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SUMMARY:Disposable Humanity – Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Through decades of research and powerful interviews\, the Mitchell family—a team of disability studies scholars and filmmakers—investigates the Nazi Aktion T4 program\, the first Nazi mass killing initiative and precursor to the Holocaust. Featuring conversations with memorial directors\, disabled people\, and descendants of victims\, Disposable Humanity brings to light the forgotten truth that disabled people were the first to be targeted by the Third Reich. This revelatory documentary exposes how this chapter has been neglected in public memory and calls for its rightful place in Holocaust history. \nSunday\, March 22\, 2026 • James Bridges Theater\, UCLA • 2 PM \nComplimentary Film Screening \nDisposable Humanity \nThe Barbara Roisman Cooper and Martin Cooper Jewish Film Series \nconversation with\nCameron S. Mitchell (Director)\, David Mitchell (Writer)\, \nJared McBride (UCLA)\, and Michael Rothberg (UCLA) after the screening \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/disposable-humanity-film-screening/
CATEGORIES:The Barbara Roisman Cooper and Martin Cooper Jewish Film Series
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Notos Quartett
DESCRIPTION:Praised for its virtuoso brilliance\, passion\, sensitivity\, and mature interpretive powers\, the Notos Quartett is one of the most celebrated young chamber ensembles to emerge in recent years. Founded in 2007\, the Berlin-based piano quartet first drew attention by winning first prize in six major international competitions. Since then it has established itself worldwide\, performing at renowned European concert halls such as the Philharmonie Berlin\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, and London’s Wigmore Hall. The quartet made their American debut in 2022 with three concerts for Chamber Music San Francisco and returned in October 2023 for their first North American tour. \nThe Notos Quartett’s repertoire spans from the great classical masterpieces to contemporary music. They have a strong commitment to new music\, as shown by numerous commissions and collaborations with such composers as Bryce Dessner\, Garth Knox\, and Bernhard Gander. They also search for important lost or forgotten works to bring to new audiences. \nFurther details and the full program are on our website.  \n\nTickets for the Notos Quartett concert will go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday\, February 24\, 2026.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/notos-quartett-2026/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T140000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Pamela Karimi
DESCRIPTION:Women\, Art\, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran\nPamela Karimi (Cornell University)\nMonday March 16\, 2026\, at 2:00pm\nOnline via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mvqHL0u4QFGuYqFdFbiikg\nDownload the event flyer here\n  \nThis talk\, based on Pamela Karimi’s 2024 book Women\, Art\, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran\, traces the 2022 Woman\, Life\, Freedom uprising catalyzed by the tragic death of Jina Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the “morality police.” Beyond its feminist core and the extraordinary courage of young protesters\, Karimi emphasizes that what truly distinguishes this movement is the scale and diversity of its art. Rather than focusing solely on viral images\, the talk foregrounds grassroots artistic practices that reshaped local public life. Drawing on interviews with Iran-based artists\, it highlights how creative work fueled guerrilla interventions\, street occupations\, and nonviolent civil disobedience. Set against a wide historical and theoretical backdrop\, the presentation maps the genealogies of Iranian protest art and examines the entanglement of public space\, women’s bodies\, and para-feminist imaginaries. Ultimately\, Karimi argues that artists are not merely witnesses to upheaval but rather architects of collective action and essential agents in broader struggles for justice and equality. \nPamela Karimi is an architect and historian of modern and contemporary art and architecture of the Middle East. She earned her Ph.D. from MIT in 2009 and is currently Associate Professor at Cornell University. Her interdisciplinary research bridges architecture\, art\, environmental studies\, and socio-political dynamics. Karimi is the author of Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran (2013; translation into Persian in 2021)\, Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice (Stanford University Press\, 2022)\, Women\, Art\, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran (Leuven/Cornell University Press)\, and is completing Survival by Design: Desert Architecture at the End of the World\, a study of architecture and environmental transformations in arid regions. Her most recent book\, upon which this talk is based and which was supported by the Persian Heritage Foundation\, examines grassroots artistic movements in the 2022 Woman\, Life\, Freedom uprising. Karimi’s work also extends globally\, from coediting The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoleon to ISIS to curating the traveling exhibition Black Spaces Matter. Widely recognized by outlets such as NPR\, the BBC\, and The Washington Post\, her scholarship highlights the intersections of design\, politics\, and ecology across diverse contexts.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-pamela-karimi/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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SUMMARY:Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art – Sarah Phillips Casteel
DESCRIPTION:In a little-known chapter of World War II\, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization\, forced sterilization\, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration\, Black writers and visual artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works of memoir\, poetry\, fiction\, painting and photomontage illuminate both the relationship between creativity and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory. Probing the boundaries of Holocaust memory and representation\, this talk draws attention to a largely unrecognized artistic corpus that challenges the erasure of Black wartime history. \nSarah Phillips Casteel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor of English at Carleton University. She has written and co-edited five books\, the most recent of which is Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art (Columbia University Press\, 2024). She has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Vienna and Potsdam and visiting fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg. The recipient of a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a Polanyi Prize\, she is a member of the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/black-lives-under-nazism-making-history-visible-in-literature-and-art-sarah-phillips-casteel-2/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sady and Ludwig Kahn Program in German Jewish Studies
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Benjamin Appl\, Baritone & James Baillieu\, Piano
DESCRIPTION:Baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated for a voice that “belongs to the last of the old great masters of song” with “an almost infinite range of colours” (Suddeutsche Zeitung)\, and for performances “delivered with wit\, intelligence and sophistication” (Gramophone). Appl was awarded Gramophone Award Young Artist of the Year (2016)\, and has since begun a multi-album deal with Alpha Classics\, releasing his first album Winterreise with James Baillieu in February 2021 to enormous critical acclaim. Some of Appl’s recent recital debuts include Carnegie Hall\, New York’s Park Avenue Armory\, Sydney Opera House\, and Mozarteum Salzburg. \nDescribed by The Daily Telegraph as ”in a class of his own\,” James Baillieu is one of the leading song and chamber music pianists of his generation. He has given solo and chamber recitals throughout the world and collaborates with a wide range of singers and instrumentalists. Baillieu is a frequent guest at many of the world’s most distinguished music centers including Carnegie Hall\, Wigmore Hall\, the Metropolitan Opera House\, and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. His recording projects include Forbidden Fruit (Alpha Classics)\, Winterreise (Alpha Classics) and Heimat (Sony Classical) with Benjamin Appl. \nFurther details and the full program are on our website.  \n\nTickets for the Benjamin Appl & James Baillieu concert will go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday\,  \nFebruary 17\, 2026.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/appl-baillieu-concert/
