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Spring Events Cancelled
Due to university measures to restrict the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we must, regretfully, cancel all in-person spring events.
Finding Atlantis | Kathryn Morgan
This talk (offered on Zoom) by Professor Kathryn Morgan, Chair of the UCLA Department of Classics, explores the origins and some of the development of the myth of the lost island of Atlantis, from Plato to contemporary video games. This legend has fascinated its audiences since it first appeared in the works of the philosopher...
UCLA SNF Center-Benaki Museum Lecture on Classical Greek Marriage Rituals
Please join The UCLA SNF Center on Thursday, June 11th for a lecture on Classical Greek marriage rituals by Irini Papageorgiou. Irini is the Curator of the Department of Prehistoric, Ancient Greek, and Roman Collections at the Benaki Museum. To receive a Zoom link for this lecture, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
“A Future for Old Age in Cicero’s de Senectute.” | Andre Matlock
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92259904483Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92259904483
“Writing from the end of the Iliad”: the Scriptor Cyclicus in the Ars Poetica | Jennifer Weintritt
Zoom Meeting ID: 3131 1616 94 OR Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/alexpurves Password: myth
Irene Han & Ella Haselswerdt in conversation: “Lesbian Sappho”
Please contact Savannah Shapiro (sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu) for Zoom link.
Graduate Student Workshop | Zach Borst
Graduate Workshop 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,...
“Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus: A Monumental History of the Black Atlantic” | Mathura Umachandran
Image for flyer - "The Birth of Oshun" (2018), Harmonia Rosales.
SCS Practice Talks
ZoomThese 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...