Giving 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…
Humanities
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…
Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin, Conference 3: Exhaustion/Entropy/Extraction
Published: April 5, 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…
Friends of Ancient History Spring Meeting
Published: March 31, 2022The Friends of Ancient History is a loose network of faculty and graduate students across south California institutions, who meet a couple of times a year, at one venue or…
Greg Woolf | Losing Control of the Gods: How Religion Slipped out of the Hands of Men in the Early Roman Empire
Published: March 31, 2022
co-sponsored with the Center for Religion and the Department of History
Annual Edward W. Said Lecture – Dr. Angela Davis
Published: March 30, 2022“International Solidarity in the Era of Black Lives Matter and Justice for Palestine” Click here to register for the online lecture Click here to download the flyer for…
Bilingual Lecture Series: The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music
Published: March 28, 2022
The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music The Arabic-infused Iranian popular musical genre, Lalehzari (or Kucheh-Bazari), was well liked amongst Iran’s underclass in the last few decades before the…
Bilingual Lecture Series: اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لالهزاری
Published: March 28, 2022
اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لالهزاری The Arabic-infused Iranian popular musical genre, Lalehzari (or Kucheh-Bazari), was well liked amongst Iran’s underclass in the last few decades before the…
Ute Heidmann: “Differential, Dialogical, and Plurilingual Comparativism”
Published: March 24, 2022
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the Lecture Differentiation denotes the process that relates the same to the different instead of opposing them. The evolution of all languages, literatures, and…
Iran Unglazed: Local, National, and Global Histories of Persian Tilework
Published: March 24, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 11:00am Pacific Time via Zoom Registration Required This talk examines the many ways in which Persian tilework has been packaged and interpreted between the field,…
The World of Ancient Iran and the West
Published: March 17, 2022
An International Symposium Convened by M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles) and Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum) May 19–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall Morning Refreshments: 8:00…
Matei Candea: “Counting to Two and Counting to Three: Comparative Imaginaries of Freedom of Speech”
Published: March 16, 2022
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE LECTURE About the Lecture Debates over freedom of speech and its proper limits have become a recurrent feature of European and American public life…
Claude Calame: “The Creation of Eve and Pandora in ‘Differential Comparison’: Myths of Foundation and Michel Foucault’s ‘Aveux de la Chair’”
Published: March 9, 2022
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the Lecture In his History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault intends to offer a “genealogy of the subject of desire” and of the “arts of existence”…
Chowra Makaremi: “Reticular, Thick and Liquid: Europe’s New Borders”
Published: March 9, 2022
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the Lecture “Fortress Europe” is not a fortress. The metaphor is useful and successful however, because it points a process which seems self-evident, even if…
Paulin Ismard: “Comparatism and Slavery: Methods, Definitions, Issues”
Published: March 9, 2022
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the Lecture I would like first to question the benefit that specialists of Greco-Roman slavery can gain from dialogue with the historians of slavery from…
William Marx: “Beyond World Literature”
Published: March 9, 2022
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE LECTURE About the Lecture World literature or global literature is now taught in many universities around the world. But is the concept of…
Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series – Empire and Borderlands at Interplay: A Structural Approach (First Millennium BCE – First Millennium CE)
Published: March 3, 2022
The 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series Featuring Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck) The Achaemenid Persian World Empire The series of lectures offers a novel and fresh perspective on…
Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series – Whither the Achaemenid Empire? Towards a New Connected History of Afro-Eurasia in Antiquity
Published: March 3, 2022
The 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series Featuring Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck) The Achaemenid Persian World Empire The series of lectures offers a novel and fresh perspective on…
Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series – Space and Universality: The Long Life of the Achaemenid Mental Map in Antiquity and Beyond (Sixth Century BCE – Sixth Century CE)
Published: March 3, 2022
The 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series Featuring Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck) The Achaemenid Persian World Empire The series of lectures offers a novel and fresh perspective on…
Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series – An Afro-Eurasian “Hyperpower” and Its Ancient Near Eastern Roots (First Millennium BCE)
Published: March 3, 2022
The 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series Featuring Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck) The Achaemenid Persian World Empire The series of lectures offers a novel and fresh perspective…