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SUMMARY:Jennifer Trimble | “Monuments and meanings: ancient Roman damnatio memoriae and statue destructions today”
DESCRIPTION:Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture\nAssociate Professor of Classics\, Standford University\n“Monuments and meanings: ancient Roman damnatio memoriae and statue destructions today”
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-trimble-monuments-and-meanings-ancient-roman-damnatio-memoriae-and-statue-destructions-today/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Club\, Morrison Room\, 480 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palevsky Lecture
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Sunil Sharma
DESCRIPTION:One Divan and Multiple Poets: The Strange Case of Makhfi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunil Sharma \nBoston University \nEnglish Lecture \nMonday\, May 4\, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time \nOnline via Zoom \nRegistration Required: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6QTp311ZThKErILePfrBEQ \n\nThe poet behind the Divan-e Makhfi is thought to have been the Mughal Princess Zebunnisa (d. 1702). However\, there are historical and philological problems with this attribution that have been debated by some scholars. While also discussing the problem of authorship of the Divan\, this talk will focus on the history of compilation and readership of the text\, as it circulated in manuscript and lithographed copies\, and came to be considered as a kind of canonical work by an early female poet whose poems deserved a modern scholarly edition. \n  \nSunil Sharma is Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of Asia at Boston University. He has authored several books and also published translations of works from Persian and Urdu. His areas of research are Persian poetry and court cultures\, history of the book\, and travel writing\, and has a particular interest in the participation of women in Persianate literary cultures.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-sunil-sharma/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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SUMMARY:Biblical Monotheism: Exclusive or Inclusive? – Benjamin Sommer
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will examine the discussion of pluralism in the field of comparative theology in light of a core question in the history of Israelite religion. It will create a dialogue between the work of historians of religion such as Yehezkel Kaufmann and theologians such as John Hick\, with some reference to the Egyptologist Jan Assmann\, moving from a close reading of passages in Deuteronomy\, Psalms\, and Isaiah to much broader theological issues. \nBenjamin Sommer is Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His books\, Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition (2015)\, The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel (2009)\, and A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 (1998)\, received multiple prizes in the United States and Israel. The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz described Sommer as “an iconoclast but a traditionalist-he shatters idols and prejudices in order to nurture Jewish tradition and its applicability today.” He is the subject of one of the documentaries in the On the Threshold series of films on contemporary Christian\, Jewish\, and Muslim theologians. The film is available on You Tube (https://youtu.be/HkucTib3fMk). \nThursday\, May 7\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nBiblical Monothesim: Exclusive or Inclusive? \nBenjamin Sommer (Jewish Theological Seminary)\nModerator: William Schniedewind (UCLA) \nThe Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/biblical-monothesim-exclusive-or-inclusive-benjamin-sommer/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:First Epistle to the Amphibians: Reading and Conversation with Ricardo Domeneck\, Chris Daniels\, and Patrícia Lino
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for FIRST EPISTLE TO THE AMPHIBIANS\, a collection of poetry by Brazilian author Ricardo Domeneck\, translated by Chris Daniels\, published by World Poetry Books in April 2026. The event will consist of a reading and conversation with Ricardo Domeneck\, Chris Daniels\, and Patrícia Lino. \nRicardo Domeneck is a Brazilian writer based in Berlin. He has published ten collections of poems and two of short prose in Brazil and Portugal. He is the recipient of two of Brazil’s most prestigious literary awards\, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens\, and selected volumes of his poems have appeared in German\, Dutch and Spanish. Working with sound and performance\, he has presented work in several museums and galleries. First Epistle to the Amphibians (World Poetry\, 2026) is the first book of his poetry to appear in English translation. \nChris Daniels is a feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of poetry by Fernando Pessoa\, Josely Vianna Baptista\, Adelaide Ivánova\, Lubi Prates\, and Orides Fontela. His selected volume of Ricardo Domeneck’s poems\, First Epistle to the Amphibians\, will be released by World Poetry Books in April 2026. \nPatrícia Lino is a poet\, an essayist\, a performer\, a translator and Associate Professor of poetry and visual arts at UCLA. Among her books\, videopoems\, translations\, performances\, talk-performances and sound experiences are\, for instance\, Todo poema é um kindergarten (2025)\, I Am a Poet\, I Was a Starling (2025)\, Imperativa Ensaística Diabólica. Infraleituras da Poesia Expandida Brasileira (2024)\, O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial (2024)\, or A Ilha das Afeições (2023).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/first-epistle-to-the-amphibians-reading-and-conversation-with-ricardo-domeneck-chris-daniels-and-patricia-lino/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia\, 1600–1800: Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited: Conference 3: Empires of Things
