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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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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) \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \nRSVP
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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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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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\, 2025 • 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 \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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