BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Humanities - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Humanities 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:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250302T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250302T160000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130918 CREATED:20250201T000628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T170742Z UID:2190343-1740924000-1740931200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary presents\, Ariel Quartet DESCRIPTION:Distinguished by its virtuosity\, probing musical insight\, and impassioned\, fiery performances\, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than twenty years. The Quartet serves as the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music\, where they direct the chamber music program and present a concert series in addition to maintaining a busy touring schedule in the United States and abroad. \nRecent highlights include the Ariel Quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut\, as well as the release of a Brahms and Bartók album for Avie Records. In 2020\, the Ariel gave the U.S. premiere of the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Daniil Trifonov (with the composer as pianist). Ariel Quartet has won numerous international prizes\, including the Cleveland Quartet Award: Grand Prize at the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. \nFurther details and the full program are on our website. Competition \nPhoto: Ariel Quartet by Marco Borggreve URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/ariel-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/2025/01/Ariel-Quartet_Marco-Borggreve_FLYER.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clark Library":MAILTO:clark@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130918 CREATED:20241221T013515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T100306Z UID:2189373-1740747600-1740754800@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:“The Same Frame of Mind\, but a Different Villain”: Conspiracist Narratology and the Decolonization of Africa DESCRIPTION:A workshop with Christian David Alvarado\n \nKAPLAN HALL ROOM #348\n1:00-2:30pm Workshop\n2:30-3:00pm Reception\n  \nThis workshop is open to UCLA Comparative Literature graduate students\, UCLA English graduate students\, and UCLA African Studies Center students. \n\n\n\nRSVP \n \n\n\n\nName(Required)\n\n \n First \n \n \n Last \n \n\n\nEmail(Required)\n\n \n Enter Email \n \n \n Confirm Email \n \n\n \n\nAffiliation(Required) \nUCLA Comparative Literature graduate studentUCLA English graduate studentUCLA African Studies Center studentUCLA facultyUCLA staff\n\n\n\n\n \n/* = 0;if(!is_postback){return;}var form_content = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_wrapper_26’);var is_confirmation = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_confirmation_wrapper_26’).length > 0;var is_redirect = contents.indexOf(‘gformRedirect(){‘) >= 0;var is_form = form_content.length > 0 && ! 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In it\, I argue that contemporary allegations about the uprising’s aim of “white genocide\,” the Satanic rituals conducted by those who participated in it\, and its role in global Communist plots should all be read as conspiracy theories which fundamentally shaped its history and attempts to suppress it. Reframing them as such allows us to see how speculative thinking about Mau Mau is part of a longer tradition of reading world events that continues to inform many of the most prominent iterations of conspiracism that shape Western politics and culture today. Developing this chapter also led to my second major research project\, which aims to understand how the history of conspiracist literary production in European and African contexts shaped imperial governance and engagements with processes of decolonization on both of these continents. \n\nAbout the Speaker\nChristian Alvarado received his PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the African American and African Studies Department at the University of California\, Davis. His current book project situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader historical and narratological landscape of 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations\, his work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into the global dimensions of knowledge production regarding African decolonization.\n \n  URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-same-frame-of-mind-but-a-different-villain-conspiracist-narratology-and-the-decolonization-of-africa/ LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130918 CREATED:20250213T233250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T003327Z UID:2190726-1740744000-1740749400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Global Antiquity Faculty Lunch Series- “Por Mares Nunca D’antes Navegados…”: Poetic Primacy in Arcadian Epic and Caminões’s The Lusiads with Adriana Vazquez DESCRIPTION:Global Antiquity is pleased to invite you to the next in its 2024–2025 Faculty Lunch Series talks\, featuring Professor Adriana Vazquez (Classics\, UCLA). On Friday\, February 28 from 12:00–1:30 pm in Royce 306\, she will deliver a lecture titled “Por Mores Nunca D’antes Navegados…”: Poetic Primacy in Arcadian Epic and Caminões’s The Lusiads. Lunch and refreshments will be served at 12:00 pm followed immediately by the talk and discussion. All are welcome\, and we hope to see you there! \nAbstract: This presentation is an excerpt of a monograph on the poetry of the