Under the banner “Humanities DTLA: From Word to Action,” the division will use the space to build and strengthen initiatives in urban and public humanities and other interdisciplinary fields.
About 10 years ago, Mariam Janvelyan couldn’t get into UCLA’s already full American Sign Language course, despite a plea to Benjamin Lewis. Luckily, she made it into the class a year later.
The professor of architecture and urban design hopes her March 7 lecture will demonstrate that small acts of research-based architecture can create powerful new forms of buildings and cities for all.
“I like poetry that’s unexpected, that doesn’t conform to what’s going on in the mainstream but that’s nonetheless clearly part of an important conversation or movement,” Nersessian said.
A UCLA cluster course draws from the humanities and social sciences to encourage students to examine the impact of statistics and AI in a world that is increasingly being defined by datasets.
In his new book, the UCLA professor investigates how a generation of women artists is invigorating photography in the age of digitization by returning to earlier, incomplete or unrealized moments.
A partnership with the UCLA Brain Research Institute and an education nonprofit aims to make scientific studies more accessible to Spanish speakers.
“The Seventies in Color” will focus on three New York City trendsetters: fashion designer Stephen Burrows, musician-actor-model Grace Jones and fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez.
Benshi performers — the term is derived from the phrase katsudō benshi, meaning “movie orator” — were the captivating narrators of Japan’s silent film era.
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 misunderstood, according to UCLA’s Joseph Bristow. Bristow, a distinguished professor of English and leading scholar on Wilde, will help set the record straight in a free lecture at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at 4 p.m. on Feb. 21. The Clark is a fitting venue for the talk: The library is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of Wildeiana. After Wilde died in 1900 at the age of 46, in a hotel room in…