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 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Dodd 247 Join us on April 21, 2023 for a colloquium with Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Northwestern University. The talk will take place in Dodd...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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). Image: Naples BN MS IVE9, f. 24r Virgil...
The Balourdet Quartet, based in Boston, Massachusetts, is currently in residence at the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet Program. The quartet received the Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert...
Cplakidas,CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Historical Trajectories of Hellenism in Asia Minor lecture by Paschalis Kitromilides (Academy of Athens) Date: May 7, 2023 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Royce Hall...
خشوت و آشوبهای شهری در ایران معاصر از دید تاریخی A Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran Mehrdad Amanat Sunday, May 7, 2023, 4:00 PM, Dodd...
We are delighted to announce that Professor Birgit Anette Rasmussen (Olsen) of the University of Copenhagen will be giving a block seminar to the Program in Indo-European Studies. This five-session...
“Silver: Mutability and Materiality across Seventeenth-Century Networks of Trade and Plunder in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans” Nancy Um (Associate Director, Research and Knowledge Creation, Getty Research Institute) This talk delves...
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...
Abstract: Freud famously stated that literature was the royal road to psychoanalysis. Following course, Lacan noted, in “The Signification of the Phallus”, that if one wanted to understand human sexuality...
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found...