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...
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...
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:...
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...
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,...
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...
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“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...