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:West Coast Hellenic Book Club: The Jasmine Isle by Ioanna Karystiani
DESCRIPTION:Book cover design by: Emanuele Ragnisco \nWest Coast Hellenic Book Club: \nThe Jasmine Isle by Ioanna Karystiani\, trans. Michael Eleftheriou\n(Europa Editions\, 2006) \nDiscussion led by Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center and Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer\, Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University \nSaturday\, March 14\, 2026\n10 A.M. Los Angeles / 7 P.M. Greece\nVia Zoom \nRSVP Here \nFrom the Publisher: \nSet on the Greek island of Andros during the first half of the 20th century\, Karystiani’s first novel to be translated into English centers on Orsa Saltaferou\, a jovial teenager who falls in love with charming and sensual fisherman Spyros Maltambes. But when the time comes to settle down\, her imperious mother\, Mina\, decides that Spyros is not the man for her daughter and arranges a marriage to the richer Nikos Vatokouzis\, also a fisherman. Without a word of protest\, Orsa resigns herself to her fate-until she returns from her honeymoon to find her younger sister\, Mosca\, married to Spyros. Further intensifying emotions\, the sisters and their respective husbands must live with just a staircase between them. And because both men are sailors (as is the sisters’ father)\, they often travel for long stretches and leave the sisters-along with Mina and many other women on the island-to look after the homes\, raise their children and chat\, trying to gather news about their husbands and\, when it comes\, the war. With a talent for crafting graceful narration and poignant dialogue\, Karystiani presents a praiseworthy novel of a life caught between love and loss. \nAbout the Author: \nIoanna Karystiani was born on the island of Crete\, Greece\, in the town of Chania and now lives in Athens. Her literary debut came with the collection of short stories\, I kyria Kataki (Ms. Kataki). She has since written three novels\, all of which have been translated into several languages. She wrote the screenplay for The Brides\, directed by Pandelis Vulgaris and produced by Martin Scorsese\, and Estrella mi vida\, directed by Costa Gavras. She received the Greek state prize for literature and the Athenian Academy prize for her first novel\, and the Diavaso literature prize for her second. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nAvailable to borrow digitally for free on the Internet Archive at the link below: \nhttps://archive.org/details/jasmineisle0000kary/mode/2up \nIf you need help sourcing a copy of the book\, please email hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/west-coast-hellenic-book-club-the-jasmine-isle-by-ioanna-karystiani/
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Literature,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:The Aristotle Bash 2026
DESCRIPTION:March 13-15\, 2026\nRoyce Hall 314 & Dodd Hall 247\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us from Friday to Sunday\, March 13-15\, for The Aristotle Bash! \n  \nConference Program\nDownload PDF \nFriday\, March 13\, 2026 | Royce Hall 314\n4:00 – 6:00 PM – Colloquium: Voula Tsouna (UCSB) – “Is there such a thing as defective goodness? Virtue and the faulty polities and characters in Plato’s Republic 8-9”6:00 – 7:00 PM – Reception with food \n  \nSaturday\, March 14\, 2026 | Dodd Hall 24710:30 – 11:00 AM – Coffee & light breakfast\n11:00 AM -12:30 PM – Gabor Betegh (Cambridge) (Presenting via Zoom) – “Plato on Forgetting and Re-Understanding”12:30 – 2:00 PM – Lunch2:00 – 3:30 PM – Merrick Anderson (USC) – “The Opening of Laws Book 3”3:45 – 5:45 PM – Workshop*: “Passages from Republic Books 8-9.578c” led by Voula Tsouna (UCSB) and Gavin Lawrence (UCLA)5:45 – 6:15 PM – Light reception \n *Please bring texts. We will let you know some particular passages and issues to focus on. \n  \nSunday\, March 15\, 2026 | Dodd Hall 2479:00 – 9:30 AM – Coffee & light breakfast\n9:30 – 11:00 AM – Christopher Shields (UCSD) – “Acting\, Well\, Metaphorically” 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Sean Kelsey (Chicago) – “Forms of understanding in Aristotle’s De Anima”1:00 – 2:00 PM – Lunch \n  \nWith the participation of Richard McKirahan (Pomona)\, Monte Johnson (UCSD)\, and David Blank (UCLA) \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/aristotle-bash-2026/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314 & Dodd Hall 247
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:Warsaw Testament – Samuel Kassow
DESCRIPTION:Until recently\, very few people knew about Rokhl Auerbach\, a remarkable woman who survived the Holocaust and then dedicated her life to preserving the memories of its victims. Professor Samuel D. Kassow will discuss Auerbach’s memoir Warsaw Testament\, which paints a vivid portrait of that city’s prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community atruction at the hands of the Nazis. This book received a National Jewish Book Award in the cat­e­go­ry of Holo­caust Mem­oir. \nSamuel Kassow\, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College\, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been been a visiting professor at many institutions and was on the team of scholars that planned the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Among his books is Who will Write our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Ghetto Archive (Indiana\, 2007)\, which received the Orbis Prize of the AAASS and which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. It has been translated into eight languages. His translation of Rachel Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament\, published by the White Goat Press\, received a National Jewish Book Award in March 2025. A child of Holocaust survivors\, Professor Kassow spent his earliest years in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/warsaw-testament-samuel-kassow/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260311
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SUMMARY:Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting Tour
DESCRIPTION:Fostering public conversations about memory and justice\, a reflection on Peru’s forced disappearances from 1980 to 2000. \nDocumentary Screening: Este fue nuestro castigo\, by Luis Cintora\nWednesday March 11\, 11:30 – 1:30 PM in Bunche Hall 10383 \nGuided Photo Exhibition: Percy Rojas (Ausencias Presentes)\nThursday March 12\, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM in Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library \nBook Reading: Karina Pacheco’s Niños del pájaro azul\, with Gisela Ortiz\nThursday March 12\, 4:00 PM in Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/counter-pedagogies-of-forgetting-tour/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 10383 and Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:EVENT POSTPONED: The Complex Interplay of Religion\, Law and Politics in Israel
DESCRIPTION:We regret to inform you that this March 9th on-campus event featuring Orly Erez-Likhovski as been postponed\, as the speaker is unable to fly to us from Israel due to the war with Iran. We will notify you when/if we can host this event in the future. \n______________________________ \nWithout the protections of a written constitution and a clear separation of religion and state\, Israelis face unique challenges in securing fundamental rights to equality and religious freedom under Israeli law. Although Israel’s Declaration of Independence commits to “complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion\, race\, or sex” the authority of the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate and the disproportionate influence of Orthodox political parties within Israel’s parliamentary system have contributed to violations of the rights of women\, non-Orthodox Jews\, members of the LGBTQ+ community and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Israeli lawyer and activist Orly Erez-Likhovski will discuss key legal battles in Israel to protect and advance Israeli democracy and religious pluralism. \nSpeaker: Orly Erez-Likhovski\, Director of Israel Religious Action Center\nModerator: Carol Bakhos\, Robert E. Archer Chair in the Study of Religion\, Director\, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion \nCLICK HERE for more information and to register for this in-person event. After registering\, you will be emailed an RSVP confirmation. If you do not receive your email confirmation\, please check your spam or junk mail folders. \nAbout the Speakers \nOrly Erez-Likhovski has served as an attorney at the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) since 2004\, as Director of the Legal Department from 2014–2021\, and Director of IRAC since 2021. In these roles\, she has brought about significant legal achievements such as making gender segregation on public transportation illegal\, ending the Orthodox monopoly on state-funded salaries to rabbis\, filing (and winning) the first-ever class action suit regarding exclusion of women\, and disqualifying racist candidates from running to Israel’s parliament. Orly holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Tel Aviv University and a master’s degree in law with a focus on human rights law from Columbia University in New York. She is a member of the Bar Association in Israel and New York. \nCarol Bakhos (moderator) is Professor of Late Antique Judaism and Jewish Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and teaches for the Study of Religion IDP.  Since 2012 she has served as Chair of the Study of Religion program and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA. Her most recent monograph\, The Family of Abraham: Jewish\, Christian and Muslim Interpretations (Harvard University Press\, 2014)\, was translated into Turkish (2015). In 2018\, Bakhos received an NEH Summer-Institute grant to direct “Religious Landscapes of LA: Teaching and Exploring Religious Diversity Through Civic Engagement\,” for K-12 educators. \n  \nOrganized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. This event is part of the Center’s series “Religion in Israeli Society.” Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-complex-interplay-of-religion-law-and-politics-in-israel/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 10383
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SUMMARY:2026 Annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture featuring David Schneller
DESCRIPTION:This year’s lecture will be presented by Professor David Schneller\, Assistant Professor of Art History\, on Monday\, March 9\, 2026.  All are welcome but kindly RSVP in advance by emailing: ycastellanos@support.ucla.edu or call (310) 825-0913 by March 2. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2026-annual-patricia-mccarron-mcginn-lecture-featuring-david-schneller/
LOCATION:UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T090000
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SUMMARY:Neuroprotective Greek Herbs: Bridging Neuroscience and Cultural Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Neuroprotective Greek Herbs: Bridging Neuroscience and Cultural Heritage \na seminar organized by\nAnastasia Tsingotjidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) \nMarch 7\, 2026\n9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA \nRSVP Here \nClick here to watch the program live via livestream\nThis seminar brings together researchers from neuroscience\, pharmacology\, biology\, veterinary medicine\, nutrition\, and plant biodiversity to explore the neuroprotective potential of traditional Greek herbs. Through a combination of in-person and online presentations\, the program highlights translational research\, from animal models and isolated bioactive compounds to nutritional approaches and cultural heritage. The seminar concludes with a culinary demonstration using Cycladic herbs\, emphasizing the connection between Greek history\, daily life\, and brain health. \nView the full schedule here \nSpeakers: \n\nDr. Korina Atsopardi\, Department of Pharmacy\, School of Health Sciences\, University of Patras\nDimitra Efthymiopoulou\, Department of Nutrition & Dietetics and Department of Sports Nutrition\, Harokopio University (Zoom)\nIrene Giannakopoulos\, CEO\, Aegialis Hotel and Spa\, author of the culinary book\, My Amorgos!\nProfessor Marigoula Margariti\, Department of Biology\, School of Natural Sciences\, University of Patras (Zoom)\nMarita Papagianni\, Plant Taxonomist & Biodiversity Research Associate\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Zoom)\nProfessor Igor Spigelman\, Laboratory of Neuropharmacology\, Section of Biosystems and Function\, School of Dentistry\, UCLA\nProfessor Anastasia Tsingotjidou\, School of Veterinary Medicine\, Faculty of Health Sciences\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\nAssociate Professor Konstantinos Xanthopoulos\, School of Pharmacy\, Faculty of Health Sciences\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Zoom)\n\nThis seminar is hosted by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, with generous support from Lee and Lilian Polydor\, The Polydor Foundation\, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. \n\n \nParking Information:\n \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 4. \nParking Structure 4 is located at: 221 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Parking Structure 4 is accessible from Sunset Blvd. onto Westwood Plaza which leads directly to the underground parking structure. To view the walking map from Parking Structure 4 to Royce Hall\, click here. \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \nAdvance parking is available for Parking Structure 4. \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for Parking Structure 4 for $17 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Royce Hall\,” then “Neuroprotective Greek Herbs” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 4 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 4\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking: For individuals with accessibility needs\, parking lot 4 is ADA accessibility and has elevators on all floors. The elevators in Lot 4 provide access to Wilson Plaza\, with sidewalk access available. Upon reaching Janss Steps\, turn left towards the Anderson School of Business and Fowler Museum. Proceed past the Fowler Museum before you enter Anderson School of Business; take a right to access the elevator leading to Royce Hall. Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\nTo view the ADA map from Parking Structure 4 to Royce Hall\, click here.\n\nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/neuroprotective-greek-herbs-bridging-neuroscience-and-cultural-heritage/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Conference,Hellenic,Heritage,History,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece,Symposium
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SUMMARY:Forms of Mobility: Genre\, Language and Media in African Literary Cultures
DESCRIPTION:Waiting on Forever by Franco The Creator Mbilizi. Image courtesy of Stephanie Bosch Santana. \n  \n  \nFriday\, March 6\, 2026 \n2:30pm \nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) \nIn person \n  \nREGISTER TO ATTEND HERE \n  \n  \nAbout the Talk \nIn this talk\, Stephanie Bosch Santana discusses her first monograph\, Forms of Mobility: Genre\, Language\, and Media in African Literary Cultures\, published by Northwestern University Press in 2025. Based on an unstudied archive of texts in English and Chichewa/Nyanja from Malawi\, South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, and Zambia\, Forms of Mobility proposes alternate categories of fiction—migrant forms\, township tales\, weekend stories\, pan African time machines\, and digital diaries—through which to examine how writers envisaged the region’s changing literary and political terrains. By reading these forms “in motion\,” as they travel across space\, time\, genre\, language\, and between publications and platforms\, this study limns multiple centers of literary influence and relation across the southern African and Black diasporas and reveals forms of literary mobility and space-making that are occluded by current models of world literature. \n  \n  \nAbout the Author \nStephanie Bosch Santana is the co-editor of Digital Africas\, a special issue of Postcolonial Text (2020)\, and has contributed essays on digital and print literatures and reading cultures to the Routledge Handbook of African Literature (2019) and A Companion to African Literatures (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021). From 2006-2008\, she assisted with South Africa’s BTA/Anglo Platinum short story competition and is co-founder of the Malawian Girls’ Literary Competition\, which celebrates young women’s writing in English and Chichewa. \n  \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/forms-of-mobility-genre-language-and-media-in-african-literary-cultures/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia\, 1600–1800: Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited: Conference 2: Empires in Practice
DESCRIPTION:In this year’s Core Program\, historians of the Ottoman\, Qing\, and Mughal empires revisit the problem of comparison by considering synchronicities and structural parallels across Asia. \nThe second conference looks at Imperial Operations. How did empires work? What did the everyday operations of imperial rule look like? Early modern empires confronted the same “great enemy” of distance which severely constrained all actions\, from government communications to tax collection. The systems for delegating authority and distributing tasks that the Ottomans\, Mughals\, and Qing developed to address these common problems shared some essential features despite their autonomous development and local variations\, and reveal a level of organizational sophistication often overlooked. By examining these and other areas of imperial operations\, the conference aims to build a conceptual framework that explains both shared features and distinctive approaches without privileging any single model as universal. \nThe list of speakers\, the conference schedule\, and the registration form are available on our website. \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\, March 2 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/core2-empires-in-practice/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T173000
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SUMMARY:Who are the Tanguts and why do they matter? Writing\, Religion\, and Cultural Exchange in the Xia Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:The Tangut Xia kingdom flourished in the Ordos region and the Gansu Corridor between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. This talk will provide an introduction to the Tangut Xia kingdom\, its unique writing system\, and its dynamic religious traditions\, highlighting the complex Chinese and Tibetan cultural interactions that shaped its historical development. By integrating elements of Chinese and Tibetan cultures\, the Tanguts forged a unique religious and cultural amalgam. \nThe Tangut Xia kingdom flourished in the Ordos region and the Gansu Corridor between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Despite its relatively brief existence\, it developed a distinctive literary culture and produced a rich textual heritage that deserves thorough and sustained academic study. During the early stages of state formation\, Tangut emperors actively adopted and adapted elements of Chinese-style governance and bureaucratic institutions. At the same time\, the Tangut rulers sponsored the acquisition\, translation\, and dissemination of the Chinese Buddhist canon. By integrating elements of Chinese and Tibetan cultures\, the Tanguts forged a unique religious and cultural amalgam. \nBy the twelfth century\, the introduction of Tibetan Buddhist texts further expanded the kingdom’s intellectual and religious horizons\, bringing Tangut culture into close contact with Tibetan civilization. This talk will provide an introduction to the Tangut Xia kingdom\, its unique writing system\, and its dynamic religious traditions\, highlighting the complex cultural interactions that shaped its historical development. \nSpeaker: Nikita Kuzmin is a historian of the Middle Period China. He joined Elling Eide Center in August 2025 as a visiting scholar after graduating from a Ph.D. program from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. Prior to coming to UPenn\, Nikita have lived and studied in Russia\, China\, Germany\, Nepal\, and Japan. He has a strong research interest in the history of the Tangut period (11th-13th centuries) of the greater Dunhuang area\, as well as circulation of people\, books\, and thoughts along the Silk Roads. \nREGISTER HERE for this in-person event. \nThis event is organized by and co-sponsored with the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/who-are-the-tanguts-and-why-do-they-matter-writing-religion-and-cultural-exchange-in-the-xia-kingdom/
LOCATION:Royce 243
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260304T210000
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SUMMARY:2025-26 UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lectureship in Art History – Hilton Als
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2025-26-ucla-art-council-distinguished-scholar-lectureship-in-art-history-hilton-als/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T180000
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SUMMARY:Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series: Frantz Grenet
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Iran and Central Asia: Interactions and Shifting Identities\nMarch 4–11\, 2026 \nA Series of Four Lectures at 4:00 pm \nRoyce Hall 314 \nRSVP Link: https://forms.gle/fiCSCpULf7H3nJ6H8 \nThe Pourdavoud Institute and Yarshater Center welcome Frantz Grenet (Collège de France) in March to deliver the four-part Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series on the theme\, “Ancient Iran and Central Asia: Interactions and Shifting Identities.” \nLecture 1: Wednesday\, March 4\, 4:00 pm PST\nA World between Worlds: Geography\, History\, and Identity of the Early Kušāns (First Century CE) \nThis geographic and historical introduction to the Kušāns focuses on the multiple cultural affiliations and identities of the Kušān rulers and their empire\, emphasizing the impact their neighbors had on identity formation and development. \nSeveral vectors may have contributed to the development of Kušān identity. First\, the historical heritage of the steppes prompts the question of the original language of the Yuezhi confederation\, the cradle of the Kušān dynasty. This question is now being informed by the so-called “unknown script\,” which has been deciphered and proven to be an early notation of the Bactrian language. Cultural interactions with their steppe neighbor to the north\, the Kangju empire\, certainly affected the Kušān worldview. This influence may be reflected in evidence such as their self-representation in the Khalchayan reliefs depicting a frontier war with the Kangju\, whose own markedly bellicose identity is expressed on the Orlat bone plaque. \nSecond\, the Hellenistic background of the Kušāns cannot be overlooked. The Kušāns experienced a unique mixture of steppe heritage (as seen at Tillia Tepe) and western influences through contact with the Roman East via maritime trade (as seen on Kujula Kadphises’s Augustan-style coinage). \nThird\, Hindu cults left a lasting impact on the Kušāns\, which can be observed in the coinage of Vima Kadphises. Fourth\, the relationship with the Parthians can be defined as one of “peaceful coexistence\,” which was disrupted by the Sasanians’ rise to power\, leading to territorial and commercial expansion that\, however\, had only limited effects in the religious sphere. \nLecture 2: Friday\, March 6\, 4:00 pm PST\nKušān Rulers: In Search of an Imperial Narrative (Second to Fourth Centuries CE) \nEvidence such as coinage\, the Rabatak inscription\, the archaeological site of Surkh Kotal\, and Huviška’s cotton painting sheds light on the political discourse of the Kušāns. Kaniška’s (r. 126–c. 150) ideological program focused on the following: \n(1) abandoning the Greek script in diplomatic discourse\, favoring an “Aryan” (that is\, the Bactrian) language; and utilizing Indian titles (e.g.\, devaputra “son of god”) on the eastern side of the empire; \n(2) incorporating Achaemenid formulaic language into the self-presentation of the sources of his power; and \n(3) emphasizing a multicultural message rooted in religious plurality. \nThe latter point is evidenced by the observance of a specific iteration of Zoroastrianism\, the patronage of multiple Indian cults (including Buddhism\, though primarily at a local Indian level)\, and support for a more elaborate form of syncretism through the promotion of two specific religious figures: Wēš\, a version of the god Vayu addressing the Shivaites\, and Manāvagh\, a version of Vohu Manah addressing the Vishnuites. \nThese tendencies were further developed under the successor dynasty of the Kušāno-Sasanians (c. 280–400 CE). Such actions served to consolidate Kušān rule\, foster a shared cultural identity across the vast empire\, and facilitate the spread of ideas along the Silk Road. \nLecture 3: Monday\, March 9\, 4:00 pm PDT\nEastern Iranian Contributions to the Construction of the Šāhnāme: Kušāno-Sasanians\, Sīstānīs\, and Sogdians (Fourth to Eighth Centuries CE) \nDiplomatic discourse furthered the ideological construction of a (pan-)Iranian identity\, but literature\, particularly the mytho-epic traditions\, also contributed to this process. References to the Kayanids existed in Kušāno-Sasanian royal onomastics before they appeared in Sasanian royalty. Clusters of Kayanid toponyms are attested in eastern Bactria\, and may also date to the Kušāno-Sasanian period. Early literary evidence for the Šāhnāme includes references to a “proto-Šāhnāme” of which a Sogdian fragment containing an episode of Rostam bears witness. The first pictorial representation of a Šāhnāme episode anywhere in the Iranian world appears in a mural painting at Kuh-e Ḵvājah\, dating to the fifth or sixth century. In the later period\, four Šāhnāme or peri-Šāhnāme episodes have been identified\, some very recently\, in Sogdian paintings of the eighth century. Interestingly\, these paintings attest to a self-identification of the Sogdians as Iranians\, rather than Turanians\, during this early phase in the development of the Šāhnāme. \nLecture 4: Wednesday\, March 11\, 4:00 pm PDT\nPhilhellenism among the Hunnic Elites (Fifth to Seventh Centuries CE) \nAlthough the Kušāns construed a (pan-)Iranian identity as evinced by geography\, shared historical and cultural backgrounds\, imperial discourse\, language choice\, religious pluralism\, and literary culture\, some of the post-Kušānites (e.g.\, the Huns\, Hephthalites)\, however—both in reaction to this model and in order to forge a specific counter-identity—had recourse to Greek cultural practices (including imagery and possibly theatrical performances) to underscore their own identities vis-à-vis the Sasanian/Iranian world. Silverware\, the most prestigious and politically controlled artistic product of the period in Bactria-Gandhara (and eventually Sogdiana)\, offers a broad repertoire of Greek subjects but never any allusion to the Iranian heroic cycle then in the process of formation\, as may be seen in extant wall paintings. Some Jewish elites were also part of this cultural orientation. Images of the “Roman wolf” on coins and wall paintings in the seventh and eighth centuries bear witness to a “Philoroman” (in fact\, Philobyzantine) tendency\, consistent with the attested diplomatic contacts of the time. \nAfter the completion of the Muslim conquest in the second half of the eighth century\, the Bactrian and Sogdian languages ceased to be in use (with the exception of Sogdian in merchant colonies and in Christian and Manichaean communities). References to the Hellenistic culture were thereafter limited to the spheres of science and philosophy (as in other parts of the Islamic West). Iranian traditions carried forward by the milieu of the dehqāns were hardly able to retain eastern Iranian specificities: they merged into the al-‘Ajam\, Iranian culture lato-sensu\, whose literary languages were Arabic and later Persian. Emerging local dynasties forged Sasanian pedigree and did not claim links to earlier local polities (with the exception of Khorezm). \nAbout the Speaker\n\nFrantz Grenet has been Professor at the Collège de France since 2013 and currently holds the chair of History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia (Histoire et cultures de l’Asie centrale préislamique). \nHe studied at the École Normale Supérieure\, Paris (1972–1977)\, focusing on the history and archaeology of Central Asia and the history of Zoroastrianism as his main fields of research. From 1977 to 1981\, he was deputy director of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (FADA) and participated in the excavations at Ai Khanum under the directorship of Paul Bernard. From 1981 to 2013\, he was a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)\, Paris. \nProfessor Grenet serves as director of the French-Uzbek Archaeological Mission in Sogdiana (1989–2014\, and again since 2021)\, working mainly at Samarkand. Before taking up his position at the Collège de France\, he was professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1999–2014)\, holding the chair of Religions of the Ancient Iranian World. Professor Grenet is a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (inducted 2022)\, a member of the American Philosophical Society (joined 2017)\, a fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (member of the Advisory Board\, 2013–2017)\, and a board member of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. He is also an honorary citizen of Samarkand (naturalized in 2018). Professor Grenet served as president of the scientific committee of the exhibition Splendeurs des oasis d’Ouzbékistan (Louvre\, November 23\, 2022 – March 6\, 2023). \nHis main publications include: Les pratiques funéraires dans l’Asie centrale sédentaire de la conquête grecque à l’islamisation (Paris\, 1984); A History of Zoroastrianism\, vol. 3\, Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman Rule (Leiden\, 1991; with Mary Boyce); La geste d’Ardashir\, fils de Pâbak (Die\, 2003); and The Golden Journey to Samarkand (selected articles translated into Chinese; Guilin\, 2017). He has most recently collaborated with Nicholas Sims-Williams on The ‘Ancient Letters’ and Other Early Sogdian Documents and Inscriptions (2023)\, and Bactrian Documents IV (2025) as part of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. He has produced seven edited or coedited collective volumes and approximately 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals\, published in French\, English\, Russian\, Persian\, Chinese\, and Japanese.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/biennial-yarshater-lecture-series-frantz-grenet/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,Yarshater Center
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SUMMARY:Sonja Drimmer lecture on Mar. 4\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be held virtually in Dr. Nina Horisaki-Christens’ AH C170A course.  All are welcome to attend! \nRecolonizing the Museum and the GLAM-work of AI\nThis talk addresses the partnerships forged between the GLAM sector and the tech industry\, which have been an essential component of AI’s development\, particularly in the field of computer vision. It argues that this partnership reprises the colonialist origins of the Euro-American museum for the modern global economy.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/sonja-drimmer-lecture-on-mar-4-2026/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 146\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T173000
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SUMMARY:The Ahmanson Lecture on Clark Library Legacies: Landscape and Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Tracy Wolk (Landscape Designer) and Stephanie Landregan (Landscape Architect and Director Altadena Green). Moderated by Brian Brodersen\, (Landscape Architect and Principal/Owner Brodersen Associates). \nJoin us for the inaugural Ahmanson Lecture at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, an evening exploring how history\, design\, and stewardship can shape the future of Los Angeles’s most meaningful landscapes. \nLandscape designer Tracy Wolk shares her vision for the Clark’s historic gardens\, reimagining their early 20th-century character for a future grounded in sustainability\, resilience\, and respect for heritage. She will be joined by Stephanie Landregan\, director of Altadena Green\, a community initiative established after the Altadena fires to protect and restore the city’s historic trees. Together\, they consider how preservation and innovation can coexist to sustain California’s cultural landscapes in a changing climate. \nPresented in recognition of Lee Walcott\, whose enduring support through the auspices of the Ahmanson Foundation continues to nurture the Clark Library and its living legacy. \n\nThe registration form is available on our website. \nThe lecture is free to attend with advance registration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. No registration is required to watch the livestream. \nRegistration will close on Thursday\, February 26 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/ahmanson-lecture-landscape/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T180000
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SUMMARY:The Tenth Herbert Morris Lecture in Law & Philosophy: Christopher L. Eisgruber
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 27\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nLaw Room 1357\nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nPlease join us for the Tenth Herbert Morris Lecture in Law & Philosophy on Friday\, February 27\, 2026. \n  \nPrinceton University President\, Christopher L. Eisgruber\, will deliver a lecture entitled\, “Terms of Respect: Free Speech and Inclusivity on Campus” \n  \nReception to follow remarks in the Lincoln Alcove. \n  \n \n  \nQuestions? Email Ben Austin austin@law.ucla.edu \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/the-tenth-herbert-morris-lecture-in-law-philosophy-christopher-l-eisgruber/
LOCATION:UCLA School of Law – Room 1357
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T193000
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SUMMARY:Professor Sarah P. Morris’ lecture “Out of Anatolia: Hittites\, Homer and the Trojan War”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture followed by a reception featuring Professor Sarah Morris who will present her talk “Out of Anatolia: Hittites\, Homer and the Trojan War” \nThis lecture will be held at the Faculty Club’s Morrison Room on Thursday\, Feb. 26th at 4 PM.  All are welcome! \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/professor-sarah-p-morris-lecture-out-of-anatolia-hittites-homer-and-the-trojan-war/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Club\, Morrison Room\, 480 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094013
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Verena Lepper
DESCRIPTION:Elephantine Goes Global: Island of the Millennia\nWednesday\, February 25\, 2026\n4:00pm\nRoyce Hall 306\n  \nAlternate Live Stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94774888079\nRSVP Link: https://forms.gle/uhWcmWsk8DDH1Rdv9\n  \nOver a period of ten years a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) was conducted at the National Museums in Berlin entitled “Localizing 4000 years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt.” Elephantine is an island on the Nile River in southern Egypt. Some of the research results are the digitalization\, transcription\, and translation of more than 10\,000 texts written on papyrus or clay shards in ten different languages and scripts\, including hieroglyphics\, Hieratic\, Aramaic\, Coptic\, and Arabic. Following this research\, an exhibition was carried out on Berlin’s Museum Island\, entitled: “Elephantine. Island of the Millennia.” The online version of this exhibition has been made available very recently and will be discussed here. The entire exhibition is trilingual\, carried out in Arabic\, English\, and German\, and was put together in close collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry for Tourism and Antiquities. Museums and research can function as soft power. The exhibition and this talk showcase the relevance of 4\,000 years of cultural history across several different ancient ethnic groups\, including contemporary art. Thus “Elephantine Goes Global” now. \n  \nVerena Lepper is the Head of the Department of Antiquities at the Getty Villa and joined the J. Paul Getty Museum in October 2025. A distinguished Egyptologist and curator\, she served for eighteen years as Curator of Egyptian and Oriental Papyri at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection\, Berlin (National Museums Berlin). Lepper has led major international exhibitions and research projects in Germany and abroad\, including in Doha\, Abu Dhabi\, and at Harvard University. She also directed the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Religion at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research focuses on Egyptian and Oriental papyri\, language and religion\, as well as literary and cultural history\, and the history of science and the arts. To strengthen cultural diplomacy between Germany and the Arab world\, she founded in 2013 the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA)\, which she continues to lead. She serves on several committees and supervisory boards focused on cultural and science policy. She was educated at Bonn\, Oxford and Harvard University and is the author of twenty books and numerous articles for which she received several awards.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-verena-lepper/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Illuminated Lectures and Theatrical Investigations: Bringing Together Scholarship and Performance
DESCRIPTION:ILLUMINATED LECTURES AND THEATRICAL INVESTIGATIONS: BRINGING TOGETHER SCHOLARSHIP AND PERFORMANCE \nWEDNESDAY\, FEBRUARY 25\, 2026 \n3 to 5 P.M. \ntheatre dybbuk\, a Los Angeles-based performance company\, brings together research and historical investigation with performance to explore a variety of issues in our contemporary world. \nIn this division-wide workshop\, theatre dybbuk’s artistic director\, Aaron Henne\, will offer ideas for how to engage with theatrical structures that can bring your research and scholarship to vivid life. Aaron and Professor Barbara Fuchs will discuss possible formats and modes of collaboration. Please feel free to bring your own ideas for research that you might wish to illuminate through performance. \nVisit this page to register. 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/illuminated-lectures-and-theatrical-investigations-bringing-together-scholarship-and-performance/
LOCATION:Kaplan 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Meredith Cohen\, Feb. 25th
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Meredith Cohen on Wednesday\, Feb. 25 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk\, Digital Gothic: Quantifying Change in Medieval Architecture. \nAll are welcome! \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-meredith-cohen-feb-25th/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 275\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T180000
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SUMMARY:A Multifaith Conversation on Justice\, Forgiveness and Compassion
