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SUMMARY:Indranil Chakravarty The Power of Intercultural Dialogue: Octavio Paz Between Mexico and India
DESCRIPTION:Based on his recent book\, The Tree Within: Octavio Paz’s Years in India (Penguin\, 2025)\, Chakravarty explains how the Mexican Nobel Laureate poet and diplomat\, Octavio Paz\, became a cultural bridge between two parts of the Global South that are separated by geography\, language\, culture and history. As Mexico’s ambassador to India in the 1960s\, Paz immersed himself in the country’s contemplative traditions\, travelled widely\, forged deep friendships with some of India’s finest minds\, and produced some of his most inspired poetry and essays. By his own admission\, he experienced a ‘second birth’. While exploring the poet’s inner journey by delving into multilingual archives\, declassified diplomatic files\, personal letters and intimate interviews\, Chakravarty explains how Paz prepared\, emotionally and intellectually\, for a deep engagement with India\, allowing it to reshape him. While he gave poetic form to several Indian philosophical concepts and became a mentor to an entire generation of avant garde painters\, he opened pathways through which Latin American writers and artists could draw inspiration from Indian culture. \n\n\n\nIndranil Chakravarty is a writer\, filmmaker and academic based in India. His main interest lies in tracing the history of cultural interactions between India and Latin America. For more than two decades\, he has been a professor of film history at India’s premiere film institutes and has made several documentaries. He studied at Presidency College in Calcutta\, Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Havana\, and received his PhD from Victoria University of Wellington. His publications include The New Latin American Cinema\, India’s Audiovisual Market\, and a book in Spanish titled Redescubriendo a Tagore\, about the discourse around the Indian poet in Hispanic literature. His next book\, Hometowns (2027)\, is the biography of an Indian villager in the 19th century who led Brazilian battalions in two wars.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/indranil-chakravarty-the-power-of-intercultural-dialogue-octavio-paz-between-mexico-and-india/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Anton Vidokle\, Oct. 23
DESCRIPTION:Anton Vidokle is an artist and editor of e-flux journal. He was born in Moscow and lives in New York and Berlin. Vidokle’s work has been exhibited internationally at Documenta 13 and the 56th Venice Biennale. Vidokle’s films have been presented at Bergen Assembly\, Shanghai Biennale\, Berlinale International Film Festival\, Forum Expanded\, Gwangju Biennale\, Center Pompidou\, Tate Modern\, Garage Museum\, Istanbul Biennial\, Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Tensta Konsthalll\, Blaffer Art Museum\, Stedelijk Museum\, Lincoln Center\, MMCA Seoul\, the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art\, and others. He served as chief curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale:\nCosmos Cinema\, and in 2024 he was appointed artistic director for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Department of Art History.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/anton-vidokle-oct-23/
LOCATION:UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios\, 3600 Hayden Ave\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
CATEGORIES:Art History co-sponsored event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261026T171500
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SUMMARY:The Paradox of Pointless Suffering
DESCRIPTION:Why do we suffer? Why do people die young? Is there any point to our excessive pain\, physical or emotional? This talk explores the ways that we have tried to minimize or eliminate suffering\, and examines people’s attempts to find ways to live with pointless suffering. Ultimately\, to be fully human—and to have healthy culture—means to acknowledge a mysterious paradox: we must simultaneously accept suffering and oppose it. \nRSVP to attend in person \nRegister for Zoom link \nScott Samuelson studied philosophy at Grinnell College (BA\, 1995\, valedictorian) and Emory University (PhD\, 2001).  He is currently a Professor of Practice in the Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. In 2014\, he was named Distinguished Humanities Educator by the Community College Humanities Association.  Inspired by his students\, he wrote his first book The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone (University of Chicago Press\, 2014)\, which has been well received not just by prominent reviewers but by numerous non-philosophers who found their philosophical voice with its help.  The book has been translated into Chinese and Portuguese.  Samuelson has published articles in the Wall Street Journal\, the Huffington Post\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Philosopher’s Magazine\, and Christian Century.  His article “Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers” in The Atlantic has been widely circulated.  He’s been interviewed on NPR and given various public lectures and talks\, including a TEDx talk “How Philosophy Can Save Your Life.” \nScott Samuelson was the recipient of the 2015 Hiett Prize in the Humanities. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-paradox-of-pointless-suffering/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:Sheila Murnaghan | Commentary Writing Workshop on Sophocles’ Ajax
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop Sheila Murnaghan will discuss lines 646-92 of Sophocles’ Ajax (the “deception speech”) for a commentary she is preparing for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (green and yellow) series. A section of the commentary will be pre-circulated in advance (please RSVP here by Thursday\, October 22nd).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/sheila-murnaghan-commentary-writing-workshop-on-sophocles-ajax/
LOCATION:Dodd 248
CATEGORIES:Department Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261027T203000
