Emily Gowers | Brief Lives: The Case of Crispus
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CAFor inquiries about attending this lecture on zoom, please contact purves@g.ucla.edu
For inquiries about attending this lecture on zoom, please contact purves@g.ucla.edu
Professor Amy Richlin will be retiring at the end of the coming academic year. We look forward to celebrating her path-breaking career and reuniting with her many UCLA students at this conference in her honor. The conference will take place on April 2nd in the Legacy Room at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference...
The Friends of Ancient History is a loose network of faculty and graduate students across south California institutions, who meet a couple of times a year, at one venue or another. On Saturday 9th April we are hosting it here, at UCLA, and the speakers are Lydia Spielberg (UCLA) on “The Emperor’s Words in History and Biography” and...
The UCLA Classics Department is pleased to announce that the Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics for 2022 will be delivered by Jennifer Stager, Assistant Professor of History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Taking its title from the god Asklepios’s violent birth (Pindar Pythian 3) and the priorities that this myth set for ancient Greek...
co-sponsored with the Center for Religion and the Department of History
This lecture discusses La Odilea by Francisco Chofre, a Cuban prose adaptation of the Odyssey, which refigures both Homer’s heroes as guajiros (peasants) and the ancient epic itself through the adoption of an oral Cuban dialect. My examination first highlights Chofre’s meticulous linguistic transformations, which I consider a model of “philological” reception, as well as the ambiguous and complex relationship...
Co-sponsored with the Center for Religion and the Department of History. This event will be hybrid. To receive an email with the Zoom link to attend remotely, please RSVP at https://religion.ucla.edu/event/antisemitism-in-the-pagan-world/
Virgil’s particular attention to human suffering has long been identified as a defining aspect of his poetry, but critics have had widely different views on the politics of Virgilian pathos. Is empathy for the defeated in the Aeneid a way of undermining the triumphalist claims of Augustus (e.g. Putnam 1965)? Or does the poem’s famous...
Please join us for our beginning of year reception and for the awarding of the Helen Caldwell Prizes in Beginning Greek and Latin.
This is a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture event co-sponsored by the Department of Classics. It will take place on Zoom. Please see attached flyer for registration details.
Brownbag lunchtime workshop. Dodd 248, 12-1. All welcome!
Professor Karen Ní Mheallaigh, Johns Hopkins University. Graduate Student Elected Speaker 22-23. All welcome. **Please note time change: this lecture now begins at 4pm. Image: Sandra Meech, Arctic Expressions sandrameech.com
The Parthenon Marbles, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by the sculptor Phidias, they were eventually sold to the British government in 1817 and are housed in the British Museum. Public debate about repatriating the...
Dodd 248, 12-1. All welcome!
We welcome the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) and participants to the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies conference at UCLA! Most conference activities will take place at the Luskin Conference Center and Hotel on the UCLA campus.
An Afternoon with Giulia Sissa on ‘The Power of Women’ (Le Pouvoir des Femmes, Odile Jacob: Paris 2021) Please join Giulia Sissa, Ben Brown and Tristan Bradshaw for an interview and extended conversation on the themes and arguments of Giulia’s most recent book, Le Pouvoir des Femmes, Odile Jacob: Paris 2021. Discussion will range across...