UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy

William Baer, Workshop Series, "A History of Housing Development and Implications for the 21st Century"
2019-04-29 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bunche 6339
William Baer, Workshop Series, “A History of Housing Development and Implications for the 21st Century,” Workshop Series – Putting History to Work
William Baer (USC)
April 29, 12:00-1:30 pm
Bunche 6339
RSVP: lindsayking@ucla.edu

Luskin Fellows Tendayi Achiume, Madina Thiam, Anita Vukovic, Workshop Series, "Developing a New Approach to Migration and Policy-Making in Africa"
2019-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6339
Luskin Fellows Tendayi Achiume, Madina Thiam, Anita Vukovic, Workshop Series, “Developing a New Approach to Migration and Policy-Making in Africa,” Workshop Series – Putting History to Work
May 15, 12:00-1:30 pm
Bunche 6339
RSVP: rsvpluskin@history.ucla.edu

Luskin Fellows Chien-Ling Zeleny, Tracy Tong, and Joyce Kuo, Workshop Series, "Healthcare Rationing and the Ethnic Boundaries of Indigenous People: The Making of Californian Indians, the Ainus, and the Manchu People"
2019-05-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6339
Chien-Ling Zeleny, Tracy Tong, and Joyce Kuo (Luskin Center Fellows), “Healthcare Rationing and the Ethnic Boundaries of Indigenous People: The Making of Californian Indians, the Ainus, and the Manchu People,” Workshop Series – Putting History to Work
Date and time: May 20, 12:00-1:30
Location: Bunche 6339
RSVP: rsvpluskin@history.ucla.edu

Dr. Liron Lavi, Dr. Shaiel Ben-Ephraim - "The 2019 Elections: What do they Say about Democracy in Israel?"
2019-05-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Bunche 6339
Are Israel’s 2019 elections a revealing local case of global
populist trends? Two experts on Israeli politics and
policy, Dr. Liron Lavi and Dr. Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, will
discuss this question. Dr. Lavi will present on the rise and
divergence of the Right, and its contemporary and future
implications for the political map in Israel. Dr. Ben-
Ephraim will discuss the potential annexation of the
occupied territories, and the influence of Trump’s policy
on the Israeli political arena.
Dr. Liron Lavi is a Research Fellow at the Y&S Nazarian
Center for Israel Studies.
Dr. Shaiel Ben-Ephraim has served as a Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Y&S Nazarian Center for the 2017-2018 and
2018-19 academic years.

RSVP Requested: rsvpluskin@history.ucla.edu

Panel Discussion, "History and the Contest over Memory Today"
2019-05-30 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche 6275, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
Panel Discussion, “History and the Contest over Memory Today,” Panelists: James Grossman, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Wendy Lower

“Reparations for Slavery: History and Current Debate" Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University
2019-10-10 16:00 - 18:00
Please join us for the LCHP opening event:.
“Reparations for Slavery: History and Current Debate”
Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University)
October 10, 2019
4:00pm-6:00pm | UCLA School of Law, Room 1314
This lecture explores the notions of symbolic, material, and financial reparations and how a variety of social actors have demanded reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade over the last three centuries in different slave societies and societies with slaves in the Americas. The lecture examines the recent resurgence of demands for reparations for slavery in the Caribbean and the United States.
The LCHP “Reparations in Context” Series explores different global contexts in which reparations have been proposed as a tool of restorative justice. It seeks to link history and policy by exploring past cases and considering best practices in the future.
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*Please note that the room has a maximum capacity of 50. Seats will be first come, first serve.

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Africa Studies, the UCLA Latin American Institute, the UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA

Toward Deeper Understanding: A Conversation with Leslie Gilbert Lurie and Julie Lindahl
2019-10-22 18:30 - 20:30 | UCLA Law, Room 1420
Toward Deeper Understanding
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, daughter of a Holocaust survivor and Julie Lindahl, granddaughter of an SS officer, relate their family legacies to the world today.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
7:15 – 8:30pm
6:30pm Light Reception
UCLA Law, Room 1420
RSVP HERE

