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SUMMARY:The Past\, Present\, and Future of Jews and the Labor Movement in Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:What drew Jewish immigrants to the labor movement? How did unions become distinctly “Jewish” spaces – and what happened when they changed? Join historians\, organizers\, and community leaders for a panel on Jewish labor activism in Los Angeles: from the open-shop battles of the early 20th century to today. \nThursday\, May 28\, 2026 • UCLA Labor Center • 5:30 PM\n675 S Park View Street\, Los Angeles\, CA 90057 \nThe Past\, Present\, and Future of Jews and the Labor Movement in Los Angeles \nRabbi Aryeh Cohen (Professor\, American Jewish University)\nMaya Barron-Jones (UFCW Local 770)\nJackie Goldberg (retired educator and elected official)\nLeora Swerdlow (Associate\, Schwartz\, Steinsapir\, Dohrmann & Sommers LLP) \nModerated by Brian Dolber (Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies\, California State University\, San Marcos) \nSponsored by\nThe UCLA Labor Center\nThe UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\nJewish Partnership for Los Angeles\nThe Jewish Labor Committee\nLA Voice\nUFCW Local 770\nUNITE HERE Local 11 \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-past-present-and-future-of-jews-and-the-labor-movement-in-los-angeles/
LOCATION:UCLA Labor Center\, 675 S Park View St\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260530T140000
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SUMMARY:ANTIGONE
DESCRIPTION:ANTIGONE by Sophokles\nA live theatrical performance in celebration of Hellenic culture\nNewly translated and adapted by Kenneth Cavander\nDirected by Andy Wolk \nMay 30\, 2026\n2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.\nAntaeus Theatre Company\nGlendale\, California \n[The performance length is 90 minutes] \nA post-performance talkback with Artistic Director Nike Doukas and Professor Kathryn Morgan (Department of Classics\, UCLA) will follow the show. A reception will take place afterward. \nTICKET PRICES:\nAdults – $35.00 + $3.00 convenience fee\nUniversity students – $30.00 + $3.00 convenience fee \nBe sure to use promo code\nUCLAHellenicCulture to checkout!\nClick here to purchase tickets \n“And if I die\nI will die happy.” \nAntigone’s decision to oppose her uncle Kreon’s edict and bury her brother’s body sets into motion a series of events that will challenge the bonds of family\, law\, and justice. Kenneth Cavander (The Curse of Oedipus) returns to Antaeus in a powerful new adaptation of Sophokles’ Antigone. \nDirected by Andy Wolk\, this Greek tragedy delves deep into the clash between duty to the state and loyalty to one’s kin. \nThis event is made possible with support from the Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nParking information:\nAntaeus Theatre Company is located at:\n110 East Broadway\nGlendale\, CA 91205 \nExchange Parking Structure\nAddress: 115 North Artsakh Avenue\nRates: First 90 minutes free\, $2.00/hour\, Maximum daily charge: $12.00\nWith validation: $1 for up to four hours \nMarketplace Parking Structure\nAddress: 120 Artsakh Avenue\nRates: First 90 minutes free\, $2.00/hour\, Maximum daily charge: $12.00\nWith validation: $1 for up to four hours \nAntaeus Theatre Company offers validation for both of these lots. Ticket must be scanned before 4 hours pass in order for the validation to take effect.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/antigone/
LOCATION:Antaeus Theatre Company\, 110 East Broadway\, Glendale\, CA\, 91205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Heritage,Theater
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SUMMARY:(De)medicalization and the Dying Body: Sallekhanā\, Kinship\, and the Limits of Liberal Bioethics
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Miki Chase (U of Wisconsin-Madison) explores how trajectories of illness and care\, such as terminal cancer or anticipated cognitive decline\, are reinterpreted through Jain doctrinal frameworks in the narratives of adult children of women who undertake the Jain ritual fast to death (sallekhanā or santhāra). Drawing on ethnographic accounts of women’s deaths in contemporary urban Jain households\, Chase traces how narratives of bodily decline are reframed not as losses to be managed through medical intervention but as conditions of spiritual possibility that invite ascetic detachment and renunciation. Rather than resisting biomedical or bioethical paradigms outright\, these narratives inhabit a complex zone of overlap where cognitive clarity is both a medical and religious ideal; the attenuation of pain is karmically elevated rather than clinically managed; and the logic of institutionalized care is subtly displaced not by the absence of obligation but by alternate forms of care. In tracing the limits of bioethical paradigms that presume the necessity of medicalization and institutional oversight\, this talk describes how “illness narratives” and “santhāra narratives” coalesce to challenge prevailing understandings of what it means to die well\, and how suffering\, pain\, and the medicalized body is accounted for in the lives—and deaths—of Jain women. \nRSVP here to attend in person \n(Parking information for Royce Hall) \nRegister here for Zoom link \nMiki Chase is Assistant Professor in South Asian Studies and holds the Śrī Anantnāth Endowed Chair in Jain Studies. Her research and teaching focuses on intersections of religion\, law\, and