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Faculty meeting

Advisory Council

Departmental Colloquium: "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and the Cold War in Iraq" with Prof. Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt

2015-16: Carlo Ginzburg

Unintentional Revelations: Reading History Against the Grain

2014-15: Peter Mandler

Good Reading for the Million: The "Paperback Revolution" and the Diffusion of Academic Knowledge in Mid-20th Century Britain and America

2013-14: Jill Lepore

Jane Franklin's Spectacles: Or, the Education of Benjamin Franklin's Sister

2012-13: Ian Morris

War! What is it Good for? How Violence Made Civilization, from Primates to Robots

2011-12: Robert Darnton

Books, Digits, and Dollars: A Design for the Future

2017-18: Lorraine Daston

This year’s Lunn Lecturer will be Lorraine Daston, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and Professor, Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago.

Jessica Ordaz

Jessica Ordaz, who graduated from our doctoral program, returns to discuss her recently published book The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity. Email jleroy@ucdavis.edu for Zoom link.

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.

Advisory Council

2018-19: John Crowley

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

2016-17: Stacy Schiff

"In the Archives: Getting a Life"

Kavita Philip

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. To mark its one-year anniversary, the UC Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) and the Department of History are hosting short presentations followed by an open discussion about January 6th and then leading an open discussion about what January 6th means, not least for the mid-term federal elections in November 2022. All students, staff, and faculty welcome. With Professors of History: David Biale: "January 6 and the Fall of the Weimar Republic: Can Historical Analogies Predict the Future?" Gregory Downs: "Insurrections, Rebellions & Coups in US History" Justin Leroy: "Race, White Supremacy, and the Insurrection" Kathryn Olmsted: "Conspiracy Theories and the Insurrection"