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The 2022 Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
Ambroise Aubrun, D.M.A., Artistic Director Powell Library Rotunda on the UCLA campus Join us for the in-person return of the festival this summer. There is no charge to attend, and registration is not required. Full program details and ensemble biographies are available on our website at http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/categories/bruman-summer-concerts/ Yu & I Duo Béla Bartók (1881–1945) Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 Robert Beaser (1954– ) Mountain SongsFranz Schubert (1797–1828) Die Forelle (The Trout) Weißt du, wie viel Sternlein stehen (Do you know…
Read More about The 2022 Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music FestivalThe 2022 Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
Ambroise Aubrun, D.M.A., Artistic Director Powell Library Rotunda on the UCLA campus Join us for the in-person return of the festival this summer. There is no charge to attend, and registration is not required. Full program details and ensemble biographies are available on our website at http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/categories/bruman-summer-concerts/ Colón Duo Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) Duo for 2 Barytons in G Major, Hob. XII:4 Anton Kraft (1749–1820) Cello Duo in G Minor, op. 5 Reinhold Glière (1875–1956) Ten Duos for Two Cellos,…
Read More about The 2022 Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music FestivalJuly 2022
The 2022 Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
Ambroise Aubrun, D.M.A., Artistic Director Powell Library Rotunda on the UCLA campus Join us for the in-person return of the festival this summer. There is no charge to attend, and registration is not required. Full program details and ensemble biographies are available on our website at http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/categories/bruman-summer-concerts/ Splot Quartet Appears courtesy of iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates as its Quartet-in-Residence Philip Glass (1937– ) String Quartet No. 4, “Buczak” Ludvig van Beethoven (1770–1827) String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, op. 18 Karol…
Read More about The 2022 Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music FestivalJune 2022
Chamber Music at the Clark presents: PUBLIQuartet
This special Saturday evening concert will be held outdoors on the Clark Library’s East Lawn. Concert lottery winners are invited to picnic on the grounds prior to the concert and enjoy an open house to explore the historical spaces in the library and a few of our rare book and manuscript holdings. The Clark Library and grounds will open at 3:30 p.m. for picnicking and the open house. Beverages and light snacks will be provided; please bring your own blanket…
Read More about Chamber Music at the Clark presents: PUBLIQuartetChengzhi Zhang | The non-i-mutated substantive suffix –šḫa– in Luwian (ECIEC practice) & Anahita Hoose | Studies in Indo-Aryan Aspectual Systems (dissertation showcase)
Please find us on Friday, June 10ᵗʰ at 1:00 pm PDT if you are inclined and able. Remote participation is available as usual through Zoom (link here). Please consider attending virtually because of graduation traffic.
Read More about Chengzhi Zhang | The non-i-mutated substantive suffix –šḫa– in Luwian (ECIEC practice) & Anahita Hoose | Studies in Indo-Aryan Aspectual Systems (dissertation showcase)Bilingual Lecture Series: Nahid Pirnazar
Judeo Persian Writings an original comprehensive collection published in 2021 gives parallel examples in Judeo Persian and Perso Arabic script and their translations into English Most Judeo Persian documents not only reflect the twenty seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they are also a testament to their intellectual, cultural, and socioeconomic conditions The significant value of such documents is found in the areas of linguistics, history, sociocultural and literary issues, in the form of verse and prose As…
Read More about Bilingual Lecture Series: Nahid PirnazarEarly Modern Explorations: A Conference in Honor of Mary Terrall
Presented in-person on the UCLA campus in Royce Hall 314 and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel livestream is PDT Organized by Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles) The "Scientific Revolution," as the first generation of professional historians of science defined it, was set in early modern Europe. It was about rigor and mathematical abstraction, the distancing of self from nature. Mary Terrall's sense of early modern science appears radically different. It focuses on human actors, but also insects, frogs, instruments,…
Read More about Early Modern Explorations: A Conference in Honor of Mary TerrallPaolo Sabattini | Mycenaean slips: a psycholinguistic analysis of scribal errors on the Linear B tablets
Remote participation is available as usual through Zoom (link here).
