Lecture by Tracy Wolk (Landscape Designer) and Stephanie Landregan (Landscape Architect and Director Altadena Green). Moderated by Brian Brodersen, (Landscape Architect and Principal/Owner Brodersen Associates). Join us for the inaugural Ahmanson Lecture at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, an evening exploring how history, design, and stewardship can shape the future of Los Angeles’s most meaningful landscapes. Landscape designer Tracy Wolk shares her vision for the Clark’s historic gardens, reimagining their early 20th-century character for a future grounded in sustainability, resilience, and respect for heritage. She will be joined by Stephanie Landregan, director of Altadena Green, a community initiative established after the Altadena fires to protect and…
William Andrews Clark Oscar Wilde Lecture Lecture by Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware Oscar Wilde’s importance in the world of the theatre is, of course, unparalleled. His effect on Gothic fiction (and on queer fiction) has been equally profound, due to the popularity of his one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. This talk, however, will suggest that his fairy tales have been just as influential, and that their influence was clear almost immediately after the publication of both The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House…
Organized by Professors Lyle Massey (University of California, Irvine), Vin Nardizzi (The University of British Columbia), Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis), and Bronwen Wilson (University of California, Los Angeles) Co-sponsored by the UCLA Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art Conference organizers are grateful to the Hannah & Edward Carter Endowment for 17th-Century Art History for generous programming support. Critiquing the environmental humanities’ narrowly earth-centric focus, Carl Phelphstead asks us to look heavenward, to think “cosmocritically” and expand our awareness for how attitudes towards the heaven shape those on earth. What is sky? Both a border for land and sea, and a blank canvas for…
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is pleased to present the exhibition Printing the Gothic: Horace Walpole and the Reimagining of English Aesthetic Tradition, curated by Edward Hyunsoo Yang, Loren and Frances Rothschild Endowed Graduate Research Fellow. The Gothic has long carried a reputation of being little more than cheap entertainment: a genre thought to possess limited literary or cultural value. This exhibit challenges that view by tracing the Gothic’s connection to a collective cultural effort to establish, and promote, an identifiably English art. At the center of this exhibit is Horace Walpole—antiquarian, collector, and author of the first Gothic novel—whose Castle…
Conference organized by Professors Craig Yirush (University of California, Los Angeles), and Brad A. Jones (California State University, Fresno) On the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution in 1976, Americans celebrated it as the story of a struggle for liberty which culminated in the creation of the world’s first democratic republic. Leading historians largely concurred with this nationalistic view of the Revolution’s significance. They disagreed about whether the republicanism of the new nation was liberal and individualistic, or classical and communitarian; but they all agreed that the Revolution sparked a “contagion of liberty” which transformed American society. Approaching the 250th anniversary in 2026, things…
April 25-26, 2026 UCLA, Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) RSVP HERE Please join us on Saturday-Sunday, April 25-26, 2026 in Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) for “Spinoza on Mind: Manuscript Workshop.” Workshop program 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! SIGN UP HERE
Elephantine Goes Global: Island of the Millennia Wednesday, February 25, 2026 4:00pm Royce Hall 306 Alternate Live Stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94774888079 RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/uhWcmWsk8DDH1Rdv9 Over a period of ten years a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) was conducted at the National Museums in Berlin entitled “Localizing 4000 years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt.” Elephantine is an island on the Nile River in southern Egypt. Some of the research results are the digitalization, transcription, and translation of more than 10,000 texts written on papyrus or clay shards in ten…
Through decades of research and powerful interviews, the Mitchell family—a team of disability studies scholars and filmmakers—investigates the Nazi Aktion T4 program, the first Nazi mass killing initiative and precursor to the Holocaust. Featuring conversations with memorial directors, disabled people, and descendants of victims, Disposable Humanity brings to light the forgotten truth that disabled people were the first to be targeted by the Third Reich. This revelatory documentary exposes how this chapter has been neglected in public memory and calls for its rightful place in Holocaust history. RSVP
We regret to inform you that this March 9th on-campus event featuring Orly Erez-Likhovski as been postponed, as the speaker is unable to fly to us from Israel due to the war with Iran. We will notify you when/if we can host this event in the future. ______________________________ Without the protections of a written constitution and a clear separation of religion and state, Israelis face unique challenges in securing fundamental rights to equality and religious freedom under Israeli law. Although Israel’s Declaration of Independence commits to “complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion,…
Saturday, April 18, 2026 UCLA, Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) Join us for the 2026 USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy happening on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at UCLA! The USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference began in 2006. Each year, the graduate students of the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles solicit high-quality papers in all areas of philosophy from graduate students studying at other departments to be presented at the annual conference. Conference program coming soon! For any questions, please contact the conference organizers at uscucla.conference@gmail.com Join…
