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SUMMARY:“Public Kindnesses and Valuing Persons as Persons” – Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 30\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nDodd Hall 175\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us for a colloquium with Cheshire Calhoun\, Arizona State University. \n  \nPublic Kindnesses and Valuing Persons as Persons\n  \nThere’s an upsurge in cultural attention to kindnesses to strangers and mere acquaintances. Are there reasons other than\, or in addition to\, the reasons favoring general beneficence and personal relationship kindnesses\, that face-to-face kindnesses to strangers and acquaintances matter? I explore their connection with valuing\, treating\, and attitudinally recognizing persons as persons. Rather than taking “valuing persons as persons” to be an exclusively moral notion\, I suggest that to value persons as persons is to value them under three distinct descriptors: as bearers of moral personhood\, as irreplaceable individuals who are the particular persons they are\, and as individuals with whom we are in society. The first two notions are familiar from the literature on recognition-respect and on personal love. I introduce the last to illuminate the way everyday\, mundane social interactions between strangers and acquaintances communicate a distinctive form of recognizing our value as persons; I suggest that the companion valuing attitude is friendly non-indifference; I conclude with some comments on greetings and chattings. \n  \nCheshire Calhoun is Professor of Philosophy Emerit at Arizona State University. She works in normative ethics and moral psychology. Her most recent books are A Social Practice Account of Responsible Persons (Open Press TIU) and Doing Valuable Time: The Present\, the Future\, and Meaningful Living (OUP). She is series editor for Oxford University Press’s Studies in Feminist Philosophy and co-editor of a new Oxford series on Positive Moral Philosophy. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science in 2020. \n  \nThis event will take place in person only. There will be a light reception following the talk. \n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/public-kindnesses-and-valuing-persons-as-persons-cheshire-calhoun-arizona-state-university/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 175
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel Discussion on Current Situation in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion on Current Situation in Iran\nMONDAY\, NOVEMBER 2\, 2026\n11:00 AM PST\nIn Persian \nONLINE ONLY\nTo watch on Zoom: https://ucla.in/4yjoB6Q \nPanelists and Discussions Include: \nIran and the War: Domestic and International Repercussions\nThis presentation examines the cumulative impact of recent developments on Iran’s domestic politics and foreign policy. It argues that\, taken together\, they have significantly altered the strategic calculations of Iran’s political leadership\, reshaping its approach to domestic governance\, regime security\, regional strategy\, and relations with the international community. The presentation will assess both the immediate consequences of these changes and their longer-term implications for the trajectory of the Islamic Republic. \nMehrzad Boroujerdi (Missouri University of Science and Technology) is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He previously served as Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech and Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. He has held fellowships and visiting appointments at Harvard\, the University of Texas at Austin\, UCLA\, and the Middle East Institute. A former President of the Association for Iranian Studies\, Boroujerdi is the author\, co-author\, or editor of several books on Iranian politics and intellectual history\, including Iranian Intellectuals and the West and Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook\, and Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft. He is also the co-founder of the Iran Data Portal. \nIran’s Economic Crisis and the Erosion of State Capacity\nIran’s current recession and severe inflation are the latest phase of a much longer economic crisis. For roughly fifteen years\, weak investment and limited gains in living standards have left the economy less able to absorb shocks. This talk examines how sanctions\, policy failures\, political uncertainty\, and conflict have compounded those pressures\, and how falling real incomes\, deteriorating infrastructure\, and shrinking economic opportunity affect the state’s capacity to meet basic needs. It concludes by considering what economic recovery would require and why a durable improvement depends on institutional as well as economic change. \nMahdi Ghodsi (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies) is a Senior Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)\, where he leads the International Economics research group. He also teaches at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and is a Senior Fellow and Head of the Economy Unit at the Centre for Middle East and Global Order. His research examines international trade\, cross-border investment\, Iran’s economy\, sanctions\, and the economic consequences of political change. \nThe Social Construction of War across Two Moments\nThis presentation explores how war is socially constructed and given meaning through the voices\, practices\, and cultural productions of civil society in Iran. Drawing on materials produced by artists\, academics\, civil society activists\, and independent cultural institutions at two different moments of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran—the 12-day war of June 2025 and the 40-day war that began in February 2026—this presentation traces shifts in how war is narrated. Situating these responses within the political rupture that followed the Dey protests\, the presentation explores the emergence of new meanings and political imaginaries\, as well as shifting tensions among vulnerability\, resistance\, and everyday life under wartime conditions. \nAzam Khatam (University of Toronto) is the Editor-in-Chief of the Global Iranian Studies Review at the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research focus on cities\, social movements\, development politics\, and Iranian universities. She has published extensively on the transformation of Tehran\, state–space relations\, social movements and public space\, and civic associations in universities. Her recent publications include “Archiving the War: On Public Statements and Political Memory” in Reflections on the June 2025 War (Jadaliyya); “Organizing at Universities and Unfolding Revolution in Iran” in Global Iranian Studies Review; “Densification and Speculative Real Estate in Tehran” in Urban Studies (forthcoming); and “Mahsa Amini’s Killing: State Violence and the Morality Police in Iran” in Human Geography (2023). \nEvent in Persian\nThis event is made possible with the co-sponsorship of the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, as well as with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-panel-discussion-on-current-situation-in-iran/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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SUMMARY:2026 Regents’ Lecturer Events: Walead Beshty
