The LGBTQ Studies Program invites you to its Open House event on Wednesday, September 25, 2019, from 9:30 am – 10:30 in the Lavender Ballroom (Haines Hall A9). In this…
LGBTQ Studies Minor 2019 Welcome Week Open House
Published: September 11, 2019 
Humanities
Chamber Music at the Clark: Trio Karénine
Published: September 10, 2019
Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Trio Karénine concert seats posts here on Thursday, September 5, 2019. Lottery registration closes on…
“Ornament of the World” Film Screening
Published: August 23, 2019
Please click here to register to attend. No fee. limited seating. The Ornament of the World tells a story from the past that’s especially timely today: the story of a remarkable…
The Future of al-Andalus
Published: August 23, 2019
This talk is based on Professor Calderwood’s current book project, which examines representations of al-Andalus (medieval Muslim Iberia) in contemporary literature, film, television, music, and tourism. Eric Calderwood is an Associate…
The World in A Box: For a (Curious) History of Virtual Reality
Published: August 23, 2019
CMRS Italian Studies Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture This lecture by Professor Massimo Riva (Italian, Brown University) presents a pilot project of the Brown University Digital Publications Initiative, supported by the Mellon Foundation: a…
Love and Empire in Garcilaso de la Vega’s Latin Odes
Published: August 23, 2019
CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Professor Jay Reed (Classics and Comparative Literature, Brown University) The Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega’s three surviving Latin odes (from around 1532-36) have begun to be…
California Medieval History Seminar, Fall 2019
Published: August 23, 2019
The Fall 2019 session of the California Medieval History Seminar meets at the Huntington Library to discuss four pre-distributed research papers. Participants are scholars in the field at various stages…
Leonardo da Vinci, Inventing the Future: Flight, Automata, Art, Anatomy, Biomorphism
Published: August 23, 2019
On May 2, 1519, a great mind was extinguished. Leonardo da Vinci, polymath and true genius of the Renaissance left this world. Recognized as unique and special in his own…
Metamorphosis and the Environmental Imagination from Ovid to Shakespeare
Published: August 23, 2019
CMRS Conference Narratives of metamorphosis, from human into other living and mineral forms, have long provided an important tool for thinking through the complexities of our relationship with the world…
Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Open House
Published: August 21, 2019
You are invited to join CMRS Director Zrinka Stahuljak and the Center’s staff for the annual Open House celebrating the start of the new academic year. This is the Center’s…
Chamber Music at the Clark: Horszowski Trio
Published: August 6, 2019
Hailed by The New Yorker as “destined for great things,” the members of the Horszowski Trio (HorSHOV-ski) met as young musicians. Their musical bonds were strengthened at various schools and…
Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Ambroise and Friends
Published: June 26, 2019
Ambroise and Friends Ambroise Aubrun, violin Madalyn Parnas Möller, violin Carrie Dennis, viola Cécilia Tsan, cello Assembled especially for the final performance of the 2019 Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber…
The Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Angelos Chaniotis
Published: May 16, 2019The Department of Classics is pleased to present The Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics. The lecture will be given by Angelos Chaniotis on “The Polis as a Stage: Theatricality and Illusion…
Ancient Iran and the Classical World
Published: May 3, 2019
You are invited to attend: Ancient Iran and the Classical World A two-day international symposium jointly hosted by the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA…
Book Talk by Nile Green: The Persianate World
Published: May 3, 2019
Copies of the book will be available for sale from the ASUCLA Bookstore at this event. To RSVP, please click here.
Text Analysis Research Cluster Meeting: Topic Modeling Projects in Progress
Published: March 5, 20192 talks on topic modeling projects in progress: Todd Presner’s talk focuses on topic modeling a multilingual collection of 120 Holocaust survivor testimonies made in 1946 by David Boder (on a wire recorder in Displaced Persons Camps). Dave Shepard will share his topic model of authors writing in English in the first half of the seventeenth century to place Andrew Marvell’s “Horatian Ode” in its broader context and to show that, far from being ambivalent, “Horatian Ode” expresses a subtle, but clear, critique of Cromwell.
The Audacity of Russian Realism: Painting Critically in the 19th Century
Published: February 27, 2019
This seminar will examine the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian realist painting, a tradition which existed primarily from the mid-1840s through the late 1880s and was associated with a range of…
TALK: Leigh Lieberman
Published: February 8, 2019“All the Small Things: Artifacts in Urban Context” Dr. Leigh Lieberman, Visiting Professor of History and Director of the Digital Research Studio at the Claremont Colleges. In recent years, the study…
“Sincerity out, authenticity in: poetry in quest of trust in times of post-truth”
Published: February 2, 2019
In the first half of the 1990s a new generation of Russian poets, — or a considerable part thereof — found itself facing the challenge of inventing a new way…