This special Saturday evening concert will be held outdoors on the Clark Library’s East Lawn. Concert lottery winners are invited to picnic on the grounds prior to the concert and enjoy an open house to explore the historical spaces in the library and a few of our rare book and manuscript holdings. The Clark Library…
Humanities
Departmental Graduation Celebration
Published: June 11, 2022
Bilingual Lecture Series: Nahid Pirnazar
Published: June 5, 2022
Judeo Persian Writings an original comprehensive collection published in 2021 gives parallel examples in Judeo Persian and Perso Arabic script and their translations into English Most Judeo Persian documents not only reflect the twenty seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they are also a testament to their intellectual, cultural, and socioeconomic conditions The…
Early Modern Explorations: A Conference in Honor of Mary Terrall
Published: June 3, 2022Presented in-person on the UCLA campus in Royce Hall 314 and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel livestream is PDT Organized by Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles) The “Scientific Revolution,” as the first generation of professional historians of science defined it, was set in early modern Europe. It was about rigor and mathematical abstraction, the…
Roundtable: Neoclassic or New Classics? Challenges, Debates, Perspectives
Published: May 31, 2022
Organized and moderated by Professor Giulia Sissa (Classics, Political Science, Comparative Literature – UCLA). Follow this link to register to attend online with Zoom. “Decolonizing Classics” is a novel challenge for scholars in the Humanities and, even more pointedly, for those who study the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. The stake is not merely relevance,…
Neoclassic or New Classics? Challenges, Debates, Perspectives
Published: May 31, 2022
A roundtable organized and moderated by Professor Giulia Sissa (Departments of Political Science, Comparative Literature and Classics, UCLA). “Decolonizing Classics” is a novel challenge for scholars in the Humanities and, even more pointedly, for those who study the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. The stake is not merely relevance, usefulness or epistemic legitimacy, but…
Q-Grad 2022 | “Queer Temporalities: Resisting straight~forwards”
Published: May 27, 2022CLICK HERE TO REGISTER For full conference information, please visit our website. Interested in volunteering at the conference? Contact Haley Roeser at q-grad@humnet.ucla.edu.
Graduate Education for the 21st Century
Published: May 25, 2022In-Person Registration Online Registration
Q-Scholars 2022 | “Queering Everything”
Published: May 24, 2022CLICK HERE TO REGISTER For full conference information, please visit our website. Questions may be directed to q-scholars@humnet.ucla.edu.
James Uden | The Politics of Pathos in Virgil’s Aeneid
Published: May 23, 2022
Virgil’s particular attention to human suffering has long been identified as a defining aspect of his poetry, but critics have had widely different views on the politics of Virgilian pathos. Is empathy for the defeated in the Aeneid a way of undermining the triumphalist claims of Augustus (e.g. Putnam 1965)? Or does the poem’s famous…
2nd Annual ELTS Graduate Student Conference 2022
Published: May 23, 2022
Please visit our website for more details. Schedule for ELTS Graduate Student Conference 2022
Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Horszowski Trio
Published: May 22, 2022Giving performances that are “lithe, persuasive” (The New York Times), “eloquent and enthralling” (The Boston Globe), and described as “the most compelling American group to come on the scene” (The New Yorker), the Horszowski Trio has quickly become a vital force in the international chamber music world. Since their debut performance in New York City…
The World of Ancient Iran and the West
Published: May 19, 2022
An International Symposium Convened by M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles) and Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum) May 19–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall Morning Refreshments: 8:00 am Symposium Begins: 9:00 am The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the J. Paul Getty Museum are convening for a…
Erich Gruen | Antisemitism in the Pagan World
Published: May 18, 2022
Co-sponsored with the Center for Religion and the Department of History. This event will be hybrid. To receive an email with the Zoom link to attend remotely, please RSVP at https://religion.ucla.edu/event/antisemitism-in-the-pagan-world/
Rosa Andújar | Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean
Published: May 16, 2022This lecture discusses La Odilea by Francisco Chofre, a Cuban prose adaptation of the Odyssey, which refigures both Homer’s heroes as guajiros (peasants) and the ancient epic itself through the adoption of an oral Cuban dialect. My examination first highlights Chofre’s meticulous linguistic transformations, which I consider a model of “philological” reception, as well as the ambiguous and complex relationship…
Bilingual Lecture Series: The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music
Published: May 16, 2022
The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music The Arabic-infused Iranian popular musical genre, Lalehzari (or Kucheh-Bazari), was well liked amongst Iran’s underclass in the last few decades before the 1979 Revolution. In the sixties and seventies, the taste for Lalehzari music clearly indicated a lower social class and was associated by mainstream culture with…
Chowra Makaremi: “Reticular, Thick and Liquid: Europe’s New Borders”
Published: May 16, 2022
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the Lecture “Fortress Europe” is not a fortress. The metaphor is useful and successful however, because it points a process which seems self-evident, even if it is far from making sense when we take a closer look: the fact that migration policies have mostly become border policies. European states seek…
Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Ying Quartet
Published: May 15, 2022The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s world. Now in its third decade, the Quartet has established itself as an ensemble of the highest musical qualifications. Their performances regularly take place in…
Bilingual Lecture Series: اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لالهزاری
Published: May 15, 2022
اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لالهزاری The Arabic-infused Iranian popular musical genre, Lalehzari (or Kucheh-Bazari), was well liked amongst Iran’s underclass in the last few decades before the 1979 Revolution. In the sixties and seventies, the taste for Lalehzari music clearly indicated a lower social class and was associated by mainstream culture with…
2022 Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Roundtable–Cultivating Space: Land, Literature, and Art of the Long Nineteenth Century
Published: May 13, 2022Organized by Lindsay Wells and Zach Fruit, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellows Online Event via Zoom meeting. Please register in advance. “Cultivating Space: Land, Literature, and Art of the Long Nineteenth Century” is presented by the 2022 UCLA Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral working group, which builds on themes from the 2021-22 Core Program “Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin” hosted by…