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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:UCLA Department of Art History Colloquium with Susan Dackerman\, May 6
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Department of Art History Colloquium with featured speaker Susan Dackerman on Wednesday\, May 6 at 1 PM in Dodd 275 for her talk\, The Paleontology of Print: Lithographic Limestone and the Nature of Reproducibility.  \nSummary: When in 1796\, the Munich playwright Alois Senefelder developed a method of printing from the surface of the local Bavarian limestone\, he was utilizing a material that had been reproducing indexical images for millions of years. The Jurassic-era limestone slabs were riddled with fossilized flora and fauna. The same year as Senefelder’s invention\, from study of the same Bavarian limestone\, the French naturalist Georges Cuvier recognized that some fossils in the stone were petrifications of species that were no longer extant\, establishing the idea of extinction. Prior to Cuvier\, fossils were imagined to be images made by Nature itself. Senefelder’s use of the local limestone was preceded by the stone’s use by regional sculptors such as Hans Daucher\, who around 1500 turned from marble to the native limestone because the characteristics of the stone suited precision carving. Many of the fossil-laden stone sculptures subsequently were used as templates to cast bronze copies\, conceptually replicating the stone’s capacity to cast fossils. Nearly 300 years later\, the stone’s generative potential again was exploited to make printed multiples known as lithographs. My paper imagines how examining the history of early modern sculpture and prints alongside the history of paleontology enables us to see how Nature\, and the contemporaneous historical theories that explicate it\, have informed the work of artists\, as well as shaped the history of print and replication. \nAll are welcome!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/ucla-department-of-art-history-colloquium-with-susan-dackerman-may-6/
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260507T160000
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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:Palestine 36 screening\, May 7th
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening of the film Palestine 36 on Thursday\, May 7.  Doors will open at 4 PM.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/palestine-36-screening-may-7th/
LOCATION:Kinsey Pavillion\, 1220B
CATEGORIES:At UCLA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260508T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260508T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260511T160000
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SUMMARY:Jolene Rickard to present the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture\, May 11
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lecture\, featuring Jolene Rickard\, Associate Professor\, Departments of Art History + Visual Studies\, Art American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program\, Cornell University. \nProfessor Rickard’s lecture is entitled\, “Creative Defiance as Sensory Ecologies.” \nThe Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lectureship was established in memory of UCLA alumna Gretchen Millson in December 2009 by her husband\, Dr. John J. Millson. Gretchen graduated from UCLA with a B.A. from the Department of Art in 1961. This endowed fund provides much-needed resources to the department to allow us to grow and continue our longstanding tradition of excellence. For more information\, click here. \nThe presentation\, with a reception to follow\, will be held on Monday\, May 11\, 2026 at 4 PM at the Luskin Conference Center’s Laureate Room. \nKindly RSVP by May 4 to ycastellanos@support.ucla.edu or 310-825-0913.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/jolene-rickard-to-present-the-2026-gretchen-taylor-millson-lecture-may-11/
LOCATION:UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260512T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260512T153000
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SUMMARY:Middle Eastern and North African Jews and the Birth of Modern Fashion: A Hidden History – Julia P. Cohen
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, historian Julia Phillips Cohen discusses 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. \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)\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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260512T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260512T163000
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SUMMARY:No Place Like Home\, Eighteenth-Century London in an Age of Change