gender in questions of care around death and dying in India\, with a specific focus on Jainism. \nDr. Chase received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University\, and her doctoral work received the Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies Best Dissertation Prize (2024). Her research focuses on the contemporary practice of the legally contested Jain voluntary ritual fast until death known variably as sallekhanā\, santhāra\, or samādhi-maraṇa\, examining how lay Jains reconcile ideals and concepts outlined in scripture with the interreligious pressures of urban life and modernization of death\, foregrounding the centrality of women’s moral subjectivities in such negotiations. Her research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the American Institute for Indian Studies (AIIS)\, including the Rachel F. and Scott McDermott Junior Research Fellowship. Her book in progress is tentatively titled The Ambiguity of the Vow: Law\, Kinship\, and Gender in Pathologizing the Jain Fast Until Death. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/demedicalization-and-the-dying-body-sallekhana-kinship-and-the-limits-of-liberal-bioethics/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306
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SUMMARY:Happy Jews in the Roman Diaspora? The Case of Asia Minor (Anatolia) – Seth Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:A dominant trend in scholarship about Jews in the Roman Imperial diaspora emphasizes the Jews’ achievement of a successful balance between integration and separation\, and regards this happy equilibrium as essentially stable for centuries. I will argue that this view rests on a fundamental misreading of the sources. Asia Minor (modern Turkey) provided the richest evidence for the dominant view but when disentangled tells a story of conflict\, instability and\, above all\, poverty. This rather gloomy picture changed for the better only in the fourth century CE\, before a steady decline starting in the fifth. \nSeth Schwartz is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization in the Departments of History and Classics at Columbia University\, where he also chairs the Graduate Program in Classical Studies. He received his PhD in History at Columbia in 1985. Before returning to Columbia in 2009\, Schwartz taught at Cornell\, the University of Rhode Island and the Jewish Theological Seminary\, had research fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, the Harvard Society of Fellows and King’s College Cambridge. He wrote Consuls of the Later Roman Empire (Atlanta: Scholars Press\, 1987)(with Roger Bagnall\, Alan Cameron and Klaas Worp)\, Josephus and Judaean Politics (Leiden: Brill\, 1990)\, Imperialism and Jewish Society\, 200 BCE to 640 CE (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2001)\, Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2010)\, and The Ancient Jews From Alexander to Muhammad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2014). The Jews of Asia Minor\, 215 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality\, will be published by University of Chicago Press in November. \nTuesday\, June 2\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nHappy Jews in the Roman Diaspora? The Case of Asia Minor (Anatolia)\nSeth Schwartz (Columbia University)\nModerator: Catherine Bonesho (UCLA) \nEtta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence Lecture \nRSVP to Happy Jews in the Roman Diaspora
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/happy-jews-in-the-roman-diaspora-the-case-of-asia-minor-anatolia-seth-schwartz/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence
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SUMMARY:Jews and Godfearers: Sardis and Aphrodisias\, 400 CE – Seth Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:The phenomenon of “Godfearing”—adoption by gentiles\, usually supposed to have been pagan—of Jewish practices including support for local Jewish communities and attendance in synagogues—has loomed larger in scholarship than it does in the sources. But the phenomenon surely existed. Some ancient writers suggest that in the first century most diaspora jewish communities had a “fringe” of gentile sympathizers who functioned for Jewish communities as protectors and mediators with local governments. Godfearing comes to the fore again in major texts of the early fifth century CE. How much of the traditional picture can be salvaged? (Spoiler: some) How continuous was fifth-century Godfearing with first-century Godfearing? (Second spoiler: not very). \nSeth Schwartz is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization in the Departments of History and Classics at Columbia University\, where he also chairs the Graduate Program in Classical Studies. He received his PhD in History at Columbia in 1985. Before returning to Columbia in 2009\, Schwartz taught at Cornell\, the University of Rhode Island and the Jewish Theological Seminary\, had research fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, the Harvard Society of Fellows and King’s College Cambridge. He wrote Consuls of the Later Roman Empire (Atlanta: Scholars Press\, 1987)(with Roger Bagnall\, Alan Cameron and Klaas Worp)\, Josephus and Judaean Politics (Leiden: Brill\, 1990)\, Imperialism and Jewish Society\, 200 BCE to 640 CE (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2001)\, Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2010)\, and The Ancient Jews From Alexander to Muhammad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2014). The Jews of Asia Minor\, 215 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality\, will be published by University of Chicago Press in November. \n  \nWednesday\, June 3\, 2026 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nJews and Godfearers: Sardis and Aphrodisias\, 400 CE \nSeth Schwartz (Columbia University)\nModerator: Carol Bakhos (UCLA) \nEtta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence Seminar \nRSVP to Jews and Godfearers
