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 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...
*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 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...
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!
Congratulations to our PhD students who will be filing their dissertations this Spring Quarter and to those who received their PhD last academic year! Zach Borst: "Mimesis as Metamorphosis in Classical Greek Literature." Diana Librandi: "Recognition and its Dilemmas in Roman Epic." Andre Matlock: "Time and Experience in Cicero's Ethical Dialogues." Alex Press: "Justice Purity...
Please join us for an informal gathering on Saturday, June 12th from 10:00-11:00am (PST) to celebrate our graduating majors and minors! Friends and family are welcome to attend! PLEASE RSVP HERE if you're interested in joining us! We hope to see you there!
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Please join us Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from 2-3pm in 1100 Schoenberg Hall for the Humanities Welcome. Reception to follow on Schoenberg Courtyard. Please note we will be following all UCLA and LA Country protocols for in person events, and if the need should arise at a later date, we will pivot to fully online....