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Richard Yarborough Lecture in Black Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Inaugural Richard Yarborough Lecture in Black Literature\, established as part of the Bunche Center Director Lecture Series honoring the intellectual\, scholarly\, and institutional contributions of former leadership of the Ralph J. Bunche Center. \nReception: 6 p.m.\nProgram: 7 p.m. \nThe evening will feature a conversation between Dr. Richard Yarborough\, Professor Emeritus of English and African American Studies at UCLA\, and Dr. Valerie Smith\, President of Swarthmore College\, moderated by Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley\, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. \nThis lecture honors Dr. Yarborough’s distinguished contributions to Black literary scholarship\, the Department of English\, the Department of African American Studies\, and the UCLA community. \nPlease RSVP here by Thursday\, October 22nd. \nIf you have questions\, please contact Hannah Yonas at hyonas@bunche.ucla.edu. We look forward to seeing you there.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/inaugural-richard-yarborough-lecture-in-black-literature-2/
LOCATION:Kerckhoff Hall – Grand Salon and Patio\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Homepage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T120000
DTSTAMP:20261016T210410Z
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SUMMARY:OXI Day
DESCRIPTION:OXI Day Celebration \nOctober 28\, 2026\n11:00 A.M. – Noon\nRolfe Courtyard\, UCLA Campus \nThis event is presented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the Hellenic Culture Club at UCLA \nWe will celebrate OXI Day\, a day that commemorates Greece’s unwavering courage and resilience. \nPlease join us for poetry readings by students. Light refreshments will be provided. \nClick here to RSVP for the OXI Day Celebration \nThis program is made possible thanks to generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/oxi-day/
LOCATION:Rolfe Courtyard\, 345 PORTOLA PLAZA\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Diaspora,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T170000
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SUMMARY:Think Human\, Work Digital: Careers in Digital Humanities & AI
DESCRIPTION:A Humanities Career Panel Series event \nCurious about where Digital Humanities and AI can take you? \nJoin us for a conversation with professionals working at the intersection of technology\, culture\, and the humanities. Hear about their career paths\, discover the skills employers are looking for\, and learn about exciting career possibilities you may not have considered. Come with questions and leave with ideas for your own digital future! \nPanelist information will be posted soon. \nUCLA students can RSVP here. \nVisit this page for more information about the Humanities Career Panel Series and other upcoming events. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/think-human-work-digital-careers-in-digital-humanities-ai/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities Career Panel Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T130000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel Discussion on Current Situation in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion on Current Situation in Iran\nMONDAY\, NOVEMBER 2\, 2026\n11:00 AM PST\nIn Persian \nONLINE ONLY\nTo watch on Zoom: https://ucla.in/4yjoB6Q \nPanelists and Discussions Include: \nIran and the War: Domestic and International Repercussions\nThis presentation examines the cumulative impact of recent developments on Iran’s domestic politics and foreign policy. It argues that\, taken together\, they have significantly altered the strategic calculations of Iran’s political leadership\, reshaping its approach to domestic governance\, regime security\, regional strategy\, and relations with the international community. The presentation will assess both the immediate consequences of these changes and their longer-term implications for the trajectory of the Islamic Republic. \nMehrzad Boroujerdi (Missouri University of Science and Technology) is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He previously served as Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech and Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. He has held fellowships and visiting appointments at Harvard\, the University of Texas at Austin\, UCLA\, and the Middle East Institute. A former President of the Association for Iranian Studies\, Boroujerdi is the author\, co-author\, or editor of several books on Iranian politics and intellectual history\, including Iranian Intellectuals and the West and Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook\, and Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft. He is also the co-founder of the Iran Data Portal. \nIran’s Economic Crisis and the Erosion of State Capacity\nIran’s current recession and severe inflation are the latest phase of a much longer economic crisis. For roughly fifteen years\, weak investment and limited gains in living standards have left the economy less able to absorb shocks. This talk examines how sanctions\, policy failures\, political uncertainty\, and conflict have compounded those pressures\, and how falling real incomes\, deteriorating infrastructure\, and shrinking economic opportunity affect the state’s capacity to meet basic needs. It concludes by considering what economic recovery would require and why a durable improvement depends on institutional as well as economic change. \nMahdi Ghodsi (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies) is a Senior Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)\, where he leads the International Economics research group. He also teaches at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and is a Senior Fellow and Head of the Economy Unit at the Centre for Middle East and Global Order. His research examines international trade\, cross-border investment\, Iran’s economy\, sanctions\, and the economic consequences of political change. \nThe Social Construction of War across Two Moments\nThis presentation explores how war is socially constructed and given meaning through the voices\, practices\, and cultural productions of civil society in Iran. Drawing on materials produced by artists\, academics\, civil society activists\, and independent cultural institutions at two different moments of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran—the 12-day war of June 2025 and the 40-day war that began in February 2026—this presentation traces shifts in how war is narrated. Situating these