Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for the first Bilingual Lecture Series talk of the year. Dr. Kaveh Madani will present his research on Sunday, October 27, 2019 in Dodd Hall 78 at 4:00pm. This lecture will be in Persian. His English lecture will follow on Monday, October 28 at 2:00pm in Bunch Hall 10383.
Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for the first Bilingual Lecture Series talks of the year. Dr. Kaveh Madani will present his research on Monday, October 28 at 2:00pm in Bunch Hall 10383. This lecture will be in English.
The World Health Organization has identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to global health. This one-day symposium, hosted by UCLA faculty from Engineering, Humanities and Public Health, comes amid the growing attention to this potential crisis. We bring together experts from across public health, data science, culture analytics, sociology, and law to...
The 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall provides an opportunity to revisit this landmark historical moment, assess the cultural, political, and social transformations that have taken place since reunification, while simultaneously reflecting on these questions at a time when walls are once again being built and contemporary forms of exclusion, division, and...
Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for a Bilingual Lecture Series talk by Dr. Soroush Dabbagh. He will present his research on Sunday, November 17 at 4:00pm in Dodd Hall 78. This lecture will be in Persian.
This workshop will discuss the role of one’s digital identity in professional development and the job search. The workshop will address the benefits to crafting a digital identity and the means by which to do so. It will answer questions such as: Do I need a website, and if so, what should go on my website? Participants will be provided with tips on what to avoid and helpful hints for successfully representing themselves online. All levels are welcome.
Please join the Iranian Studies Program at UCLA for a Bilingual Lecture Series film screening of Case No. I, Case No. 2. The film and following Q&A with Ahmad Kiarostami will be in Persian.
Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World for a lecture by Professor Gil Stein. Achaemenids or Persians? Burials, Material Culture, and Imperial Identities in the Euphrates Valley (5th-4th centuries BCE) The Achaemenid empire was the largest empire in the world in the 5th-4th centuries BCE, encompassing numerous polities and cultural...
Lecture by Katharina Sykora Ulrike Ottinger is an internationally-renowned artist whose work has been called a ‘small universal theater’ of its own (kleines Welttheater). Embracing film, photography, theater, and exhibitions, it draws the viewer’s attention to different ways of showing. My presentation will focus on this deictic structure in Ottinger’s work and its presence in...
UCLA Experimental Humanities workshop on “Humane Infrastructures” Humane Infrastructures brings together 25 leading scholars, experts, artists, university administrators, politicians, and community members to consider and outline how we can build human/humanities-driven capacity to collaboratively critique, imagine, design, and build civic and academic infrastructures at scale. The Program will be structured around: Major challenges (such as...
A lecture by Professor Kim Gallon (Purdue University) Registration Required (click here) Thursday, December 10, 2020 3:00pm-5:00pm (PST) Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. She is the author of many articles and essays as well as the book,...
Due to the global pandemic, the 8th edition of the annual film festival has been transferred to an online format. This offers a unique possibility of reaching a wider audience while respecting all health regulations. Thus, the five films selected for this edition will be available for streaming for one week following their premiere dates....
To join the Zoom meeting click here. To download flyer please click here.
To access the movie, go to https://pragda.com/sfc-event/ucla/ and login with username SFC@UCLA and password SpanPort2021 Note: Perro bomba will be available for streaming on the festival’s website during one week starting from today, Monday Feb 8, and until Monday Feb 15, 2021. Join Q&A HERE To download flyer, please click here.
Join via Zoom: Meeting ID: 876 0516 7322 Passcode: 808803 Click here for zoom link To download flyer please click here
Please join us for “Trans/BORDER/ing: The Aesthetics of Disturbance and Undocumentary Flight,” a Webinar organized in the context of the UCLA Sawyer Seminar, “Sancturary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism.” Webinar participants are Amy Sara Carroll; UCSD; Ricardo Dominguez, UCSD; SA Smythe, UCLA; Maurice Stierl, University of Warwick, UK; and Maite Zubiaurre, UCLA. To learn more about the...
Join via Zoom: Meeting ID: 852 4488 4574 Passcode: 545721 Click here for Zoom link. To download flyer please click here.
The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese is happy to announce that El Club the Español is now active. This student space is open to all UCLA students. Club meeting dates all 6-7pm February 24th March 3rd April 7th April 21st May 5th For more information, please email El Club de Español at: newuclaspanishclub@gmail.com Join via Zoom:...
Una de las operaciones más concretas que demuestra las inevitables transformaciones en la producción literaria más recientes en Cuba tiene que ver con la conversión de Fidel Castro en personaje literario, desprovisto de cualquier carga heroica y del tono reverencial con el que se le trató siempre en la isla. Si durante décadas su transformación...