BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Humanities - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Humanities REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250114T083259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T181026Z UID:2189896-1743530400-1743534000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Carla Pestana DESCRIPTION:Striving for Expertise \nGuest Speaker: Carla Pestana (UCLA) \nScholars often refer to Samuel Pepys as an early example of a state bureaucrat\, his career as a civil servant in the burgeoning Restoration bureaucracy offering documentation of an important shift in governance. Of equal note—and perhaps greater interest—is the way Pepys himself aimed for expertise. Not content to serve as a cog in a larger bureaucratic machine\, Pepys sought to educate himself about the workings of the navy and of sailing ships\, going beyond the demands of his own office to achieve a deeper understanding. In doing so\, he once again revealed his insecurities\, while he also indulged in personal rivalries and resisted the limitations placed on him in his role as a civil servant. \nCarla Gardina Pestana is Distinguished Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World. Her research focuses on 17th and 18th century Atlantic worlds\, especially the English Atlantic\, the Caribbean\, and U.S. religious history. Professor Pestana has published books on religion and empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, most notably Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (2009). \nProfessor William Matthews\, a member of UCLA’s English Department faculty and the Center’s second Director (1970-1972)\, was an authority on the life and writings of the seventeenth-century British wit and diarist Samuel Pepys. With the assistance of his wife Lois\, Matthews and his co-editor Robert Latham produced the definitive edition (eleven volumes) of Pepys’s works\, which was published incrementally between 1971 and 1983. The Matthewses’ will\, which endows the Center’s annual lecture and also a festive dinner\, specifies that the event should be scheduled to coincide with Pepys’s own annual celebration commemorating the surgery he endured on March 26\, 1658. \nRegister to attend in Luskin Conference Center\, Laureate Classroom \nMore information about past William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys lectures can be found here. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/will-and-lois-matthews-samuel-pepys-lecture-by-carla-pestana/ LOCATION:Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_HMS_Prince_Before_the_Wind-scaled-iro46K.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250402T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250402T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250213T074924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T093300Z UID:2190703-1743609600-1743616800@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Yuhan Vevaina DESCRIPTION:Zoroastrian Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity\nThe Sūdgar Nask of Dēnkard Book 9 is a commentary on the ‘Old Avesta’ of the 2nd millennium BCE produced in Pahlavi (Zoroastrian Middle Persian) in the Sasanian (224–651 CE) and early Islamic centuries. This commentary is a value-laden\, ideologically motivated discourse that displays a rich panoply of tradition-constituted forms of allegoresis. It mobilizes complex forms of citation\, allusion\, and intertextuality from the inherited Avestan world of myth and ritual in order to engage with and react to the profound changes occurring in Iranian society. Despite its value and importance for developing our nascent understanding of Zoroastrian hermeneutics and the self-conception of the Zoroastrian priesthood in Late Antiquity\, this primary source has attracted scant scholarly attention due to the extreme difficulty of its subject matter and the lack of a reliable translation. This 2-volume work represents the first critical edition\, translation\, and commentary of this formidable text which will contribute to the philological\, theological\, and historiographical study of Zoroastrianism in a pivotal moment in its rich and illustrious history. Reading the Sūdgar Nask is a hermeneutic process of traversing texts\, genres\, and rituals in both the Avestan and Pahlavi corpora\, thus activating nodes in a web or network of textual and meta-textual relations that establish new forms of allegoreses or meaning making. It is argued that this entire hermeneutical complex of weaving a ‘new’ text composed of implicit proof text and explicit commentary renews\, extends\, and\, ultimately\, makes tradition. \nAbout the Speaker \nYuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina is the Bahari Associate Professor of Sasanian Studies and a Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in Iranian and Persian Studies from Harvard University in 2007. Since then he has taught at Harvard University\, Stanford University\, and the University of Toronto prior to coming to Oxford in 2017. He is the co-editor with Michael Stausberg of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism. He is particularly interested in the interplay between apologetics\, polemics\, and historicising interpretations of the ancient Avestan scriptures by the Zoroastrian priesthood in the Sasanian and early Islamic periods. In 2023 and 2024 he published a two-volume book project of a critical edition and commentary on the ninth book of the Dēnkard with Harrassowitz Verlag\, Wiesbaden. It was awarded the Association for Iranian Studies Book Prize for Best Book in Ancient Iranian Studies in 2024. He is currently preparing a manuscript entitled: Topographies of Rhetoric and Moral Reasoning in Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Zoroastrianism based on his four lectures at L’École Pratique des Hautes Études\, Paris in Spring 2024\, and he is also working on a co-authored critical edition of the Epistles of Manuščihr with Arash Zeini to be published by Edinburgh University Press. \n \n\n\nPourdavoud Lecture Series – Yuhan Vevaina\n\n \n\n\nName*\n\n \n First\n \n \n Last\n \n\nEmail*\n\n\nAffiliation*\n\n\n\n UCLA Student\n \n\n UCLA Faculty or Staff\n \n\n UCLA Alumnus/Alumna\n \n\n Non-UCLA Student\n \n\n Non-UCLA Faculty or Staff\n \n\n General Public\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAttending Online or In-Person?\n\n\n\n In-Person\n \n\n Online\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n/* = 0;if(!is_postback){return;}var form_content = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_wrapper_66’);var is_confirmation = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_confirmation_wrapper_66’).length > 0;var is_redirect = contents.indexOf(‘gformRedirect(){‘) >= 0;var is_form = form_content.length > 0 && ! 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\n\n\nThe USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference began in 2006. Each year\, the graduate students of the University of Southern California and the University of California\, Los Angeles solicit high-quality papers in all areas of philosophy from graduate students studying at other departments to be presented at the annual conference. For more information\, please visit the Conference Home Page. \n\n\nConference program coming soon. \n\nFor any questions\, please contact the conference organizers at URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/usc-ucla-graduate-conference-in-philosophy-2/ LOCATION:USC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/USC-UCLA-dU3bbg.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250406T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250406T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250123T121810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T162902Z UID:2190113-1743955200-1743962400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Calendar and Identity: Why did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity? DESCRIPTION::گاهشماری و هویت\nچگونه تقویم خورشیدی ایران ۱۴۰۰ سال پایدار ماند و نماد بارزی از هویت ملی شد؟\n\nCalendar and Identity:\nWhy did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?\nSunday\, April 6\, 2025 at 4:00pm\, Royce Hall 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/97895439218 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on April 6 to join) \n  \n\nSince the end of the Sasanian era the Persian solar calendar\, and the associated rite of Nowruz\, endured as became a significant features of Iranian\, and to some extent the Persianate\, cultural identity. With Hijra as its starting point but based on vernal equinox\, it is a unique solar time reckoning throughout the Muslim world and beyond. This talk explores the circumstances that allowed the survival and its adoption as a national calendar of Iran at the turn of the 20th century. A book of the same title is in the press.  