Friday, May 23, 2025 3:00 – 8:00 PM Dodd Hall 399 Please join us on Friday, May 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM in Dodd Hall 399 for the 2025 Meditations Journal Conference. In 2014, the Philosophy Club at UCLA proudly hosted its first conference on behalf of Meditations: The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy at UCLA. All participating authors and editors of the journal are undergraduate students who have dedicated several months to this philosophical project. This conference is an exciting opportunity to honor their hard work and hear them present their original ideas. Conference Program Coming soon! …
Join us for a conversation with professionals from diverse fields who will share their career journeys—from the challenges and rewards of making a living as a writer to finding fulfilling work that keeps writing at the center. Whether you’re on a traditional career path or wondering how to build a life around writing, this discussion will offer valuable insights into the many professional opportunities available to strong communicators. Bring your questions and learn how to turn your writing skills into a rewarding career after graduation. Panelists: LaShea Delaney, Freelance Writer, Theatermaker, Wine Pro Jeffrey Janis, UCLA Peace Corps Campus Recruiter…
The Denavar Satyrs as Time Travelers: From Ancient Persia to Greece, Rome, and 20th Century Collections The influence of Greco-Roman artistic traditions on the Parthian Empire (c. 250 BCE–225 CE) remains a subject of debate, with little direct evidence attesting to their presence. One long-overlooked artifact that challenges this assumption is the recently reconstructed Denavar Vase, a monumental stone bowl adorned with a satyr frieze in the Greek style. The reconstruction of this bowl—its fragments now dispersed across museums and collections on three continents—suggests that it once formed part of a local ruler’s palace décor, reflecting a deep engagement with…
August 1-2, 2025 Royce Hall 306 RSVP HERE Please join us on August 1-2, 2025 in Royce Hall 306 for a workshop on New Directions in Philosophy of Social Science. In recent years, the philosophy of social science has undergone significant transformations, spurred by advances in interdisciplinary research, the growing complexity of social phenomena, and evolving methodologies. This conference seeks to explore these emerging frontiers and chart new directions for the philosophy of social science. By bringing together a diverse group of leading scholars in the field, we aim to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and cultivate innovative approaches…
4th annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.” -Anne Lamott About The Event UCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English cordially invite you to our fourth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2025. In this series of panels, students from the Professional Writing Minor (PWM) will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. A new and growing minor with just eleven graduating seniors in 2020, forty-three of the PWM’s eighty-one graduating seniors in AY 24-25 will…
Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Naoíse Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna “The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration, Urbanisation, and the Emergence of Greekness?” Lecture summary: By the start of the classical period, the Greek world stretched from Spain to Cyprus, and from Libya to the Crimea, and was comprised of over 1,000 autonomous polities. In this lecture, I will consider how this geographically dispersed and politically fragmented Greek world came into being over the course of the 11th to sixth centuries BCE, focusing in particular on new data from archaeological surveys designed to uncover processes of urbanisation and migration at varying scales. This new data suggests divergent pathways…
Join us for the third and final session of our Critical Thinking Focused Teaching Workshop, hosted by the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project (UQCTP) and sponsored by the UCLA Department of Philosophy and HumTech. This session challenges the false dichotomy of teaching for thinking and teaching for content knowledge. We will show that developing deep and complex content knowledge demands attention to how students think, both as they are learning and in how they are using and creating new knowledge. The extent to which we value explicit teaching must carry into the explicit teaching of thinking, and the language…
Join us for the second session of our Critical Thinking Focused Teaching Workshop, hosted by the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project (UQCTP) and sponsored by the UCLA Department of Philosophy and HumTech. In this session, we will explore a thinking and talk-based writing pedagogy that is transferable to any discipline and year level. Based on a schematic understanding of Accountable Talk (Michaels et al. 2015), argument structure, and the values of inquiry (Ellerton, 2015), we will unpack the significance and utility of these tools, both as stand-alone elements and as integrated components of a comprehensive writing pedagogy. Participants will…
Join us for the inaugural session of our Critical Thinking Focused Teaching Workshop, hosted by the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project (UQCTP) and sponsored by the UCLA Department of Philosophy and HumTech. A key challenge for teachers is planning and assessing student thinking with the same precision and intentionality applied to content knowledge. This issue becomes particularly significant when addressing student engagement with AI. In this session, we will explore how to make the cognitive content of tasks and assessments, especially in argumentative contexts, explicit and targeted during both planning and evaluation stages. Participants will receive a variety of…
White Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism has occupied an increasingly prominent position since—and in many ways before—the first Trump administration. Events such as January 6 and the second Trump presidency have highlighted the entanglement of politics and religious belief that is central to Christian Nationalism. This symposium brings together several scholars to discuss various aspects of white Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism, particularly as they connect to modern and contemporary American politics. The symposium serves as a forum for investigating topics such as tolerance and religious pluralism, the use of anti-abortion protests, and the intersection of race and Christian Nationalism. Further, the…
