Colloquia & Conferences

History Department Events

UCLA History Graduate Colloquium (Bunche Hall 6275, from December 03, 2009 04:00 PM to December 03, 2009 06:00 PM)

Xochitl Marcial-Flores- “Colonial Zapotec Systems of Survival: Management of Resources in Coyotepec.”

Special Lecture (History Reading Room, 6265 Bunche Hall, from November 23, 2009 04:00 PM to November 23, 2009 06:00 PM)

Mario del Pero, Department of History, University of Bologna - "The Eccentric Realist: Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy"

UCLA History Graduate Colloquium (Bunche Hall 6275, from November 18, 2009 04:00 PM to November 18, 2009 06:00 PM)

Mesrob Vartavarian- “Core Executives Compared: Patrons, Clients and Policy-making in the British and Soviet Cabinets.

Book Talk (6275 Bunche Hall, from November 12, 2009 12:30 PM to November 12, 2009 02:00 PM)

Robin Archer, London School of Economics - "Why is There No Labor Party in the United States?"

UCLA History Department (Bunche 6275, from November 05, 2009 04:00 PM to November 05, 2009 05:15 PM)

Appleby Chair Candidate Professor Leon Fink, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, "'The Nation's Property': Nineteenth Century Sailors and the Political Economy of the Atlantic World"

UCLA History Graduate Colloquium (Bunche Hall 6275, from November 04, 2009 04:00 PM to November 04, 2009 06:00 PM)

Julie Kazdan- "From Instruction to Education: The Feminization of Normal Schools and the Transformation of Italian Education"

UCLA History Department (Bunche 6275, from November 02, 2009 04:00 PM to November 02, 2009 05:15 PM)

Appleby Chair Candidate Professor Mary Dudziak, USC, "Law, War and the History of Time"

Conference on U.S. History: Transnational Perspectives (Bunche 6275, from October 23, 2009 10:00 AM to October 23, 2009 04:00 PM)

 

UCLA History Department (Bunche 6275, from October 15, 2009 04:00 PM to October 15, 2009 05:15 PM)

Appleby Chair Candidate Professor Eric Rauchway, UC Davis, "America in the World:" The U.S. as a Developing Country"

Center for Near Eastern Studies Book Talk (6275 Bunche Hall, from October 01, 2009 03:00 PM to October 01, 2009 05:00 PM)

Gregory Orfalea, Georgetown University - "An Arab American Grows Up in L.A."

Spring Departmental Colloquium Series, "Interpreting Rumor and Gossip." (6275 Bunche Hall, from June 04, 2009 04:00 PM to June 04, 2009 06:00 PM)

Luise White, Professor, Department of History, University of Florida- "Life after Vampires. Or Why Africans Can't Say Yes."

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium (5288 Bunche, from June 01, 2009 04:00 PM to June 01, 2009 05:30 PM)

Diane Paul, Visiting Professor, UCLA "Beyond Galton: J.S. Mill and the 19th Century British Debate over Inherited Differences".

Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Colloquium (History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall, from June 01, 2009 02:00 PM to June 01, 2009 05:00 PM)

David Goodstein, Department of Physics, Caltech University, and Vaclav Smil, Faculty of Environment, University of Manitoba - "Peak Oil and The Future of Energy"

History and DNA Seminar (6275 Bunche Hall, from May 27, 2009 04:00 PM to May 27, 2009 06:00 PM)

Noah Rosenberg, University of Michigan - "A Genomic Analysis of Ancestry and Migration in Native Americans"

Spring Departmental Colloquium Series, "Interpreting Rumor and Gossip." (6275 Bunche Hall, from May 21, 2009 04:00 PM to May 21, 2009 06:00 PM)

Stephen A. Smith, Professor, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence- "Popular Millenarianism in the People's Republic of China during the Mao Era: Rumors and Narratives."

Center for Jewish Studies (6275 Bunche Hall, from May 21, 2009 12:30 PM to May 21, 2009 02:30 PM)

Federica Francesconi, UCLA Visiting Viterbi Professor of Mediterranean Jewish Studies - "A New Path Toward Emancipation: The Italian Jewish Leadership from the Ghettos to the Napoleonic Era"

Book Talk (6275 Bunche Hall, from May 19, 2009 12:00 PM to May 19, 2009 02:00 PM)

Janet Afary, UCLA - "Sexual Politics in Modern Iran"

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium (5288 Bunche, from May 18, 2009 04:00 PM to May 18, 2009 05:30 PM)

Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire "Priestley's Hypocrisy: Making and Unmaking the Enlightenment Man of Science."

