Department of Classics - UCLA

"Reconstructing the Narrative of Pompeian Prostitution"
2019-01-17 17:10 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

"Reassessing Poetic Diction and Synonymity in Latin Literature"
2019-01-10 17:10 - 19:00

Colloquium: "Old Horizons, New World: Classics in the Americas"
2018-11-19 13:00 - 18:00 | Royce Hall 314, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This series showcases some of the work being done by early-career scholars that explores how the ancient world negotiated cultural boundaries and conversely how classical antiquity has been received in colonial and post-colonial arenas.
The presentations will be:
“Black Cicero: (Re-)reading de Senectute with W.E.B. Du Bois”
Mathias Hanses (Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Pennsylvania State University)
“Romulus and Remus and the Founding of…Haiti”
Tom Hawkins (Associate Professor of Classics, The Ohio State University)
“The Education of Black Medea in W.E.B. du Bois’ Quest for the Silver Fleece“
Jackie Murray (Assistant Professor of Classics, African & Africana Studies and Gender & Women Studies, University of Kentucky)
“Giants in a Landscape: Autochthony, Gigantomachy, and a Mythology of National Identity in the Brazilian Colonial Period”
Adriana Vazquez (Assistant Professor of Classics, UCLA)

"Mobilising Pompeii for Silent Cinema" | Maria Wyke
2018-10-29 17:00 - 19:00

"Writing Contemporary History in the Ancient World" | John Marincola
2018-10-25 17:00 - 19:00

Author.Net: A Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Authorship
2018-10-05 09:15 - 2018-10-06 19:00 | Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, UCLA, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095
This conference will explore distributed authorship in ancient and new media, by placing scholars who work on this topic in the texts and practices of classical antiquity in dialogue with scholars who work on comparable modes of distribution in the digital domain. By staging a conversation with this particular mix of scholars, we aim to capitalise on the divergent perspectives that they will bring to the conference’s central theme: long associated with pre-modern cultures, distributed authorship still serves as a mainstay for the study of Classical antiquity, which takes ‘Homer’ as its foundational point of orientation. Yet in recent years, the dynamic possibilities of distributed authorship have accelerated most rapidly in media associated with the digital domain, where modes of communication have rendered artistic creation increasingly collaborative, multi-local and open-ended. The participants at this conference are seeking to expand the theorising of authorial distribution in the digital domain, and to explore the insights that its operations in this sphere might lend into the mechanisms of authorial distribution at work in ancient media.
For more information, please visit: http://www.whatthethundersaid.net/

"Tangible Time: Looms, Weaving, and Perceptions of Continuity and Rupture in Female Temporality in Early Greek Literature" | Andromache Karanika
2018-05-07 16:00 - 18:00

"Minerva unto the Breach: Cicero's Brutus, the statue of Minerva, and the War with Caesar" | Christopher van den Berg
2018-05-03 17:00 - 19:00

The Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Dan-el Padilla Peralta
2018-04-26 16:00 - 18:30 | California Nanosystems Institute, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Department of Classics is pleased to present The Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics. The lecture will be given by Dan-el Padilla Peralta on “Citizenship’s insular cases: from Greece and Rome to Puerto Rico.” Padilla Peralta is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University.

"Performing Walcott, Performing Homer: Omeros on Screen" | Justine McConnell
2018-04-16 16:00 - 17:30

Workshop | Pierre Destree
2018-03-12 08:00 - 17:00

“Polykleitos or not Polykleitos? The Dilemma of the Prima Porta Augustus” | Gianfranco Adornato
2018-03-08 17:15 - 18:30

"Creating Gods through Narratives: The Ontology of Greek Mythic Characters" | Sarah Johnston
2018-02-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Royce Hall 306
This paper opens with an overview of recent work on the ontology of fictional characters and then proceeds to arguments about the ontological status of characters who appear in fictionalizing narratives such as the Odyssey or the Ramayana who are simultaneously the objects of religious belief. Prof. Johnston suggests that such characters draw unique advantages from the ways in which their stories are narrated. Gods are described in different ways on different occasions. The ‘human’ god is easier to believe in, but the ‘theologically correct’ god can better be used to explain certain aspects of the way the world works and justify social norms. The Greek gods are portrayed in both ways. Cumulatively, the narratives created gods who were credible enough to believe in but powerful enough to matter.

"Sappho's Homer: A Reparative Reading" | Melissa Mueller
2018-02-22 17:00 - 18:30

Sarah Beckmann | “Reconsidering the Late Roman Villa: Regional Variations and Local Conversations”
2018-02-12 16:00 - 17:30

John Hopkins | “The Connective Experience of the Made World: Multiple Temporalities and Material Cultures in Early Rome”
2018-02-08 17:00 - 18:30

Elizabeth Murphy | “The Archaeology of Work Places and Practices in the Roman World”
2018-01-29 16:00 - 17:30

"Constructing the Subura: Space, Ideology, and Gender" | Margaret Andrews
2018-01-22 16:00 - 17:30

Masks of Blackness: Reading Iconographic Representations of Black People in Classical Greece
2017-11-13 17:00 - 18:30
This lecture is part of the series: “Classics | Receptions | Borders.” This series showcases some of the work being done by early-career scholars that explores how the ancient world negotiated cultural boundaries and conversely how classical antiquity has been received in colonial and post-colonial arenas.

Swarms: Communist Utopias of the Greeks | Page DuBois
2017-11-06 17:00 - 18:30

Lecture | Verity Platt
2017-10-09 16:00 - 17:30

Adam Kemezis | Stories of Love and War in the Antonine Era: Narrative Structures of Historiography and the Novel
2017-06-08 16:00 - 17:30

Recitatio
2017-06-06 17:00 - 18:30 | Dodd Hall 275
Come celebrate the accomplishments of the Classics Department’s students in Greek and Latin, who will be reciting short texts in both languages at our first annual “Recitatio” event.

Dorota Dutsch | Spoken Like a Philosopher: Pythagorizousa in Plautus' Poenulus
2017-05-18 16:00 - 18:20

MM McCabe | Parsing Vision
2017-05-01 17:00 - 18:30

Nancy Rabinowitz | Rape, Race, and Refugees: Aeschylus' Suppliants and Charles Mee's Big Love
2017-04-24 17:00 - 18:30

Nancy Sherman | Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics
2017-04-20 16:00 - 18:00 | California Nanosystems Institute, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Department of Classics is pleased to present the 2017 Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics. “Unmasking the Trauma of War: Lessons from Ajax and the Philoctetes on Moral Injury and Repair” will be presented by Professor Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University) on Thursday, April 20th, 2017 in the California Nanosystems Institute Auditorium at 5:00 pm. There will be a Pre-Reception at 4:00 pm.

Mellon Program in Post-Classical Latin | Conference
2017-04-13 16:00 - 2017-04-14 17:00 | Royce Hall 314, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Mellon Program in Post-Classical Latin is pleased to present a conference, “Approaching the Unknown: “They Saw it With Their Own Eyes.” Please view the entire program here.

Bryant Kirkland | The Painter and the Mirror: Plutarch and Lucian Confront Herodotus
2017-03-13 17:00 - 18:30

Workshop | "Exploring Classical Reception in the National Epics of South America"
2017-03-10 11:30 - 13:00