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/jews-and-godfearers-sardis-and-aphrodisias-400-ce-seth-schwartz/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence
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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Professors Joseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, and Deaglán Ó Donghaile\, Liverpool John Moores University \nA central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the late nineteenth century\, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originator of Irish modernism. Still\, literary scholarship has largely sidelined his powerful influence over this movement. Regarded by his contemporaries as an outstanding artist\, critic\, and public intellectual until his imprisonment in 1895\, current research on Wilde tends to confine his leading presence within the late Victorian aesthetic and decadent movements. By highlighting this overlooked aspect of Wilde’s legacy\, “Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies” will raise critical and theoretical awareness of his influence over modernist innovation not only within the field of literary production but also in related artistic areas in Ireland and beyond. \nThe literary revival of the 1890s has been cited as the launching ground for experimental modernism in Ireland\, with the publication and staging of works by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)\, John Millington Synge (1871–1909)\, and Augusta Gregory (1852–1932) that celebrate rural or Celticist versions of modernity. The revival’s longer-term origins\, however\, can be traced to the metropolitan and radical aesthetes\, feminists\, queer artists\, anarchists\, and Irish separatists who belonged to the milieus in which Oscar Wilde moved.  This conference will draw on the Clark Library’s imposing archive\, the “Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle Collection\,” to explore the dialogues that these figures established\, along with their interactions with traditions of Irish and\, more broadly\, American and European modernism. \nThe list of speakers\, the conference schedule\, and the registration form are available on our website. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in person at the Clark Library. \nRegistration will close on Monday\, June 1 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/modernist-legacies/
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
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Pooyan Tamimi Arab
DESCRIPTION:Woman Life Freedom in the Mirror of Scholarship: Responses from the Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPooyan Tamimi Arab \nUtrecht University \nEnglish Lecture \nMonday\, June 8\, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time \nOnline via Zoom \nRegistration Required: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y6a-WJxYTX-wwqBuhAYndg \n\nThis presentation will survey scholarship in the arts\, humanities\, and social sciences responding to the Woman\, Life\, Freedom uprising in Iran. Drawing on a bibliography of over one hundred publications—books\, journal articles\, and edited volume chapters published since the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini in September 2022—it will outline four main thematic clusters: Chronologies\, Culture\, Aesthetics\, and Nation. These will serve to map shifting interpretations of women’s emancipation\, cultural change and resistance\, visual activism\, and national belonging. The presentation will also reflect on how to research a protest movement from exile and draw attention to under-cited sources\, including scholarship produced in Iran. \n  \nPooyan Tamimi Arab is Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies at Utrecht University\, a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and a member of GAMAAN—the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran. Between 2025 and 2030\, he is the principal investigator of Iran’s Secular Shift\, a mixed-methods project on non-religion and demands for political secularism funded by the Dutch Research Council.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-pooyan-tamimi-arab/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260929T160000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Open House Celebration (2026-2027)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 29\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nUCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Open House Celebration \nShare a bite with the Leve Center faculty\, staff\, students\, and community friends. Learn about our diverse projects\, programs\, and courses. \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/ucla-alan-d-leve-center-for-jewish-studies-open-house-celebration-2026-2027/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261001T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261001T153000
