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SUMMARY:EVENT POSTPONED: Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in  Literature and Art – Sarah Phillips Casteel
DESCRIPTION:The event\, Black Lives under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art with Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University)\, has been postponed. A new date will be announced once it is finalized. \nWe apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Please stay tuned for further updates. \n  \nIn a little-known chapter of World War II\, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization\, forced sterilization\, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration\, Black writers and visual artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works of memoir\, poetry\, fiction\, painting and photomontage illuminate both the relationship between creativity and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory. Probing the boundaries of Holocaust memory and representation\, this talk draws attention to a largely unrecognized artistic corpus that challenges the erasure of Black wartime history. \nSarah Phillips Casteel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor of English at Carleton University. She has written and co-edited five books\, the most recent of which is Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art (Columbia University Press\, 2024). She has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Vienna and Potsdam and visiting fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg. The recipient of a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a Polanyi Prize\, she is a member of the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. \n \nBlack Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art \nSarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University) \nIn conversation with Ben Ratskoff (Occidental College) \nIntroduction by/Moderated by Todd Presner (UCLA) \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/black-lives-under-nazism-making-history-visible-in-literature-and-art-sarah-phillips-casteel/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies
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SUMMARY:Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora – David Kraemer
DESCRIPTION:Jewish people have always wandered. From the time of the Babylonian Exile in the early 6th century BCE\, diaspora became the Jews’ normal condition\, and though they may have hoped for a return to their “Promised Land” at the “End of Days\,” they made sense of their many homes\, defending diaspora as the realm where Jewish life could grow\, and they could fulfil their obligations to God. \nEmbracing Exile analyzes biblical and rabbinic texts\, philosophical treatises\, works of Kabbalah\, Hasidism\, and a multiplicity of modern expressions\, to show that diaspora Jews through the ages insisted that God joined them in their exiles\, that “Zion” was found in Babylon\, Ottoman Turkey\, and Eastern Europe\, and that\, as citizens of the world\, Jews could only live throughout the world. The result is an assertion that lament has not been the most common Jewish response to “exile” and that Zionism is not the natural outcome of either Jewish ideology or history. \nDavid Kraemer is Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian at The Jewish Theological Seminary\, where he has also served as Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics for many years. As Librarian\, Prof. Kraemer is at the helm of the most extensive collection of Judaica—rare and contemporary—in the Western hemisphere. On account of the size and importance of the collection\, Prof. Kraemer is instrumental in setting policy and establishing vision for projects of international importance.\nProf. Kraemer is a prolific author and commentator. His books include The Mind of the Talmud (1990)\, Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature (1995)\, The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism (2000)\, Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (Routledge\, 2007\, 2009)\, and A History of the Talmud (Cambridge U. Press\, 2019)\, among others. His most recent book is Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora\, (Oxford U. Press\, 2025). \n \nThursday\, December 4 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nEmbracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora \nDavid Kraemer (Jewish Theological Seminary)\nModerator: David N. Myers (UCLA) \nAlan D. Leve Center Book Talk Series \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/embracing-exile-the-case-for-jewish-diaspora-david-kraemer/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alan D. Leve Center Book Talk Series
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SUMMARY:Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia\,  1600–1800:  Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited  Conference 1: Empires of Thought
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Choon Hwee Koh (History\, UCLA)\, Meng Zhang (History\, UCLA)\, Abhishek Kaicker (History\, UC Berkeley) \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, and Center for Chinese Studies \nIn this year’s Core Program\, historians of the Ottoman\, Qing\, and Mughal empires revisit the problem of comparison by considering synchronicities and structural parallels across Asia. \nThis first conference\, Empires of Thought\, looks at imperial ideology\, challenging and broadening the default understanding of empire as a large territorial state by focusing on how each empire upheld a normative universe within which particular kinds of political authority and legitimacy were articulated.  How did early modern Eurasian empires conceive of and construct power and legitimacy?  