Humanities

Pourdavoud & Iranian Studies Co-Sponsored Lecture: Panagiotis Agapitos

Byzantium Within a Medieval Eurafricasian Literary Polysystem: Historiography, Fictional Tales, and the Practices of Narrative Representation   Byzantium and its literature has been excluded from the national canons of European literatures. While there are some obvious reasons for this exclusion in the 18th–19th century, it is woth noting that also Byzantinists supported this exclusion by promoting the alterity of Byzantine culture in relation to “Medieval Europe.” The talk will examine two types of entangled premodern narratives as examples which show the application of new criteria that would allow us to think inclusively in terms of broader “medieval” literary polysystems and…

2024-25 Colloquium: Thomas Kelly (Princeton University)

November 22, 2024 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Kaplan Hall 193 & Zoom RSVP HERE   Join us on November 22, 2024 for a colloquium with Thomas Kelly, Princeton University. The talk will take place in Kaplan Hall 193 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow.   Talk title, abstract, and speaker bio coming soon.     Join our mailing list Sign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events, conferences, and colloquia! First Name(Required) Last Name(Required) Email(Required) Affiliation(Required) UCLA Student UCLA Faculty or Staff UCLA Alumnus/Alumna Non-UCLA Student Non-UCLA Faculty or Staff General Public…

How Religion Matters in an Age of Extinction

In person (Kaplan 365) or on Zoom Could knowledge about biodiversity loss be advanced through inquiry into the study of religion? Emerging from a lab that integrates humanities, arts, and sciences into research on coastal change in Virginia, this talk shows how different conceptions of religion and spirituality open unique lines of inquiry into human dimensions of environmental change. RSVP here Willis Jenkins is John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Jenkins writes along intersections of ethics, religion, and environment, including The Future of Ethics, which won an…

Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction by Panagiotis Agapitos, University of Mainz

Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction A lecture by Panagiotis Agapitos Gutenberg Distinguished Research Fellow University of Mainz Saturday, November 16, 2024 4:00 p.m. 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Campus Reception to follow RSVP link: https://forms.gle/AMserxQLbWa2exNS9 Event is free but RSVPs are requested. Conversation following the lecture with Michael Cooperson, Associate Director, UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture. This lecture tackles the question of “authenticity” when writing crime novels set in the remote past. Agapitos’ three novels (published between 2003 and 2009 in Greece), that are set in the first half…

Cappella Romana

Cappella Romana World première program IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST. DEMETRIOS Directed by Alexander Lingas Founder and Director, Cappella Romana A performance presented by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral Sunday, October 27, 2024 5:00 PM Reception following the performance Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral 1324 S Normandie Ave Los Angeles, CA 90006 Tickets: $25 General Admission (including service fees) Free for children under 18 All students age 18+ with valid ID: UCLA students can reserve free tickets online with UCLA logon ID Non-UCLA students:…

“Faith and World” – Anil Gomes, Trinity College, Oxford

October 18, 2024 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Kaplan Hall 193 & Zoom RSVP HERE   Join us on October 18, 2024 for a colloquium with Anil Gomes, Oxford – Trinity College. The talk will take place in Kaplan Hall 193 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow.   Faith and World   What connection, if any, is there between being self-conscious and being related to an objective world? Answers to this question thread through early modern discussions of the mind and then again, transmuted and transformed, across different twentieth-century traditions. My aim today is to clarify the question and set out some…

Philosophy First-Gen Welcome Party

September 30, 2024 | 5:30PM – 7:00PM Royce Hall 306 RSVP HERE   Come and meet other first-generation Philosophy students, faculty, and staff! Food and beverages will be served.     var gform;gform||(document.addEventListener(“gform_main_scripts_loaded”,function(){gform.scriptsLoaded=!0}),window.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”,function(){gform.domLoaded=!0}),gform={domLoaded:!1,scriptsLoaded:!1,initializeOnLoaded:function(o){gform.domLoaded&&gform.scriptsLoaded?o():!gform.domLoaded&&gform.scriptsLoaded?window.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”,o):document.addEventListener(“gform_main_scripts_loaded”,o)},hooks:{action:{},filter:{}},addAction:function(o,n,r,t){gform.addHook(“action”,o,n,r,t)},addFilter:function(o,n,r,t){gform.addHook(“filter”,o,n,r,t)},doAction:function(o){gform.doHook(“action”,o,arguments)},applyFilters:function(o){return gform.doHook(“filter”,o,arguments)},removeAction:function(o,n){gform.removeHook(“action”,o,n)},removeFilter:function(o,n,r){gform.removeHook(“filter”,o,n,r)},addHook:function(o,n,r,t,i){null==gform.hooks[o][n]&&(gform.hooks[o][n]=[]);var e=gform.hooks[o][n];null==i&&(i=n+”_”+e.length),gform.hooks[o][n].push({tag:i,callable:r,priority:t=null==t?10:t})},doHook:function(n,o,r){var t;if(r=Array.prototype.slice.call(r,1),null!=gform.hooks[n][o]&&((o=gform.hooks[n][o]).sort(function(o,n){return o.priority-n.priority}),o.forEach(function(o){“function”!=typeof(t=o.callable)&&(t=window[t]),”action”==n?t.apply(null,r):r[0]=t.apply(null,r)})),”filter”==n)return r[0]},removeHook:function(o,n,t,i){var r;null!=gform.hooks[o][n]&&(r=(r=gform.hooks[o][n]).filter(function(o,n,r){return!!(null!=i&&i!=o.tag||null!=t&&t!=o.priority)}),gform.hooks[o][n]=r)}}); Join our mailing list Sign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events, conferences, and colloquia! First Name(Required) Last Name(Required) Email(Required) Affiliation(Required) UCLA Student UCLA Faculty or Staff UCLA Alumnus/Alumna Non-UCLA Student Non-UCLA Faculty or Staff General Public Other /* = 0;if(!is_postback){return;}var form_content = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_wrapper_32’);var is_confirmation = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_confirmation_wrapper_32’).length > 0;var is_redirect = contents.indexOf(‘gformRedirect(){‘) >= 0;var is_form…

POSTPONED: 2024-25 Colloquium: Alisa Bierria (UCLA Gender Studies)

UPDATE: This event has been postponed. Stay tuned for the new date. October 4, 2024 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Royce 306 & Zoom   Join us on October 4, 2024 for a colloquium with Alisa Bierria, UCLA Gender Studies. The talk will take place in Royce 306 (and Zoom) from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow.   Talk title, abstract, and speaker bio coming soon.     Join our mailing list Sign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events, conferences, and colloquia! First Name(Required) Last Name(Required) Email(Required) Affiliation(Required) UCLA Student UCLA Faculty…

2024-25 Philosophy Department Open House

September 25, 2024 | 12pm – 2pm Shostak Terrace (in front of Murphy Hall) RSVP HERE   Please join us on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from 12pm – 2pm for the Philosophy Department’s Annual Open House. It will take place at the Shostak Terrace, which is located in front of Murphy Hall, across from Dodd Hall and the Law School. This event is open to current and incoming students.   Enjoy pizza and refreshments as you meet Philosophy faculty, staff, and graduate students and learn more about the Philosophy Department in an informal setting. Students interested in learning more about the Philosophy…

SLIME 3 (Studies in Linguistics, Information, Meaning, and Expression)

September 20-21, 2024 Royce Hall 306 RSVP HERE   Please join us for SLIME 3 (Studies in Linguistics, Information, Meaning, and Expression), a workshop at UCLA on September 20-21, 2024. All are welcome.   The conference is pre-view. Each session is 100 minutes. The commentator will start the session with 15-20 min discussion. The speaker may reply for up to 15 minutes. The rest is Q+A.   The most up-to-date schedule and information will be available on the workshop website HERE.   Speakers   Samia Hesni, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Boston University ​ Robert Hawkins, ​Assistant Professor of Psychology, UW-Madison…