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SUMMARY:Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive
DESCRIPTION:Zionism in Translation concerns exchanges—primarily of letters but also drafts\, reviews\, and other ephemera—sent to or from Jerusalem in the decades around 1948. All were written in German and Hebrew by a fascinating range of literary figures\, including Hannah Arendt\, Gershom Scholem\, Yehuda Amichai\, Ludwig Strauss\, Erich Auerbach\, Walter Benjamin\, Leah Goldberg\, Peter Szondi\, Paul Celan\, and Tuvia Ruebner. The writers discussed in the book contend with the genocidal violence that brought the rich historical relation between German and Hebrew to a seeming end. They also grapple\, in different ways\, with the new reality in Israel/Palestine in the wake of the founding of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. The bilingual conversation that crosses over between German and Hebrew in these letters thus centers around the question of Jewish fate in the twentieth century and is immersed in negotiations about Jewish nationalism\, the Zionist movement\, and the possibilities of Jewish poetry. In the space between German and Hebrew\, Rokem argues\, the protagonists of her story voice ambivalences and hesitancies not found elsewhere. \nNa’ama Rokem is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago\, where she has directed the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and chaired the department of Comparative Literature. Her first book\, Prosaic Conditions: Heinrich Heine and the Spaces of Zionist Literature was published by Northwestern University Press in 2013. \nThursday\, October 1\, 2025 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nNa’ama Rokem (University of Chicago)\nModerator: William Schniedewind (UCLA)\nZionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive\nSady & Ludwig Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/zionism-in-translation-encounters-in-the-german-hebrew-archive/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sady and Ludwig Kahn Program in German Jewish Studies
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SUMMARY:West Coast Hellenic Book Club: Diary of a Soldier in the Asia Minor Campaign\, 1919-1921 by Pantelis C. Karatasakis
DESCRIPTION:West Coast Hellenic Book Club \nDiary of a Soldier in the Asia Minor Campaign\, 1919-1921 by Pantelis C. Karatasakis\n(Published by Alec P. Karys\, 2023) \nThis discussion will feature book editors Alec P. Karys and Gregory Kontos. \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director of the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, and Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer in Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University. \nThis discussion will be held in English. \nSaturday\, October 3\, 2026\n10:00 A.M. Los Angeles / 8:00 P.M. Greece\nVia Zoom \nClick here to RSVP for this book club \nForeword by Gonda Van Steen\, Koraes Chair\, King’s College London: \nThis short\, poignant account of an ordinary soldier’s experiences at the front during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1921 is well worth reading. Pantelis Karatasakis manages to evoke both the valiant spirit of the Greek troops and the awful hardships they were forced to endure. Even though this lively account ends a year before Greece’s defeat\, the conditions the author witnessed were an omen of what was to come: hunger and freezing cold\, haphazard military operations\, scorched earth tactics by both sides. The heroism of Pantelis Karatasakis and his comrades would not be enough for the Greeks to prevail\, and the Asia Minor Disaster of 1922 ensued. Alexander Kitroeff said\, “When empires dissolve and new nation-states emerge\, it is easy for the voices of ordinary people to get lost in the turmoil.” This publication of the diary of Pantelis C. Karatasakis brings not only the voice\, but also the tears\, sweat\, and blood\, of the foot soldiers of history back to the forefront. Pantelis moves us with Xenophon-like descriptions of places and distances\, which he interspersed with lyrical notes and the markers of a growing awareness of the sufferings of war -any war. He leaves a record of facts\, emotions\, hardships\, but ultimately survival and wisdom gained. Kudos to his son and to Gregory Kontos of Greek Ancestry to realize the value of this unique testimony. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nClick here to purchase this book on Amazon.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/west-coast-hellenic-book-club-diary-of-a-soldier-in-the-asia-minor-campaign-1919-1921-by-pantelis-c-karatasakis/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Heritage,History,Literature,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261008T093000
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SUMMARY:“Performing Dragons” Conference