responses within the political rupture that followed the Dey protests\, the presentation explores the emergence of new meanings and political imaginaries\, as well as shifting tensions among vulnerability\, resistance\, and everyday life under wartime conditions. \nAzam Khatam (University of Toronto) is the Editor-in-Chief of the Global Iranian Studies Review at the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research focus on cities\, social movements\, development politics\, and Iranian universities. She has published extensively on the transformation of Tehran\, state–space relations\, social movements and public space\, and civic associations in universities. Her recent publications include “Archiving the War: On Public Statements and Political Memory” in Reflections on the June 2025 War (Jadaliyya); “Organizing at Universities and Unfolding Revolution in Iran” in Global Iranian Studies Review; “Densification and Speculative Real Estate in Tehran” in Urban Studies (forthcoming); and “Mahsa Amini’s Killing: State Violence and the Morality Police in Iran” in Human Geography (2023). \nEvent in Persian\nThis event is made possible with the co-sponsorship of the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, as well as with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-panel-discussion-on-current-situation-in-iran/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T170000
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SUMMARY:2026 Regents’ Lecturer Events: Walead Beshty
DESCRIPTION:Our 2026 Regents’ Lecturer events in Art History with the artist Walead Beshty are scheduled\, for Mondays November 2\, 16 and 30\, in Royce Hall 306. All events will begin at 5:00 PM \n\nAesthetics\, an open seminar\nWalead Beshty \nArtist and theorist Walead Beshty will lead a series of three open seminars organized around his forthcoming book\, Worlds of Appearance: An Introduction to Aesthetics in Practice (University of Chicago Press\, 2026)\, exploring the foundations of aesthetics\, its use in reflexive disciplines in the field of art\, and its emergent forms. The seminars are open to all and each session will consist of a lecture followed by open and exploratory discussion. \nSession 1: Monday\, November 2nd\, 5pm\nThe Circulation of Appearances: A General Aesthetic Model \nPolis and the Commune – The Aesthetic Commons – Inclusion\, Exclusion\, and the Sensible – Perception and Modeling (Abstraction) – Communication (Transmission vs. Communion) – Tools and Extraction – Object and Thing – Apparatuses and Incorporation – Fit and Ritual – Convention – Power and Aesthetic Management – Empathy – Instrumental (Vernacular) Aesthetics/Aesthetics Under the Duress of Urgency \nSession 2: Monday\, November 16th\, 5pm\nArtistic Conditions: A Special Aesthetic Model \nInstrumentality vs. Reflexivity – Corporate Media Formats (A Special Case of Instrumentality) – Representation and Framing – Exhibition and Display as Representational Formats – Artistic Methodologies – The Readymade and Reframing – Misrecognition and Strategies of Estrangement – Allegory and Mis en abyme – Bricolage – Creolization – Counterfeiting\, Piracy\, and Shanzhai \nSession 3: November 30th\, 5pm\nEmergencies: On Information\, Noise\, and Emergent Forms \nInformation Theory – Neo-liberalism and Information Models – Information and Probability – Digitization – Correlation and Empathy – Meaning – Noise\, the Parasite\, and the Third – Noise as Resistance – The Aesthetics of Emergent Forms – The Appearance of the Excluded \nBeshty’s book from which the seminars stem will be just out by November this quarter. A publication page is attached\, and the link for the publication follows: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo277099462.html
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2026-regents-lecturer-events-walead-beshty/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261104T153000
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SUMMARY:From Debdou’s Little Seville to America’s Guess: Rural Artisans and Global Designers – Aomar Boum
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Prof. Boum will develop the concept of aesthetic funds of knowledge to name the embodied\, socially transmitted\, and commercially usable repertoires through which Sephardic Moroccan Jews built aesthetic and sartorial competence across Debdou\, France\, and the Americas. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic and archival research in the Moroccan Jewish community in Los Angeles and building on Luis Moll’s account of the relation among household\, community\, and education\, he examines how the Marcianos and other LA- and Montreal-based Moroccan Jews\, whose family history links rural Moroccan Jewish life to transnational fashion commerce\, negotiated Sephardic cultural identity and economic participation through work with dress\, shoes\, and bags. Family networks\, business partnerships\, and community organizations enabled Marciano scribes\, weavers\, cobblers\, artisans\, and entrepreneurs to convert clothing knowledge and aesthetic judgment into reputational capital\, niche positioning\, and durable commercial ties. Their careers show how Sephardic distinction in the garment and fashion sectors grew from inherited craft knowledge\, kin-based trust\, and the practical calibration of taste across Mediterranean and Atlantic commercial worlds. \nWednesday\, November 4\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nFrom Debdou’s Little Seville to America’s Guess: Rural Artisans and Global Designers\nAomar Boum (UCLA)\nMaurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/from-debdous-little-seville-to-americas-guess-rural-artisans-and-global-designers-aomar-boum/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Co-Sponsored Conference: Sufis in Premodern Persianate Societies and Politics