DESCRIPTION:The Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, UCLA Department of Art History\, and the Winter 2026 Ahmanson Seminar are pleased to present the exhibit opening of “No Place Like Home\, Eighteenth-Century London in an Age of Change” \nMeet the Curators on May 12th.  All are welcome!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/no-place-like-home-eighteenth-century-london-in-an-age-of-change/
LOCATION:Williams Andrews Clark Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angelese\, CA\, 60018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art History co-sponsored event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260514
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SUMMARY:2026 Ancient Studies Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Global Antiquity is delighted to invite UCLA faculty members to an ancient studies writing retreat. Join colleagues from across the Humanities and Social Sciences for an opportunity to make meaningful progress on your latest project in a quiet\, contemplative space. The event will take place from 9:00 am–5:00 pm in Royce 306 on Wednesday\, May 13\, with breakfast and coffee served at 9:00 am and lunch at 12:00 pm. Please feel free to come and go as your schedule allows\, and we hope to see you there! \nThis event is graciously sponsored by a grant from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center\, Division of Humanities\, Division of Social Sciences\, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities\, and School of Music\, and School of Theater\, Film\, and Television.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2026-ancient-studies-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T170000
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SUMMARY:Richard Wollheim’s Moral Psychology
DESCRIPTION:May 13\, 2026\nMoore Hall 3340\nRSVP HERE\n  \nPlease join us on Wednesday\, May 13\, 2026 in Moore Hall\, Room 3340\, for a workshop on Richard Wollheim’s Moral Psychology. \n  \nSpeakers\nLucy O’Brien\, University College London\nElisabeth Camp\, Rutgers University\nPaolo Babbiotti\, University of Turin\nJürgen Lipps\, UCLA \n  \n  \nWorkshop Program\n9:00 – 9:30 AM: Introductions and opening remarks\, Vida Yao\, UCLA\nAnd an introduction to Wollheim’s life and philosophy\, Paolo Babbioti\, University of Turin \n9:30 – 11:00 AM: Paolo Babbioti (University of Turin)\, “Psychoanalysis and Value in Richard Wollheim” \n11:00 – 11:15 AM: Break \n11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University)\, “Expression\, Projection\, and Iconicity: Fitting Form with Minimal Depth Psychology” \n12:45 – 1:45 PM: Lunch for all speakers and registrants \n1:45 – 3:15 PM: Jürgen Lipps (UCLA)\, “Identification and Character” \n3:15 – 3:30 PM: Coffee break \n3:30 – 5:00 PM: Lucy O’Brien (University College London)\, “‘To live the life of a person’: Wollheim\, Self-Concern\, Other-Concern\, and Concern for Wellbeing” \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/richard-wollheims-moral-psychology/
LOCATION:Moore Hall 3340 (Reading Room)
CATEGORIES:Work Shops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T131500
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SUMMARY:Music and Religion in Popular Culture:  The Case of Orthodox Jews and Christian Contemporary Music
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1960s religious practitioners have created their own music to express their beliefs and values to shield the community from popular culture.  The Irony is they use the popular culture that they reject from American culture in their music.  This presentation by Mark Kligman (UCLA) will highlight important composers and groups with audio and video examples of Orthodox Jewish and Christian Contemporary Music. \nRSVP required here for in-person attendance. \nRegister for Zoom link here. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/music-and-religion-in-popular-culture-the-case-of-orthodox-jews-and-christian-contemporary-music/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260514T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260514T140000
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SUMMARY:“Building Guanajuato: Architecture and Infrastructure in a Late Colonial Mining City\,” with Dr. Luis Gordo Peláez
