a National Assembly that included many aristocrats and clerics, whose privileges it abolished. Dr. Sewell argues that the widespread acceptance in 1789 of this abstract civic equality had experiential roots in the transformations introduced by early capitalism’s growing commodification of social relations. In this talk, and in the forthcoming book on which it is based, Dr. Sewell traces out such tendential abstraction in three distinct spheres of eighteenth-century French social experience: the burgeoning commercial relations in French cities, the social world of the philosophes, and the royal administration’s widespread adoption of political-economic reasoning. It was, Dr. Sewell argues, the concrete experience of increasingly abstract social relations in the decades before the Revolution that made civic equality thinkable and so widely acceptable in 1789.
William H. Sewell Jr.is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago and a resident fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. His research focuses on the intersections between history and social theory and he is currently working on a project on the social and cultural history of capitalism in eighteenth-century France.

Vikram Tamboli, “Ethnobotanical and Landscape Archives in the Guyanese-Venezuelan Borderlands: Rethinking Atlantic Histories from the Eighteenth Century to the Present”
2019-10-10 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents
Vikram Tamboli
“Ethnobotanical and Landscape Archives in the Guyanese-Venezuelan Borderlands: Rethinking Atlantic Histories from the Eighteenth Century to the Present”
Thursday, October 10
12:00PM – 1:30PM
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall

UCLA History Department Open House
2019-09-24 14:30 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA History Department Open House
Day: Tuesday, September 24
Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm
Location: History Conference Room – Bunche 6275

Make the most out of your UCLA experience and learn about:
• Academic/Career Counseling
• HistoryCorps Internships
• Faculty-Student Engagement
• Writing Center and One-on-One Tutoring
• Phi Alpha Theta Honors Society
• History Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB)
• Library Services
• Study/Travel Abroad
• Academic Research Centers, Fellowships, and Programs
Refreshments will be served.

Why History Matters: Past and Future of Water in Los Angeles
2019-06-06 19:00 | Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Carla Pestana
Chair and Professor
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invites you to attend
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
Past and Future of Water in Los Angeles
a panel discussion featuring
Eric Avila
Chair and Professor
UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Jon Christensen
Adjunct Assistant Professor
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA Department of History, and
UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
Lauren Ahkiam
Director
Our Water LA
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
moderated by
Stephen Aron
Professor
UCLA Department of History
Thursday, June 6, 2019
7:00 p.m.
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Click to RSVP
Self-pay parking available in Structure 4

About the Why History Matters series: The UCLA Department of History is proud to present the series “Why History Matters.” The series is dedicated to the belief that historical knowledge is an indispensable, and often missing, ingredient in public debate. Over the course of the year, “Why History Matters” events will bring historians into conversation with prominent public officials and personalities on issues of contemporary relevance.

"Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Fiscal and Human Costs of Mass Incarceration"
2019-06-04 15:00 | California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Join us Tuesday, June 4
Darnell Hunt
Dean of Social Sciences
and
Carla Pestana
Chair and Professor
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invite you to attend the installation celebration of
Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández
as the holder of the
Thomas E. Lifka Chair in History
speaking on the topic of
“Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Fiscal and Human Costs of Mass Incarceration”
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
3:00 p.m. Lecture
Reception to follow
UCLA Faculty Center
California Room
RSVP by Friday, May 31, to Hillary Nadworny
hnadworny@support.ucla.edu or (310) 206-6503
Self-pay parking available in Structure 2

Ryan Hilliard - "Sexual Honor, Social Capital, and the Single Woman in Eighteenth-Century Paris"
2019-06-04 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
In this talk, Ryan Hilliard explores how single women in eighteenth-century Paris acknowledged, negotiated with, and responded to prescriptive sexual norms in their daily lives and in moments of crisis. Unmarried women utilized legal action to protect their reputations against accusations of sexual impropriety. In the complaints they filed with Parisian police commissioners, single women linked public perceptions of sexual honor with community membership, financial stability, and social status. In doing so, they represented sexual honor as an important facet of their social capital. Ryan explicates how single women attempted to defend themselves against injurious claims and interrogates why their enemies employed this specific type of attack during interpersonal conflicts. Moving from pervasive discourse to individual disputes, Ryan positions unmarried women as proactive participants in the eighteenth-century realm of public opinion.
Ryan Hilliard is a doctoral candidate in the UCLA Department of History whose research focuses on the history of women, gender, and sexuality in early modern France. Her dissertation, entitled “By Choice or By Circumstance: Single Women in Early Modern France,” explores the social and cultural history of unmarried women living in Paris during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Ryan Hilliard (rhilliard@ucla.edu) by Tuesday, May 28, 2019 if you plan to attend and include any dietary restrictions.

