Author: CLAFI

Lecture: Music and Math: A Perfectly Imperfect Harmony – From Pythagoras to Adès

Date: Thursday October 24th, 2024
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Venue: Schoenberg Music Building Room 1345 (Band Room)

Gloria Cheng is a pianist celebrated for her performances and recordings of modern music. She won a Grammy award in 2008 and was nominated for a second in 2013. She has received numerous additional awards and recognitions, including a 2018 Los Angeles Emmy award. She has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other prestigious orchestras and musical groups. She has collaborated with noted composers including Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She is also a popular teacher in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Seminar: The Heart and Soul in Musical Modernism

Date: Saturday October 26th, 2024
Time: 10:30am 12:30pm
Venue: Schoenberg Music Building Room B648 (Mancini Studio)

Registration for the seminar with Gloria Cheng is free and open to the public. However, because capacity is limited, advance enrollment is necessary. Enrollment will be primarily on a first come, first served basis, though preference is given to UCLA students and faculty members.  Participants will be expected to read some materials and listen to some music that will be provided before the seminar and be ready to discuss them.  A pizza lunch will be delivered at the end of the seminar. To enroll, please e-mail Professor Daniel Lowenstein at lowenstein@law.ucla.edu.

Lecture: What Can We Learn From The Western Tradition?

Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Venue: Law School Building Room 1447

James Hankins, Professor of History at Harvard, is one of the leading contemporary historians of the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, though he is currently working with Allen Guelzo, an earlier CLAFI lecturer, on a 2-volume history of the Western tradition, to be published in 2025 by Encounter Books. In 2012 he was awarded the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award of the Renaissance Society of America. His many books include Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (2019) and Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy (2023). He is the Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press).

Seminar: Meritocracy And Its Critics In The Premodern West

Date: Saturday, November 9, 2024
Time: 10:30am 12:30pm
Venue: TBD

Registration for the seminar with James Hankins is free and open to the public. However, because capacity is limited, advance enrollment is necessary. Enrollment will be primarily on a first come, first served basis, though preference is given to UCLA students and faculty members. Participants will be expected to read materials that will be distributed and to participate actively in the discussion. A pizza lunch will be delivered at the end of the seminar. To enroll, please e-mail Professor Daniel Lowenstein at lowenstein@law.ucla.edu.

Lecture: Whither “Gratitude To Our Fathers?” Abraham Lincoln And The American Union

Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Venue: Law School Building Room 1447

Andrew Lang, is an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, where he has emerged as one of the leading young scholars of the Civil War period. His first book, In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America, won the 2018 Tom Watson Book Award for the “best book published on the causes, conduct, and effects, broadly defined, of the Civil War.” The prize committee described the book as “one of the very best examples of social-cultural history of the army to be done for the Civil War.” His 2021 book, A Contest of Civilizations: Exploring the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era, was one of seven finalists out of 90 books submitted for the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. He serves on the Executive Council of the Society of Civil War Historians. In addition to his distinguished work as a scholar, he has won four Faculty Teaching Awards at Mississippi State. He received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 2013.

Seminar: American Exceptionalism And The Civil War Era

Date: Saturday, November 9, 2024
Time: 10:30am 12:30pm
Venue: TBD

Registration for the seminar with Andrew Lang is free and open to the public. However, because capacity is limited, advance enrollment is necessary. Enrollment will be primarily on a first come, first served basis, though preference is given to UCLA students and faculty members. Participants will be expected to read the materials that will be distributed and participate actively in the discussion. A pizza lunch will be delivered at the end of the seminar. To enroll, please e-mail Professor Daniel Lowenstein at lowenstein@law.ucla.edu.