"White Nationalism in Southern California" A Report from a LCHP Research Team
2019-10-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Bunche Hall 6339, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
“White Nationalism in Southern California”
A Report from a LCHP Research Team
October 23, 2019
12:00pm-2:00pm | Bunche Hall 6275
A LCHP team of undergraduate and graduate students spent the summer uncovering the little-known history of white nationalism in Southern California. Research team member Sarah Johnson (Ph.D Candidate, UCLA Department of History) noted about the research findings, “The report examines the history, ideology, geographic presence, and internet activity of white nationalism and white nationalist groups in Southern California and will also provide policy suggestions for addressing and preventing the rise and expansion of white nationalism in the region.” The team will present its report to the public on October 23.
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"Turkey's War against Syria's Kurds: A Regional and International Crisis"
2019-10-31 12:00 - 14:00 | Bunche 6275, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
“Turkey’s War against Syria’s Kurds: A Regional and International Crisis”
Panel Discussion by Professor Asli Bali (UCLA Law) and Professor James Gelvin (UCLA History)
Thursday, October 31, 2019
12:00pm-2:00pm
Bunche Hall 6275
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s order withdrawing American troops from northern Syria, where they had been stationed in the war against ISIS, Turkey invaded, ostensibly to clear Syrian Kurds from the Syrian/Turkish border. The panel will discuss the origins of the crisis and its ramifications.
RSVP HERE

"Understanding Spatial Inequality: Framing the Problem Using Quantitative Evidence" Kenya Covington (UCLA)
2019-12-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Bunche 6275, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
“Understanding Spatial Inequality: Framing the Problem Using Quantitative Evidence”
Kenya Covington (UCLA)
December 2, 2019
12:00pm-2:00pm | Bunche Hall 6275
Spatial inequality focuses on the spatial dimensions of social inequality; it is concerned with the uneven geographic distribution of both undesirable and desirable features of communities that determine the well-being of families and communities overall. To address spatial inequality problems quantitative evidence is key to more precisely describe what may be an abstract concept to society at large. Using effective problem definition strategies are critical as one attempts to garner support for policy action.
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“Putting History to Work: A Workshop on History and Policy” is a monthly LCHP series designed to be a forum for skills-building and presentation of research in the intersecting fields of history and policy. This workshop will answer a variety of practical questions for historians who want to make their research relevant to policy. How do historians address present-day problems in their work? What sorts of professional knowledge is needed? The workshop is principally intended for graduate students and faculty interested in applying historical knowledge to contemporary problems. It will feature a range of experts offering insight on a wide array of skills.

“The Border Goes to Work: Organizing Undocumented Workers in 1970's Los Angeles"
2019-12-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Bunche Halll, 6265 Reading Room, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
LCHP Lecture Series
“The Border Goes to Work: Organizing Undocumented Workers in 1970’s Los Angeles”
Tobias Higbie (UCLA) and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (UCLA)
December 3, 2019
12:00pm-2:00pm | Bunche Hall 6265 (Reading Room)
Tobias Higbie and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado explore the two decades before 1986 to identify the deeper roots of social movement innovation and immigrant political participation.

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Open House at Luskin Center for History and Policy
2020-01-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Bunche 6339
Open House at Luskin Center for History and Policy to explore research project on American soft power in the Middle East

Margaret O'Mara (University of Washington): "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America"
2020-01-30 14:00 - 16:00 | Bunche 6275, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles

Governor Michael Dukakis (Northeastern): "How the U.S Killed Iranian Democracy – and Dealing with the Consequences"
2020-02-04 12:00 - 14:00 | Bunche 6275, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles

“Japanese American Reparations: History And Community in Addressing Past and Present Injustices” Panel
2020-02-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Bunche 6275, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
Panel with Valerie Matsumoto (UCLA), Richard Katsuda (NCRR), Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka (NCRR), Traci Kato-Kiriyama (Tuesday Night Project), Glen Kuo Kitayama (Teacher at LAUSD)

Marques Vestal (UCLA): "Tenant Lessons on Rent and Housing in a Time of War: WWII Rent Control in Los Angeles, 1942-1950"
2020-03-04 16:00 | Bunche 6339
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"The Right to Vote Then and Now: A Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment"
2020-03-08 13:00 - 16:00 | Royce Hall 314

Why History Matters - Reckoning With Our Rights: The Legacy of Voter Access in California
2020-10-01 17:00 - 18:00
The event recording is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WQ8KoVdi3No

Carla Pestana
Chair and Professor
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
&
The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy
invite you to attend
Why History Matters
Reckoning With Our Rights:
The Legacy of Voter Access in California

a panel discussion featuring
Alex Padilla
California Secretary of State
Alisa Belinkoff Katz
Associate Director, LA Initiative – UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Lorrie Frasure
Interim Director, Bunche Center for African American Studies
Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Political Science
Dean Logan
Recorder/County Clerk, Los Angeles County Registrar
moderated by
Zev Yaroslavsky
Executive Director, LA Initiative

Thursday, October 1, 2020
5:00 p.m. PDT
Live streaming via Zoom

Please submit your questions in advance of the webinar via email to:
hnadworny@support.ucla.edu (by Wednesday, September 30 at 12:00 p.m.)
Instructions to join the webinar will be provided once your registration has been confirmed.