History and the Contest over Memory Today, a Discussion with Jim Grossman, Wendy Lower, and Robin Kelly
2019-05-30 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
May 30, 4:00-6:00 pm, Bunche 6275
For more information about this event, click here.
RSVP: rsvpluskin@history.ucla.edu.

Mangroves as Habitat for African Survival in the Atlantic World
2019-05-30 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Memorial for Professor Stanley Wolpert
2019-05-26 13:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Faculty Center Dining Room
The Memorial for Professor Stanley Wolpert will be held on May 26 from 1-4 in the UCLA Faculty Center dining room. Please plan to join in this celebration of his life, and do convey this information to any others you know who would like to attend.

Teo Ruiz - "Becoming Human"
2019-05-21 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Certificates of Freedom': Afro-Brazilian Strategies of Liberty in Lagos and the Atlantic World, 1850–1900
2019-05-16 12:00 - 14:00 | 6265 Bunche Hall

Kevin Y. Kim - "America’s ‘Third Worlding’ in Korea"
2019-05-15 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

A Book Talk With Max Felker-Kanto
2019-05-02 13:00 - 14:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Nwando Achebe - “The Politics of Knowledge Production—A Reflective Journey and Dance about the Epistemology and Practice of African Gender History"
2019-04-29 16:30 - 18:30 | 11360 Charles E. Young Research Library
Professor Nwando Achebe will be giving the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture (through the African Studies Center) on Monday, April 29th, from 4:30 – 6:30 in 11360 YRL. Here is the link:
https://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13743

The History Department is co-sponsoring the talk, and Nwando (daughter of famed Chinua Achebe) received her Ph.D from our department in 1999 or 2000, under Ned Alpers.

Fourth Annual Undergraduate History Conference - "From the Global to the Local: Connected Histories"
2019-04-26 08:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
From the Global to the Local: Connected Histories
Fourth Annual Undergraduate History Conference
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2019 │8:00AM – 5:00PM │BUNCHE HALL 6275

8:00am – 8:15am
Welcoming Remarks (Check-In and Continental Breakfast)

8:15am – 9:50am
Panel 1: Formations of National Identity in an International Context
Chair: Jade Quintero
Gordon Nenadovic, “Philip II and Athenian Rhetoric”
Sareen Ishanyan, “German Romantic Conceptions of Human-Nature Relations: Avant La Lettre Ecological Thinking and the Dangers of Anthropogenic Activity”
James Nee, “State Narratives of Kazakh/stani Identity, 1925-2019”
Amber Thompson, “After Incarceration: Little Tokyo and Life for Japanese Americans”
Alfred Scott, “From the Local to the Global: FESMAN ’66 and the Birth of Modern African Identity”
Discussants: Erdem Ilter & Michael Matthews

9:55am – 11:15am
Panel 2: Politics, Activism, and Race
Chair: Delanie Moreland
Kaelyn Apple, “Fleeing to the ‘Enemy’: A Revisionist Study of the Book of Negroes, The British Offer of Freedom, and Virginia’s Runaway Slaves”
Celia Janes, “From Anarchy to Assimilation: The Fragmentation of Italian American Radicalism in the 1920s”
Rachel Sass, “UCLA Jewish Activism: A Case Study on the American Jewish Community and Progressive Politics from the Six Day War to the Formation of the BDS Movement”
Sophia Yang, “The Korean American Experience During the Los Angeles Riots: A Community Reborn Through the Fire”
Discussant: Peter Chesney

11:20am – 12:10pm
Panel 3: Feminist Voices
Chair: Emily Luong
Delanie Moreland, “A Lover of Her Sex: Mary Astell and Feminist Thinking in Early Modern England”
Nyala Tringali-Carbado, “Women in the Black Panther Party: An Intersectional Analysis”
Discussant: Marissa Jenrich

12:15pm – 1:00pm
Lunch (Lunch will be provided to presenters & discussants. Other guests should bring brown bag lunch)

1:10pm – 2:00pm
Keynote: Katherine Marino, “Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement”

2:05pm – 3:20pm
Panel 4: Obstacles and Challenges to National Growth
Chair: Victoria Sheber
Erik Salazar, “Healers of a Changing World: Rural Medical Response in Central Mexico Amidst the 1850 Cholera Epidemic”
Christian Choe, “Growing Pains: Corporate Rivalry as the Catalyst for Innovation in Business History”
Therese Boles, “Nigerian and Biafran Perspectives on Humanitarian Aid During the 1967-1970 War”
James Marshall, “A Failure to Adapt”
Discussant: Rebeca Martinez

3:20pm – 3:35pm
Break (Light refreshments will be provided)

