BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Humanities - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T133000 DTSTAMP:20260424T054847 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:20250228T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T150000 DTSTAMP:20260424T054847 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 END:VCALENDAR