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nAbbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Since 1983\, he has taught history of early modern and modern Iran\, Shi’ism\, modern Middle East\, and the Persianate world at Yale. He has authored eight books\, most recently Iran: A Mod-ern History (Yale University Press\, 2017) and Ahd-e Qajar va Sowda-ye Farang in Persian (London\, 2021). He has edited and coedited thirteen volumes and published numerous articles\, encyclopedia entries\, and op eds. His forthcoming books include A Study of the Solar Calendar and Iranian Identity (2024 in Persian); A Study of Historiography and Reconstruction of National Identity in Iran (2024 in Persian and 2025 in English); A New Biography of Fatemah Zarin-Taj Baraghani Qorrat al-Ayn Tahereh (OneWorld\, 2025 in English); Companion of Qajar Studies (Cambridge University Press\, 2025); and Circle of Justice: Persian Art of Governance (Yale University Press\, 2026). Amanat served as the Chair of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies and as the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal of Iranian Studies and he is the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming series Sources for the Study of the Persianate World. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-calendar-and-identity-why-did-the-persian-solar-calendar-survive-for-1400-years-and-become-an-important-feature-of-iranian-identity-2/ LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/BLS-Flyer-Amanat-Persian-web-image2-AKxVgT.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250123T121807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T162903Z UID:2190111-1744038000-1744045200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Calendar and Identity: Why did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity? DESCRIPTION:Calendar and Identity:\nWhy did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?\nMonday\, April 7\, 2025 at 3:00pm\, Bunche Hall 10383 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/95885037418 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 3:00pm on April 7 to join.) \n \n\n\n\nSince the end of the Sasanian era\, the Persian solar calendar—and the associated rite of Norouz—has endured and grown to become a significant feature of Iranian\, and to some extent the Persianate\, cultural identity. With Hijra as its starting point but based on vernal equinox\, it is a unique solar time reckoning throughout the Muslim world and beyond. This talk explores the circumstances that allowed its survival and adoption as a national calendar of Iran at the turn of the 20th century. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nAbbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Since 1983\, he has taught history of early modern and modern Iran\, Shi’ism\, modern Middle East\, and the Persianate world at Yale. He has authored eight books\, most recently Iran: A Mod-ern History (Yale University Press\, 2017) and Ahd-e Qajar va Sowda-ye Farang in Persian (London\, 2021). He has edited and coedited thirteen volumes and published numerous articles\, encyclopedia entries\, and op eds. His forthcoming books include A Study of the Solar Calendar and Iranian Identity (2024 in Persian); A Study of Historiography and Reconstruction of National Identity in Iran (2024 in Persian and 2025 in English); A New Biography of Fatemah Zarin-Taj Baraghani Qorrat al-Ayn Tahereh (OneWorld\, 2025 in English); Companion of Qajar Studies (Cambridge University Press\, 2025); and Circle of Justice: Persian Art of Governance (Yale University Press\, 2026). Amanat served as the Chair of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies and as the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal of Iranian Studies and he is the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming series Sources for the Study of the Persianate World. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-calendar-and-identity-why-did-the-persian-solar-calendar-survive-for-1400-years-and-become-an-important-feature-of-iranian-identity/ LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/BLS-Flyer-Amanat-English-web-image2-eWvd4Y.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250114T083305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T181027Z UID:2189900-1744045200-1744048800@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew\, “St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home\, c. 1660” DESCRIPTION:Abstract: At the end of the 1650s\, Melchiorre Cafà\, a Maltese sculptor\, was newly established in Rome. Rome was the most significant site for sculptural production in Europe at that time. It was also a Golden Age of sculpture as artists vied for papal commissions and pushed the limits of their medium. They transformed hard stone into weightless apparitions. But\, in his early days in the Caput Mundi\, Cafà returned home conceptually. He carved in the humble material of wood the patron saint of his island\, St. Paul\, to be sent back to Malta. Today the sculpture is at the center of local devotional practices\, still carried in processions celebrating the Apostle’s shipwreck in Malta. Our time is connected to Paul’s and to Cafà’s in this living tradition. A study of Cafà’s St. Paul is one of Mediterranean cultural continuities\, and a meditation on the ethnographic gaze of the art historian. \nShawon Kinew is an art historian of early modern Southern Europe at Harvard University and specializes in seventeenth-century Rome’s art and theory. Her research on Roman Baroque sculpture focuses on the Maltese artist Melchiorre Cafà\, who is the subject of a book manuscript in preparation\, Baroque Softness: Melchiorre Cafà and the Sculpture of Mysticism. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nMore information about past Hammer Art History Lectures can be found here. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/rescheduled-hammer-art-history-lecture-by-shawon-kinew-st-paul-among-the-snakes-a-maltese-artist-goes-home-c-1660/ LOCATION:Royce 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference,Hammer Art History Annual Lecture,Humanities ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-17.27.17-scaled-rYjZws.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250409T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250409T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250212T153303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T170638Z UID:2190688-1744207200-1744210800@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Seeking Liberation: Contemporary Female Ascetic Orders Among the Jains DESCRIPTION:Present day records show an overwhelming numerical preponderance of nuns in Jain mendicant orders. Their striking presence demands that we question the androcentric models of renunciation in South Asia\, as well as interrogate the commonsensical assumptions about the attraction that a lifetime of mendicancy may hold for women. By privileging the voice of the nuns\, themselves\, this presentation looks at how the Indic concept of liberation as spiritual deliverance (moksa) may sometimes overlap\, or approximate the more this-worldly idea of women’s liberation. \nRegister here for Zoom link. \nManisha Sethi\, Associate Professor\, Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies\, Jamia Millia Islamia\, New Delhi. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/seeking-liberation-contemporary-female-ascetic-orders-among-the-jains/ LOCATION:Online on Zoom CATEGORIES:CSR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jain-nuns-ibEDxe.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250412T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250201T005105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T182731Z UID:2190364-1744365600-1744464600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California\, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) \nCo-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World \nThe tangible realities of daily life and the patterns of exchange in the Caribbean and the other Atlantic regions integrated into the Caribbean’s orbit enhance our understanding of the local dimensions of global processes that have long shaped the Caribbean Basin. This final conference will consider how the region’s early global histories may be tracked through their material manifestations in constructed and natural environments from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the materials embedded and moving through Caribbean land- and waterscapes prompts lines of investigation about how historical interactions and social constructions of meaning were mediated across different historical moments. These interactions and constructions can be explored through physical artifacts\, objects\, and living organisms. We will deliberate on how both the environment itself and the material cultural productions of the people living in the Basin were profoundly and continuously influenced by the advent of different groups\, the imposition of new agricultural regimes\, and a host of other aspects of quotidian life that persisted\, gained new forms\, or disappeared. To what extent might the historical study of transformations in the circumstances of life in the Caribbean benefit from considering distributed agencies of different human and non-human actors across time? What do considerations of materiality in or beyond traditional archives contribute to a global understanding of Caribbean history? \nPlease visit the website for a complete list of speakers and the program schedule. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/early-global-caribbean-conference-3-materialities/ LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EGC-POSTimage-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250414 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250415 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250114T083302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T181028Z UID:2189898-1744588800-1744675199@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:New Book Salon Book Talk by Roberta Morosini DESCRIPTION:What does a flying bull with a half moon on its belly in Filippino Lippi’s 1502 painting\, the Adoration of the Golden Calf\, have in common with Muhammad\, as a character of Dante’s Comedy? This is the question that Roberta Morosini tries to answer by following the journey of a legend traveling in the Oriental Mediterranean. She argues that what Lippis’s painting and Dante’s Muhammad have in common is a legend of a celestial delivery of the “bull law\,” the Qur’an and Moses’s Tablets of the Law. Just as Moses received the Tablets of the Law from God on Mount Sinai\, the Qur’an\, written according to Thomas Aquinas by mixing fables and a rippled Bible\, is carried by the bull on its horns. Taking us from Medieval Christian Byzantium to the depictions of Muhammad and Averroës in the iconographic tradition\, to the Rome of Oliviero Carafa in the events following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 through Dante’s Comedy\, the real protagonists of Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam\, a story narrated through texts and images\, are the Book and the Mediterranean as spaces of transmission of knowledge. Morosini provides a ground breaking reading of Filippino’s Adoration of the Golden Calf as an ancient scene of anti-Islam propaganda\, while shedding new light on Dante’s construction of the cultural other\, on his spaces of otherness\, and on the importance the poet gives to books that bring unity and give form to what lacks it\, like his book\, the Comedy. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-book-talk-by-roberta-morosini/ LOCATION:Royce 306 CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/roberta-morosini-book-talk-e1739475020942-6LPPSm.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T123000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250405T050104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250405T050843Z UID:2191222-1745319600-1745325000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Assessing for thinking in an age of AI – the Cognitive Audit DESCRIPTION:Join us for the inaugural session of our Critical Thinking Focused Teaching Workshop\, hosted by the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project (UQCTP) and sponsored by the UCLA Department of Philosophy and HumTech. \nA key challenge for teachers is planning and assessing student thinking with the same precision and intentionality applied to content knowledge. This issue becomes particularly significant when addressing student engagement with AI. In this session\, we will explore how to make the cognitive content of tasks and assessments\, especially in argumentative contexts\, explicit and targeted during both planning and evaluation stages. \nParticipants will receive a variety of resources designed to make the processes of planning and assessing thinking transparent\, actionable\, and easily shareable across all subject areas. Additionally\, lunch will be provided to all attendees\, allowing you to network and discuss insights with fellow educators over a meal. \nSpace is limited\, please RSVP \n  \n  \n  URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/assessing-for-thinking-in-an-age-of-ai-the-cognitive-audit/ LOCATION:Young Research Library\, YRL 2"d Floor West Classroom 23167\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:HumTech Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-04-at-11.10.43 AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250409T181152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250414T190742Z UID:2191280-1745337600-1745344800@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Careers In the FBI DESCRIPTION:Join us in person to meet a variety of professionals who work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation\, and learn about different career paths and opportunities. Speakers will talk about their experiences in their job roles and provide tips on applying for current open positions and opportunities. \nTo register\, go to: Careers Inside the FBI \nSpeakers will include: \nAssistant Director in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office\, Akil Davis \nSpecial Agent \nSupervisory Intelligence Analyst \nLanguage Analyst URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/careers-in-the-fbi/ LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Humanities Division ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Career-Panel-Series-banner-updated-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T123000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250405T050105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250405T050938Z UID:2191227-1745406000-1745411400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Thinking\, Talking and Writing DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second session of our Critical Thinking Focused Teaching Workshop\, hosted by the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project (UQCTP) and sponsored by the UCLA Department of Philosophy and HumTech. \nIn this session\, we will explore a thinking and talk-based writing pedagogy that is transferable to any discipline and year level. Based on a schematic understanding of Accountable Talk (Michaels et al. 2015)\, argument structure\, and the values of inquiry (Ellerton\, 2015)\, we will unpack the significance and utility of these tools\, both as stand-alone elements and as integrated components of a comprehensive writing pedagogy. \nParticipants will have the opportunity to think through and share how they might integrate more critical and collaborative thinking into writing experiences. \nAs with our first session\, lunch will be provided to allow for informal conversation\, networking\, and deeper reflection on these practices. \nSpace is limited. Please RSVP.  URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/thinking-talking-and-writing/ LOCATION:Young Research Library Presentation Room\, YRL 1st. Floor Presentation Presentation Room 11348\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:HumTech Event,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-04-at-11.10.43 AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250424T001127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250424T002025Z UID:2191357-1745514000-1745521200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Naoíse Mac Sweeney | “The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration\, Urbanisation\, and the Emergence of Greekness?” DESCRIPTION:Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor \nNaoíse Mac Sweeney\, University of Vienna \n“The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration\, Urbanisation\, and the Emergence of Greekness?” \nLecture summary:  By the start of the classical period\, the Greek world stretched from Spain to Cyprus\, and from Libya to the Crimea\, and was comprised of over 1\,000 autonomous polities. In this lecture\, I will consider how this geographically dispersed and politically fragmented Greek world came into being over the course of the 11th to sixth centuries BCE\, focusing in particular on new data from archaeological surveys designed to uncover processes of urbanisation and migration at varying scales. This new data suggests divergent pathways to Greekness in different parts of the Greek world\, with the adoption of Greek lifestyles and cultural traits happening at radically different times and in response to different local contexts. If\, as this evidence suggests\, the Greek world was forged in a more piecemeal and uneven manner than previously thought\, does this have implications for what we assume the Greek world fundamentally was? \nAbout the speaker: Naoíse Mac Sweeney\, professor of Greek archaeology at the University of Vienna\, is the author of books including “Community Identity and Archaeology” (2011)\, “Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia” (2013)\, “Troy: Myth\, City\, Icon” (2018) and\, most recently\, “The West: A New History of an Old Idea” (2023). \nKindly RSVP at collegeevents@support.ucla.edu. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/naoise-mac-sweeney-the-birth-of-the-ancient-greek-world-migration-urbanisation-and-the-emergence-of-greekness/ LOCATION:Fowler Museum CATEGORIES:Humanities,Palevsky Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-PalevskyLect2025_NaoiseMacSweeney.