Sean Brenner | April 9, 2024 The UCLA-produced “The Art of the Benshi” tour opened last week in Brooklyn, New York, to packed houses and wildly enthusiastic reviews from one…
Marta Wallien | March 25, 2024 In the ongoing effort to better understand hatred and minimize its destructive impact on society, much of the discussion is led by scholars from…
Madeline Adamo | March 5, 2024 Her March 7 talk will focus on architecture’s role in more equitable futures When Elvis Presley first crooned the words to his 1962 hit…
Sean Brenner | February 1, 2024 A five-city tour co-presented by two UCLA entities will bring to life the mesmerizing artistry of Japanese benshi performance. Benshi performers — the term is derived from…
Sean Brenner | January 30, 2024 Oscar Wilde’s life has been examined in minute detail in numerous biographies and countless articles. But the details of his death have been widely…
Anushka Chakrabarti | July 12, 2023 The final Possible Worlds lecture — the sixth in the series — was delivered by Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in Political Science…
Anushka Chakrabarti | July 1, 2023 Alexandra Minna Stern, dean of humanities at the UCLA College, served as the commencement speaker for the 2023 humanities commencement ceremony. Stern said she…
Jonathan Riggs | May 19, 2023 Internationally acclaimed Indian author shared insights into his work and worldview Focusing on his 2021 nonfiction work “The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet…
UCLA Humanities | January 9, 2023 On Saturday, January 21, at 7 p.m., the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture will proudly present the premiere…
Anushka Chakrabarti | October 29, 2022 In the latest installment of the “Possible Worlds” lecture series, French economist Gabriel Zucman joined UCLA students, faculty and community members on October 11…
Anushka Chakrabarti | June 10, 2022 UCLA Buddhist studies scholar Robert Buswell will be the keynote speaker for the Division of Humanities commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 11 at Royce…
Anushka Chakrabarti | June 3, 2022 Angela Davis, the internationally celebrated author, scholar and activist, delivered the second annual Edward W. Said Lecture in the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature…
Alison Hewitt | May 2, 2022 ‘BeHere / 1942,’ presented by the Yanai Initiative of UCLA and Tokyo’s Waseda University, runs from May 7 to Oct. 9 Eighty years ago,…