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Upcoming Events

2009-2010 ICW Medicine/Public Health Working Group



November 17, 2009 -- Lisa Stern, APRN, Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, "Nurse Practitioners in the West"


304 Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall
noon to 1:30
Lunch and parking provided if you rsvp to David Sloane at dsloane@usc.edu.
Papers will be distributed the week prior to the scheduled meeting.



2009-2010 Los Angeles History Research Group

 

December 5, 2009 – Bobbye Tigerman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Émigré Designers in California

 

January 26, 2010 – (Joint Meeting with Autry Western History Workshop), Becky Nicolaides, University of California. Los Angeles, Independent Scholar, “Exploring social and civic transformations in suburban Los Angeles, since 1945”

 

February 13, 20010 – Andrea Thabet, University of California, Santa Barbara, “A ‘20th Century Parthenon on our downtown Acropolis’: The Los Angeles Music Center, 1954-1967”

 

April 7-10, 2010

Special Session at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,  “New Directions in Los Angeles History”

Kyle Livie, San Francisco State University, “The Local Line: Re-Evaluating Rural Community Development and the Dynamics of Metropolitan Growth in Los Angeles, 1902-1929”

William R. Scott, University of Delaware, “Leisurewear and the Retail Revolution: Los Angeles Men’s Clothing Merchandising, 1925-1960

Parandeh Kia, California State University, “In Search of Forough: 

The Forging Of An Iranian American Ethnicity in Los Angeles, 1979-1993”

 

May 15, 2010 – Clark Davis Memorial Lecture: TBA

 

All seminars, with the exception of the joint meeting with the Autry Western History Workshop and the session at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, meet in Seaver Room #3 at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California.  We begin at 10:00 a.m., with refreshments starting at 9:30.  To obtain individual announcements for each meeting, including instructions for receiving the pre-circulated paper, please contact one of the coordinators listed below.

 

Allison Varzally                                               Nick Rosenthal

avarzally@fullerton.edu                                  ngrosen@lmu.edu