2009 Central Asia Initiative Lecture (History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall, from May 15, 2009 02:00 PM to May 15, 2009 04:00 PM)

Olivier Roy - "Changing Religious Landscapes: Why Some Muslims Convert to Christianity - The Case of Central Asia"

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium (5288 Bunche, from May 11, 2009 04:00 PM to May 11, 2009 05:30 PM)

Nick Dew, McGill University "Europeans and Non-European Sciences in the Scientific Revolution"

Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Colloquium (History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche, from May 11, 2009 02:00 PM to May 11, 2009 05:00 PM)

Richard Freeman, Department of Economics, Harvard University and Edward Leamer, Anderson School of Management, UCLA - "Globalization and Living Standards"

Spring Departmental Colloquium Series, "Interpreting Rumor and Gossip." (6275 Bunche Hall, from May 07, 2009 04:00 PM to May 07, 2009 06:00 PM)

John Brewer, Eli and Eyde Broad Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology- "Faking It: Gossip, Expertise and Artful Dodger in the 20th-Century Art World."

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium (5288 Bunche, from May 04, 2009 04:00 PM to May 27, 2009 05:30 PM)

Various seminars take place throughout the quarter.

Spring Departmental Colloquium Series, "Interpreting Rumor and Gossip." (6275 Bunche Hall, from April 30, 2009 04:00 PM to April 30, 2009 06:00 PM)

Marc Flandreau, International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva- "The Economics of Badmouthing: Defamation, Racketeering and the French Financial Press Before World War I."

Spring Departmental Colloquium Series, "Interpreting Rumor and Gossip" (6275 Bunche Hall, from April 23, 2009 04:00 PM to April 23, 2009 06:00 PM)

Patricia Cline Cohen, Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara- "Scurrilous “Flash” Papers: Gossip, Sex, and Scandal Sheets in the Antebellum U.S."

FLAT, MOVING, 3D OBJECTS: Tools for displaying science across time and distance (Conference Center, Rm 11348, Charles Young Research Library, UCLA, from April 18, 2009 09:30 AM to April 18, 2009 05:00 PM)

UCLA History of Science, Medicine and Technology and the Huntington Library are pleased to present the Southern California History of Science Colloquium

Phi Alpha Theta Southern Regional Conference (Covel Commons, from April 18, 2009 09:00 AM to April 18, 2009 08:30 PM)

 

Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar at UCLA (6265 Bunche Hall, from April 15, 2009 04:00 PM to April 15, 2009 06:00 PM)

Peter Hulme, University of Essex - "With a Knapsack on his Back: The Geography of the Cuban Revolutionary Struggle"

Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Colloquium (History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall, from April 06, 2009 02:00 PM to April 06, 2009 05:00 PM)

Diana Liverman, Institute for Environment and Society, University of Arizona; and Glen MacDonald, Department of Geography, UCLA - "Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and How to Respond"

Clark Library Conference (Clark Memorial Library, from April 03, 2009 09:30 AM to April 04, 2009 04:00 PM)

"Excavating the Past: Archaeological Perspectives on Black Atlantic Regional Networks", A Conference in Honor of UCLA Emeritus Professor Merrick Posnansky

Symposium on Nanotech Accountability, Responsibility and Citizenship (Rm 121, GSEIS Building [west of Young Research Library], from March 31, 2009 04:00 PM to March 31, 2009 06:00 PM)

Presentations by Andrew Jamison, Aalborg, and Christopher Kelty, UCLA Read papers in advance at their websites: http://kelty.org/nano and http://www.plan.aau.dk/~andy/

UCLA Mellon Seminars on Black Atlantic Studies & Caribbean Cultural History and the Latin American Institute (10383 Bunche Hall, from March 09, 2009 04:00 PM to March 09, 2009 06:00 PM)

Sally Price, William and Mary College- "Silences in the Museum: Reflections on Paris's Musée du Quai Branly"

History of Science Colloquia (Bunche 5288, from March 09, 2009 04:00 PM to March 09, 2009 06:00 PM)

Discussion of Reviel Netz's book: The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics

History of Science Colloquia (Bunche 5288, from March 02, 2009 04:00 PM to March 02, 2009 06:00 PM)

Diana Kormos-Buchwald, California Institute of Technology, “In His Own Words: New and Noteworthy Materials from Einstein's Collected Papers”

Mellon Transatlantic Seminar (Humanities 193, from January 16, 2009 04:00 PM to January 16, 2009 06:00 PM)

Christopher Brown, Professor, Columbia University - "The Planter Class: Rise and Fall of a British Elite"

Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Colloquium (History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall, from January 12, 2009 02:00 PM to January 12, 2009 05:00 PM)

Mike Davis, Creative Writing, UC Riverside - "The Anthropocene as Big Bang Climate Change in a World of Slums"

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Talk (6275 Bunche Hall, from January 08, 2009 04:00 PM to January 08, 2009 06:00 PM)

Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA Dept. of Sociology - "Raw encounters: Chinese managers, African workers, and social change in the Zambian copper belt"