BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Humanities - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Humanities 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:20250519T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T160000 DTSTAMP:20260424T015348 CREATED:20250512T202418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T170539Z UID:2191535-1747648800-1747843200@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium DESCRIPTION:4th annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\n“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”\n-Anne Lamott \nAbout The Event\nUCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English cordially invite you to our fourth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2025. In this series of panels\, students from the Professional Writing Minor (PWM) will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. \nA new and growing minor with just eleven graduating seniors in 2020\, forty-three of the PWM’s eighty-one graduating seniors in AY 24-25 will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range\, depth\, and individualized paths possible within the Professional Writing Minor. From Rachel Zegler to the Armenian diaspora\, urban planning to the effects of SSRIs during pregnancy\, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including memoirs\, websites\, zines\, research articles\, and digital marketing campaigns. \nThe colloquium is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Friends\, family\, faculty\, staff\, and students are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers and soon-to-be graduates share their insights and discoveries. \nSchedule\n \nList of Presenters\nAnnika Anbiai-Fard\nMatthew Beymer\nMadison Browning\nAngelica Catalan\nNatalie Chapin\nLeila Chiddick\nDanielle Cho\nNaomi Chou\nJonathan Cohn\nNatalie Denhardt\nEmmy Etlin\nDelia Falliers\nMiranda Fogel\nLuciaceleste Garcia\nSarah Gauger\nRoxanne Ha\nLucy Herlihy\nMicah Hoffman\nAda Jack\nOlivia Johnson\nAmariyah Lane-Volz\nSophie Lattu\nSophia Manos\nAlex McCullough\nJacob Mora\nAutumn Morgan\nKimberly Muro\nPacheco Nicole\nIsabella Orr\nKristen Perez\nValerie Prado\nMaya Rego\nIsabel Rodriguez\nOluwadamilola Salami\nDiana Sargsyan\nLeah Snyderman\nJane Sonnichsen\nJanelle Soriano\nCitlali Tejeda\nSoraya Tofighrad\nTaylor Wallace\nSiena Wong\nEsther Zhang \nThe PWM Capstone Seminars are led in Sp25 by Writing Programs faculty\, Drs. Amber West\, Dana Cairns Watson\, Laurel Westrup\, and Maja Manojlovic. \nEvent flyer links: 8.5×11 / Square URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/professional-writing-minor-capstone-seminar-colloquium/ CATEGORIES:Writing Programs Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T180000 DTSTAMP:20260424T015348 CREATED:20250512T224844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T224844Z UID:2191545-1747843200-1747850400@humanities.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Gunvor Lindström DESCRIPTION:The Denavar Satyrs as Time Travelers: From Ancient Persia to Greece\, Rome\, and 20th Century Collections\n \nThe influence of Greco-Roman artistic traditions on the Parthian Empire (c. 250 BCE–225 CE) remains a subject of debate\, with little direct evidence attesting to their presence. One long-overlooked artifact that challenges this assumption is the recently reconstructed Denavar Vase\, a monumental stone bowl adorned with a satyr frieze in the Greek style. The reconstruction of this bowl—its fragments now dispersed across museums and collections on three continents—suggests that it once formed part of a local ruler’s palace décor\, reflecting a deep engagement with the visual language of the Roman elite. The second part of this lecture traces the biographies of these fragments since their discovery around 1914. It will follow the track of famous scholars and connoisseurs who incorporated the pieces into their collections\, and go on a varied journey through the art history and historiography of Hellenistic and Parthian art. This journey also explores 19th-century decorative arts and museum presentations\, ultimately navigating the political history from the First to the end of the Second World War. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n \nDr. Gunvor Lindström is a Classical Archaeologist with a deep engagement in neighboring disciplines. A leading expert on Hellenism in the Ancient East\, she has conducted extensive research across Central Asia\, Iran\, and Mesopotamia\, focusing on the Hellenistic and Parthian periods. Since 2004\, she has conceived and led several high-profile projects at the German Archaeological Institute’s Eurasia Department. Her work on Hellenistic and Kushan Bactria includes studies of votive practices\, notably the offerings from the famous Oxus Temple. She also discovered and excavated a Hellenistic sanctuary at Torbulok in modern Tajikistan (2013–2018)\, now a key reference point for Hellenistic Bactria. In recent years\, she has focused on Hellenistic art in Central Asia and Iran\, conducting the first systematic study of bronze and marble statues from Kale-e Chendar in Khuzestan (better known as Shami) and reconstructing a monumental bronze portrait statue of a Hellenistic ruler in the National Museum of Iran. \n\n\n\nPourdavoud Lecture Series – Gunvor Lindström\n\n \n\n\n\nName*\n\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n Last\n \n\nEmail*\n\n \n \n\nAffiliation*\n\n\n\n \n UCLA Student\n \n\n \n UCLA Faculty or Staff\n \n\n \n UCLA Alumnus/Alumna\n \n\n \n Non-UCLA Student\n \n\n \n Non-UCLA Faculty or Staff\n \n\n \n General Public\n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nAttending Online or In-Person?\n\n\n\n \n In-Person\n \n\n \n Online URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-gunvor-lindstrom/ LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Pourdavoud-Lecture-Series-Lindstroem-web-image-OcGkpI.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR