BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Humanities - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Humanities REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251030T172839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251030T172839Z UID:2193543-1762272000-1762275600@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Career-Panel-Series-banner-updated-2022-900x600-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251014T173204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T173204Z UID:2193350-1762358400-1762365600@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Lucinda-Dirven.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251110T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251110T164500 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251022T220244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T213703Z UID:2193441-1762788600-1762793100@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Poster_website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251014T173627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T180002Z UID:2193354-1763136000-1763136000@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Lothar-von-Falkenhausen-lecture.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251115T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251115T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20250919T175608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T202136Z UID:2193086-1763215200-1763222400@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Jewelry-Making-Banner-1-t1N31Y.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251115T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251115T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251114T221903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T221903Z UID:2193685-1763226000-1763233200@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/xirgu-3-1-HoQfe5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251022T221450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T221450Z UID:2193447-1763301600-1763308800@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Modigliani_Pic1_credit-Luc-Braquet.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251022T171623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251117T133315Z UID:2193393-1763474400-1763479800@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/RachelDeblinger_tile-qcoTuT.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251118T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251118T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251114T221908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T221908Z UID:2193688-1763481600-1763481600@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Yuliana-Ortiz-Ruano-YmF2BY.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T173000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251022T222406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T222406Z UID:2193451-1763568000-1763573400@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_1749_Proposals_Crop-for-Publicity.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251104T190411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T190944Z UID:2193575-1763665200-1763672400@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/11.20.25-Comedia_Webpage-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251122T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251122T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20250919T175611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T202046Z UID:2193088-1763823600-1763830800@humanities.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Pylos-and-Minoan-Crete-iz9mDl.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251202T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251022T171625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T164730Z UID:2193395-1764684000-1764689400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:EVENT POSTPONED: Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art – Sarah Phillips Casteel DESCRIPTION:The event\, Black Lives under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art with Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University)\, has been postponed. A new date will be announced once it is finalized. \nWe apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Please stay tuned for further updates. \n  \nIn 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. \n \nBlack Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art \nSarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University) \nIn conversation with Ben Ratskoff (Occidental College) \nIntroduction by/Moderated by Todd Presner (UCLA) \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \n  URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/black-lives-under-nazism-making-history-visible-in-literature-and-art-sarah-phillips-casteel/ LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SarahPhillipsCasteel_tile-Lh9NsJ.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251204T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251204T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251022T171627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T164730Z UID:2193397-1764856800-1764862200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora – David Kraemer DESCRIPTION:Jewish people have always wandered. From the time of the Babylonian Exile in the early 6th century BCE\, diaspora became the Jews’ normal condition\, and though they may have hoped for a return to their “Promised Land” at the “End of Days\,” they made sense of their many homes\, defending diaspora as the realm where Jewish life could grow\, and they could fulfil their obligations to God. \nEmbracing Exile analyzes biblical and rabbinic texts\, philosophical treatises\, works of Kabbalah\, Hasidism\, and a multiplicity of modern expressions\, to show that diaspora Jews through the ages insisted that God joined them in their exiles\, that “Zion” was found in Babylon\, Ottoman Turkey\, and Eastern Europe\, and that\, as citizens of the world\, Jews could only live throughout the world. The result is an assertion that lament has not been the most common Jewish response to “exile” and that Zionism is not the natural outcome of either Jewish ideology or history. \nDavid Kraemer is Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian at The Jewish Theological Seminary\, where he has also served as Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics for many years. As Librarian\, Prof. Kraemer is at the helm of the most extensive collection of Judaica—rare and contemporary—in the Western hemisphere. On account of the size and importance of the collection\, Prof. Kraemer is instrumental in setting policy and establishing vision for projects of international importance.\nProf. Kraemer is a prolific author and commentator. His books include The Mind of the Talmud (1990)\, Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature (1995)\, The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism (2000)\, Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (Routledge\, 2007\, 2009)\, and A History of the Talmud (Cambridge U. Press\, 2019)\, among others. His most recent book is Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora\, (Oxford U. Press\, 2025). \n \nThursday\, December 4 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nEmbracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora \nDavid Kraemer (Jewish Theological Seminary)\nModerator: David N. Myers (UCLA) \nAlan D. Leve Center Book Talk Series \nRSVP URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/embracing-exile-the-case-for-jewish-diaspora-david-kraemer/ LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Alan D. Leve Center Book Talk Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Kraemer_David_tile1-1-AQnNVa.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T171500 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251022T225702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251023T191847Z UID:2193455-1764925200-1764954900@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia\, 1600–1800:  Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited Conference 1: Empires of Thought DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Choon Hwee Koh (History\, UCLA)\, Meng Zhang (History\, UCLA)\, Abhishek Kaicker (History\, UC Berkeley) \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, and Center for Chinese Studies \nIn 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. \nThis first conference\, Empires of Thought\, looks at imperial ideology\, challenging and broadening the default understanding of empire as a large territorial state by focusing on how each empire upheld a normative universe within which particular kinds of political authority and legitimacy were articulated.  How did early modern Eurasian empires conceive of and construct power and legitimacy?  What were the bases of imperial ideologies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and who were their audiences? More fundamentally\, what do we mean when we talk about Eurasian “empires”? Rather than assuming a commonality in the aims of historical empires\, we seek to understand how varying traditions of thought about power patterned the practices of rule. Papers addressing these questions will be presented in four thematically organized panels: “Rulers and Plebeians\,” “Testing Sovereignty\,” “Temporal and Genealogical Order\,” and “Scholars and Bureaucrats.” \nThe list of speakers\, the conference schedule\, and the registration form\, is 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\, December 1 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/synchronicities_core1/ LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Conference,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Strange-Synchronicities_Image-composite_Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251206T161500 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20250919T175616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T200935Z UID:2193090-1765011600-1765037700@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Messenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art and Archaeology of the Second Millennium BCE Symposium DESCRIPTION:Messenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art and Archaeology of the Second Millennium BCE \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\, December 6\, 2025\n9:00 A.M. – 4:15 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus\nReception to follow \nRSVP Here \nSymposium Description:   TBD \nBios: \nEmily Catherine Egan is Assistant Professor of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She holds a dual B.A. in Classics and Old World Archaeology and Art from Brown University\, an M.Phil. in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge\, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on artistic practice in the Bronze Age Aegean\, and particularly on the production\, consumption\, and iconography of Mycenaean painted surface decoration. She has undertaken archaeological fieldwork in Italy\, Turkey\, Jordan\, Armenia\, Cyprus\, and most recently in Greece\, where she is engaged in the study of wall and floor paintings from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos\, and Petsas House\, Mycenae. \nJoanne Murphy is a professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Archaeology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro\, where she has worked since 2008 and serves as Department Head. She is also the current Director of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies\, President of The American Friends of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies (a 501c non-profit)\, and an Academic Trustee at the Archaeological Institute of America. She received her BA and first MA from University College Dublin\, Ireland\, and an MA and PhD from University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses primarily on religion and death and how they connect with identity\, community\, and political economies. As well as giving tens of lectures both nationally and internationally\, she has published over 30 papers and five edited volumes on these and related topics and has one monograph in press and two other volumes underway. She has led two major research projects: one\, a legacy study\, on the tombs around Pylos in southwestern Greece and one\, an archaeological survey on the Greek island of Kea. She has received awards for her research and for initiatives at UNCG and non-profits from various foundations including INSTAP\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Onassis Foundation\, the NEH\, and the Loeb Foundation.  She has also been recognized for her teaching and was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and UNCG College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. She has a great love of sharing the past and has led tours in Greece\, Ireland\, France\, England\, Italy\, and Turkey\, as well as running an annual archaeological field school in Greece. \nEfthymia Tsiolaki is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. She is an archaeologist specializing in the Bronze Age Aegean\, with a focus on the social and economic organization of the Greek mainland. Her current research project explores the long-term history of settlement and land use in Messenia from the bottom-up\, integrating surface survey and excavation data with GIS-based analysis to highlight the dynamic character of peripheral communities before and during the rise of the Mycenaean palace at Pylos (ca. 3000 – 1100 BC). She also studies the technology and function of ground stone tools across several archaeological projects\, examining their roles in domestic and craft activities. \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\nPeter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts\nGeorge 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 \n  URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/messenia-to-mesopotamia-new-directions-in-the-art-and-archaeology-of-the-second-millennium-bce-symposium/ LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Classics,Cultural Heritage,Gefyra,Humanities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251209T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251022T171628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T180639Z UID:2193399-1765288800-1765294200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Unpacking my Father’s Book Store – Laurence Roth DESCRIPTION:During its nearly thirty years in business\, J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community and one of the premier Jewish bookstores in the United States. It thrived in the glow of the Jewish ethnic pride movements of the sixties and seventies but was unable to market its uniquely broad definition and collection of Jewish literature after the resurgence of Orthodox Judaism and the assimilation of Jewish writing into the corporate book superstores during the late eighties and early nineties. Through a combination of memoir and critical analysis\, and by connecting both to larger forces that helped shape Jewish and American book retailing in the twentieth-century\, Laurence Roth not only illustrates the importance of one American Jewish bookstore to its customers and to the family that helped run it. He explores\, too\, the role of Jewish bookstores in the assembly and transformation of Jewish cultures and how independent bookstores like J. Roth Bookseller\, which mostly disappear from history\, often had outsized effects on their communities. Breaking with conventional modes of scholarship\, Roth tells a unique and troubled story that rarely gets told\, one that is both personal and analytical\, theoretical but rooted in the everyday. \nLaurence Roth is the Charles B. Degenstein Professor of English and director of the Jewish & Israel Studies Program and The Build Collaborative (a project-based center for liberal arts\, business\, and creativity) at Susquehanna University\, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories; coeditor\, with Nadia Valman\, of The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures; and editor of Modern Language Studies\, the scholarly journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association. \n \nTuesday\, December 9\, 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nUnpacking my Father’s Book Store: The Life and Times of J. Roth Bookseller in Los Angeles\, 1966-1994 \nLaurence Roth (Susquehanna University)\nModerator: David N. Myers (UCLA) \nArnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies \nRSVP URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/unpacking-my-fathers-book-store-laurence-roth/ LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Roth_Laurence-uYfWvi.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251214 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251118T220859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251211T125924Z UID:2193722-1765411200-1765670399@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:FLOW: Philosophy and Jiu-Jitsu Workshop DESCRIPTION:December 11-13\, 2025\nJohn Wooden Center (Blue Room) & Dodd Hall 399\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us December 11-13\, 2025 for FLOW: Philosophy Workshop. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFLOW is a pre-read workshop in which leading philosophers working in a range of areas in philosophy will present work in progress and receive comments from other leading philosophers in their respective fields. In addition to the usual academic discussions\, FLOW will have a distinctive community-building component– the workshop will include sessions at the Blue Room in the John Wooden Center in which workshop participants will be able to participate in sport jiu-jitsu together. We will be offering seminars by Dominyka Obelenyte\, Michael Schweiger\, and Christian Barry\, as well as open-mat sessions. These sessions will take place in the mornings of Dec 11-13. \n  \nIn the afternoons\, we will shift over to the philosophy position of the workshop. The format here is pre-read. Talks will be made available either as a paper or a recorded video. If you need access to view the papers\, please reach out to Ashna Madni at ashnamadni@humnet.ucla.edu. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeminars\nDominyka Obelenyte\, Frogtown Jiu-Jitsu \nChristian Barry\, Australian National University \nMichael Schweiger\, Alliance Lucas Lepri \n  \nPre-Read Talks\n\n\nChristian Barry\, ANU / Comments by Josh Armstrong\, UCLA \nDaniel Greco\, Yale / Comments by Rush Stewart\, Rochester \nCaroline Wall\, Boston University / Comments by Thomas Lambert\, Pitzer \nAdam Elga\, Princeton / Comments by Isaiah Lin\, Providence Christian College \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Program\n  \n***Update on 12/10/25 at 2:30 PM PST***: Adam Elga’s session has moved to Friday and Daniel Greco’s session has moved to Saturday. Isaiah Lin\, Providence Christian College\, will comment on Adam Elga’s paper. \n  \n\nThursday\, December 11\n1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Gi Seminar with Michael Schweiger and Open Mat (Wooden Center Blue Room) \n4:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Welcome and introductions (Dodd Hall 399) \n4:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Talk by Dominyka Obelenyte on Philosophy of Jiu-Jitsu (Dodd Hall 399) \n5:30 PM – 7:30 PM – Pre-Read Talk: Christian Barry\, “Regulated Responsibilities.” Comments by Josh Armstrong (Dodd Hall 399) \n  \nFriday\, December 12\n10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Open Mat (Wooden Center Blue Room) \n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Lunch provided for participants \n1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Pre-Read Talk: Adam Elga\, “A money pump argument against imprecise