DESCRIPTION:Our 2026 Regents’ Lecturer events in Art History with the artist Walead Beshty are scheduled\, for Mondays November 2\, 16 and 30\, in Royce Hall 306. All events will begin at 5:00 PM \n\nAesthetics\, an open seminar\nWalead Beshty \nArtist and theorist Walead Beshty will lead a series of three open seminars organized around his forthcoming book\, Worlds of Appearance: An Introduction to Aesthetics in Practice (University of Chicago Press\, 2026)\, exploring the foundations of aesthetics\, its use in reflexive disciplines in the field of art\, and its emergent forms. The seminars are open to all and each session will consist of a lecture followed by open and exploratory discussion. \nSession 1: Monday\, November 2nd\, 5pm\nThe Circulation of Appearances: A General Aesthetic Model \nPolis and the Commune – The Aesthetic Commons – Inclusion\, Exclusion\, and the Sensible – Perception and Modeling (Abstraction) – Communication (Transmission vs. Communion) – Tools and Extraction – Object and Thing – Apparatuses and Incorporation – Fit and Ritual – Convention – Power and Aesthetic Management – Empathy – Instrumental (Vernacular) Aesthetics/Aesthetics Under the Duress of Urgency \nSession 2: Monday\, November 16th\, 5pm\nArtistic Conditions: A Special Aesthetic Model \nInstrumentality vs. Reflexivity – Corporate Media Formats (A Special Case of Instrumentality) – Representation and Framing – Exhibition and Display as Representational Formats – Artistic Methodologies – The Readymade and Reframing – Misrecognition and Strategies of Estrangement – Allegory and Mis en abyme – Bricolage – Creolization – Counterfeiting\, Piracy\, and Shanzhai \nSession 3: November 30th\, 5pm\nEmergencies: On Information\, Noise\, and Emergent Forms \nInformation Theory – Neo-liberalism and Information Models – Information and Probability – Digitization – Correlation and Empathy – Meaning – Noise\, the Parasite\, and the Third – Noise as Resistance – The Aesthetics of Emergent Forms – The Appearance of the Excluded \nBeshty’s book from which the seminars stem will be just out by November this quarter. A publication page is attached\, and the link for the publication follows: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo277099462.html
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2026-regents-lecturer-events-walead-beshty/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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SUMMARY:From Debdou’s Little Seville to America’s Guess: Rural Artisans and Global Designers – Aomar Boum
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Prof. Boum will develop the concept of aesthetic funds of knowledge to name the embodied\, socially transmitted\, and commercially usable repertoires through which Sephardic Moroccan Jews built aesthetic and sartorial competence across Debdou\, France\, and the Americas. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic and archival research in the Moroccan Jewish community in Los Angeles and building on Luis Moll’s account of the relation among household\, community\, and education\, he examines how the Marcianos and other LA- and Montreal-based Moroccan Jews\, whose family history links rural Moroccan Jewish life to transnational fashion commerce\, negotiated Sephardic cultural identity and economic participation through work with dress\, shoes\, and bags. Family networks\, business partnerships\, and community organizations enabled Marciano scribes\, weavers\, cobblers\, artisans\, and entrepreneurs to convert clothing knowledge and aesthetic judgment into reputational capital\, niche positioning\, and durable commercial ties. Their careers show how Sephardic distinction in the garment and fashion sectors grew from inherited craft knowledge\, kin-based trust\, and the practical calibration of taste across Mediterranean and Atlantic commercial worlds. \nWednesday\, November 4\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nFrom Debdou’s Little Seville to America’s Guess: Rural Artisans and Global Designers\nAomar Boum (UCLA)\nModerator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)\nMaurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nCosponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/from-debdous-little-seville-to-americas-guess-rural-artisans-and-global-designers-aomar-boum/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Co-Sponsored Conference: Sufis in Premodern Persianate Societies and Politics
DESCRIPTION:The 2026 Giorgio Levi Della Vida conference and award ceremony honoring Professor Richard Eaton (University of Arizona). \nView conference information and register \nThe 2026 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award presentation and conference will take place on Thursday\, November 5\, 2026\, at UCLA. The award will be presented to Professor Richard Eaton of the University of Arizona\, in recognition of his contributions to the field of Islamic Studies. The conference is part of a tradition established by CNES first director\, Gustave E. von Grunebaum\, to encourage research in the field of Islamic studies and to honor outstanding scholars in the field\, beginning with the scholar for whom the award is named. \nThe 2026 conference focuses on the topic of Sufis in premodern Persianate society and politics\, addressing the following questions: By what processes did Sufis (or Sufi institutions) act as cultural mediators\, or contribute to the Islamization of non-Muslim societies? What factors shaped Sufis’ various relationships with regional economies? What stances did Sufis take vis-à-vis political power; under what circumstances did they take these stances; and with what consequences? How did the various positions above change over time; and what factors or forces might explain those changes? Finally\, to enrich our understanding both of Islamic history and of social history\, how might case studies of individual Sufis or Sufi orders be placed into a larger comparative analysis? \nConference organizers: Nile Green (UCLA History) and Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA History). \nConference presenters: \n\nSaid Amir Arjomand (Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus\, State University of New York)\nKameliya Atanasova (Independent Scholar)\nShahzad Bashir (Dean\, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations\, Aga Khan University)\nDevin DeWeese (Professor Emeritus\, Indiana University at Bloomington)\nCarl Ernst (William R. Kenan Jr.