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Dan-el Padilla Peralta talk on Mon. Oct. 14
Bunche Hall Room 6275Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) will give a talk entitled On the Wings of Locusts: Ancient Rome and New Ecological Histories on Monday, October 14th at 4 PM in 6275 Bunche Hall. All are welcome!
Plato and Lyric Poetry Conference Oct. 18-19
Dodd 248Conference Schedule: Friday October 18th, 2024: 9 am. Breakfast 9.25 am Opening remarks Session 1 9.35 am-10.35 am. Glenn Most (University of Chicago): “Pindar’s nomos basileus (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) in Plato” Pindar’s Nomos basileus fragment (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) is one of his most celebrated and controversial texts. Papyrus discoveries have extended our textual knowledge of...
Giuseppe Pezzini | The Veil of the Name: Comedy in the Aeneid
Dodd 248Please join us on Monday, October 28 at 4pm for Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford) who will be speaking on “The Veil of the Name: Comedy in the Aeneid,” in Dodd 248. All are welcome! Description: The lecture will explore an important yet neglected ingredient of Virgil’s recipe in the Aeneid, namely...
Jonathan Prag | “Crossreads and I.Sicily: digital and interdisciplinary approaches to the epigraphy of ancient Sicily”
Dodd 248The UCLA Department of Classics presents a talk by Jonathan Prag (Oxford University) on Friday, November 22 at 12:00 PM. The lecture entitled “Crossreads and I.Sicily: digital and interdisciplinary approaches to the epigraphy of ancient Sicily,” will be held in Dodd 248. Description: “Crossreads and I.Sicily: digital and interdisciplinary approaches to the epigraphy of ancient Sicily”...
Christopher Moore | “The Plurality of Virtue.”
Dodd 248The UCLA Department of Classics is pleased to present a lecture by Professor Christopher Moore, Pennsylvania State University entitled "The Plurality of Virtue."
Jinyu Liu | “Labeling Ethnicities of Enslaved and Freed Individuals in the Early Roman Empire: Fluidity and Complexity”
Dodd 248Please join us for a talk given by Professor Jinyu Liu (Emory University) entitled "Labeling Ethnicities of Enslaved and Freed Individuals in the Early Roman Empire: Fluidity and Complexity" on Monday, March 3, 2025 in Dodd 248, reception to follow. All are welcome!
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Naoíse Mac Sweeney | “The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration, Urbanisation, and the Emergence of Greekness?”
Fowler MuseumAnnual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Naoíse Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna "The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration, Urbanisation, and the Emergence of Greekness?" Lecture summary: By the start of the classical period, the Greek world stretched from Spain to Cyprus, and from Libya to the Crimea, and was comprised of over 1,000 autonomous polities. In...
Rebecca Benefiel to present “The Nature of Ancient Graffiti: Exploring Popular Writing in Pompeii” on May 22
Fowler Museum A222The UCLA Department of Classics and Cotsen Institute for Archaeology proudly present a lecture by Professor Rebecca R. Benefiel (Washington and Lee University), entitled "The Nature of Ancient Graffiti: Exploring Popular Writing in Pompeii" on Thursday, May 22 in Fowler A222 at 5pm, followed by hands-on work to get us thinking about how to do...
Cristina Pérez Díaz to present “From the Founding of the Country” on May 29
Dodd 248The UCLA Departments of Classics, English, Spanish & Portuguese, Chicano/a & Central American Studies, as well as the Center for the Study of Women proudly present a reading of "From the Founding of the Country" by classicist, writer, and translator Cristina Pérez Díaz (University of Puerto Rico) followed by a conversation with UCLA Professor Patrícia...