DESCRIPTION:The 2026 Giorgio Levi Della Vida conference and award ceremony honoring Professor Richard Eaton (University of Arizona). \nView conference information and register \nThe 2026 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award presentation and conference will take place on Thursday\, November 5\, 2026\, at UCLA. The award will be presented to Professor Richard Eaton of the University of Arizona\, in recognition of his contributions to the field of Islamic Studies. The conference is part of a tradition established by CNES first director\, Gustave E. von Grunebaum\, to encourage research in the field of Islamic studies and to honor outstanding scholars in the field\, beginning with the scholar for whom the award is named. \nThe 2026 conference focuses on the topic of Sufis in premodern Persianate society and politics\, addressing the following questions: By what processes did Sufis (or Sufi institutions) act as cultural mediators\, or contribute to the Islamization of non-Muslim societies? What factors shaped Sufis’ various relationships with regional economies? What stances did Sufis take vis-à-vis political power; under what circumstances did they take these stances; and with what consequences? How did the various positions above change over time; and what factors or forces might explain those changes? Finally\, to enrich our understanding both of Islamic history and of social history\, how might case studies of individual Sufis or Sufi orders be placed into a larger comparative analysis? \nConference organizers: Nile Green (UCLA History) and Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA History). \nConference presenters: \n\nSaid Amir Arjomand (Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus\, State University of New York)\nKameliya Atanasova (Independent Scholar)\nShahzad Bashir (Dean\, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations\, Aga Khan University)\nDevin DeWeese (Professor Emeritus\, Indiana University at Bloomington)\nCarl Ernst (William R. Kenan Jr.\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)\nPeyvand Firouzeh (Assistant Professor\, University of Cambridge)\nCarlos Grenier (Associate Professor\, Florida International University)\nJo-Ann Gross (Professor Emerita\, The College of New Jersey)\nAyesha Irani (Associate Professor\, University of Massachusetts Boston)\nAhmet T. Karamustafa (Professor and Chair\, University of Maryland)\nBruce Lawrence (Marcus Family Humanities Professor Emeritus\, Duke University)\nShankar Nair (Associate Professor\, University of Virginia)\n\nConference program will be shared soon. \nThe conference is organized by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, and is co-sponsored by the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History\, the UCLA Islamic Studies Program\, and the UCLA Iranian Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsored-conference-sufis-in-premodern-persianate-societies-and-politics/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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SUMMARY:NADINE A Performance by Luiza Romão
DESCRIPTION:NADINE\nIn this shorter performance\, Luiza Romão presents several scenes from the show Nadine\, using a sampler and a microphone on a stand. Adaptable to different formats and performance spaces\, the piece touches on aspects of detective fiction and presentsthe poems with a stronger emphasis on spoken word. \nSynopsis:\nBased on Luiza Romão’s book of the same name\, Nadine tells the story of a young woman who\, after being murdered\, decides to investigate her own crime. Blending spoken word with crime fiction\, the performance explores themes such as gender\, the representation of violence\, and the states of vulnerability associated with sleep. Onstage\, the poems come to life alongside the original soundtrack created by José Paes de Lira. Featuring various special guest appearances in voice-over\, the audio tracks are triggered through a sampler\, creating soundscapes\, musical recordings\, and vocal architectures. The event will be hold both in Portuguese and English. \nLUIZA ROMÃO\nPoet\, actress\, and researcher\, Luiza Romão is the author of Sangria\, Também guardamos pedras aqui (winner of the Jabuti Prize for Best Poetry Book and Book of the Year)\, and Nadine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts and a master’s degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP)\, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. researching the relationship between literature and performance. \nHer work has been presented at major festivals in Brazil and abroad\, including performances in Argentina\, Germany\, Cuba\, China\, Spain\, Portugal\, Switzerland\, the Netherlands\, Mexico\, Costa Rica\, France\, and Uruguay\, among other countries. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/nadine-a-performance-by-luiza-romao/
LOCATION:Lydeen Library\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261107T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261107T110000
DTSTAMP:20261016T210414Z
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SUMMARY:Λέσχη Ανάγνωσης Ελληνικών Βιβλίων της Δυτικής Ακτής:  Αιολική Γη του Ηλία Βενέζη
DESCRIPTION:Λέσχη Ανάγνωσης Ελληνικών Βιβλίων της Δυτικής Ακτής \nΑιολική Γη του Ηλία Βενέζη \nΤη συζήτηση θα συντονίσουν η Δρ. Σάρον Γκερστέλ\, διευθύντρια του Κέντρου Μελέτης Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού Ίδρυμα Σταύρος Νιάρχος στο UCLA\, και η Δρ. Ειρήνη Κωτσοβίλη\, λέκτορας Παγκόσμιων Ανθρωπιστικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Simon Fraser. \nΗ διάλεξη θα γίνει στα Ελληνικά. \nΣάββατο\, 7 Νοεμβρίου 2026\n10:00 π.μ. Λος Άντζελες / 8:00 μ.μ. Ελλάδα\nΜέσω Zoom \nΠατήστε εδώ για να δηλώσετε συμμετοχή στη συνάντηση της Λέσχης Ανάγνωσης. \nΤο πρόγραμμα αυτό πραγματοποιείται χάρη στη γενναιόδωρη υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος Σταύρος Νιάρχος (ΙΣΝ). \nΜπορείτε να βρείτε την ελληνική έκδοση εδώ: \nhttps://www.greeceinprint.com/index.php/en/literature/literary/aioliki-gi-detail \nFor those who understand Greek\, but prefer to read in English\, you can find the English edition here: \nhttps://www.amazon.com/Land-Aeolia-Ilias-Venezis/dp/9607120434 \nΈνα αρχείο PDF είναι διαθέσιμο εδώ: \nLand of Aeolia – PDF from Academia.edu
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/%ce%bb%ce%ad%cf%83%cf%87%ce%b7-%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%ac%ce%b3%ce%bd%cf%89%cf%83%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%b7%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%ba%cf%8e%ce%bd-%ce%b2%ce%b9%ce%b2%ce%bb%ce%af%cf%89%ce%bd-%cf%84%ce%b7/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Literature,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261109T183000
DTSTAMP:20261009T230409Z
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SUMMARY:Verity Platt | ‘The Garland in Greco-Roman Art: An Exercise in Anthocriticism’.
