James Sweet, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and State Capture in the Revolutionary Atlantic World Location: Hybrid Bunche Hall 6275 Zoom RSVP Time: 12:30-2:00 pm The slave ship Black Prince departed Bristol, England, in 1768, bound for Old Calabar in West Africa. Before reaching the African coast, the ship’s […]
A Weber Chair In Modern European History recruitment talk by Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University, U.K.). Link to RSVP to the Candidate Lecture.
April 18 Peiting C. Li (Cedars-Sinai) "When Herbs Become Drugs: Late Natural History and Early Clinical Trials in China" Zoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrce2vrDwuHtTE7HtTqJTG7iCo7vS39XWO In Person RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ILInDOwf0IzCN9TMRv9cMWhPxtUCe8PIFSgGKZaoi2w This talk discusses investigations of a Chinese herbal tuberculosis treatment as a window onto shifts in the production of scientific medical knowledge in 1920-1930s Shanghai. Once a remedy for consumption local to the […]