\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)\nPeyvand Firouzeh (Assistant Professor\, University of Cambridge)\nCarlos Grenier (Associate Professor\, Florida International University)\nJo-Ann Gross (Professor Emerita\, The College of New Jersey)\nAyesha Irani (Associate Professor\, University of Massachusetts Boston)\nAhmet T. Karamustafa (Professor and Chair\, University of Maryland)\nBruce Lawrence (Marcus Family Humanities Professor Emeritus\, Duke University)\nShankar Nair (Associate Professor\, University of Virginia)\n\nConference program will be shared soon. \nThe conference is organized by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, and is co-sponsored by the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History\, the UCLA Islamic Studies Program\, and the UCLA Iranian Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsored-conference-sufis-in-premodern-persianate-societies-and-politics/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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SUMMARY:Biological Naturalism about Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the “Biological Naturalism about Consciousness\,” a conference at UCLA from Thursday-Friday\, November 5-6\, 2026 in Royce Hall 306. \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nAbout the conference\nCan non-biological systems be conscious? If not\, why not? These questions have taken on new weight as AI systems become increasingly sophisticated\, not least because our answers bear on which entities might matter morally. \n  \nThis conference focuses on biological naturalism: the family of views holding that certain biological properties are required for consciousness. Biological naturalism is often positioned as the principal alternative to functionalism. But compared to its rival\, biological naturalism remains underdeveloped as a positive research program—its central commitments are still being clarified\, its empirical predictions are still being articulated\, and the range of strategies for defending it are only now being explored systematically. (For discussion\, see this survey.) \n  \nOur aim is to bring together researchers who want to make progress toward developing a positive version of biological naturalism. \n  \nSpeakers\n\nPeter Godfrey-Smith (University of Sydney)\nNed Block (NYU)\nRosa Cao (Stanford)\nJonathan Birch (LSE)\nMatthias Michel (MIT)\nChristian de Weerd (Cambridge)\nEric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) & Jeremy Pober (University of Antwerp)\nCarolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced)\nJake Spinella (UIC)\nDaria Zakharova (LSE)\nDerek Shiller (Eleos)\n\n  \nOrganizers: Josh Armstrong (UCLA)\, Hayley Clatterbuck (UCLA and Rethink Priorities)\, and Bob Fischer (Texas State University and Rethink Priorities) \n  \nWorkshop Program\n  \nThursday\, November 5\n9:00 – 10:00: Jonathan Birch\, “What can brain emulations tell us about consciousness?” \n10:15 – 11:15: Jeremy Pober and Eric Schwitzgebel\, “Substrate Flexibility\, Copernicanism\, and Biological Naturalism” \n11:30 – 12:30: Matthias Michel\, “A Bayesian Argument for Computational Functionalism” \n12:30 – 1:30: Lunch \n1:30 – 2:30: Ned Block\, “The Rise of the AI Zombies” \n2:45 – 3:45: Rosa Cao\, TBD \n4:00 – 5:00: Christian de Weerd\, “Does consciousness require biology? An explanationist perspective” \n  \nFriday\, November 6\n9:00 – 10:00: Daria Zakharova\, “The self-model function of biological agency” \n10:15 – 11:15: Peter Godfrey-Smith\, “Biological Naturalism and Biological Chauvinism” \n11:30 – 12:30: Derek Shiller\, “Word and (Biological) Consciousness” \n12:30 – 2:00: Lunch \n2:00 – 3:00: Carolyn Dicey Jennings\, “Relationalism as a Theory of Biological Consciousness” \n3:15 – 4:15: Jake Spinella\, “Grounding\, Functionalism\, and Biological Naturalism” \n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n  \nJoin our mailing list!\nSign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events\, conferences\, and colloquia! \nSIGN UP HERE
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/biological-naturalism-about-consciousness/
LOCATION:Royce Hall – Room 306
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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SUMMARY:NADINE A Performance by Luiza Romão
DESCRIPTION:NADINE\nIn this shorter performance\, Luiza Romão presents several scenes from the show Nadine\, using a sampler and a microphone on a stand. Adaptable to different formats and performance spaces\, the piece touches on aspects of detective fiction and presentsthe poems with a stronger emphasis on spoken word. \nSynopsis:\nBased on Luiza Romão’s book of the same name\, Nadine tells the story of a young woman who\, after being murdered\, decides to investigate her own crime. Blending spoken word with crime fiction\, the performance explores themes such as gender\, the representation of violence\, and the states of vulnerability associated with sleep. Onstage\, the poems come to life alongside the original soundtrack created by José Paes de Lira. Featuring various special guest appearances in voice-over\, the audio tracks are triggered through a sampler\, creating soundscapes\, musical recordings\, and vocal architectures. The event will be hold both in Portuguese and English. \nLUIZA ROMÃO\nPoet\, actress\, and researcher\, Luiza Romão is the author of Sangria\, Também guardamos pedras aqui (winner of the Jabuti Prize for Best Poetry Book and Book of the Year)\, and Nadine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts and a master’s degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP)\, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. researching the relationship between literature and performance. \nHer work has been presented at major festivals in Brazil and abroad\, including performances in Argentina\, Germany\, Cuba\, China\, Spain\, Portugal\, Switzerland\, the Netherlands\, Mexico\, Costa Rica\, France\, and Uruguay\, among other countries. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/nadine-a-performance-by-luiza-romao/
LOCATION:Lydeen Library\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261107T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261107T110000
DTSTAMP:20261016T210414Z
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SUMMARY:Λέσχη Ανάγνωσης Ελληνικών Βιβλίων της Δυτικής Ακτής:  Αιολική Γη του Ηλία Βενέζη
DESCRIPTION:Λέσχη Ανάγνωσης Ελληνικών Βιβλίων της Δυτικής Ακτής \nΑιολική Γη του Ηλία Βενέζη \nΤη συζήτηση θα συντονίσουν η Δρ. Σάρον Γκερστέλ\, διευθύντρια του Κέντρου Μελέτης Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού Ίδρυμα Σταύρος Νιάρχος στο UCLA\, και η Δρ. Ειρήνη Κωτσοβίλη\, λέκτορας Παγκόσμιων Ανθρωπιστικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Simon Fraser. \nΗ διάλεξη θα γίνει στα Ελληνικά. \nΣάββατο\, 7 Νοεμβρίου 2026\n10:00 π.μ. Λος Άντζελες / 8:00 μ.μ. Ελλάδα\nΜέσω Zoom \nΠατήστε εδώ για να δηλώσετε συμμετοχή στη συνάντηση της Λέσχης Ανάγνωσης. \nΤο πρόγραμμα αυτό πραγματοποιείται χάρη στη γενναιόδωρη υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος Σταύρος Νιάρχος (ΙΣΝ). \nΜπορείτε να βρείτε την ελληνική έκδοση εδώ: \nhttps://www.greeceinprint.com/index.php/en/literature/literary/aioliki-gi-detail \nFor those who understand Greek\, but prefer to read in English\, you can find the English edition here: \nhttps://www.amazon.com/Land-Aeolia-Ilias-Venezis/dp/9607120434 \nΈνα αρχείο PDF είναι διαθέσιμο εδώ: \nLand of Aeolia – PDF from Academia.edu
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/%ce%bb%ce%ad%cf%83%cf%87%ce%b7-%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%ac%ce%b3%ce%bd%cf%89%cf%83%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%b7%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%ba%cf%8e%ce%bd-%ce%b2%ce%b9%ce%b2%ce%bb%ce%af%cf%89%ce%bd-%cf%84%ce%b7/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Literature,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261109T170000
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SUMMARY:Verity Platt | ‘The Garland in Greco-Roman Art: An Exercise in Anthocriticism’.
DESCRIPTION:Verity Platt will be giving a talk entitled\,‘The Garland in Greco-Roman Art: An Exercise in Anthocriticism’. \nLocation and details to come so stay tuned.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/verity-platt-the-garland-in-greco-roman-art-an-exercise-in-anthocriticism/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Department Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261109T183000
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series – Jeremy Melius
DESCRIPTION:Entitled “Fugitive Tiepolo!” this talk ask the question\, what are the relations between poetry\, painting\, and art-historical practice? And how might the connections between them be re-framed? \nThis lecture considers the work of Saint Lucian poet (and painter) Derek Walcott\, concentrating on the pictorial imagination of his book-length poem Tiepolo’s Hound (2000). Tracing the strange intimacies Walcott explores between the visual world of Giambattista Tiepolo and his own – two prospects onto the ends of empire – it considers his engagement in relation to the eccentric scholarly literature this eighteenth-century painter continues to accrue. \nIn doing so\, the lecture seeks to bring into focus the consequence of Walcott’s elliptical approach to the image for art history\, arguing for a form of art writing that might come to turn on its own obliquity. \nThis lecture is open to the public and all are welcome to attend!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-jeremy-melius/
LOCATION:UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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SUMMARY:Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race\, Labor\, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles – Caroline Luce
DESCRIPTION:Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine examines how a cohort of young Jewish radicals from Eastern Europe helped reshape multiracial left-wing activism in Southern California. It traces their migration from the Russian Empire to Los Angeles and their involvement in labor and left-wing movements. Focusing especially on Boyle Heights\, the book explores how the neighborhood’s diverse communities shaped Yiddish public culture and Jewish political organizing. It highlights the relationships\, collaborations\, and tensions that emerged as Jewish radicals built multiracial coalitions with Mexican\, Asian\, and African American neighbors. Drawing on previously untranslated Yiddish sources\, the book challenges traditional Jewish immigration narratives centered on the Northeast and places Jewish workers in the American West at the center of Jewish and American history. Ultimately\, it demonstrates how Eastern European Jewish radicals and trade unionists contributed to Los Angeles through innovative organizing and helped shape the city’s evolving racial and political landscape. \nCaroline Luce is Project Director with the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and formerly Chief Curator of Mapping Jewish Los Angeles\, a project of the UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \nTuesday\, November 10\, 2026 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nYiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Jewish Radicalism\, Labor\, and Culture in Los Angeles \nCaroline Luce (UCLA)\nModerator: Todd Presner (UCLA) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment\nUCLA Department of History\n \nEvent at Capacity — Join the Waitlist \nRSVPs for this event are now closed due to capacity limits. A secondary waitlist is available for those still interested in attending. Should space become available\, waitlisted guests will be admitted on a first-come\, first-served basis. Placement on the waitlist does not guarantee entry. \nWAITLIST
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/yiddish-in-the-land-of-sunshine-race-labor-and-jewish-radicalism-in-los-angeles-caroline-luce/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T163000
DTSTAMP:20261005T201727Z
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SUMMARY:Bringing Scholarship to Life Through Comics
DESCRIPTION:The Wide Angle Series: Engaging Research in Public Humanities – Bringing Scholarship to Life Through Comics\nHosted by Professor Barbara Fuchs\, Associate Dean for Public Humanities \nHow might comics help bring our work to a wider public? How might this form make our research more accessible to audiences both within the university and beyond? \nAt our upcoming division-wide workshop\, Professor Ignacio López-Calvo\, Faculty Director of the Center for Humanities at UC Merced\, will discuss the Bobcat Comics series\, which pairs UC Merced professors with professional comic book artists to transform their scholarship into engaging and accessible comics. \nCome learn more about how comics can translate complex research for broader audiences\, create new pathways for public engagement\, and offer an innovative way to share the work of humanities scholars \nThursday\, November 12\, 2026 \nRoyce 306 \n3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. \nVisit this Google Form to RSVP. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bringing-scholarship-to-life-through-comics/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T170000
DTSTAMP:20261028T212543Z
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SUMMARY:Generative AI and the Future of Judgment: A Symposium on Technology and the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Generative AI and the Future of Judgment: A Symposium on Technology and the Humanities will focus on generative AI/machine learning from a humanities perspective\, particularly on the work of computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum and philosopher Hannah Arendt. Weizenbaum was a computer scientist who created the early chatbot ELIZA\, after which the famous “ELIZA effect” is named. ELIZA and its users’ relationships to it presciently predicted humans’ overidentification with chatbot interlocutors. Weizenbaum also felt strongly about the role of the humanities in understanding computer science and technology: \n“[The humanities] have a greater familiarity with an ambiguous\, intractable\, sometimes unreachable [moral] world that won’t reduce itself to any correspondence with the symbols by means of which one might try to measure it. . . . [people’s] practice should involve itself with softer than scientific knowledge. . . . That is not a retreat but an advance” (Weizenbaum 1976: 279). \nKeynote speaker Benjamin Recht\, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California\, Berkeley\, is the author of The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. He is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers\, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship\, the 2012 SIAM/MOS Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization\, the 2014 Jamon Prize\, the 2015 William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research\, and the 2017 and 2020 NeurIPS Test of Time Awards. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal for Machine Learning Research and Mathematical Programming. He also cofounded the Conference on Learning for Decision and Control. \nRSVP here. Zoom link will be provided for those who cannot attend in person. \nLearn more about the event here. \nCo-hosted by the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the UC Humanities Network\, the UC Irvine School of Humanities\, and Critical AI\, an interdisciplinary journal based at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/generative-ai-and-the-future-of-judgment-a-symposium-on-technology-and-the-humanities/
LOCATION:UC Irvine and Zoom
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T151500
DTSTAMP:20261031T030413Z
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SUMMARY:D. T. Suzuki: Letters\, Lectures and Legacies
