UCLA Humanities Division

Announcement

April 18-19 at UCLA:
25th Anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative + 2013 Society of Fellows event

Events & Talks

Sat May 18
“Earthly Pleasures and Courtly Glories in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds”

Tue May 21 @16:00 - 05:00PM
“Mirrors, Specularity, and Speculation in the Renaissance”

Wed May 22 @16:00 - 05:00PM
“A Worlde of Wordes (1598); John Florio’s Bilingual Feast”

Wed May 22 @17:00 -
Mellon Seminar: "Remaindered Life" by Prof. Neferti Tadiar

Thu May 23 @15:30 - 05:00PM
“Allegory in the Renaissance”

Fri May 24 @12:00 - 01:00PM
“George Buchanan’s Poetic Psalm Paraphrases & Their Music Settings”

Tue May 28 @12:00 - 01:00PM
Goring Glocal: Collaborating with Indigenous Language Learners on Global Technologies

Fri May 31 @10:00 -
Archival Footage and Filmmaking

Fellowships & Grants

Spotlight

Scholar to bring to life migrants’ perilous crossings

When Françoise Lionnet delivers UCLA’s 114th Faculty Research Lecture in Schoenberg Hall on Monday, she will begin by talking about a shipwreck.

And not just any shipwreck. This one, which occurred in 1744, captured the collective imagination of 18th-century French painters and writers, who romanticized the unfortunate event on canvas and in fiction.

Musicologist's book is selected best in music, performing arts category
Tamara Levitz’s "Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone," published in September by Oxford University Press, was selected earlier this month as the best book in music and performing arts in 2012 by the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE).

Art historian wins book award
Art history chair Miwon Kwon has received the highest book award from the leading professional organization in her field for "Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974" (Prestel Publishing), a book she co-authored with Philipp Kaiser, director of Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany.

Short poems capture hours spent in the English reading room
After toiling for 18 years in the English Department’s reading room, head librarian Lynda Tolly admits she would be hard-pressed to put into words what makes the wood-paneled sanctuary so special. "I can think of only about five words to describe the English reading room," she said with a laugh, of this quiet hideaway located on the second floor of the Humanities Building.

New Humanities lab brings classroom technology into the light
Bright. Visible. Flexible. These words describe the new Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) Learning Lab @ Rolfe, a new technology-enabled presentation and collaboration space for teaching and learning at UCLA.

UCLA takes flight with environmental humanities
Allison Carruth, Jon Christensen and Ursula Heise came to UCLA from Stanford to change the way we explore and talk about environmental issues.

UCLA receives Mellon Foundation grant to support area studies, language classes
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to UCLA, enabling new strategies that will elevate area studies, revitalize language instruction and increase engagement with local communities.