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SUMMARY:Pylos and Minoan Crete
DESCRIPTION:The “Ring of Nestor”\, c. 1500 BC\, Oxford\, Ashmolean Museum. \nPylos and Minoan Crete \nLecture by Professor Andreas Vlachopoulos\, University of Ioannina \nHosted by the\nUCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\nin collaboration with\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\nand held in conjunction with the exhibition\nThe Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece\n(June 27\, 2025 – January 12\, 2026 at The Getty Villa) \nSaturday\, November 22\, 2025\n4:00 p.m.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus\nReception to follow \nRSVP Here \nDescription: \nPylos is a sunny\, fertile coastal area of Messinia (Southwestern Peloponnese)\, with many features of the land and its natural resources resembling those of the palatial Knossos. In the heyday of the New Palace period of Crete (c. 1600-1500 BC) the area of Pylos gradually became the seat of powerful rulers of the Mycenaean elite\, whose way of life reflected not only a strong influence from the art and aesthetics of the Minoans\, but also a high degree of ideological and religious osmosis of the two societies. The lecture entitled Pylos and Minoan Crete will follow the historical course of the two Aegean cultures and will try to interpret the broad Minoan influence on Pylos and the other Helladic regions where the palatial Mycenaean world of early Greece will gradually emerge. \nBio:  \nAndreas G. Vlachopoulos is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Ioannina. He completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Archaeology at the University of Athens\, specializing in Aegean Prehistory. His 1995 dissertation on the Post-Palatial period on Naxos and the Aegean received the Michael Ventris Award. He has been a Research Fellow at Princeton University (1998-99) and at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts (2001-02). Currently\, Andreas directs the Vathy\, Astypalaia Archaeological Project and the Kokkino Vouno Project at Akrotiri\, Thera. Among his main research interests are the Mycenaean Cyclades\, the Mycenaean period in Pylos\, the Thera frescoes\, and the Aegean Early Bronze Age. He is the author of monographs on Mycenaean Naxos and Astypalaia and the editor of two volumes on Aegean Prehistory (Argonautes and Paintbrushes) and seven volumes on Greek archaeology. He is a Fellow of the Archaeological Society at Athens and a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. \nThis event is organized by Professor David Schneller (UCLA) and Dr. Claire Lyons (Getty) and is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nCo-Sponsored by: \nUCLA College Division of Humanities\nThe Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts\nThe George P. Kolovos Family Centennial Term Chair in Hellenic Studies\nGefyra\nUCLA Global Antiquity\nThe Joan Palevsky Chair of Classics at UCLA\nUCLA Department of Art History\nUCLA Department of Classics\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design \nDon’t miss our other upcoming programs in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum here: \nSaturday\, November 15\, 2025Between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans: Craft Technologies in the Second Millennium BCE Aegean \nSaturday\, December 6\, 2025\nMessenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art and Archaeology of the Second Millennium BCE Symposium \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/pylos-and-minoan-crete/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Can Comedia Help Us Understand California’s Past?
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Zócalo Public Square\, Playwrights’ Arena\, UCLA Diversifying the Classics\, and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes\, with generous support from Snap Foundation\, Karsh Family Foundation\, Broad Foundation\, and Olga Garay-English \nDuring the artistic and literary boom of Spain’s Golden Age\, theater known as comedia helped audiences on both sides of the Atlantic understand their past and present. Today\, contemporary playwrights have adapted these 17th-century classics to shed light on L.A.’s history\, touching on issues including power and sexuality\, gentrification\, and Black\, Korean\, and Latino identity. \nJoin us under the stars at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes for readings of three adaptations from the 2024 anthology Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles. Barbara Fuchs\, director of UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics initiative\, will introduce central themes of the plays. Playwrights Diana Burbano\, June Carryl\, and Luis Alfaro will offer brief pre-performance remarks and will sign copies of Golden Tongues\, available for purchase from Tía Chucha’s\, during a post-reading reception. \nAdmission is free\, but registration in advance is advised. Visit this page to reserve seats. \nAbout the plays: \nIn Diana Burbano’s Flickers\, a director in early 20th-century Los Angeles becomes embroiled in the perils of Hollywood: ambition and treachery\, prejudice and plagiarism. In her version of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s La cueva de Salamanca (The Cave of Salamanca)\, Burbano recreates the magic of the first days of film while exploring its racism. \nJune Carryl’s Florence and Normandie adapts Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Amar después de la muerte (To Love Beyond Death) and sets the action against the backdrop of the Rodney King uprising. As tensions boil\, two families entwined by location and love find themselves living the American racial nightmare. \nPainting in Red is Luis Alfaro‘s “whitewash” of Calderón de la Barca’s El pintor de su deshonra (The Painter of His Own Dishonor)\, exploring a Chicano painter’s relationship to a real and imagined Spain and an endlessly gentrifying Los Angeles. \nThis program is part of California 175 — What Connects California?\, a suite of free Zócalo events and essays\, bringing together leaders and thinkers from all walks of life to envision California’s next 175 years.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/can-comedia-help-us-understand-californias-past/
LOCATION:LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes\, 501 N. Main Street\, Los Angeles\, 90012
CATEGORIES:Diversifying the Classics
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SUMMARY:Scotland’s Gutenberg: William Ged and the Invention of Stereotype Printing\, 1725–49
DESCRIPTION:Twentieth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade \nLecture by William Zachs\, Director of the Blackie House Library and Museum \nIn this lecture\, William Zachs outlines the origins of stereotype printing (print production from metal plates rather than moveable type)\, then turns his focus to the “non-moveable type” productions of Edinburgh goldsmith William Ged (c. 1683–1749). Taking a forensic look at Ged’s few known works\, Zachs hypothesizes the existence of a group of previously unknown stereotyped books\, thus offering a revised history of alternative methods of book production in Britain in the first half of the 18th century. \nDr. William Zachs is the Director of the Blackie House Library and Museum\, a registered Scottish charity with a mission to bring Scottish culture to a wider audience. He is the author of numerous books and articles on book history and book collecting. In 2013\, the University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters for his contributions to book historical studies and book curation. He is a Fellow of the National Library of Scotland and an Honorary Fellow at the universities of Edinburgh and Stirling. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in person at the Clark Library. \nRegistration will close on Monday\, November 17 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \nThis lecture will also be livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/karmiole_lecture_zachs/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Fiebre de carnaval: una  conversación con Yuliana Ortiz  Ruano
DESCRIPTION:Yuliana Ortiz Ruano is an Afro-Ecuadorian writer\, poet\, and teacher\, as well as a DJ of Afro-Caribbean music. She has published several books of poetry and prose\, including the multi award-winning Fiebre de carnaval (Carnaval Fever)\, which was chosen as one of the 50 best books of 2022 by El País. She is also the author of the poetry books Sovoz\, Canciones del fin del mundo\, y Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea\, and the book of short stories Litorales. She was selected by the International Writers in Residence program in Granada\, Spain in 2023\, and was chosen for the Translator Choice II award at the LATINALE Latin America Literature Festival in Berlin. Her first novel\, Carnaval Fever\, won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Award (Ecuador)\, the Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano Award (Italy)\, and the PEN Translation Award (UK).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/fiebre-de-carnaval-una-conversacion-con-yuliana-ortiz-ruano/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Saving our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust – Rachel Deblinger