DESCRIPTION:Verity Platt will be giving a talk entitled\,‘The Garland in Greco-Roman Art: An Exercise in Anthocriticism’. \nLocation and details to come so stay tuned.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/verity-platt-the-garland-in-greco-roman-art-an-exercise-in-anthocriticism/
CATEGORIES:Department Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261110T173000
DTSTAMP:20261020T003414Z
CREATED:20260916T203428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T003414Z
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SUMMARY:Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race\, Labor\, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles – Caroline Luce
DESCRIPTION:Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine examines how a cohort of young Jewish radicals from Eastern Europe helped reshape multiracial left-wing activism in Southern California. It traces their migration from the Russian Empire to Los Angeles and their involvement in labor and left-wing movements. Focusing especially on Boyle Heights\, the book explores how the neighborhood’s diverse communities shaped Yiddish public culture and Jewish political organizing. It highlights the relationships\, collaborations\, and tensions that emerged as Jewish radicals built multiracial coalitions with Mexican\, Asian\, and African American neighbors. Drawing on previously untranslated Yiddish sources\, the book challenges traditional Jewish immigration narratives centered on the Northeast and places Jewish workers in the American West at the center of Jewish and American history. Ultimately\, it demonstrates how Eastern European Jewish radicals and trade unionists contributed to Los Angeles through innovative organizing and helped shape the city’s evolving racial and political landscape. \nCaroline Luce is Project Director with the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and formerly Chief Curator of Mapping Jewish Los Angeles\, a project of the UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \nTuesday\, November 10\, 2026 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nYiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Jewish Radicalism\, Labor\, and Culture in Los Angeles \nCaroline Luce (UCLA)\nModerator: Todd Presner (UCLA) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \nCosponsored by The\nUCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment\nUCLA Department of History \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/yiddish-in-the-land-of-sunshine-race-labor-and-jewish-radicalism-in-los-angeles-caroline-luce/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T163000
DTSTAMP:20261005T201727Z
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SUMMARY:Bringing Scholarship to Life Through Comics
DESCRIPTION:The Wide Angle Series: Engaging Research in Public Humanities – Bringing Scholarship to Life Through Comics\nHosted by Professor Barbara Fuchs\, Associate Dean for Public Humanities \nHow might comics help bring our work to a wider public? How might this form make our research more accessible to audiences both within the university and beyond? \nAt our upcoming division-wide workshop\, Professor Ignacio López-Calvo\, Faculty Director of the Center for Humanities at UC Merced\, will discuss the Bobcat Comics series\, which pairs UC Merced professors with professional comic book artists to transform their scholarship into engaging and accessible comics. \nCome learn more about how comics can translate complex research for broader audiences\, create new pathways for public engagement\, and offer an innovative way to share the work of humanities scholars \nThursday\, November 12\, 2026 \nRoyce 306 \n3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. \nVisit this Google Form to RSVP. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bringing-scholarship-to-life-through-comics/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T151500
DTSTAMP:20261020T023424Z
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SUMMARY:D. T. Suzuki: Letters\, Lectures and Legacies
DESCRIPTION:This Workshop explores the cultural\, religious\, and intellectual legacy of Daisetsu Teitaro (D. T.) Suzuki (1870–1966)\, the preeminent figure who introduced Zen and Mahayana Buddhism to the modern Western world. This event brings together scholars\, curators\, and practitioners to discuss and reflect on Suzuki’s polymath contributions and their enduring\, cross-cultural impact. Discussions will span a broad range of topics\, including interpretations and evaluations of Suzuki’s Buddhist philosophy and translations\, archival discoveries of his lecture manuscripts and interpersonal correspondence\, and his connections with Japanese American communities and local religious institutions. \nGenerously funded by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies\, this one-day workshop will feature several highlights: a keynote address by Professor Richard M. Jaffe of Duke University; an exhibition of Buddhist archival materials\, including artifacts and manuscripts related to Suzuki’s 1950-60s U.S. sojourns preserved in the UCLA Library Special Collections; and a roundtable dialogue bridging academic research with contemporary spiritual practice and community engagement. \nFind the Schedule of the day and register here. \nKeynote address: “Promoting Buddhism from West to East: D. T. Suzuki’s California Sojourns”: \nMost studies of D. T. Suzuki’s time in the United States focus on his extended residencies in LaSalle\, Illinois at the turn of the nineteenth–twentieth centuries and in New York City in the 1950s. California\, however\, due to its geographic location\, particularly in the era before convenient transcontinental air travel and concentration of Japanese Americans\, was a convenient way station and source of sustenance for Suzuki each time he traversed the American continent. In this paper\, Professor Jaffe explores Suzuki’s trips through and extended stays in California. Using archival documents\, some housed in the UCLA Libraries\, Jaffe will highlight the many exchanges Suzuki had with Californians as he adapted his presentation of Buddhism for diverse American audiences. \nSponsors: Center for Buddhist Studies\, UCLA Library\, Center for the Study of Religion.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/d-t-suzuki-letters-lectures-and-legacies/
LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library\, Main Conference Room\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T163000
DTSTAMP:20261019T214915Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Symposium\, Fri. Nov. 13
DESCRIPTION:This year’s annual UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Symposium will be held at the Hammer Museum’s Nimoy Studio on Friday\, November 13\, 2026. This year’s theme is Bodies Under Duress: Violence\, Pressure\, and the Visual. \nAcross art and visual culture\, bodies have served as both the objects upon which power is exercised and the means through which its effects become visible\, imaginable\, and contested. Bodies Under Duress invites scholars to consider how visual and material practices register the forces exerted upon bodies\, while also asking not only what happens to bodies under violence\, but how violence is made possible\, legitimized\, enacted\, and remembered or forgotten.  We are honored to welcome Meredith Gamer\, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University\, as our keynote speaker. Specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art\, her research explores the intersections of visual culture\, violence\, punishment\, and power. Her recent book\, City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London (2026)\, examines the relationship between art and public execution. \n\n\nThe symposium is open to the public and all are welcome to attend!\n\n\nKindly RSVP here
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-graduate-symposium-fri-nov-13/
LOCATION:The Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261114T180000
DTSTAMP:20261016T210414Z
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SUMMARY:Memory Rehearsal presentation by Eleni Sikelianos\, Poet
DESCRIPTION:Memory Rehearsal\nPresentation by Eleni Sikelianos\, Poet\nNovember 14\, 2026\n4:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus\nReception to follow\nRSVP at this link to attend\nIn 1901\, Eva Palmer abandoned her life as a privileged New York socialite\, moving to Paris with her lover\, the writer and salonist\, Natalie Barney. The two Americans became the center of a wild tangle of lesbian love affairs and backyard performances based on intentional reimaginings of Sappho’s work and life. A chance encounter led Eva to Greece\, where she married Angelos Sikelianos\, a visionary poet who would become a Greek national hero. Celebrated American poet Eleni Sikelianos grew up knowing little of these illustrious ancestors\, her great grandparents\, who\, in the early 20th century staged a revival of the ancient Delphic festivals\, convinced that it would open a path to world peace. It was not until the age of 20\, on her first trip to Greece\, that she encountered the breadth of their legacy. In her new book\, Memory Rehearsal (City Lights\, 2026)\, Sikelianos unearths the story of her search for these pioneering ancestors\, in a text that shifts between prose\, poetry\, imaginary performance texts\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, with archival and family photographs. \nEleni will read from and discuss Memory Rehearsal\, which Kirkus calls a “moving family memoir and a triumph of cultural archaeology.” \nEleni Sikelianos was born into a family of tree workers\, bohemians\, poets\, ne’er-do-wells\, visionaries\, and smalltime sort-of hustlers. She is a poet\, writer\, collaborator\, and “master of mixing genres.” As a student of the poets of Naropa\, she is a lineage-holder in the Outrider poetics family tree. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics\, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral work. She has published ten books of poetry (most recently\, Your Kingdom\, 2023) and a trilogy of unclassifiable hybrid works\, sometimes called nonfiction\, sometimes memoirs\, sometimes fiction: The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine\, and\, most recently\, Memory Rehearsal  (City Lights\, 2026). Memory Rehearsal\, called “a triumph of cultural archaeology” in a starred Kirkus review and named One of Publishers Weekly’sMost Anticipated Books for 2026\, is a genre-busting encounter between a poet and her ancestral past documenting a startling intersection of queer history\, ancient theater\, utopian visions\, and modern poetry. \nAmong other honors\, she has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships\, a Fulbright Artists fellowship\, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in nonfiction. She grew up in earshot of the ocean\, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara\, and has since lived in San Francisco\, New York\, Paris\, Athens (Greece)\, Boulder (Colorado)\, and Providence. \nMemory Rehearsal will be available for purchase at the event! All major credit cards\, Apple Pay\, and Google Pay are accepted. Cash is also accepted with exact change only. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/memory-rehearsal-presentation-by-eleni-sikelianos-poet/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Heritage,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261117T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261117T133000
DTSTAMP:20261020T023424Z
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SUMMARY:Upheavals of Faith: Deconversion\, Value Conflict\, and Grief
DESCRIPTION:Why do people grieve a faith they have chosen to leave? If they no longer believe\, what exactly have they lost? Ultimately\, leaving a religion is rarely the simple loss of a world. Recent philosophical work has argued that deconversion can be an occasion for grief\, comparable to bereavement in its power to unsettle one’s experiential world (Williams\, 2024). Such accounts describe what this grief is like but leave unexplained why some deconversions take this experiential shape and others do not. This talk by Joshua Waugh (UCLA) aims to offer an explanatory account. \nRSVP here for the in-person event by Thursday\, November 12. \nRegister here for a Zoom link. \nA light lunch will be served.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/upheavals-of-faith-deconversion-value-conflict-and-grief/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T153000
DTSTAMP:20261020T003414Z
