Since 2018, Robert Gurval, associate professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Classics, has taught a course and led walking tours on UCLA’s early history and architecture. As we celebrate the…
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Prof. Kirkland wins Goodwin Award of Merit
Published: November 13, 2023
The UCLA Dept. of Classics heartily congratulates Dr. Bryant Kirkland, Associate Professor of Classics, on the news that his book Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is one of this year’s three…
Read MoreVinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann | Filling The Gap: New Considerations of the East Pediment of the Athenian Parthenon
Published: October 10, 2023
Filling The Gap: New Considerations of the East Pediment of the Athenian Parthenon From the ancient writer Pausanias, we learn that the east pediment of the Athenian Parthenon depicted the…
Read MoreVictoria Wohl | Autobiography of a Demon
Published: October 5, 2023
Victoria Wohl will give her talk entitled Autobiography of a Demon on Thursday, November 2 at 4 PM in Dodd 248.
Read MoreThe UCLA Department of Classics and PIES Welcome Reception, Friday October 6
Published: October 5, 2023
The UCLA Department of Classics and the Indo-European Studies Program will be holding their annual Welcome Reception on Friday, October 6th at 4 PM. Location: Coral Tree Walk in the…
Read MoreNavied Mahdavian | A Careers After Classics Lecture Series Talk
Published: October 5, 2023
The UCLA Department of Classics presents A Careers After Classics Lecture Series featuring New Yorker Cartoonist Navied Mahdavian who will be speaking about his new book “This Country” His talk…
Read MoreAndrew Laird | From Classical Rhetoric to Ethnohistory in Post-Conquest Mexico: Education of a Native Elite, and its Consequences
Published: October 4, 2023
From Classical Rhetoric to Ethnohistory in Post-Conquest Mexico: Education of a Native Elite, and its Consequences.
Read MoreThe Joan Palevsky Chair of Classics Inaugural Lecture, Mon. Oct. 16
Published: October 2, 2023
The UCLA Department of Classics Presents The Joan Palevsky Chair of Classics Inaugural Lecture on Monday, October 16, 2023 Professor Kathryn Morgan will present her talk entitled Projecting the Past:…
Read MoreThe Latest Edition of the Classics Department Newsletter is available now
Published: August 25, 2023The UCLA Department of Classics is pleased to announce the Summer 2023 Edition of the Newsletter. In it you’ll get the latest news on faculty and graduate student research, publications,…
Read MoreClassics Graduate Students Lectures and Presentations 2022-23
Published: August 21, 2023Graduate students in the Department of Classics had a very busy year, traveling to near and far to present their research papers. Here are each of the students’ details on…
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