What were the bases of imperial ideologies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and who were their audiences? More fundamentally\, what do we mean when we talk about Eurasian “empires”? Rather than assuming a commonality in the aims of historical empires\, we seek to understand how varying traditions of thought about power patterned the practices of rule. Papers addressing these questions will be presented in four thematically organized panels: “Rulers and Plebeians\,” “Testing Sovereignty\,” “Temporal and Genealogical Order\,” and “Scholars and Bureaucrats.” \nThe list of speakers\, the conference schedule\, and the registration form\, is 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\, December 1 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/synchronicities_core1/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Conference,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Messenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art and Archaeology of the Second Millennium BCE Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Messenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art and Archaeology of the Second Millennium BCE \nHosted by the\nUCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\nin collaboration with\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\nand held in conjunction with the exhibition\nThe Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece \nSaturday\, December 6\, 2025\n9:00 A.M. – 4:15 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus\nReception to follow \nRSVP Here \nSymposium Description:   TBD \nBios: \nEmily Catherine Egan is Assistant Professor of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She holds a dual B.A. in Classics and Old World Archaeology and Art from Brown University\, an M.Phil. in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge\, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on artistic practice in the Bronze Age Aegean\, and particularly on the production\, consumption\, and iconography of Mycenaean painted surface decoration. She has undertaken archaeological fieldwork in Italy\, Turkey\, Jordan\, Armenia\, Cyprus\, and most recently in Greece\, where she is engaged in the study of wall and floor paintings from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos\, and Petsas House\, Mycenae. \nJoanne Murphy is a professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Archaeology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro\, where she has worked since 2008 and serves as Department Head. She is also the current Director of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies\, President of The American Friends of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies (a 501c non-profit)\, and an Academic Trustee at the Archaeological Institute of America. She received her BA and first MA from University College Dublin\, Ireland\, and an MA and PhD from University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses primarily on religion and death and how they connect with identity\, community\, and political economies. As well as giving tens of lectures both nationally and internationally\, she has published over 30 papers and five edited volumes on these and related topics and has one monograph in press and two other volumes underway. She has led two major research projects: one\, a legacy study\, on the tombs around Pylos in southwestern Greece and one\, an archaeological survey on the Greek island of Kea. She has received awards for her research and for initiatives at UNCG and non-profits from various foundations including INSTAP\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Onassis Foundation\, the NEH\, and the Loeb Foundation.  She has also been recognized for her teaching and was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and UNCG College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. She has a great love of sharing the past and has led tours in Greece\, Ireland\, France\, England\, Italy\, and Turkey\, as well as running an annual archaeological field school in Greece. \nEfthymia Tsiolaki is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. She is an archaeologist specializing in the Bronze Age Aegean\, with a focus on the social and economic organization of the Greek mainland. Her current research project explores the long-term history of settlement and land use in Messenia from the bottom-up\, integrating surface survey and excavation data with GIS-based analysis to highlight the dynamic character of peripheral communities before and during the rise of the Mycenaean palace at Pylos (ca. 3000 – 1100 BC). She also studies the technology and function of ground stone tools across several archaeological projects\, examining their roles in domestic and craft activities. \nThis event is organized by Professor David Schneller (UCLA) and Dr. Claire Lyons (Getty) and is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nCo-Sponsored by:\nUCLA College Division of Humanities\nPeter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts\nGeorge P. Kolovos Family Centennial Term Chair in Hellenic Studies\nGefyra\nUCLA Global Antiquity\nThe Joan Palevsky Chair of Classics at UCLA\nUCLA Department of Art History\nUCLA Department of Classics\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design \nDon’t miss our other upcoming programs in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum here: \nSaturday\, November 22\, 2025Pylos and Minoan Crete \nSaturday\, December 6\, 2025\nMessenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art and Archaeology of the Second Millennium BCE Symposium \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/messenia-to-mesopotamia-new-directions-in-the-art-and-archaeology-of-the-second-millennium-bce-symposium/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classics,Cultural Heritage,Gefyra,Humanities
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SUMMARY:Unpacking my Father’s Book Store – Laurence Roth