DESCRIPTION:This Workshop explores the cultural\, religious\, and intellectual legacy of Daisetsu Teitaro (D. T.) Suzuki (1870–1966)\, the preeminent figure who introduced Zen and Mahayana Buddhism to the modern Western world. This event brings together scholars\, curators\, and practitioners to discuss and reflect on Suzuki’s polymath contributions and their enduring\, cross-cultural impact. Discussions will span a broad range of topics\, including interpretations and evaluations of Suzuki’s Buddhist philosophy and translations\, archival discoveries of his lecture manuscripts and interpersonal correspondence\, and his connections with Japanese American communities and local religious institutions. \nGenerously funded by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies\, this one-day workshop will feature several highlights: a keynote address by Professor Richard M. Jaffe of Duke University; an exhibition of Buddhist archival materials\, including artifacts and manuscripts related to Suzuki’s 1950-60s U.S. sojourns preserved in the UCLA Library Special Collections; and a roundtable dialogue bridging academic research with contemporary spiritual practice and community engagement. \nFind the Schedule of the day and register here. \nKeynote address: “Promoting Buddhism from West to East: D. T. Suzuki’s California Sojourns”: \nMost studies of D. T. Suzuki’s time in the United States focus on his extended residencies in LaSalle\, Illinois at the turn of the nineteenth–twentieth centuries and in New York City in the 1950s. California\, however\, due to its geographic location\, particularly in the era before convenient transcontinental air travel and concentration of Japanese Americans\, was a convenient way station and source of sustenance for Suzuki each time he traversed the American continent. In this paper\, Professor Jaffe explores Suzuki’s trips through and extended stays in California. Using archival documents\, some housed in the UCLA Libraries\, Jaffe will highlight the many exchanges Suzuki had with Californians as he adapted his presentation of Buddhism for diverse American audiences. \nSponsors: Center for Buddhist Studies\, UCLA Library\, Center for the Study of Religion.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/d-t-suzuki-letters-lectures-and-legacies/
LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library\, Main Conference Room\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261113T163000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Symposium\, Fri. Nov. 13
DESCRIPTION:This year’s annual UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Symposium will be held at the Hammer Museum’s Nimoy Studio on Friday\, November 13\, 2026. This year’s theme is Bodies Under Duress: Violence\, Pressure\, and the Visual. \nAcross art and visual culture\, bodies have served as both the objects upon which power is exercised and the means through which its effects become visible\, imaginable\, and contested. Bodies Under Duress invites scholars to consider how visual and material practices register the forces exerted upon bodies\, while also asking not only what happens to bodies under violence\, but how violence is made possible\, legitimized\, enacted\, and remembered or forgotten.  We are honored to welcome Meredith Gamer\, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University\, as our keynote speaker. Specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art\, her research explores the intersections of visual culture\, violence\, punishment\, and power. Her recent book\, City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London (2026)\, examines the relationship between art and public execution. \n\n\nThe symposium is open to the public and all are welcome to attend!\n\n\nKindly RSVP here
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-graduate-symposium-fri-nov-13/
LOCATION:The Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261114T180000
DTSTAMP:20261016T210414Z
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SUMMARY:Memory Rehearsal presentation by Eleni Sikelianos\, Poet
DESCRIPTION:Memory Rehearsal\nPresentation by Eleni Sikelianos\, Poet\nNovember 14\, 2026\n4:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus\nReception to follow\nRSVP at this link to attend\nIn 1901\, Eva Palmer abandoned her life as a privileged New York socialite\, moving to Paris with her lover\, the writer and salonist\, Natalie Barney. The two Americans became the center of a wild tangle of lesbian love affairs and backyard performances based on intentional reimaginings of Sappho’s work and life. A chance encounter led Eva to Greece\, where she married Angelos Sikelianos\, a visionary poet who would become a Greek national hero. Celebrated American poet Eleni Sikelianos grew up knowing little of these illustrious ancestors\, her great grandparents\, who\, in the early 20th century staged a revival of the ancient Delphic festivals\, convinced that it would open a path to world peace. It was not until the age of 20\, on her first trip to Greece\, that she encountered the breadth of their legacy. In her new book\, Memory Rehearsal (City Lights\, 2026)\, Sikelianos unearths the story of her search for these pioneering ancestors\, in a text that shifts between prose\, poetry\, imaginary performance texts\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, with archival and family photographs. \nEleni will read from and discuss Memory Rehearsal\, which Kirkus calls a “moving family memoir and a triumph of cultural archaeology.” \nEleni Sikelianos was born into a family of tree workers\, bohemians\, poets\, ne’er-do-wells\, visionaries\, and smalltime sort-of hustlers. She is a poet\, writer\, collaborator\, and “master of mixing genres.” As a student of the poets of Naropa\, she is a lineage-holder in the Outrider poetics family tree. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics\, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral work. She has published ten books of poetry (most recently\, Your Kingdom\, 2023) and a trilogy of unclassifiable hybrid works\, sometimes called nonfiction\, sometimes memoirs\, sometimes fiction: The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine\, and\, most recently\, Memory Rehearsal  (City Lights\, 2026). Memory Rehearsal\, called “a triumph of cultural archaeology” in a starred Kirkus review and named One of Publishers Weekly’sMost Anticipated Books for 2026\, is a genre-busting encounter between a poet and her ancestral past documenting a startling intersection of queer history\, ancient theater\, utopian visions\, and modern poetry. \nAmong other honors\, she has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships\, a Fulbright Artists fellowship\, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in nonfiction. She grew up in earshot of the ocean\, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara\, and has since lived in San Francisco\, New York\, Paris\, Athens (Greece)\, Boulder (Colorado)\, and Providence. \nMemory Rehearsal will be available for purchase at the event! All major credit cards\, Apple Pay\, and Google Pay are accepted. Cash is also accepted with exact change only. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/memory-rehearsal-presentation-by-eleni-sikelianos-poet/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Heritage,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261117T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261117T133000
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SUMMARY:Upheavals of Faith: Deconversion\, Value Conflict\, and Grief
DESCRIPTION:Why do people grieve a faith they have chosen to leave? If they no longer believe\, what exactly have they lost? Ultimately\, leaving a religion is rarely the simple loss of a world. Recent philosophical work has argued that deconversion can be an occasion for grief\, comparable to bereavement in its power to unsettle one’s experiential world (Williams\, 2024). Such accounts describe what this grief is like but leave unexplained why some deconversions take this experiential shape and others do not. This talk by Joshua Waugh (UCLA) aims to offer an explanatory account. \nRSVP here for the in-person event by Thursday\, November 12. \nRegister here for a Zoom link. \nA light lunch will be served.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/upheavals-of-faith-deconversion-value-conflict-and-grief/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T153000
DTSTAMP:20261031T010419Z
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SUMMARY:Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism – Elizabeth E. Imber
DESCRIPTION:Following the British conquest of Ottoman Palestine\, Jews across the British Empire—from Jerusalem to Johannesburg\, and London to Calcutta—found themselves at the heart of global Jewish political discourse. As these intellectuals\, politicians\, activists\, and communal elites navigated shifting political landscapes\, some envisioned Palestine as a British dominion\, leveraging imperial power for Jewish state-building\, while others fostered ties with anticolonial movements\, contemplating independent futures. This talk\, based on Imber’s new book Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism (Stanford University Press\, 2025)\, will explore this intricate interplay between British imperialism\, Zionism\, and anticolonial movements from the 1917 British conquest of Palestine to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. In doing so\, it will show how the British Empire’s fate became central to Zionist and broader Jewish political thought during a time marked by profound urgency and exigency. \nElizabeth Imber is Associate Professor of History and the Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History at Clark University. Her work examines the cultural and political dimensions and intersections of Jewish history and European imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book\, Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism (Stanford University Press\, 2025)\, received the 2025 National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material and the 2025 Salo Baron Book Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research\, and was co-winner of the 2026 Shapiro Award from the Association for Israel Studies. \nThursday\, November 19\, 2026 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM  \nUncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism\nElizabeth E. Imber (Clark University)\nModerator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)\nViterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies \nCosponsored by the UCLA Department of History \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/uncertain-empire-jews-nationalism-and-the-fate-of-british-imperialism-elizabeth-e-imber/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261202T180000
DTSTAMP:20261030T231914Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series and Cunard Lecture Series: Beate Pongratz-Leisten
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Near Eastern Narratives: Making a Case for the Epistemic Function of Myth in Text and Image\nBeate Pongratz-Leisten\n(New York University)\nWednesday December 2\, 2026 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time\nRoyce Hall 306 and Via Zoom \nRegistration Link: https://forms.gle/aNCt12TXFDrfwULP7\nJoin Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96272801601 \nThroughout its history\, Assyriological scholarship has turned to exploring many facets of ancient epistemology\, including lexical lists\, divinatory knowledge\, medicine\, mathematics\, pharmaceutical knowledge\, legal compendia\, and commentary literature. Two domains of knowledge production conspicuously have remained left out of the picture: mythic narratives and the image. \nThe book Myth\, Text\, and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Narrative Reading of the World makes a case for establishing human thinking-in-images as an essential part of ancient Mesopotamian reasoning based in the fact that in the human mind\, imagistic thinking exists alongside rational logical thought. Due to their orientational and expository nature\, story-telling and myth-making can claim their rightful place as systems of knowledge. Mythic narrative as realized in text and image is an analytical tool that offers insight into life experiences\, conveys cultural knowledge\, provides potential models for decision-making and behavior\, and/or explains existing cultic realities as well as socio-political structures and hierarchies. \nDrawing on insights from cognitive narratology\, cognitive semiotics\, and visual studies\, the book explores how myth as episteme\, that is\, as a system of knowledge and part of cognitive and cultural experience\, serves as an explanatory system and a way of world-making in that it not only reflects\, but also constitutes reality. Past events or core metaphors—mythical or historical—are reactivated in the memory\, while the inclination for emplotment creates coherence and meaning for the present. The process of reworking and re-actualization in text and image is selective and innovative\, forever interpreting\, constructing\, re-inventing\, and reconstructing the past and establishing tropes from the stream of tradition. Narrative knowledge is not simply a recollection of the past\, but a product of narrative understanding\, a retrospective\, interpretative composition\, viewing\, or reception. \nCo-sponsored by the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World and the Jeffrey P. Cunard Center for Global Antiquity. \nAbout the Speaker\nBeate Pongratz-Leisten is Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World\, New York University. She is a cultural historian of the Ancient Near East. Her research interests include the political\, intellectual\, and religious history of Western Asia\, materialities of culture\, literature\, formation of textual communities\, transmission of cultural memory\, ritual performance and ritual texts\, text and image\, and knowledge production. Her publications include several books on the cultural and religious history of ancient Mesopotamia\, among them more recently Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism (2011)\, Religion and Ideology in Assyria (2015)\, a volume of collected articles Materiality of Divine Agency (2015) co-edited with Karen Sonik\, and Myth\, Text\, and Image: A Narrative Reading of the World (2026). Currently she is working on a monograph\, Image and Knowledge Production: The Social Construction of the Visual and the Construction of the Visual in Early Mesopotamia. Together with her Co-PI Elizabeth Knott\, she is heading the edition of Akkadian Rituals for the series Writings from the Ancient World\, and she is editor-in-chief of Ancient Literature for Old Testament Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-and-cunard-lecture-series-beate-pongratz-leisten/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cunard Center,Iranian,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Benshi 2026
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative \nDecember 5\, 2026 screenings begin at 7:30 p.m.\nDecember 6\, 2026 screenings begin at 7 p.m.\nBilly Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum\n10899 Wilshire Blvd.\, Los Angeles CA 90024 \n\n\n\n\n\nThe UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative are honored to welcome back to the Billy Wilder Theater renowned Japanese benshi Ichirō Kataoka for a weekend of live performances timed to celebrate the new release of a Flicker Alley Blu-ray box set inspired by the national Art of the Benshi tour organized by the Archive and Yanai in 2024. \nDuring the silent film era in Japan\, film screenings were accompanied by live narrators\, called benshi. Full-fledged artists in their own right\, benshi familiarized and enlivened the cinema experience in Japan through expressive performances that illuminated and extended the emotional and thematic range of the works on screen. The art\, today\, is carried on by a small group of specialized performers who have been apprenticed by the preceding generations of benshi\, creating a continuous lineage back to the original performers. \nKataoka will be joined on stage by another veteran of the 2024 tour\, composer and pianist Makia Matsumura\, who will accompany his original performances with original scores. Every benshi event is a unique\, live experience but this weekend’s program will be especially memorable for the North American premiere of the National Film Archive of Japan’s restoration of director Teinosuke Kinugasa’s groundbreaking\, always astonishing A Page of Madness on the centennial of its original release. \n\nVisit the UCLA Library Film & Television Archive calendar for individual film listings for December 5 and December 6. \n\nProgrammed by Ichirō Kataoka\, Michael Emmerich and Paul Malcolm. Notes written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm. Special thanks to Michael Emmerich and Elizabeth Leicester\, Yanai Initiative; National Film Archive of Japan. Special thanks to our community partner: West Los Angeles Sawtelle Neighborhood Council.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-art-of-the-benshi-2026/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Film,Screening,Yanai Initiative
