The 2021 Annual Joan Palevsky Lecture will be a Departmental Roundtable Panel, featuring a discussion among members of the UCLA Classics Department of plagues in antiquity, including the plagues of 5th century Athens, Antonine Rome and Justinian. In addition to discussing medical, literary, historical, and archaeological sources, we will also consider the nature of the...
This event is co-sponsored event between the UCLA Department of Classics and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu for Zoom information.
Please 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 Bodies" Susan Lape (USC), “Vulnerability, Ethics, and the Limits of Appropriation in Terence’s ‘Human’ Comedy” Brooke Holmes (Princeton), “Embodying Lucretius, with Isabel Lewis”
*This meeting is password protected; please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu if you need the password.
Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 3131 1616 94 *There is a password on this account; please contact purves@ucla.edu if you need the password.
This 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 Survey, show proof of vaccination or a negative covid test, and wear a surgical or N/K95 mask (no cloth masks). To join by Zoom, please...
For inquiries about attending this lecture on zoom, please contact purves@g.ucla.edu
