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…
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Film Screening of Cajus Julius Caesar (1914) with live accompaniment and original score by Michele Sganga
Published: December 16, 2022Audio / Visual Romans II Friday April 21st 2023 Film Screening with Live Accompaniment and Original Score by Michele Sganga Cajus Julius Caesar, 1914. Directed by Enrico Guazzoni A live…
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Published: December 14, 2022Greg Woolf is scheduled to give his fourth Sather lecture, “The Women’s Season” as a department talk on Thursday January 19, 2023
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Published: November 18, 2022A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference, co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English, UCLA. May 19th – 20th, 2023. Please register for this in-person only conference using the…
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Published: October 25, 2022Chris Gipson | Reader’s Digest: Extinguishing Kleos in Lykophron’s Alexandra
Published: October 9, 2022Dodd 248/Zoom; 12-1. All welcome!
Read MoreDan-el Padilla Peralta | Classicism and other phobias: offense and defense
Published: October 2, 2022This 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…
Read MoreMaria Wyke | “Feminizing Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1900s to the 1920s”
Published: October 2, 2022Audio / Visual Romans I Thursday April 20th 2023 Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Maria Wyke, University College London “Feminizing Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1900s…
Read MoreJohanna Hanink | Bones, stones, trees and roots: On the enduring urgency of Karkavitsas’ Archaeologist (1904)
Published: September 9, 2022This is a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture event co-sponsored by the Department of Classics. It will take place on Zoom. Please see attached flyer…
Read MoreKaren ní Mheallaigh | The Thulean zone: ancient science, fiction and the Arctic imaginaire
Published: August 15, 2022Professor Karen Ní Mheallaigh, Johns Hopkins University. Graduate Student Elected Speaker 22-23. All welcome. **Please note time change: this lecture now begins at 4pm. Image: Sandra Meech, Arctic Expressions sandrameech.com
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