Latest Past Events
“Wasteland to Date Garden”: Eugenics and Agriculture in the California Desert; Between Radicalism and Technocracy: The Council for Science and Society and the Politics of Risk and Expertise, 1973-1990
5288 Bunche HallEveryone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA’s own Margaret Spaulding and Claire Votava will be presenting. Meg’s talk is titled “Wasteland to Date Garden”: Eugenics and Agriculture in the California Desert. Previous historians have shown how the conservation movement inspired eugenicists, who anthropomorphized trees […]
A Dialogue on Pan-Africanism
6275 Bunche HallPlease RSVP here, lunch will be provided. To attend remotely via Zoom, RSVP here. Speakers: Félix Jean Louis III, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine Paper: “Haiti, Haitians, and the Caribbean Roots of Pan-Africanism” Bright Gyamfi Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University Paper: “Pan-Africanism and African and Diasporic unity” […]

