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!
Audio / 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 to the 1920s" The medium of the moving image started out as part of variety programmes and women often appeared in it advertising to men...
Audio / 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 screening at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater of the rarely seen yet remarkable Italian silent feature film Cajus Julius Caesar (1914, dir. Enrico Guazzoni) brought over especially from...
Dodd 248/Zoom; 12-1. All welcome! Hercules rescuing Hesione from a sea-monster. Engraving by B. Picart after C. Le Brun.
Professor Giulia Sissa's roundtable entitled: Aristotle: Forever After? will be held on Monday, May 1st from 12:00 PM to 3: 00 PM. This event will be in-person and online. All are welcome!
A 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 form above. Organizers: Louise Hornby (English) & Alex Purves (Classics) Keynote Speaker: John Durham Peters, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies,...
Please join us in celebrating our graduating majors and minors! This event precedes the Hum II commencement ceremony in Royce. More details to follow.
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 UCLA Sculpture Garden All are welcome!
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: Plato's Historical Imagination in Royce 314 at 5:45 PM. Please join us for a reception prior to the lecture in Royce 306 at 5 PM. ...