Brazilian colonial period and its reception of antiquity\, titled “Arcadia Ultramarina: Studies in the Neoclassical Literature of Portuguese America.” The talk highlights statements of poetic primacy in two epics produced under the umbrella of 18th century Brazilian Arcadianism\, each of which considers moments in the Portuguese settlement of Brazil. I argue that both epics conceive of poetic primacy as an adaptation of colonial concepts of ‘newness\,’ reflecting the crisis in European thinking ignited by the apparent lacunae in ancient geographic knowledge concerning the so-called New World. I additionally consider the intermediary of Camões’ The Lusiads as instrumental to the formalization of a lexicon of poetic primacy in the Arcadian epics. \nAbout the Speaker: Adriana Vazquez is an assistant professor of Classics at UCLA specializing in Latin literature of the Augustan period\, with particular interest in its legacy in the Lusophone literature of the 17th- and 18th-centuries. She is currently working on a monograph on the legacy of Latin literature in the poetry of colonial Brazil\, which analyzes the literary output of the poets of the Arcadia Ultramarina\, a literary academy that placed itself in dialogue with the ancient poetic tradition. She is a cofounder and former steering committee member of Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-hispanic World\, an interest group focusing on Ibero-global reception. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/global-antiquity-faculty-lunch-series-por-mares-nunca-dantes-navegados-poetic-primacy-in-arcadian-epic-and-caminoess-the-lusiads-with-adriana-vazquez/ LOCATION:Royce Hall 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90095 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Faculty-Lunch-Series-Vazquez-web-image-uZ9OKM.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130918 CREATED:20250103T031831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T100305Z UID:2189624-1740675600-1740686400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:What is this thing called Mau Mau? 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This talk attends to Mau Mau’s symbolic place in cultural politics in Kenya and beyond by exploring how narratives interpreting it as such have shaped transnational understandings of postcolonialism and decolonization. By tracing the rhetorical politics that cohere around it\, I argue that we should consider the invocation of the idea of Mau Mau — whether it be central to a text or present as an offhand reference — as a catalyst through which broader claims are made. I link how African and diasporic writers have positioned Mau Mau as an episode in the greater “African Revolution” to the challenge it represents to existing racial and ethnic structures. Drawing from Kenyan\, South African\, and American sources\, this talk explores how these dual interpretations have shaped Mau Mau’s prominent position in cultural production and the politics of dissent across the world. \n\nAbout the Speaker\nChristian Alvarado received his PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the African American and African Studies Department at the University of California\, Davis. His current book project situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader historical and narratological landscape of 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations\, his work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into the global dimensions of knowledge production regarding African decolonization. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/what-is-this-thing-called-mau-mau-the-storm-in-kenya-in-global-perspectives/ LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130918 CREATED:20241219T060255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T070312Z UID:2189312-1740589200-1740596400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:HPASS: Kathleen Creel\, Northeastern University DESCRIPTION:February 26\, 2025 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM\nDodd Hall 248 & Zoom\nRSVP HERE\n  \nJoin us on Wednesday\, February 26\, 2025 in Dodd Hall 248 for a talk by Kathleen Creel\, Northeastern University\, as part of the History\, Philosophy\, and Science of Science (HPASS) speaker series. \n  \nTalk title\, abstract\, and speaker bio coming soon. \n\n  \n  \n\nRSVP HERE\n\n  \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/hpass-kathleen-creel-northeastern-university/ LOCATION:Dodd Hall 248 CATEGORIES:Colloquia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HPASS-Wordpress-Images-900-x-600-px-jbR01a.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250225T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250225T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130918 CREATED:20250131T235909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T180422Z UID:2190337-1740484800-1740488400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:‘Wild and Ungovernable Passions’: Emotional Scripts and the Fate of U.S. Expansion in the Vigilante Rocky Mountain West\, 1864–1866 DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Abby Gibson\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, University of Southern California. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship \nThe Montana Vigilantes\, as they have become known within the popular nostalgia of the Wild West\, were almost immediately and are still often hailed as heroes of the frontier in their brave efforts to fill in for the American justice system in the wild days before statehood. In 1866\, English schoolteacher and recent arrival to Montana Territory\, Thomas J. Dimsdale\, published a passionate defense of the events of January and February 1864–The Montana Vigilantes!