3:40pm – 4:45pm
Panel 5: Specters and Legacies of Socialism
Chair: Christian Choe
Hongyi Yu, “Doomed Alliance: The Party-state and Chinese Intellectuals from the Perspective of Everyday Life, 1949-1951”
Jade Quintero, “American Print Perspectives of Soviet Youth Counterculture”
Kyle Glick, “The Smoke and the Stone: History, Politics and Memory in Post-Soviet Memorial Space”
Discussant: Roii Ball

4:50pm – 5:00pm
Closing Remarks

Organized by the History Undergraduate Advisory Board, sponsored by the Department of History, and with the support of the History Graduate Student Association
RSVP Here

Rome in the Andes - and the Andes in Rome
2019-04-25 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Jacob Soll, “The Reckoning: Intellectual History and an Unexpected Journey into Contemporary Politics”
2019-04-22 17:00 - 19:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
For details on this event, click the link below:
https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/historian-in-society-lecture-series-soll/

From Guangzhou and Antananarivo to Dien Bien Phu: Asian and African Coordinates of the Vietnamese Revolution
2019-04-22 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Why, of all the countries in Southeast Asia, was it only in Vietnam that the struggle for national independence led to a Communist Party-led revolution? Drawing on a rich and growing body of revisionist scholarship, this lecture suggests that the answer lies beyond the borders of Vietnam and the boundaries of Vietnamese nationalism. Viewed in regional comparative perspective and through analytical lenses which keep French colonial Indochina, the Asian ‘Sinosphere’ and the African ambit of the French Empire in focus, Vietnam stands out not for the breadth and depth of nationalist consciousness but rather for the strength and significance of its transcontinental and trans-oceanic linkages in the making of “Vietnamese” society and the making of the Vietnamese revolution. In particular, the lecture shows how evolving connections to southern China and the inclusion of Vietnam both within French colonial “Indochina” and the French Empire as a whole shaped the possibilities for successful socialist revolutionary struggle in Vietnam, leading up to the defeat of of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1953, the establishment and entrenchment of the DRV north of the 17th Parallel from 1954, and the extension of the Vietnamese revolution across the full breadth of Indochina by 1975.
John T. Sidel is the Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines (Stanford University Press, 1999), (with Eva-Lotta Hedman) Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Trajectories (Routledge, 2000), Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2006), and The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment (East-West Center, 2007), as well as two forthcoming books: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines: Legacies, Linkages, Lessons (co-authored with Jaime Faustino), and Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia.

The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood
2019-04-18 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Can children be historical actors? The proposition that children have historical agency has been a rallying cry for many historians of childhood who seek to recover the voices and actions of young people in the past, arguing that their history is analogous to that of other disenfranchised and marginalized groups and must be recovered in the same way. Sarah Maza’s talk challenges this agenda by proposing that children are in fact profoundly different from any other group of past actors. It then goes on to describe a remarkable set of recent works that suggest a renewal of the general area of “children in history” but approach the topic very differently from traditional social histories, writing history not “of childhood” but “through childhood.” This trend, she suggests, has implications for all fields of history.

Lonnie Bunch - "The Power of the Past through the Creation of the Museum"
2019-04-16 19:00 | Fowler Museum
For details on this event, click the link below:
https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/historian-in-society-lecture-series/

Visions of Medieval Studies in North America: a Conference in Honor of Patrick J. Geary Day 2
2019-04-14 09:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
View Flyer here.
Borrowing its title from Patrick Geary’s article “Visions of Medieval Studies in North America” published in the 1994 volume The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, this conference honors the distinguished career of Patrick J. Geary, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History at the Institute for Advanced Study (2012–2019), Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA (1993–2011), Professor of History at the University of Florida (1980–1993), and Director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (1993–1998).
Celebrating both the anniversary of this important essay as well as the scope and impact of Professor Geary’s work and career, this conference features scholarly papers by his former students and less formal presentations commending his professional and personal impact on his students and colleagues.
This conference is organized by Kristina Markman (UCSD), Maya Maskarinec (USC), Kate Craig (Auburn University), and Warren Brown (Caltech).
Please register to attend on this event’s page on the CMRS website or write to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu. No fee. Limited seating. Parking information is posted at main.transportaion. ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors.

Visions of Medieval Studies in North America: a Conference in Honor of Patrick J. Geary Day 1
2019-04-13 09:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
2019-04-11 12:30 - 14:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Timothy Doran, "Who's Afraid of Spartan Eugenics?"
2019-04-09 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

James Loeffler, “Double Amnesia: Rethinking the History of Zionism and Human Rights”
2019-04-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Law School 1430
For details on this event, click the link below:
https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/james-loeffler-double-amnesia/
