Organized by Professors Lyle Massey (University of California, Irvine), Vin Nardizzi (The University of British Columbia), Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis), and Bronwen Wilson (University of California, Los Angeles) Co-sponsored by the UCLA Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art Conference organizers are grateful to the Hannah & Edward Carter Endowment for 17th-Century Art History for generous programming support. Critiquing the environmental humanities’ narrowly earth-centric focus, Carl Phelphstead asks us to look heavenward, to think “cosmocritically” and expand our awareness for how attitudes towards the heaven shape those on earth. What is sky? Both a border for land and sea, and a blank canvas for…
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is pleased to present the exhibition Printing the Gothic: Horace Walpole and the Reimagining of English Aesthetic Tradition, curated by Edward Hyunsoo Yang, Loren and Frances Rothschild Endowed Graduate Research Fellow. The Gothic has long carried a reputation of being little more than cheap entertainment: a genre thought to possess limited literary or cultural value. This exhibit challenges that view by tracing the Gothic’s connection to a collective cultural effort to establish, and promote, an identifiably English art. At the center of this exhibit is Horace Walpole—antiquarian, collector, and author of the first Gothic novel—whose Castle…
Conference organized by Professors Craig Yirush (University of California, Los Angeles), and Brad A. Jones (California State University, Fresno) On the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution in 1976, Americans celebrated it as the story of a struggle for liberty which culminated in the creation of the world’s first democratic republic. Leading historians largely concurred with this nationalistic view of the Revolution’s significance. They disagreed about whether the republicanism of the new nation was liberal and individualistic, or classical and communitarian; but they all agreed that the Revolution sparked a “contagion of liberty” which transformed American society. Approaching the 250th anniversary in 2026, things…
April 25-26, 2026 Royce Hall 306 RSVP HERE Please join us on Saturday-Sunday, April 25-26, 2026 in Royce Hall 306 for a manuscript workshop on Spinoza on Mind by Karolina Hübner! Presented by: UCLA Modern Philosophy Roundtable Title: A Manuscript Workshop: Spinoza on Mind by Karolina Hübner (UCLA) Dates: Saturday-Sunday, April 25-26, 2026 Location: UCLA, Royce Hall, Room 306 Comments by: Michael Della Rocca (Yale) Sam Newlands (Notre Dame) Kristin Primus (Berkeley) Tad Schmaltz (Michigan) Stephan Schmid (Hamburg) For the manuscript precis and workshop details please email khubner@humnet.ucla.edu. Workshop Program Download PDF program Saturday, April 25 10:00…
Elephantine Goes Global: Island of the Millennia Wednesday, February 25, 2026 4:00pm Royce Hall 306 Alternate Live Stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94774888079 RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/uhWcmWsk8DDH1Rdv9 Over a period of ten years a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) was conducted at the National Museums in Berlin entitled “Localizing 4000 years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt.” Elephantine is an island on the Nile River in southern Egypt. Some of the research results are the digitalization, transcription, and translation of more than 10,000 texts written on papyrus or clay shards in ten…
Through decades of research and powerful interviews, the Mitchell family—a team of disability studies scholars and filmmakers—investigates the Nazi Aktion T4 program, the first Nazi mass killing initiative and precursor to the Holocaust. Featuring conversations with memorial directors, disabled people, and descendants of victims, Disposable Humanity brings to light the forgotten truth that disabled people were the first to be targeted by the Third Reich. This revelatory documentary exposes how this chapter has been neglected in public memory and calls for its rightful place in Holocaust history. Sunday, March 22, 2026 • James Bridges Theater, UCLA • 2 PM Complimentary…
We regret to inform you that this March 9th on-campus event featuring Orly Erez-Likhovski as been postponed, as the speaker is unable to fly to us from Israel due to the war with Iran. We will notify you when/if we can host this event in the future. ______________________________ Without the protections of a written constitution and a clear separation of religion and state, Israelis face unique challenges in securing fundamental rights to equality and religious freedom under Israeli law. Although Israel’s Declaration of Independence commits to “complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion,…
Saturday, April 18, 2026 UCLA, Royce Hall 314 RSVP HERE Join us for the 2026 USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy happening on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at UCLA, Royce Hall, Room 314! 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. This year’s keynote address will be given by Julia Staffel (University of Colorado, Boulder), whose talk is…
Friday, April 17, 2026 4:00 – 6:00 PM Royce Hall 314 RSVP HERE Join us on Friday, April 17, 2026 for a colloquium with A.W. Eaton, University of Illinois, Chicago. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Royce 314 with a reception to follow. Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language – one sees this in feminist work on…
Wednesday, February 23, 2026 4:30-6:30pm Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) The CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department, and the Comparative Literature department are pleased to present a talk with Shazia Jagot (York University) titled Chaucer’s “Ioveris maladye / Of Hereos,” Avicenna’s Treatise on Love, and an Arabic-Islamic Metaphysics of Love. The talk will take place on Wednesday, February 11, 2026 from 4:30-6:30pm in Kaplan 348. Please register to attend here.
