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2021 Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Plagues in Antiquity
ZoomThe 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...
*Recorded* 2021 Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Plagues in Antiquity
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...
“Authenticity and Serviles Litterae: A Case Study Involving Textual Emendations and the Manuscript Tradition” | Erin Petrella
ZoomThis 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 (?)
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USC and UCLA Spring Seminar | “Thinking About and With the Body: New Directions in Classics.”
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
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...
“Skin’s Empire: Animal Hides, Animacy and Agency in the Roman World.” | Martin Devecka
*This meeting is password protected; please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu if you need the password.
Graduate Student Workshop | Camille Acosta
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...
Recitatio
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!