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Join the Teaching and Learning Center for our inaugural Tea with a Teaching Professor event. This intimate gathering provides graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with an opportunity to have small-group conversations with some of UCLA’s leading teaching-focused faculty to expand their professional network and learn more about the teaching professor career path. Registration for this event is intentionally limited to help facilitate intimate dialogue. Each teaching professor in attendance will be seated with a maximum of 4-5 students/postdocs. While we cannot guarantee attendees will be matched with a professor in their field, you can expect plenty of time to ask questions and network with instructors and peers over light refreshments. Register by November 2 to secure your spot. In the event that registration fills, we will start a wait list. Location: Powell 186

Explore findings from the 2026 UCLA Senior Survey on how students are using AI in their coursework, how they perceive its benefits and challenges for learning, and the guidance they receive on AI use. We’ll highlight key patterns in students’ experiences and consider what they may mean for teaching practices, assessment, and supporting students’ effective use of AI. Presenter: Wonki Lee, Associate Director of Educational Assessment Services & Initiatives at UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) Keywords: ucla senior survey, AI use, students experiences on AI, student feedback Each academic quarter, the educational designers and developers of the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) offer via Zoom a weekly series of seven pop-up sessions - each just 10 minutes in length - on focused, specific topics related to course design, teaching, learning, and learning assessment. The additional “+10” in the series title refers to an optional 10 minutes that follow each presentation for Q&A and discussion. These 10 + 10 sessions will take place at 10am (PT) every Tuesday in the quarter, from Week 2 through Week 8. These sessions are open to all UCLA instructors—including faculty, lecturers, instructors of record, graduate student instructors, and postdoctoral scholars. Please direct any inquiries to instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu.

This workshop provides an overview on the various forms of academic dishonesty regarding plagiarism. Participants will learn when, where, and why it is important to cite properly. Students will also learn how to avoid plagiarism and the information presented will stress the need to attribute work to the original author and the potential outcomes for plagiarizing. Additionally, paraphrasing, and direct quoting will be discussed. ZOOM. Register through MyUCLA by going to Campus Life> Calendar> Event Reservations> Find Events. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/2122918977

The UCLA Native Nations Law & Policy Center invites students, faculty, staff, and community members to join us for “Indigenous Law and the Prospects of Treaty-Making in Australia: Recent Developments,” featuring Professor Kirsty Gover of Melbourne Law School. Location: UCLA Law, Room 2467 & UCLA Law, Room 1457

Have a quick question about your finances? UCLA Financial Wellness offers undergraduate drop-in hours to help students navigate their financial well-being. https://financialwellness.ucla.edu/make-an-appointment **Undergraduate drop-ins are for quick, general inquiries. For questions that require more time or individualized support with topics such as budgeting, saving, credit, debt repayment, student loans, or investing basics, students should book a financial coaching appointment.

Come grab some goodies to support your mental health and learn more about the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and Compassionate Response (CORE) Team! Location: Graduate Student Resource Center (SAC B11)

Connect with fellow UCLA community members from different backgrounds, make new connections, and enjoy creating delicious no-bake cookies together! Location: UCLA Teaching Kitchen. (Located within the Los Angeles Tennis Center Clubhouse. 420 Charles E. Young Drive West, Los Angeles, CA 90095)

Judith A. Peraino and Tom McEnaney, authors of We’re Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman an Beyond (2026), join with Tommy Gear and Paul Roessler from legendary LA punk band the Screamers to delve into punk archives of zines, photos, flyers and documents and discuss how punk’s grassroots creative communities and uncompromising artistic visions challenged the dominance of major labels and corporate standards, and created an alternative ecosystem to the mainstream music industry that has lasted over fifty years. The Berry Gordy Music Industry Center at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music hosts a compelling speaker series aiming to inspire and educate the next generation of music industry professionals by providing direct access to those shaping the industry, from creatives to executives each facet of the industry will be touched upon. Each event highlights conversations around the human side of the industry—from personal growth and wellness to social impact and responsible leadership. The series offers students the opportunity to learn directly from change makers across music, media, and business who are reimagining what it means to lead with purpose in a rapidly evolving industry.

This workshop will give an overview of how to write a master's client project or other master's capstone with written deliverables (projects other than the academic thesis). It will include strategies for developing topics, timeline, goals, and document structure. We will also present effective strategies for drafting and revision, as well as managing the project overall.

Join the sustainable fun at our Hill-wide Sustainable Carnival! Come learn how easy and fun it is to be green on the Hill. Brought to you by Team Green (OCHC) and Sustainability on the Hill. The goal of the event is to make people think more sustainably, with the health of our planet in mind, through small positive habits they can incorporate into their daily lives! Location: Sunset Village Plaza

Join us for a night of new music composed by UCLA undergraduate composition students.   Among one of the most competitive schools for composition in the country, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music boasts performances of music written by ferociously talented and exceptionally gifted young composers.   Please come support their endeavors as we kick off the 2026-27 school year of composers concerts!

UCLA Financial Aid & Scholarships will be closed on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, in Observance of the Veterans Day Holiday. We will resume regular operating hours on Thursday, November 12, 2026. Location: A129 Murphy Hall

Have a quick question about your finances? UCLA Financial Wellness offers undergraduate drop-in hours to help students navigate their financial well-being. https://financialwellness.ucla.edu/make-an-appointment **Undergraduate drop-ins are for quick, general inquiries. For questions that require more time or individualized support with topics such as budgeting, saving, credit, debt repayment, student loans, or investing basics, students should book a financial coaching appointment.

