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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.”
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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 Lecture 4: Dress March 10, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm Registration Requested for In-Person Attendance A hybrid Zoom live stream option is...
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 Dodd 121 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception in Dodd 399 to follow. RSVP HERE In the context of attempting to...
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 this theory in his late work. Scholars have argued that in Marx’s late journalistic and ethnographic writings, his teleological and stadial theory of universal history...
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 399! var gform;gform||(document.addEventListener("gform_main_scripts_loaded",function(){gform.scriptsLoaded=!0}),window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){gform.domLoaded=!0}),gform={domLoaded:!1,scriptsLoaded:!1,initializeOnLoaded:function(o){gform.domLoaded&&gform.scriptsLoaded?o():!gform.domLoaded&&gform.scriptsLoaded?window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",o):document.addEventListener("gform_main_scripts_loaded",o)},hooks:{action:{},filter:{}},addAction:function(o,n,r,t){gform.addHook("action",o,n,r,t)},addFilter:function(o,n,r,t){gform.addHook("filter",o,n,r,t)},doAction:function(o){gform.doHook("action",o,arguments)},applyFilters:function(o){return gform.doHook("filter",o,arguments)},removeAction:function(o,n){gform.removeHook("action",o,n)},removeFilter:function(o,n,r){gform.removeHook("filter",o,n,r)},addHook:function(o,n,r,t,i){null==gform.hooks&&(gform.hooks=;null==i&&(i=n+"_"+e.length),gform.hooks.push({tag:i,callable:r,priority:t=null==t?10:t})},doHook:function(n,o,r){var t;if(r=Array.prototype.slice.call(r,1),null!=gform.hooks&&((o=gform.hooks).sort(function(o,n){return o.priority-n.priority}),o.forEach(function(o){"function"!=typeof(t=o.callable)&&(t=window),"action"==n?t.apply(null,r):r=t.apply(null,r)})),"filter"==n)return r},removeHook:function(o,n,t,i){var r;null!=gform.hooks&&(r=(r=gform.hooks).filter(function(o,n,r){return!!(null!=i&&i!=o.tag||null!=t&&t!=o.priority)}),gform.hooks=r)}}); RSVP: Study Break with the Philosophy Department - March 13, 2023 First Name(Required) Last Name(Required) Email(Required)...
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 explore the mark of contradictions in what may seem a peripheral set of texts within the broader biblical narrative, the Samson stories of Judges 13-16....
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 Q&A with UCLA Philosophy alumni who are now working as professors at institutions such as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the University...
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 the twentieth century. This talk will offer a counter history of modern Jewish literature from the perspective of women. The talk will focus on two...
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