Since the 1960s religious practitioners have created their own music to express their beliefs and values to shield the community from popular culture. The Irony is they use the popular culture that they reject from American culture in their music. This presentation by Mark Kligman (UCLA) will highlight important composers and groups with audio and video examples of Orthodox Jewish and Christian Contemporary Music. RSVP required here for in-person attendance. Register for Zoom link here. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience.
Global Antiquity is delighted to invite UCLA faculty members to an ancient studies writing retreat. Join colleagues from across the Humanities and Social Sciences for an opportunity to make meaningful progress on your latest project in a quiet, contemplative space. The event will take place from 9:00 am–5:00 pm in Royce 306 on Wednesday, May 13, with breakfast and coffee served at 9:00 am and lunch at 12:00 pm. Please feel free to come and go as your schedule allows, and we hope to see you there! This event is graciously sponsored by a grant from the UCLA Center for…
Woman Life Freedom in the Mirror of Scholarship: Responses from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Pooyan Tamimi Arab Utrecht University English Lecture Monday, June 8, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time Online via Zoom Registration Required: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y6a-WJxYTX-wwqBuhAYndg This presentation will survey scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences responding to the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran. Drawing on a bibliography of over one hundred publications—books, journal articles, and edited volume chapters published since the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini in September 2022—it will outline four main thematic clusters: Chronologies, Culture, Aesthetics, and Nation. These will serve to…
One Divan and Multiple Poets: The Strange Case of Makhfi Sunil Sharma Boston University English Lecture Monday, May 4, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time Online via Zoom Registration Required: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6QTp311ZThKErILePfrBEQ The poet behind the Divan-e Makhfi is thought to have been the Mughal Princess Zebunnisa (d. 1702). However, there are historical and philological problems with this attribution that have been debated by some scholars. While also discussing the problem of authorship of the Divan, this talk will focus on the history of compilation and readership of the text, as it circulated in manuscript and lithographed copies, and came to be considered as…
Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Associate Professor of Classics, Standford University “Monuments and meanings: ancient Roman damnatio memoriae and statue destructions today”
The UCLA Department of Classics is pleased to present a lecture by Professor Emily Greenwood, Harvard University entitled “Audre Lorde and Plato’s Menexenus: The Master’s House and the House of Difference”
Book Launch for FIRST EPISTLE TO THE AMPHIBIANS, a collection of poetry by Brazilian author Ricardo Domeneck, translated by Chris Daniels, published by World Poetry Books in April 2026. The event will consist of a reading and conversation with Ricardo Domeneck, Chris Daniels, and Patrícia Lino. Ricardo Domeneck is a Brazilian writer based in Berlin. He has published ten collections of poems and two of short prose in Brazil and Portugal. He is the recipient of two of Brazil’s most prestigious literary awards, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens, and selected volumes of his poems have appeared…
Muslim charities and community organizations have assumed a significant role in refugee support since the Syrian catastrophe: in Jordan and Canada, as elsewhere, they deliver food aid, house orphans, and organize remedial education. But Islam is more than just a resource for humanitarian projects. The Dread Heights details how the Islamic tradition guides refugees, relief workers, and religious scholars in a world of brutal sieges and mass displacement. Even as refugees become objects of humanitarian concern suspended between national orders, this ethnography brings another suspension into view: a form of life whose gestures are illuminated by the Quranic figure of…
Monday, April 13, 2026 12:00 – 1:30 PM Haines Hall 352 RSVP HERE Join us on April 13, 2026 at 12:00 – 1:30 PM in Haines Hall 352 for a talk with Eva Jablonka, hosted by the UCLA Department of Anthropology. This lecture is part of the Frank Marlowe Memorial Lecture Series, in the Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture. There will be a reception to launch the exhibition of artwork by Jablonka’s collaborator, Anna Zeligowski, with food and drinks at 5:30 – 7:00 PM in Dodd Hall 321. Evolutionary Theory and the Unification of Life Sciences in…