DESCRIPTION:In 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. \nThe third conference looks at Society\, Materiality\, and Knowledge.  Increased mobility and commercial activity across the early modern Eurasian space heightened imperial concerns about the effectiveness of political control over increasingly assertive and unruly subjects. Anxieties over a changing social and economic order engendered a new momentum in cultural production\, reflected in literature\, in legal codes that tried to reinforce status hierarchies\, and in new religious and spiritual movements. In what new ways did merchants trade\, how did artisans and craftsmen organize themselves\, how did guilds transform\, how did the pious communicate with each other\, how did common subjects live\, how did spatial imaginaries change? This conference follows the currents of social\, material\, and knowledge movements–across local\, communal\, oceanic\, or trans-imperial space–that propelled\, supplemented\, paralleled\, superseded\, or completely ignored the agenda of the empire. Rather than assuming a dichotomy of state and society as the norm\, this conference explores different modes of mutual interactions in various arenas of power. \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\, May 4 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/core3-empires-of-things/
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:40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies\, the nation’s first research center for early modern studies. Founded in 1985\, the Center provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies\, and organizes a wide range of academic and cultural programs. Additionally\, the Center administers the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, located on a historic property in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles\, which serves as the research laboratory for a distinguished array of fellows working either in early modern studies or the fin-de-siècle world of Oscar Wilde. \nThe program will begin with a talk presented by UCLA Professor of English Helen Deutsch\, who served as the Center & Clark’s Director from 2017 to 2020. At a moment when higher education is under siege\, the study of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries might seem a luxury at best\, irrelevant at worst. Professor Deutsch’s talk\, a review and celebration of the Center and its history\, refutes such assumptions. She will argue that the work of the Center and its partner the Clark—research\, musical and theatrical performance\, conferences\, collaborations in many forms—is not a retreat to the past but rather an ongoing engagement with our present. Critical University Studies scholar Christopher Newfield has recently described universities as “places of unique challenge\, novelty\, and happiness\, of intellectual revolutions and personal transformations.” The Center is just such a place\, and our imaginative and intellectual investments in the past illuminate the ways in which such revolutions are both rooted in history and ongoing collective projects of the utmost relevance. \nThe registration form is available on our website. \n\nThe program is free to attend with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at Royce Hall 314. \nRegistration will close on Wednesday\, May 6 at 5:00 p.m. \nSeating is limited; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/40th-anniversary-c1718cs/
LOCATION:UCLA\, Royce Hall 314\, (Conference Room)\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Middle Eastern and North African Jews and the Birth of Modern Fashion: A Hidden History
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, historians Devi Mays and Julia Phillips Cohen discuss the unknown role that Jews from the eastern and southern Mediterranean played in the shaping of modern couture. Following two fashion houses run by an interconnected network of North African and Middle Eastern Jews in fin-de-siècle Paris\, the talk reveals the participation of these firms in a global web of makers\, suppliers\, and designers stretching from Algiers and Constantinople to Cairo\, Tabriz and Kyoto. \nJulia Phillips Cohen is an Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her publications include the books Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press\, 2014) and Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History\, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press\, 2014)\, co-authored and edited with Sarah Abrevaya Stein\, as well as articles in the American Historical Review\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Journal of Modern History\, Jewish Social Studies and Jewish Quarterly Review. She is currently at work\, together with Devi Mays\, on a book exploring a forgotten network of North African and Middle Eastern Jews in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Europe. \nDevi Mays is an Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the University of Michigan. Her book\, Forging Ties\, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford: Stanford University Press\, 2020) won the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the American Historical Association\, the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture\, the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa\, Americas\, Asia and Oceania from the Association for Jewish Studies\, and the Alixa Naff Migration Studies Prize from the Moise Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies.  Her articles have appeared in Jewish Social Studies\, Mashriq & Mahjar\, Jewish Quarterly Review\, Journal of Modern History and AJS Perspectives. She is currently working with Julia Phillips Cohen on a book exploring a forgotten network of North African and Middle Eastern Jews in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. \nTuesday\, May 12\, 2026 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM \nMiddle Eastern and North African Jews and the Birth of Modern Fashion: A Hidden History \nJulia P. Cohen (Vanderbilt) & Devi Mays (University of Michigan)\nModerator: Aomar Boum (UCLA) \nAl Finci Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies\nCosponsored by the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/middle-eastern-and-north-african-jews-and-the-birth-of-modern-fashion-a-hidden-history/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Al Finci Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
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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).
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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