–which is held in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library’s vast collection of Montana memorabilia. Dimsdale’s book is among the most cited firsthand accounts of the Montana Vigilantes\, but in this presentation Gibson will take a different angle on his work by bringing to the fore his extensive commentary on the disorderly emotional climate of Montana Territory that made the extremism of the vigilante violence possible. With this affective lens trained on Dimsdale’s account\, Gibson will discuss not only an implicit ambivalence in his descriptions of the Vigilantes\, but consider the larger story of emotional containment and U.S. expansion in the Rocky Mountain West contained within this work. \nAbby Gibson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Van Hunnick History Department at the University of Southern California and an Editorial Assistant for The Huntington Library Quarterly. Before arriving at USC\, she received her Master’s degree in the history of the American West at the University of Oklahoma\, where she worked as one of two Editorial Fellows for The Western Historical Quarterly during her two years at OU. Abby’s dissertation\, “Fearful Land: Managing Terror in the American West\, 1820–1920” lies at the intersection of the history of U.S. westward expansion and the history of emotions. \nFor additional details and to register for the Zoom lecture\, please visit the website URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/karmiole_gibson/ LOCATION:Zoom 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/Vigilantes-of-Montana_WebPOST.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T160000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130918 CREATED:20241124T060353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250222T170328Z UID:2188664-1740216600-1740240000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Winter 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-winter-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:20250221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20250131T234610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T221741Z UID:2190330-1740132000-1740231000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Early Global Caribbean: Conference 2: Convictions DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (UCLA) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) \nCo-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World \nThe diverse peoples who converged on the Caribbean before 1700 held a range of differing beliefs\, ideas about the natural world\, and understandings of social\, political\, and spiritual order. Considering how Indigenous\, African\, and European systems of thought and faith clashed\, adapted\, and transformed will be the focus of this second meeting. We invite participants to consider how culturally specific systems of knowledge were expressed and transformed under emergent rubrics of what would become known as religion\, science\, and law. We will likewise reflect on how these ideas animated the creation and maintenance of institutions of governance and knowledge production both in the Caribbean and extending beyond it. This conference grants an opportunity to weigh how the globalization of the early Caribbean marked historical changes in beliefs and ideas but also witnessed continuities that cut across the 1492 divide. In the process\, a multitude of convictions about spiritual\, natural\, corporal\, social\, and political order helped shape (and were reshaped by) encounters in the Basin. \nFor the list of speakers and the program schedule\, please visit the website. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/egc-c2-convictions/ 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;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20250211T153618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T155011Z UID:2190641-1739980800-1739984400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Great Search with John Philip Newell DESCRIPTION:The story of Adam and Eve’s fall from innocence in the Garden of Eden is a mythical account of humanity’s broken relationship with the divine\, with Earth\, and with themselves. \nIn contrast\, Celtic wisdom is built on a strong bond with Earth. In the prophetic figures that author John Philip Newell draws from in his book The Great Search\, the Garden of Eden represents the inner garden of our souls and the outer garden of Earth\, which are seen as essentially one. To live in relation to what is deepest in us is to live in relation to the ground from which we and all things have come. Where are we today\, in relation to our true selves and the sacredness of Earth? And how are we to find our way home again? \nNewell’s talk will explore some of these questions raised in his book at this moment of great spiritual awakening\, an era characterized by religious exile on a vast scale. \nRSVP here for the in-person talk (Royce 314). \nRegister here for the Zoom link for the event \nJohn Philip Newell is a Celtic teacher and author of spirituality who calls the modern world to reawaken to the sacredness of Earth and every human being. His PhD is from the University of Edinburgh and he has authored over fifteen books\, including his award-winning publication\, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul\, which was the 2022 Gold Winner of the Nautilus Book Award for Spirituality and Religious Thought of the West. His new book is The Great Search (August 