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Silenced Motherhood: Enslaved Wet Nurses in 19th-Centery Brazil

Silenced Motherhood: Enslaved Wet Nurses in 19th-Century Brazil

A talk by Mariana Muaze, Associate Professor, UNIRIO

Apr 9, 2024 @ 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Andrews Conference room, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2203
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2023-2024: Robert Pogue Harrison

What is a River? Nature, Culture, and Human Psyche

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.

Jan 31, 2024 @ 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Jan Shrem and Maria Mannetti Shrem Museum of Art
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History Colloquium—Benjamin Goldstein

2022-2023: Philip J. Deloria

When the Stars Fell
A Multi-Epistemological Inquiry into the Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.

May 17, 2023 @ 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
jan shrem and maria manetti-shrem museum of art
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2023 Liu Lecture: Tani Barlow

The UC Davis History Department invites you to the 2023 Virtual Liu Lecture, which is free and open to the public.

Dr. Jessica Taft (UC Santa Cruz)

Nathalie Esteban Collin Memorial Lecture

For more information:
Lori Odenweller
(530) 752-0526

Nov 9, 2022 @ 12:00pm - 1:30pm
4217 Social Sciences & Humanities -- History Library
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2021-2022: Maya Phillips

Storytelling in the Multiverse of Madness

Maya Phillips,
Author of the forthcoming book, NERD: Adventures in Fandom from this Universe to the Multiverse (Atria Books), is a critic for the New York Times and recipient of the 2020-21 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism

May 5, 2022 @ 4:10pm - 5:10pm
The Manetti Schrem Museum
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2022 Liu Lecture: Winnie Wong

The UC Davis History Department invites you to the 2022 Liu Lecture, which is free and open to the public.

The US Capitol Insurrection: One Year Later

The day of the insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington DC was a day without historical precedent in US history.

Film Screening: "Puerto El Triunfo"

Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador, 2017, 61 min Jeffrey Gould, the director of “Port Triumph,” will introduce the film.

Film synopsis: In the 1970s, 1500 organized workers of Puerto el Triunfo–mostly women–thanks to their struggles were among

Advisory Council

Marisol LeBrón, "Toward A Decolonial Feminist Politics of Rage in Puerto Rico," Thursday, Nov. 21 4-5:30 (Location, TBA)

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Sally McKee

Kavita Philip

Author of 'Little, Big' and other award-winning novels gives talk on transformative historical fiction.

The 2018-19 Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture will be delivered by the award-winning novelist and documentary-filmmaker John Crowley.

Alisha Rankin: The Poison Trials

Alisha Rankin, "The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science." Presented by the Early Science Workshop. The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance S

2020-2021: Stephen Greenblatt

The UC Davis History Department invites you to the 2021 Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture, which is free and open to the public.