DESCRIPTION:This conference presents ongoing research findings of an international group of scholars studying the topic of dragons in performance. \nIn the past\, the cartographic legend “hic sunt dracones” (like “hic sunt leones”) indicated the extent of known territories (land and seas) and the boundaries of safety\, yet what laid beyond pervaded the consciousness of many artists\, travelers and scholars. Dragons\, which have occupied the human imagination since antiquity\, gained particular importance after 1400 CE\, and appear in many guises— St. George plays\, Karagöz\, Chinese shadow puppets\, etc.—and so mark the outlines of a Denkraum (or “thinking space”) between cosmology\, zoology\, superstition\, and spectacle\, with many offspring up to the present day. While theatre history is also a theatre of migration\, circulation\, miscegenation\, globalism\, and affect\, performance often indexes all these experiences within “marvels” such as dragons and mystics. \nWe began “sharing dragons” in 2022 and have met in Chicago\, Cologne\, Beijing\, Shanghai\, and now\, in Southern California. In our ongoing discussions over the course of the Southern California conference\, our current questions encompass the following: \n\nWhere and how do dragons emerge\, enchant\, and connect? What and how do they signify? How are they entangled within their own contexts\, and how do they provoke and inspire further entanglements with other bodies\, texts\, beings?\nHow do dragons arise in a media ecology across times\, places\, and diverse cultures? How do they destabilize or consolidate through/as performance?\nWhat do performing dragons ask of historiography? How does centering dragons in research sustain counter-histories? How does it reveal grounded performance theory?\nWhat are “dragons” in any given culture? How are their performances evidence of syncretism\, either from human migration and trade or technological exchange? What do such insights suggest for further research?\n\nInvestigating performing dragons allows for an in-depth reading of how form and content are inseparable\, providing a critical object with which to reflect on representations\, implied modes of perception\, and the historical (dis)continuities that make the dragon appear. In staging dragons\, certain conventions are always involved\, but a more inclusive investigation addressing multiple centuries and cultural vectors enables a better grasping of their complex histories. The dragon is very specific\, and at the same time exemplary for culturally bound cyphers that can manifest in many forms and shapes. We look forward to exploring these topics with our UCLA participants and audiences. \nSpeakers: \nErith Jaffe-Berg\, University of California Riverside\nLeo Cabranes-Grant\, University of California Santa Barbara\nTracy C. Davis\, Northwestern University\nPeter W. Marx\, University of Cologne\, Germany \nEvent Schedule \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 or via Zoom
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/performing-dragons-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261009T180000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium: “Kant’s Awakenings” – Desmond Hogan\, Princeton University
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 9\, 2026\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nLaw Building\, Room 1447\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Friday\, October 9\, 2026\, for a colloquium with Desmond Hogan\, Princeton University. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM with a reception to follow at the Shapiro Law Courtyard. \n  \nKant’s Awakenings\n  \nIn a famous biographical reflection on the origin of his epochal Critique of Pure Reason\, Kant writes that Hume’s analysis of causation “first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy” (Prolegomena 4:260). We encounter strikingly similar language in Kant’s explanation elsewhere that his Critique arose out of a discovery of an antinomy of pure reason centered on “unavoidable” contradictions in realist theories of space and time: “This was what first woke me from the dogmatic slumber and drove me to the critique of reason in order to solve the scandal of the apparent contradiction of reason with itself” (Correspondence 12:258; Prolegomena 4:338). Notwithstanding efforts to join the dots between these two “awakenings\,” it remains the overwhelming consensus of experts that they must describe unrelated motivations and events. I argue here that Kant’s awakenings are intimately related\, and this relation vindicates his further assertion that “the origin of the critical philosophy is morality\, with respect to the imputability of action” (Ak. 20:335). \n  \nDesmond Hogan is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He began his studies in his hometown of Galway in the beautiful west of Ireland and received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His research interests include metaphysics\, philosophy of science\, ethics\, and aesthetics\, with a focus on the modern period and nineteenth century. \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/colloquium-kants-awakenings-desmond-hogan-princeton-university/
LOCATION:UCLA Law Building\, Room 1447
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261009T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261009T200000
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SUMMARY:Backgammon Night
DESCRIPTION:Backgammon Night \nFriday\, October 9\, 2026\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM\n \n2117 Rolfe Hall\, UCLA Campus \nThis event is free\, but space is limited. \nJoin us for mezedes and conversation. \nRSVP for Backgammon Night here \nParking information: \nIf you plan on driving to UCLA\, please note that parking is available at Parking Structure 5\, located at 302 Charles E Young Dr N\, Westwood\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. We highly recommend purchasing your parking permit in advance for $18\, as there will be no attendant on-site and parking is limited. \nTo purchase your permit\, please visit the Bruin ePermit website and choose “Campus Event\,” then “Backgammon Night”: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectValue.aspx. This permit will be valid for only levels 1-4 in parking structure 5. \nAccessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card. Elevators are accessible on levels 1 and 4 only. Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information. \nThe nearest guest drop-off is the rooftop level of parking structure 5\, next to the Anderson School of Business (see directions above).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/backgammon-night-2/
