Department of Classics - UCLA

Graduate Student Workshop | Patrick Callahan
2021-11-10 17:15 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Graduate Workshop
November 10th – “Pliny’s Epistolary Feast” by Patrick Callahan

The UCLA Classics Graduate Workshop is a bi-weekly seminar for graduate students in Classics and related fields; the purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue in which graduate scholars can showcase their ongoing research and receive useful commentary from their peers in an informal setting. To see upcoming sessions this quarter, visit Graduate Workshop.

The Constantinian Compromise: Senators, Bishops and the Emperor in Rome
2021-10-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Royce Hall 306

Graduate Student Workshop | Zak Gram
2021-10-20 17:30 - 18:30
Graduate Workshop
October 20th – “A Condemnation of Nature”: The Reception of Propatheia in Late Antiquity by Zak Gram

The UCLA Classics Graduate Workshop is a bi-weekly seminar for graduate students in Classics and related fields; the purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue in which graduate scholars can showcase their ongoing research and receive useful commentary from their peers in an informal setting.To see upcoming sessions this quarter, visit Graduate Workshop.

Fall Reception
2021-10-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Coral Tree Walkway

Department Open House
2021-09-22 16:00 - 17:30

Humanities Welcome
2021-09-22 14:00 - 15:00 | 1100 Schoenberg Hall, 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Please join us Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from 2-3pm in 1100 Schoenberg Hall for the Humanities Welcome. Reception to follow on Schoenberg Courtyard.
Please note we will be following all UCLA and LA Country protocols for in person events, and if the need should arise at a later date, we will pivot to fully online.
RSVP and details can be found here: https://humanities.ucla.edu/events/humanities-welcome/

Previous Department Events
2021-06-25 08:00 - 17:00
Visit our past events from the department here!

Virtual Commencement Gathering!
2021-06-12 10:00 - 11:00
Please join us for an informal gathering on Saturday, June 12th from 10:00-11:00am (PST) to celebrate our graduating majors and minors! Friends and family are welcome to attend!
PLEASE RSVP HERE if you’re interested in joining us!
We hope to see you there!

PhD Celebration!
2021-06-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Congratulations to our PhD students who will be filing their dissertations this Spring Quarter and to those who received their PhD last academic year!
Zach Borst: “Mimesis as Metamorphosis in Classical Greek Literature.”
Diana Librandi: “Recognition and its Dilemmas in Roman Epic.”
Andre Matlock: “Time and Experience in Cicero’s Ethical Dialogues.”
Alex Press: “Justice Purity Piety: A Reading of Porphyry’s On Abstinence from Ensouled Beings.”

Recitatio
2021-05-27 16:30 - 17:30
Please join us for our annual Recitatio on Thursday, May 27th at 4:30PM. All are welcome to listen/participate in reciting texts in Latin or Greek – feel free to prepare prose or poetry! Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. We hope to see many of you there!

Graduate Student Workshop | Camille Acosta
2021-05-26 17:30 - 18:30
Graduate Workshop
May 26th – “Death in the Siaspora: The Tomb of the Messenians in Athens” by Camille Acosta

The UCLA Classics Graduate Workshop is a bi-weekly seminar for graduate students in Classics and related fields; the purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue in which graduate scholars can showcase their ongoing research and receive useful commentary from their peers in an informal setting.To see upcoming sessions this quarter, visit Graduate Workshop.

"Skin's Empire: Animal Hides, Animacy and Agency in the Roman World." | Martin Devecka
2021-05-10 16:00 - 17:30
*This meeting is password protected; please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu if you need the password.

Graduate Student Workshop | Andrew Lifland
2021-05-05 17:30 - 18:30
Graduate Workshop
May 5th – “Class and Rhetoric in Philodemus’s On Music” by Andrew Lifland

The UCLA Classics Graduate Workshop is a bi-weekly seminar for graduate students in Classics and related fields; the purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue in which graduate scholars can showcase their ongoing research and receive useful commentary from their peers in an informal setting.To see upcoming sessions this quarter, visit Graduate Workshop.

USC and UCLA Spring Seminar | “Thinking About and With the Body: New Directions in Classics.”
2021-05-03 12:00 - 14:00
Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link.

Featured speakers will include the following:
Melissa Mueller (UMass Amherst), “Bodies in Bardo in Sappho’s Tithonos Poem”
Alex Purves (UCLA), “Homer’s Underwater Bodies”
Susan Lape (USC), “Vulnerability, Ethics, and the Limits of Appropriation in Terence’s ‘Human’ Comedy”
Brooke Holmes (Princeton), “Embodying Lucretius, with Isabel Lewis”

Classics Beyond the BA: Graduate School (?)
2021-04-27 16:00 - 17:30
Please RSVP to the event here.

"Authenticity and Serviles Litterae: A Case Study Involving Textual Emendations and the Manuscript Tradition" | Erin Petrella
2021-04-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
This event is co-sponsored event between the UCLA Department of Classics and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu for Zoom information.

