Humanities
Barbara L. Packer Lectures: Yopie Prins | Reversing Classical Meters
Published: May 5, 2022Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. In her talk,…
Read MoreBarbara L. Packer Lectures: Yopie Prins | Anne Carson [ ] Sappho
Published: May 5, 2022Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. In If Not,…
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Published: May 5, 2022Erich Gruen | Antisemitism in the Pagan World
Published: April 11, 2022Co-sponsored with the Center for Religion and the Department of History. This event will be hybrid. To receive an email with the Zoom link to attend remotely, please RSVP at…
Read MoreFriends of Ancient History Spring Meeting
Published: March 31, 2022The Friends of Ancient History is a loose network of faculty and graduate students across south California institutions, who meet a couple of times a year, at one venue or…
Read MoreGreg Woolf | Losing Control of the Gods: How Religion Slipped out of the Hands of Men in the Early Roman Empire
Published: March 30, 2022co-sponsored with the Center for Religion and the Department of History
Read MoreRosa Andújar | Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean
Published: February 10, 2022This lecture discusses La Odilea by Francisco Chofre, a Cuban prose adaptation of the Odyssey, which refigures both Homer’s heroes as guajiros (peasants) and the ancient epic itself through the adoption of an oral Cuban…
Read MoreSheila Murnaghan | Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors
Published: January 27, 2022UCLA Department of Classics Joan Palevsky Lecture | Dr Jennifer Stager, “Cut from the Womb: Towards a Feminist History of Ancient Greek Medicine”
Published: January 27, 2022The UCLA Classics Department is pleased to announce that the Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics for 2022 will be delivered by Jennifer Stager, Assistant Professor of History of Art at…
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