When the quarter arrives, it can be challenging to set aside an extended period of time for writing. Let's collectively do so! We provide a serene environment, breakfast, lunch, and snacks, and you can devote the day to writing. Friday, October 6, 10am-5pm Royce Hall 306 RSVP by September 29 Sponsored by UCLA: Division of Humanities Herb Alpert School of Music...
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This joint meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) and the 40th Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference features papers on all aspects of Celtic culture including language, literature, history, art, and archaeology, from late antiquity to the present day. The program is organized by Professor Joseph F. Nagy (Professor Emeritus, UCLA; Celtic...
Organized by Professors Matthew Fisher (English, UCLA) and Arvind Thomas (English, UCLA), this two-day symposium features scholars working on the often fractious conflicts of the medieval past. Medievalists will consider both historic and also generic conflicts of interest in medieval England and on the Continent. The symposium will bring together a diverse community of scholars...
Faculty and graduate students in the humanities and digital humanities are invited to a UCLA workshop on Tuesday, September 24th to learn more about grant opportunities for collaborative and individual research projects in the humanities from the UCHRI. 1-2:15pm for faculty. Special guest: Associate Professor Robin Derby (History), recent two-time UCHRI funding recipient 2:15-3pm for grad students Shana Melnysyn, Research Grants...
Come join us in Royce 306 for a welcome event celebrating and meeting first gen Humanities faculty, student and staff. RSVP HERE
Join us to watch a live stream on digital cultural heritage. Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Benedictine monk, scholar of early religions, and executive director of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, will deliver the 2019 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Stewart will deliver the lecture, titled “Cultural...
TO BE RESCHEDULED FALL 2020 - CMRS Conference This conference, organized by Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA), explores the history and extraordinary art of the Sacri Monti and highlights the contributions of young scholars to this new field of research. The cluster of pilgrimage centers known as the Sacri Monti, or Holy Mountains, in the western...
Please join us as we kick off Possible Worlds, a new lecture series presented by the UCLA Division of Humanities and the Berggruen Institute. The series invites some of today’s most imaginative intellectual leaders and creators to deliver talks on the future of humanity. On February 18, we are thrilled to welcome Harvard classicist and...
XR IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Extended Reality Research Projects and Pedagogy with VR, AR, and MR This webinar showcases the UCLA XR Initiative (XRI), and projects by its associate faculty in the Arts and Humanities. Working with XR technologies of virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and mixed (MR) realities, their work spans research, performance, app...
How Will We Live Together? Alejandro Aravena is an architect and founder and executive director of the firm Elemental. His works include the “Siamese Towers” at the Catholic University of Chile and the Novartis office campus in Shanghai. In 2016, the New York Times named Aravena one of the world’s “creative geniuses” who had...
Cartoonist, author, and educator Will Eisner coined the term “sequential art” in 1985. In his book, Comics & Sequential Art, he explained that comics were, “an ‘art of communication’ more than simply an application of art.” For academics, there is no skill more important than that of communication. As thinkers and educators, our ability to...
UCLA’s Division of Humanities and the Berggruen Institute present a new lecture in the “Possible Worlds” series, where thought leaders discuss humanity’s future. On November 30, 2021, join acclaimed author Kim Stanley Robinson for Optopia: From Fiction to Action on Climate Change. Professor Ursula K. Heise, Chair of the Department of English at UCLA, will...
Join us for a talk by Senior Executive Editor of Duke University Press, Ken Wissoker. He will speak about publishing in the pandemic, and how to get your first book manuscript published! Please note this event will follow all COVID-19 protocols for indoor masking, and proof of vaccination or negative COVID test in the past...
Celebrated director and actor Yorgos Karamihos pays tribute to General Yannis Makriyannis, the hero of the 1821 Greek Revolution, in a show that tells the story of a nation in revolt and an individual in the process of self-formation. Adapting selected passages of Makriyannis’ Memoirs, a seminal work of Modern Greek letters, Makriyannis Unplugged renders the Greek hero of the nineteenth century our contemporary, a figure rooted in a local tradition but with a global significance. The work by Karamihos offers a raw theatrical experience that resonates with Makriyannis’ spirit, challenging and enriching our understanding of freedom, community, duty, and creativity.
A Celebration of National Poetry Month
In May 1944, at the height of a new crisis facing the Greek government in exile during World War II, which he served as a high-ranking diplomat, George Seferis confided these thoughts to his Alexandrian Greek friend Timos Malanos: ‘It might surprise you if I tell you that the event that has affected me more than anything is the Asia Minor Catastrophe. . . . From the age of 13 I’ve never ceased to be a refugee.’ This talk describes Seferis’s early life in Smyrna and the seaside village of Skala tou Vourla, and the ways in which he came to reflect on both, in later essays and poems. Moving forward to the end of the 1940s, the story resumes when the poet returned to his birthplace while serving in the Greek embassy in Ankara. During this period, traveling widely in Asia Minor, Seferis experienced what he termed a ‘wider Hellenism’, one that encompassed the Hellenistic expansion in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great and continued throughout the millennium of the Byzantine Empire. From these later experiences, and the poems, essays, and diaries that he wrote at the time, it emerges that, for Seferis, Asia Minor had become not only his own ‘lost homeland’ and that of his family and more than a million of his contemporaries: it was also the ‘lost homeland’ of Hellenism itself, whose heartland it had been for many centuries.
Roderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at Cambridge, before specializing in Modern Greek studies. For thirty years until his retirement, he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London, and is now Emeritus. Beaton is the author of several books of non-fiction, one novel, and several translations of fiction and poetry, all of them connected to Greece and the Greek-speaking world. He is a four-time winner of the Runciman Award, and his books have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Cundill History Prize. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), a Fellow of King’s College (FKC), and Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic. From 2019 to 2021 he served as a member of the Committee “GREECE 2021,” charged by the Greek government with overseeing events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821, and from September to December 2021 as A.G. Leventis Visiting Professor in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book, The Greeks: A Global History, is published by Basic Books (October 2021).
This event will be introduced by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the United States.
Exclusive poetry reading by renowned Greek actor Stelios Mainas (Tetarti 04:45, Mystikes Diadromes, The island)
The Byzantines had long dreaded the year 1492. According to their calculations based on the Scriptures, it would bring the end of the world. In an eerie stroke of irony, they were right in their fears. Even though they were slightly off in the timing of the fall of Constantinople into the hands of the...
In this talk, Dr. Panayotis League explores the legacy of the “Great Catastrophe”—the death and expulsion from Turkey of 1.5 million Greek Christians following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922—through the music and dance practices of Greek refugees and their descendants over the last one hundred years. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted in Greece (on the island...
Join us for a conversation and lunch with Daisy Hernández, who will discuss The Kissing Bug and health humanities. A limited number of free copies of The Kissing Bug will be available at the event. Author Bio: Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and...
