UCLA Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop
2021-04-09 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

"The Politics of Pesto: Making Metaphor Work (Moretum)" | Tom Geue
2021-04-19 14:00 - 15:00

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.

*Recorded* 2021 Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Plagues in Antiquity
2021-04-26 08:00 - 2021-06-25 17:00
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.

"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.

Classics Beyond the BA: Graduate School (?)
2021-04-27 16:00 - 17:30
Please RSVP to the event here.

USC and UCLA Spring Seminar | “Thinking About and With the Body: New Directions in Classics.”
2021-05-03 12:00 - 14:00
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”

Graduate Student Workshop | Andrew Lifland
2021-05-05 17:30 - 18:30
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.

"Skin's Empire: Animal Hides, Animacy and Agency in the Roman World." | Martin Devecka
2021-05-10 16:00 - 17:30
*This meeting is password protected; please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu if you need the password.

Graduate Student Workshop | Camille Acosta
2021-05-26 17:30 - 18:30
Graduate Workshop
May 26th – “Death in the Siaspora: The Tomb of the Messenians in Athens” by Camille Acosta

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.

Recitatio
2021-05-27 16:30 - 17:30
Please join us for our annual Recitatio on Thursday, May 27th at 4:30PM. All are welcome to listen/participate in reciting texts in Latin or Greek – feel free to prepare prose or poetry! Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. We hope to see many of you there!

PhD Celebration!
2021-06-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Congratulations to our PhD students who will be filing their dissertations this Spring Quarter and to those who received their PhD last academic year!
Zach Borst: “Mimesis as Metamorphosis in Classical Greek Literature.”
Diana Librandi: “Recognition and its Dilemmas in Roman Epic.”
Andre Matlock: “Time and Experience in Cicero’s Ethical Dialogues.”
Alex Press: “Justice Purity Piety: A Reading of Porphyry’s On Abstinence from Ensouled Beings.”

Virtual Commencement Gathering!
2021-06-12 10:00 - 11:00
Please join us for an informal gathering on Saturday, June 12th from 10:00-11:00am (PST) to celebrate our graduating majors and minors! Friends and family are welcome to attend!
PLEASE RSVP HERE if you’re interested in joining us!
We hope to see you there!

Previous Department Events
2021-06-25 08:00 - 17:00
Visit our past events from the department here!

Humanities Welcome
2021-09-22 14:00 - 15:00 | 1100 Schoenberg Hall, 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Please join us Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from 2-3pm in 1100 Schoenberg Hall for the Humanities Welcome. Reception to follow on Schoenberg Courtyard.
Please note we will be following all UCLA and LA Country protocols for in person events, and if the need should arise at a later date, we will pivot to fully online.
RSVP and details can be found here: https://humanities.ucla.edu/events/humanities-welcome/

Department Open House
2021-09-22 16:00 - 17:30

Fall Reception
2021-10-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Coral Tree Walkway

Graduate Student Workshop | Zak Gram
2021-10-20 17:30 - 18:30
Graduate Workshop
October 20th – “A Condemnation of Nature”: The Reception of Propatheia in Late Antiquity 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.

The Constantinian Compromise: Senators, Bishops and the Emperor in Rome
2021-10-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Royce Hall 306

Graduate Student Workshop | Patrick Callahan
2021-11-10 17:15 - 18:15
Graduate Workshop
November 10th – “Pliny’s Epistolary Feast” by Patrick Callahan

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.

Mathias Hanses | “Cicero with Local Applications: Pro Archia Poeta and W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk.”
2021-11-15 16:00 - 17:30

Joseph Howley | "Slavery and the Book: Toward a New Social History of Roman Literature"
2021-11-19 17:00 - 18:00

