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. Sunday, March 22, 2026 • James Bridges Theater, UCLA • 2 PM Complimentary…
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, Royce Hall 314 RSVP HERE Join us for the 2026 USC-UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy happening on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at UCLA, Royce Hall, Room 314! 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. This year’s keynote address will be given by Julia Staffel (University of Colorado, Boulder), whose talk is…
Friday, April 17, 2026 4:00 – 6:00 PM Royce Hall 314 RSVP HERE Join us on Friday, April 17, 2026 for a colloquium with A.W. Eaton, University of Illinois, Chicago. The talk will take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Royce 314 with a reception to follow. Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language – one sees this in feminist work on…
Wednesday, February 23, 2026 4:30-6:30pm Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) The CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department, and the Comparative Literature department are pleased to present a talk with Shazia Jagot (York University) titled Chaucer’s “Ioveris maladye / Of Hereos,” Avicenna’s Treatise on Love, and an Arabic-Islamic Metaphysics of Love. The talk will take place on Wednesday, February 11, 2026 from 4:30-6:30pm in Kaplan 348. Please register to attend here.
How did the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigate the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century? In this talk, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst rising ethnic tensions and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen, community members, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Salonica’s merchants were present in their own—and their city’s—remaking….
Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press), which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German Anschluss through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period: a framework for interpreting Viennese culture that has relied on antisemitism, philosemitism, and a related discourse of Jewish presence and absence. As she shows, antisemitism and philosemitism were not contradictory forces in post-Nazi Austrian culture. They were deeply interconnected aspirations in a city where nostalgia for the past dominated cultural reconstruction efforts…
Myth, Time and Cosmology in the Ancient Maya Murals of San Bartolo David Stuart (Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin) Friday, February 13, 4:00 pm | Royce Hall 306 Register Here Watch Live on Zoom This talk will present new interpretations of one of the most important artworks from ancient Maya civilization — the wall paintings of San Bartolo, Guatemala. Discovered in a buried room in 2001, the paintings are among the earliest examples of mural painting in the Maya tradition, dating to the so-called Preclassic period. Their complex narrative focuses on varied origin myths, including the…
Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers, typically drafts of articles, book chapters, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial, and substantive, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. Faculty, postdocs, and grad students from across California are welcome to participate. The papers will be discussed at…
Book cover design by: Emanuele Ragnisco West Coast Hellenic Book Club: The Jasmine Isle by Ioanna Karystiani, trans. Michael Eleftheriou (Europa Editions, 2006) Discussion led by Professor Sharon Gerstel, Director, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center and Dr. Eirini Kotsovili, Senior Lecturer, Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University Saturday, March 14, 2026 10 A.M. Los Angeles / 7 P.M. Greece Via Zoom RSVP Here From the Publisher: Set on the Greek island of Andros during the first half of the 20th century, Karystiani’s first novel to be translated into English centers on Orsa Saltaferou, a jovial teenager who falls in love with…