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250426T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250426T173000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250214T154820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T181029Z UID:2190747-1745658000-1745688600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:“Hybridity”: In-Between People\, Texts & Objects Across the Early Global World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference DESCRIPTION:The 5th Annual Conference of the UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association seeks to highlight the innovative work of graduate students on the manifold ways people\, texts\, and objects “in-between” shaped the early global world\, from the early medieval to the late early modern periods. Presentations will engage with the concept of the so-called “hybrid\,” asking: what does it mean to label something as in-between\, mixed\, syncretic\, blended\, amalgamated\, or composite? To what end might something be constituted as “hybrid”? Does “hybridity” as a term still carry meaning when encompassing so much? Does the contact and exchange of people\, things\, and ideas inevitably result in “hybridity”? The event seeks to problematize the term and its synonyms\, thinking about “hybridity” as a threshold of negotiation\, contestation\, in(ter)vention\, interpretation\, translation\, and debate. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nOrganized by the Officers of MEMSA: Chase Caldwell Smith\, Sofía Yazpik\, Miranda Heaner\, and Stanley Wu \nSponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/hybridity-in-between-people-texts-objects-across-the-early-global-world-memsa-graduate-student-conference/ LOCATION:Royce 306 CATEGORIES:Humanities,MEMSA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CFP-MEMSA-Conference-Poster-2025-Hybridity-e1739473828451-vOXA5o.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250203T184324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T184950Z UID:2190438-1745762400-1745769600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary presents Borromeo String Quartet DESCRIPTION:Concert presented in honor of Bruce Whiteman \nEach visionary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our time. Admired and sought after for both its fresh interpretations of the classical music canon and its championing of works by twentieth- and twenty-first-century composers\, the ensemble has been hailed for its “edge-of-the-seat performances” by the Boston Globe\, which called it “simply the best.” \nThe group recently premiered new works written for it by Sebastian Currier and Aaron Jay Kernis at recitals at Carnegie Hall\, Shriver Concerts\, and the Tippet Rise Art Center. The ensemble continues to perform violinist Nicholas Kitchen’s transcriptions of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the Well-Tempered Clavier Bk. I\, the latter of which the BSQ recently released as an acclaimed premiere recording which hit the billboard charts. \nFurther details and the complete program are on the website. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/chamber-music-at-the-clark-30th-anniversary-presents-borromeo-string-quartet/ LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Borromeo_Jurgen-Frank_FLYER.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clark Library":MAILTO:clark@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T123000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250405T050107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250405T051032Z UID:2191231-1745838000-1745843400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Teaching for Thinking DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third and final session of our Critical Thinking Focused Teaching Workshop\, hosted by the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project (UQCTP) and sponsored by the UCLA Department of Philosophy and HumTech. \nThis session challenges the false dichotomy of teaching for thinking and teaching for content knowledge. We will show that developing deep and complex content knowledge demands attention to how students think\, both as they are learning and in how they are using and creating new knowledge. The extent to which we value explicit teaching must carry into the explicit teaching of thinking\, and the language and concepts of how this is best done are critical for effective pedagogical discussions.  A range of concepts and tools will be discussed that demonstrate practical guides to putting key principles of teaching for thinking into action. \nLunch will be provided to allow for informal conversation\, networking\, and deeper reflection on these practices. \nSpace is limited. Please RSVP. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/teaching-for-thinking-2/ LOCATION:Young Research Library\, YRL 2"d Floor West Classroom 23167\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:HumTech Event,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-04-at-11.10.43 AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250222T163311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T170639Z UID:2190890-1745848800-1745859600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Symposium – (Mis)Using the Bible: White Evangelicalism & Christian Nationalism in America DESCRIPTION:White Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism has occupied an increasingly prominent position since—and in many ways before—the first Trump administration. Events such as January 6 and the second Trump presidency have highlighted the entanglement of politics and religious belief that is central to Christian Nationalism. This symposium brings together several scholars to discuss various aspects of white Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism\, particularly as they connect to modern and contemporary American politics. The symposium serves as a forum for investigating topics such as tolerance and religious pluralism\, the use of anti-abortion protests\, and the intersection of race and Christian Nationalism. Further\, the symposium opens a discussion on how Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism use and misuse biblical and historical material to bolster their narratives. \n  \nSpace is limited. RSVP here for the in-person event. \nRegister here for the Zoom link here. \n  \nSymposium Schedule: \n2–2:10: Welcome – Carol Bakhos\, Chair\, Study of Religion \n2:10-2:30: Introduction and Opening Remarks by Gina Konstantopoulos\, Symposium Moderator – “Evangelizing Antiquity: The Museum of the Bible and the Appropriation of the Past” \n2:30-3:00 Sophie Bjork-James – “To Be Pro-life in an Age of Extinction: Abortion\, Christian Nationalism\, and Ecological Denial” \n3:00-3:20: Break \n3:20-3:50: Brooklyn Walker – “Counterpoint in the Heavenly Choir:  Christian Nationalism\, Anti-Christian Nationalism\, and the Multivocality of American Christianity” \n3:50-4:20: Michael R. Fisher\, Jr. – “Race\, Politics\, and Christian Nationalism in the Second Era of Trump” \n4:20-5: Discussion and Q&A \n  \nOpening Remarks: “Evangelizing Antiquity: The Museum of the Bible and the Appropriation of the Past” \nFounded in 2017 by David Green\, the Museum of the Bible stands as an impressive institution: it boasts seven floors and 430\,000 square feet of exhibition space\, all located two blocks from the National Mall in Washington DC. The museum presents a narrative wherein historical and religious evidence and artefacts are utilized to bolster an evangelical perspective. This talk discusses how the Museum of the Bible\, as well as other evangelical institutions\, utilize the past in particular in their attempt to craft—and moreover legitimize—their own\, often very specific\, narrative. \nGina Konstantopoulos is an associate professor in Assyriology and Cuneiform studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her research centers on religion\, magic\, and literature in Mesopotamia\, with a focus on the role of demons and monsters. She is the author of The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia (Brill\, 2023). She has authored articles on demons and monsters in Mesopotamia\, translations of Sumerian and Akkadian texts\, and the reception of Mesopotamia in later pre-modern and modern contexts. \n  \n“To Be Pro-life in an Age of Extinction: Abortion\, Christian Nationalism\, and Ecological Denial” \nWithin Christian Nationalism\, anti-abortion and anti-environmental politics are united. Since white evangelicals adopted an anti-abortion stance between the late 1970s and early 1980s\, they have sought to make it the most significant moral issue of our time. Abortion can then act as a moral pivot\, re-directing concern away from other problems\, especially environmental ones. Drawing on long-term research on white evangelical politics in Colorado\, this talk shows how within Christian Nationalism concern about abortion often serves to occlude care about the environment and the climate crisis. The significance of this is hard to overstate in our current era of climate crisis and species collapse. \nSophie Bjork-James