Department Lecture | Greg Woolf
Greg Woolf is scheduled to give his fourth Sather lecture, "The Women's Season" as a department talk on Thursday January 19, 2023
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Christian Keime | Foucault Reading Plato: does the Symposium provide evidence for a history of sexuality?
Bunche Hall 4276Professor Christian Keime (Classics, University of Cambridge) gives a public lecture, part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar for Winter 2023, “Historicity. Re-reading Michel Foucault,” taught by UCLA Professor Giulia Sissa. Join on Zoom at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95860364810?pwd=VTJJY2oyS1YyLy9KNTB5TFZXRWhKQT09 Password: Plato
Adriana Vazquez | Reading Latin Subtexts in the Vernacular Poetry of the Brazilian Colonial Period
Dodd Hall 248Departmental Brownbag Workshop Professor Adriana Vazquez: “Reading Latin Subtexts in the Vernacular Poetry of the Brazilian Colonial Period” In his contribution to the 2020 volume Conversations: Classical Imitation in Renaissance Literature, Stephen Hinds, analyzing the parallel Latin and vernacular poems of Marvell and Milton, concludes by offering the provocative suggestion of the ‘virtual diptych’: for...
Sara Brill | “Use of Birth: Biopolitics, Biotechnics, and Natal Alienation”
Bunche Hall Room 4276Professor 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
Theodora Hadjimichael | Epinician and Enkomion: From Sent Texts to Performance
Dodd Hall 248“Epinician and Enkomion: From Sent Texts to Performance.”
Sonia Sabnis | Apuleius’ Metamorphoses in the Maghreb
Dodd Hall 248Res Difficiles 4 | Difficult Conversations in Classics
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 | Plotting and replotting in Tacitus Annals 14
Dodd Hall 248Chris Whitton will give a Brownbag talk on April 3rd from 12 PM to 1 PM in Dodd 248. All welcome!
Dan-el Padilla Peralta | Classicism and other phobias: offense and defense
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...
Book Sale
Dodd 232Please join us for our Annual Classics Book Sale on the second floor of Dodd, Monday April 17th!