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A black and white photo of Peter J. Caloyeras with his parents Ioannis P. and Eirini Caloyeras
Faculty/Department, News

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture announces SNF & Ioannis P. and Eirini Caloyeras Lectureship

The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture announces the establishment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation & Ioannis P. and Eirini Caloyeras Lectureship in Modern Greek. The endowment, jointly funded by the SNF and Peter J. Caloyeras, creates a permanent, full-time lecturer position in Modern Greek Language and Culture, ensuring that courses in these subjects will…

George, Alice and Harold Kachigian in a black and white triptych format
Gifts/Grants, News

$1.2 million from Kachigian family trust establishes lectureship in Armenian studies

The UCLA Division of Humanities has received a $1.2 million bequest from the estate of siblings George and Alice Kachigian to support the Armenian studies program in the department of Near Eastern languages and cultures. As part of the gift, the department created the Kachigian Family Lectureship in Armenian Language and Culture. The inaugural holder of the lectureship will be…

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Gifts/Grants, News

Clark Library receives centuries-old rare books from longtime donor

A new donation of 40 historical texts from Paul Chrzanowski further bolsters an already remarkable collection of early English texts at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The newly added items — including a 17th-century parchment with the seal of Queen Elizabeth I and a handwritten manuscript describing precious metals and gems — have been prepared for use by scholars…

Robert Buswell looks down and laughs with the Getty in the background
Events, Faculty/Department, News

Commencement speaker Robert Buswell reflects on the past, looks toward the future

UCLA Buddhist studies scholar Robert Buswell will be the keynote speaker for the Division of Humanities commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 11 at Royce Hall. Buswell, a distinguished professor who holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities, will retire this year after more than three decades at UCLA, where he founded the Center for Buddhist Studies and…

Elaine Kahn stares piercingly at the camera against a wooden plank background
Faculty/Department, News

Writer-in-residence Elaine Kahn discusses her experience

Elaine Kahn, a writer and artist based in Los Angeles, is the writer-in-residence in the UCLA Department of English for spring 2022. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Kahn has taught at Pomona College, Saint Mary’s College of California, the University of Iowa and elsewhere. She is the author of the full-length poetry collections “Women in Public” and “Romance…

Angela Davis poses with her fist under her chin in a black-and-white portrait
Events, Faculty/Department, News

Angela Davis addresses audience on ‘international solidarity’

Angela Davis, the internationally celebrated author, scholar and activist, delivered the second annual Edward W. Said Lecture in the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature on April 14. Davis, a distinguished professor emerita at UC Santa Cruz and a former UCLA professor of philosophy, is renowned for her decades-long commitment to social justice movements around the world. Her lecture, “International Solidarity…

From left: Humanities Dean David Schaberg, Vice Provost C. Cindy Fan, Congressman Ted W. Lieu, Dean Eileen Strempel and Vice Chancellor Roger Wakimoto
Faculty/Department, News

Q&A: Dean David Schaberg on Humanities Advocacy Day

We interviewed David Schaberg, dean of the Division of Humanities, about his recent trip to Capitol Hill for Humanities Advocacy Day, where state-based delegations meet with members of Congress and their staff to make the case for federal funding for the humanities. The annual event is organized by the National Humanities Alliance, a coalition of over 200 member organizations including…

Dominic Thomas stands behind a lectern with another person, who is holding a microphone. The two are next to three flags, the European Union flag, the French flag, and the American flag.
Awards and Honors, Faculty/Department, News

Professor Dominic Thomas honored as Officer in the Order of Academic Palms

Dominic Thomas, Madeleine Letessier Professor of French in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, has been named an Officer in the Order of Academic Palms, or l’Ordre des Palmes académiques. The Academic Palms is the oldest civilian award given out and is second only in age to the Legion of Honor. They were created in 1808 by Napoléon Bonaparte…

Image of Robert and Christina Buswell in front of a waterfall
Faculty/Department, Gifts/Grants, News

Department of Asian Languages & Cultures receives $3.7 million in gift commitments

The UCLA Department of Asian Languages & Cultures has received $3.7 million in gift commitments from distinguished professor of Buddhist studies Robert E. Buswell Jr. and his wife, Christina Lee Buswell, a translator of Korean religious scriptures. The couple’s gift commitments created the Chinul Endowed Chair in Korean Buddhist Studies—the first permanent endowed chair in Korean Buddhism outside of Korea—and…

Maite Zubiaurre smiles against an outdoor background
Awards and Honors, Faculty/Department, News

Professor Maite Zubiaurre selected to join Faculty Mentoring Honor Society

Professor Maite Zubiaurre has been selected to join the Faculty Mentoring Honor Society. The society recognizes UCLA faculty who have given much time and effort to the work of mentoring early and mid-career faculty, especially underrepresented faculty at UCLA. The work of mentoring is too often invisible and unrecognized, and such faculty contribute disproportionately to mentoring on campuses and deserve recognition.…

The new Digital Media Lab, a small room with a few tables and chairs, as well as a large screen in one corner
Faculty/Department, News, Students, Teaching

English department celebrates launch of Digital Media Lab

The UCLA Department of English will celebrate the launch of its new Digital Media Lab on Friday, May 6 at noon at its location in Kaplan Hall 211.  The Digital Media Lab is the result of an initiative by a group of English faculty members whose students were increasingly interested in using multimedia resources in their scholarly work, according to…

A black-and-white photo depicts cameramen snapping photos of a young Japanese girl as she waits to be sent from Los Angeles to the Manzanar prison camp.
Events, Faculty/Department, News

Exhibition places viewers in midst of WWII-era forced removal of Japanese Americans

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast, incarcerating 120,000 in concentration camps. This May, an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum lets visitors step into those dark days of 1942 through an augmented reality re-creation at the very site where thousands of Japanese Americans living in downtown Los Angeles’ Little…

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