is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She has over ten years of experience researching both the US based Religious Right and the white nationalist movements. She is the author of The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family (Rutgers 2021\, winner of the Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize) and the co-editor of Beyond Populism: Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism (2020). She has been interviewed on the NBC Nightly News\, NPR’s All Things Considered\, BBC Radio 4’s Today\, and in the New York Times. Her work has received support the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research\, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion\, the American Academy of Religion\, the National Science Foundation\, and the Mellon Foundation. She is currently working on a new book exploring how young people understand abortion in a state that has implemented a total abortion ban. \n  \n“Counterpoint in the Heavenly Choir:  Christian Nationalism\, Anti-Christian Nationalism\, and the Multivocality of American Christianity” \nThe Bible has been used to give voice to the concepts of rule by religious precept and ethnocentrism central to Christian nationalism. But\, in opposition to religious nationalism\, the Bible has also been used to proclaim themes of pluralism\, equality\, and liberty. Using data drawn from a survey of American Christians\, I explore the extent to which both Christian nationalist and anti-Christian nationalist ideas derived from the Bible have taken hold in the public. Among American Christians\, support for Christian nationalism and anti-Christian nationalism are positively linked. While anti-Christian nationalist ideas have the potential to improve tolerance\, feelings of threat can silence these messages supportive of religious pluralism. \nBrooklyn Walker is an Instructor of Political Science at Hutchinson Community College and will be joining the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as Assistant Professor in the fall of 2025. Brooklyn is interested in how people come to think of themselves as members of politicized groups and in the effects of politicized identities on intergroup relations and public opinion. Her projects have explored the intersections of Christian nationalism and religious and racial group identities. She also researches in the areas of political psychology\, racial and ethnic politics\, and gender and politics. \n  \n“Race\, Politics\, and Christian Nationalism in the Second Era of Trump” \nAlthough Christian nationalism ideology resonates across the United States\, it’s important to recognize that\, like many demographic groups\, supporters of Christian nationalism don’t universally subscribe to the same ideas. Existing research focuses almost exclusively on White Americans who qualify as Christian nationalism adherents and sympathizers (hereafter Christian nationalists) and does so through observational analysis with few exceptions. This presentation leverages observational analysis and causal inference to examine the ideological and political differences between Black\, White\, and Latine Americans who qualify as Christian nationalists. \nMichael R. Fisher Jr.\, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the political economy of race/racism in the Department of African American and African Studies and is a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar\, Dr. Fisher’s areas of specialization include race\, policy\, and socio-economic inequality and race and religion. He holds research appointments at the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University\, the National Initiative of Mixed-Income Communities at Case Western Reserve University\, and the Institute for Gender Studies at the University of South Africa. He is also a 2023–25 Public Fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute and is editor of Confronting Racism and White Supremacy in the US: Twenty-First-Century Theological Perspectives (Friendship Press\, 2024). \n  \nOrganized by Gina Konstantopoulos\nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/symposium-misusing-the-bible-white-evangelicalism-christian-nationalism-in-america/ LOCATION:Royce Hall 306/Zoom CATEGORIES:CSR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Christian-nationalism_header-mnRFdM.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250202T103308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T181030Z UID:2190396-1746264600-1746288000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Spring 2025) DESCRIPTION:Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers\, typically drafts of articles\, book chapters\, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nMore information can be found here. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nRegister to attend via Zoom URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-spring-2025/ LOCATION:Royce 306 CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ceilings-of-the-cappella-palatina-in-palermo-jKzxKH.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250203T184930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T184930Z UID:2190445-1746280800-1746286200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Art of Duo: A Journey through Europe to the USA from 1700 to 1930 DESCRIPTION:Ambroise Aubrun\, violin\nSteven Vanhauwaert\, piano \n“ A Journey through Europe to the USA from 1700 to 1930” invites you to an exploration of the violin and piano duo’s rich history. Each piece performed will reflect the evolving styles and cultural influences that shaped the duo’s repertoire from the baroque era to the early 20th century. The performance is complemented by engaging presentations and discussions\, offering a guide to a deeper understanding of this timeless repertoire. \nFurther details and the complete program are on the website. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-art-of-duo-a-journey-through-europe-to-the-usa-from-1700-to-1930/ LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Ambroise-et-Steven-Sm-res-3329.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T121500 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250211T153620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T170639Z UID:2190644-1746702900-1746706500@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Progressive Activists and the Bible DESCRIPTION:Some of America’s most effective reformers did not just refer to the Bible\, but fused their own struggles with its narratives\, seeing themselves as part of a cosmic divine battle within history. Claudia Setzer will have us consider how abolitionist Frederick Douglass\, Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer and others used multiple methods of biblical interpretation to make sense of their struggles and to reject despair. We will also consider contemporary activist groups that root themselves in the Bible and religious traditions. \nRegister here for the Zoom link. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/progressive-activists-and-the-bible/ LOCATION:Online on Zoom CATEGORIES:CSR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Claudia-Setzer_header-8BRhBl.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250422T225826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T174345Z UID:2191350-1746720000-1746723600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Level Up: Careers in Digital Media DESCRIPTION:Wondering how to apply your UCLA Humanities skills in an increasingly online world? Log on to learn from our alumni panelists\, who will share their experiences curating content\, crafting 21st-century narratives\, and leveraging digital tools. \nTo register\, go to: Level Up: Careers in Digital Media \nMeet our moderator: \nDaniel Scott Snelson \n \nDaniel Scott Snelson is a writer\, editor\, and archivist working as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA\, where he serves as faculty for the Digital Humanities\, the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies\, and the UCLA Game Lab. His online editorial work can be found on PennSound\, Eclipse\, UbuWeb\, Jacket2\, and the EPC. Published books works include Elden Poem (Hysterically Real\, 2022)\, Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page (Sync\, 2019)\, Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984-2000 (Monoskop\, 2018)\, Radios (Make Now\, 2016)\, EXE TXT (Gauss PDF\, 2015)\, Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread\, 2014)\, and Inventory Arousal with James Hoff (Bedford Press/Architectural Association\, 2011). With Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Avi Alpert\, he performs as one-third of the academic performance group Research Service. His forthcoming book\, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (University of Minnesota Press\, 2025)\, examines the networked afterlives of media-reflexive works of art and letters. \nMeet our panelists: \nJosh Levine \n  \nJosh Levine is an entrepreneur whose journey has been defined by spotting the gaps where music\, technology\, and culture intersect. As an industry outsider by design\, he