Mathias Hanses | “Cicero with Local Applications: Pro Archia Poeta and W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk.”
Published: November 12, 2021 
Humanities
WeCIEC 32 (Fall 2021) Announcement
Published: November 1, 2021The UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies is pleased to announce the 32nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, which will take place, as an online Zoom event, on Friday, November 5th through…
Afterlives: Dante in Dialogue with East Asian Buddhism | Day 2
Published: October 27, 2021
In The Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy, one of the most significant contributions on Dante’s thought in modern scholarship, Christian Moevs presents an interpretation of the Florentine poet’s worldview that is…
Afterlives: Dante in Dialogue with East Asian Buddhism | Day 1
Published: October 27, 2021 In The Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy, one of the most significant contributions on Dante’s thought in modern scholarship, Christian Moevs presents an interpretation of the Florentine poet’s worldview that is…
Take Control of Your Graduate Education: Career Diversity for Humanities PhDs
Published: October 25, 2021Join Zoom Event Here: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93025285872 Download Flyer Here
Petrarch’s African ‘canzoniere’: Lyric Anthropology and the Question of Race
Published: October 21, 2021
CMRS-CEGS / Comparative Literature Co-Sponsored Lecture Ayesha Ramachandran (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University) Is the rhetoric of Petrarchan poetry a foundational discourse of early modern race-making? And what might…
California Medieval History Seminar, Fall 2021
Published: October 21, 2021The seminar meets to discuss four pre-distributed research papers Participants are scholars in the field at various stages of their careers. All attendees at the seminar are expected to read…
MEMSA Race Reading Group
Published: October 21, 2021
This session will discuss Geraldine Heng’s “A Global Race in the European Imaginary: Native Americans in the North Atlantic,” which is chapter 5 from The Invention of Race in the European…
Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Bruno Jacobs and Robert Rollinger
Published: October 20, 2021
The Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Two-Volume Companion Often called the first world empire, the Achaemenid Empire is rooted in older Near Eastern traditions. A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire…
Women, Public Spaces, and Social Participation in Iran
Published: October 18, 2021
زنان و مشارکت اجتماعی در فضاهای عمومی Zoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HiJGAxyRQsSb-YhjTbofvg Since the beginning of the Islamic revolution, Iranian women have been the focus of the Islamization of public spaces….
Panel 2: Economic Challenges – The Politics of Water and Gender
Published: October 15, 2021
Recent Developments and Changes in Iran Series Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom Panel in Persian Registration Required Reza Ghorashi (Stockton University) Economic Challenges of Ebrahim…
Pourdavoud Center Fall Welcome Event
Published: October 5, 2021
Please join us for a digital fall reception to celebrate the continued success of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World. In the company of Dr. Anahita Naficy…
Panel 1: Health & Public Health Policy Political & Social Changes
Published: October 5, 2021
Recent Developments and Changes in Iran Series Registration Required Sahar Motallebi (Lund University) The Public Health Structure and the Management of the Corona Crisis in Iran Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Virginia…
Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin, Conference 1: Decadence/Degeneration/Disease
Published: October 2, 2021Thursday, October 7, 2021 – Friday, October 8, 2021 8:30 am – 10:30 am by Joseph Bristow (University of California, Los Angeles), Neil Hultgren (California State University, Long Beach) and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller…
Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin, Extraction Ecologies: A Roundtable
Published: October 2, 2021Location: Royce Hall 314 & online via Zoom Organized by Joseph Bristow (University of California, Los Angeles), Neil Hultgren (California State University, Long Beach) and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (University of…
Travel Study Programs Orientation: Summer 2022
Published: October 1, 2021
The Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) will be offering four (4) travel-study programs to Copenhagen, Paris, Nantes, and Paris next summer. More information is available on the…
Schumann Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark
Published: September 27, 2021Location William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street Please note this concert will be held on Saturday, November 20 (instead of the normal Sunday afternoon time). Chamber Music at…
Virtual Classrooms and Mercantile Mischief in Shakespeare’s England
Published: September 21, 2021
Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Rescheduled from April 30, 2020 Professor Susan Phillips (English, Northwestern University) What happens when the schoolmaster is banished from the early modern classroom? The popular vernacular textbooks…
MEMSA Race Reading Group
Published: September 21, 2021
Sponsored by MEMSA, the Race Reading Group takes place virtually and is open to UCLA faculty and graduate students. Chapter 4 from Michael Gomez’s book African Dominion, “Slavery and Race…
Colloquium: Rosa Cao, Stanford University
Published: September 8, 2021Putting Representations to Use Rosa Cao, Stanford University Friday, December 3rd at 4:00 pm Public Affairs Building 1246