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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
*This meeting is password protected; please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu if you need the password.
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...
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...