brings fresh perspectives to established systems and creates opportunities where others see roadblocks\, which has made him a valuable guide for those navigating their own entrepreneurial paths. \nAs co-founder of Rebel Creator Services\, Josh identified a critical gap in digital rights management costing music artists millions in lost revenue. His company empowers independent musicians to maximize their YouTube earnings in an increasingly complex digital landscape. Josh also leads A Coffee Called Folks\, a coffee brand celebrating hiphop culture\, and co-founded LA TO IBIZA Records with his teenage son Justin – a family business in its early stages launching Justin’s career in house music while creating opportunities for other young artists. \nJosh’s innovative brand-culture partnerships include serving as head of global brand partnerships for Linkin Park\, generating multimillion-dollar collaborations with Mercedes-AMG and Intel. His pioneering work helped Toyota launch its youth-focused Scion brand\, positioned Dr Pepper as an early leader in esports\, and guided 7UP into EDM culture through collaborations with global stars like Tiësto. \nSince 2015\, Josh has hosted the Rebel Radio podcast\, uncovering business and life lessons in over 300 interviews with artists and creative entrepreneurs. His work has been featured in Forbes\, Brand Week\, Advertising Age\, and the Wall Street Journal. \nJosh began his career as a music journalist writing for The Source and Vibe\, before evolving into artist management and founding culture-marketing agency Rebel Industries. A UCLA graduate with a degree in Linguistics and Psychology\, he also holds a Certificate in Business Management from USC’s Marshall School of Business. \n*Josh is available for solo presentations or\, for select topics\, can present alongside his son Justin as a father-son entrepreneurial team discussing their journey building LA TO IBIZA Records together.* \nJordan Galczynski \n \nJordan Galczynski (she/her) manages the Instructional Technology Group within Humanities Technology\, overseeing lab and learning spaces\, a team of graduate students serving as Research and Instructional Technology Consultants (RITCs)\, and internal Digital Humanities projects (DH Accelerator). She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Egyptology in 2024. Jordan co-hosts a podcast\, Afterlives of Ancient Egypt\, and writes on the Substack Ancient/Now\, discussing the intersection of the ancient and modern worlds. \nEmily Pitcher \n \nEmily Pitcher (aka SonderingEmily) is a game developer and content creator\, sharing her journey making games and her favorite indie games. She’s been featured in Forbes 30 under 30 Games\, The Game Awards Future Class\, Business Insider\, Polygon\, and Entrepreneur. Currently\, she’s making lily’s world XD\, a Y2K inspired horror game about investigating a young girl’s computer. Everything seems normal until you find messages addressed to you. Previously\, she worked at Meta and Yahoo. \nFrancesca Albrezzi \n \nFrancesca Albrezzi\, Ph.D. has worked with museums for over a decade\, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (Washington\, D.C.)\, the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Paris\, France)\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles\, California). She completed her doctoral degree in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA\, as well as a Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate through UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities. Her dissertation interrogates modes of publishing\, display\, and information capture in museums and archives that illustrate a break from “traditional” models\, and argues that digital modalities provide a distinctly different paradigm for epistemologies of art and culture that offer greater contextualized understandings. Specifically\, she is interested in spectrums of immersive experience within GLAM organizations as offered by technologies such as virtual reality\, augmented reality\, and 360 photo and video capture. Dr. Albrezzi also has significant experience developing digital tools\, such as The Getty Scholars’ Workspace™ for conducting collaborative arts research and preservation. She was aHASTAC Scholar\, has worked and taught within the field of Digital Humanities\, Art History\, and Cultural Studies for eight years\, and helped to produce an online digital art history textbook. Currently\, she is a digital research consultant at the Institute for Digital Research and Education at UCLA. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/level-up-careers-in-digital-media/ LOCATION:On Zoom CATEGORIES:Humanities Division ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Career-Panel-Series-banner-updated-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250213T153336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T170640Z UID:2190712-1747139400-1747143000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Power and Alterity in Black Religious Thought DESCRIPTION:Who is the human? What is legitimate religion? Who is left out of these discourses? Questions of power\, humanity\, and alterity animate religious discourse and responses to oppression. Leveraging the Rastafari movement and interrogating religious racism this talk will allow us to grapple with 20th century Black religious discourses and their continued relevance for thinking about how to protect religious freedom in the contemporary moment. \nRSVP here for in-person event. \nRegister here for Zoom link. \nShamara Wyllie Alhassan is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California – Los Angeles. Alhassan comes to UCLA from Arizona State University where she was Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Historical\, Philosophical and Religious Studies. As a transdisciplinary Africana Studies scholar of religion\, philosophy\, and gender theory\, Alhassan transnational ethnographic work focuses on Black women’s radical epistemologies in Africa and the Caribbean. She is interested in the healing communities Rastafari women form to combat anti-black gendered racism and religious discrimination. Her forthcoming book tentatively titled\, Re-Membering the Maternal Goddess: Rastafari Women’s Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan-African World is the winner of the National Women’s Association and University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. She is the co-editor of the book\, Black Women and Da Rona: Community\, Consciousness\, and Ethics of Care\, published with the Feminist Wire Series Books at the University of Arizona Press in 2023. Her published work also appears in Callaloo\, the National Political Science Review\, Religions\, The Black Scholar\, IDEAZ journal\, Political Theology Network\, the Immanent Frame\, and Caliban’s Readings. She is a Crossroads Arts Fellow with The Crossroads Project Black Religious\, Histories\, Communities and Cultures at Princeton University. Currently\, she serves as the Secretary of Rastafari Thought at the Caribbean Philosophical Association\, on the board of the Religion\, Medicines\, and Healing Unit at the American Academy of Religion\, and an organizer of the Collaborative for Research on Black Women and Girls. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/power-and-alterity-in-black-religious-thought/ LOCATION:Kaplan 365 CATEGORIES:CSR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Shamara-Wyllie-Alhassan_header-GSYT95.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250213T074926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T224844Z UID:2190705-1747238400-1747245600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Wu Xin DESCRIPTION:Imperial Foundations of the Silk Road: Persian Roads and Han Walls\n \nWhile the Silk Road is often celebrated as a pivotal example of early globalization\, scholarship has primarily focused on the consequences of its connectivity\, neglecting the crucial question of its formation and operational logistics. This lecture re-examines the origins and mechanisms of this trans-Eurasian network during the latter half of the first millennium BCE. It posits that the imperial ambitions of the Achaemenid Persian and Han Chinese dynasties were fundamental in establishing this communication network. Specifically\, the Persian Royal Road facilitated movement from Central Asia to the Mediterranean\, while the Han dynasty’s extensive wall systems provided security and strategic control from Chang’an to Samarkand. This analysis\, drawn on archaeological discoveries from Central Asia and wester China\, argues that the combined infrastructural investments of these geographically and temporally distinct empires laid the groundwork for the roads that ultimately interconnected the ancient Eurasian world. \nAbout the Speaker  \nWu Xin received her undergraduate and master’s training at Beijing University\, focusing on Chinese archaeology and Central Asian Buddhist Art. She earned her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania\, specializing in the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. Her dissertation\, titled “Central Asia in the Context of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (6th to 4th Centuries B.C.)