DESCRIPTION:During its nearly thirty years in business\, J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community and one of the premier Jewish bookstores in the United States. It thrived in the glow of the Jewish ethnic pride movements of the sixties and seventies but was unable to market its uniquely broad definition and collection of Jewish literature after the resurgence of Orthodox Judaism and the assimilation of Jewish writing into the corporate book superstores during the late eighties and early nineties. Through a combination of memoir and critical analysis\, and by connecting both to larger forces that helped shape Jewish and American book retailing in the twentieth-century\, Laurence Roth not only illustrates the importance of one American Jewish bookstore to its customers and to the family that helped run it. He explores\, too\, the role of Jewish bookstores in the assembly and transformation of Jewish cultures and how independent bookstores like J. Roth Bookseller\, which mostly disappear from history\, often had outsized effects on their communities. Breaking with conventional modes of scholarship\, Roth tells a unique and troubled story that rarely gets told\, one that is both personal and analytical\, theoretical but rooted in the everyday. \nLaurence Roth is the Charles B. Degenstein Professor of English and director of the Jewish & Israel Studies Program and The Build Collaborative (a project-based center for liberal arts\, business\, and creativity) at Susquehanna University\, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories; coeditor\, with Nadia Valman\, of The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures; and editor of Modern Language Studies\, the scholarly journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association. \n \nTuesday\, December 9\, 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nUnpacking my Father’s Book Store: The Life and Times of J. Roth Bookseller in Los Angeles\, 1966-1994 \nLaurence Roth (Susquehanna University)\nModerator: David N. Myers (UCLA) \nArnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/unpacking-my-fathers-book-store-laurence-roth/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
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SUMMARY:FLOW: Philosophy and Jiu-Jitsu Workshop
DESCRIPTION:December 11-13\, 2025\nJohn Wooden Center (Blue Room) & Dodd Hall 399\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us December 11-13\, 2025 for FLOW: Philosophy Workshop. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFLOW is a pre-read workshop in which leading philosophers working in a range of areas in philosophy will present work in progress and receive comments from other leading philosophers in their respective fields. In addition to the usual academic discussions\, FLOW will have a distinctive community-building component– the workshop will include sessions at the Blue Room in the John Wooden Center in which workshop participants will be able to participate in sport jiu-jitsu together. We will be offering seminars by Dominyka Obelenyte\, Michael Schweiger\, and Christian Barry\, as well as open-mat sessions. These sessions will take place in the mornings of Dec 11-13. \n  \nIn the afternoons\, we will shift over to the philosophy position of the workshop. The format here is pre-read. Talks will be made available either as a paper or a recorded video. If you need access to view the papers\, please reach out to Ashna Madni at ashnamadni@humnet.ucla.edu. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeminars\nDominyka Obelenyte\, Frogtown Jiu-Jitsu \nChristian Barry\, Australian National University \nMichael Schweiger\, Alliance Lucas Lepri \n  \nPre-Read Talks\n\n\nChristian Barry\, ANU / Comments by Josh Armstrong\, UCLA \nDaniel Greco\, Yale / Comments by Rush Stewart\, Rochester \nCaroline Wall\, Boston University / Comments by Thomas Lambert\, Pitzer \nAdam Elga\, Princeton / Comments by Isaiah Lin\, Providence Christian College \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Program\n  \n***Update on 12/10/25 at 2:30 PM PST***: Adam Elga’s session has moved to Friday and Daniel Greco’s session has moved to Saturday. Isaiah Lin\, Providence Christian College\, will comment on Adam Elga’s paper. \n  \n\nThursday\, December 11\n1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Gi Seminar with Michael Schweiger and Open Mat (Wooden Center Blue Room) \n4:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Welcome and introductions (Dodd Hall 399) \n4:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Talk by Dominyka Obelenyte on Philosophy of Jiu-Jitsu (Dodd Hall 399) \n5:30 PM – 7:30 PM – Pre-Read Talk: Christian Barry\, “Regulated Responsibilities.” Comments by Josh Armstrong (Dodd Hall 399) \n  \nFriday\, December 12\n10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Open Mat (Wooden Center Blue Room) \n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Lunch provided for participants \n1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Pre-Read Talk: Adam Elga\, “A money pump argument against imprecise credences.” Comments by Isaiah Lin (Dodd Hall 399) \n5:00 PM – 7:00 PM – Gi Seminar with Dominyka Obelenyte (Wooden Center Blue Room) \n  \nSaturday\, December 13\n10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – No-Gi Seminar with Christian Barry (Wooden Center Blue Room) \n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Lunch provided for participants \n1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Pre-Read Talk: Caroline Wall\, “No Scars Left Behind: A Hegelian Account of Apologies and Forgiveness.” Comments by Thomas Lambert (Dodd Hall 399) \n3:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Pre-Read Talk: Daniel Greco\, “Can the Fragmentationist Accept a Formal Account of Irrationality?” Comments by Rush Stewart (Dodd Hall 399) \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/flow-philosophy-and-jiu-jitsu-workshop/
LOCATION:John Wooden Center (Blue Room) & Dodd Hall
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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