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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Alexander Statman (UCLA\, Law)
DESCRIPTION:“A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science.” \nThe idea of progress frames our modern understanding of understanding itself. It offers a historical account of the development of knowledge in space and time\, with the natural sciences serving as both its mark and guarantor. This account has a distinctive history all of its own. Historians have long considered it to be a signature contribution of the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment. But to really understand how it came to be\, we also have to pay attention to much that the European Enlightenment seemed to tell us to ignore. \nIn this talk\, I show that ideas of progress at the end of the Enlightenment were shaped by a continuous and transformative engagement with Chinese science. In Beijing\, the last survivor of the Jesuit mission\, Joseph-Marie Amiot\, studied qi\, taiji\, and yin-yang cosmology\, sending authentic primary and secondary sources from China back to France. In Paris\, his correspondents deployed them to tell new stories about the history of science\, inventing modern esotericism in the process. When this work was reincorporated into post-Enlightenment progress theories\, the past became a foreign country: both were made a window into a different way of knowing. \nZoom RSVP: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcu6hrzssGdTWwugK_tYov09nxbNnjz0y \nIn Person RSVP: \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1E-8G-w9Sq22qwbnQFQHH_YAHkYyfkZ9fDLVn2eg1Zrg
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-alexander-statman-ucla-law/
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - European Colloquium: Anthony Grafton's Talk
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED: Anthony Grafton’s talk scheduled for February 9th 4-6PM has been postponed to Spring Quarter.\nMore information will be provided in the future.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/postponed-european-colloquium-anthony-graftons-talk/
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SUMMARY:Transatlantic Blues: A French Botanist Experiments with Indigo by Mary Terrall
DESCRIPTION:The French botanist Michel Adanson spent five years in pre-colonial Senegal in the 1750s\, under the auspices of the Compagnie des Indes\, collecting and cultivating African plants and mapping the landscape and natural resources of the region.  He traversed this landscape with a variety of African interlocutors and guides\, whose knowledge inevitably\, if often invisibly\, informed his collections\, maps\, and scientific works. With particular attention to the materiality of indigo\,this paper follows the archival traces of Adanson’s engagement with African indigo\, including experiments conducted in an ad hoc “laboratory” near the French fort of Saint-Louis. Making scientific knowledge for European audiences (including the royal scientific institutions and the Bureau of the Colonies) depended on various kinds of local African knowledge\, as well as on Caribbean plantation experience. This talk will explore questions about the geographies of knowledge and French imperial ambitions\, through close attention to the material properties of indigo\, the practices associated with its transformation from plant to dye\, and the material remnants of Adanson’s engagement with it in Africa. This is both a microhistory of encounters in and around a tiny island off the West African coast and a trans-Atlantic story connecting Senegal to Paris and to French colonies in the Caribbean (Saint Domingue and Guyana).  \nHybrid Bunche 6275 \nZoom RSVP https://ucla.in/3HyDjMD
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/transatlantic-blues-a-french-botanist-experiments-with-indigo-by-mary-terrall/
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SUMMARY:Oathbound: The Trelawny Maroons of Jamaica in the Revolutionary Atlantic World by Bradley Craig
DESCRIPTION:Forcibly removed from Jamaica in 1796 after waging war against the colonial state\, the Trelawny Maroons boarded a ship bound for Nova Scotia\, where they struggled against the colonial government until 1800\, when they were relocated to Sierra Leone. This talk follows the Maroons across these three different British colonies in order to reconsider the political history of the Atlantic world. To tell the story of the Trelawny Maroons is to tell a characteristically Atlantic story whereby different groups reconstituted their sense of belonging in the face of flux and dislocation—an impulse common to Africans\, indigenous Americans\, and Europeans alike from the onset of the Atlantic age of exploration. War\, enslavement\, mercantilism\, and imperial expansion facilitated the meeting of strangers and the making of kin. At the center of these Atlantic narratives are shared strivings—often violent\, yet always creative—to persist in a world marked by rupture and discontinuity. I argue that the Maroons engaged in a radical worldmaking project rooted in an Atlantic political culture of oath-making that allowed them to recast their political subjectivity across different colonial spaces. The Maroons endeavored to bind themselves to a radical vision of fragmented sovereignty and a sense of diasporic community\, revealing the deep historical connections between sovereignty and intimacy. By adopting a diasporic emphasis on ritual\, materiality\, and belonging\, this project reorients a historiography of Black Atlantic revolutionary politics that too often emerges from a linear\, progressive\, and state-oriented perspective. \nThis event will be online only via Zoom.  