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 screening at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater of the rarely seen yet remarkable Italian silent feature film Cajus Julius Caesar (1914, dir. Enrico Guazzoni) brought over especially from...
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 to follow.
Dodd 248/Zoom; 12-1. All welcome! Hercules rescuing Hesione from a sea-monster. Engraving by B. Picart after C. Le Brun.
Professor Giulia Sissa's roundtable entitled: Aristotle: Forever After? will be held on Monday, May 1st from 12:00 PM to 3: 00 PM. This event will be in-person and online. All are welcome!
In this graduate workshop Professor Rob Sobak of Bowdoin College will take Classics students through the process of applying for a job at a small liberal arts college (SLAC) in the US.
This Saturday Joe Goodkin will perform "The Blues of Achilles" at UCLA. Undergrads, postbaccs & grads from across Southern CA are welcome to attend this inaugural event of the SoCal Classics Collective, beginning at 2:30 pm at the Fowler Amphitheater. The performance will be followed by light refreshments and Q & A with Joe Goodkin....
Followed by Department Happy Hour.
A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference, co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English, UCLA. May 19th – 20th, 2023. Please register for this in-person only conference using the form above. Organizers: Louise Hornby (English) & Alex Purves (Classics) Keynote Speaker: John Durham Peters, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies,...
Please join us on Thursday June 1st for the paper presentations by two students in our department who are working towards their MA degrees: Grant Hussong and Tom Francis. Tom Francis, "Italic Funky Facts and Nitty Gritty: A Semantic Reappraisal of Umbrian *-nky- Perfects and Oscan -tt- Perfects" Grant Hussong, “The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes:...