About the Why History Matters series: The UCLA Department of History is proud to present the series “Why History Matters.” The series is dedicated to the belief that historical knowledge is an indispensable, and often missing, ingredient in public debate. Over the course of the year, “Why History Matters” events will bring historians into conversation with prominent public officials and personalities on issues of contemporary relevance.
In collaboration with

UCLA College
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A CENTURY OF FIGHTING TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN LOS ANGELES (WEBINAR)
2020-10-15 14:00 - 15:00
A CENTURY OF FIGHTING TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN LOS ANGELES
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) is studying congestion pricing to manage the region’s heavy traffic and unpredictable travel times. We examined a century of programs to reduce congestion and found that several strategies were pursued over and over again in different eras. Los Angeles repeatedly built new street, highway, and transit capacity, regulated drivers and vehicle traffic flows, increased the use of information about traffic conditions, and controlled land use to influence traffic. Road pricing was proposed a century ago but not implemented and congestion grew despite these many efforts. In this webinar, learn how current studies are promising and can be informed by lessons learned from past congestion policies.
SPEAKERS
Martin Wachs, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering and City and Regional Planning, University of California
Peter Sebastian Chesney, Ph.D Candidate and Fellow at the Center for History and Policy, University of California
Yu Hong Hwang, Master’s Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning, University of California
Jeff Davis, Senior Fellow, Eno Center for Transportation

Access the Research Report
Download the Slides
Watch the Recording

From Farm Labor To Your Family Table
2021-03-01 15:00 - 2021-03-05 16:00 | Webinar
This event will be held daily beginning on March 1 to March 5 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm.

Africa’s Readiness for Climate Change (ARCC) Forum 2021
2021-04-19 09:00 - 2021-04-23 13:00
Africa’s Readiness for Climate Change (ARCC) Forum 2021
April 19 – 23, 2021
Zoom Webinar (RSVP here)
Times listed are in PDT (Los Angeles)
Speaker Biographies; Newsletter Vol 1; Newsletter Vol 2
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MONDAY 4/19
(9AM) WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
with Dr. Andrew Apter and Ms. Annie de la Bouillerie Goeke
Andrew Apter is the Director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center and Professor in the Departments of History and Anthropology at UCLA.
Annie de la Bouillerie Goeke is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Earth Rights Institute.
(9:15-10AM) KEYNOTE 1 and Q&A:
“Mobilizing African Youth for Climate Action and Conservation,” with Elizabeth Wathuti (Kenya), Founder of Green Generation Initiative and Head of Campaigns at Wangari Mathai Foundation.
(10:15-11:45AM) PANEL 1: Youth Leadership
UCLA Student Presentations Moderated by Nurit Katz, UCLA Chief Sustainability Officer

Ronald (Ronnie) Thompson III, 4th year Environmental Science major, President of the Congo Basin Institute Club (Institute of Environment and Sustainability).
Kian Nikzad, 3rd Year Computer Science major, and Ikuko (Coco) Nakane, 2nd Year Civil Engineering major, Bruin Home Solutions Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Lab (Henry Samueli School of Engineering).
Zoe Reinecke, 4th year International Development Studies major, Director of Project Incubator, Global Development Lab (International Institute).

(12-2PM) NETWORKING EVENT
Organized by UCLA Bruin Home Solutions Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Lab
The Networking Event is being hosted on Gatherly. Click HERE to join.
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TUESDAY 4/20
(9-10AM) KEYNOTE 2 and Q&A:
“Leveraging Technology for Environmental Rights and Justice,” with Nnimmo Bassey (Nigeria), Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation, 2010 Right Livelihood Laureate and one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment”.
(10:15-12PM) PANEL 2: Energy, Water, Climate—Regenerative Infrastructures & Indigenous Frameworks
Presentations:

“Water Resource Management in Africa from Space,” by Mekonnen Gebremichael, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA.
“Quality of Carbon Offset Methodologies for Clean Water Projects in East Africa,” by Mason King, Carbon Neutrality Initiative (CNI) Fellow/MS student in Department of Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley.
“Solar and Livestock in Masaai Energy Interconnections,” by Turner Adornetto, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University.
“Adopt a Cookstove Carbon Offset Project,” by Yingfei Jiang and Ilayda Dinc, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara.