Please use this URL to RSVP:  https://ucla.in/3zy9clB. \n 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/oathbound-the-trelawny-maroons-of-jamaica-in-the-revolutionary-atlantic-world-by-bradley-craig/
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SUMMARY:"'Chi beve birra campa cent'anni!': Wine Beer\, and the Question of Italian Identity under Fascism"
DESCRIPTION:EUROPEAN COLLOQUIUM\nTALK BY WEBER POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR\, BRIAN GRIFFITH\nThis paper analyzes the struggles between the Italian winemaking and brewing industries over the shaping of bourgeois Italian tastes and habits during the interwar decades. During the early 1920s\, Fascist Italy’s Industrial Wine Lobby began unveiling a wide range of public relations and collective marketing campaigns\, which were aimed at forging new ‘fashions’ among the country’s wayward middle- and upper-class consumers. The pro-wine lobby’s efforts\, however\, were obstructed by a variety of political and commercial challenges\, including a growing competition with various ‘foreign’ beverage industries\, such as coffee\, cocktails\, and\, above all\, beer. Between 1929 and 1931\, Italian brewers’ commercial lobbying organization\, the National Beer Propaganda Consortium\, launched two ambitious collective marketing campaigns of its own\, which were centered on discursively intertwining the beverage’s consumption with bourgeois sociability\, domesticity\, and ‘Italian’ identity. Unwilling to yield any commercial ground to domestic brewers\, Italy’s Industrial Wine Lobby launched a follow-up\, and wide-ranging collective marketing campaign in order to both defend ‘the world’s vineyard’ from the ‘invasion’ of ‘semi-barbarian’ beverages\, as one wine lobbyist colorfully phrased it in 1935. By exploring these industries’ conflicts over the definition and articulation of ‘Italian’ taste and style during the interwar years\, this study aims to shed further light on the complex relationships between consumerism\, industrial ‘fashion’ dynamics\, and national identity under Benito Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship. \nIf you would like to attend via Zoom\, please RSVP.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/chi-beve-birra-campa-centanni-wine-beer-and-the-question-of-italian-identity-under-fascism/
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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Alexander Kertzner (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:“Polio\, Adventism\, and Rehabilitation Medicine in Los Angeles.” \nRancho Los Amigos was founded during the late nineteenth century as a poor farm but became a rehabilitation hospital for iron lung patients during Los Angeles’s 1950s polio epidemics. Following the polio vaccination campaigns\, researchers received federal funding to test Rancho’s concept of care on other chronic patient groups and it became an internationally renowned rehabilitation center. \nVarious aspects of Los Angeles’s city life\, including its unorthodox religious environment\, tradition of popular medicine\, and local industries\, from Hollywood to aerospace\, informed the process by which rehabilitation took shape at Rancho Los Amigos. My talk situates Seventh Day Adventism within this history.  Many of the physicians who worked at Rancho Los Amigos during the years that it became a rehabilitation center were educated at the College of Medical Evangelists (now the Loma Linda University School of Medicine)\, an Adventist medical school in Loma Linda\, California. I will discuss how life in Southern California’s Adventist community impacted not only the clinical practice of rehabilitation at Rancho Los Amigos\, but the research conducted in its laboratories. In studying how Adventists\, Department of Defense researchers\, and local engineers designed rehabilitation technologies\, we see how the region’s unique environment stimulated innovation in rehabilitation medicine\, both locally and nationally. \nZoom RSVP: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpd–qrjovGNxKoSVYViqjAr1dFmOnpzIT \nIn Person RSVP (at 5288 Bunche Hall): \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gfZeJr4ZiB3S33dD3780Pr2Vc43Xz8rRWO2uOc4jg28
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-alexander-kertzner-ucla/
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