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261213T180000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Afshin Matin-Asgari
DESCRIPTION:An Update on the US-Israeli War on Iran\nAfshin Matin-Asgar\nCalifornia State University\, Los Angeles\nSunday\, December 13\, 2026 \nLecture in Persian \nRoyce Hall 314\, 4:00pm \nZoom link for hybrid online viewing: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97189398973\nRegistration requested: https://forms.gle/NvbydTUWyWui9x9z7 \nBased on the research published in\, Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations\, this book talk will briefly review the events leading to the US-Israeli war on Iran\, followed by a summary of the most recent developments in the war and a discussion of how they are interpreted by Iranian and international scholars and political observers. \n  \n  \nAfshin Matin-Asgari is professor emeritus of modern Middle East history at California State University\, Los Angeles. His specialty is 20th century Iranian intellectual and political history\, particularly leftist movements. He is the author of Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah: 1960s-1970s (Mazda Publishers\, 2002)\, Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity (Cambridge University Press\, 2018) and Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations (Verso Publishers\, 2026)\, as well as more than thirty articles and book chapters.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-afshin-matin-asgari/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian
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SUMMARY:Idol Talk: False Worship in the Early Christian World
DESCRIPTION:Are idols real? Do gods or demons dwell in them or around them? Or are they empty\, devoid of existence except in the mind of the idolater? Ancient Christians and Jews gave very different answers to these questions. \nRSVP for this in-person event. \nSonja Anderson (UCLA\, B.A.; University of Notre Dame\, M.T.S.; Yale University\, M.A.\, M.Phil.\, Ph.D.) teaches courses in ancient Christianity and Judaism\, religious violence\, gender and Catholicism\, apocalypticism\, and religion and medicine. Her current book project\, Idol Talk: False Worship in the Early Christian World\, will be published with Edinburgh University Press and explores how ancient Christians and Jews used idolatry polemic to claim a distinctive identity for themselves over against their pagan peers and how scholarly narratives have replicated this claim to uniqueness. Her training is in ancient biblical and parabiblical texts\, but lately she is interested in the history of Catholic book publishing in 20th–21st-century America\, and in being more anti-AI with every passing day. Her favorite place to be is in conversation with students and colleagues about the weirdness of how we imagine ancient religion. She is a Benedictine oblate of Saint John’s Abbey.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/idol-talk-false-worship-in-the-early-christian-world/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270113T180000
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SUMMARY:Yarshater Lecture Series: Florian Schwarz
DESCRIPTION:Myth\, Literature\, and Geography in Transoxiana from Late Antiquity to the Early Islamic Period: Siyavash at Bukhara\nFlorian Schwarz\n(Austrian Academy of Sciences)\nWednesday January 13\, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time\nRoyce Hall 306 and Via Zoom \nRegistration Link: https://forms.gle/VgZ8xmueie9azyLE7\nJoin Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95409975203 \nThe conquest of Transoxiana\, the region beyond the river Oxus (Amu Darya)\, in the 7th to 8th centuries is generally regarded as a major historical watershed in the history of Central Asia. This view obscures deeper processes of transformation that affected the entire eastern Iranian world since long before the end of the Sasanian empire. The ideological shifts and re-ordering of the geography of power in late antique eastern Iran and Central Asia came along with a re-framing of the mythical geography of Iranian epic narratives. This presentation explores the underlying historical processes behind the complex literary representations of the story of Siyavash\, the tragic hero whose story and memory became deeply enmeshed with the historical transformations in the late antique and early Islamic Iranian East. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nFlorian Schwarz is Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and affiliate professor at the University of Vienna. He previously taught at the Ruhr University of Bochum and the University of Washington in Seattle. His work on the history of Iran and Central Asia from late antiquity to the early 20th century includes research on Sufi communities\, manuscript culture\, transimperial elites\, urban history\, and rural spaces. He is particularly interested in long-term transformations\, borderlands\, and trans-regional and trans-/non-imperial spaces. Among his recent publications\, a book-length chapter titled “Land Behind Bukhara” (2022)\, explores the emergence and transformation of the oasis of Bukhara as a historical landscape from antiquity to the early modern period. The author or co-editor of nine books\, he serves on the editorial boards of the Brill Handbook of Oriental Studies\, Section 1: The Near and Middle East\, two Iranian Studies monograph series for the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press\, and the book series Afro-Eurasian Transformations (Harrassowitz).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/yarshater-lecture-series-florian-schwarz/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Yarshater Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270114T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270114T153000
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SUMMARY:The Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine – Dov Waxman
DESCRIPTION:Since the October 7\, 2023\, attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s ensuing war in Gaza\, difficult questions about when criticism of Israel or support for Palestine becomes antisemitic have moved to the center of public life and political debate. Amid growing antisemitism and fierce disagreement over what is or isn’t antisemitic\, what is needed now more than ever is a clearer and more sophisticated understanding of antisemitism and how it relates to Israel-Palestine. In The Question of Antisemitism\, Dov Waxman provides precisely that\, presenting an authoritative guide to today’s contentious debates about antisemitism\, anti-Zionism\, and Israel-Palestine. \nDov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and former director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Before joining UCLA\, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies\, a Professor of Political Science\, and the director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University. He was previously an associate professor at the City University of New York\, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College\, and a visiting professor at the Middle East Technical University. He has also had visiting fellowships at Oxford University\, the Hebrew University\, Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University. He graduated from Oxford University and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research and writing focus on the Israel-Palestine issue\, contemporary antisemitism\, Jewish politics\, Israeli politics\, Israel-Diaspora relations\, U.S.-Israel relations\, and U.S.-Middle East relations. He is the author four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006)\, Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011)\, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016)\, and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (published by Oxford University Press in 2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, Haaretz\, The Forward\, The Atlantic\, Time\, Slate\, Foreign Policy and many other places. \nThursday\, January 14\, 2027 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nThe Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine\nDov Waxman (UCLA)\nModerator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Bedari Kindness Institute \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-question-of-antisemitism-a-guide-for-a-world-divided-by-israel-palestine-dov-waxman/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alan D. Leve Center Book Talk Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270120T160000
