Opening Remarks and Overview from “The Western Mediterranean and the Global Middle Ages”, October 21, 2023 Director’s Annual Letter, Fall 2023 Associate Director’s Annual Letter, Fall 2023 Opening Remarks and…
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End-of-Year Director’s Statement, 2020-21
Dear Friends, A year ago, in June 2020, we released a statement in support of Black Lives Matter. We promised to continue systemic and programmatic changes that we initiated in…
Read MoreDancing Odissi and the Question of the ‘Medieval’ in Indian Performance History
New Book Salon A discussion with Professor Anurima Banerji (UCLA, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance) and Professor Urmimala Sarkar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Art and Aesthetics) about Professor…
Read MoreBeholding Beauty: Sa’di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry
New Book Salon Author Domenico Ingenito (Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) with discussants Lara Harb (Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University) and Marisa Galvez…
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The Director’s annual letter is a serious task because it conveys a commitment to the project of the coming academic year and to a vision of a long-term future. But…
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FROM UCLA and UC FACULTY The World of Plymouth Plantation – New Book Salon Author CARLA GARDINA PESTANA (Professor, UCLA Department of History) joins Assistant Professor ALEX MAZZAFERRO (UCLA Department…
Read MoreLa Escena: LA’s First Hispanic Classical Theater Festival
September 21-23, 2018, brings LA ESCENA, Los Angeles’ first Hispanic classical theater festival, to the Greenway Court Theater (544 N. Fairfax). Schedule details and tickets are at http://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/la-escena/ Cutting-edge Mexican…
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SPRING QUARTER 2024 (May 18, 2024) “The Iberian Reliquary around the Year 1000: Moving Bones and Reinforced Ideologies,” Jesús Rodríguez Viejo (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) “The Personal Geography of…
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