USC-UCLA Graduate Conference in Philosophy

The University of Southern California, Mudd Hall of Philosophy, Room 101

April 15, 2023 | 9:45AM – 6:00PM USC, Mudd Hall 101   The USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference began in 2006. Each year, the graduate students of the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles solicit high-quality papers in all areas of philosophy from graduate students studying at other departments to be presented at the annual conference. For more information, please visit the Conference Home Page. This year, the conference will be held at USC on April 15, 2023. Click here to learn more. Conference Program Let us know you’re going by filling out this RSVP form.

The Forgotten Canopy: Ecology, Ephemeral Architecture, and Imperialism in the Caribbean, South American, and Transatlantic Worlds Conference 3: Imperialism – DAY 2

–conference organized by Stella Nair (University of California, Los Angeles) and Paul Niell (Florida State University) This project is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, and is co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Latin American Institute. Presented in-person at the Clark, and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel.  The 2022–23 Core Program hosted by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library will convene scholars around the topics of “Ecology,” “Ephemeral Architecture,” and “Imperialism” in the early modern (16th–19th-century) world. The circum-Caribbean is our starting point; specifically,...

Book Sale

Dodd 232 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Please join us for our Annual Classics Book Sale on the second floor of Dodd, Monday April 17th!

Maria Wyke | “Feminizing Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1900s to the 1920s”

Audio / Visual Romans I Thursday April 20th 2023 Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Maria Wyke, University College London “Feminizing Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1900s to the 1920s“ The medium of the moving image started out as part of variety programmes and women often appeared in it advertising to men the pleasures of the new technology. However cinema soon began to give greater agency to women including in its reconstructions of the Roman world. Storylines gave women larger roles than those in the primary sources. Visual perspective, words and accompanying music worked to colour women’s stories...

2022-23 Colloquium: The Reasons We Cannot Share

Royce Hall 243

April 21, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT Royce Hall 243 (and Zoom) Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98234276234?pwd=ZkpiMFNCSjFvSVNoK1FpWFBJWjkzQT09   Join us on April 21, 2023 for a colloquium with Kyla Ebels Duggan, Northwestern University. The talk will take place in Royce Hall Room 243 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM with a reception on the 3rd floor Royce Patio to follow.   RSVP HERE   The Reasons We Cannot Share   According to political liberals, a pluralist society should leave each person free to pursue their own conception of the good, but individuals should bracket these values when engaging in...

Film Screening of Cajus Julius Caesar (1914) with live accompaniment and original score by Michele Sganga

James Bridges Theater 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Audio / Visual Romans II Friday April 21st 2023 Film Screening with Live Accompaniment and Original Score by Michele Sganga Cajus Julius Caesar, 1914. Directed by Enrico Guazzoni A live screening at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater of the rarely seen yet remarkable Italian silent feature film Cajus Julius Caesar (1914, dir. Enrico Guazzoni) brought over especially from the archives of the Netherlands Film Institute and accompanied by an original score composed for the occasion by the noted concert pianist and composer Michele Sganga. Caesar’s life is presented in three movements: first romantic melodrama (his secret love for the beautiful Servilia); then triumph (his...

Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Augustin Hadelich

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Augustin Hadelich is one of the great violinists of our time. Often referred to by colleagues as a musician’s musician, he is consistently cited worldwide for his phenomenal technique, soulful approach, and insightful interpretations. Highlights of Mr. Hadelich’s 2022/23 season include return engagements with The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony, as well as the U.S. premiere of a new violin concerto written for him by Irish composer, Donnacha Dennehy, to be performed by the Oregon Symphony this fall. Highlights abroad are residencies with the Seoul Philharmonic and notably the WDR/Cologne, which includes many major festivals, as well as the Proms/London. He is...

Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Colloquium: Against Philosophy, Against Inquiry

UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

April 28th, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT Kaplan Hall 193 (and Zoom) Hosted by Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) at UCLA Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94960209231?pwd=Q3lLbnRzNXZPRkgxZ3FnOFFEbHVEZz09   Join us on April 28th, 2023 for a colloquium with Dr. Johnathan Flowers, California State University, Northridge. The talk will take place in Kaplan Hall Room 193 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow.   RSVP HERE   Note: ASL interpreters will be available for the duration of the talk.   Against Philosophy, Against Inquiry   This talk will position the current practice of inquiry in philosophy, colloquially described as “just asking questions,” as enabling the maintenance...

Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: Ecology, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory

Royce Hall, 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: Ecology, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory lecture by Ioanna Kakoulli (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA) Saturday, April 29, 2023 3:00 p.m. 306 Royce Hall Reception to follow Ancient Greek paintings between the fourth century BC and the third century AD are characterized by a splendor of colors, high artistic quality and rich pictorial effects such as shading, translucency and transparency, innovations that characterize and mark the art of Greek and later Roman painting traditions. Through the scientific analysis of surviving paintings—mainly wall paintings—this lecture explores the material ecology and intrinsic optical,...

Meditations Journal Conference

Dodd Hall 399

May 5, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM Dodd Hall 399   Please join us on Friday, May 5th, 2023 from 4pm – 8pm in Dodd 399 for the Meditations Journal Conference.   In 2014, the Philosophy Club at UCLA proudly hosted its first conference on behalf of Meditations: The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy at UCLA. All participating authors and editors of the journal were undergraduate students who dedicated several months to this philosophical project. This conference was an exciting opportunity to honor their hard work and hear them present their original ideas. Additionally, we look forward to again hosting a keynote...