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Humanities Dialogues Spring 2020
Published: May 29, 2020
Humanities Dialogues Spring 2020 Flyer You are invited to participate in a series of meetings, where you will discover how words/concepts essential to the human experience across cultures have acquired different meanings in different languages due to specific historical, social, political, and cultural contexts. At each meeting, you will have the opportunity to discuss one…
Read More[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] QueerCurrent Lecture Series: “Facsimile: Gaysian Intimacy in the Art Work of Tommy Kha” by Hoang Tan Nugyen
Published: May 28, 2020[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] LGBTQ Studies cordially invites you to their next lecture series QueerCurrent event. Nguyen Tan Hoang is a videomaker and film and media scholar. His short experimental videos include Forever Bottom!, PIRATED!, K.I.P, and I Remember Dancing. His videos have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the…
Read More“Arte y disidencia en El Salvador. Artivismo como respuesta a las políticas de represión estatal”
Published: May 21, 2020To Download Flyer Please Click Here!
Read More“Life After the BA” Presented by GOAL
Published: May 13, 2020To download flyer please click here!
Read More[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] 7th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies
Published: May 12, 2020
[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] Please join the Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures on Monday, May 11th at 5:00 p.m. for a lecture from Professor Maureen Freely, University of Warwick, entitled, “DRAGOMAN: Translators in the World.” This event is part of the 7th Annual Michael Henry Heim…
Read MorePOSTPONED – Virtual Classrooms and Mercantile Mischief in Shakespeare’s England
Published: May 1, 2020
TO BE RESCHEDULED FALL 2020 – CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Professor Susan Phillips (English, Northwestern University). What happens when the schoolmaster is banished from the early modern classroom? The popular vernacular textbooks that flooded the European market in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries posed precisely this question when they claimed—on title pages and in…
Read More[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] QueerCurrent Lecture Series: “The Gay Second Generation: How Sexuality Shapes the Trajectories of Queer Sons of Immigrants” by Anthony Ocampo
Published: April 30, 2020[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] LGBTQ Studies cordially invites you to their next lecture series QueerCurrent event. Over the past two decades, researchers have produced thousands of studies on Latinx and Asian American children of immigrants, better known as the immigrant second generation. These studies have highlighted how structural, neighborhood, race, and cultural factors…
Read MorePOSTPONED – The Holy Mountains of the Western Italian Alps: Pilgrimage, Art, and Society in the 16th Century
Published: April 18, 2020
TO BE RESCHEDULED FALL 2020 – CMRS Conference This conference, organized by Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA), explores the history and extraordinary art of the Sacri Monti and highlights the contributions of young scholars to this new field of research. The cluster of pilgrimage centers known as the Sacri Monti, or Holy Mountains, in the western…
Read MorePOSTPONED – Spatial Grammars: The Union of Art and Writing in the Painted Books of Aztec Mexico
Published: April 17, 2020
TO BE RESCHEDULED – Annual Armand Hammer Art History Lecture This lecture by Elizabeth Hill Boone (Art History, Tulane), focuses on the painted books of Aztec Mexico, sixteenth-century documents that some people consider to be works of Art and others consider to contain Writing. The talk thus explores that place where our Western conceptions of…
Read MoreCANCELED – “Gender, Architecture and Erasure in the Fifteenth-Century Andes”
Published: April 14, 2020CANCELED – CMRS Research Workshop Stella Nair (Professor, Art History, UCLA) Women played critical roles throughout Andean History. Yet gender biases set forth in the Iberian colonization of the Andes and continued by scholars have silenced and effectively erased women’s roles in designing, constructing, and giving meaning to the Inca built environment. In this paper,…
Read More(Event Cancelled due to Campus Closure ) QueerCurrent Lecture Series: “Documenting the Erotic Traces of Suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge” by Yetta Howard
Published: April 2, 2020
Event Cancelled due to Campus Closure LGBTQ Studies cordially invites you to their next lecture series QueerCurrent event. This talk explores the Golden Gate Bridge as a queer memorial to the suicidal subjects who have jumped to their deaths from it. Drawing on archival, auditory, and visual documentation practices including Jenni Olson’s experimental documentary on…
Read MoreReassessing the Portuguese Colonial Past: New Scholarly Perspectives and Political Activism
Published: March 18, 2020End of the Quarter Party
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Read More“A Journey Through Brazilian Music” a Concert-Lecture hosted by Sérgio Mielniczenko
Published: March 12, 2020To download flyer please click here!
Read MoreCANCELED – “Hypnerotomachia Poliphili” (1499) and the Architecture of Dreams
Published: March 12, 2020
CANCELED – Demetra Vogiatzaki, History of Architecture, Harvard University 2020 UCLA Ahmanson Research Fellow This presentation investigates the continuum of dreams and architecture staged in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a 1499 publication that exerted significant influence in art and architecture for more than two centuries. Published by the press of Aldo Manuzio, the bizarre narrative of Hypnerotomachia…
Read MoreEurope- An Uprooted Continent| Lecture by Carsten Jensen
Published: March 10, 2020
Globalization, populism on the rise, a so called refugee-crisis, Brexit, Europe is undergoing dramatic political changes, the European Union might end up falling apart or be politically paralyzed. So what is the future of Europe? Lunch will be provided.
Read MoreUCLA Experimental Humanities workshop on “Humane Infrastructures”
Published: March 9, 2020
UCLA Experimental Humanities workshop on “Humane Infrastructures” Humane Infrastructures brings together 25 leading scholars, experts, artists, university administrators, politicians, and community members to consider and outline how we can build human/humanities-driven capacity to collaboratively critique, imagine, design, and build civic and academic infrastructures at scale. The Program will be structured around: Major challenges (such as…
Read MoreSustaining Visions and Legacies: The Future of Special Collections Libraries
Published: March 7, 2020
–conference organized by Anna Chen (Head Librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA) and Johanna Drucker (Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, UCLA) How will special collections libraries be sustained in the near and long-term future? Issues of sustainability touch every aspect of library activity—collections development, resource allocation, ethical issues in balancing priorities and juggling professional…
Read MoreOn Showing: Ulrike Ottinger’s Deictic Gestures| Lecture by Katharina Sykora
Published: March 5, 2020
Lecture by Katharina Sykora Ulrike Ottinger is an internationally-renowned artist whose work has been called a ‘small universal theater’ of its own (kleines Welttheater). Embracing film, photography, theater, and exhibitions, it draws the viewer’s attention to different ways of showing. My presentation will focus on this deictic structure in Ottinger’s work and its presence in…
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