On Monday, April 27, UCLA Professor David Sabean delivered the History Department's annual Dale Somers Memorial Lecture, speaking on the topic 'Thoughts on Incest: Shifting Discourses since the Renaissance.' He also gave a seminar presentation to faculty and graduate students on German international families in the nineteenth century. Both events were very well-attended and resulted in spirited discussion. Professor Sabean holds the Bruman Endowed Chair in German History at UCLA and is the author of Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1984), Property, Production and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1990) and Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1998). The work he presented at Georgia State is part of his ongoing research on long-term history of kinship in Europe.