Please join us on January 25-26th at UCLA for the Classics Graduate Conference featuring keynote speaker Emily Greenwood (Yale University). Professor Greenwood will speak on “Failure and Attribution: The Ethics and Politics of Reading Classical Failure” in Royce Hall 314 on Friday, January 25th at 5:00 pm. The conference will take place the following day, January...
Narratives of metamorphosis, from human into other living and mineral forms, have long provided an important tool for thinking through the complexities of our relationship with the world around us. From Ovid to David Cronenberg, thinkers and artists have used the trope of physical transformation to figure the ways in which human and non-human agencies...
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Panel 1: 2:00-3:20PM | Sapphic Selves Grant Hussong, "Desire and the Sapphic Subject" Jennifer MacPherson, "Bad Mom Helen: How Sappho Queers Parenthood" Rachel Morrison, ""Suffering Sappho!": Reading Sappho alongside Heather...
Professor Amy Richlin will be retiring at the end of the coming academic year. We look forward to celebrating her path-breaking career and reuniting with her many UCLA students at this conference in her honor. The conference will take place on April 2nd in the Legacy Room at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference...
The 2023 Res Difficiles conference will take place on March 24th 2023. Register for the conference here. Classics at the University of California Los Angeles, and Classics, Philosophy, & Religious Studies at the University of Mary Washington present Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics. Co-organized by Hannah Čulík-Baird and Joseph...
A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference, co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English, UCLA. May 19th – 20th, 2023. Please register for this in-person only conference using the form above. Organizers: Louise Hornby (English) & Alex Purves (Classics) Keynote Speaker: John Durham Peters, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies,...
UCLA Graduate Student Conference 2023 September 29-30, 2023 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Knowing and Knowing Nothing: Learning, Teaching, and Apprenticeship in the Ancient Mediterranean Keynote Address by Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Associate Professor & Chair of Classical Studies at Denison University, "Knowing and Not Knowing Others: Ethnography as an Unreliable Teacher." This conference will be held...
At the urging of the faculty of the UCLA Classics department, and in light of the situation on campus, the conference on Plato and Lyric has been cancelled. Conference Schedule:...
Conference Schedule: Friday October 18th, 2024: 9 am. Breakfast 9.25 am Opening remarks Session 1 9.35 am-10.35 am. Glenn Most (University of Chicago): “Pindar’s nomos basileus (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) in...
