Brownbag Talk: Julio Vega-Payne, “Earth, water, and the uncertain (human) future in the Iliad”
Dodd 248, 12-1. All welcome!
Dodd 248, 12-1. All welcome!
Greg Woolf is scheduled to give his fourth Sather lecture, "The Women's Season" as a department talk on Thursday January 19, 2023
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...
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
“Epinician and Enkomion: From Sent Texts to Performance.”
Chris Whitton will give a Brownbag talk on April 3rd from 12 PM to 1 PM in Dodd 248. All welcome!
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...
Please join us for our Annual Classics Book Sale on the second floor of Dodd, Monday April 17th!