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Heroes and Villains, Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
Friday, Jun 3, 2016 - Saturday, Jun 4, 2016
A conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and by the Freshman Cluster Course GE 30ABC, “Neverending Stories”. Organized by Professor Joseph F. Nagy (English, UCLA).
| Friday, June 3, 2016 | UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314 | ||
| 3:00 pm | Welcoming Remarks Patricia A. Turner, Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education of the UCLA College of Letters and Science Massimo Ciavolella, Director, UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies |
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| 3:15 | Olga Yokoyama (Humanities, UCLA) “Baba Yaga and Czar Koshchei — the Deathless Villains of Russian Tales” |
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| 4:15 | Break | |
| 4:30 | Blaise Nagy (Classics, College of the Holy Cross) “Build It and They Will Come: Alcibiades as Trickster” |
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| 5:30 | Reception | |
| 6:30 | Film Screening: Bajrangi Bhaijan (with subtitles), dir. Kabir Khan (2015) | |
| Saturday, June 4, 2016 | UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314 | ||
| 9:30 am | Coffee, fruit, pastries | |
| 10:00 | GE30 Student Presentations: Emma Guo, Emma Friedl, Megan Clark Rebecca Hill, chair |
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| 10:45 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Rebecca Hill (English, UCLA) “Hec est instabilis ales, lupes perfida, monstrum letiferum, fallax risio, fictus amor: Writing Instruction and The Lady as Hero & Villain in Thirteenth-Century Artes Poeticae“ |
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| 11:30 | Elizabeth Thornton (Indo-European Studies, UCLA) “Spartans: Heroes or Villains? Re-interpretations of the Battle of Thermopylae” |
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch Break | |
| 1:15 | Sara Burdorff (English UCLA) “Giving Birth Once: Rethinking the Woman and the Hero in Ancient Greek Mythology” |
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| 1:45 | Chiara Bozzone (Indo-European Studies, UCLA) “Who are Homer’s Villains?” |
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| 2:15 | Break | |
| 2:30 | GE 30 Student Presentations: Courtney Davis, Trishala Kulkarni | |
| 3:00 | Rosanna Lu (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) “Yahweh and Leviathan” |
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| 3:30 | Malcolm Harris (English, UCLA) “The Power of the Dark Side — Villainous Reading in Middle Welsh Texts” |
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| 4:00 | Heather Sottong (Italian, UCLA)
“From Villain to Heroine: Dante’s Francesca as Retold by Leopoldo Lugones” |
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| 4:30 | Break | |
| 4:45 | Samuel Wu (Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA) “Adventures of an ‘Ink Speck'” |
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| 5:00 | Laura Pierson (English, UCLA) “The Final Frontier” |
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| 5:15 | Concluding Remarks | |
Advance registration not required. No fee. Limited seating.
Self-pay parking in lots 2, 3, 4, and 5. More parking information at https://main.transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors.