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Humanities
2022 Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Roundtable–Cultivating Space: Land, Literature, and Art of the Long Nineteenth Century
Published: May 10, 2022Organized by Lindsay Wells and Zach Fruit, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellows Online Event via Zoom meeting. Please register in advance. “Cultivating Space: Land, Literature, and Art of the Long Nineteenth Century”…
Early Modern Explorations: A Conference in Honor of Mary Terrall
Published: May 10, 2022Presented in-person on the UCLA campus in Royce Hall 314 and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel livestream is PDT Organized by Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles) The “Scientific Revolution,”…
Luca Benelli
Published: May 6, 2022Bilingual Lecture Series: Nahid Pirnazar
Published: April 29, 2022Judeo Persian Writings an original comprehensive collection published in 2021 gives parallel examples in Judeo Persian and Perso Arabic script and their translations into English Most Judeo Persian documents not…
Chamber Music at the Clark presents: PUBLIQuartet
Published: April 29, 2022This special Saturday evening concert will be held outdoors on the Clark Library’s East Lawn. Concert lottery winners are invited to picnic on the grounds prior to the concert and…
2nd Annual ELTS Graduate Student Conference 2022
Published: April 21, 2022Please visit our website for more details. Schedule for ELTS Graduate Student Conference 2022
Colloquium: Beri Marusic, University of Edinburgh
Published: April 21, 2022Friday, May 6, 2022 from 4 pm to 6 pm “Interpersonal Reasoning” Bari Marusic, University of Edinburgh Royce Hall room 314
Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture “Translating Erased Histories”
Published: April 19, 2022with Dr. Maureen Freely University of Warwick RSVP here
Erich Gruen | Antisemitism in the Pagan World
Published: April 19, 2022Co-sponsored with the Center for Religion and the Department of History. This event will be hybrid. To receive an email with the Zoom link to attend remotely, please RSVP at…
Graduate Education for the 21st Century
Published: April 19, 2022In-Person Registration Online Registration
Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin, Conference 3: Exhaustion/Entropy/Extraction
Published: April 18, 2022Presented online via Zoom Meeting Organized by Joseph Bristow (University of California, Los Angeles), Neil Hultgren (California State University, Long Beach) and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (University of California, Davis) During…
Panayotis (Paddy) League, “Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora”
Published: April 13, 2022In this talk, Dr. Panayotis League explores the legacy of the “Great Catastrophe”—the death and expulsion from Turkey of 1.5 million Greek Christians following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922—through the music and…
Eleni Kefala, “Strangers No More: Constantinople, Tenochtitlan, and the Trauma of the Conquest”
Published: April 13, 2022The Byzantines had long dreaded the year 1492. According to their calculations based on the Scriptures, it would bring the end of the world. In an eerie stroke of irony,…
Roderick Beaton, “Asia Minor in the Life and Work of George Seferis”
Published: April 13, 2022A Celebration of National Poetry Month
In May 1944, at the height of a new crisis facing the Greek government in exile during World War II, which he served as a high-ranking diplomat, George Seferis confided these thoughts to his Alexandrian Greek friend Timos Malanos: ‘It might surprise you if I tell you that the event that has affected me more than anything is the Asia Minor Catastrophe. . . . From the age of 13 I’ve never ceased to be a refugee.’ This talk describes Seferis’s early life in Smyrna and the seaside village of Skala tou Vourla, and the ways in which he came to reflect on both, in later essays and poems. Moving forward to the end of the 1940s, the story resumes when the poet returned to his birthplace while serving in the Greek embassy in Ankara. During this period, traveling widely in Asia Minor, Seferis experienced what he termed a ‘wider Hellenism’, one that encompassed the Hellenistic expansion in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great and continued throughout the millennium of the Byzantine Empire. From these later experiences, and the poems, essays, and diaries that he wrote at the time, it emerges that, for Seferis, Asia Minor had become not only his own ‘lost homeland’ and that of his family and more than a million of his contemporaries: it was also the ‘lost homeland’ of Hellenism itself, whose heartland it had been for many centuries.
Roderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at Cambridge, before specializing in Modern Greek studies. For thirty years until his retirement, he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London, and is now Emeritus. Beaton is the author of several books of non-fiction, one novel, and several translations of fiction and poetry, all of them connected to Greece and the Greek-speaking world. He is a four-time winner of the Runciman Award, and his books have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Cundill History Prize. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), a Fellow of King’s College (FKC), and Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic. From 2019 to 2021 he served as a member of the Committee “GREECE 2021,” charged by the Greek government with overseeing events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821, and from September to December 2021 as A.G. Leventis Visiting Professor in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book, The Greeks: A Global History, is published by Basic Books (October 2021).
This event will be introduced by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the United States.
Exclusive poetry reading by renowned Greek actor Stelios Mainas (Tetarti 04:45, Mystikes Diadromes, The island)
Not a Hoover
Published: April 12, 2022Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing Given by Richard Wagener, Mixolydian Editions This lecture will be live streamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel and available to watch following the event. Richard…
Rosa Andújar | Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean
Published: April 7, 2022This lecture discusses La Odilea by Francisco Chofre, a Cuban prose adaptation of the Odyssey, which refigures both Homer’s heroes as guajiros (peasants) and the ancient epic itself through the adoption of an oral Cuban…
Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Ying Quartet
Published: April 5, 2022The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s…
Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Horszowski Trio
Published: April 5, 2022Giving performances that are “lithe, persuasive” (The New York Times), “eloquent and enthralling” (The Boston Globe), and described as “the most compelling American group to come on the scene” (The…
Confounding the Critics, Surviving the Scandal: The Remarkable Reputation of Oscar Wilde
Published: April 5, 2022William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde Given by Merlin Holland This lecture will be livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel and available to watch for a limited time following the event. “Confounding…