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Lawrence Kim Lecture
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Lawrence Kim | “Why Do We Call Early Greek Poetry ‘Archaic’? Periodization and Histories of Greek Literature, 1830-2022”
ZoomZoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 3131 1616 94 *There is a password on this account; please contact purves@ucla.edu if you need the password.
Elliott Piros | Purple Motion: Pantomime Dance in Martial’s Epigrams
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CAThis event will be held in person and on zoom. For in-person non-UCLA attendees, please note UCLA policy for visitors here. All attendees must take the UCLA Covid Symptom Monitoring Survey, show proof of vaccination or a negative covid test, and wear a surgical or N/K95 mask (no cloth masks). To join by Zoom, please...
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
On Outgroups and Muted Groups: A Conference in Honor of Amy Richlin
Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, UCLA 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CaliforniaProfessor 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...
Friends of Ancient History Spring Meeting
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...
UCLA Department of Classics Joan Palevsky Lecture | Dr Jennifer Stager, “Cut from the Womb: Towards a Feminist History of Ancient Greek Medicine”
Fowler MuseumThe 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...
Sheila Murnaghan | Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Luca Benelli
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Greg Woolf | Losing Control of the Gods: How Religion Slipped out of the Hands of Men in the Early Roman Empire
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CAco-sponsored with the Center for Religion and the Department of History
Rosa Andújar | Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CAThis 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...
Erich Gruen | Antisemitism in the Pagan World
Royce Hall 306Co-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/
James Uden | The Politics of Pathos in Virgil’s Aeneid
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CAVirgil’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...
Departmental Graduation Celebration
Coral Tree Walkway 245 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles
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.
Johanna Hanink | Bones, stones, trees and roots: On the enduring urgency of Karkavitsas’ Archaeologist (1904)
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.
Lydia Spielberg | Speeches, Dicta, and Livy’s Scipio Problem
Brownbag lunchtime workshop. Dodd 248, 12-1. All welcome!
Karen ní Mheallaigh | The Thulean zone: ancient science, fiction and the Arctic imaginaire
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CAProfessor 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
Roger Michel, “Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary”
by ZoomThe 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...
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