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SUMMARY:2026 Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Note: This event is RSVP only \nPlease join us in honoring the 2026 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Claudia Mesa Higuera\, Professor of Spanish at Moravian University. \nThe 2026 Distinguished Alumni Lecture topic is “Castillo Solórzano\, Rubens\, and a Theater on Brushstrokes.” Soon after the famous battle of Nördlingen (1634)\, the Spanish novelist Alonso de Castillo Solórzano published a panegyric play to commemorate the triumph of the imperial army led by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain and the King of Hungary over the Swedish and German armies commanded respectively by Gustav Horn and the duke of Saxe-Weimar. Around the same time\, the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens completed a series of paintings and engravings on the topic of love and war that allows a comparison of the two artists. This lecture examines the characterization of historical and fictional characters involved in this decisive battle of the Thirty Years’ War to suggest that such characterization is informed by a figurative tradition that reveals a shared ethos between the Spanish playwright and the Flemish painter at a time in which artistic expression seeks to extol state ideology while simultaneously subverting it. \nThe UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department will host the Distinguished Alumni lecture on Thursday\, February 5\, 2026 at 4:00 PM at the UCLA University Club. The lecture will be held in the Hacienda Room. RSVP Only.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2026-distinguished-alumni-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Between Discordant Shores: Dante’s Francis\, the Book of Islam and the Orient
DESCRIPTION:(Image: Coppo di Marcovaldo\, St. Francis before the Sultan\,” Sultan Malek al-Kāmil and his philosophers\, Bardi Altarpiece\, c. 1260s\, Basilica di Santa Croce\, Florence.) \nMarking the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’s death in 2026\, this talk draws on Morosini’s recent study Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam (2024) to explore Dante’s Francis and their shared conception of the Book of Islam and of the Orient. At its center is the Book’s role within the Commedia and in Dante’s representation of Francis\, offering a new perspective on the Orient as a geographic space of dialogue rather than dehumanizing alterity. \nThis perspective\, as emerged in Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam\, calls for a reevaluation of Dante’s “discordant shores” of Paradiso IX\, 85. In Dante’s vision\, the Book becomes a bridge between cultures and faiths\, a medium of transmission and encounter that links distant shores within a Mediterranean network of knowledge. \nRSVP here to attend in person. \nPrior to joining UCLA’s Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies in July 2024\, Professor Morosini was Professor of Italian at the Università L’Orientale di Napoli since 2022 and the 2024 Chair of Italian Culture at UC Berkeley.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/between-discordant-shores-dantes-francis-of-assisi-the-book-of-islam-and-the-orient/
LOCATION:Kaufman Hall Room 101
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:Antisemitism\, an American Tradition – Pamela Nadell
DESCRIPTION:In Antisemitism\, an American Tradition Pamela S. Nadell\, the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender history at American University\, recounts the powerful story of antisemitism in America and how it has shaped the lives of Jews for almost four centuries. \nIndeed\, Jews have met antisemitism since first landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little\, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office\, admission to schools\, and employment in industry\, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently\, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville\, Virgina\, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year. \nProfessor Pamela Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University. Her book America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award’s Everett Family Foundation “Book of the Year” and was translated into Hebrew. Her new book Antisemitism\, an American Tradition\, was published by W.W. Norton in October. A past president of the Association for Jewish Studies\, she consults to the museum planned for the rebuild of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life and has testified before Congress three times. \nModerated by Dov Waxman (UCLA) \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/antisemitism-an-american-tradition-pamela-nadell/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:American Jewish Studies
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