DESCRIPTION:The Architecture Working Group is pleased to announce that their next event will be held on Thursday\, May 14\, 2026 at 12:00 PM PT via Zoom. \nWith the support of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, and the UCLA Department of Art History\, we will be joined by Dr. Luis Gordo Peláez\, Associate Professor in the School of Art\, Design and Art History at California State University\, Fresno. \nDr. Peláez is an architectural historian who studies the history of cultural production and built environment of the early modern transatlantic Hispanic world. Dr. Peláez will present a talk entitled “Building Guanajuato: Architecture and Infrastructure in a Late Colonial Mining City.” \nPlease register in advance for the talk using this link: https://tinyurl.com/AWG-Luis-Gordo-Pelaez.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/building-guanajuato-architecture-and-infrastructure-in-a-late-colonial-mining-city-with-dr-luis-gordo-pelaez/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History co-sponsored event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260518T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260518T160000
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SUMMARY:Screening Dispossession in Abya Yala: Collaborative Filmmaking and Environmental Justice in Mining Contexts
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I examine how Indigenous peoples in Abya Yala (Latin America) mobilize collaborative filmmaking to resist mining dispossession\, even as the technologies of film and video remain entangled in extractive systems. I argue that Indigenous cosmopolitics plays a central role in contemporary audiovisual narratives that contest hegemonic representations of mining\, contributing to the decolonization of extractivist perspectives and to the defense of Indigenous territorial\, visual\, and cultural sovereignty in Abya Yala. \nDrawing on selected films from Peru and Brazil and the work of Indigenous thinkers such as Ailton Krenak and Davi Kopenawa\, I introduce the concept of “orphanization” to reframe dispossession beyond purely material or human-centered frameworks. This concept highlights how extractivism fractures relational worlds\, disrupting connections between people\, land\, and more-than-human life. By bringing Indigenous thought into conversation with critical theory\, this talk highlights how cultural production can reshape the way we understand environmental justice\, dispossession\, and resistance. \nBARBARA GALINDO is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California\, Riverside. \nShe was previously an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow in Race\, Ethnicity\, and Indigeneity (2022–2024) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nAn activist\, researcher\, and educator\, Galindo’s work advances new critical approaches to understanding socio-environmental issues in Latin America. Her research focuses on twentieth-and twenty-first-century cultural production\, with particular attention to the Andean and Amazonian regions. Her recent publications appear in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JLACS)\, LACIS Review\, and the Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR). \nIn this talk\, Galindo invites students to consider cultural production as a site of epistemic and political resistance within socio-environmental struggles\, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary training and multilingualism.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/screening-dispossession-in-abya-yala-collaborative-filmmaking-and-environmental-justice-in-mining-contexts/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:14th Annual ucLADINO conference: The Ladino Diaspora and Community Resilience: Memory and Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:In its fourteenth consecutive year\, the ucLADINO conference supports and celebrates the growing preservation of Ladino language and culture in the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. The theme for this year’s ucLADINO conference centers around Ladino and community resilience\, exploring the ways that Ladino language preserves cultural memory yet continually adapts and reacts to change. What is the role of language transmission amidst migration and cultural ruptures? How has Ladino practice adapted to a range of spaces\, from the domestic sphere and local community centers to towns\, cities\, nations\, archives\, and digital networks? \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR UCLADINO CONFERENCE \n14th Annual ucLADINO Conference \nThe Ladino Diaspora and Community Resilience:  \nMemory and Adaptation \nMay 19\, 2026\, The University of California\, Los Angeles \nSchedule\nIntroductions  9:00 – 9:10 AM PST \nPanel 1 | Ladino and Jewish Texts 9:10 – 10:10 AM PST \nPanel 2 | Ladino Theater\, Literature\, and the Press 10:20 – 11:20 AM PST \nKeynote | Edwin Seroussi 11:30 – 12:20 PM PST \nLadino Song Scandals: The 2026 Edition \nBreak  12:20 – 1:20 PM PST \nPanel 3 | Creation: Heritage and Cultural Dialogue 1:20 – 1:50 PM PST \nFeatured Roundtable | Notebooks of Sonic Memory 2:00 – 3:00 PM PST \nPanel 4 | Intergenerational Language Transmission 3:10 – 4:10 PM PST \nClosing Remarks 4:15 – 4:30 PM PST \nPanel 1 | Ladino and Jewish Texts\nModerated by Dr. Bryan Kirschen\, Binghamton University \n  \nDate/Time: Tuesday\, May 19th\, 