Humanities

Medieval Texts Reading Group Fall 2024 Meeting

The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No preparation or expertise is required – only enthusiasm! Our first meeting this year will be on Friday, Nov. 1, 2:00-4:00pm, where we will read the Old Norse-Icelandic Jökuls þáttr Buásonar (The Tale of…

A Rising Fury Film Screening

This event is open to UCLA students, faculty and staff. Please register below. 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)}}); RSVP Name(Required) First Last Email(Required) Enter Email Confirm Email Affiliation(Required) UCLA Slavic Studies undergraduate studentUCLA undergraduate student elsewhereUCLA Slavic Studies graduate studentUCLA graduate student elsewhereUCLA facultyUCLA staff /* = 0;if(!is_postback){return;}var form_content = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_wrapper_55’);var is_confirmation = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_confirmation_wrapper_55’).length > 0;var is_redirect = contents.indexOf(‘gformRedirect(){‘) >= 0;var is_form = form_content.length > 0 && ! is_redirect && ! is_confirmation;var mt = parseInt(jQuery(‘html’).css(‘margin-top’), 10) + parseInt(jQuery(‘body’).css(‘margin-top’), 10) + 100;if(is_form){jQuery(‘#gform_wrapper_55’).html(form_content.html());if(form_content.hasClass(‘gform_validation_error’)){jQuery(‘#gform_wrapper_55’).addClass(‘gform_validation_error’);} else {jQuery(‘#gform_wrapper_55’).removeClass(‘gform_validation_error’);}setTimeout( function() { /* delay the scroll by 50 milliseconds to fix a bug in…

Plato and Lyric Poetry Conference Oct. 18-19

Conference Schedule: Friday October 18th, 2024: 9 am. Breakfast 9.25 am Opening remarks Session 1 9.35 am-10.35 am. Glenn Most (University of Chicago): “Pindar’s nomos basileus (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) in Plato” Pindar’s Nomos basileus fragment (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) is one of his most celebrated and controversial texts. Papyrus discoveries have extended our textual knowledge of Pindar’s poem but have not resolved its interpretative difficulties. The most celebrated and controversial ancient discussion of it is provided by Callicles’ citation and interpretation of it in Plato’s Gorgias. But even the text of this quotation is uncertain, to say nothing of the meaning…

“Contractualism and Intuitionism” – T. M. Scanlon (Harvard University)

January 10, 2025 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Location TBD & Zoom RSVP HERE Join us on January 10, 2025 for a colloquium with T. M. Scanlon, Harvard University. The talk will take place from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. Location TBD. Contractualism and Intuitionism A reexamination of the contractualist theory of right and wrong put forward in What We Owe to Each Other and subsequent papers, considering the reasons for finding the view appealing as well as important problems with it, including overdemandingness, the charge of circularity, and the wholesale exclusion of interpersonal aggregation. A…

Lecture by Panagiotis Agapitos, “Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction”

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), which are set in the first half of ninth-century Byzantium during the rule of the last iconoclast emperor, Theophilos (r. 829–842), form the basis of a lively discussion about the challenges of producing a satisfactory narrative. The fairly clear generic conventions of a traditional British-style mystery are not applicable to a medieval culture such as Byzantium, starting with the basic issue of the absence of detection and the relevant detective. Contemporary fans of crime…

Giuseppe Pezzini | The Veil of the Name: Comedy in the Aeneid

Please join us on Monday, October 28 at 4pm for Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford) who will be speaking on “The Veil of the Name: Comedy in the Aeneid,” in Dodd 248. All are welcome! Description: The lecture will explore an important yet neglected ingredient of Virgil’s recipe in the Aeneid, namely Roman comedy, preserved primarily through the works of Plautus and Terence. Readers of Roman comedy cannot help but recognize in Aeneid4 a web of comic motifs and situations that enrich its plot and characters, stirring and manipulating readers’ (and characters’) expectations. Some of these motifs are…

Jonathan Prag | “Crossreads and I.Sicily: digital and interdisciplinary approaches to the epigraphy of ancient Sicily”

The UCLA Department of Classics presents a talk by Jonathan Prag (Oxford University) on Friday, November 22 at 12:00 PM. The lecture entitled “Crossreads and I.Sicily: digital and interdisciplinary approaches to the epigraphy of ancient Sicily,” will be held in Dodd 248. Description: “Crossreads and I.Sicily: digital and interdisciplinary approaches to the epigraphy of ancient Sicily” This talk presents the ongoing work of the I.Sicily and Crossreads projects. I.Sicily is a multilingual digital corpus of the inscriptions of ancient Sicily based upon fresh autopsy (sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk); Crossreads is 5-year ERC project developing and applying linguistic, palaeographic and archaeometric analyses to this corpus…

Co-Sponsored Symposium and Workshop: Nezāmi and the Iranian World

“Nezāmi and the Iranian World” is a two-day conference (November 21–22, 2024) that brings together specialists of Persian literature, junior faculty, and graduate students to facilitate in-depth conversations on Nezāmi in a stimulating intellectual environment at UCLA.

Calidore String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

Concert presented in honor of Peter Hanns Reill (1938–2019) The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory. For more than a decade, the Calidore has enjoyed performances and residencies in the world’s major venues and festivals, released multiple critically acclaimed recordings, and won numerous awards. The Los Angeles Times described the musicians as “astonishing,” their playing “shockingly deep,” approaching “the kind of sublimity other quartets spend a lifetime searching.” The New York Times noted the Quartet’s “deep reserves of virtuosity and irrepressible dramatic instinct,” and the Washington Post wrote that “four more individual musicians are…

Cuarteto Casals, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

Since winning First Prizes at the London and Brahms-Hamburg competitions, Cuarteto Casals, which was founded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid, has been a continual guest at the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Cité de la Musique Paris, Philharmonie Paris, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Suntory Hall, among many others. To celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary, the quartet released a recording of the complete Art of Fugue by J.S. Bach to much critical acclaim and is currently undertaking a recording of all fifteen quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the great cycles…