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on previously unexamined archives and postwar cultural materials\, Saving Our Survivors explores how American Jews constructed meaning out of devastation—and how humanitarian aid became intertwined with public memory. The book uncovers how American Jewish communities first came to learn about and respond to the Holocaust through communal campaigns\, radio broadcasts\, speeches\, short films\, and urgent calls to action. Rachel Deblinger highlights the messy\, diffuse\, and contested nature of memory construction in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust and raises larger questions about how historical tragedies are narrated in moments of crisis. \nRachel Deblinger is the author of Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews learned about the Holocaust (2025\, Indiana University Press). Her research focuses on Holocaust memory in America\, media technology\, and the intersection of philanthropy and representation. Deblinger is also the Director of the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) at the UCLA Library\, a granting program that funds the digitization and preservation of at-risk cultural heritage materials from around the world. MEAP grants facilitate archival documentation and open access to diverse global collections. \n \nTuesday\, November 18\, 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM  \nSaving our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust \nRachel Deblinger (UCLA) \nThe 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies\nThe Alan D. Leve Program for Public History \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/saving-our-survivors-how-american-jews-learned-about-the-holocaust-rachel-deblinger/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies,Alan D. Leve Program for Public History
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Modigliani Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Founded in 2003\, the Modigliani Quartet is recognized as one of today’s most sought-after quartets\, featuring regularly in prominent international series and on the world’s most prestigious stages. \nIn addition to annual tours in the United States and in Asia\, the quartet’s numerous European tours have brought them to Wigmore Hall\, the Paris Philharmonie\, the Théâtre des Champs- Elysées\, the Berlin Philharmonie\, the Vienna Konzerthaus\, the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonia\, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. \nThe Modigliani Quartet has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released 13 award-winning albums. In January 2024\, the quartet’s latest album with string quartets by Grieg and Smetana was released and received enthusiastically by the international press. Since 2024\, the quartet has dedicated itself to the greatest challenge in the life of a string quartet: recording all 16 string quartets by Beethoven. \nFor further details and a the full program\, please visit our website.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/modigliani-quartet/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Concerts,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:La Xirgu: la pelicula
DESCRIPTION:Barcelona\, 1927. Only a few hours remain before Margarita Xirgu is set to premiere “Mariana Pineda” written by then-unknown Federico Garcia Lorca. The authorities threaten her with prison or exile if she dares to stage this libertarian play. Yet nothing seems to shake her determination\, Until her friend and mentor\, Valle-Inclán\, also turns against her.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/la-xirgu-la-pelicula/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans: Craft Technologies in the Second Millennium BCE Aegean
DESCRIPTION:Between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans: Craft Technologies in the Second Millennium BCE Aegean \nLecture by Nikolas Papadimitriou (Director\, Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum\, Athens) and Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi (Curator\, Department of Prehistoric\, Egyptian\, Cypriot and Near Eastern Collections of Antiquities\, at the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum\, Athens) \nDemonstration by Akis Goumas (contemporary jewelry maker and researcher of ancient crafting technologies) \nHosted by the\nUCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nin collaboration with\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\nand held in conjunction with the exhibition\nThe Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece \nSaturday\, November 15\, 2025\n2:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus \nRSVP Here \nThe Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece exhibition at the Getty Villa brings together some of the most exquisite artistic creations of the second millennium BCE Aegean. Many of these objects were the products of cultural fusion and combined elements from different artistic traditions originating in Minoan Crete\, Mycenaean Greece\, and areas far beyond. This presentation will examine the highly demanding techniques goldsmiths and seal-engravers used to create many of the objects in this exhibition. Following the lecture\, Akis Goumas will demonstrate the main steps of the technical processes involved in Mycenaean gold-working (sheet metal\, wire\, granulation\, etc.) and Minoan seal-engraving (soft materials and hard stones). \n \nDemonstration by Akis Goumas \nThe artist and researcher of ancient technologies Akis Goumas will demonstrate the main steps of the technical processes involved in: \n– Mycenaean gold-working (sheet metal\, wire\, granulation etc.)\n– Minoan seal-engraving (soft materials and hard stones). \nThe demonstration is based on the results of studies conducted in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens\, the Herakleion Archaeological Museum\, other museums in Greece\, and the Coprus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals at Heidelberg\, Germany\, which involved microscopic examination of artefacts\, archaeometric analyses and experimental reconstructions. \nThe studies have been conducted in collaboration with Dr Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi\, of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens\, and Dr Nikolas Papadimitirou\, of the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum\, Athens. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss with Mr Goumas and try some of the tools and materials used in the experiments. \nBios:\nNikolas Papadimitriou is the Director of the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum\, Athens\, Greece (www.camu.gr). He specializes in the Aegean Bronze Age\, with an emphasis on Mycenaean burial practices\, cultural interaction in the Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium BCE\, the prehistory of Athens and Attica\, and the study of craft technologies. Previously\, he worked as a Lecturer at the Institute of Classical Archaeology\, Heidelberg University\, Germany\, the Museum of Cycladic Art\, Athens and the Cyprus Department of Antiquities. Currently\, he is co-directing research projects at the archaeological sites of Marathon\, Thorikos (Attica) and Kato Samikon (Elis). He has a rich publication record and has received research fellowships from the Centers of Hellenic Studies at Princeton and Harvard (2011\, 2017). \nEleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi is Curator at the Department of Prehistoric\, Egyptian\, Cypriot and Near Eastern Collections of Antiquities at the National Archaeological Museum\, Athens (https://www.namuseum.gr/en/). She graduated from the University of Ioannina\, Greece\, and received her PhD at the University of Birmingham\, UK. Her research focuses on the Late Bronze Age Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean\, with special interest in Mycenaean jewelry and dress. She has given seminars and lectures on the history and technology of Mycenaean jewelry in Greece and abroad and has written articles and book chapters on various Late Bronze Age issues. For the past decade\, she has been co-directing a multi-disciplinary project for the reconstruction of ancient gold-working techniques\, while she is currently studying the corpus of metal signet