In the midst of a talmudic debate about the appropriateness of beer for use in Sabbath ritual (instead of the usual beverage of wine), an incident is recounted: one disciple encounters his teacher using beer for a Sabbath meal ritual, and remarks: “Abba has begun to make money from the beer business!” (b. Pesahim 107a)....
Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Hsuan Hsu, professor of English at UC Davis. Professor Hsu’s talk will consider temperature as an atmospheric medium of environmental violence and embodied sensation. Drawing on recent discussions of atmospheric racism, Professor Hsu will consider how a range of Black authors and artists have experimented with the sense...
February 28, 2023 | 6:00PM – 7:30PM Royce 306 Considering a career in law after earning your Philosophy degree? Join us for a panel discussion and reception with UCLA Philosophy alumni who have built successful careers in the field of law! Find out what our alumni are doing now and the steps they...
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 Lecture 3: Food and Drink March 1, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm Registration Requested for In-Person Attendance A hybrid Zoom live stream...
Author and visual storyteller Melanie Ho will discuss the research behind her award-winning book, Beyond Leaning In: Gender Equity and What Organizations are Up Against, a Silver medalist at the 2022 Axiom Business Book Awards. Learn about Melanie’s journey through Alternative Academic (AltAC) career paths which culminated in writing this novelized diversity, equity and inclusion...
FEBRUARY 28 & MARCH 2 2023 THE MANY SIDES OF PAGU — AN ONLINE AND TRILINGUAL EVENT ZOOM ID: 965 449 2228 PARTICIPANTS Abe Kassis Adriana Armony Andrew M. Edwards Brenda Saraí Jaramillo Fabrícia Walace Gabriela Cruz Ícaro Carvalho Inês Forjaz de Lacerda Patrícia Lino Raquel Campos Raquel Zandomeneghi Yasmin Zandomenico
Professor Christian Keime (Classics, University of Cambridge) gives a public lecture, part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar for Winter 2023, “Historicity. Re-reading Michel Foucault,” taught by UCLA Professor Giulia Sissa. Join on Zoom at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95860364810?pwd=VTJJY2oyS1YyLy9KNTB5TFZXRWhKQT09 Password: Plato
–lecture given by Gwendolyn R. Lockman, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin Recipient of the 2022–23 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Visit our website to register for...
This is the first of the Games and Korean History webinar series in Winter 2023, presented by Chosŏn History Society and hosted by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. This series brings together game creators, history teachers and scholars, and the gaming community through discussions over Korean history and its simulation. Dr. Álvaro Sanz from Paradox...
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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 physical remnant of the material culture collide. This is specifically relevant in the borderlands of the Sasanian’s vast realm, between the lands of Eran 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 Literature, Stephen Hinds, analyzing the parallel Latin and vernacular poems of Marvell and Milton, concludes by offering the provocative suggestion of the ‘virtual diptych’: for...
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 of the Case” Fangzhe Qiu (University College Dublin) – Via Zoom “‘Woe, ah alas!’ – The Piercing Poetry of Urard mac Coisse” Truc Ha Nguyen (Maynooth University) 3:00-3:15...
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 Dodd 121 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception on the Shostak Terrace (in front of Murphy Hall) to follow. RSVP HERE Social...
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 for Stanfield Parkinson, the editor, and sold by Richardson and Urquhart, etc., 1773, pl. IX. Mélanie Traversier is Professor of Early Modern History at the...
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), Molly McGuire (Oakland University Libraries), Nina Schneider (Clark Library, UCLA), and Emily Spunaugle (Oakland University Libraries) This event is free of charge, but you must...
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 weaves together stories of the Holocaust, the Ashkenazi and Sephardic diasporas, and the Guatemalan civil war in provocative and moving ways. In this special event,...
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 welcome! 11:00 am – Lecture 12:30 pm – Lunch will be served RSVP is requested at sissa@ucla.edu by March 5th
“Epinician and Enkomion: From Sent Texts to Performance.”
Join us in person or online (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735).