Read More about Paolo Sabattini | Mycenaean slips: a psycholinguistic analysis of scribal errors on the Linear B tabletsA Reading Featuring Michelle Huneven
Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Michelle Huneven, Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. Michelle Huneven is the author of five novels, including Round Rock (1996), Blame (2009) and her latest, Search (April, 2022). She’s been the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a James Beard Award. She teaches creative writing at UCLA…
Read More about A Reading Featuring Michelle HunevenMay 2022
Roundtable: Neoclassic or New Classics? Challenges, Debates, Perspectives
Organized and moderated by Professor Giulia Sissa (Classics, Political Science, Comparative Literature – UCLA). Follow this link to register to attend online with Zoom. “Decolonizing Classics” is a novel challenge for scholars in the Humanities and, even more pointedly, for those who study the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. The stake is not merely relevance, usefulness or epistemic legitimacy, but also political credentials. The “Classics” in education and in academia are being asked to give account of their role in…
Read More about Roundtable: Neoclassic or New Classics? Challenges, Debates, PerspectivesNeoclassic or New Classics? Challenges, Debates, Perspectives
A roundtable organized and moderated by Professor Giulia Sissa (Departments of Political Science, Comparative Literature and Classics, UCLA). “Decolonizing Classics” is a novel challenge for scholars in the Humanities and, even more pointedly, for those who study the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. The stake is not merely relevance, usefulness or epistemic legitimacy, but also political credentials. The “Classics” in education and in academia are being asked to give account of their role in shaping not just cultures, but…
Read More about Neoclassic or New Classics? Challenges, Debates, PerspectivesQ-Grad 2022 | “Queer Temporalities: Resisting straight~forwards”
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER For full conference information, please visit our website. Interested in volunteering at the conference? Contact Haley Roeser at q-grad@humnet.ucla.edu.
Read More about Q-Grad 2022 | “Queer Temporalities: Resisting straight~forwards”A Reading Featuring Claire Stanford
Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Claire Stanford, author and PhD candidate in English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. Claire Stanford's fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Tin House Flash Fridays, Black Warrior Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, and she is currently a PhD candidate in…
Read More about A Reading Featuring Claire StanfordCMRS-CEGS Research Seminar: Iranian 250
Shahzad Bashir (Brown University) "The Market in Poetry in the Persian World" Iranian 250, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC), offers a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation. The seminar fosters interdisciplinary conversations among graduate students from a plurality of departments and programs, including Islamic Studies, Gender Studies, History, Art History, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies, English, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English,…
Read More about CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar: Iranian 250Brent Vine | South Oscan κλοπουστ
Remote participation is available as usual through Zoom (link here).
Read More about Brent Vine | South Oscan κλοπουστGraduate Education for the 21st Century
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Read More about Graduate Education for the 21st CenturySome Favorite Writers: Geoff Dyer
Celebrated writer Geoff Dyer returns with The Last Days of Roger Federer, an extended meditation on late style and last works. Here Dyer reads from this latest collection, one of Esquire's best of spring 2022. Readings are followed by a discussion with author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson, who organizes this series. Supported in part by the UCLA Department of English. Register for this event here. When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it…
Read More about Some Favorite Writers: Geoff DyerTea and Conversation: Geoff Dyer
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Geoff Dyer. This event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm.Visit the Hammer Museum website for full details. Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1958. He was educated at the local Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is currently living in Los Angeles where he is a writer in residence at USC. His new…
Read More about Tea and Conversation: Geoff DyerQ-Scholars 2022 | “Queering Everything”
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER For full conference information, please visit our website. Questions may be directed to q-scholars@humnet.ucla.edu.
Read More about Q-Scholars 2022 | “Queering Everything”