rings housed in the Mycenaean Collection of the National Archaeological Museum. \nAkis Goumas is a contemporary jewelry maker and researcher of ancient crafting technologies. After receiving a Diploma in Economics (1978)\, he was trained as a jeweler and silversmith. From 1982 to 1986 he studied gemology and seal engraving in Greece and Germany. Between 1990 and 2006 he was the head designer in the jewelry company ONAR. Since 2000\, he has been teaching creative jewelry at the Chalkis School of Art\, and since 2017 at the ANAMMA Jewelry School in Athens\, and the ALCHIMIA Contemporary Jewelry School in Florence. Since 2006\, he is member of an interdisciplinary group of researchers\, who study ancient gold-working and seal-engraving techniques. In 2021 he was a Visiting Artist at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies. Ιn 2023-24\, he was the holder of a Homo Faber fellowship\, established by Jaeger LeCoultre and Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship. In 2024-25 he participated in the organization of the exhibition “Art in Gold. Jewelry in Hellenistic Times” at the Benaki Museum\, Athens\, Greece. \nThis event is organized by Professor David Schneller (UCLA) and Dr. Claire Lyons (Getty) and is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nCo-Sponsored by: \nUCLA College\, Division of Humanities\nThe Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts\nThe George P. Kolovos Family Centennial Term Chair in Hellenic Studies\nGefyra\nUCLA Global Antiquity\nThe Joan Palevsky Chair of Classics at UCLA\nUCLA Department of Art History\nUCLA Department of Classics\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design \nDon’t miss our other upcoming programs in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum here: \nSaturday\, November 22\, 2025Pylos and Minoan Crete \nSaturday\, December 6\, 2025\nMessenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art and Archaeology of the Second Millennium BCE Symposium
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/between-the-minoans-and-the-mycenaeans-craft-technologies-in-the-second-millennium-bce-aegean/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cultural Heritage,Gefyra,Hellenic,Heritage,History,Humanities,Lecture,Reception
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SUMMARY:Archaeological Perspectives on the Economic Transformation of China during the First Millennium BCE
DESCRIPTION:Starting about the middle of the first millennium BCE\, continental East Asia experienced an unprecedented economic florescence as the Bronze Age redistributive economy gave way to a full-fledged market economy. In this new economy\, metallic currency was beginning to play an important role. Technological innovations and intensification in the rural sector enabled significant demographic growth: the number of cities multiplied\, and as their function morphed from elite ceremonial centers to densely populated hubs of mass-production and trade\, a new urban culture came into being. Rather than depending on an individual’s descent and kinship\, social divisions were now mainly wealth-based\, and the pervasive use of writing enabled new intellectual breakthroughs. Drawn from a forthcoming major monograph\, this lecture surveys some of the currently available archaeological evidence of this transformation\, tracing its preliminary stages back to the beginning of the first millennium BCE and following its development down to the onset of China’s imperial age. In keeping with the spirit of “Global Antiquity\,” possible connections with other parts of Eurasia will be touched upon. \nAbout the Speaker\nLothar von Falkenhausen is Distinguished Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA\, where he has taught since 1993. He is also on the faculty of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, of which he served as Associate Director from 2004 to 2014\, and he holds a concurrent part-time appointment as Visiting Professor at Xibei University in Xi’an\, China. Falkenhausen was educated at Bonn University\, Peking University\, Kyoto University\, and Harvard University\, receiving his PhD in anthropology from Harvard in 1988. His research mainly concerns the archaeology of Bronze Age China\, focusing on large interdisciplinary and historical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. His major books are Suspended Music: Chime Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China (1993) and the award-winning Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006). The current lecture coincides with the release of his new monograph\, Economic Trends in China During the Age of Confucius: The Archaeological Evidence\, to be published with the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Falkenhausen has served as co-Principal Investigator and Instructor of Record for archaeological projects and field schools and received numerous honorary professorships and fellowships.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/archaeological-perspectives-on-the-economic-transformation-of-china-during-the-first-millennium-bce/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Antiquity
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SUMMARY:We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
DESCRIPTION:We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe sheds light on the overlooked presence of African and Black individuals in Renaissance Europe\, highlighting their depiction in masterpieces by some of the era’s most celebrated artists. \nDirected by award-winning filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu and produced by Do The Right Films\, this multilingual documentary takes viewers on an expansive journey through the UK\, Italy\, Spain\, Portugal\, the Netherlands\, and France\, offering a compelling reexamination of European art history and its cultural legacy. Featuring insights from leading scholars in Art History\, Black Studies\, and History\, alongside Black activists and curators\, the film provides a rich\, layered perspective on a neglected chapter of European history. \nTo learn more\, please view the trailer here. \n\nThe screening is free to attend with advance registration. \nIt will be held in-person at UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 147. \nSeating is limited; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/we-were-here/
LOCATION:147 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Lucinda Dirven: Zoroastrianism in the Religious Context of the Arsacid Empire
DESCRIPTION:November 5\, 2025 \nRoyce Hall 306\, 4:00 p.m. \nDownload Event Flyer Here \nZoom link for online attendance: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94920554065 \nRSVP link: https://forms.gle/2BmZz73crt582bJJ8 \nZoroastrianism in the Religious Context of the Arsacid Empire\nUnlike the tendency to emphasize the multifaceted and diverse aspects of religious life in the Parthian Empire\, this talk aims to identify shared characteristics by focusing on the religious preferences of the Arsacid rulers. Although Zoroastrianism was not yet clearly defined at this time\, evidence suggests that Zoroastrian ideas influenced the ideology of Arsacid kingship. Conversely\, the ideology of the King of Kings influenced the practices of families and rulers who reigned under their suzerainty\, including those who were otherwise unaffected by Zoroastrianism. Although such practices were rare\, they still had repercussions for the religious lives of the populace in the Arsacid Empire. \n\n\n\nLucinda Dirven\nUniversity of Nijmegen \n\n\n\nLucinda Dirven is a professor of ancient religions at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She studied art history and theology (history of religions and comparative religion) at Leiden University\, where she obtained her PhD\, which was published in 1999. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in the archaeology department at the University of Amsterdam\, she taught in the history departments at the universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. Since completing her PhD\, her research has focused on the Roman and Parthian Near East\, particularly Dura\, Hatra and Palmyra\, and the influence of these regions on the Roman West. Her research combines material culture and written sources\, primarily focusing on religion. One recent topic has been religious continuity and change in Syria and Mesopotamia\, particularly during the Roman and Parthian periods. She is currently a Getty Scholar working on a project focusing on the cult of Mithras in Dura-Europos.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/lucinda-dirven-zoroastrianism-in-the-religious-context-of-the-arsacid-empire/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Careers in Nonprofit: Explore\, Learn\, and Make an Impact!
