Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa
https://youtu.be/fFE5cgkJqwk In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to World War II, the rising...
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Guest Speaker: “Literary Geopolitics (About Diaspora, Black France and Wonder)” Yala Kisukidi (Philosophy, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis)
ZoomCLICK HERE TO REGISTER Abstract: In this lecture, Nadia Yala Kisukidi conceives of literature through a spatial understanding of “diaspora” at the crossroads between France and central Africa. Landscapes and...
Being in the World: Careers in Tech
On ZoomFebruary 14, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT Zoom Curious how you could use your Philosophy degree to build a successful career in the tech world? Join us for...
The Black Saints of the Carmelite Order: Ancient Ethiopia in the Early Modern European Imagination
Bunche 6275Erin Kathleen Rowe (Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education, Professor of History, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University) will give a talk about African and Black saints in early...
Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Anne Hunnell Chen
314 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CADislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos Founded by the Seleucids, successively occupied by the Arsacids (Parthians) and Romans, and spectacularly conquered in a Sasanian siege, the borderland town of Dura-Europos (Syria)...
Giuseppina Silvestri | Contact-induced change and hybrid passive constructions in southern Italy
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CAPlease join us in person or online at this link.
Book Launch: “The Book of Faith: A Modern English Translation”
Zoom MeetingPepperdine University Professor Jennifer A. T. Smith's The Book of Faith: A Modern English Translation, offers a critical introduction to, and translation of, Reginald Pecock's The Book of Faith. Organized...
Mothers and Rituals of Child-Naming in Ancient Israel – Susan Ackerman (Dartmouth)
https://youtu.be/VQKLSnryVNg In Hebrew Bible accounts of child-naming, it is a child’s mother (or a mother’s female surrogate or surrogates; e.g., a midwife) who, somewhat more often than not, bestows a...
Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Anahita Mittertrainer
Symbols of Royal Authority? Early Sasanian Cityscapes in Southwestern Iran The early Sasanian royal city foundations of Gūr and Bīšāpūr and their respective surrounding areas were actively shaped by...
The Future of Medieval France – Day 1
Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAComplete details including registration, schedule, speakers, and abstracts are on the conference webpages. An international conference on the past, present, and future of medieval studies in Europe organized by Professor Meredith...
Laura McLean | The Eternal Holy Grail: Magical Cups as an Indo-European Tradition
Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CAPlease join us in person or online at this link.
The Future of Medieval France – Day 2
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAComplete details including registration, schedule, speakers, and abstracts are on the conference webpages. An international conference on the past, present, and future of medieval studies in Europe organized by Professor Meredith...
Steve Renette – Archaeological Investigation of Autonomy and Resistance among Zagros Mountain Communities
365 Kaplan HallResisting the State: Archaeological Investigation of Autonomy and Resistance among Zagros Mountain Communities Steve Renette Friday, February 24, 2023 at 3:00pm, Kaplan Hall 365 Alternate stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93381481376 (No...
2022-23 Colloquium: Spinoza on truth
Dodd Hall 121February 24, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Dodd 121 Join us on February 24, 2023 for a colloquium with Karolina Hübner, Cornell University. The talk will take place in...
Polymnia, a conversation
Polymnia, a conversation February 25, 2023 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. via Zoom To RSVP, visit https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcOiqrzIoGd1cPmL-9eZcPtHDIShg-gpG As a follow up to the world premiere of POLYMNIA, a chamber opera by...
The Future of Medieval France – Concert
The Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Dr., Los Angeles, CAThe sounds of the medieval past are conjured in Paris-based Ensemble Dialogos’s presentation of the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat, a concert to be held in conjunction with the conference...
Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Cuarteto Casals
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CAFounded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid, Cuarteto Casals’ 25th anniversary will be celebrated in the 2022–23 season. Highlights of the 2021–22 season include the opening concert...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAMohammad Mossadegh, the Capitulations, and the “Standard of Civilization” Houchang Chehabi Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:00pm, Dodd Hall 121 Discussion in Persian Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94870537712 (No...
Guest Speaker: “Political Fictions” Patrick Boucheron (History, Collège de France)
Kaplan Hall 348CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Patrick Boucheron has been Professor at the Collège de France since 2015 (chair in History of Powers in Western Europe from the 13th to the 16th...
Kepler and Descartes on Nature and Its Representation
Royce Hall – Room 306February 27, 2023 | 11:30AM – 2:00PM Royce 306 Join us on Monday, February 27, 2023 for lunch and a lecture by Brian Baigrie, University of Toronto. Sandwiches will...
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