UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy

How European Wars End - and What This Might Tell Us About the Conditions for Peace in Ukraine
2024-05-15 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Stella Ghervas (Assistant Professor, UCLA)

Stella Ghervas is Professor of History and the Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History at UCLA. She has held teaching, research and visiting positions in Australia, France, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her main interests are in intellectual and international history of modern Europe, with special reference to the history of peace and peace-making, and in Russia’s intellectual and maritime history. She is the author or editor of six books, most notably Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte Alliance (2008), which won the Guizot Prize from the Académie Française, A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (co-ed., 2020), and Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union (2021), which won the 2023 Laura Shannon Prize. She is now working on a new book Calming the Waters? A New History of the Black Sea, 1774-1920s, and an anthology of essential texts on peace from the Antiquity to the present day.
Check out a recent interview featuring Professor Ghervas, “Pondering Peace: A Q&A with Professor Stella Ghervas”, available on the UCLA College website.

Violence in the Suburbs of France: A Tragic Cycle of Déjà Vus
2024-06-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Bunche 6275, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
Luuk Slooter (Professor, Utrecht University)

On 27 June 2023 a 17-year-old boy, Nahel Merzouk, is shot dead by the police in Nanterre, a suburb north of Paris (France). The same night collective violence erupts: cars burn down, buildings are set on fire and there are heavy clashes between young people and the police. The unrest spreads across the French Republic and lasts for 8 days.
The death of Nahel was not a one-off incident, but part of a longer history of suburban unrest in France’s marginalized suburbs. It was a déjà-vu. A tragic play that has been staged multiple times over the past four decades. Although the play has been performed in different forms, at different locations, and by different actors, it has remained loyal to a script in three acts.
In this talk I will bring you to the disadvantaged suburbs (banlieues) of France and disaggregate this three act drama. Drawing on ethnographic research I will show how the cycle of car burning protests and police brutality is rooted in the structural violence of a socially and spatially divided society.

Luuk Slooter is an Assistant Professor Conflict Studies at Utrecht University. His research focuses on urban uprisings, violence, policing, polarization and spatial segregation. He conducted ethnographic research in the French banlieues and disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD from Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France). His book publications include ‘The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence’ (Palgrave, 2019) and ‘Geweld’ [Violence] (Athenaeum, 2021 – in Dutch – co-authored with Prof. Jolle Demmers).
Luuk Slooter is currently visiting Professor at UCLA’s Center for European and Russian Studies (Dutch Studies Program).

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The Nexus of Education Non-Profits, Corporations, and Philanthropy: The Pressures of the Past and Reimagining the Future (The Pasts and Futures of Higher Education in the U.S. Seminar)
2024-11-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6339, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
Abbie Cohen (PhD Student, UCLA)

The University in Ruins? The Past and Futures of Today's Higher Ed Crisis
2024-11-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6339, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
Davarian Baldwin (Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of Smart Cities Research Lab, Trinity College)

The Original DEI: The Protestant Establishment and the Secularization of the University
2025-01-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche 6339, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
Nomi M. Stolzenberg (Nathan and Lily Shapell Professor of Law, USC)

Once More Unto the Breach: The Neutrality Debate and the American University, 1967 and 2025
2025-02-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6339, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
Malick Ghachem (Professor, MIT)

Why History Matters in an Age of Polycrisis
2025-03-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90230
Wende Museum

The Legacy of Impunity: A Book Talk with Philippe Sands
2025-03-12 12:15 - 13:30 | ULCA Law Room 1447
UCLA Law Room 1447

Black for the First Time: Race, Admissions, and Socialization in the Historically White Institutional Context
2025-04-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche Hall 6339, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
Jamaal Muwwakkil (Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UCLA)

Borders within Borders: Service Provider Voices across America's Patchwork of Immigration Policies
2025-04-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche Hall 6339, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
Tatiana Londoño (UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs)

Why History Matters: L.A. Wildfires Past, Present and Future
2025-04-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, 90024
Hitoshi Abe, Gerald Clark Jr., Char Miller, with moderator Stephen Aron

The Future of History
2025-11-03 15:00 - 18:00 | Legacy Room, Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095

"Teach Truth: The Struggle for an Antiracist Education" with Jesse Hagopian
2025-11-10 18:30 - 19:30 | 3312 Murphy Hall

Higher Education in Peril: A Conversation with Prof. Kim Scheppele and Prof. David Kaye
2025-12-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Bunche 6275, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
RSVP here by November 24