2024)\, in which he looks at the great spiritual yearnings of humanity today in the context of the decline of religion as we have known it. \nNewell speaks of himself as ‘a wandering teacher’ following the ancient path of many lone teachers before him in the Celtic world\, ‘wandering Scots’ (or scotus vagans as they were called) seeking the wellbeing of the world. He has been described as having ‘the heart of a Celtic bard and the mind of a Celtic scholar’\, combining in his teachings the poetic and the intellectual\, the head as well as the heart\, and spiritual awareness as well as political and ecological concern. His writings have been translated into seven languages. In 2020 he relinquished his ordination as a minister of the Church of Scotland as no longer reflecting the heart of his belief in the sacredness of Earth and every human being. He continues\, however\, to see himself as ‘a grateful son of the Christian household’ seeking to be in relationship with the wisdom of humanity’s other great spiritual traditions. \nIn 2016 he began the Earth & Soul initiative and teaches regularly in the United States and Canada as well as leading international pilgrimage weeks on Iona in the Western Isles of Scotland. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-great-search-with-john-philip-newell/ LOCATION:314 Royce Hall/Zoom CATEGORIES:CSR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/JPN-header-QAq00D.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20241116T054934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250214T154823Z UID:2188490-1739527200-1739552400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:“Lost in Transfer? Misunderstanding\, Miscommunication\, and the Production of Knowledge in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean” DESCRIPTION:Organizers: Stefania Tutino (UCLA)\, Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven)\, and Eva Del Soldato (UPenn) \nThe question of how knowledge transfers has become central for understanding the culture of the premodern world in a global perspective. This workshop is interested in exploring the question of what happens when transfer fails: what happens when knowledge is not “translated” properly? What kind of knowledge is produced when the chain of transmission breaks down or malfunctions? We think that miscommunication is as important as communication\, and we propose to explore this theme both by examining specific case studies of miscommunication and by investigating what they tell us about the structure and modes by which knowledge is produced\, which in turn allows us to get to the question of the very category of “transfer” from a philosophical and theoretical perspective. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nPresenter Abstracts \nConference Schedule: \n\n\n\n9:30\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries\n\n\n10:00\nWelcoming Remarks (Zrinka Stahuljak\, Director CMRS-CEGS) \n\n\n10:15\nPaper 1: Lost in Translation: Early Modern Jesuits and the Creed (Emanuele Colombo\, Boston College)\n\n\n10:45\nPaper 2: Mistranslating Indigenous America in the ‘Age of Reason’: Epistemological Hybridity and Colonial Violence (Diego Pirillo\, University of California\, Berkeley)\n\n\n11:15\nPaper 3: Oikonomia Understood and Misunderstood: The Latin and English Reception of Byzantine Chemical Terminology (Alexandre M. Roberts\, University of Southern California)\n\n\n11:45\nBreak\n\n\n12:00\nDiscussion 1: (Paper 1\, 2\, 3) – Chaired by Matthew Acton (KU Leuven & University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’)\n\n\n12:45\nLunch Break (on Royce 306 loggia)\n\n\n2:00\nPaper 4: Rebellious\, but Effective Medieval Translations into Arabic (Cecilia Martini Bonadeo\, University of Padua)\n\n\n2:30\nPaper 5: Hang Time: Gambling on the Future in Late Medieval Italy (Karla Mallette\, University of Michigan)\n\n\n3:00\nPaper 6: Communicating in Manuscript\, Miscommunicating in Print: The Siege of Curzola (1571) and Its Media Aftermath (Ivan Lupić\, University of Rijeka)\n\n\n3:30\nBreak\n\n\n3:45\nDiscussion 2: (Paper 4\, 5\, 6) – Chaired by Sarah Marie Leitenberger (University of Pennsylvania)\n\n\n4:30\nClosing Remarks\n\n\n5:00\nReception URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/lost-in-transfer-misunderstanding-miscommunication-and-the-production-of-knowledge-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean/ LOCATION:Royce 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ms-istanbul-sc3bcleymaniye-yazma-eser-kc3bctc3bcphanesi-esad-efendi-3638-f-4-r-rasc481_il-ie1b8abwc481n-al-e1b9a3afc481_-il-ritrovo-degli-studiosi-e1736195339462-Oyp8U2.tmp_.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20250128T195602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T221553Z UID:2190238-1738774800-1738774800@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Grand Theft Eco: Environmental Futures of Los Angeles - 2 screenings with Q&A DESCRIPTION:Grand Theft Eco: Environmental Futures of Los Angeles repurposes the game engine and design of Grand Theft Auto 5 to creatively imagine environmental change and its consequences for Los Angeles in the year 2050. The first of three “machinima” (video game cinema) episodes\, titled “The iBear in the River\,” will make its debut on February 5 (episode description in image below). \nTo commemorate this release\, LENS will hold two screenings\, each with a production Q&A afterwards. \n\nWHEN: 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (Doors at 4:30 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.