• Michelle Bumatay: Black Bandes Dessinées in Context

    In conjunction with the UCLA Center for the Global Study of France, we invite you to attend a talk with Michelle Bumatay (Florida State University) on April 28th, from 5pm-6:30pm in Royce Hall 236. In this talk, Prof. Bumatay, who holds a Ph.D. from our own program in French and Francophone Studies, will be disentangling...

  • Renaissance Refugees: Negotiating Displacement in the Early Modern Mediterranean

    Monday, May 5, 2025 3:00 PM | Royce Hall 23 About the Lecture During the early modern period, campaigns of ethnic cleansing forced entire populations to flee, creating diasporic networks across the Mediterranean and beyond. Ferdinand of Aragon’s “pious cruelty” as Machiavelli famously put it in the Prince, set an example that was repeatedly imitated...

  • ELTS 2025 Fall Open House

      Join us to explore all that ELTS has to offer—connect with faculty, your academic counselor, and fellow students, and discover meaningful ways to engage with our vibrant community.   Wednesday, September 24th | 1pm - 2pm | Royce Hall 236

  • “Raising the Bar: The French chef, Housewives, and ‘Real Cooks'”

    Royce Hall 236 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA

    In its 2005 Super Bowl commercial, McDonald’s presented the Quarter Pounder with Cheese as an “hors d’oeuvre,” a tongue-in-cheek appropriation of French exquisiteness in food culture. It built on the democratization of gourmet cuisine in the U.S., which had its breakthrough more than forty years earlier in a cooking show on a local public television...

  • World Languages Day

    Wilson Plaza 221 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  • Screening of “La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano”

    Royce Hall 314

    The Italian Club invites you to a special screening of La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano on February 18 from 5–7 PM in Royce 314. Directed by Academy Award–winning Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore and based on Alessandro Baricco’s monologue Novecento, the film tells the story of a legendary pianist born aboard an ocean liner who spends...