DESCRIPTION:In our deeply fractured world\, religion serves both to connect and offer wisdom and to foster conflict and division.  Over the course of centuries\, it has been frequently invoked to justify brutal violence\, but can it be an effective tool to advance justice?  To explore different perspectives on the topic of faith\, forgiveness\, and justice\, we will be joined by a distinguished panel of religious leaders: Father Greg Boyle\, Rabbi Sharon Brous\, Valarie Kaur\, and Imam Dr. Jihad Turk. \nFather Greg Boyle is a Jesuit priest and director of Homeboy Industries\, the world’s largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program. Rabbi Sharon Brous is the senior and founding Rabbi of IKAR\, a Jewish spiritual community in Los Angeles. Valarie Kaur is a civil rights leader and activist\, filmmaker\, educator\, best-selling author\, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project\, a movement to reclaim love as a force for justice. Imam Dr. Jihad Turk is the founding President of Bayan Islamic Graduate School\, a preeminent Muslim institution of higher education. \nRSVP here \nOrganized by and co-sponsored with the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute as part of their Compassionate Conversations series.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/a-multifaith-conversation-on-justice-forgiveness-and-compassion/
LOCATION:UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)\, 570 Westwood Plaza
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T160000
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SUMMARY:“Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule” by Paris Papamichos Chronakis (Royal Holloway\, University of London)
DESCRIPTION:Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule \nLecture by \nParis Papamichos Chronakis\nLecturer in Modern Greek History\, Department of History\nRoyal Holloway\, University of London \nPresented by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and\ncosponsored by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nFebruary 24\, 2026\n2:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus \nThis event is part of the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nThis event is moderated by Aomar Boum\, Professor\, Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies\,\nUCLA Department of Anthropology \nRSVP here \nHow did the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigate the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century? In this talk\, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst rising ethnic tensions and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative\, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen\, community members\, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Salonica’s merchants were present in their own—and their city’s—remaking. \nParis Papamichos Chronakis is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway University of London. His work explores the entangled histories and divided memories of Jews and Christians in the Eastern Mediterranean from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. In recent years\, his research and publications have expanded to Salonica in World War One\, Greek interwar Zionism and anti-Zionism\, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry\, and digital Holocaust Studies. His first book\, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024 winning that year’s National Jewish Book Awards – JDC-Herbert Katzki Award (Writing Based on Archival Material).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/seeing-like-a-merchant-jews-and-greeks-from-ottoman-to-greek-rule-by-paris-papamichos-chronakis-royal-holloway-university-of-london/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,History,Jewish Greece
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SUMMARY:Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule – Paris Papamichos Chronakis
DESCRIPTION:How did the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigate the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century? In this talk\, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst rising ethnic tensions and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative\, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen\, community members\, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Salonica’s merchants were present in their own—and their city’s—remaking. \nParis Papamichos Chronakis is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway University of London. His work explores the entangled histories and divided memories of Jews and Christians in the Eastern Mediterranean from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. In recent years\, his research and publications have expanded to Salonica in World War One\, Greek interwar Zionism and anti-Zionism\, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry\, and digital Holocaust Studies. His first book\, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024 winning that year’s National Jewish Book Awards – JDC-Herbert Katzki Award (Writing Based on Archival Material). \nTuesday\, February 24\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nSeeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule \nParis Papamichos Chronakis (Royal Holloway\, University of London)\nModerated by Aomar Boum (UCLA) \nMaurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nCosponsored by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/seeing-like-a-merchant-jews-and-greeks-from-ottoman-to-greek-rule-paris-papamichos-chronakis/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and Structure. A Talk with A. Kiarina Kordela | Program in Experimental Critical Theory
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Experimental Critical Theory presents\nPsychoanalysis and Structure \nA Talk with A. Kiarina Kordela\n\nMonday\, February 23\, 2026\n3:00-4:30pm PST\nVia Zoom\n\n  \nAdvanced Registration\nAdvanced registration is required by Friday\, February 20\, 2026. The Zoom meeting link will be sent end of day on February 20. \nREGISTER TO ATTEND HERE \n  \nAbout the Talk\nBased on the introduction to Epistemontology\, its third chapter\, “Psychoanalysis and Structuralism\,” shows the necessary interconnection between capitalist economy and psychoanalytic thought. It does so by reading together (a) Spinozian monism—as the first philosophical system that conceived of being (substance) in structural terms; (b) Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism—as the groundwork for a secular epistemontological theory; (c) Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis—as instrumental in the formulation of properly structuralist thought; and (d) Deleuze’s account of structuralism—as presented in his “How Do We Recognize Structuralism?” (1967/1973). While Laplanche and Pontalis serve as background for teasing out the structuralist epistemology of psychoanalysis\, I set Deleuze in dialogue with Alexandre Kojève in order to reveal Deleuze’s theoretical trajectory as an attempt to preempt possible objections (of Hegelian origin) to all three: Spinoza\, structuralism\, and psychoanalysis. \n  \nReadings to be discussed are listed below and are available on the ECT site: \n\nA. Kiarina Kordela\, “Psychoanalysis and Structuralism” from Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan: The (Bio)Power of Structure (Routledge\, 2018)\nJean Laplanche and J. B. Pontalis\, “Fantasy and the Origins of Sexuality” (1964)\n\n\n\n  \nAbout the Speaker\nA. Kiarina Kordela is Professor of German Studies and founding Director of the Crit­ical Theory Program at Macalester College\, St. Paul\, Minnesota\, USA. She has pub­lished in fields that range from intellectual history\, philosophy\, critical and political theory to literary\, film\, and cultural analysis. She is the author of numerous articles\, as well as of Epistemontology in Spinoza\, Freud\, Marx\, Lacan (Routledge\, 2018)\, Being\, Time\, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology (SUNY Press\, 2013)\, and Surplus (SUNY Press\, 2007)\, and the co-editor of two volumes on Spinoza’s Authority (Bloomsbury\, 2018) and one on Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages (Palgrave-Macmillan\, 2011). \n  \n\nAbout the Program in Experimental Critical Theory\nThe focus of the 2025-2026 Experimental Critical Theory seminar (COM LIT250)\, taught by Professor Eleanor Kaufman\, is “Structure.”
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/psychoanalysis-and-structure-a-talk-with-a-kiarina-kordela-program-in-experimental-critical-theory/
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SUMMARY:“Giannis in the Cities” Screening and Q&A with Director Eleni Alexandrakis 
DESCRIPTION:Giannis in the Cities (2024) – Screening and Q&A with Director Eleni Alexandrakis  \nPresented by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\nand the UCLA Film & Television Archive \nFebruary 22\, 2026\n7:00 P.M.\nBilly Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum \nADMISSION IS FREE \nIn 2025\, Giannis in the Cities\, which was screened at Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Los Angeles\, won both the Best Feature Film (Orpheus Award) and the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF). \nTicketing Information: Admission is free. No advance reservations are required. Seats will be assigned when tickets are picked up at the box office and are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. \nDuring the Greek Civil War fought between 1946-1949\, childhood itself became a frontline in the clash between government and rebel forces. Under the guise of offering protection and education\, the Greek government enticed parents to surrender their children to a system of Childcare Cities that served as indoctrination mills that oftentimes alienated their wards from their own families. In her riveting\, visually striking adaptation of the memoir of Greek writer Giannis Atzakas\, writer-director Eleni Alexandrakis tells the searing story of Giannis and his experience growing up in these harsh institutions all the while unable to shake the memory of his rebel father and his longing for – and aversion to – a reunion. \nDCP\, b/w\, in Greek with English subtitles\, 90 min. Director: Eleni Alexandrakis. Screenwriters: Eleni Alexandrakis\, Panagiotis Evangelidis. With: Filippos Milikas\, Agni Stroubouli\, Evi Saoulidou. \nIn the role of Giannis: Philippos Milikas\, Marios-Konstantinos Gatetzas\, Konstantinos Athanassakis\, Aineias Tsamatis\nWith: Agni Stroumbouli\, Evi Saoulidou\, Katia Leclerc O’Wallis\, Katia Goulioni\, Themis Panou\, Evdoxia Androulidaki \nIn person for the Q&A session: Filmmaker Eleni Alexandrakis and Laurie Hart\, Chair of the UCLA Department of Anthropology & Co-Director of the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies. \nThis event is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nWatch the trailer here: \n \nAdditional information is available on the UCLA Film & Television Archive webpage here: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/giannis-cities-2026-02-22 \nParking information can be found on the Billy Wilder Theater website here: https://cinema.ucla.edu/billy-wilder-theater/.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/giannis-in-the-cities-screening-and-qa-with-director-eleni-alexandrakis/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Film,Hellenic,Humanities
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Hashem Pesaran
DESCRIPTION:Sanctions\, Economic Mismanagements\, and Reforms of the Iranian Economy\n  \nHashem Pesaran\nUniversity of Southern California and Cambridge University\n\nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\nRoyce Hall 314\nAlternate Live Stream: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95091548778\n(no registration required for Zoom access)\n  \nDownload event flyer here\n  \nThis talk will start with an overview of the Iranian economy since the 1979 Revolution and discusses how a combination of sanctions with varying degrees of severity and economic mismanagements have resulted in low economic growth\, high unemployment\, and rising inflation. There are clear links between sanctions\, the need to circumvent their effects\, and economic mismanagements. If these sanctions are here to stay\, what is the appropriate response both nationally and globally? Should a path of economic resilience through state control or fundamental market reforms be considered? I will explore the pros and cons of alternative strategies of living with sanctions\, drawing lessons from the ill-faithed subsidy reform program launched in December 2010 under Ahmadinejad’s Presidency. I shall highlight the differential effects that economic reforms are likely to have across socioeconomic groups in short and medium terms\, that further complicate policy responses. \n  \nDr. M. Hashem Pesaran is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Southern California\, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University\, and a Lifetime Fellow of Trinity College\, Cambridge. Previously\, he was head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran (1974-76) and the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education (1976-78)\, Iran. He has also been a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Applied Econometrics Program at UCLA (1989-93. Dr. Pesaran is a Fellow of the British Academy\, the Econometric Society\, and the Journal of Econometrics. He was awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of Salford in 1993\, the University of Goethe\, Frankfurt in 2008\, the University of Maastricht in 2013 and the University of Economics in Prague in 2016. In September 2013 he was named as Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate in Economics. More recently he was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds for 2014 and 2015. He has served as consultant to the United Nations\, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Pesaran is the founding editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics\, and a founding Board Member of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He has published over 250 articles in academic journals and edited volumes\, and 19 books and edited volumes.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-hashem-pesaran/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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