The Humanities Division is pleased to announce the launch of a three year collaborative project between UCLA and the Université François Rabelais of Tours (France),...
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UCLA professor Michael Cooperson of Near Eastern languages and cultures has won the Sheikh Hamad Award for his Arabic-to-English translation of the “Virtues of the...
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UCLA English Professor Uri McMillian to Receive MLA's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for An Outstanding Scholarly Study for African American Literature or Culture New York, NY...
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Teaching computers to read is one thing. But by designing an algorithm that examined nearly 2 million posts from two popular parenting websites, a multidisciplinary...
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Professor and Chair of French and Francophone Studies, Dominic Thomas speaks on CNN International about France's next Presidential Election, see clips below: CNN International, November 28th,...
Read MoreUC Office of the President | November 30, 2016 The University of California today announced that it will vigorously protect the privacy and civil rights of the undocumented members of the UC community and will direct its police departments not to undertake joint efforts with any government agencies to enforce...
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On November 21, a group of distinguished scholars, artists, activists and leaders will come together to discuss how human and humanistic knowledge can help...
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Submission: UCLA must hold on to True Bruin values in light of recent election BY FRANCESCO ARREAGA Posted: November 13, 2016 8:19 pm Presidential...
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From the Jewish Journal by Avishay Artsy Posted on Nov. 2, 2016 at 2:08 pm Visitors to UCLA soon will be able to step back...
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While the #OscarsSoWhite controversy raged over the dearth of people of color nominated for Academy Awards this past year, a group of digital humanities students...
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From the Chronicle of Higher Education How Humanities Can Help Fix the World By John McCumber (UCLA Germanic Languages Faculty) OCTOBER 02, 2016 As academe’s...
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When Olivia Draper stepped off the plane in Thailand this summer, she barely spoke a word of Thai. Instead of studying abroad with a university...
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It all began with the adoption of a Jardine’s parrot in the mid-1990s. Ursula Heise, UCLA English professor and the Marcia H. Howard Chair in...
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An Op-Ed piece by Neikirk Distinguished Professor of English, Robert Watson on Why Aristotle Would Have Won Big Betting on College Football
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Professor of English Richard Yarborough is the recipient of the 2016 Darwin T. Turner Distinguished Scholar Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society. The society...
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What can Shakespeare, Cervantes, Proust, and even contemporary playwrights and filmmakers contribute to the study of neuroscience? A lot, says UCLA professor of integrative biology...
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Author, critic and UCLA emerita English professor Carolyn See, 82, died July 13 in Santa Monica as a result of congestive heart failure. Among her...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be1igDFFGLU Universities are interesting places. For hundreds of years we have been structured with distinct schools, departments, disciplines, focuses and tracks, all built to move...
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Within the warm, terra-cotta-colored walls of her office in Dodd Hall, Charlene Villaseñor Black has assembled a whimsical mini-museum of Mexican folk art that includes...
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“What is Digital Humanities?” I asked myself this question three years ago as a Communications Studies major at UCLA. The name itself seemed to be...
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