2026\, 9:10 – 10:10 AM PST \n  \nJavier Leibiusky | CERMOM (INALCO) \nCustoms and Traditions in the Commentary on Pirkei Avot from the Meam Loez (Isaac Magriso\, Constantinople\, 1753) \n  \nJavier Leibiusky (b. 1975\, Buenos Aires) grew up in Israel and has lived in Paris since 2007. He is a researcher at INALCO\, holding a PhD in Languages\, Literatures\, and Societies of the World. His work focuses on Judeo-Spanish language and culture\, and he teaches Modern and Biblical Hebrew. Alongside academia\, he writes fiction\, publishing short story collections in Argentina and France\, including Llueven Uñas\, La Conspiration des Riobambas\, and Acoustic Stories. He recently released his first novel\, Howmme. \n  \nMarcel Israel | Independent Scholar \nSephardic Jews of the Balkans during the Ottoman Empire\, in some documents in Ladino\, found in the Cairo Genizah \nDr. Marcel Israel\, Ph.D.\, trained in Industrial Controls and Telecommunications. A Sephardic Jew\, born in Plovdiv\, Bulgaria\, living alternately in Madrid/ Spain\, and Sofia/ Bulgaria. Speaks Ladino as a native language. Former President of the Central Religious Council of the Jewish Communities in Bulgaria and currently a Board member of Religions for Peace Europe based in Berlin. For about 40 years\, an independent scholar in Jewish History and (Ladino) Linguistics\, presenting multiple scientific contributions at conferences\, seminars\, or webinars in different countries in Europe\, the USA\, and South America.  \n  \nEsther Rute | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev \nLadino in Responsa: An Inheritance Dispute between Amsterdam and the Ottoman Sephardic Diaspora \n  \nEsther Rute is a PhD candidate at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds two M.A. degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, in Jewish History and Spanish Studies\, and a B.A. in Arabic and Hebrew Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research focuses on Sephardic rabbinic literature in Judeo-Spanish in the Ottoman world\, with particular attention to legal culture\, converso identity\, and transcultural dynamics between Western European and Ottoman Jewish communities in the early modern period. She works with rabbinic sources in Ladino and Hebrew. \n  \nDavid M. Bunis | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem \nPierre Baudin d’Allauch (b. c1838): A Little-known French Friend of the Ottoman Jews and his Writings in Judezmo \n  \nDavid M. Bunis is professor emeritus at the Center for Jewish Languages and the Department of Hebrew Language\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of A Lexicon of Judezmo Language (in Hebrew\, Jerusalem\, 1999)\, Voices from Jewish Salonika (Jerusalem-Salonika\, 1999)\, and numerous articles on the Judezmo (Ladino\, Judeo-Spanish) language and its literature and on Jewish languages as a field of scholarly inquiry; editor of Languages and Literatures of Sephardic and Oriental Jews (2009); co-editor of Rabbinical Literature in Yiddish and Ladino (2025); Massorot\, devoted to Jewish language traditions\, and Caminos de leche y miel: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Michael Studemund-Halévy (2018). In 2006 he received the Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Prize\, and in 2013\, the EMET Prize. \n  \nPanel 2 | Ladino Theater\, Literature\, and the Press\nNegotiating Identity  \nModerated by Madeline Hudalla\, PhD Candidate\, UCLA \n  \nDate/Time: Tuesday\, May 19th\, 2026\, 10:20 – 11:20 AM PST \n  \nLilian L. Cano | University of Texas at San Antonio \nLadino\, Cultural Memory\, and Diasporic Resilience in Vida propia \n  \nLilian L. Cano is Professor of Practice in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Ph.D. candidate in English. Her research centers on Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)\, Sephardic Jewish studies\, and the relationship between language and identity in literature. Her work examines how code-switching\, narrative voice\, and cultural memory shape identity in Sephardic and Spanish-language novels. She has presented at national and international conferences and is committed to the study and preservation of Ladino as a language of diaspora and cultural expression. \n  \nSarit Cofman-Simhon | Emunah College of Fine Arts and Design \nLate Ottoman Judezmo Theatre: A National Biography \n  \nDr. Sarit Cofman-Simhon is a theatre researcher interested in performative practices in diverse Jewish languages and historical periods\, on which she has published extensively. Sarit is based at Emunah Academic College of Fine Arts and Design\, Jerusalem\, where she is Head of Theatre Department. Her book From Language to Performance: Jewish Tongues on the Israeli Stage was published in 2023 in Hebrew. Her next book explores diverse performative phenomena in Jewish culture. \n  \nSanja Trifunović | University of Vienna \nJudeo-Spanish Aspects of Karagöz Shadow Theatre: Memory and Adaptation in the Post-Ottoman Era \n  \nSanja Trifunović is a linguist and orientalist\, currently a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna. She also attends online classes on endangered Jewish languages at the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages. She holds an MA in Philological Sciences from the Faculty of Philology\, University of Belgrade\, where she also obtained an MA/BA in Modern and Ottoman Turkish Language and Literature\, Arabic and English. Her research interests include anthropological linguistics\, language typology\, endangered Jewish languages\, Sephardic studies\, folklore\, music\, theatre and film. She has participated in several international conferences on Jewish Sephardic studies\, including the last two ucLADINO conferences. \n  \nLydia Vlasidou | York University \nNegotiating Belonging in the Judeo-Spanish Press of Early 20th Century New York \n  \nLydia Vlasidou is a PhD student in History at York University\, Toronto and she holds an MA in Arab and Hebrew Cultures from the University of Granada. Her research focuses on Sephardic identity formation in the late Ottoman and early modern Greek periods\, as well as the Sephardic diasporic experience\, questions of integration and relationships between diaspora communities and the homeland at a personal as well as institutional level. She has worked as a historical researcher with institutions including the Spanish National Research Council\, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Holocaust Museum of Greece. \n  \nKeynote\n  \nDate/Time: Tuesday\, May 19th\, 2026\, 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM PST \n  \nEdwin Seroussi | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem  \nLadino Song Scandals: The 2026 Edition \n  \nEdwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre\, Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College\, and Jewish Sound Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Jewish musical cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East and their interactions with Islamic cultures\, Judeo-Spanish song and music in Israel. Besides his academic activities he is active in the music scene of Israel and abroad in diverse capacities as producer\, advisor\, member of the board of musical institutions and representative to the International Music Council (UNESCO). He has been awarded several prestigious prizes\, among them the Israel Prize in the field of musicology for 2018. \n  \nPanel 3 | Creation: Heritage and Cultural Dialogue\nVirtual Gallery and Artist Talk \n  \nModerated by Courtney Blue\, PhD Candidate\, UCLA \n  \nDate/Time: Tuesday\, May 19\, 2026\, 1:20 – 1:50 PM PST \n  \nBecky Behar | Brandeis University \nTu Ke Bivas: An Illustrated Talk \n  \nBecky Behar is a Colombian-born\, Boston-area photo-based artist. Her staged photographs explore motherhood\, domesticity\, and generational ties\, with recent work focused on Sephardic identity and rituals. Blending autobiography and fiction\, she draws on Dutch painting\, using light\, shadow\, and symbolic still lifes to examine memory\, faith\, and inherited gesture. Behar has exhibited nationally and internationally\, including at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe\, Lilith\, and Jewish Boston. She received the 2025 Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts Award and is a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. \n  \nOfer Ronen | Musician \nMorenika Nos Llaman: A musician’s perspective on Ladino and Jewish musical culture in Spain today \n  \nOfer Ronen is a guitarist\, composer\, and music researcher based in Barcelona. Trained in classical and flamenco guitar\, he studied musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked for six years at the Jewish Music Research Centre under Prof. Edwin Seroussi. He later specialised in flamenco in Seville\, completing a musical performance master’s degree in Barcelona. His work explores the intersection of flamenco\, Middle Eastern\, Jewish\, and Mediterranean musical traditions\, including Ladino repertoire\, integrating performance and research. Ronen has performed internationally across Europe\, Israel\, and North America\, focusing on cultural dialogue and hybrid musical identities. \n  \nFeatured Roundtable | Notebooks of Sonic Memory\n  \nModerated by Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz\, University of Cambridge \n  \nDate/Time: Tuesday\, May 19\, 2026\, 2:00 – 3:00 PM PST \n  \nVanessa Paloma Elbaz | University of Cambridge \nThe Judeo-Spanish Cancionero as Embodied Transmission of Becoming-Memory \nVanessa Paloma Elbaz is a Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse and the University of Cambridge’s music faculty. A previous