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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Lauren Derby - Bêtes Noires
DESCRIPTION:Professor Derby will launch her new book: Bêtes Noires  \nFurther information and eBook: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3601/Betes-NoiresSorcery-as-History-in-the-Haitian  \nPlease RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1I48dLzOKSnJIBwXWCIXZ3vI7FbrqmkGfIFLxqEojPdo/edit 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/book-launch-lauren-derby-betes-noires/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T173000
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SUMMARY:Mountains of Capital: Private Power Production in the Sierra Nevada
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series. \nMoorpark College Professor\, Joshua McGuffie\, will be presenting “Mountains of Capital: Private Power Production in the Sierra Nevada.” \n  \nOver the course of 1905\, the Nevada Power\, Mining and Milling Company \nconstructed a hydroelectric power system on Bishop Creek in the Sierra Nevada. \nTransmission lines crossed Owens Valley\, traversed the White Mountains\, and then \nmeandered eastwards to the silver fields around Tonopah\, Nevada. By 1920\, the \nCompany’s hydroelectric power flowed southward to the burgeoning cities of San \nBernadino\, Riverside\, and Redlands. \n  \nThis talk analyzes the role of private power production in the environmental and \nscientific histories of the Sierra Nevada. The Company\, in its many iterations\, built \ninfrastructure to transform flowing Sierra creeks into profit. Flowing water became \nkilowatt hours. Trees became power poles. Glacial till and granodiorite boulders became \nfill for dams. As the company transformed the mountains to produce power\, its leaders \nand workers developed the notion that they\, as private\, corporate actors\, served as the \nrange’s natural caretakers. The Company fought the Los Angeles Bureau of Water and \nPower and its Los Angeles Aqueduct. The Company worked to produce a privately- \nowned paradise for employees who vacationed at creek side cabins. In company hands\, \nthe Sierra acted as a bulwark against creeping socialism. Accounting for private power \nproduction in the eastern Sierra enriches regional histories that traditionally emphasize \nstate actors and public lands. \n  \nSee you in the History of Science Room or via Zoom\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/vLI7S0I3TsioQQj7GYDNZQ.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/mountains-of-capital-private-power-production-in-the-sierra-nevada/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Science Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="History of Science%2C Medicine%2C and Technology Colloquium Series":MAILTO:jkaptanian@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T120000
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CREATED:20260312T231514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T231602Z
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SUMMARY:AI-Proof Assessments
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/ai-proofassessments/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T180000
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CREATED:20260415T150004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T150004Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA European History Colloquium Presents: Scales of Slavdom: Race and Geography in Yugoslav Communism\, 1941-48
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/ucla-european-history-colloquium-presents-scales-of-slavdom-race-and-geography-in-yugoslav-communism-1941-48/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:European History Colloquium,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T133000
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Honors Thesis Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is designed for students embarking on their honors theses to meet fellow researchers\, hear from students who recently finished their theses successfully\, and learn how to kick off their project successfully. Lunch provided.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-honors-thesis-workshop/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
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CREATED:20260416T222838Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA European History Colloquium Presents: The Jet Age in Eight Passengers
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that the next UCLA European History Colloquium will be held on Wednesday\, April 22\, at 5pm in Bunche 10383 and on Zoom. Please note the new location! \nLauren Stokes\, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University\, will be joining us to speak on “The Jet Age in Eight Passengers.”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/ucla-european-history-colloquium-presents-the-jet-age-in-eight-passengers/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall & Zoom
CATEGORIES:European History Colloquium,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T090000
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SUMMARY:The History of Gender and Sexuality Working Group Presents: The-Graduate Student Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-history-of-gender-and-sexuality-working-group-presents-the-graduate-student-conference-2026/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Women, Men and Sexuality Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260427T160000
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UID:18473-1777305600-1777311000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series: "Tīrs\, the Moroccan chernozem: soils\, epistemologies and empires (1900-1930)"
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA’s Ethan Mefford\, will be presenting “Tīrs\, the Moroccan chernozem: soils\, epistemologies and empires (1900-1930)” \nIn 1900\, as European empires eyed Morocco\, a dark soil known locally as tīrs created a sensation among European observers\, sparking commentaries on its great fertility and theories as to its genesis. As an object of local experience and thought and of fast-cohering colonial knowledge\, tīrs traces contrasts and convergences between two epistemologies each oriented to its own conceptions of climate and agriculture. In 1908\, the geologist Louis Gentil (1868-1925) applied the factorial model of soil genesis developed by the Russian soil scientist V.V. Dokuchaev (1846-1903) and declared tīrs to be akin to the famed chernozem or “black earth” of southern Russia and Ukraine. Gentil’s theory\, though mistaken\, prevailed and became part of an authoritative discourse that supported French agricultural and political goals. This talk explores the relationship between science and empire\, and how the salient “fact” that tīrs was another chernozem reverberated through cohering French and Spanish conceptions of Morocco’s physical and human geography. \nSee you in the History of Science Room or via Zoom https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/7eHDPkZiQlCkoT-U3x9BiQ.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-medicine-and-technology-colloquium-series-tirs-the-moroccan-chernozem-soils-epistemologies-and-empires-1900-1930/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Science Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="History of Science%2C Medicine%2C and Technology Colloquium Series":MAILTO:jkaptanian@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T140000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Visualizing Place: Constructing the Caribbean through Postcards\, 1900-1930s
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, we had to cancel the event for 4/30. It will be rescheduled soon. \nMandie Nuanes\, Graduate Student\, Department of History\, UCLA \nPresentation: “Visualizing Place: Constructing the Caribbean through Postcards\, 1900-1930s” \nDiscussant: José Luis Passos\, Professor\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, UCLA. \nThis event has been canceled!
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-visualizing-place-constructing-the-caribbean-through-postcards-1900-1930s/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T173000
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CREATED:20260204T075315Z
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SUMMARY:Weber Book Prize Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk of the 2026 Weber Book Prize awardee Catherine Tatiana Dunlop about her winning book The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France (University of Chicago Press\, 2024). \nA recording of the lecture can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNsnuPMydIk.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/weber-book-price-talk/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Events
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