Classics & PIES Fall Reception
Coral Tree Walkway 245 Charles E Young Dr E, Los AngelesPlease join us for our beginning of year reception and for the awarding of the Helen Caldwell Prizes in Beginning Greek and Latin.
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...
Greg Woolf is scheduled to give his fourth Sather lecture, “The Women’s Season” as a department talk on Thursday January 19, 2023
The lecture is offered on the occasion of International Greek Language Day. Her Excellency, Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the United States, will offer opening remarks. February 11, 2023, 10:00 AM PST/1:00PM EST/8:00 PM Athens The event takes place on Zoom. RSVP: https://bit.ly/3kz0pMR Modern Greek is taught and learned across North America mainly as...
Departmental Brownbag Workshop Professor Adriana Vazquez: “Reading Latin Subtexts in the Vernacular Poetry of the Brazilian Colonial Period” In his contribution to the 2020 volume Conversations: Classical Imitation in Renaissance Literature, Stephen Hinds, analyzing the parallel Latin and vernacular poems of Marvell and Milton, concludes by offering the provocative suggestion of the ‘virtual diptych’: for...
Professor Sara Brill (Fairfield University) will be delivering a paper entitled “Use of Birth: Biopolitics, Biotechnics, and Natal Alienation” in Giula Sissa’s graduate seminar on Historicity and Michel Foucault. All welcome! 11:00 am – Lecture 12:30 pm – Lunch will be served RSVP is requested at sissa@ucla.edu by March 5th
“Epinician and Enkomion: From Sent Texts to Performance.”
Chris Whitton will give a Brownbag talk on April 3rd from 12 PM to 1 PM in Dodd 248. All welcome!
This talk will outline the contents of a newly drafted book manuscript that queries the relationship(s) between classicism, understood as a system of aesthetic determination and calibration that is not necessarily reducible to or coterminous with classics, and Black life. The main argument is that classics has been overrepresented as if it is or should be...
Audio / Visual Romans I Thursday April 20th 2023 Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Maria Wyke, University College London “Feminizing Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1900s to the 1920s“ The medium of the moving image started out as part of variety programmes and women often appeared in it advertising to men...
Audio / Visual Romans II Friday April 21st 2023 Film Screening with Live Accompaniment and Original Score by Michele Sganga Cajus Julius Caesar, 1914. Directed by Enrico Guazzoni A live screening at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater of the rarely seen yet remarkable Italian silent feature film Cajus Julius Caesar (1914, dir. Enrico Guazzoni) brought over especially from...