• Humanities Welcome

    1100 Schoenberg Music Building

    The Humanities Welcome is an annual event held at the beginning of the academic year that invites faculty, staff and students to come together to showcase the Humanities at UCLA. At the event, we introduce the UCLA campus to the benefits of coursework and degrees in the Humanities. The program includes an introduction from the...

  • I Can Hear The Barbarians

    NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities , Los Angeles, CA, United States
  • The Substantive Pull of Procedure in Early Islamic Courts: The Curious Case of Bughaybigha

    UCLA School of Law, Room 1457

    A lecture by Intisar A. Rabb (Harvard Law School) Intisar A. Rabb is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource. She also holds an appointment as a Professor of History and as a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for...

  • Ancient China in Comparative Perspective: An Afternoon of Papers in Honor of Professor Li Ling

    11360 Charles E. Young Research Library 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    3:00-3:10: David Schaberg - Introduction 3:10-3:40: Anthony Barbieri-Low (UCSB) - The Tombs of Scribes in Early Imperial China and Ancient Egypt in a Comparative Perspective 3:40-4:20: Rahim Shayegan (UCLA) - Nugae sino-persicae: On Early Chinese-Persian Encounters 4:20-4:50: Guolong Lai (University of Florida) - Methods of Decipherment in Chinese Paleography in Comparative Perspective 4:50-5:20: Li Min...

  • Islam and Muslims in an Age of ISIS and Islamophobia

    UCLA Campus, Young Hall CS 50 Los Angeles, CA, United States

    with Professor Omid Safi Director, Islamic Studies Center Duke University A public event sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies-MRI Fund Co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) and the Center for the Study of Religion (CSR) Fifteen years after the horrific attacks of 9/11, the American Muslim community and the American democratic experiment both...