by Rebecca Jean Emigh (Professor of Sociology, UCLA) When speaking to a person face to face—which Berger and Luckmann consider to be “prototypical” communication—authenticity, truth, and social position can be…
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From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series
Published: January 18, 2022
The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and Musa Sabi Chair in Iranian Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia,…
From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series
Published: January 18, 2022 The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and Musa Sabi Chair in Iranian Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia,…
From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series
Published: January 18, 2022 The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and Musa Sabi Chair in Iranian Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia,…
From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series
Published: January 18, 2022 The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and Musa Sabi Chair in Iranian Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia,…
From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series
Published: January 18, 2022 The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and Musa Sabi Chair in Iranian Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia,…
From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series
Published: January 18, 2022 The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and Musa Sabi Chair in Iranian Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia,…
From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series
Published: January 18, 2022 The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and Musa Sabi Chair in Iranian Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia,…
Why (and How) Should a Platonist Laugh at Eros? Humor and Love in the “Symposium”
Published: January 18, 2022
A lecture by Pierre Destrée (Université de Louvain), part of the Winter 2022 CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar, Classics 250, “Eros. Amor. The erotic cultures of the early global world” taught by Professor Giulia Sissa (Political Science…
A Two-Way Road: Comparative Anthropology of Eros and Sensuality in Latin Elegy and the Greek Novel
Published: January 18, 2022
A lecture by Romain Brethes (Sciences Politiques, Paris), part of the Winter 2022 CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar, Classics 250, “Eros. Amor. The Erotic Cultures of the Early Global World” taught by Professor Giulia Sissa (Political Science…
As Inconvenient and Offensive as Abundance
Published: January 18, 2022
Adam Talib on “As Inconvenient and Offensive as Abundance.” This lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory co-directed by Giulia Sissa (Political Science/Classics) and Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS)….
MEMSA Race Reading Group
Published: January 18, 2022
The reading to be discussed is “Creating Chichimec-Uanacaze Ethnic Identity,” Chapter 4 from Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol’s The Relación de Michoacán: (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico. The Introduction…
Where Does Nature End and Culture Begin? Cultural Heritage between Anthropology and Epistemology
Published: January 18, 2022
Etienne Anheim (EHESS-CRH) on “Where Does Nature End and Culture Begin? Cultural Heritage between Anthropology and Epistemology” The heritage movement that affects contemporary society has continued to expand, but the…
On Outgroups and Muted Groups: A Conference in Honor of Amy Richlin
Published: January 14, 2022
Professor Amy Richlin will be retiring at the end of the coming academic year. We look forward to celebrating her path-breaking career and reuniting with her many UCLA students at…
Lawrence Kim | “Why Do We Call Early Greek Poetry ‘Archaic’? Periodization and Histories of Greek Literature, 1830-2022”
Published: January 12, 2022
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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Céline Redard
Published: January 11, 2022
Current Trends in Avestan Studies This lecture discusses the major progress made in our understanding of the Avestan corpus/texts in the last years. Based on her recent publication co-written with…
Elliott Piros | Purple Motion: Pantomime Dance in Martial’s Epigrams
Published: January 10, 2022
This event will be held in person and on zoom. For in-person non-UCLA attendees, please note UCLA policy for visitors here. All attendees must take the UCLA Covid Symptom Monitoring…
Works-in-Progress session: “Lyric Comedy in the Iberian-American Atlantic”
Published: January 7, 2022Given by Elisabeth Le Guin (Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles) and Alejandro García Sudo (Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles) This session presents an overview…
Bilingual Lecture Series: The Collective for Black Iranians
Published: January 7, 2022
A Talk with the Collective for Black Iranians: On the Importance of Centering Erased Black and Afro Iranian Histories from Iran and the Diaspora A Panel Discussion Sunday, February 27,…