*Recorded* 2021 Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Plagues in Antiquity
2021-04-26 08:00 - 2021-06-25 17:00
Watch the recorded Palevsky Lecture here.
The 2021 Annual Joan Palevsky Lecture was a Departmental Roundtable Panel that featured a discussion among members of the UCLA Classics Department of plagues in antiquity, including the plagues of 5th century Athens, Antonine Rome and Justinian. In addition to discussing medical, literary, historical, and archaeological sources, the panel considered the nature of the different ancient pathogens, the social disorder and disruptions to authority and truth caused by ancient pandemics, theories of causation, immunity, and treatment, as well as the problem of collecting and burying the dead. We hope that this discussion was able to shed light on many of the questions we have been wrestling with during the COVID pandemic.

2021 Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Plagues in Antiquity
2021-04-22 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom
The 2021 Annual Joan Palevsky Lecture will be a Departmental Roundtable Panel, featuring a discussion among members of the UCLA Classics Department of plagues in antiquity, including the plagues of 5th century Athens, Antonine Rome and Justinian. In addition to discussing medical, literary, historical, and archaeological sources, we will also consider the nature of the different ancient pathogens, the social disorder and disruptions to authority and truth caused by ancient pandemics, theories of causation, immunity, and treatment, as well as the problem of collecting and burying the dead. We hope that this discussion can shed light on many of the questions we have been wrestling with during the COVID pandemic. The Palevsky Lecture will be streamed as a webinar, followed by a VIP question and answer period. Click here to RSVP.

"The Politics of Pesto: Making Metaphor Work (Moretum)" | Tom Geue
2021-04-19 14:00 - 15:00

UCLA Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop
2021-04-09 09:00 - 11:00

Graduate Student Workshop | Ben Davis
2021-04-07 17:30 - 18:30 | Zoom
Graduate Workshop
April 7th – “οὐ σάφα εἰδώς: Agency, Knowledge, and the Defense of Ignorance in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and the Aeneid” by Ben Davis

The UCLA Classics Graduate Workshop is a bi-weekly seminar for graduate students in Classics and related fields; the purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue in which graduate scholars can showcase their ongoing research and receive useful commentary from their peers in an informal setting.To see upcoming sessions this quarter, visit Graduate Workshop.

"Steppe-ing stones: Jason and the Argonauts, Ovid, and Russophone Place-making around the Black Sea" | Lara Fabian
2021-04-05 12:00 - 13:00
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Classics 51B Material Culture Club
2021-03-12 15:00 - 16:00 | https://ucla.zoom.us/my/romanarcheo
Please join us for a casual conversation led by 51b’s TA Carly Pope on Friday, March 12th at 3PM via Zoom. Using the example of Rome’s ‘eighth hill’, this session will examine the kinds of data pottery convey, how they were made, used, and discarded, as well as what they can tell us about trade. To conclude the quarter’s last club meeting, a Zoom party will follow! All undergraduate students are welcome! To join the discussion, please access this Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/romanarcheo. We hope to see you there!

"Agamemnon’s Cluelessness: Reason and Eudaimonia" | Josiah Ober
2021-03-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom
Link to Handout
There is a password on this Zoom meeting; please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu if you need the password.
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Classics 51B Material Culture Club
2021-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 | https://ucla.zoom.us/my/romanarcheo
Please join us for a casual conversation led by Getty conservators Leslie Rainer and Thomas Roby on Friday, March 5th at 4PM via Zoom. Join us as Getty conservators Thomas Roby and Leslie Rainer discuss their work to preserve Roman wall paintings and mosaics on site! All are undergraduate students are welcome! To join the discussion, please access this Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/romanarcheo. We hope to see you there!

Classics 51B Material Culture Club
2021-02-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Please join us for a casual conversation led by Getty curatorial assistants Judith Barr and Nicole Budrovichon Friday, Feb. 26th at 1PM via Zoom. This session will present case studies, tracing the voyage of a mosaic from France and the serendipitous discovery of an Etruscan cinerary urn in a Pittsburgh department store! All are undergraduate students are welcome! To join the discussion, please access this Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/romanarcheo. We hope to see you there!

“Style and Substance in Plato’s Republic 6.” | Kathryn Morgan
2021-02-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
There is a password on this Zoom meeting; please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu if you need the password.

Graduate Student Workshop | Tianran Liu
2021-02-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Graduate Workshop
February 24th – “Bestiality and Female Lust in the Roman and Chinese Novel” by Tianran Liu

The UCLA Classics Graduate Workshop is a bi-weekly seminar for graduate students in Classics and related fields; the purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue in which graduate scholars can showcase their ongoing research and receive useful commentary from their peers in an informal setting.To see upcoming sessions this quarter, visit Graduate Workshop.

Classics 51B Material Culture Club
2021-02-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Please join us for a casual conversation led by 51b’s TA Camille Acosta on Friday, Feb. 19th at 1PM via Zoom. This session will unpack issues in the study of migrant burials in ancient Greece, and give voice to people often overlooked by Classical archaeologists. All are undergraduate students are welcome! To join the discussion, please access this Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/romanarcheo. We hope to see you there!

"Is it bad to be poor? Metrodorus vs. Menander in Philodemus’ On Wealth II” | David Blank
2021-02-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