Senior Fulbright scholar\, Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow and Posen fellow among others\, she is the chair of the International Council for Music and Dance’s Mediterranean Music Study Group. She was the general editor for a special issue on Judeo-Spanish Songbooks forthcoming by Presses de l’INALCO\, an edited volume by the British Academy on Sound and Memory in the Western Mediterranean and her monograph on Judeo-Spanish women’s songs from Northern Morocco is forthcoming from Brill. Her work is often featured in the international media such as BBC\, New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, France 24 and others. She founded KHOYA: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive in 2012 and launched a multilingual online exhibit with one interview from its collection http://yalalla.org.uk. \n  \nJudith Cohen | York University \nMy ethnomusicologist self examines the Ladino songs in my performer self’s song notebook \nJudith Cohen is a Canadian ethnomusicologist\, medievalist and singer\, working with Sephardic music\, music among Portuguese and Brazilian Crypto-Jews\, and related diaspora traditions in the Balkans\, French Canada\, Spain\, Portugal l\, BraIl and others. She also works as a storyteller\, embedding her research and travels into her stories to reach and interact with non-academic audiences. \n  \nPam Sezgin | University of North Georgia \nThe Besso Songbook: A Late Ottoman Sephardic Musical Legacy \nDr. Pam Sezgin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Georgia (USA).  Her research is in political anthropology and ethnomusicology regarding Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire (19th and 20th centuries). \n  \nRenato Kamhi | Violinist\, PhD Sorbonne Université \nThe Flory Jagoda Songbook: Memories of Sarajevo\, elements of a collective memory \nOriginally from Sarajevo\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Renato Kamhi has been immersed in Judeo-Spanish music since childhood. He holds a doctorate from Sorbonne University on the role of the diaspora in the revitalization of the Judeo-Spanish musical repertoire in the former Yugoslavia. Violinist\, Renato Kamhi holds two master’s degrees (violin and teaching) and teaches at a music conservatory in the Paris region. A founding member of the piano trio ARK\, he performs with the ensemble in France and across Europe.  \nPanel 4 | Intergenerational Language Transmission and Sustainability\nModerated by Dr. Rachel Baron-Bloch\, UC Irvine \n  \nDate/Time: Tuesday\, May 19th\, 2026\, 3:10 – 4:10 PM PST \n  \nDerya Agis | Ankara University \nJudeo‑Spanish Culinary Diplomacy Through an Ecolinguistic Lens \n  \nDerya Agis is an academic researcher and anthropologist specializing in the intersections of language\, culture\, and the environment. Her work frequently explores Cognitive Metaphor Theory\, Ecolinguistics\, and Critical Discourse Analysis\, with a particular focus on how these frameworks apply to both historical and contemporary political narratives. She has a deep research interest in Italian-American and Sephardic studies\, specifically examining linguistic heritage and the role of culinary diplomacy in literature. Her scholarly contributions include investigating botanical and sensory history\, notably the 19th-century scientific and literary perspectives on environmental health. Agis is also an active member of the academic community\, contributing to international networks such as H-Envirohealth\, where she explores the intersecting histories of health and medicine. Her recent publications include work on environmental justice and eco-cognizance. Beyond her core research\, she is dedicated to curriculum development and is currently expanding her expertise in Renaissance culture and the Italian language. She holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from Ankara University on Italian Language and Culture\, an M.A. in Linguistics from Hacettepe University\, and an M.S. in Anthropology from METU.  \nFabiola Varela-García | University of Wisconsin Eau Claire \nThe Diaspora of the Spanish Language in Eurasia: Memory and Maintenance of Sephardic Spanish in Istanbul \n  \nFabiola Varela-García is a Full Professor at UW-Eau Claire with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Specializing in Sociolinguistics and Spanish Phonetics\, she has conducted research on Andalusian\, Guatemalan indigenous languages\, and 18th-century Isleño Spanish of Louisiana. Today\, she is presenting on behalf of herself and her mentees: Bricyn Barziza\, who graduates this May with a degree in Education and Spanish\, and Léa Guilmineau\, now a Master’s student in Germany. Their UWEC ORSP-funded study analyzes Judeo-Spanish dating back to the 16th century\, which is still spoken today in Istanbul\, utilizing digital archives to establish a