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Classics 51B Material Culture Club

https://ucla.zoom.us/my/romanarcheo

Please join us for a casual conversation led by 51b’s TA Carly Pope on Friday, March 12th at 3PM via Zoom. Using the example of Rome's 'eighth hill', this session will examine the kinds of data pottery convey, how they were made, used, and discarded, as well as what they can tell us about trade. To conclude the...

Graduate Student Workshop | Ben Davis

Zoom

Graduate Workshop April 7th - "οὐ σάφα εἰδώς: Agency, Knowledge, and the Defense of Ignorance in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and the Aeneid" by Ben Davis 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...

2021 Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Plagues in Antiquity

Zoom

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...

*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...

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”