\, respectively)\nWHERE: Darren Star Screening Room (Melnitz Hall 1422)\n\nThe Darren Star Screening Room has a 50-seat capacity. Because of the limited capacity\, we ask that you RSVP in advance\, if possible\, for the screening you plan to attend. Standby attendees without an RSVP may be accommodated\, space permitting. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/grand-theft-eco-environmental-futures-of-los-angeles-2-screenings-with-qa/ LOCATION:Darren Star Theater (Melnitz Hall 1422)\, 225 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:LENS,Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Grand-Theft-eco-character-overlooking-Los-Angeles-UCLA-LENS-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20241220T204349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241220T204349Z UID:2189273-1738749600-1738767600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:2025 World Languages Day DESCRIPTION:World Languages Day\, a cherished UCLA tradition last held in 2018\, returns to spotlight the university’s diverse language programs. \nOpen to all UCLA students\, World Languages Day offers opportunities to explore UCLA’s language offerings\, engage with faculty and peers and learn about the academic and professional benefits of multilingualism. \nWhether you’re curious about studying a new language or deepening your existing knowledge\, World Languages Day invites you to discover the many ways languages shape our understanding of the world. \nJoin us on February 5 to enjoy interactive activities\, cultural experiences and opportunities to win special prizes! URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2025-world-languages-day/ LOCATION:Bruin Plaza\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90095 CATEGORIES:European Languages & Transcultural Studies,Humanities Division ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/World-Languages-Day-image-for-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250204T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250204T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20241105T173310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250117T003626Z UID:2188243-1738684800-1738688400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Crafting Your Future: Resume and Cover Letter Mastery Workshop DESCRIPTION:Are you ready to take your Humanities degree into the job market?? Do you want to use your Humanities experience to craft a compelling professional narrative? Join us at the UCLA Career Center for “Crafting Your Future: Resume and Cover Letter Mastery Workshop” where you will learn how to effectively showcase your skills and experiences\, tailor your documents for specific roles\, and make a lasting impression. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insider tips and personalized feedback and land your dream job. \nKey Topics include: \n\nUnderstanding Resume Formats and Structure: Explore chronological\, functional\, and combination formats to determine what best fits your background.\nTailoring Your Resume: Learn how to customize your resume for specific job descriptions using keywords and relevant experiences.\nHighlighting Skills and Accomplishments: Discover how to effectively present your skills\, achievements\, and quantifiable results.\nBuilding Strong Bullet Points: Understand the importance of powerful language and action verbs in conveying your experiences.\nCrafting a Compelling Cover Letter: Master the art of writing a cover letter from the format to the structure that complements your resume and captures the employer’s attention.\nCommon Mistakes to Avoid: Identify frequent pitfalls in resumes and cover letters and how to steer clear of them.\n\nTo register\, go to: Resume & Cover Letter Workshop for Humanities \nMeet our workshop leader: \nArmine Kulikyan \nArmine earned her B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in College and Career Counseling from Cal State Northridge. Prior to her role at UCLA\, Armine worked in both academic and career counseling at multiple campuses such as CSU Los Angeles\, CSU Northridge\, Pasadena City College\, and Cal Lutheran University. In her current role as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Education & Development at UCLA’s Career Center\, Armine provides career counseling to Social Science and Humanities majors\, as well as to Pre-Law students. She also serves as the liaison to the Transfer Student Center and the Humanities Career Panel Series. Through her professional experiences\, Armine realized her passion for career development and hopes to motivate\, educate\, and guide students to reach success and fulfillment. One piece of advice Armine shares with students is “It’s okay to not know where you’re going and you don’t have to have it all figured out. Career development is a lifelong process.” \nMeet our moderator: \nDavid MacFadyen \nDavid MacFadyen was trained both at the University of London (SSEES) and UCLA\, where he received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Since that time\, he has been an avid scholar\, promoter\, and collector of recordings from East Slavic cultures (Russia\, Ukraine\, and Belarus). The size of that collection is now approximately two million compositions\, constituting a substantial and unique database\, recently donated to the Wende Museum in Los Angeles. It is undergoing major archival treatment––specifically with the application of blockchain technology––such that rare audio files may be safely lent in so-called trustless environments to both institutions and individuals. The embedding of AI-assisted metadata is also an essential part of the archive’s improvement. \n\nA resulting ability to track the use(s) of music 24/7 then opens up exciting possibilities in Western markets\, preserving the IP of far-flung musicians with timely\, fair payments––free of any intermediaries and/or their commissions. Not to mention the fact that the blockchain makes false information about financial dealings cryptographically impossible. \n\nWith this focus on technology’s benefit for free speech and free enterprise in both Russia and Ukraine\, MacFadyen is simultaneously authoring a series of monographs on the history of Russia’s recording industry––a troubled domain that\, on occasion\, reflects the same civic abuse that has taken such awful shape since 2022. \n\nHe also runs a non-profit (Pacific Sound and Vision) that offers free education to young musicians from Eastern Europe\, connecting them to SoCal experts in a range of technical\, creative\, and financial realms. Work continues with decentralized tech to offer creative solutions to Russia’s centralized destruction of democratic and artistic liberties. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/crafting-your-future-resume-and-cover-letter-mastery-workshop/ LOCATION: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:20250203T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250203T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20250114T083253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T105319Z UID:2189894-1738602000-1738605600@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Kristina Richardson DESCRIPTION:“Between Two Worlds: The Roma and Early Global Print Cultures” \nGuest Speaker: Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia) \nRichardson will show that Roma and other traveling people not only utilized block printing between 800 and 1450 in North Africa and West Asia but also introduced print technology in their new homes when they migrated to Central Europe in the 1410s. Traveling people were the links bridging the early print cultures of North Africa\, West Asia\, and Central Europe. \nKristina Richardson is the John L. Nau Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on premodern non-elite Arab history\, particularly the history of people with disabilities\, users of sign language\, Romani groups (ghurabā’)\, craftspeople\, and enslaved laborers and entertainers. Her current book project is Black Basra: Race\, Labor\, and Piety in Early Islamic History. \nThe History of the Book Lecture series\, established in 1993 through the efforts of Richard and Mary Rouse\, provides an annual venue for internationally recognized authorities on medieval and Renaissance books to present their expertise at UCLA. The lecture’s focus alternates each year between medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books. The topics explored in past lectures were book and manuscript illustration\, the development of printing\, early book printers and sellers\, the book trade\, and medieval and Renaissance book and manuscript collections. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nRegister to attend via ZOOM \nMore information about past Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book lectures can be found here. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/richard-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture-by-kristina-richardson/ LOCATION:Royce 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DirectorsRichardson2024-XLeDXH.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20250108T103302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250202T130323Z UID:2189761-1738512000-1738519200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Film Screening and Director Q&A DESCRIPTION:Bilingual Lecture Series: Film Screening and Director Q&A with Mohammad Ehsani\nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/95549537236 \nThe Water Will Take Us (2022)\n(Persian with English subtitles) \n \nIn the spring of 2019 Iran experienced a near apocalypse event that went by almost unnoticed by the world. Widespread flash flooding affected large parts of the country over the course of one month\, leading to major damages countrywide and leaving the already impoverished population in utter disarray.  The film is a  look at how years of mismanagement\, poor spatial planning and climate change are impacting civil society in Iran. \nLady Urmia (2013)\n(Persian with English subtitles) \n \nThe film is a poetic documentary about Lake Urmia\, in the northwest of Iran\, which is drying up completely. The environmental catastrophe will affect also neighboring countries such as Iraq and Turkey. The film is narrated in the voice of the lake itself\, crying for help and trying to gain international attention to its suffering. \nAbout the Director \nMohammad Ehsani\, an Iranian independent filmmaker and a member of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association and IDA. He has made several award-winning documentary and fiction films\, such as The Lovers: The Victims\, Tabriz: Images from the Forgotten World\, Enamel Dome\, Lady Urmia\, Once Hamoun\, Karun\, When the Woodpeckers Leave\, and The Water Will Take Us. Ehsani’s films deal with historical drama and social environmental issues in Iran. URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-film-screening-and-director-qa/ LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/BLS-Flyer-Ehsani-AQAue2.