LOCATION:2117 Rolfe Hall\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T153000
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SUMMARY:Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews During the Holocaust – Aliza Luft
DESCRIPTION:It is well known that the French Catholic Church\, which opposed Hitler before 1940\, silenced itself during the German occupation. But Aliza Luft shows that the Church was more than silent: it was complicit. Behind closed doors\, bishops repeatedly assured Jewish leaders of the Church’s support—only to betray their trust amidst the Nazi threat. \nAliza Luft is Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA\, where her research examines how classifications of self and other shift in contexts of war and genocide and drive decisions to participate in\, resist\, or abstain from violence. Her book\, Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews during the Holocaust\, will be published by Harvard University Press in September 2026\, and her research has appeared in leading sociological journals as well as The New York Times\, LA Times\, Washington Post\, and other outlets. She currently serves as Interim Director of the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute\, which houses the Initiative to Study Hate and Dialogue Across Difference\, and on the Steering Committee of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Prior to UCLA\, Dr. Luft worked with USAID\, the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate\, and Facing History & Ourselves. \nThursday\, October 15\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nSacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews During the Holocaust \nAliza Luft (UCLA)\nModerator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) \nCosponsored by\nThe UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute\nThe UCLA Department of Sociology \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/sacred-betrayal-how-the-french-catholic-church-broke-its-pledge-to-protect-jews-during-the-holocaust-aliza-luft/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T173000
DTSTAMP:20261015T023411Z
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SUMMARY:Study of Religion Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Lift a glass to the new academic year and meet friends old and new! \nWelcome remarks by Dean Stern and Professor Bakhos at 4:30p. \nRSVP required by October 11. See you there!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/study-of-religion-welcome-reception/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T160000
DTSTAMP:20260924T224935Z
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Fall 2026)
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. \nFaculty\, postdocs\, and grad students from across California are welcome to participate. \nThe papers will be discussed at the seminar in the following order: \n\n“A King\, a Bishop\, and Three Narrators: Image of Bad Rule as a Political Argument\,” Piotr Górecki (UCR)\n“The Many Lives of Pelegrina de Saladino. Mother\, Businesswoman\, Tutor\, and Patroness\,” Giulia Giamboni (UCLA)\n“Saving the Fairies in the House of Two Buckets\,” Lisa Bitel (USC)\n“’Either all of them\, or the older ones’: Henry VIII\, Authenticity\, and Medieval Manuscripts\,” Matthew Fisher (UCLA)\n\n\nRegister to attend in Royce 306 or via Zoom\n\nMore information can be found here.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-fall-2026/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261021T173000
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SUMMARY:Indranil Chakravarty The Power of Intercultural Dialogue: Octavio Paz Between Mexico and India
DESCRIPTION:Based on his recent book\, The Tree Within: Octavio Paz’s Years in India (Penguin\, 2025)\, Chakravarty explains how the Mexican Nobel Laureate poet and diplomat\, Octavio Paz\, became a cultural bridge between two parts of the Global South that are separated by geography\, language\, culture and history. As Mexico’s ambassador to India in the 1960s\, Paz immersed himself in the country’s contemplative traditions\, travelled widely\, forged deep friendships with some of India’s finest minds\, and produced some of his most inspired poetry and essays. By his own admission\, he experienced a ‘second birth’. While exploring the poet’s inner journey by delving into multilingual archives\, declassified diplomatic files\, personal letters and intimate interviews\, Chakravarty explains how Paz prepared\, emotionally and intellectually\, for a deep engagement with India\, allowing it to reshape him. While he gave poetic form to several Indian philosophical concepts and became a mentor to an entire generation of avant garde painters\, he opened pathways through which Latin American writers and artists could draw inspiration from Indian culture. \n\n\n\nIndranil Chakravarty is a writer\, filmmaker and academic based in India. His main interest lies in tracing the history of cultural interactions between India and Latin America. For more than two decades\, he has been a professor of film history at India’s premiere film institutes and has made several documentaries. He studied at Presidency College in Calcutta\, Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Havana\, and received his PhD from Victoria University of Wellington. His publications include The New Latin American Cinema\, India’s Audiovisual Market\, and a book in Spanish titled Redescubriendo a Tagore\, about the discourse around the Indian poet in Hispanic literature. His next book\, Hometowns (2027)\, is the biography of an Indian villager in the 19th century who led Brazilian battalions in two wars.