(12:15-1:30PM) PANEL 3: Food, Health, Education—Integrative Responses
Presentations:

“Policy Frameworks on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Consideration of Local Indigenous Knowledge, Practices of Agrarian Communities in Western Highlands of Cameroon,” by Eric Ndeh Mboumien Ngang, Doctoral Student, University of Birmingham School of Law.
“Climatizing Public Health Discourse: Integrating Health and Environmental Sustainability Solutions,” by Gbujie Daniel Chidubem, Founder and President of Project 54.
“School Gardens Towards Feeding Programs and Deep Learning,” Joyce Misoi, Founder and CEO of Watu Health Innovation Summit Foundation Africa.

(3-5PM) INTERACTIVE STUDENT WORKSHOP: CLIMATE ACTION DESIGN THINKING JAM SESSION
120 Minutes to Change the World. Are you in?
Determining and clearly defining the problem to focus on is often the first step to solving it. Leveraging Enterprise Design Thinking is a powerful way to ideate quickly, with an intention to iterate on solutions over time. Join this fun, virtual, highly interactive, fast-paced Design Thinking Jam Session. Over the course of two hours, be prepared to engage, share, think, inspire, and be inspired. All problems are solved by starting with an idea, and maybe, just maybe you will be part of something that changes the world. Are you in?
**Please note that this session is only for students. Participants do not have to be UCLA students. Special registration is required: please fill out this form if you are a high school or college student and would like to participate. **
Register here for the workshop: https://forms.gle/KF3WLbq5gPEGxR7G9
Workshop led by John Ayers
John Ayers is the Salesforce Marketing Practice Lead for IBM, a Certified Design Thinking Co-Creator, a Blue Core Coach and Founder of the Los Angeles Service Design community. With over 25 years in traditional and digital marketing strategy, John brings experience leading large scale business transformations often guiding solutions for organizations’ most complex problems while maintaining focus on the human experience.
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WEDNESDAY 4/20
(9-10AM) KEYNOTE 3 and Q&A:
“Climate Refugees and Regenerative Communities,” with Ousmane Aly Pame (Senegal)
President of Global Ecovillage Network Africa and Founder and President of Network for Ecovillage Emergence and Development in the Sahel.
(10:15-11:45AM) PANEL 4: Climate Refugees and Precarious Lives and Livelihoods
Presentations:

“Vulnerability of internally displaced persons outside camps to climate change induced farmers-herdsmen conflicts in Rural Communities of Nigeria,” by Ignatius A. Madu, Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nigeria.
“Some Effects of Climate and Environmental Change on Migration in Northeast Africa,” by Pamela DeLargy, Professor of Practice, Department of Politics and Global Studies, and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University.

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THURSDAY 4/22 EARTH DAY
(9-10:30AM) JOURNEYS: EXCHANGING STORIES
What inspired our keynote speakers to embark on their careers as environmental justice and climate change champions? Join us to learn more about their stories and share yours in this informal conversation.
African drumming with Giovanni Washington, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Alum
ARCC co-sponsors and other climate allies have organized a day full of enriching events at and beyond UCLA: we encourage you to check out some of their phenomenal programs!
Check back for a list of events.
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FRIDAY 4/23
(9-10AM) KEYNOTE 4 and Q&A:
“Emerging Economic Opportunities for a Green Africa,” with His Excellency Ambassador Sidique Abou-Bakarr Wai (Sierra Leone) Ambassador to the United States.
(10:15-11:45AM) PANEL 4: Business, Politics and Culture—The Climate Action Ecosystem
Presentations:

“Current Impacts and Future Risk Perceptions of Climate Change in the Red Sea Region,” Alden Young, Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, UCLA.
“The Next Global Crisis: Africa’s Renewable Energy Financing Gap,” by Michael Olabisi, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University.
“The Cultural Politics of Emergency in ‘Climate Emergency,’” by Vinay Lal, Professor, Department of History, UCLA.

(11:45AM-12:15PM) CLOSING REMARKS AND THE PATH FORWARD
For more information, please visit our website at www.international.ucla.edu/africa
or email sbreeding@international.ucla.edu or call 323.335.9965.

ARCC CO-SPONSORS

The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives
2021-04-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
RSVP here
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Summer Research Opportunities Info Session
2021-05-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Webinar
LCHP Summer Research Opportunities

– INFO SESSION: REGISTRATION LINK –
1. Summer Research Institute
The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy (LCHP) invites applications from undergraduate and graduate students interested in acquiring important research skills in the new LCHP Summer Research Institute. This Research Institute is intended for students who:

are interested in learning more about history and related research methods;
want to use their historical knowledge to understand the present better;
are contemplating graduate school in history and related fields, or are in graduate school and would like specialized research training;
are interested in a paid fellowship on a LCHP research team.

What: The LCHP Summer Institute is a 3-day immersive educational program that offers intensive exposure to students in both historical research and policy analysis. Students will learn how to make responsible use of the past to shed light on the present and craft alternative paths for the future.
Topics will include:

Historical research methods
Archival and library research
Policy research
Data analysis
Translating research for media and policy impact

Students will receive a certificate at the completion of the training program and will also become eligible to become LCHP Student Research Fellows in the future. This program is free for UCLA students.
When: Monday June 21-Wednesday June 23
Where: The Summer Institute will take place virtually on Zoom.
Who: Applicants who are full time students (undergraduate or graduate) during the Summer and Fall of 2021 will be given preference. Applicants do not need to be enrolled in summer coursework in order to be eligible to apply.

2. LCHP Summer Research Fellows
The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy (LCHP) also invites applications from undergraduate and graduate students to be paid student research fellows for Summer 2021. Research Fellows will conduct original research on one of three topics (listed below), for between 5-10 hours/week. Positions are paid, and spots are limited.
Please note: Participation in the Summer Research Institute is required for all new Summer Research Fellows.

The Legacy of Race and Racism at UCLA. This project focuses on the lives of African American students on campus from the first years of the university, highlighting exceptional individuals, newly ingrained bias, structural obstacles, and moments of protest and uprising. In tracing this history, the project seeks to understand what steps should UCLA take to make it more just and equitable institution.
How Does UCLA Respond to Economic Crisis? This project seeks to understand how UCLA, and the larger UC system, responded to past crises, especially the 2008-09 recession. It focuses on the relationship between UCLA and the centralized UC administration, the decision-making and communications of UCLA administrators, the interaction among administration, faculty, staff, and students, and the lingering institutional and intellectual effects of decision-making.
The Challenge of Governing Los Angeles: This team will be examining the historical roots of Los Angeles’ current system of governance and the persistent challenges of governing effectively. The Progressive Movement changed California government and politics a century ago, dispersing power and elevating the role of professional managers and citizen commissioners. These changes solved one set of problems, but did they create another? Does the existence of separate City and County governments lead to duplication and tension?

Screening of "Fukushima Speaks" by Toshikuni Doi
2021-05-27 16:00 - 2021-05-29 11:00 | Webinar
SCREENING AND Q&A: REGISTRATION LINK
DISCUSSION: REGISTRATION LINK

Deadlock in Israel-Palestine: How to Imagine a Better Future?
2021-10-03 11:00 - 12:30, 2021-12-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
Event Recording
RSVP Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/DeadlockPart1
RSVP Part 2: http://tinyurl.com/DeadlockPart2

CalMatters - The First Draft of History
2021-11-09 17:00 | Webinar
RSVP link is www.tinyurl.com/uclaneilchase

'To Fight One War with the Other': Race, the War on Poverty, and the Vietnam Draft
2023-02-08 12:30
Dr. Ben Zdencanovic (Postdoctoral Scholar at the Luskin Center for History and Policy)

This talk traces the largely forgotten history of “Project 100,000,” a Defense Department initiative which recruited tens of thousands of poor and working-class nonwhite men into Vietnam from 1966-1971. Contrary to the “guns versus butter” narratives that we typically have of this era, “Project 100,000” was conceived as a component of the domestic War on Poverty. In the hopes of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, labor official Patrick Moynihan, and others in the Johnson administration, “Project 100,000” would simultaneously address conscription needs for the Vietnam War and also serve a social function by providing vocational training and a disciplined masculine environment for underemployed youths of color. The talk thus shows how the Great Society state combined paternalistic welfarism and conscriptive militarism to discipline and manage marginalized, underemployed, and putatively volatile nonwhite urban populations. The story of “Project 100,000” indicates that the War on Poverty is best understood not as an expression of well-intentioned but paternalistic liberalism (as scholars typically depict it), but rather as a technocratic effort to mobilize and manage the manpower of racialized surplus labor in the context of the Cold War national security state.

The Soldier's Opinion In-Person Screening and Q&A
2023-02-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Royce Hall Room 190
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Town Destroyer Film Screening
2023-05-23 16:00 | Bunche 6275, Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
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 owner of enslaved people and destroyer of Native lands. The image of a Native individual’s lifeless body, life-size and centrally located in the school, prompts discussion of trauma response, cancel culture, artistic impact versus intent, and student safety.

A screening of the film will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers.

Space is limited for this event. Please RSVP before May 1 to: luskincenter@history.ucla.edu
