Novelist Joan Silber has written nine books of fiction including Improvement (2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The New York Times calls her most recent novel, Secrets of Happiness (2021), “humane, elegant and wise.” Readings are followed by discussion with the author and UCLA professor Mona...
As the theater of engagement and integration of communities originating on the shores or from the hinterlands of Africa, Asia, and Europe, the Mediterranean region served as a dynamic center of interaction and exchange from Antiquity through early modernity. Even as it began to lose political and economic centrality, it has remained a zone of...
"On the Introduction of Chinese Decorated Paper to Iran and How it Revolutionized Manuscript Production in the Islamic World" Guest speaker: Ilse Sturkenboom (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) The fifteenth-century introduction of long sheets of brightly colored and gold-embellished paper from Ming China to Iran provided book artists with a range of new possibilities in the production of...
Artist and technologist Erik Loyer shares his practice of digital instrument-making, and the ways in which he draws from comics, games, music, and film to make art, tell stories, and build creative tools. Loyer will explore how approaching each interaction as an invitation extended by the user — whether on the web, mobile, or in...
Poet Boris Dralyuk reads from his most recent volume, My Hollywood and Other Poems, a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los Angeles. The Poetry Foundation proclaimed that “the ache of exile reverberates against the irretrievability of the past” in the Odessa-born poet’s work. Organized and hosted by poet, literary critic,...
A Language Archipelago: Linguistic Variety and Contact in Cyprus A conference in celebration of International Greek Language Day Schedule, Speakers, and Topics February 24-25, 2024 8:30 a.m. Los Angeles / 11:30 a.m. Washington, D.C. / 6:30 p.m. Cyprus & Greece Via Zoom RSVP: https://bit.ly/3TX9LS9 Opening remarks by Dr. Vasiliki Kassianidou Deputy Minister of Culture, Republic of...
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...
How to Translate Your Work for a General Audience Editor in Residence- Public Scholarship Wednesday, February 28, 3pm, 2024 Lani Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/LARBW24 Please join us for a panel on public scholarship, specifically on how to write for non-academic audiences. The 2023-24 UCLA Editor in Residence, Public Scholarship Fellow, Tom Lutz...
Copy of Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖 (Complete map of the world), 1674, Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. held at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Image stitched together from individual images of each frame of the map screen. Guest Speaker: S.E. Kile (University of Michigan) "Was the World Early Modern?: Telescopes, Surgery, and Print Media in China,...
“How to Think About the Past” Lecture by Katherine Elizabeth Fleming President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust and Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization, Department of History, New York University (NYU) March 2, 2024 4:00 p.m. UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium Reception to follow Event is free but advanced registration is requested RSVP...