Humanities Division

Careers in design and communication are available in nearly every industry! Hear from alumni who have leveraged their skills and knowledge to pursue a variety of paths within these evolving fields, and learn how their UCLA degrees have helped them in their career journey. This event is presented in partnership with the UCLA Career Center. Panelists Savannah Shapiro, Senior Copywriter, Ingram Micro Kirsten Lew, Associate Digital Media Producer, Getty Research Institute Other panelists to be announced soon Register now on Handshake

“Because of slavery” is the correct answer to the question: Why did the slaveholding states go to war against the free states of the Union? MONUMENTS reckons with deceptive narratives implicit in the presentation of a defeated Confederacy — not as traitors and losers, but as objects of hero worship. The Old South lost the Civil War but won the nation's post-war reconciliation with monuments, movies, and textbooks that upheld white supremacy and perpetuated black subordination. Kara Walker’s art and Harryette Mullen’s poetry have in common an irreverent attitude toward oppressive systems and institutions, from the Lost Cause glorified in...

The Inaugural Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry Thursday, April 30 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Royce Hall Room 314 Free admission. Reception with light refreshments to follow lecture. Advance registration strongly recommended. Presented by the UCLA College Division of Humanities The Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry is a biennial lecture dedicated to exploring cross-cutting topics and ideas in humanistic research and examining how humanistic inquiry connects to the most pressing questions of the day. About our inaugural speaker Kate Manne is a professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She specializes in moral, social and feminist philosophy, and...