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever thought about working in the nonprofit world? Curious about what it’s really like to build a career that’s all about creating change and making a difference? This is your chance to find out! \nTo register\, go to: Careers in Nonprofit \nMeet our panelists: \nHumzah Farrukh \n \nHumzah Farrukh is a Pakistani-American author\, social impact founder\, and UCLA graduate. His debut poetry collection explores migration\, family rupture\, and inherited silence. His writing has been published in Sonder Literary\, Santa Barbara Literary Journal and others. He is the CEO and co-founder of Farrukh Foundation\, a non-profit building schools in Pakistan\, supporting boarding houses for girls in Morocco\, and building libraries and literacy programs in Colombia and West Africa. Humzah leads lifecycle marketing efforts at Candidly\, a financial wellness startup geared towards providing student debt solutions as a benefit to employees. He is also a 2025 UCLA Anderson Riordan MBA Fellow\, 2024 Yale Writing Fellow\, and 2024 Western Union Global Fellow. \nChanell Gore  \n \nChanell Gore is the Scholarship and Foundation Programming Manager at Clark College Foundation (Vancouver\, WA)\, where she oversees initiatives that award over $2 million in scholarship funding annually to Clark College students. With a career rooted in access\, equity\, and public service\, Chanell’s work has centered on nonprofit operations management\, strategic program design\, and business administration. A proud double Bruin\, Chanell earned her BA in Psychology with a minor in Public Affairs in 2006 and returned to UCLA to complete her Master of Public Policy in 2011. She is passionate about expanding educational opportunities\, especially for historically underserved students\, and building pathways that enable people to thrive through higher education. \nJeff King \n \nJeffrey King is a vice president with Netzel Grigsby Associates who specializes in helping nonprofits achieve ambitious visions through integration of fundraising into their strategic goals. He has developed and executed strategic plans for nonprofit management; capital and annual fund campaigns; and executive leadership transitions for universities\, liberal arts institutions\, independent schools\, social services nonprofits\, and arts and culture organizations. Jeffrey received his Bachelor of Arts in English and Education from Vassar College and his Master of Education in Higher Education Administration with a specialization in External Relations from Vanderbilt University. He also received a Secondary Education English Teaching License from the State of New York.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/careers-in-nonprofit-explore-learn-and-make-an-impact/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Día de los Muertos: Mourning and Remembering through Ecological Change
DESCRIPTION:Día de los Muertos: Mourning and Remembering through Ecological Change will explore cross-cultural grief in the context of environmental and species loss. Join us on November 1 from 11am-1pm at the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden (707 Tiverton Drive) for ofrendas\, art\, and talks on topics such as deforestation\, extinction\, and environmental colonialism and imperialism. Come early for a guided Garden tour at 10am (provided by the Botanical Garden). We’ll have snacks and drinks including champurrado and a variety of pan dulces. \nThis event is free and open to the public; it is hosted by the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)\, Environmental Humanities Reading Group (EHRG)\, and Radical Imagination Coalition (RIC)\, and is co-sponsored by the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden and Center for Developing Leadership in Science (CDLS). \nIf you are interested in contributing an ofrenda\, art\, or your time to this event\, please email Elijah Catalan (elijahcatalan@g.ucla.edu) and Olivia Simon (oliviameyers@g.ucla.edu) with a short description of how you would like to be involved and “Día de los Muertos: Request to Participate” in the subject line.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/dia-de-los-muertos-mourning-and-remembering-through-ecological-change/
LOCATION:UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden
CATEGORIES:LENS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T160000
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SUMMARY:Literary Studies\, Professionalization\, and the Public Sphere
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gabriela Adamo \nDate: October 30\, 2025 \nTime: 4:00 PM \nLocation: Rolfe Hall\, Lydeen Library \n  \nSpeaker’s statement: \nThe publishing industry offers one of the most diverse and rewarding career paths for graduates in the Humanities. In this presentation\, I’ll outline the wide range of roles available—from scouting and scriptwriting to organizing literary festivals. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the field\, I will explore the key steps and practical tools needed to enter the profession and highlight the growing international opportunities within the industry. \n  \nAbout the speaker: \nGabriela Adamo has worked as an editor for several of the most prominent publishing houses in Latin America. She served as executive director of both the Buenos Aires Book Fair and the International Literature Festival\, and also led the Literature Department at the TyPA Foundation. She currently works as a consultant for various literary projects\, including FILNYC (the Spanish Book Fair in New York City). She teaches in the Master’s program in Cultural Management at Universidad de San Andrés. \n  \nFor more information\, visit the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese website.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/literary-studies-professionalization-public-sphere/
LOCATION:Lydeen Library\, Rolfe 4302\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T153000
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SUMMARY:Webs of Life: Domestic Jewish Worlds in Early Modern Venice – Federica Francesconi
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores domestic life in the Venetian ghetto as both a site of physical segregation\, housing scarcity\, and oppression\, and a space of cultural negotiation and transformation. Drawing on unpublished archival sources\, surviving material culture\, and the built environment\, it traces how Venetian Jews actively shaped their living spaces through engagement with objects\, furnishings\, and architectural features. From the central portego (the central space in Venetian houses) to repurposed Islamic carpets and gilt leather panels\, the home emerged as a site of transculturation where Jewish\, Islamic\, and Renaissance aesthetics intersected. These material choices reveal not only practical adaptation but also enduring ties to memory\, mobility\, and diasporic identity. By examining the interplay of people\, objects\, and spaces\, the lecture foregrounds the Jewish home in the ghetto as a dynamic meshwork—extending both vertically and horizontally\, and connecting domestic life to the broader urban fabric\, natural surroundings\, and the wider Mediterranean