In this talk, Prof. T.J. Demos, an award-winning writer whose work focuses on the intersection of contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, will be asking the question: when the violent repression of community activism at the nexus of abolition, decolonization, and environmentalism is compounded by forces of contemporary counterinsurgency that are operating to prevent any...
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...
Saturday, May 10th - Sunday, May 11th | Royce Hall 314
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 Register here The Center for European and Russian Studies and Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies invite you to a book talk for Arendt's Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World (Stanford University Press 2024). Author David D. Kim, Professor in...
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
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...
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...
The UCLA Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies, in collaboration with the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, presents a special screening of Toni, Mio Padre, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Anna Negri. This intimate documentary explores memory, political trauma, and the complex father–daughter relationship between Negri and her father, philosopher Toni...