credences.” Comments by Isaiah Lin (Dodd Hall 399) \n5:00 PM – 7:00 PM – Gi Seminar with Dominyka Obelenyte (Wooden Center Blue Room) \n  \nSaturday\, December 13\n10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – No-Gi Seminar with Christian Barry (Wooden Center Blue Room) \n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Lunch provided for participants \n1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Pre-Read Talk: Caroline Wall\, “No Scars Left Behind: A Hegelian Account of Apologies and Forgiveness.” Comments by Thomas Lambert (Dodd Hall 399) \n3:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Pre-Read Talk: Daniel Greco\, “Can the Fragmentationist Accept a Formal Account of Irrationality?” Comments by Rush Stewart (Dodd Hall 399) \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/flow-philosophy-and-jiu-jitsu-workshop/ LOCATION:John Wooden Center (Blue Room) & Dodd Hall CATEGORIES:Work Shops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2512-FLOW-Wordpress-Image-v2-oJFpwA.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251022T230431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T230456Z UID:2193462-1768140000-1768147200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Escher Quartet DESCRIPTION:Within months of its inception in 2005\, the Escher Quartet came to the attention of key musical figures worldwide. Championed by the Emerson Quartet\, the Escher Quartet was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be Quartet-in-Residence at each artist’s summer festival: the Young Artists Program at Canada’s National Arts Centre\, and the Perlman Chamber Music Program on Shelter Island\, NY. \nThe Escher Quartet has received acclaim for its profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty. A former BBC New Generation Artist and recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant\, the quartet has performed at the BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall and is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall. In its home town of New York\, the ensemble serves as season artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. \nThe 2023–2024 season found the Escher Quartet embarking upon a major project: performances of the complete cycle of quartets by Bela Bartók\, culminating in a single concert performance of all six at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. \nThe Escher Quartet takes its name from the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher\, inspired by Escher’s method of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole. \nFurther details and the full program are on our website.  \n\nTickets for the Escher Quartet concert will go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday\, December 9\, 2025. \n  URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/escher-quartet-2025/ 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Photo1_Escher_no-photo-credit.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251216T212951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T205611Z UID:2194037-1768215600-1768222800@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel on Afghan Refugees in Iran DESCRIPTION:Panel on Afghan Refugees in Iran\nJanuary 12\, 2026\n11:00am Pacific Time\nOnline via Zoom\nIn Persian and English\nRegistration Required\nRegistration Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hcYEa8i_QB6EIvQRBb9YEw \nMunazza Ebtikar\nPANEL MODERATOR \nDr. Munazza Ebtikar recently completed her PhD (2025) in Politics\, History\, and Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She was a 2024-2025 Peace Fellow at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator of Stanford’s Sonic Resistance Archive\, documenting Afghan cultural production. She holds an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford and completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley with degrees in Peace and Conflict\, Middle Eastern Politics\, and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. Dr. Ebtikar is co-editing “Civil Resistance in Afghanistan” and brings multilingual research capabilities in Persian\, Arabic\, and Pashto to her work on Afghanistan’s contemporary political and cultural transformations. \n  \n  \nAshraf Haidari\nAfghan Refugees in Iran: Precarious Protection\, Forced Returns\, and Pathways Forward \nAmbassador Ashraf Haidari is a distinguished diplomat and humanitarian leader\, serving as the Founder and President of Displaced International (DI). From 2018 to 2022\, he was Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Director-General of the South Asia Cooperative Environment Program (SACEP)\, leading initiatives on regional security\, economic cooperation\, climate resilience\, and sustainable development. At Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, he held key roles\, including Director-General of Policy and Strategy and Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the Afghan Embassies in Delhi and Washington\, D.C. His leadership is deeply shaped by his personal journey as a former refugee. He earned a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Wabash College\, followed by a Master’s in Security Studies at Georgetown University and a graduate certificate in Refugees\, Migration\, and Humanitarian Emergencies. \n  \n  \nMejgan Massoumi\nLives in Transit: Afghan Cultural Producers Navigating Precarity and Policing in Iran \nMejgan Massoumi is an Assistant Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her current book project examines the history of radio in Afghanistan\, revealing how music and sound shaped politics\, culture\, and everyday life at the crossroads of Asia and the Middle East. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)\, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)\, and the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS)\, and her dissertation received the World History Association’s 2023–24 Best Dissertation Prize. Dr. Massoumi earned her PhD in History from Stanford University in 2021. She also holds degrees in Architecture (B.A.) and City Planning (M.C.P.) from the University of California\, Berkeley\, grounding her scholarship in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. \n  \n  \nMitra Naseh\nIncreasingly Restrictive Migration Policies for Afghans in Iran \nMitra Naseh is a forced migration scholar\, currently serving as an Assistant Professor and the Founding Director of the Forced Migration Initiative (FMI) at the Brown School\, Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on the multidimensional social and economic integration of forcibly displaced populations\, shaped by her interdisciplinary academic training\, lived experience as an immigrant\, and extensive fieldwork with non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies\, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia. She is the co-author of the widely recognized book Best Practices in Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants\, published by Columbia University Press in 2019. \n  \n  \nZuzanna Olszewska\nBeyond Dorr-e Dari: The Global Literary Ripples of a Pioneering Refugee Cultural Institution in Iran \nZuzanna Olszewska is Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St. John’s College\, Oxford. She is an anthropologist with a particular interest in the literary and cultural production among the Afghan diaspora. She is author of award-winning monograph The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran (Indiana University Press\, 2015) and numerous articles. She is also a translator of Persian-language poetry from Afghanistan. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-panel-on-afghan-refugees-in-iran/ LOCATION:Online Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-01-12_Afghan-Refugees-Panel-web-image-Pa42j2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260113T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20260108T205715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T204803Z UID:2194317-1768320000-1768327200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Screening of award-winning short documentary “Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy” directed by Erin Trahan and Jeff Schmidt DESCRIPTION:Screening of award-winning short documentary\nDukakis: Recipe for Democracy\ndirected by Erin Trahan and Jeff Schmidt \nPanel discussion to follow with:\nRusty Bailey (former Mayor of Riverside\, California); Daniel J.B. Mitchell (Professor Emeritus\, UCLA Anderson School of Management and Luskin School of Public Affairs); Erin Trahan (Co-Director); and Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks (President & CEO of ECOS) \nPresented by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\nand the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs \nSponsored by the Aris Anagnos Family Chair in Hellenic Studies \nJanuary 13\, 2026\n4:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus\nReception immediately after the panel \n[Film length is 28 minutes] \nWe are at capacity. Click here to join the waitlist and be notified when space becomes available. \nUpon accepting the Democratic nomination for president in 1988\, Michael Dukakis tells his fellow citizens that when they see an image of the White House\, he wants them to feel pride. He pledges to serve in a White House that “sets high standards not just for the American people\, but high standards for itself.” “Dukakis” catches up with the unflappable three-term Massachusetts governor three decades later. On a snowy afternoon\, in the same Brookline\, Massachusetts duplex he bought with his wife Kitty more than 50 years ago\, he pulls a frozen turkey carcass from the freezer and starts chopping onions. \nWhile soup broth simmers\, “Dukakis” takes viewers on a journey along his long arc of leadership\, reflecting on his formative years as the son of Greek immigrants up to the present. At age 85\, he mentors budding public servants as a college professor. He also chairs a commission to connect Boston’s North and South rail stations – a project he has backed since the 1970s. Meanwhile a crop of new leaders – including Northeastern University undergraduate Juan Gallego\, also a son of immigrants – carries Dukakis’ legacy forward all the way to the governor’s office. \n“Democracy is a work in progress\,” says Dukakis as he fills a bowl with steaming soup. “A precious gift that needs constant nurturing.” Amidst unprecedented uncertainty in American politics\, “Dukakis” offers a reason to pause\, take stock in the past\, and look forward with renewed faith in what’s possible when people believe in democracy\, and each other. \nVIEW FILM WEBSITE \nPLAY TRAILER \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 302 Charles E Young Dr N\, Westwood\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave. (in the northeast section of the campus). \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: \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $17 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Royce Hall\,” then “Dukakis Film Screening” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 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 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\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: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 6) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-award-winning-short-documentary-dukakis-recipe-for-democracy-directed-by-erin-trahan-and-jeff-schmidt/ LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-4.02.05-PM-cA0Lc3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260117T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260117T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20260108T205717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260117T204756Z UID:2194319-1768644000-1768647600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:West Coast Hellenic Book Club: Hecuba by Euripides DESCRIPTION:John Gibson\, RAUlysses Forcing Polyxena from Hecuba to be SacrificedPhoto courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts\, London \nWest Coast Hellenic Book Club: \nHecuba by Euripides \nDiscussion led by Professor Kathryn Morgan\, Joan Palevsky Professor of Classics at UCLA\, Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center and Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer\, Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University \nSaturday\, January 17\, 2026 \n10:00 A.M. Los Angeles / 8:00 P.M. Greece \nVia Zoom \nRSVP Here \nHecuba takes place after the Trojan War and centers on the former queen of Troy\, Hecuba\, who is a prisoner. First\, Hecuba is devastated by the sacrifice of her daughter Polyxena to honor Achilles. Then she learns that her son Polydoros has been murdered by King Polymestor\, who was supposed to protect him. In response\, Hecuba takes matters into her own hands\, blinding Polymestor and killing his sons. The play is a powerful look at grief\, revenge\, and how war strips people of their humanity. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nLinks to purchase book: \nhttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hecuba-euripides/1136993799 \nhttps://www.vitalsource.com/products/hecuba-euripides-v9781585104345?duration=perpetual&srsltid=AfmBOoo17vpDTJoW5rheNJ_VvzWMFQ1K5Q8-F792_HdNeZQRnQnPtQuuNR4&gQT=1 \nFind out more about the West Coast Consortium of Hellenic Studies Programs URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/west-coast-hellenic-book-club-hecuba-by-euripides/ LOCATION:by Zoom CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Literature,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Hecuba-Image-v34PYb.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260121T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260121T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251104T194802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T194802Z UID:2193582-1768989600-1769004000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:World Languages Day 2026 DESCRIPTION:World Languages Day\, a cherished UCLA tradition\, returns to spotlight the university’s diverse language programs. \nOpen to all UCLA students\, World Languages Day offers opportunities to explore UCLA’s language offerings\, engage with faculty and peers and learn about the academic and professional benefits of multilingualism. \nWhether you’re curious about studying a new language or deepening your existing knowledge\, World Languages Day invites you to discover the many ways languages shape our understanding of the world. \nJoin us on January 21 to enjoy interactive activities\, cultural experiences\, performances and opportunities to win prizes! URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/world-languages-day-2026/ LOCATION:Wilson Plaza CATEGORIES:Humanities Division ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/World-Languages-Day-1400-x-936-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260121T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260121T173000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251201T165351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T203322Z UID:2193802-1769011200-1769016600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:A Tattered Leaf Covers the Torn: Class Dynamics of Buddhist Charity in Vietnam DESCRIPTION:Professor Sara Ann Swenson (Dartmouth College) presents new research on how global trends in humanitarianism are enacted at the local level through the everyday ethics and informal practices of low-income and middle-class Buddhist volunteers in Vietnam. \nStudies of humanitarianism tend to focus on the large-scale. They analyze disaster relief\, international diplomacy\, development politics\, and privatized welfare. These studies highlight trends and policies that suggest generosity is becoming homogenized into “industrialized philanthropy.” Yet when global trends actualize in local communities\, diverse ethics and interpretations of care reemerge. Differences flourish and conflicts arise over how to best care for others. \nSara Ann Swenson’s research examines the point at which national trends toward philanthropy are enacted on the ground by focusing on the role of low-income and middle-class Buddhist volunteers in Vietnam. Informal giving and “random acts of kindness” are difficult to quantify\, meaning they are often overlooked among large-scale studies of humanitarianism. Yet these everyday ethics of care are also a major way that citizens—particularly low-income earners and middle-class workers—transform ethics of care into civic engagement and moral citizenship. Moreover\, as volunteers draw on Buddhist teachings and practices to explain care in Vietnam\, their religious ethics permeate secular and public institutions such as hospitals\, universities\, and social service programs. Close qualitative research shows how—even as processes of giving are increasingly globalized—the motivations\, experiences\, and relationships that arise from giving can vary greatly by context\, depending on intersectional dynamics between donors and recipients. Researchers must always attend to questions of who is giving to whom and why for a comprehensive understanding of how social service needs are being met amid high-speed development and privatization in late socialist countries like Vietnam. \nRegister here. \nSara Ann Swenson is an Assistant Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College. She researches contemporary Buddhism in Vietnam. She holds a PhD and MPhil in Religion from Syracuse University\, an MA in Comparative Religion from Iliff School of Theology\, and a BA in English from the University of Minnesota Duluth. Her book Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. \nSponsor(s): Center for Buddhist Studies\, Center for the Study of Religion\, Center for Southeast Asian Studies URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/a-tattered-leaf-covers-the-torn-class-dynamics-of-buddhist-charity-in-vietnam/ LOCATION:Royce 243 CATEGORIES:CSR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Header_multi-image_Sara-Ann-Swenson-event-gIeBA5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260125T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260125T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251216T212954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260125T214832Z UID:2194039-1769356800-1769364000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Ali Gheissari DESCRIPTION:Hasan Pirnia and Constitutional Experience: Articulation of Public Law and the Prospects of Modern State in Iran\, 1905-1925\nAli Gheissari\nUniversity of San Diego\nSunday\, January 25\, 2026 \nLecture in Persian \nRoyce Hall 314\, 4:00pm \nZoom link for hybrid online viewing both days: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92182697630 \nThe topic of this presentation will be an assessment of the role of Hasan Pirnia (Moshir al-Dowleh) in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and his contribution to articulating a theory of public law and the institutional requisites of the modern state in Iran. Given the limitations of time—and setting aside biographical details and the extensive accounts of the political events of the period—we shall focus specifically on two interrelated topics concerning the theoretical aspects of Pirnia’s political thought that also reflect the experience of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran. First\, the question of public law; and second\, the institutions necessary for the creation of a modern state. The Constitutional Revolution in Iran was not merely a political event but a transformation in the political mindset of Iranian society. A society that had lived for centuries under the notion of autocratic monarchy was\, at the beginning of the twentieth century\, attempting to experience the idea of a state governed by law and accountable to the nation. In this process\, there were a few statesmen—such as Hasan Pirnia—who\, under