world. \nFederica Francesconi is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany\, SUNY. Her research and publications focus on the social\, religious\, and cultural dimensions of early modern Jewish life in Italy\, with particular attention to the politics and dynamics of the ghetto. She has held fellowships in Europe\, Israel\, and the United States. Her recent book\, Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena\, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2021)\, won the 2022 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association and was the finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards’ JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material. She is currently working on a new monograph\, The Jewish Home in Early Modern Venice: Cosmopolitan Intimacy\, Global Networks\, and Diasporic Material Culture\, which examines the Jewish home in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice as a multi-religious and multi-ethnic nexus of individuals\, communities\, and objects in motion. This project has been supported by the Gladys Krieble Delmas\, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture\, and I Tatti\, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence. \nTuesday\, October 28\, 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nWebs of Life: Domestic Jewish Worlds in Early Modern Venice \nFederica Francesconi (University at Albany)\nModerator: Stefania Tutino (UCLA)\nViterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/webs-of-life-domestic-jewish-worlds-in-early-modern-venice-federica-francesconi/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T173000
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SUMMARY:Practice and Theory: Next Steps in Kantian Practical Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:October 24 – 25\, 2025\nHershey Hall Salon (Room 158)\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us for Practice and Theory: Next Steps in Kantian Practical Philosophy\, a workshop at UCLA from Friday & Saturday\, October 24-25\, 2025. \n  \nWorkshop Program\n\nFriday\, October 24th\n12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch \n1:00 – 3:00 PM: Nataliya Palatnik (Milwaukee) “‘Not So Completely an Animal’: Kant on Moral Sensibility and Moral Constraint” \n3:00 – 3:30 PM: Break \n3:30 – 5:30 PM: Thomas Pendlebury (Chicago) “The Will and the Good” \n5:30 PM: Reception in Hershey Hall Salon \n  \nSaturday\, October 25th\n10:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Jordan Pascoe (Binghamton) “Kant\, Structural Injustice\, and Universalism” \n12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch \n1:00 – 3:00 PM: Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh) “Constitutional Constraints in the Kantian State” \n3:00 – 3:30 PM: Break \n3:30 – 5:30 PM: Rafeeq Hasan (Amherst) “What’s the Point of Kantian Independence?” \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nDirections to Hershey Hall: head toward the Terasaki Life Sciences Building just south of Parking Structure 2\, go down the steps or the nearby ramp and through the building’s underpass\, and you’ll see the entrance to Mira Hershey Hall on your left. Look for the signs that direct you to “Practice and Theory: Next Steps in Kantian Practical Philosophy.” \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/practice-and-theory-next-steps-in-kantian-practical-philosophy/
LOCATION:Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Author and Professor Catherine Conybeare
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a book event featuring author and professor Catherine Conybeare. Professor Michele Salzman (UC Riverside) will facilitate a conversation with the author about her new book. Augustine the African is an extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of the greatest philosophers. \nAll are welcome!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-author-and-professor-catherine-conybeare/
LOCATION:247 Dodd Hall\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classics
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SUMMARY:Careers in Publishing: A Humanities Career Panel Series event
DESCRIPTION:Discover what it’s really like to work in the fast-changing world of digital and print publishing whether you’re passionate about classic paperbacks or all-in on e-readers. Join us for an inside look at the industry\, and hear from Humanities alumni who’ve turned their degrees into exciting careers in publishing\, publicity\, editing\, digital media and more. \n\n\n\nTo register\, go to Careers in Publishing \n\n\n\nMeet our moderator: Laura Hartenberger \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Hartenberger is a Continuing Lecturer in UCLA’s Writing Programs\, where she teaches courses in the Professional Writing Minor and Writing I program\, and works on projects related to writing assessment. She has been a freelance editor and a writer in the tech field\, and her fiction and essays have been published in various magazines and literary journals\, including Noema\, CRAFT Literary\, Ninth Letter\, Redivider\, Massachusetts Review\, and others. Laura has a B.A. in English from Yale University and an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\nMeet our panelists:James Faccinto \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Faccinto is the founder and principal at Full Complement Communications\, an independent\, Los Angeles-based company specializing in literary publicity & publishing strategy. James combines his background in creative writing with extensive experience representing bestselling literary titles across all genres for both “Big Five” and independent publishers. He approaches every project or campaign with a storyteller’s sense of creativity\, detail\, and energy. \n\n\n\nIrene Yoon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIrene Yoon is the Executive Director of LARB\, where she oversees the day-to-day operations and broader strategic vision and planning for the organization. For the last four years\, Irene has also served as Director of the LARB Publishing Workshop. She earned her doctorate in English from UC Berkeley\, where she also managed an interdisciplinary writing program and trained new teachers as the English Department’s Assistant Pedagogy Chair. Irene has worked with several authors to prepare books and articles for publication\, and her own writing has appeared in journals such as Twentieth Century Literature\, Transition Magazine\, and Los Angeles Review of Books.  \nAndy Etzkorn \n   \nAndy Etzkorn is currently Lead Marketing Manager at the University of California Press where he oversees the implementation of marketing plans for all upcoming books and also serves on committees for DEI and FirstGen Scholars. For nearly twenty years\, he has served in various marketing roles for “Big Five” publishers as well as academic and university book publishers. Andy has a B.A. in English from UCLA and an M.A. in English Literature from Fordham University. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/careers-in-publishing/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Scapegoat by Sophia Nikolaidou
DESCRIPTION:Design by: Christopher King \nGefyra Book Club: \nThe Scapegoat by Sophia Nikolaidou\, trans. Karen Emmerich\n(Melville House\, 2015) \nDiscussion led by Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\nand Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer\, Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University \nSaturday\, October 18\, 2025\n10 A.M. Los Angeles / 8 P.M. Greece\nVia Zoom \nRSVP Here \nFrom the Publisher:\nIn 1948\, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A small-time Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder… but when he’s released twelve years later\, he claims his confession was the result of torture. \nFlash forward to contemporary Greece\, where a rebellious young high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. And as he begrudgingly takes it on\, he begins to make a startling series of gripping discoveries–about history\, love\, and even his own family’s involvement. \nBased on the real story of famed CBS reporter George Polk—journalism’s prestigious Polk Awards were named after him—The Scapegoat is a sweeping saga that brings together the Greece of the post-World War II era with the Greece of today\, a country facing dangerous times once again. \nAs told by key players in the story—the dashing journalist’s Greek widow; the mother and sisters of the convicted man; the brutal Thessaloniki Chief of Police; a U.S. Foreign Office investigator\, and\, finally\, the modern-day student\, in the novel’s most stirring narration of all–The Scapegoat confronts questions of truth\, justice\, and sacrifice…and how the past is always with us. \nAbout the Author:\nSophia Nikolaidou was born in Thessaloniki in 1968. She teaches literature and creative writing and writes criticism for various newspapers\, including Ta Nea. She has published two collections of short stories and three novels\, all of which have been translated into eight languages. Her last novel\, Tonight We Have Friends\, won the 2011 Athens Prize for Literature\, and The Scapegoat was shortlisted for the 2012 Greek State Prize for Fiction. \nKaren Emmerich’s translations include Rien ne va plus by Margarita Karapanou\, Landscape with Dog and Other Stories by Ersi Sotiropoulos\, I’d Like by Amanda Michalopoulou\, and Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris. She received the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation\, with Edmund Keeley\, of Yannis Ritsos’ Diaries of Exile. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nLink to purchase book: \nhttps://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=1612193846&clickid=SNaQmzT01xyKTPw2A70VbTfEUksWhC2WzTQ7zI0&cm_mmc=aff-_-ir-_-64613-_-77416&ref=imprad64613&afn_sr=impact&ref_=aff_ir_64613_77416 \nhttps://livebrary.overdrive.com/media/1903986
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-scapegoat-by-sophia-nikolaidou/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Literature,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Modern French Thought and the History of Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:In person attendance is encouraged but Zoom attendance also available. Your advance registration will help determine the event catering order. The Zoom meeting link will be sent EOD on October 15. For any questions or concerns\, please contact Lisset at lisset@humnet.ucla.edu. \n\nOctober 17: 4 – 7 p.m. PST \nOctober 18: 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. PST \n\nKaplan Hall Room 348 \nIn person and Zoom hybrid
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/modern-french-thought-and-the-history-of-philosophy/
LOCATION:Kaplan 348
CATEGORIES:Comparative Literature
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SUMMARY:Post-Classical Libraries Conference
DESCRIPTION:Libraries occupied a central place in the organization and reproduction of pre-modern knowledge cultures.  \nTexts had been assembled in archives of various kinds from the Bronze Age\, but most were of only ephemeral interest. Only when writing was deployed to create works intended to have lasting value – as literature\, as contributions to science\, or as records of historical investigations or sacred revelations – did it become necessary to actively curate them. In a world before printing\, the risk that any given book – on papyrus or parchment\, clay tablets or wooden ones\, on rolls or in codices –would simply perish was a real one. Libraries became places where textual communities studied\, catalogued\, repaired\, and recopied works of this kind. Recent studies have investigated the libraries of the Bronze Age Near East and of the Classical Mediterranean. These were royal or civic\, private or public\, based in temples\, villas\, or educational establishments. A few\, like the Library of Alexandria\, have been mythologized. \nMost of these studies end in the third century CE\, yet libraries also played a crucial role in the passages from antiquity to the Middle Ages. This will be the subject of our conference.  \nSpeaker Abstracts and Titles \n\n\n\nDay 1\n\n\n\n\n10:15\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries (Royce\, 314)\n\n\n10:30\nWelcome Remarks\n\n\n11:00\nThe “Library of Caesarea” between Gaza and Berytus – Jeremiah Coogan (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University)\n\n\n11:50\nBreak\n\n\n12:00\nThe Library on the Page: Booklists from Antiquity to the Latin West – Thomas Hendrickson (Stanford)\n\n\n1:00\nLunch\n\n\n2:30\n‘The Fortress of Writing was Burned…’: Archives and Institutions of Learning in Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Iran – Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (University of Oxford)\n\n\n3:20\nBreak\n\n\n3:30\nNew Approaches to the Early Arabic Library – Michael Cooperson (NELC\, UCLA)\n\n\n4:30\nReception\n\n\n6:00\nDinner (Plateia – participants only)\n\n\nDay 2\n\n\n10:00\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries\n\n\n10:30\nIrish Libraries in the Early Middle Ages: Home and Abroad – Viktoriia Krivoshchekova (School of Celtic Studies\, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)\n\n\n11:20\nStrategies of Preservation at Monastic Libraries and Archives in Medieval Italy – Maya Maskarinec (USC)\n\n\n12:10\nBreak\n\n\n12:20\nBooks and libraries in Byzantium (8th–10th centuries) – Daniele Bianconi (University of Rome\, La Sapienza)\n\n\n1:15\nLunch\n\n\n3:00\nClosing Round Table\n\n\n\nOrganizers: Stefania Tutino and Greg Woolf
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/post-classical-libraries/
LOCATION:Royce 306 & 314
CATEGORIES:Conference,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T093000
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SUMMARY:Edible Entanglements: Race\, Environment and Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Full schedule is available here. Free healthy lunch is provided for all attendees. Event is organized by UCLA English Professor Arvind Thomas and sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute. \nCome and hear international leaders in food justice\, including: \nKathy Freston (New York Times best-selling author)\nGwenna Hunter (Founder of Planetary Unity)\nLisa Bloom (Civil rights attorney)\nJulieanna Hever (Dietitian)\nJennifer Jay (Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering\, UCLA)\nDavid Cleveland (Professor of Sustainable Food and Agriculture\, UC Santa Barbara) \nQuestions about the event?\nContact: Arvind Thomas\, arvindthomas@ucla.edu
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/edible-entanglements-race-environment-and-ethics/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,English,Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:Celebrating 40 Years with the Greek Heritage Society: Exploring and Preserving Our Hellenic Identity
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating 40 Years with the Greek Heritage Society: Exploring and Preserving Our Hellenic Identity \nOctober 11\, 2025\n9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Main Event\n3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Genealogy Workshop (Special Event – Optional) \n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA campus \n\nRegister Here: https://forms.gle/QrzdvXYGyMi3R9oT6 \n\n\nBecome a Sponsor: https://forms.gle/eA8Maddp4dWuqN11A \n\nJoin the Greek Heritage Society (GHS) of Southern California for a very special celebration of their 40th Anniversary with a unique informational\, interactive\, and invigorating multigenerational event filled with presentations\, exhibits\, and inspirational discussions\, as well as the opportunity to explore genealogy through a personalized expert workshop. The event will explore understanding the identity of Greeks in Southern California\, and methods to share and preserve stories and heritage. The GHS seeks to open the door to new ideas and ways of embracing Hellenism to keep the love alive for generations to come. This is an event you won’t want to miss! \nPART I:  EXPLORING WHO WE ARE: THE GREEKS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND BEYOND \nPresentations \n\nBessie Karras-Lazaris\, Greek Heritage Society\nGeorge I. Paganelis\, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection\nDr. Katherine Kelaidis\, National Hellenic Museum\nGregory Kontos\, GreekAncestry.net\n\nLunch and Exhibits \nPART II:  A CELEBRATION OF CULTURE INTO THE FUTURE \nPanel Discussions\nYoung Greek professionals in comedy\, filmmaking\, music\, dance\, sports and more \nFinale\nMusical tribute and reception \nOptional\nGenealogy workshop \nThis is a ticketed event:\nMain event: $50 per person\nGenealogy workshop: $50 per person \nFor inquiries\, email greekheritage@hotmail.com \nPresented by:\n\nSponsored by: \n\n\nUnder the Auspices of:
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-40-years-with-the-greek-heritage-society-exploring-and-preserving-our-hellenic-identity/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Heritage,History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T160000
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SUMMARY:Aire Libre film screening + open house for community engaged humanities scholars
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 9\, 2025\n4 – 6 p.m. | 314 Royce Hall \nAll community- and publicly engaged scholars and students in the humanities are invited to a community event with a screening of the film AIRE LIBRE. The event is cosponsored by the Division of Humanities\, the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies\, and the Center for Community Engagement. \nAdmission is free; visit this page to register. \nVisit this page to read more about the film. \nAIRE LIBRE is a dance-based film that examines the disproportionate effects of toxic air and soil pollution on lower-income communities of color in LA County who live amid the heavy industry\, infrastructure\, and polluting facilities that underpin our fossil-fuel-based economy. AIRE LIBRE is a collaborative project led by artist Erin Cooney\, bringing together East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice\, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Company\, L.A.-based poet Rocío Carlos\, and vocalists Carmina Escobar and Joung-A Monica Yum. \nAIRE LIBRE features the stories of East Yard members and CONTRA-TIEMPO dancers\, whose movement materializes the interconnectedness of our bodies with the air we breathe and the ground we tread. The footage documents a range of environments—from transportation hubs along the I-710 Corridor\, including ports\, freeways\, and rail yards\, to industrial zones comprising warehouse complexes\, refineries\, and oil derricks—as well as the residential areas and parks situated within these industrial and manufacturing landscapes. Exide Technologies\, which has contaminated the soil with arsenic and lead and is associated with higher rates of cancer in nearby communities\, figures prominently in the piece. \nFind out more about AIRE LIBRE and the team behind its creation at erincooney.com/airelibre. \nScreening duration: 30 minutes\, followed by a panel discussion. Panel features Erin Cooney\, assistant adjunct professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and visual artist; East Yard’s Honey Bizarro and Guadalupe Valdovinos; and Ana María Álvarez\, director of CONTRA TIEMPO Activist Dance Company and associate professor in theater and dance at UC San Diego. \nReception to follow.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/aire-libre-film-screening-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251003
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251005
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SUMMARY:American Literary History Now
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins\, paradigms\, and future directions of the field. The conference explores how the study of American literature has evolved in relation to its Cold War origins\, its reinvention in response to the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s\, and its reinvigoration through cultural studies. Leading figures present research on American literature from its inception to the present\, staging a lively discussion about current critical challenges\, approaches\, and methods. \nThe conference is organized by Yogita Goyal\, professor of English and African American studies at UCLA\, and generously supported by the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership in the UCLA College. \nSchedule \nOctober 3\n10-10.30\nWelcome and Introductions\nDean Alexandra Minna Stern\nRuss Castronovo and Yogita Goyal \nSession 1\n10.30-12.30\nChair: Nancy Martinez\n10.30: Sean Teuton\, “Primal Returns: Tribal Storytelling\, Deep Reading\, and the Rise of Native American Literature”\n11.30: Sakiru Adebayo\, “The Americanization of African Literature: A History” \nSession 2\n2-4\nChair: Uri McMillan\n2: Sampada Aranke\, “The Hammons Effect”\n3: Lee Edelman\, “The Hole in the Everything Bagel: Queerness\, Blackness\, and Other Catachreses of Multiversal Non-Singularity” \nReception\n4-5.30\nFaculty Lounge\, 2nd floor\, Kaplan Hall \nOctober 4\n \nSession 3\n10.30-12.30\nChair: Aditya Bahl\n10.30: Patricia Stuelke\, “Dark Academia and the New Cultural Front”\n11.30 : Francisco Robles\, “Poetic Forms\, Desert Time\, and Desert Movements” \nSession 4:\n2-4\nChair: Jonathan Grossman\n2: Sri Basu McCall\, “Revolution’s Racial Masques”\n3: Travis Foster\, “Too Good to Live: Trans Feminine Children and the Sentimental Death Trap” \n4-5.30\nClosing Roundtable\, led by American Literary History co-editors Russ Castronovo and Yogita Goyal; Assistant Editor Noah Terrell and Managing Editor Elijah Levine \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/american-literary-history-now/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
CATEGORIES:English
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251005
DTSTAMP:20260404T095016
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SUMMARY:On Land and Across the Sea: Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds. Junctions and Interweavings Conference
DESCRIPTION:To mark 650 years since Boccaccio’s death\, a conference on Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds invites exploration of Boccaccio’s “Other Words” and “Other Worlds.” Boccaccio’s narratives—not limited to the Decameron—vividly depict cultural and intellectual exchanges\, emphasizing human behavior\, morality\, and societal complexities across the Mediterranean and beyond\, including Cathay. In the Decameron\, the Levant serves as a crucial geographical and cultural reference\, highlighting its role as a crossroads of commerce\, religion\, and cultural interaction. For instance\, Nathan’s house in Decameron X.3 is described as being situated at the crossroads “from the West eastward\, or from the East westward.” Similarly\, in Genealogy of the Pagan Gods\, Boccaccio extols the invention of the boat and maritime navigation\, celebrating their benefits for humanity. He reflects on the immense advantages of trade and cultural exchanges and how they foster trust and friendships. Boccaccio notes that such interactions enable mutual teaching and learning of languages\, bridging geographical distances and overcoming estrangement. \nInspired by Boccaccio’s fascination with other worlds and words\, the Conference encourages geocritical approaches to Boccaccio’s works and explores this “hybrid point of connectivity” across society\, politics\, gender\, religion\, and economics. It aims to further investigate labor conditions and slavery in the medieval Mediterranean\, with particular attention to the art and commerce of textiles and textual weaves. The focus extends from the silent labor of women weaving baskets across the Mediterranean basin to female textile workers in Florence\, highlighting references to women’s labor both within and beyond the sea.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/on-land-and-across-the-sea-boccaccios-other-worlds-junctions-and-interweavings-conference/
LOCATION:Royce 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Humanities
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SUMMARY:Philosophy First-Gen Welcome Party
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 29\, 2025\n5:30 – 7:00 PM\nRoyce Hall 306\nRSVP HERE\n  \nCome and meet other first-generation Philosophy students\, faculty\, and staff! Food and beverages will be served. \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/philosophy-first-gen-welcome-party/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250924T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250924T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T095016
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SUMMARY:ELTS 2025 Fall Open House
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nJoin us to explore all that ELTS has to offer—connect with faculty\, your academic counselor\, and fellow students\, and discover meaningful ways to engage with our vibrant community. \n  \nWednesday\, September 24th | 1pm – 2pm | Royce Hall 236
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/elts-2025-fall-open-house/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250924T140000
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SUMMARY:2025-26 Philosophy Department Open House
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 24\, 2025\n12:00 – 2:00 PM\nHershey Hall Salon (Room 158) & Courtyard\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us on Wednesday\, September 24\, 2025 from 12:00 – 2:00 PM for the Philosophy Department’s Annual Open House. It will take place at the Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) & Courtyard. This event is open to current and incoming students. \n  \nEnjoy pizza and refreshments as you meet philosophy faculty\, staff\, and graduate students and learn more about the philosophy department in an informal setting. Students interested in learning more about the philosophy major/minor\, philosophy student clubs/organizations\, and philosophy courses in general are encouraged to attend! \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2025-26-philosophy-department-open-house/
LOCATION:Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250919
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250921
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SUMMARY:SLIME 4 (Studies in Language\, Information\, Meaning and Expression)
DESCRIPTION:September 19-20\, 2025\nRoyce Hall 314\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us for SLIME 4 (Studies in Language\, Information\, Meaning and Expression)\, a workshop at UCLA from September 19-20\, 2025. \n  \nThe conference is “pre-view”: recorded talks will be available ahead of time.  Discussion is led by a commentator (20 min)\, followed by replies from the speaker (20 min) and Q+A (60 min). We ask that all attendees view or read the talks prior to the day when they are being discussed. \n  \nThe most up-to-date schedule and information will be available on the workshop website HERE. \n  \nSpeakers\n\nAlan Fiske\, UCLA Anthropology\nAllison (Ari) Koslow\, UC Irvine Philosophy\nEllen Lau\, University of Maryland Linguistics\nKaren Lewis\, Barnard/Columbia Philosophy\nThi Nguyen\, University of Utah Philosophy\, & Ethan Nowak\, Stanford Philosophy\nMatthew Stone\, Rutgers Computer Science\n\n  \nCommentators\n\nEric Acton\, Eastern Michigan English Language & Literature\nIdan Asher Blank\, UCLA Psychology\nRosa Cao\, Stanford Philosophy\nDaniel Harris\, Hunter College Philosophy/CUNY Graduate Center\nRachel Rudolph\, UC San Diego Philosophy\nEvan Westra\, Purdue Philosophy\n\n  \nFaculty organizers: Joshua Armstrong\, Sam Cumming\, and Gabriel Greenberg \nEvents coordinator: Ashna Madni \n  \nWorkshop Program\n\nFriday\, September 19th\n10:00 AM – 11:40 AM: Matthew Stone & Una Stojnic\, “Meaning in Chatbots: A Critical Approach” / Commentator: Rosa Cao \n11:40 AM – 1:00 PM: Lunch \n1:00 PM – 2:40 PM: Alan Fiske\, “Representations of Social Relationships: Modes of Thought\, Means of Coordination” / Commentator: Evan Westra \n3:00 PM – 4:40 PM: Karen Lewis\, “Gamified Language Games” / Commentator: Dan Harris \n  \nSaturday\, September 20th\n10:00 AM – 11:40 AM: Ellen Lau\, “New directions for neurobiology of semantics: mental particulars and long-term knowledge” / Commentator: Idan Asher Blank \n11:40 AM – 1:00 PM: Lunch \n1:00 PM – 2:40 PM: Ari Koslow\, “What conceptual amelioration is good for” / Commentator: Rachel Rudolph \n3:00 PM – 4:40 PM: Thi Nguyen & Ethan Nowak\, “Slang is better” / Commentator: Eric Acton \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/slime-4-studies-in-language-information-meaning-and-expression/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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