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May 25, 2023
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Waterfront Film Screening by Professor Milos Jovanovic
Kaplan A65
May 23, 2023
4:00pm
Town Destroyer Film Screening

A historic mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco shows George Washington as both a triumphant general and the destroyer of Indigenous lives and settlements. Painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1936, the mural is unusual for its time in that it critically depicts Washington as the...

6275 Bunche Hall
luskincenter@history.ucla.edu
May 22, 2023
4:00pm
Jane Moon, M.D., History of Science, "Pushing the Borders of Consciousness: A History of Ketamine and Dissociative Anesthesia"

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5288 Bunche Hall
May 19, 2023
9:00am to 5:00pm
Clark Library Conference "From Bodies to Things: The Commodification of Human Life in the Early Modern Atlantic" organized by Tawny Paul and Andrew Apter (UCLA)

https://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/bodies-to-things-1/

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California, 90018
May 17, 2023
9:00am to 5:00pm
History Undergraduate Conference
6275 Bunche Hall
May 16, 2023
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Malabar, Gentoo, and Pariah: Thinking about South Asian Blackness & Caste in South Asia and the Caribbean

Vikram Tamboli, UCLA

https://www.international.ucla.edu/cisa/event/16084
May 11, 2023
9:00am to 5:00pm
The History of Gender & Sexuality Group Graduate Student Workshop
6275 Bunche Hall
May 11, 2023
12:30pm to 1:45pm
Sakhia's Gift: Intimate Economies in Transition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar
6275 Bunche Hall
May 8, 2023
4:00pm
Dr. Kate McDonald, History of Science, "The Rickshaw Everyman: Transport and Memory in Postwar Japan"

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5288 Bunche Hall
May 4, 2023
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Kevin Dawson, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Merced “Surfing, Surf-Canoeing, and the Atlantic Slave Trade”

Atlantic Africa—the region extending from Senegal to Angola—has few natural harbors, compelling Africans to cross through surf to reach fisheries and coastal shipping lanes.  Sources suggest that one thousand years ago Africans independently developed surfing to...

6275 Bunche Hall