Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape The narrative stories and physical landscapes of the Sasanian Empire run parallel to each other, intersecting in areas where historical source and...
Departmental Brownbag Workshop Professor Adriana Vazquez: “Reading Latin Subtexts in the Vernacular Poetry of the Brazilian Colonial Period” In his contribution to the 2020 volume Conversations: Classical Imitation in Renaissance...
A symposium organized by Joseph F. Nagy (Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University). 1:00 pm-1:15 pm Welcome 1:15-3:00 SESSION I – Kersti Francis (UCLA), Moderator “Early Irish Law and Indo-European Studies – A Review...
March 3, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Dodd 121 Join us on March 3rd, 2023 for a colloquium with Kristin Andrews, York University. The talk will take place in...
The Lad Taiyota, Native of Otaheite, in the dress of his Country, from Sydney Parkinson, A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty’s Ship the Endeavour, London, Printed...
Wednesday, March 8 & Thursday March 9, 2023 This is a two day conference –A Virtual Conference organized by Anna Chen (Clark Library, UCLA), Rebecca Fenning Marschall (Clark Library, UCLA),...
Eduardo Halfon’s stories cut across borders of geography, history, culture, and identity. A Guatemalan-Jewish writer with ties to the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, Halfon writes fiction that...
Professor Sara Brill (Fairfield University) will be delivering a paper entitled “Use of Birth: Biopolitics, Biotechnics, and Natal Alienation” in Giula Sissa’s graduate seminar on Historicity and Michel Foucault. All...
“Epinician and Enkomion: From Sent Texts to Performance.”
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Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran Between Religion, State, and the Lure of the West A series of four lectures by Houchang Chehabi Professor Emeritus of International Relations Boston University...
March 10, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Dodd 121 Join us on March 10th, 2023 for a colloquium with Una Stojnić, Princeton University. The talk will take place in...
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Abstract: In response to postcolonial critiques of the Eurocentrism of Marx’s theory of history, a new wave of scholarship has questioned whether Marx held on to...
March 13, 2023 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM Dodd Hall 399 Take a study break and relax with the Philosophy Department while you enjoy some pizza and refreshments in Dodd...
In biblical texts, we find preserved the “mark of contradictions, fragmentations, and adjunctions,” as intellectual historian Michel de Certeau once wrote (The Writing of History 1988: 313). This talk will...
March 14, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:00PM PT Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93202698666?pwd=Vmk1ai9BK081ZTFKV3lidGxKb2tLQT09 Considering a career in academia after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a virtual career panel discussion and...
What role did women play in the making of Jewish literary modernity? We know too little about the women writers, artists, and intellectuals who participated in transforming Jewish culture in...
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March 17, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Dodd 121 Join us on March 17th, 2023 for a colloquium with Eddy Keming Chen, UC San Diego. The talk will take...