We'll be meeting in Bunche 6275. As always, there will be plenty of friends and food - for the first time a Brown Bag with no pizza, but expect an awesome breakfast!

We're super excited to be hosting Kim Bowes for something a little different this week: the first ever Brown Bag breakfast! Join use this Thursday (May 8) 10:30-12 to discuss parts of her forthcoming book Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent!

Don't miss tomorrow's exciting discussion in our new meeting place: Bunche 6275!

Mark your calendars: this Tuesday (Feb. 24) we will discuss "The Gourmet’s Recipe: Edible Bird’s Nests and Early Modern Cultures of Taste" with our very own, brilliant Brown Bag team member, Zhang Meng! As always, come for the pizza, stay for the great conversations!

We'll be meeting at noon in Bunche 6265 (the reading room, not the normal history of science room) to discuss his in progress article: "Mau-Mauísmo, Race Relations, and the Beginning of the End of the Portuguese Empire"! A wonderful way to spend a lunch, with friends, food, and a phenomenal paper!

If you've been thinking "I wish we'd have a new Brown Bag soon," you're in luck! With the LA fires put out, join us tomorrow (Feb. 4) for a tasty pizza lunch and lively discussion with Christian Alvarado, President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis!

Join us this Tuesday, December 3, 12-1:30pm in Bunche 5288 for the year's last Brown Bag! We'll eat pizza and discuss UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Nader Atassi’s in-work article “Arabizing Marxism”: Theories of Nationalism, History, and Transition in Syrian Radical Thought, 1958–1967.

Join us this Tuesday, November 12 for the year's second Brown Bag workshop as we welcome Irina Makhalova from Berlin's Humboldt University to discuss her article draft "Appealing to the State: Complaints of Soviet Citizens Convicted of War Crimes, 1940-1950s". As always, pizza is included!

Finally, the UCLA history department's brown bag workshop series has made its way to BlueSky! Each month we read and workshop an in-work article. We welcome a diversity of topics and participants, last year discussing graduate work on Ming China as well as senior scholarship on 19th century Romania.