foundation for fresh research and the preservation of this historical linguistic heritage. \n  \nJacob Ceki Hazan | Lund University \nWho Still Carries Ladino in İzmir? \n  \nJacob Ceki Hazan was born and raised in İzmir\, Turkey\, within the city’s Sephardic Jewish community. Like many in his generation\, he did not grow up speaking Ladino but absorbed it through earlier generations of his family. He is currently completing an MA in Jewish Studies at Lund University in Sweden\, where his research explores the İzmir Jewish community and how its heritage is preserved and presented. He runs avierto.net\, a Turkish-language Jewish Studies platform\, and izmirjcc.org\, the İzmir Jewish Community’s website. He is now based in Baltimore\, Maryland. \nCarlos Yebra López | California State University\, Fullerton \nA Star Is Born: Estreyika and the Radical Possibilities of a Ladino Chatbot \n  \nCarlos Yebra Lopez is a scholar of Hispanic linguistics whose work focuses on Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language\, culture\, and its contemporary revitalization. He is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at California State University\, Fullerton\, and the author of Ladino on the Internet: Sepharad 4 (Routledge\, 2024)\, the first critical and systematic account in English of the online revitalization of Ladino. He is the Principal Investigator behind Estreyika\, the first Ladino chatbot.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/14th-annual-ucladino-conference-the-ladino-diaspora-and-community-resilience-memory-and-adaptation/
CATEGORIES:ucLADINO
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SUMMARY:“Fowler Talks: Across Borders\, Across Time\,” May 20th
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Peru\, on Wednesday\, May 20th\, the Fowler Museum\, in collaboration with the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, Waystation Initiative\, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, Andean Laboratory at UCLA\, and the Consulate General of Peru in Los Angeles\, will host “Fowler Talks: Across Borders\, Across Time\,” an in-person public program spanning the afternoon and evening. The event will feature Carlos Wester La Torre and remarks by Christopher Donnan\, director emeritus of the Fowler Museum and Cotsen Institute at UCLA\, Silvia Forni\, Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum\, and Stella Nair\, professor of art history and director of the Andean Laboratory at UCLA. \nThis presentation and conversation will explore the historical and contemporary dimensions of U.S.–Peru relations through UCLA’s scholarly and fieldwork collaborations on the north coast of Peru. The discussion will reflect on the past\, present\, and future of archaeological research and cultural exchange between the two countries. The program will be conducted in English and Spanish with live translation. \nThe event will take place in the Lenart Auditorium in the Fowler Museum at 5:30 pm PT. A light reception in the Fowler Courtyard will follow. \nFor more information about the event\, follow this link. Please\, register in advance on the event’s Eventbrite site. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/fowler-talks-across-borders-across-time-may-20th/
LOCATION:Lenart Auditorium at the Fowler Museum
CATEGORIES:At UCLA
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series – A Conversation with Annemarie Jacir
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 20\, at 2 PM\, PT the Art History Department will host Writer and Director\, Annemarie Jacir for a conversation about her film “Palestine 36.” \nMs. Jacir will be appearing virtually for this event.  Guests may attend in-person in Dodd 247 or attend via webinar. \nKindly RSVP here to receive the webinar information prior to this event.  All are welcome!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-a-conversation-with-annemarie-jacir/
LOCATION:UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T160000
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SUMMARY:Sasha-Mae Eccleston | “Book Discussion – Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States Since 9/11”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 22\, 2026 for a talk by Sasha-Mae Eccleston entitled “Book Discussion – Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States Since 9/11” \nAll are welcome!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/sasha-mae-eccleston-book-discussion-epic-events-classics-and-the-politics-of-time-in-the-united-states-since-9-11/
LOCATION:Dodd 248
CATEGORIES:Department Lecture
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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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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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