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SUMMARY:Priestly Mathematical Thought in Biblical and Second Temple Jewish Literatures – Liane M. Feldman
DESCRIPTION:Contrary to what we might think at first\, biblical and Second Temple Jewish literatures are filled with mathematical thought. The densest concentration of mathematical thought in these texts is found in writings concerned with priestly and priestly-adjacent matters such as temples and sacrifice. Embedded within larger narrative contexts\, these instances of counting\, calculation\, and measurement offer a unique glimpse into the socio-historical contexts of these texts and their relationship to broader knowledge networks in the ancient world. Mathematics in the ancient world\, as in modernity\, is highly contextual and culturally conditioned. How one counts or approaches even a simple arithmetical problem can and did vary widely. This talk will explore the diversity of maths in texts such as the pentateuchal priestly source\, Ezekiel\, and the Aramaic Levi Document and consider why counting and calculation might play substantial role in priestly literary writings. \nLiane Feldman is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the award-winning The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source (Mohr Siebeck\, 2020) and The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source from Creation to the Promised Land (University of California\, 2023 and 2024). She is currently writing a monograph on numerate education and mathematical thought in the Bible under contract to be published in the Anchor Yale Reference Library. \nWednesday\, January 20\, 2027 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nPriestly Mathematical Thought in Biblical and Second Temple Jewish Literatures\nLiane M. Feldman (Princeton University)\nThe Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/priestly-mathematical-thought-in-biblical-and-second-temple-jewish-literatures-liane-m-feldman/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270127T180000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: John Hyland
DESCRIPTION:Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Approaches to Historical Reconstruction and Political Myth\nJohn Hyland\n(Christopher Newport University)\nWednesday January 27\, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time\nRoyce Hall 306 and Via Zoom \nRegistration Link: https://forms.gle/PEZw9xf3oFGjXzZk8\nJoin Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95846831926 \nAchaemenid Persia’s expeditions against the Greek city-states in the early 5th century BCE are the most (in)famous events in the empire’s history\, crucial to Greco-Roman stereotypes of the “Barbarian” and misleading narratives of Persian decadence and decline. In the absence of Achaemenid narratives to counter the Greek source tradition\, the so-called “Persian Wars” are widely perceived as failures of an over-extended empire against outnumbered\, but militarily superior Greek defenders. Modern receptions have transformed the memory of these events into a powerful political myth\, which represents Greek victories over Persia as origin points for European civilization and symbols of liberty’s ability to overcome imperial despotism. France\, Britain\, the United States\, and other world powers\, not to mention modern Greece\, have vied to represent themselves as heirs to this ancient Greek heroic tradition\, while depicting their enemies as heirs to Xerxes’ Persia and its ultimate failure. Modern Iran\, in turn\, has grappled repeatedly with problems of external perception rooted in hostile Persian War myth. The current war adds particular urgency to the challenge of disentangling the complex ancient history from its modern ideological representations. \nFortunately\, disciplinary progress and emerging evidence now permits more critical historical approaches to Achaemenid contexts and perspectives on Persian-Greek conflicts. Drawing on the speaker’s recent book\, Persia’s Greek Campaigns (Oxford\, 2025)\, this talk will demonstrate the possibilities for historical reconstruction. Examining Xerxes’ effective use of campaign “spectacles” to project imperial power\, problematizing the sources’ depictions of Greek military superiority\, and highlighting iconographic evidence that the Achaemenids represented their Greek campaigns as victories\, the talk will offer a more complex picture of imperial frontier interactions that challenges the modern uses and abuses of the Persian War tradition. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nJohn Hyland is a Professor in the Department of History at Christopher Newport University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago (2005)\, and has written or co-edited three books\, including Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires (Brill\, 2025) and Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Kingship\, War\, and Spectacle on the Achaemenid Frontier (Oxford\, 2025). His next project will explore the modern afterlife of the Persian Wars as a contested political symbol between the United States\, Britain\, France\, Greece\, and Iran.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-john-hyland/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Pourdavoud Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270203T140000
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SUMMARY:World Languages Day 2027
DESCRIPTION:World Languages Day\, a cherished UCLA tradition\, returns to spotlight the university’s diverse language programs. \nOpen to all UCLA students\, World Languages Day offers opportunities to explore UCLA’s language offerings\, engage with faculty and peers and learn about the academic and professional benefits of multilingualism. \nWhether you’re curious about studying a new language or deepening your existing knowledge\, World Languages Day invites you to discover the many ways languages shape our understanding of the world. \nJoin us on February 3 to enjoy interactive activities\, cultural experiences\, performances and opportunities to win prizes!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/world-languages-day-2027/
LOCATION:Wilson Plaza
CATEGORIES:Humanities Division
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270401T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270401T173000
DTSTAMP:20261005T173241Z
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SUMMARY:Careers in Higher Education: A Humanities Career Panel Series Event
DESCRIPTION:Did you know there are nearly 30\,000 employees at UCLA\, and that the University of California is one of the top employers in the LA area?  UCLA can be a great place to launch or build your career after graduation\, offering opportunities across a wide range of fields and professions. Hear from alumni who have built rewarding careers at their alma mater and learn how the knowledge and skills you’ve gained at UCLA can help you become part of what makes this university one of the nation’s best. \nPizza and drinks will be served! \nNote: This event is in-person only. No Zoom option will be available. \nUCLA students can RSVP here. \nVisit this page for more information about the Humanities Career Panel Series and other upcoming events.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/higher-education-careers-2027/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities Career Panel Series
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