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SUMMARY:Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism – Elizabeth E. Imber
DESCRIPTION:Following the British conquest of Ottoman Palestine\, Jews across the British Empire—from Jerusalem to Johannesburg\, and London to Calcutta—found themselves at the heart of global Jewish political discourse. As these intellectuals\, politicians\, activists\, and communal elites navigated shifting political landscapes\, some envisioned Palestine as a British dominion\, leveraging imperial power for Jewish state-building\, while others fostered ties with anticolonial movements\, contemplating independent futures. This talk\, based on Imber’s new book Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism (Stanford University Press\, 2025)\, will explore this intricate interplay between British imperialism\, Zionism\, and anticolonial movements from the 1917 British conquest of Palestine to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. In doing so\, it will show how the British Empire’s fate became central to Zionist and broader Jewish political thought during a time marked by profound urgency and exigency. \nElizabeth Imber is Associate Professor of History and the Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History at Clark University. Her work examines the cultural and political dimensions and intersections of Jewish history and European imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book\, Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism (Stanford University Press\, 2025)\, received the 2025 National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material and the 2025 Salo Baron Book Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research\, and was co-winner of the 2026 Shapiro Award from the Association for Israel Studies. \nThursday\, November 19\, 2025 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM  \nUncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism\nElizabeth E. Imber (Clark University)\nModerator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)\nViterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies \nCosponsored by the UCLA Department of History \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/uncertain-empire-jews-nationalism-and-the-fate-of-british-imperialism-elizabeth-e-imber/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261202T180000
DTSTAMP:20261019T213414Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series and Cunard Lecture Series: Beate Pongratz-Leisten
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Near Eastern Narratives: Making a Case for the Epistemic Function of Myth in Text and Image\nBeate Pongratz-Leisten\n(New York University)\nWednesday December 2\, 2026 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time\nRoyce Hall 306 and Via Zoom \nRegistration Link: https://forms.gle/aNCt12TXFDrfwULP7\nJoin Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96272801601 \nThroughout its history\, Assyriological scholarship has turned to exploring many facets of ancient epistemology\, including lexical lists\, divinatory knowledge\, medicine\, mathematics\, pharmaceutical knowledge\, legal compendia\, and commentary literature. Two domains of knowledge production conspicuously have remained left out of the picture: mythic narratives and the image. \nThe book Myth\, Text\, and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Narrative Reading of the World makes a case for establishing human thinking-in-images as an essential part of ancient Mesopotamian reasoning based in the fact that in the human mind\, imagistic thinking exists alongside rational logical thought. Due to their orientational and expository nature\, story-telling and myth-making can claim their rightful place as systems of knowledge. Mythic narrative as realized in text and image is an analytical tool that offers insight into life experiences\, conveys cultural knowledge\, provides potential models for decision-making and behavior\, and/or explains existing cultic realities as well as socio-political structures and hierarchies. \nDrawing on insights from cognitive narratology\, cognitive semiotics\, and visual studies\, the book explores how myth as episteme\, that is\, as a system of knowledge and part of cognitive and cultural experience\, serves as an explanatory system and a way of world-making in that it not only reflects\, but also constitutes reality. Past events or core metaphors—mythical or historical—are reactivated in the memory\, while the inclination for emplotment creates coherence and meaning for the present. The process of reworking and re-actualization in text and image is selective and innovative\, forever interpreting\, constructing\, re-inventing\, and reconstructing the past and establishing tropes from the stream of tradition. Narrative knowledge is not simply a recollection of the past\, but a product of narrative understanding\, a retrospective\, interpretative composition\, viewing\, or reception. \nCo-sponsored by the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World and the Jeffrey P. Cunard Center for Global Antiquity. \nAbout the Speaker\nBeate Pongratz-Leisten is Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World\, New York University. She is a cultural historian of the Ancient Near East. Her research interests include the political\, intellectual\, and religious history of Western Asia\, materialities of culture\, literature\, formation of textual communities\, transmission of cultural memory\, ritual performance and ritual texts\, text and image\, and knowledge production. Her publications include several books on the cultural and religious history of ancient Mesopotamia\, among them more recently Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism (2011)\, Religion and Ideology in Assyria (2015)\, a volume of collected articles Materiality of Divine Agency (2015) co-edited with Karen Sonik\, and Myth\, Text\, and Image: A Narrative Reading of the World (2026). Currently she is working on a monograph\, Image and Knowledge Production: The Social Construction of the Visual and the Construction of the Visual in Early Mesopotamia. Together with her Co-PI Elizabeth Knott\, she is heading the edition of Akkadian Rituals for the series Writings from the Ancient World\, and she is editor-in-chief of Ancient Literature for Old Testament Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-and-cunard-lecture-series-beate-pongratz-leisten/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cunard Center,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Benshi 2026
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative \nDecember 5\, 2026 screenings begin at 7:30 p.m.\nDecember 6\, 2026 screenings begin at 7 p.m.\nBilly Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum\n10899 Wilshire Blvd.\, Los Angeles CA 90024 \n\n\n\n\n\nThe UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative are honored to welcome back to the Billy Wilder Theater renowned Japanese benshi Ichirō Kataoka for a weekend of live performances timed to celebrate the new release of a Flicker Alley Blu-ray box set inspired by the national Art of the Benshi tour organized by the Archive and Yanai in 2024. \nDuring the silent film era in Japan\, film screenings were accompanied by live narrators\, called benshi. Full-fledged artists in their own right\, benshi familiarized and enlivened the cinema experience in Japan through expressive performances that illuminated and extended the emotional and thematic range of the works on screen. The art\, today\, is carried on by a small group of specialized performers who have been apprenticed by the preceding generations of benshi\, creating a continuous lineage back to the original performers. \nKataoka will be joined on stage by another veteran of the 2024 tour\, composer and pianist Makia Matsumura\, who will accompany his original performances with original scores. Every benshi event is a unique\, live experience but this weekend’s program will be especially memorable for the North American premiere of the National Film Archive of Japan’s restoration of director Teinosuke Kinugasa’s groundbreaking\, always astonishing A Page of Madness on the centennial of its original release. \n\nVisit the UCLA Library Film & Television Archive calendar for individual film listings for December 5 and December 6. \n\nProgrammed by Ichirō Kataoka\, Michael Emmerich and Paul Malcolm. Notes written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm. Special thanks to Michael Emmerich and Elizabeth Leicester\, Yanai Initiative; National Film Archive of Japan. Special thanks to our community partner: West Los Angeles Sawtelle Neighborhood Council.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-art-of-the-benshi-2026/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Film,Screening,Yanai Initiative
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SUMMARY:The Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine – Dov Waxman
DESCRIPTION:Since the October 7\, 2023\, attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s ensuing war in Gaza\, difficult questions about when criticism of Israel or support for Palestine becomes antisemitic have moved to the center of public life and political debate. Amid growing antisemitism and fierce disagreement over what is or isn’t antisemitic\, what is needed now more than ever is a clearer and more sophisticated understanding of antisemitism and how it relates to Israel-Palestine. In The Question of Antisemitism\, Dov Waxman provides precisely that\, presenting an authoritative guide to today’s contentious debates about antisemitism\, anti-Zionism\, and Israel-Palestine. \nDov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and former director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Before joining UCLA\, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies\, a Professor of Political Science\, and the director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University. He was previously an associate professor at the City University of New York\, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College\, and a visiting professor at the Middle East Technical University. He has also had visiting fellowships at Oxford University\, the Hebrew University\, Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University. He graduated from Oxford University and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research and writing focus on the Israel-Palestine issue\, contemporary antisemitism\, Jewish politics\, Israeli politics\, Israel-Diaspora relations\, U.S.-Israel relations\, and U.S.-Middle East relations. He is the author four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006)\, Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011)\, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016)\, and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (published by Oxford University Press in 2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, Haaretz\, The Forward\, The Atlantic\, Time\, Slate\, Foreign Policy and many other places. \nThursday\, January 14\, 2027 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nThe Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine\nDov Waxman (UCLA)\nModerator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Bedari Kindness Institute \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-question-of-antisemitism-a-guide-for-a-world-divided-by-israel-palestine-dov-waxman/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alan D. Leve Center Book Talk Series
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SUMMARY:Careers in Higher Education: A Humanities Career Panel Series Event
DESCRIPTION:Did you know there are nearly 30\,000 employees at UCLA\, and that the University of California is one of the top employers in the LA area?  UCLA can be a great place to launch or build your career after graduation\, offering opportunities across a wide range of fields and professions. Hear from alumni who have built rewarding careers at their alma mater and learn how the knowledge and skills you’ve gained at UCLA can help you become part of what makes this university one of the nation’s best. \nPizza and drinks will be served! \nNote: This event is in-person only. No Zoom option will be available. \nUCLA students can RSVP here. \nVisit this page for more information about the Humanities Career Panel Series and other upcoming events.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/higher-education-careers-2027/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities Career Panel Series
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