\,” reflects her interest in the interactions between Central Asia and the Achaemenid imperial power. With extensive experience in archaeological projects\, Wu Xin directed the Kyzyltepa Project in Uzbekistan and is finalizing a monograph titled Persia and the East\, which presents her renewed scholarship on the relationships between Central Asia\, the Eurasian steppe\, and the Achaemenid Empire. Previously a professor in the Department of History at Fudan University in Shanghai\, Wu Xin currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. \n \n\n\nPourdavoud Lecture Series – Wu Xin\n\n \n\n\n\nName*\n\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n Last\n \n\nEmail*\n\n \n \n\nAffiliation*\n\n\n\n \n UCLA Student\n \n\n \n UCLA Faculty or Staff\n \n\n \n UCLA Alumnus/Alumna\n \n\n \n Non-UCLA Student\n \n\n \n Non-UCLA Faculty or Staff\n \n\n \n General Public\n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nAttending Online or In-Person?\n\n\n\n \n In-Person\n \n\n \n Online URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-wu-xin/ LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Pourdavoud-Lecture-Series-Wu-Xin-web-7gg3Wl.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250517T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250517T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250516T171924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T235006Z UID:2191640-1747476000-1747479600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Gefyra Book Club: “Niki: A Novel” by Christos Chomenidis DESCRIPTION:Gefyra Book Club: Niki: A Novel by Christos Chomenidis\, trans. Patricia Felisa Barbeito\n(Other Press\, 2023) \nDiscussion led by Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\nand Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer\, Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University \nSaturday\, May 17\, 2025\n10 a.m. Los Angeles / 8 p.m. Greece\nVia Zoom \nRSVP here: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tOd7OiJDRcCfM5-T2u0Ecg \nThis academic year’s book club is held in English and will feature Greek books in translation. For future book selections and meeting dates\, click here. \nBorn in 1938\, Niki\, the daughter of the deputy secretary general of the Greek Communist Party\, is swept up in turmoil before her first birthday: her parents are arrested\, and she joins her mother in exile on an island near Santorini. Growing up\, she experiences the Italian and German invasion\, the Nazi occupation\, and the civil war that came after\, often caught between her socialist values and those of the right-wing establishment\, to which half her relatives belong. Through her memories and the stories of her family\, with roots on both coasts of the Aegean Sea\, Niki also tells the history of Greece and Asia Minor from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Her remarkable tales\, full of humor and verve in spite of hardship\, are populated by working-class heroes\, privileged elites\, daring revolutionaries\, and free-spirited bohemians. \nChristos Chomenidis was born in Athens\, Greece. In addition to writing novels\, Chomenidis has hosted his own nationally broadcast radio show\, written scripts for cinema and television\, and writes a column for Greece’s largest newspaper\, Ta Nea. His novel Νiki won the 2021 European Book Prize\, and his works have been translated into numerous languages. \nPatricia Felisa Barbeito is Professor of American Literatures at the Rhode Island School of Design and a translator of modern Greek fiction and poetry. Her translations include Elias Maglinis’s The Interrogation\, which was awarded the 2013 Modern Greek Studies Association’s Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize\, M. Karagatsis’s The Great Chimera\, and Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife\, which was short-listed for the 2020 National Translation Award. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nLinks to purchase book: \nhttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/niki-christos-chomenidis/1142242207?ean=9781635421972 \nhttps://otherpress.com/product/niki-9781635421972/ \nhttps://www.amazon.com/Niki-Novel-Christos-Chomenidis/dp/1635421977 \nThe Gefyra Book Club meeting is part of Gefyra (Bridge)\, a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the Simon Fraser University SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/gefyra-book-club-niki-a-novel-by-christos-chomenidis/ LOCATION:by Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Niki-A-Novel-8QJXaw.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250512T202418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T170539Z UID:2191535-1747648800-1747843200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium DESCRIPTION:4th annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\n“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”\n-Anne Lamott \nAbout The Event\nUCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English cordially invite you to our fourth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2025. In this series of panels\, students from the Professional Writing Minor (PWM) will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. \nA new and growing minor with just eleven graduating seniors in 2020\, forty-three of the PWM’s eighty-one graduating seniors in AY 24-25 will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range\, depth\, and individualized paths possible within the Professional Writing Minor. From Rachel Zegler to the Armenian diaspora\, urban planning to the effects of SSRIs during pregnancy\, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including memoirs\, websites\, zines\, research articles\, and digital marketing campaigns. \nThe colloquium is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Friends\, family\, faculty\, staff\, and students are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers and soon-to-be graduates share their insights and discoveries. \nSchedule\n \nList of Presenters\nAnnika Anbiai-Fard\nMatthew Beymer\nMadison Browning\nAngelica Catalan\nNatalie Chapin\nLeila Chiddick\nDanielle Cho\nNaomi Chou\nJonathan Cohn\nNatalie Denhardt\nEmmy Etlin\nDelia Falliers\nMiranda Fogel\nLuciaceleste Garcia\nSarah Gauger\nRoxanne Ha\nLucy Herlihy\nMicah Hoffman\nAda Jack\nOlivia Johnson\nAmariyah Lane-Volz\nSophie Lattu\nSophia Manos\nAlex McCullough\nJacob Mora\nAutumn Morgan\nKimberly Muro\nPacheco Nicole\nIsabella Orr\nKristen Perez\nValerie Prado\nMaya Rego\nIsabel Rodriguez\nOluwadamilola Salami\nDiana Sargsyan\nLeah Snyderman\nJane Sonnichsen\nJanelle Soriano\nCitlali Tejeda\nSoraya Tofighrad\nTaylor Wallace\nSiena Wong\nEsther Zhang \nThe PWM Capstone Seminars are led in Sp25 by Writing Programs faculty\, Drs. Amber West\, Dana Cairns Watson\, Laurel Westrup\, and Maja Manojlovic. \nEvent flyer links: 8.5×11 / Square URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/professional-writing-minor-capstone-seminar-colloquium/ CATEGORIES:Writing Programs Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250512T224844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T224844Z UID:2191545-1747843200-1747850400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Gunvor Lindström DESCRIPTION:The Denavar Satyrs as Time Travelers: From Ancient Persia to Greece\, Rome\, and 20th Century Collections\n \nThe influence of Greco-Roman artistic traditions on the Parthian Empire (c. 250 BCE–225 CE) remains a subject of debate\, with little direct evidence attesting to their presence. One long-overlooked artifact that challenges this assumption is the recently reconstructed Denavar Vase\, a monumental stone bowl adorned with a satyr frieze in the Greek style. The reconstruction of this bowl—its fragments now dispersed across museums and collections on three continents—suggests that it once formed part of a local ruler’s palace décor\, reflecting a deep engagement with the visual language of the Roman elite. The second part of this lecture traces the biographies of these fragments since their discovery around 1914. It will follow the track of famous scholars and connoisseurs who incorporated the pieces into their collections\, and go on a varied journey through the art history and historiography of Hellenistic and Parthian art. This journey also explores 19th-century decorative arts and museum presentations\, ultimately navigating the political history from the First to the end of the Second World War. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n \nDr. Gunvor Lindström is a Classical Archaeologist with a deep engagement in neighboring disciplines. A leading expert on Hellenism in the Ancient East\, she has conducted extensive research across Central Asia\, Iran\, and Mesopotamia\, focusing on the Hellenistic and Parthian periods. Since 2004\, she has conceived and led several high-profile projects at the German Archaeological Institute’s Eurasia Department. Her work on Hellenistic and Kushan Bactria includes studies of votive practices\, notably the offerings from the famous Oxus Temple. She also discovered and excavated a Hellenistic sanctuary at Torbulok in modern Tajikistan (2013–2018)\, now a key reference point for Hellenistic Bactria. In recent years\, she has focused on Hellenistic art in Central Asia and Iran\, conducting the first systematic study of bronze and marble statues from Kale-e Chendar in Khuzestan (better known as Shami) and reconstructing a monumental bronze portrait statue of a Hellenistic ruler in the National Museum of Iran. \n\n\n\nPourdavoud Lecture Series – Gunvor Lindström\n\n \n\n\n\nName*\n\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n Last\n \n\nEmail*\n\n \n \n\nAffiliation*\n\n\n\n \n UCLA Student\n \n\n \n UCLA Faculty or Staff\n \n\n \n UCLA Alumnus/Alumna\n \n\n \n Non-UCLA Student\n \n\n \n Non-UCLA Faculty or Staff\n \n\n \n General Public\n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nAttending Online or In-Person?\n\n\n\n \n In-Person\n \n\n \n Online URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-gunvor-lindstrom/ LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Pourdavoud-Lecture-Series-Lindstroem-web-image-OcGkpI.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250516T171412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T171412Z UID:2191634-1748012400-1748030400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Meditations Journal Conference 2025 DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 23\, 2025\n3:00 – 8:00 PM\nDodd Hall 399\n  \nPlease join us on Friday\, May 23\, 2025 at 3:00 PM in Dodd Hall 399 for the 2025 Meditations Journal Conference. \n  \nIn 2014\, the Philosophy Club at UCLA proudly hosted its first conference on behalf of Meditations: The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy at UCLA. All participating authors and editors of the journal are undergraduate students who have dedicated several months to this philosophical project. This conference is an exciting opportunity to honor their hard work and hear them present their original ideas. \n  \nConference Program\n  \nComing soon! \n  \n  \nIf you have any questions\, please reach out to meditations.philosophy.journal@gmail.com. \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/meditations-journal-conference-2025/ LOCATION:Dodd Hall 399 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MEDITA-45pEZn.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250522T224913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T224913Z UID:2191663-1748430000-1748433600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress Session: Earth and Exchange: Tapia and the Construction of Early Modern Iberia DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rachel Schloss\, Doctoral Candidate\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nHosted by the Early Modern Research Group \nOnline event via Zoom\nTo register\, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/qHytTYlcTiiINu5XzDQiew\n \nEarthen materials have played a critical role in political and social development on the Iberian Peninsula. The unique geology of the Peninsula harbors rich soils\, minerals\, and clays that have featured in the built environment and material culture of diverse peoples and practices across the region up to the present: Spain and Portugal together are two of the world’s largest exporters of ceramics. Iberian earthen architectural traditions are part of this suite of practices\, but their deep importance to cultural and political realities is underexplored. \nIn this presentation\, Rachel Schloss analyzes the social\, cultural\, and technological history of tapia\, a system of rammed-earth building utilized on the Iberian Peninsula from the 11th to 17th centuries CE\, from which impressive large-scale structures were built\, including the Alhambra in Granada. In particular\, Schloss considers how the shifts and changes in the material and construction technology over time were underwritten by political developments and exchange of knowledge as well as shifting relationships with the environment and the earth. As tapia originated in the Near East\, Schloss reflects on the question: Is there such a thing as Iberian tapia? Finally\, by understanding tapia as a means to sculpt the Iberian built landscape out of earth\, Schloss demonstrates how the technology tells a story of the construction of Early Modern Iberian identity into the age of conquest\, where Iberians exported earthen practices and values to new places. \nRachel Schloss is a doctoral candidate in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, where she studies early modern Andean and Iberian earthen practices\, and their roles in shaping built environments and the construction of Inca history. In her doctoral research\, Schloss combines methods from Archaeology\, Art and Architectural History\, Indigenous Studies\, and Geology. Additionally\, Schloss co-coordinates the Architecture Lab and Architecture Working Group at UCLA. Her research has been supported by UCLA’s Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies\, Latin American Institute\, Cotsen Institute\, and the Division of Graduate Education\, and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, the Society of Architectural Historians\, and the Vernacular Architecture Forum. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/works-in-progress-session-earth-and-exchange-tapia-and-the-construction-of-early-modern-iberia/ CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Schloss-WIP-Tapia.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250516T165923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T165923Z UID:2191625-1748440800-1748446200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Writing Your Future: Careers and Pathways for Writers DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with professionals from diverse fields who will share their career journeys—from the challenges and rewards of making a living as a writer to finding fulfilling work that keeps writing at the center. Whether you’re on a traditional career path or wondering how to build a life around writing\, this discussion will offer valuable insights into the many professional opportunities available to strong communicators. Bring your questions and learn how to turn your writing skills into a rewarding career after graduation. \nPanelists: \nLaShea Delaney\, Freelance Writer\, Theatermaker\, Wine Pro\nJeffrey Janis\, UCLA Peace Corps Campus Recruiter and Returned Volunteer (Ukraine)\nWilla Needham\, Communications Specialist\, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (and UCLA alumna\, class of 2024)\nCarolyn Nelson Rowan\, J.D.\, Editor-in-Chief & Practicing Attorney\, Miller Starr Regalia \nWeek 9\, Wednesday \nMay 28\, 2025\n2:00 – 3:30 pm\n193 Kaplan Hall \nThis event is free and open to Professional Writing minors and other interested students. \nOrganized by UCLA Writing Programs’ Sp25 ECM185 instructors with grant support from the Teaching & Learning Center; for more information: wpinfo@humnet.ucla.edu. \n  \n  URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/writing-your-future-careers-and-pathways-for-writers-2/ CATEGORIES:Writing Programs Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Writing-Your-Future-Sp25-W9-PWM-panel-JBob2H.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T141957 CREATED:20250522T220356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250612T173711Z UID:2191660-1748689200-1748700000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Clark Library Nature and Garden Festival DESCRIPTION:The Clark Library preserves and provides access to over 130\,000 books\, manuscripts\, and artworks dating from the 15th century to the present. But there is a library of living things on the five acres outside the library’s building\, too\, and this event will celebrate the urban nature and green spaces at the Clark – and across LA! \nAttendees can get garden advice from an expert UC Master Gardener\, go on bird walks with experienced guides from UCLA’s Bruin Birding Club\, and learn more about how people thought and learned about gardens and wild creatures in the 1700s through rare books on display inside the historic library building. Attendees will also be able to make their own field notebooks\, participate in a Clark Library Biodiversity survey on iNaturalist to help expand our knowledge of the library’s outdoor collections\, plant seeds to take home from our heirloom seed library\, trade plant cuttings and seeds with other attendees – and more! \nAll ages are welcome! Registration is free\, but limited; please fill out the form below. Guests are welcome to bring a lunch and picnic on the Clark grounds\, and to explore all of the day’s activities at their own pace. The Clark can be reached via LA Metro and LADOT Dash public transit\, and free parking and bike racks are available on site; please see here for more information and directions. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/garden-festival/ LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Biomes_img_Revised-e1747951413392.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR