Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Meredith Cohen on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk, Digital Gothic: Quantifying Change in Medieval Architecture. All are welcome!
ILLUMINATED LECTURES AND THEATRICAL INVESTIGATIONS: BRINGING TOGETHER SCHOLARSHIP AND PERFORMANCE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2026 3 to 5 P.M. theatre dybbuk, a Los Angeles-based performance company, brings together research and historical investigation with performance to explore a variety of issues in our contemporary world. In this division-wide workshop, theatre dybbuk’s artistic director, Aaron Henne, will offer ideas for how to engage with theatrical structures that can bring your research and scholarship to vivid life. Aaron and Professor Barbara Fuchs will discuss possible formats and modes of collaboration. Please feel free to bring your own ideas for research that you might wish...
Elephantine Goes Global: Island of the Millennia Wednesday, February 25, 2026 4:00pm Royce Hall 306 Alternate Live Stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94774888079 RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/uhWcmWsk8DDH1Rdv9 Over a period of ten years a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) was conducted at the National Museums in Berlin entitled “Localizing 4000 years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt.” Elephantine is an island on the Nile River in southern Egypt. Some of the research results are the digitalization, transcription, and translation of more than 10,000 texts written on papyrus or clay shards in ten...