Events

Join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, the nation’s first research center for early modern studies. Founded in 1985, the Center provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies, and organizes a wide range of academic and...

Please join us for a poetry reading with visiting poet, Leo Boix on October 6, 2026. Kaplan Hall 193, 4pm-5pm, followed by a reception. Open to all. Students interested in participating in a poetry workshop, “The Sonnet, the Polyglot Poem and the Borderland: Writing Between Forms, Languages and Places,” with Leo Boix should fill out this form to...

The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. Once each term, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led...

The first event in our 10th anniversary series is a conversation between Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic of The New York Times; Jon Christensen, Director of LENS; and Dana Cuff, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. No RSVP is required for this event.

Opening Night of the Phoenix of GazaXR exhibit: lecture and reception (Doors open at 5pm; Event begins at 5:30pm) Visit the event website for more information and to register. The Phoenix of Gaza is a virtual reality project documenting life in Gaza through 360-degree filming completed over several years. The project began with the goal...

Please join us for seminar on the writing of the British art critic Adrian Stokes (1902-1972). Stokes is gaining renewed attention as an important figure in modernist writing, who bridged British psychoanalysis (particularly the work of Melanie Klein), Philosophy, and Art History. The event will begin with a reading group discussion on 6 November of...

Please join us for seminar on the writing of the British art critic Adrian Stokes (1902-1972). Stokes is gaining renewed attention as an important figure in modernist writing, who bridged British psychoanalysis (particularly the work of Melanie Klein), Philosophy, and Art History. The event will begin with a reading group discussion on 6 November of...

The 2026 midterm elections are here, and the ramifications could be big. Los Angeles may elect a new mayor; California will elect a new governor; and control of Congress could change hands. The second event in our 10th anniversary series is a post-election discussion about the local, state, and national implications for environmental policy and...