Professor Sara Brill (Fairfield University) will be delivering a paper entitled "Use of Birth: Biopolitics, Biotechnics, and Natal Alienation" in Giula Sissa's graduate seminar on Historicity and Michel Foucault. All welcome! 11:00 am - Lecture 12:30 pm - Lunch will be served RSVP is requested at sissa@ucla.edu by March 5th
“Epinician and Enkomion: From Sent Texts to Performance.”
The 2023 Res Difficiles conference will take place on March 24th 2023. Register for the conference here. Classics at the University of California Los Angeles, and Classics, Philosophy, & Religious Studies at the University of Mary Washington present Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics. Co-organized by Hannah Čulík-Baird and Joseph...
Chris Whitton will give a Brownbag talk on April 3rd from 12 PM to 1 PM in Dodd 248. All welcome!
This talk will outline the contents of a newly drafted book manuscript that queries the relationship(s) between classicism, understood as a system of aesthetic determination and calibration that is not necessarily reducible to or coterminous with classics, and Black life. The main argument is that classics has been overrepresented as if it is or should be...
Please join us for our Annual Classics Book Sale on the second floor of Dodd, Monday April 17th!
Audio / Visual Romans I Thursday April 20th 2023 Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Maria Wyke, University College London "Feminizing Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1900s to the 1920s" The medium of the moving image started out as part of variety programmes and women often appeared in it advertising to men...
Audio / Visual Romans II Friday April 21st 2023 Film Screening with Live Accompaniment and Original Score by Michele Sganga Cajus Julius Caesar, 1914. Directed by Enrico Guazzoni A live...
On Friday April 28th the Department of Classics and the Program in Indo-European Studies will be hosting a retirement party in honor of Brent Vine at the Faculty Club. Invitations...
