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Establishment of Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts at UCLA

The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture announces the establishment of the Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts. The Caloyeras endowment will support the presentation of fine and performing arts related to Greece, from the ancient period through the modern day. Funds...

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UCLA Receives Two New Endowments for Iranian Studies

UCLA Iranian Studies and the Pourdavoud Center are proud to announce two new endowments, the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Contemporary Iranian Studies...

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UCLA Art History Professor Weighs in on Why Trump Fast Food Photo is Visually Arresting

LA TIMES Why you can’t look away from that Trump fast food photo By JESSICA ROY JAN 15, 2019 | 5:10 PM It is not surprising that people...

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Assistant Professor of Italian Andrea Moudarres Receives Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award

On January 5, 2019, Assistant Professor of Italian Andrea Moudarres received the twenty-first annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian...

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Professor Barbara Fuchs Takes Leadership Role in Modern Language Association

UCLA Newsroom Jessica Wolf | January 16, 2019 Barbara Fuchs, professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the UCLA College, has been elected second vice president of...

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Slavic Department’s Ph.D. Student Lydia Roberts Interviews Marianna Yarovskaya, Director of “Women of the Gulag”

When a country experiences genocide, is talking about what happened the best way to heal from the past? Why is it important to preserve the...

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What is Truth? Humanities Faculty Offer Their Perspectives

UCLA College Magazine, Winter 2018 WHILE DEBATE ABOUT “TRUTH” SEEMS TO DOMINATE PUBLIC DISCOURSE LATELY, THIS IS NOTHING NEW: SCHOLARS AND THINKERS HAVE BEEN WRESTLING...

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Armando Guerrero Talks Spanish Accents and Latinx Representation in Film and TV

Armando Guerrero, a Lecturer and Academic Coordinator in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, recently analyzed the accents of actors in famous movies and TV...

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Art History Professor, Charlene Villaseñor Black, Wins 2019 MRPI Funding Award

UCLA Art History Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black was recently awarded over $1,000,000 in funding as a winner of the 2019 Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives...

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Linguistics Professor, Jessica Rett, Gets Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Jessica Rett, Associate Professor of Linguistics at UCLA, was recently featured on the podcast “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.” Van Ness is well-known for...

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2018 World Languages Day Highlights Cultural Activities, Programs and Clubs

The Humanities Division at UCLA hosted their annual World Languages Day in Bruin Plaza on September 28, 2018. This year, the program was sponsored by the...

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Alain Mabanckou’s Novel ‘Black Moses’ Wins 2018 Hurston/Wright Fiction Award

From Washington Post By DeNeen L. Brown October 20 Franco-Congolese poet and novelist Alain Mabanckou won the 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for fiction...

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2018 Humanities Welcome Inspires Student and Faculty Success

The Humanities Division at UCLA hosted its sixth annual Humanities Welcome event in Schoenberg Music Building on September 26, 2018. This event occurs every year...

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How a UCLA philosophy Professor Helped Construct ‘The Good Place’

UCLA Newsroom Jessica Wolf | October 03, 2018 A funny thing happened in the esoteric world of philosophy in late 2016 — professors and students were buzzing on...

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Classics Professor Wins Prestigious Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for New Book

The Division of Humanities would like to recognize Distinguished Professor Amy Richlin for winning the C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical...

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UCLA Educator honored with the Romanian Cultural Merit Decoration

Originally posted to the Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures website on 09/04/18. On August 30, 2018 Lecturer Georgiana Galateanu was honored by...

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Clark Memorial Library Received Endowed Fellowship from Philanthropist Kenneth Karmiole

The gift of $100,000 will establish the Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship, supporting an annual graduate fellowship at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, which...

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‘We the Animals’ Author Justin Torres: Latinos are ‘dehumanized,’ but Literature is an Antidote

by Rigoberto González / Aug.17.2018 / 5:10 AM ET NBC News Justin Torres took the literary world by storm in 2011 with the publication of his novel We the...

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Rethinking Classical Theater for Los Angeles Audiences

Jessica Wolf | August 15, 2018 When we think of classical theater most of us are likely to call up images and ubiquitous lines from Shakespeare. But...

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UCLA Receives $25 million Gift to Support Humanities Division and Philosophy Department

Margaret MacDonald | July 30, 2018 The UCLA College humanities division has received its largest ever gift — and one of the largest ever to any university...

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Establishment of Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts at UCLA

UCLA Receives Two New Endowments for Iranian Studies

UCLA Art History Professor Weighs in on Why Trump Fast Food Photo is Visually Arresting

Assistant Professor of Italian Andrea Moudarres Receives Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award

Professor Barbara Fuchs Takes Leadership Role in Modern Language Association

Slavic Department’s Ph.D. Student Lydia Roberts Interviews Marianna Yarovskaya, Director of “Women of the Gulag”

What is Truth? Humanities Faculty Offer Their Perspectives

Armando Guerrero Talks Spanish Accents and Latinx Representation in Film and TV

Art History Professor, Charlene Villaseñor Black, Wins 2019 MRPI Funding Award

Linguistics Professor, Jessica Rett, Gets Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

2018 World Languages Day Highlights Cultural Activities, Programs and Clubs

Alain Mabanckou’s Novel ‘Black Moses’ Wins 2018 Hurston/Wright Fiction Award

2018 Humanities Welcome Inspires Student and Faculty Success

How a UCLA philosophy Professor Helped Construct ‘The Good Place’

Classics Professor Wins Prestigious Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for New Book

UCLA Educator honored with the Romanian Cultural Merit Decoration

Clark Memorial Library Received Endowed Fellowship from Philanthropist Kenneth Karmiole

‘We the Animals’ Author Justin Torres: Latinos are ‘dehumanized,’ but Literature is an Antidote

Rethinking Classical Theater for Los Angeles Audiences

UCLA Receives $25 million Gift to Support Humanities Division and Philosophy Department

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