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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  

Adriana Vazquez | Reading Latin Subtexts in the Vernacular Poetry of the Brazilian Colonial Period

Dodd Hall 248

Departmental 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 4276

Professor 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

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 232

Please join us for our Annual Classics Book Sale on the second floor of Dodd, Monday April 17th!