UCLA 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, Associate Professor & Chair of Classical Studies at Denison University, "Knowing and Not Knowing Others: Ethnography as an Unreliable Teacher." This conference will be held...
The UCLA Department of Classics and the Indo-European Studies Program will be holding their annual Welcome Reception on Friday, October 6th at 4 PM. Location: Coral Tree Walk in the UCLA Sculpture Garden All are welcome!
The UCLA Department of Classics Presents The Joan Palevsky Chair of Classics Inaugural Lecture on Monday, October 16, 2023 Professor Kathryn Morgan will present her talk entitled Projecting the Past: Plato's Historical Imagination in Royce 314 at 5:45 PM. Please join us for a reception prior to the lecture in Royce 306 at 5 PM. ...
The UCLA Department of Classics presents A Careers After Classics Lecture Series featuring New Yorker Cartoonist Navied Mahdavian who will be speaking about his new book "This Country" His talk will be at 12 PM on Monday, Oct. 23 in Dodd 248. All are welcome!
Victoria Wohl will give her talk entitled Autobiography of a Demon on Thursday, November 2 at 4 PM in Dodd 248.
Filling The Gap: New Considerations of the East Pediment of the Athenian Parthenon From the ancient writer Pausanias, we learn that the east pediment of the Athenian Parthenon depicted the birth of Athena. However, the figures in the center of the pediment were probably destroyed as early as in early Christian times, and for more...
From Classical Rhetoric to Ethnohistory in Post-Conquest Mexico: Education of a Native Elite, and its Consequences.
The UCLA Department of Classics and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture present a Reception of Hellenic Culture Lecture Series featuring Emilio Capettini (Professor, UC Santa Barbara) on Wednesday, November 15 at 5 PM The lecture entitled "The Dolphine-Haunted Artifacts of Dimmed Atlantis": Evocations of Graeco-Roman Antiquity during the...
Please join us on Monday, February 26 at 5 PM for Prof. Dr. Andreas Schachner (German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul, and University of Würzburg, Germany) for his talk entitled “A New Look at an Ancient City: An Outline of the Development of Hattusha during the 2nd Millennium BC” in Fowler Room A222. Reception to follow. All are welcome! Lecture description...
Please join us for a talk by Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge) entitled “Plutarch and the History of Greek Poetry” on Monday, March 4 at 5 PM in Dodd 248. Reception to follow. All are welcome!
