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Join us: How to Translate Your Work for a General Audience_ February 28, 2024 at 3pm Lani Hall, UCLA

Lani Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA

How to Translate Your Work for a General Audience Editor in Residence- Public Scholarship Wednesday, February 28, 3pm, 2024 Lani Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/LARBW24 Please join us for a panel on public scholarship, specifically on how to write for non-academic audiences. The 2023-24 UCLA Editor in Residence, Public Scholarship Fellow, Tom Lutz...

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Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture

Copy of Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖 (Complete map of the world), 1674, Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. held at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Image stitched together from individual images of each frame of the map screen. Guest Speaker: S.E. Kile (University of Michigan) "Was the World Early Modern?: Telescopes, Surgery, and Print Media in China,...

Katherine Fleming Lecture
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Katherine Fleming, “How to Think About the Past”

Fowler Museum (Lenart Auditorium) 308 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA

“How to Think About the Past” Lecture by Katherine Elizabeth Fleming President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust and Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization, Department of History, New York University (NYU) March 2, 2024 4:00 p.m. UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium Reception to follow Event is free but advanced registration is requested RSVP...

One Million Experiments

Royce Hall room 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Join us for a screening of the short documentary One Million Experiments, followed by a conversation with Damon A. Williams, Daniel Kisslinger, and Los Angeles-based organizers. Check back soon for more information about the organizers who will be joining us! Register here to attend. One Million Experiments is a multimodal project that explores how we...

The Embassadors Introduction into the Audience Hall, Ides, Evert Ysbrants.
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Imaging Diplomacy: The Meridian Gate and the Making of European Perspectives on China (1655–1795)

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Lecture by Sylvia Tongyan Qiu, Ph.D. Student in Art History, UCLA, and recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship In 1692, Evert Ysbrants Ides, a Danish merchant living in the German quarters of Moscow, was sent to the Kangxi Emperor by Peter the Great as his ambassador. An account of his journey,...

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Hammer Poetry Series: Maureen McLane

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Maureen McLane, poet, literary critic, and connoisseur of both the canon and the experimental tradition, epitomizes Wallace Steven’s dictum that “poetry is the scholar’s art.” Her six distinguished volumes of poems include World Enough, chosen Best Poetry Book of the Year by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker, and her genre-breaking book of criticism and...

Liberalism and the Foundations of the Modern Greek State Event
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“Liberalism and the Foundations of the Modern Greek State (ca 1830-1880)” Lecture by Michalis Sotiropoulos

314 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Liberalism and the Foundations of the Modern Greek State (ca 1830-1880) Lecture by Michalis Sotiropoulos, The 1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies, British School at Athens Saturday, March 16, 2024 4:00 p.m. 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Reception to follow This event is free to attend but advance RSVP is requested. RSVP link: https://forms.gle/k9RShpX6Y7yzxZYX7 Q&A moderated by...

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Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Dover Quartet

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet is one of the world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. The Dover Quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music and holds additional residencies at the Bienen School of...

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Künstlers in Paradise – Cathleen Schine (Author)

314 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with her inscrutable housekeeper and her gigantic St. Bernard dog. Their tranquility is upended when Mamie’s grandson, Julian, arrives from New York City. Like many a twenty-something, he has come to seek his fortune in...

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Hammer Art History Lecture

Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

“Patterns of Anomaly in African Ivories” Abstract:  This lecture takes up questions in African Medieval to Early Modern ivory imagery and sources framed in part around a set of seemingly anomalous motifs that address how power and ivory have mutually shaped each other both in Africa (particularly Nigeria) and in European contexts. Among the works taken...

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The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History – Barbara Mann

314 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

With the rise of digital media, the ‘death of the book’ has been widely discussed. But the physical object itself persists. Here, through the lens of materiality and objects, Barbara Mann tells a history of modern Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and artist’s books, offering a new frame for understanding how...

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Heritage at High Tide: Archaeology and Climate Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean – A Deep Dive into Cyprus’ and Greece’s Imperiled Treasures

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a panel discussion organized by Professor Ioanna Kakoulli (Acting Director, UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture) April 6-7, 2024 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. PST 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. EET (Cyprus/Greece) 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. CET (Central Europe)  via Zoom RSVP here: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpcuGppzgtG9MXuDP_KRmVSgGN_KqFrSMP#/registration It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of...

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Irene Papadaki, “Love’s Labour and the Angelic Beloved: Voices from Cypriot Renaissance Poetry”

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“Love's Labour and the Angelic Beloved: Voices from Cypriot Renaissance Poetry” Lecture by Irene Papadaki University of Cyprus on the occasion of National Poetry Month With exclusive poetry readings by singer-songwriter, Alkinoos Ioannidis April 13, 2024 10:00am RSVP: https://bit.ly/3Hw5duK The reception of Italian lyrical poetry in Cyprus during the time of Venetian rule (1489-1571) yielded...

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Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Gryphon Trio

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA

Gryphon Trio is firmly established as one of the world’s preeminent piano trios. For more than 25 years, it has earned acclaim for and impressed international audiences with its highly refined, dynamic, and memorable performances. The Trio’s repertoire ranges from traditional to contemporary, and from European classicism to modern-day multimedia. It is committed to redefining...

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Lecture by Etienne Anheim, “The Role of the Renaissance in the Transformation of the Western Political Imaginary: Petrarch’s Africa and Death for the ‘Fatherland’”

236 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Abstract: The ideal of "death for the fatherland" (Pro patria mori) may seem to be an invariable reality of human society, from Sparta and Athens to today's wars. In fact, it is a political imaginary whose periodization can be traced. Ernst Kantorowicz, in a famous article published in 1951, proposed an analysis of this problem....

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Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival – Geneviève Zubrzycki

314 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Since the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by non-Jewish Poles with a passionate new interest in all things Jewish. Klezmer music, Jewish-style restaurants, kosher vodka, and festivals of Jewish culture have become popular, while new museums, memorials, Jewish studies programs, and Holocaust research centers reflect soul-searching about Polish-Jewish relations...

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Encounters with Judeo-Spanish Culture in the MENA & Beyond (12th Annual ucLADINO Conference)

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In its twelfth consecutive year, the ucLADINO conference continues to advocate for the preservation of Ladino language and culture in the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. The theme for this year’s ucLADINO conference,  Encounters with Judeo-Spanish Culture in the MENA and Beyond, seeks to highlight the ways in which Judeo-Spanish speakers (including but not limited to Haketia and...

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Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, Conference 3: Edo Outsiders: Ainu and Ryūkyūan Art

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA

-Organized by Kristopher W. Kersey, University of California, Los Angeles To this day, many mistake Japan for a culturally homogenous society, yet this nationalistic myth is far from the truth. In an effort to underscore the diversity of early modern Japan, this conference will direct attention to two groups who are often marginalized if not...

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On Solidarity: Reflect and Restore

Royce Hall room 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Join us for a screening of Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi’s film, “R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity,” followed by a panel discussion featuring UCLA Professors Saree Makdisi, Robin Kelley, and Shannon Speed. The film centers on the growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980, which was supported by left-wing movements worldwide, including Japan. This is...

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Material Poetics of Post-Digital Poetry w/ Holly Melgard

Text/Tech Lab, Kaplan Hall 211 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

This event will include a reading and talk by Holly Melgard that will explore how the post-digital conditions of her textual environment play an integral part in shaping her creative practice as a poet. Register here to attend. Holly Melgard is the author of Read Me: Selected Works (Ugly Duckling Presse 2023) and Fetal Position...

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