Hannah Culík-Baird | "Poetry as Artefact in Cicero"
2021-11-22 16:00 - 18:00

Join our Rome Study Abroad Info Session! | November 30th via Zoom or In-Person
2021-11-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Dodd 247
Interested in discovering Italy this summer?! Learn more about our Rome Summer Travel Study program on November 30th with Professor Gurval! Professor Gurval will be able to answer any questions you might have about the trip and share the unforgettable experiences that he has had during the Summer Travel Study. The info session will take place Tuesday Nov. 30th at 4:00PM in Dodd Hall, room 247. You may also attend this info session via Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92921308511
Meeting ID: 929 2130 8511
*This Summer Travel Study Program will satisfy two courses for the major or minor in the Classics and History Department.* The program is organized as a daily walking tour – our classroom is the city itself. Along the way, we explore the old cattle market on the Tiber River, the Roman Forum, Colosseum, Trajan’s Markets, Pantheon, Mausoleum of Hadrian, St. Peter’s Basilica, and these are only the highlights. We also visit the major art museums like the Villa Giulia of Etruscan art, Palazzo Massimo, Capitoline Museums, Galleria Borghese (photograph above of current exhibition), and of course the Vatican! In the evenings, discover the city’s cafes, restaurants and bars. On our last night, throw your coin in the Trevi Fountain in the hope of your return to Rome. The program also includes a day trip to Tivoli and the villa of the Emperor Hadrian. A weekend trip takes us to the Bay of Naples, Pompeii, and, if you wish to stay longer, the island of Ischia. For details about the program, contact Professor Gurval at gurval@humnet.ucla.edu. https://ieo.ucla.edu/travelstudy/hist-rome/

MA Paper and SCS Presentations
2021-12-07 15:00 - 17:00
We are delighted to invite you to come and hear one MA paper and two SCS practice papers, delivered by our graduate students, in Dodd 248 on Tuesday, December 7th from 3-5 pm.

Our presentations will be:

Patrick Callahan (MA paper): “Pliny’s Epistolary Feast.”
Jasmine Akiyama-Kim (SCS paper): “Odysseus’s Two Bodies: Recognition as Construction in Odyssey 19.”
Zakarias Gram (SCS paper) “A Condemnation of Nature”: The Reception of Propatheia in Late Antiquity.”

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Sappho and Alcaeus Conference
2021-12-09 14:00 - 18:00
Panel 1: 2:00-3:20PM | Sapphic Selves
Grant Hussong, “Desire and the Sapphic Subject”
Jennifer MacPherson, “Bad Mom Helen: How Sappho Queers Parenthood”
Rachel Morrison, “”Suffering Sappho!”: Reading Sappho alongside Heather Love’s Feeling Backward“
Panel 2: 3:30-4:20PM | Emotion and Accusation in Alcaeus
Marco Saldaña, “Damos or politai: Who’s to Blame in Alcaeus?”
Patrick Callahan, “The Panicked Alcaeus”
Panel 3: 4:35-6:00pm | Sapphic Shades
Liam Albrittain, “Epic Paints, Sapphic Brushstrokes: Color and Visual Contrast in Sappho, Hesiod, and Homer”
Collin Moat, “Staying Awake, Defying Death: Sappho’s Nighttime Scenes as Liminal Spaces”
Ben Davies, “Anaktoria’s Ghost? Absence and Hauntings in Sappho 16, 94, and 96”

Graduate Student Workshop "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Caeneus? On Dido, Gender, and Virgil's Accidental* Trans Narrative" | Lena Barsky
2022-01-20 17:00 - 18:00
Graduate Workshop
“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Caeneus? On Dido, Gender, and Virgil’s Accidental* Trans Narrative,” by Lena Barsky. Thursday, January 20th at 5 PM.

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.

Lawrence Kim | "Why Do We Call Early Greek Poetry 'Archaic'? Periodization and Histories of Greek Literature, 1830-2022"
2022-01-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom
Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 3131 1616 94
*There is a password on this account; please contact purves@ucla.edu if you need the password.

Graduate Student Workshop | Jasmine Akiyama-Kim
2022-02-03 17:00 - 18:00
Graduate Workshop
Thursday, February 3rd at 5 PM – “Nero and the Imperial Double” by Jasmine Akiyama-Kim

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.

Erin McKenna Hanses | A Woman's Pleasure: Philosophy and Sexuality in the Poetry of Sulpicia
2022-02-09 12:00 - 13:30
A lecture by Erin McKenna Hanses (Penn State University), part of the Winter 2022 CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar, Classics 250, “Eros. Amor. The erotic cultures of the early global world” taught by Professor Giulia Sissa (Political Science and Classics).
