Department of Classics - UCLA

Graduate Student Workshop | Andrew Lifland
2021-05-05 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
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 | CA
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 | CA
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 | CA
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 | CA

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

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 | CA
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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
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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
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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

Classics 51B Material Culture Club
2021-02-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
The objectively awesome Classics 51B Material Culture Club is back! Please join us for a casual conversation led by 51b’s TA Jasmine Akiyama-Kim. This session will explore the turbulent year following Nero’s death, in which four claimants to the throne must articulate their relationship to the absent Julio-Claudian emperor. Join us on Friday, Feb. 12th at 4PM via Zoom. 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!

"Despotics: Theory and Practice of Domination in the Ancient Agronomists" | Joe Howley
2021-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 | CA

CMRS Work-in-Progress Happy Hour with Prof. Adriana Vazquez
2021-02-10 17:00 - 18:00 | CA
“The Influence of Vergil’s Epic Program on Gabriel Pereira de Castro’s Poem Ulisseia ou Lisboa Edificada (1636)”

CMRS is hosting twice-monthly Works-in-Progress Happy Hours to promote intellectual exchange and collegiality while most of us are continuing to work and learn remotely. The Happy Hours are open to UCLA faculty and graduate students and consist of a short informal presentation followed by open discussion.
Open to faculty and graduate students. Invitations to register for the Zoom link will be sent by email. Please reach out to CMRS if you have any questions: cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.

“Commenting on Iliad 1.223-291” | Seth Schein
2021-02-08 12:00 - 13:00 | CA

"Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom” | Kathryn Morgan
2021-02-07 14:00 - 17:00 | CA
Professor Kathryn Morgan, UCLA Department of Classics, lectures on “Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom,” (as part of International Greek Language Day).
Kathryn Morgan is Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at UCLA. Her interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. She regularly teaches graduate seminars in Attic tragedy, Pindar and Greek lyric, and Plato, and her research oscillates between projects connected with Plato and with Pindar. The former is represented by her book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato, and by her ongoing involvement in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative (published by Brill), where she is responsible for the chapters covering Plato. Pindar is the subject of her most recent book, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (2015), where she examines Pindar’s victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse and the program of tyrannical self-representation to which they contributed. Ongoing research includes book projects on Plato’s conception of history and on historical narrative in the Persians of Aeschylus. She has served on the Program Committee and the Board of Directors of the Society for Classical Studies, and is currently a member of the Nominating Committee.
The event will be offered on Zoom.
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Classics 51B Material Culture Club
2021-02-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/romanarcheo
The objectively awesome Classics 51B Material Culture Club is back! Please join us for a casual conversation led by 51b’s TA Rachel Wood who will analyze imagery of captured peoples on Roman triumphal arches found in modern-day France on Friday, Feb. 5th at 3PM via Zoom. 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!

Graduate Student Workshop | James Piper
2021-02-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Graduate Workshop
February 3rd – “Physical Expressions of Emotion and Questions of Interpretation in Livy’s Third Decade” by James Piper

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
2021-01-29 13:00 - 14:00 | CA
The objectively awesome Classics 51B Material Culture Club is back! Please join us for a casual conversation led by 51b’s Professor Sarah Beckmann who will unpack the “mysteries” of the Villa of the Mysteries fresco on Friday, Jan. 29th at 1PM via Zoom. 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!

"Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen" | Amy Richlin
2021-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | CA

Graduate Student Workshop | Zak Gram
2021-01-20 17:00 - 18:00 | CA
Graduate Workshop
January 20th – “The Trajectory of Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition” 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.

SCS Practice Talks
2020-12-16 03:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
These practice talks will feature three current Graduate Students. The titles of their talks are listed below.

Jasmine Akiyama-Kim – “Ring Composition and Narrative Consequence in the Story of Rhampsinitus and the Thief (Hdt. 2.121)”
Zach Borst – “Mimesis as Metamorphosis in Aristophanes’ Acharnians”
Diana Librandi – “Repetition Blindness: The Cyzicus Episode in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica”

"Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus: A Monumental History of the Black Atlantic" | Mathura Umachandran
2020-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Image for flyer – “The Birth of Oshun” (2018), Harmonia Rosales.