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/indranil-chakravarty-the-power-of-intercultural-dialogue-octavio-paz-between-mexico-and-india/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261023T203000
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SUMMARY:Anton Vidokle\, Oct. 23
DESCRIPTION:Anton Vidokle is an artist and editor of e-flux journal. He was born in Moscow and lives in New York and Berlin. Vidokle’s work has been exhibited internationally at Documenta 13 and the 56th Venice Biennale. Vidokle’s films have been presented at Bergen Assembly\, Shanghai Biennale\, Berlinale International Film Festival\, Forum Expanded\, Gwangju Biennale\, Center Pompidou\, Tate Modern\, Garage Museum\, Istanbul Biennial\, Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Tensta Konsthalll\, Blaffer Art Museum\, Stedelijk Museum\, Lincoln Center\, MMCA Seoul\, the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art\, and others. He served as chief curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale:\nCosmos Cinema\, and in 2024 he was appointed artistic director for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Department of Art History.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/anton-vidokle-oct-23/
LOCATION:UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios\, 3600 Hayden Ave\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
CATEGORIES:Art History co-sponsored event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261026T171500
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SUMMARY:The Paradox of Pointless Suffering
DESCRIPTION:Why do we suffer? Why do people die young? Is there any point to our excessive pain\, physical or emotional? This talk explores the ways that we have tried to minimize or eliminate suffering\, and examines people’s attempts to find ways to live with pointless suffering. Ultimately\, to be fully human—and to have healthy culture—means to acknowledge a mysterious paradox: we must simultaneously accept suffering and oppose it. \nRSVP to attend in person \nRegister for Zoom link \nScott Samuelson studied philosophy at Grinnell College (BA\, 1995\, valedictorian) and Emory University (PhD\, 2001).  He is currently a Professor of Practice in the Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. In 2014\, he was named Distinguished Humanities Educator by the Community College Humanities Association.  Inspired by his students\, he wrote his first book The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone (University of Chicago Press\, 2014)\, which has been well received not just by prominent reviewers but by numerous non-philosophers who found their philosophical voice with its help.  The book has been translated into Chinese and Portuguese.  Samuelson has published articles in the Wall Street Journal\, the Huffington Post\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Philosopher’s Magazine\, and Christian Century.  His article “Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers” in The Atlantic has been widely circulated.  He’s been interviewed on NPR and given various public lectures and talks\, including a TEDx talk “How Philosophy Can Save Your Life.” \nScott Samuelson was the recipient of the 2015 Hiett Prize in the Humanities. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-paradox-of-pointless-suffering/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261026T173000
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SUMMARY:Sheila Murnaghan | Commentary Writing Workshop on Sophocles’ Ajax
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop Sheila Murnaghan will discuss lines 646-92 of Sophocles’ Ajax (the “deception speech”) for a commentary she is preparing for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (green and yellow) series. A section of the commentary will be pre-circulated in advance (please RSVP here by Thursday\, October 22nd).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/sheila-murnaghan-commentary-writing-workshop-on-sophocles-ajax/
LOCATION:Dodd 248
CATEGORIES:Department Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261027T203000
DTSTAMP:20261027T180419Z
CREATED:20261019T174804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261027T180419Z
