Humanities

Cappella Romana

Cappella Romana World première program IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST. DEMETRIOS Directed by Alexander Lingas Founder and Director, Cappella Romana A performance presented by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral Sunday, October 27, 2024 5:00 PM Running time: 75 minutes; no intermission Reception following the performance Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral 1324 S Normandie Ave Los Angeles, CA 90006 Tickets: $25 General Admission (including service fees) Free for children under 18 All students age 18+ with valid ID: UCLA students can reserve free tickets online…

“Faith and World” – Anil Gomes, Trinity College, Oxford

October 18, 2024 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Kaplan Hall 193 & Zoom RSVP HERE Join us on October 18, 2024 for a colloquium with Anil Gomes, Oxford – Trinity College. The talk will take place in Kaplan Hall 193 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. Faith and World What connection, if any, is there between being self-conscious and being related to an objective world? Answers to this question thread through early modern discussions of the mind and then again, transmuted and transformed, across different twentieth-century traditions. My aim today is to clarify the question and set out some…

POSTPONED: 2024-25 Colloquium: Alisa Bierria (UCLA Gender Studies)

UPDATE: This event has been postponed. Stay tuned for the new date. October 4, 2024 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Royce 306 & Zoom Join us on October 4, 2024 for a colloquium with Alisa Bierria, UCLA Gender Studies. The talk will take place in Royce 306 (and Zoom) from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow. Talk title, abstract, and speaker bio 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! First Name(Required) Last Name(Required) Email(Required) Affiliation(Required) UCLA Student UCLA Faculty…

Philosophy First-Gen Welcome Party

September 30, 2024 | 5:30PM – 7:00PM Royce Hall 306 RSVP HERE Come and meet other first-generation Philosophy students, faculty, and staff! Food and beverages will be served. 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)}}); Join our mailing list Sign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with future UCLA Philosophy events, conferences, and colloquia! First Name(Required) Last Name(Required) Email(Required) Affiliation(Required) UCLA Student UCLA Faculty or Staff UCLA Alumnus/Alumna Non-UCLA Student Non-UCLA Faculty or Staff General Public Other /* = 0;if(!is_postback){return;}var form_content = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_wrapper_32’);var is_confirmation = jQuery(this).contents().find(‘#gform_confirmation_wrapper_32’).length > 0;var is_redirect = contents.indexOf(‘gformRedirect(){‘) >= 0;var is_form…

2024-25 Philosophy Department Open House

September 25, 2024 | 12pm – 2pm Shostak Terrace (in front of Murphy Hall) RSVP HERE Please join us on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from 12pm – 2pm for the Philosophy Department’s Annual Open House. It will take place at the Shostak Terrace, which is located in front of Murphy Hall, across from Dodd Hall and the Law School. This event is open to current and incoming students. Enjoy pizza and refreshments as you meet Philosophy faculty, staff, and graduate students and learn more about the Philosophy Department in an informal setting. Students interested in learning more about the Philosophy…

SLIME 3 (Studies in Linguistics, Information, Meaning, and Expression)

September 20-21, 2024 Royce Hall 306 RSVP HERE Please join us for SLIME 3 (Studies in Linguistics, Information, Meaning, and Expression), a workshop at UCLA on September 20-21, 2024. All are welcome. The conference is pre-view. Each session is 100 minutes. The commentator will start the session with 15-20 min discussion. The speaker may reply for up to 15 minutes. The rest is Q+A. The most up-to-date schedule and information will be available on the workshop website HERE. Speakers Samia Hesni, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Boston University Robert Hawkins, Assistant Professor of Psychology, UW-Madison…

Pourdavoud Institute Fall Reception 2024

Pourdavoud Institute Fall 2024 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 9, 2024 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. In the company of our supporters, colleagues, academic affiliates, students, and esteemed guests, we shall be introducing the Institute’s stimulating programming and research agenda for the academic year 2024–25. Light refreshments will be served. Parking in Lot 2 or Lot 5 is recommended. Please click here to RSVP.

The Clark is Burning: A Workshop on Queer Performance & the Archive

The Ballroom scene (at times synonymized with the performance art form of “vogue”) began in the Black and Brown queer club scene of late 1970s New York, and has since flourished as an increasingly globalized space for building personal identity and community. Please join us for this workshop on the vogue dance form, produced by writer and Ballroom historian Sydney Baloue and the House of FUBU, which will consider performance as both a contemporary art form and a historical practice. Attendees will serve as an audience to a roll call that presents different voguing styles and competitive categories commonly walked…

Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State

Conference organized by Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male homosexuality. The conference takes the occasion of Wilde’s courtroom ordeal as a starting-point for understanding not only the growing awareness of queer subcultures during the 1880s and 1890s but also the long shadow…

Witnessing Disaster: Fleuriau de Bellevue and the Writing of Seismic Histories in Italy and Guatemala, 1717–1796

-Lecture by John Sullivan, Ph.D. Student in History, Northwestern University. Recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Between 1788 and 1793, the Frenchman Louis-Benjamin Fleuriau de Bellevue (1761–1852) trekked the length of Italy and climbed its Alpine peaks, a long sojourn that capped his years of training as a geologist and natural historian. Toward the end of his journeys, he passed through Sicily and Calabria, in the peninsula’s far south, to observe the devastating aftermath of a series of earthquakes that had rocked the region in 1783. In this talk, John Sullivan will incorporate Bellevue’s travel notebooks into…