Iran’s circumstances at the time\, sought to open a challenging path between traditional structures and the creation of a modern state in Iran. \n  \n  \nAli Gheissari studied law and political science at Tehran University and history at Oxford and later taught at the University of San Diego. He has held visiting appointments at St. Antony’s College\, Oxford\, Brown University\, and the University of California\, Irvine\, and has written extensively in Persian and English on the intellectual history and politics of modern Iran and on modern philosophy and social theory. More recent publications include Iranian Studies: Selected Writings (Brill\, 2026); “Lost and found in translation: Kant in Persian Philosophical Prose” (Sophia Perennis\, Iranian Institute of Philosophy\, 2025); “Fruits of the Gardens: Ethics\, Metaphysics\, and Textual Pleasures in late Qajar Iran” (Journal of Persianate Studies\, 2024); and “Unequal Treaties and the Question of Sovereignty in Qajar and early Pahlavi Iran” (Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture\, 2023). Professor Gheissari has been the Editor-in-Chief of Iranian Studies; is on the Editorial Board of Iran Studies book series (published by Brill); and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Persian Heritage Foundation. His current research is on aspects of legal and constitutional history of modern Iran. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-ali-gheissari/ LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-01-25_Gheissari-web-image-PNVnDc.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260126T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260126T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251216T212957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T214750Z UID:2194041-1769425200-1769432400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Ali Gheissari DESCRIPTION:Hasan Pirnia and Constitutional Experience: Articulation of Public Law and the Prospects of Modern State in Iran\, 1905-1925\nAli Gheissari\nUniversity of San Diego\nMonday\, January 26\, 2026 \nLecture in English \nBunche Hall 10383\, 11:00am \nZoom link for hybrid online viewing both days: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92182697630 \nThe topic of this presentation will be an assessment of the role of Hasan Pirnia (Moshir al-Dowleh) in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and his contribution to articulating a theory of public law and the institutional requisites of the modern state in Iran. Given the limitations of time—and setting aside biographical details and the extensive accounts of the political events of the period—we shall focus specifically on two interrelated topics concerning the theoretical aspects of Pirnia’s political thought that also reflect the experience of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran. First\, the question of public law; and second\, the institutions necessary for the creation of a modern state. The Constitutional Revolution in Iran was not merely a political event but a transformation in the political mindset of Iranian society. A society that had lived for centuries under the notion of autocratic monarchy was\, at the beginning of the twentieth century\, attempting to experience the idea of a state governed by law and accountable to the nation. In this process\, there were a few statesmen—such as Hasan Pirnia—who\, under Iran’s circumstances at the time\, sought to open a challenging path between traditional structures and the creation of a modern state in Iran. \n  \n  \nAli Gheissari studied law and political science at Tehran University and history at Oxford and later taught at the University of San Diego. He has held visiting appointments at St. Antony’s College\, Oxford\, Brown University\, and the University of California\, Irvine\, and has written extensively in Persian and English on the intellectual history and politics of modern Iran and on modern philosophy and social theory. More recent publications include Iranian Studies: Selected Writings (Brill\, 2026); “Lost and found in translation: Kant in Persian Philosophical Prose” (Sophia Perennis\, Iranian Institute of Philosophy\, 2025); “Fruits of the Gardens: Ethics\, Metaphysics\, and Textual Pleasures in late Qajar Iran” (Journal of Persianate Studies\, 2024); and “Unequal Treaties and the Question of Sovereignty in Qajar and early Pahlavi Iran” (Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture\, 2023). Professor Gheissari has been the Editor-in-Chief of Iranian Studies; is on the Editorial Board of Iran Studies book series (published by Brill); and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Persian Heritage Foundation. His current research is on aspects of legal and constitutional history of modern Iran. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-ali-gheissari-2/ LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-01-25_Gheissari-web-image-PNVnDc.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251211T125922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T213308Z UID:2193888-1769522400-1769527800@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Prelude to the Holocaust: The Anti-Jewish Pogroms of Summer 1941 – Jeffrey Kopstein DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines a particularly brutal wave a violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The dominant explanations for pogrom violence center around three most frequently cited causes: endemic antisemitism in Eastern European societies\, a desire for revenge for alleged Jewish involvement in Soviet crimes during the occupation of 1939–1941\, and opportunistic appropriation of Jewish property. But a difficult question needs to be posed: why did pogroms occur in some places and not in others? Situating pogroms within the long history of local intercommunal relations sheds light on the sources of mass ethnic violence and the ways in which such gruesome acts might be avoided. \nJeffrey Kopstein is Dean’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California\, Irvine. In his research\, Professor Kopstein focuses on interethnic violence\, voting patterns of minority groups\, antisemitism\, and anti-liberal tendencies in civil society. These interests are central topics in his latest books\, Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press\, 2018)\, Politics\, Memory\, Violence: The New Social Science of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press\, 2023)\, and The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future (Polity\, 2024). Professor Kopstein’s writings also appear in outlets like The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Globe and Mail\, and The Washington Post. \n  \nTuesday\, January 27\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nPrelude to the Holocaust: The Anti-Jewish Pogroms of Summer 1941 \nJeffrey Kopstein (UCI)\nModerator: Jared McBride (UCLA) \nThe 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies \nRSVP URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/prelude-to-the-holocaust-the-anti-jewish-pogroms-of-summer-1941-jeffrey-kopstein/ LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Kopstein_Jeffrey_tile-USQ8TK.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T163000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20260107T205545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T203302Z UID:2194269-1769524200-1769531400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East DESCRIPTION:In this book talk\, Febe Armanios (Middlebury College) will present on her recently-published monograph Satellite Ministries\, which explores how modern expressions of faith\, technology\, and political power intersected and clashed across the Global South and beyond through the analysis of sixteen Christian television channels in the Middle East. In 1981\, a satellite television station called Star of Hope began broadcasting from Israeli-occupied South Lebanon. Later renamed Middle East Television (METV)\, its programming included American soap operas\, sports\, and evangelical content alongside innovative Arabic Christian televangelism. METV spurred the growth of competing Christian broadcasters and reshaped the Middle East’s media and religious landscape over the next four decades. Through extensive fieldwork and archival research\, Febe Armanios explores how Western evangelicals and indigenous Christians harnessed terrestrial and satellite technologies to promote Christian television in the Middle East. \nThis is a hybrid event   \nIn- person RSVP – click here. \nRegister here to attend online. \nCo-sponsor: Center for Near Eastern Studies URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/satellite-ministries-the-rise-of-christian-television-in-the-middle-east/ LOCATION:Bunche Hall 10383 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/header-image_Febe-Armanios-talk-UDEHN2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251209T180640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T214754Z UID:2193872-1769702400-1769706000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:After the Catastrophe: Ezra-Nehemiah and the Rebuilding of Community and Identity – Tamara Cohn Eskenazi DESCRIPTION:The deaths and deportations that accompanied the destruction of the Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 587 BCE mark the turning point in the arc of biblical narrative. The book of Ezra-Nehemiah describes the reconstruction of life in Judah in the aftermath that catastrophe. It is the only book in the Hebrew Bible to depict this period. For over a century\, scholars neglected Ezra-Nehemiah and the period it describes. But the pendulum swung at last\, and in recent decades the book became a focal point for several reasons; among them is the growing consensus that the Pentateuch received its decisive shape during this period. Additionally\, as a story about a return from exile to an ancient homeland\, Ezra-Nehemiah has been embroiled in current political discourse linked with the return to Israel in the 20th century. Detractors and admirers alike concur that its messages had an enduring significance in the past and important messages for the present. This session will explore the book’s contribution to its own time as well as its relevance to today’s challenges. \nTamara Cohn Eskenazi\, Ph.D. is the Effie Wise Ochs Professor Emerita of Biblical Literature and History at Hebrew Union College. She is an award-winning scholar who specializes in writings from the Persian Period (538-333 BCE)\, with special focus on Ezra-Nehemiah. Her book\, In an age of Prose: A Literary Approach to Ezra-Nehemiah (1988) set the study of Ezra-Nehemiah on a new foundation. See also her recent Ezra: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Yale Bible Series (2023). Prof. Eskenazi is the first woman professor appointed to the Rabbinical School at Hebrew Union College and a major contributor to Women’s Studies. Her publications include\, The Torah: A Women’s Commentary\, a 1400 page volume (2007) which won “The Book of the Year Award” granted by The Jewish Book Council\, and her JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth (2012\, authored with the late Tikva Frymer-Kensky) which won the award for Women’s Studies. \nModerator: Catherine Bonesho (UCLA) \nRSVP URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/after-the-catastrophe-ezra-nehemiah-and-the-rebuilding-of-community-and-identity-tamara-cohn-eskenazi/ LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Eskenazi_Tamara_tile-l83dHZ.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260131T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260131T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T164402 CREATED:20251114T223423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260131T203307Z UID:2193693-1769851800-1769875200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2026) DESCRIPTION:Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers\, typically drafts of articles\, book chapters\, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nFaculty\, postdocs\, and grad students from across California are welcome to participate. Register to attend in person or on Zoom by January 20 to receive the papers. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306\nRegister to attend via ZOOM \nEmail Events Manager Thi Nguyen (tnguyen@humnet.ucla.edu) if you are registering after January 20. \nThe papers will be discussed at the seminar in the following order: \n\n“When is a Document Lost? Interrogating Archival Silence in Early Medieval Italy\,” Maya Maskarinec (University of Southern California)\n“Homo legum: The Making and Classification of Legal Experts in Montpellier\, 1200-1380\,” Shahrouz Khalifian (Mount Saint Mary’s University)\n“How Medieval Judaism Became a System: Dogma and Principles of Faith in Fifteenth-Century Sepharad\,” Bénédicte Sère (Institut Universitaire de France / University of Paris-Nanterre / EHESS-Paris)\n“The Politics of Failure in late medieval Iceland\,” Basil Arnould Price (State University of New York\, Oneonta)\n\nMore information can be found here. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-winter-2026/ LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ceilings-of-the-cappella-palatina-in-palermo-jKzxKH.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR