Anti-Semitism, long a part of the fabric of American history, has been neglected by scholars of American Jewish history until recently. Contemporary events make this no longer possible. This informal...
CMRS-CEGS Workshop “Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Spanish Atlantic in the 16th Century,” a lecture by Chloe Ireton (History, University College London). Organized by Barbara Fuchs (English, Spanish,...
The UCLA Robert U. Nelson Lecture Series, hosted by the Center for Musical Humanities, presents a talk by Dr. Trevor Reed, "Do You Care About Indigenous Sound", and response by...
Audio / Visual Romans I Thursday April 20th 2023 Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Maria Wyke, University College London “Feminizing Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1900s...
April 21, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT Royce Hall 243 (and Zoom) Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98234276234?pwd=ZkpiMFNCSjFvSVNoK1FpWFBJWjkzQT09 Join us on April 21, 2023 for a colloquium with Kyla...
Audio / Visual Romans II Friday April 21st 2023 Film Screening with Live Accompaniment and Original Score by Michele Sganga Cajus Julius Caesar, 1914. Directed by Enrico Guazzoni A live...
Augustin Hadelich is one of the great violinists of our time. Often referred to by colleagues as a musician’s musician, he is consistently cited worldwide for his phenomenal technique, soulful approach,...
Abstract: Aristotle’s Poetics, which provides the earliest Western theory of fictional narrative (muthos), has in turn become an object of fiction for contemporary novelists (Borges, Eco). But the story of...
The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading (ERR) Author Series is pleased to present a book talk and reading with Tara Ison. UCLA Department of English alum Tara Ison will...
Most popular accounts of the Holocaust depict Jewish people as passive victims who went to their deaths “like sheep.” A common question is, “Why didn’t they resist?” In this talk,...
UCLA Center for the Study of Religion is sponsoring a talk with Azzan Yadin-Israel (Jewish Studies, Rutgers University). With the exception of the cross, the apple—as the forbidden fruit—may be...
April 28th, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT Kaplan Hall 193 (and Zoom) Hosted by Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) at UCLA Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94960209231?pwd=Q3lLbnRzNXZPRkgxZ3FnOFFEbHVEZz09 Join us on April...
Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: Ecology, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory lecture by Ioanna Kakoulli (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA) Saturday, April 29, 2023 3:00 p.m....
Dodd 248/Zoom; 12-1. All welcome! Hercules rescuing Hesione from a sea-monster. Engraving by B. Picart after C. Le Brun.
A roundtable organized by Giulia Sissa (Classics, Political Science, UCLA). Iacopo Costa (CNRS and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) “Can We Bypass the Middle Ages When We Read Aristotle?” Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University)...
Professor Giulia Sissa’s roundtable entitled: Aristotle: Forever After? will be held on Monday, May 1st from 12:00 PM to 3: 00 PM. This event will be in-person and online. All...
Drawing on her in-progress book project on Forgetting, this seminar will explore the place of memory and forgetting in the reception of Second Temple Judaism, revisiting the supposed Rabbinic retreat...
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It is often noted how the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of ancient Judaism, radically expanding our evidence for Jews and Judaism prior to the rise...
CMRS-CEGS Conference Organized by Chet Van Duzer (Lazarus Project, University of Rochester) and Stephen P. McCormick (Romance Languages, Washington & Lee University). See the complete schedule at the conference website. Register...