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Bilingual Lecture Series: Nonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran

خشونت پرھیزی و انقلاب ارزش ھا در ایران Nonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran Ramin Jahanbegloo Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 4:00pm, Dodd Hall 121 Discussion in Persian Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99540545809 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on April 2 to join.) In 2009, the world watched in admiration the peaceful protests of young Iranians in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent presidential elections that re- elected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Today, a new generation is challenging the ideological structures of the Irnian theocratic regime. We have witnessed the courage and the…

2022-23 Colloquium: Strong Determinism

March 17, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Dodd 121   Join us on March 17th, 2023 for a colloquium with Eddy Keming Chen, UC San Diego. The talk will take place in Dodd 121 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow.   RSVP HERE     A strongly deterministic theory of physics is one that permits exactly one possible history of the universe. In the words of Penrose (1989), “it is not just a matter of the future being determined by the past; the entire history of the universe is fixed, according to some precise mathematical scheme, for all…

Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: Ecology, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory

Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: Ecology, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory lecture by Ioanna Kakoulli (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA) Saturday, April 29, 2023 3:00 p.m. 306 Royce Hall Reception to follow Ancient Greek paintings between the fourth century BC and the third century AD are characterized by a splendor of colors, high artistic quality and rich pictorial effects such as shading, translucency and transparency, innovations that characterize and mark the art of Greek and later Roman painting traditions. Through the scientific analysis of surviving paintings—mainly wall paintings—this lecture explores the material ecology and intrinsic optical,…

Elemental Readings I: Air

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AchWorks 1 – Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World

Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World The Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series April 12–14, 2023 | 314 Royce Hall Watch Livestream Morning refreshments and check-in begin at 8:00 am.  Panels begin at 9:00 am.   Download the Conference Program Download the Abstract Booklet   The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is convening an international workshop on Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World, held on April 12–14, 2023 at UCLA. The symposium will include invited speakers whose research pertain to the history, structures, and impact of the…

Dan-el Padilla Peralta | Classicism and other phobias: offense and defense

This talk will outline the contents of a newly drafted book manuscript that queries the relationship(s) between classicism, understood as a system of aesthetic determination and calibration that is not necessarily reducible to or coterminous with classics, and Black life. The main argument is that classics has been overrepresented as if it is or should be the one privileged classicism, in a historical process that is inseparable from the emergence of anti-Blackness. I begin with a general orientation to the book’s main aims, offer a selection of teasers from the main chapters, and conclude with a mix of protreptic and pugilism.

Film Screening of Cajus Julius Caesar (1914) with live accompaniment and original score by Michele Sganga

Audio / Visual Romans II Friday April 21st 2023 Film Screening with Live Accompaniment and Original Score by Michele Sganga Cajus Julius Caesar, 1914. Directed by Enrico Guazzoni A live screening at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater of the rarely seen yet remarkable Italian silent feature film Cajus Julius Caesar (1914, dir. Enrico Guazzoni) brought over especially from the archives of the Netherlands Film Institute and accompanied by an original score composed for the occasion by the noted concert pianist and composer Michele Sganga. Caesar’s life is presented in three movements: first romantic melodrama (his secret love for the beautiful Servilia); then triumph (his…

“Memory, Conflict and Democratization in Post-Junta Greece”, lecture by Professor Kostis Kornetis (Autonomous University of Madrid)

Date: April 11, 2023 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Royce Hall 306 Introductory remarks, by The Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles Q&A moderated by Simos Zenios, Associate Director, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center Reception to follow In this talk, Professor Kostis Kornetis will examine how distinct political generations experienced and remember the transition from authoritarianism to democracy in Greece, known as Metapolitefsi, since 1974. Its central claim is that the 2008-2012 economic and social crisis triggered a radical re-evaluation of democratisation by turning the conflicting generational recollections of these events into pivotal components of current political contestation. To…

2022-23 Colloquium: The Reasons We Cannot Share

April 21, 2023 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT Royce Hall 243 (and Zoom) Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98234276234?pwd=ZkpiMFNCSjFvSVNoK1FpWFBJWjkzQT09   Join us on April 21, 2023 for a colloquium with Kyla Ebels Duggan, Northwestern University. The talk will take place in Royce Hall Room 243 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM with a reception on the 3rd floor Royce Patio to follow.   RSVP HERE   The Reasons We Cannot Share   According to political liberals, a pluralist society should leave each person free to pursue their own conception of the good, but individuals should bracket these values when engaging in…