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20241205T064922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250202T120315Z UID:2188943-1738512000-1738519200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Fighting Antisemitism and Preserving the Memory of the Holocaust: Advances in Greece and Europe? By Leon Saltiel DESCRIPTION:Fighting Antisemitism and Preserving the Memory of the Holocaust: Advances in Greece and Europe? \nLecture by Leon Saltiel\, Director of Diplomacy\, Representative at UN Geneva and UNESCO\, and\nCoordinator on Countering Antisemitism for the World Jewish Congress \nSunday\, February 2\, 2025\n4:00 p.m.\nThe Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium\, The Fowler Museum at UCLA\nReception to follow \nIntroductory remarks by The Honorable Christina Valassopoulou\, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles \nEvent is free but advanced registration is requested.\nRSVP: https://forms.gle/qeSd5APvr7EewWAG6 \nIf you are unable to attend but would like to watch the lecture via livestream on our YouTube channel\, the link is provided below: \nLivestream link: https://youtube.com/live/S72stydzSRU?feature=share \nThis year marks the 80th anniversary from the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and the end of the Second World War\, which resulted in the Holocaust of 6 million Jews in Europe and North Africa by the Germans and their collaborators. Since then\, countries have been grappling with how to deal with this past but also with antisemitism\, which is scarily showing its ugly face again\, threatening democracy\, the rule of law and peaceful coexistence. Eighty percent of Jews in Europe feel that antisemitism has grown in their country in recent years. This lecture will focus on these challenges\, and a way forward\, using Greece as a case study\, a country trying to heals its wounds after a turbulent past. \nDr. Leon Saltiel is a historian specializing on the Holocaust in Thessaloniki\, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Greek History from the University of Macedonia\, in Thessaloniki\, Greece\, and has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva\, Switzerland and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution\, 1942–1943 (Routledge 2020)\, which won the 2021 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research\, and ‘Do Not Forget Me’: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto in Greek (Alexandria 2018)\, English (Berghahn 2021) and French (Denoël 2023). He also serves as Director of Diplomacy and Representative at UN Geneva and UNESCO\, and Coordinator on Countering Antisemitism for the World Jewish Congress. \nThis event is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, co-sponsored by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nGefyra (Bridge) is a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Gefyra’s mission is to connect students\, faculty\, and communities along the West Coast of North America with Greek scholars\, artists\, and other creators\, so that they can together explore expansive and imaginative approaches to Greek culture and knowledge production. The program additionally supports academic conferences and cultural projects that bridge the West Coast and Greece. \nPresented by: \nCo-sponsored by:\n \nUnder the auspices of: \n \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $16 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Campus Event\,” then “Leon Saltiel Lecture” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 6) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu \n  URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/fighting-antisemitism-and-preserving-the-memory-of-the-holocaust-advances-in-greece-and-europe-by-leon-saltiel/ LOCATION:The Fowler Museum at UCLA\, 308 Charles E Young Drive North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Heritage,History,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/leon-saltiel_UCLA-INST-kEjHKy.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240925T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240925T160000 DTSTAMP:20260405T130919 CREATED:20240727T042801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T054730Z UID:2186049-1727272800-1727280000@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:2024 Humanities Welcome DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Welcome\, held at the beginning of each academic year\, invites faculty\, staff and students to come together to showcase the Humanities at UCLA. \n\n\n\nThe event introduces students to the benefits of Humanities coursework and degrees\, with an introduction by Dean Alexandra Minna Stern\, classics professor Hannah Čulík-Baird offering an inside peek at her research\, and an undergraduate student providing a first-person account of what it’s like to study in the Humanities. \n\n\n\nIt all takes place Wednesday\, Sept. 25\, 2024\, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Schoenberg Music Building! (map) \n\n\n\nStop by for some free Humanities swag\, and stay for a reception afterwards with free refreshments\, representatives from Humanities-related clubs and plenty of opportunity to mingle with Humanities faculty\, staff and students. \n\n\n\nSpace is limited! Students\, staff and faculty are strongly encouraged to register in advance on the event website. \n\n\n\nFeatured speakers\nAlexandra Minna Stern\, Dean\, Humanities Division\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Čulík-Baird\, Associate Professor of Classics\nJack Perry\, Class of 2025 URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2024-humanities-welcome/ LOCATION:Schoenberg Music Building\, 1100 Schoenberg Music Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Humanities Division ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Humanities-Welcome-for-event-page.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR