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Sappho and Alcaeus Conference
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...
On Outgroups and Muted Groups: A Conference in Honor of Amy Richlin
Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, UCLA 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CaliforniaProfessor 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...
Res Difficiles 4 | Difficult Conversations in Classics
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...
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Elemental Readings I: Air
Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, UCLA 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CaliforniaA 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
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CAUCLA 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,...
CANCELLED: International Conference on “Plato and Lyric Poetry” Change of venue: May 10 – May 11 Dodd Hall 248
Dodd Hall 248At 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: Friday May 10th, 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....
Plato and Lyric Poetry Conference Oct. 18-19
Dodd 248Conference 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 Plato” Pindar’s Nomos basileus fragment (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) is one of his most celebrated and controversial texts. Papyrus discoveries have extended our textual knowledge of...