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Elliott Piros | Purple Motion: Pantomime Dance in Martial’s Epigrams
Published: January 10, 2022This event will be held in person and on zoom. For in-person non-UCLA attendees, please note UCLA policy for visitors here. All attendees must take the UCLA Covid Symptom Monitoring…
Read MoreJames Uden | The Politics of Pathos in Virgil’s Aeneid
Published: December 15, 2021Virgil’s particular attention to human suffering has long been identified as a defining aspect of his poetry, but critics have had widely different views on the politics of Virgilian pathos….
Read MoreEmily Gowers | Brief Lives: The Case of Crispus
Published: December 14, 2021For inquiries about attending this lecture on zoom, please contact purves@g.ucla.edu
Read MoreHannah Culík-Baird | “Poetry as Artefact in Cicero”
Published: November 12, 2021Joseph Howley | “Slavery and the Book: Toward a New Social History of Roman Literature”
Published: November 12, 2021Mathias Hanses | “Cicero with Local Applications: Pro Archia Poeta and W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk.”
Published: November 10, 2021On Outgroups and Muted Groups: A Conference in Honor of Amy Richlin
Published: October 27, 2021Professor Amy Richlin will be retiring at the end of the coming academic year. We look forward to celebrating her path-breaking career and reuniting with her many UCLA students at…
Read More“Skin’s Empire: Animal Hides, Animacy and Agency in the Roman World.” | Martin Devecka
Published: May 4, 2021*This meeting is password protected; please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu if you need the password.
Read MoreUSC and UCLA Spring Seminar | “Thinking About and With the Body: New Directions in Classics.”
Published: April 26, 2021Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link. Featured speakers will include the following: Melissa Mueller (UMass Amherst), “Bodies in Bardo in Sappho’s Tithonos Poem” Alex Purves (UCLA), “Homer’s Underwater…
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