Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry: Kate Manne on Sensitivity and Survival

Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles

The Inaugural Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry Thursday, April 30 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Royce Hall Room 314 Free admission. Reception with light refreshments to follow lecture. Advance registration strongly recommended. Presented by the UCLA College Division of Humanities The Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry is a biennial lecture dedicated to exploring cross-cutting topics and ideas in humanistic research and examining how humanistic inquiry connects to the most pressing questions of the day. About our inaugural speaker Kate Manne is a professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She specializes in moral, social and feminist philosophy, and...

FREE

La Celestina: An Illuminated Lecture presented by theatre dybbuk

Philosophical Research Society 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles

Please join us for an illuminated lecture by Professor Barbara Fuchs on an extraordinary text from an extraordinary time, enlivened by the marvelous actors of theater dybbuk! Written in Spain at the turn of the sixteenth century, soon after the expulsion of the Jews, La Celestina gives powerful voice to marginal characters somehow central to every exchange and transaction— wily go-betweens, panders, and disaffected servants. Along the way, it asks radically uncomfortable questions of its society and our own: what do we owe each other, especially across lines of class or gender? How do we make room for ourselves, when...

$15