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Richard Yarborough Lecture in Black Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Inaugural Richard Yarborough Lecture in Black Literature\, established as part of the Bunche Center Director Lecture Series honoring the intellectual\, scholarly\, and institutional contributions of former leadership of the Ralph J. Bunche Center. \nReception: 6 p.m.\nProgram: 7 p.m. \nThe evening will feature a conversation between Dr. Richard Yarborough\, Professor Emeritus of English and African American Studies at UCLA\, and Dr. Valerie Smith\, President of Swarthmore College\, moderated by Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley\, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. \nThis lecture honors Dr. Yarborough’s distinguished contributions to Black literary scholarship\, the Department of English\, the Department of African American Studies\, and the UCLA community. \nPlease RSVP here by Thursday\, October 22nd. \nIf you have questions\, please contact Hannah Yonas at hyonas@bunche.ucla.edu. We look forward to seeing you there.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/inaugural-richard-yarborough-lecture-in-black-literature-2/
LOCATION:Kerckhoff Hall – Grand Salon and Patio\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Homepage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T120000
DTSTAMP:20261016T210410Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20261016T210410Z
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SUMMARY:OXI Day
DESCRIPTION:OXI Day Celebration \nOctober 28\, 2026\n11:00 A.M. – Noon\nRolfe Courtyard\, UCLA Campus \nThis event is presented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the Hellenic Culture Club at UCLA \nWe will celebrate OXI Day\, a day that commemorates Greece’s unwavering courage and resilience. \nPlease join us for poetry readings by students. Light refreshments will be provided. \nClick here to RSVP for the OXI Day Celebration \nThis program is made possible thanks to generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/oxi-day/
LOCATION:Rolfe Courtyard\, 345 PORTOLA PLAZA\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Diaspora,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T170000
DTSTAMP:20261021T190224Z
CREATED:20260928T185139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261021T190224Z
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SUMMARY:Think Human\, Work Digital: Careers in Digital Humanities & AI
DESCRIPTION:A Humanities Career Panel Series event \nCurious about where Digital Humanities and AI can take you? \nJoin us for a conversation with professionals working at the intersection of technology\, culture\, and the humanities. Hear about their career paths\, discover the skills employers are looking for\, and learn about exciting career possibilities you may not have considered. Come with questions and leave with ideas for your own digital future! \nMeet our panelists:  \nAli Haeri \n \nAli Haeri is Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Ouma Health\, one of the nation’s largest maternity telehealth platforms. He also teaches product marketing in Northwestern University’s Medill IMC graduate program and previously taught digital analytics and marketing at UCLA Extension. He previously served as Chief Marketing Officer of MNTN\, a streaming TV advertising software company\, where he led marketing from the company’s early days through its IPO. A UCLA English alumnus\, Ali was named to the 2025 Adweek 50 – Adweek’s annual list honoring standout leaders in advertising\, marketing\, media\, and technology – and has delivered keynotes at major marketing and advertising events across the country. \nChengCheng Tan \n \nChengCheng Tan studied Linguistics and Computer Science at UCLA and earned an M.S. in Computer Science\, specializing in HCI\, at Stanford. She spent 20+ years in UI/UX design and programming before moving into AI safety. She is Interim Executive Director of Women Who Do Data\, which runs the PRISM AI Safety Research Fellowship. Previously\, she led communications at FAR.AI\, making technical AI research accessible to the public. Her goal is to help people use the skills they already have\, including those from the humanities\, to contribute to AI safety. \nKwame Granderson \n \nKwame J. Granderson\, a real estate attorney and developer\, earned a bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA before earning a law degree from Harvard Law. Kwame is founder and CEO of Granderson Holdings\, Granderson Destinations and MHC Capital\, and he also builds innovative writing and scholarship sites for students. He believes AI is a powerful tool\, a tool students must understand\, interrogate\, and ultimately transcend in order to develop genuine analytical confidence\, intellectual voice\, ethical judgement and the skills they need to be professionally competitive. \nUCLA students can RSVP here. \nVisit this page for more information about the Humanities Career Panel Series and other upcoming events. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/think-human-work-digital-careers-in-digital-humanities-ai/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities Career Panel Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261030T180000
DTSTAMP:20261030T213411Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T193000
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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
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History at UCLA":MAILTO:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261104T153000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261105
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261107
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T160000
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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
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