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“Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus: A Monumental History of the Black Atlantic” | Mathura Umachandran
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“Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen” | Amy Richlin
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“Agamemnon’s Cluelessness: Reason and Eudaimonia” | Josiah Ober
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“Steppe-ing stones: Jason and the Argonauts, Ovid, and Russophone Place-making around the Black Sea” | Lara Fabian
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2021 Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Plagues in Antiquity
ZoomThe 2021 Annual Joan Palevsky Lecture will be a Departmental Roundtable Panel, featuring a discussion among members of the UCLA Classics Department of plagues in antiquity, including the plagues of 5th century Athens, Antonine Rome and Justinian. In addition to discussing medical, literary, historical, and archaeological sources, we will also consider the nature of the...
“Authenticity and Serviles Litterae: A Case Study Involving Textual Emendations and the Manuscript Tradition” | Erin Petrella
ZoomThis event is co-sponsored event between the UCLA Department of Classics and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu for Zoom information.
USC and UCLA Spring Seminar | “Thinking About and With the Body: New Directions in Classics.”
Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link. Featured speakers will include the following: Melissa Mueller (UMass Amherst), “Bodies in Bardo in Sappho’s Tithonos Poem” Alex Purves (UCLA), “Homer’s Underwater Bodies” Susan Lape (USC), “Vulnerability, Ethics, and the Limits of Appropriation in Terence’s ‘Human’ Comedy” Brooke Holmes (Princeton), “Embodying Lucretius, with Isabel Lewis”
“Skin’s Empire: Animal Hides, Animacy and Agency in the Roman World.” | Martin Devecka
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Mathias Hanses | “Cicero with Local Applications: Pro Archia Poeta and W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk.”
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Joseph Howley | “Slavery and the Book: Toward a New Social History of Roman Literature”
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Hannah Culík-Baird | “Poetry as Artefact in Cicero”
Lawrence Kim Lecture
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Lawrence Kim | “Why Do We Call Early Greek Poetry ‘Archaic’? Periodization and Histories of Greek Literature, 1830-2022”
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Elliott Piros | Purple Motion: Pantomime Dance in Martial’s Epigrams
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Emily Gowers | Brief Lives: The Case of Crispus
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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
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