Red, White and Black Turns Gold: Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium
2024-10-13 09:30 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Autry Museum of the American West and the UCLA Department of History (with support from the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History; Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History; Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World; and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History) is hosting an event marking the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Gary B. Nash’s Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America.
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Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University: “On the Wings of Locusts: Ancient Rome and New Ecological Histories"
2024-10-14 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Amir Alexander, Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
2024-10-21 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Erik Linstrum (UVA), "Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire"
2024-10-28 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Why History Matters: Reproductive Rights and Justice
2024-10-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Royce Hall, Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

(Postponed) Ariela Gross, Of Coercion, Consent, and Concubines: The Regulation and Litigation of Interracial Sex and Marriage under Slavery in the U.S. South
2024-10-31 12:00 - 13:00
Event Details Coming Soon.

History of Gender and Sexuality Annual Graduate Student Workshop
2024-11-01 09:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Edward Polanco "In Cintli, In Pahtli: Corn as a Cure in Nahua Communities"
2024-11-04 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

A UCLA Veterans Remembrance: Conflict, Captivity and Peace
2024-11-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Collins Room, UCLA James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plz., UCLA Alumni Association, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

UCLA History Department Tea with Transfers
2024-11-18 12:30 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
You are cordially invited to the History Department’s Tea with Transfers event, hosted by the History Undergraduate Advisor Board. Stop by to make new transfer friends, reconnect with old ones, and learn how to make the most of your time at UCLA! Gain peer insight on topics such as:

The Honors Thesis Program
Communicating with professors & counselors
Important dates & opportunities

Refreshments will be served.

Alexander Martin (Uni Notre Dame) "The Pastor and His Afterlife: A German-Russian Microhistory of the Long 19th Century"
2024-11-18 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Pablo Gómez "Bloody Numbers: Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Human Body in the Early Iberian Atlantic"
2024-11-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Royce 306
Join via Zoom.

(Samuel Lamontagne) Pan-African Sounds: Archival Perspectives on Black Music
2024-11-20 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Meng Zhang, "Edible Birds' Nests and the Making of Medical Knowledge in Early Modern China"
2024-12-02 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall

CANCELLED - Nydia Pineda de Ávila (University of California, San Diego): “The Art and Politics of Early Modern Lunar Maps”
2025-01-13 16:00 - 17:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
This event has been cancelled.

CANCELLED - Charles-François Mathis (Panthéon-Sorbonne University): "Energy Cultures and Environmental Transition: Tracing the Roots of Our Imaginaries of Power"
2025-01-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Sharrona Pearl (Texas Christian University): “A Super Useless Super Skill: Super Recognizers and Face Recognition Technology”
2025-01-27 16:00 - 17:00

UCLA History Department Senior Honors Thesis Workshop
2025-01-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom RSVP
Interested in carrying out a year-long independent research project that will culminate in an honors thesis? Our department will be hosting a workshop for interested students on Tuesday, January 28th at 1pm via Zoom. Please RSVP via https://forms.gle/6cz8C7hDvn8gATiL6.

Oliver Cussen (UC Berkeley): "Colonial Enlightenment and Capitalism's Ecological Repressed"
2025-01-29 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Joan Flores-Villalobos (University of Southern California), "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal"
2025-01-30 15:00 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Ana Struillou (University of London Institute of Historical Research): "Across the Material Sea: Travellers and Their Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
2025-02-05 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Cassia Roth (University of California, Riverside): "Beyond the Chart: From Individual Stories to Epidemiological Insights in Clinical Records"
2025-02-10 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Spencer Weinreich (Harvard University): "'If his keeper look well unto him': Solitary Confinement in Early Modern Europe"
2025-02-11 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Jennifer Kosmin (Auburn University): “When the Fetus Becomes a Child: Historicizing Fetal Viability in the early 19th Century”
2025-02-24 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Sabrina González (Washington State University): “Schools as Laboratories: Pedagogy and Eugenics in Argentina”
2025-03-03 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Book Celebration: Landscaping Indigenous Mexico by Fernando Pérez Montesinos
2025-04-07 16:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Join us for a book celebration and panel discussion in honor of Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands (2025) by Fernando Pérez Montesinos, Associate Professor of History. 🍽 Refreshments provided.
Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91757589490

“Landscaping Indigenous Mexico is a moving tribute to the resilience and adaptability of the agrarian landscapes that Mexico’s Indigenous peoples built over centuries.” – Germán Vergara
Co-sponsored by the History of Science Colloquium and the UCLA Latin America Institute.

Natasha Wheatley: The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty
2025-04-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Bunche 5288 & Zoom
💻 Virtual Option: [https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91210000676?pwd=[REDACTED]

Daniel P. Gamez, "Imperial Urbanism: Environmental violence and Nahua autonomy in the Anahuac-Mexico City"
2025-04-17 14:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Suzy Kim, Rutgers University, "Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in Global Cold War"
2025-04-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Bunche 10383

Why History Matters: L.A. Wildfires Past, Present and Future
2025-04-30 18:00 - 19:00