Each quarter, CARE offers a 3-session certificate training where all students are invited to engage in learning and conversation about sexual violence prevention, gaining knowledge in 3-parts of prevention: stopping harm before it happens, being responsive to survivors who have experienced harm, and promoting long-term healing. The Fall Certificate Training will be held Wednesday evenings Wk 5-7 from 6-8pm in the CAPS LCR. Interested individuals can RSVP by 10/23 to participate. Location: CAPS Large Conference Room

Have a quick question about your finances? UCLA Financial Wellness offers undergraduate drop-in hours to help students navigate their financial well-being. https://financialwellness.ucla.edu/make-an-appointment **Undergraduate drop-ins are for quick, general inquiries. For questions that require more time or individualized support with topics such as budgeting, saving, credit, debt repayment, student loans, or investing basics, students should book a financial coaching appointment.

Join the Garden on Thursday, November 12 from 12-1 pm at La Kretz Garden Pavilion for another installment of Botany Brown Bag. Dr. Josh Brindley will give a talk titled “The Collection Project.” Botanical gardens serve as living museums, preserving and interpreting plant diversity through carefully curated living collections. Unlike conventional museum specimens, plants grow, reproduce, and die, presenting unique challenges for collection management, documentation, and long-term curation. In this talk, Dr. Josh Brindley will explore The Collections Project, an IMLS-funded initiative to analyze and assess the plant inventory of the Mathias Botanical Garden. He will discuss the inventory process, the development of a digital database, and how living collection data can inform curatorial decision-making, guide collection management, and shape future planning. Make sure to bring your lunch! This event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. Location: La Kretz Garden Pavilion, 707 Tiverton Drive

Discover UCLA’s hidden archives, your next research discovery might be hiding in an unexpected place! Join GSRC for a tour of UCLA Library Special Collections and explore a world of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and surprising pieces of history. Meet library staff, connect with fellow graduate students, and discover resources that could spark your next big idea. Bring your curiosity and tell us what you’re working on! All graduate students are welcome and encouraged to share their research interests or current projects. Location: UCLA Library Special Collections

Learn about the world-class map collection at the UCLA Library and how to incorporate maps in your research. We will discuss how to find and access maps, and then move towards how to read maps critically and discuss the many ways they can be incorporated in research across all disciplines and majors. Researching primary sources like maps can be intimidating, but after this workshop you’ll leave with the skills you need for success. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you are registered, you will receive the Zoom invitation details the day before the workshop. Instructor: Maggie Tarmey, Humanities and Primary Research Librarian

Join us via Zoom at the Public Affairs Major Information Session to learn about the B.A. in Public Affairs, major requirements, application process, and how Luskin supports your academic goals! The information session is open to first- and second-year students who are interested in the Public Affairs major. Zoom link will provided upon registration.

Winner of the Israeli Academy’s Best Documentary Award, The Komediant focuses on the life and career of Pesach Burstein and his family, famous for Yiddish theaterA discussion with son, actor Mike Burstyn follows the screening, in conversation with Miri Koral, UCLA Lecturer and expert in Yiddish language and culture.

Based on the bestseller by Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling as a high school science teacher thrust quite unwillingly into space as Earth’s last hope for survival. Followed by a conversation with directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/C26PHM Location: Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

This Workshop explores the cultural, religious, and intellectual legacy of Daisetsu Teitaro (D. T.) Suzuki (1870–1966), the preeminent figure who introduced Zen and Mahayana Buddhism to the modern Western world. This event brings together scholars, curators, and practitioners to discuss and reflect on Suzuki’s polymath contributions and their enduring, cross-cultural impact. Discussions will span a broad range of topics, including interpretations and evaluations of Suzuki’s Buddhist philosophy and translations, archival discoveries of his lecture manuscripts and interpersonal correspondence, and his connections with Japanese American communities and local religious institutions. Generously funded by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies, this one-day workshop will feature several highlights: a keynote address by Professor Richard M. Jaffe of Duke University; an exhibition of Buddhist archival materials, including artifacts and manuscripts related to Suzuki’s 1950-60s U.S. sojourns preserved in the UCLA Library Special Collections; and a roundtable dialogue bridging academic research with contemporary spiritual practice and community engagement. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room

Have a quick question about your finances? UCLA Financial Wellness offers undergraduate drop-in hours to help students navigate their financial well-being. https://financialwellness.ucla.edu/make-an-appointment **Undergraduate drop-ins are for quick, general inquiries. For questions that require more time or individualized support with topics such as budgeting, saving, credit, debt repayment, student loans, or investing basics, students should book a financial coaching appointment.

The conference "William Andrews Clark Jr., California Fine Press, Independent Publishing, and Literary Activity in Los Angeles," organized by Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Department of Information Studies (UCLA), explores the connection between William Andrews Clark Jr. and the fine press community that emerged in Southern California in the 1930s, which is evident in the extensive collections assembled in his lifetime and after. This conference reflects on the role of Clark and his Library in the broader range of literary and publishing activity in the decades after its founding. For additional details, please visit the event website. Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

This workshop explores the cultural, religious, and intellectual legacy of Daisetz Teitaro (D. T.) Suzuki (1870-1966), the preeminent figure who introduced Zen and Mahayana Buddhism to the modern Western world. The invited scholars, curators, and practitioners reflect on Suzuki’s wide-ranging contributions and evaluate their enduring cross-cultural impact from various perspectives. The program features a keynote address by Dr. Richard M. Jaffe, professor of religious studies at Duke University; an exhibition of rare Buddhist archives related to D. T. Suzuki from UCLA Library Special Collections; and a roundtable bringing together academic research, lived practice and community engagement. Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies and UCLA Center for the Study of Religion Location: Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360

Join CRP and SWD for a Sober Tailgate and UCLA Football Game on Friday, November 13th at the Rose Bowl Stadium! Enjoy an afternoon of food, games, community, and football in a recovery-supportive environment. CRP will provide round-trip transportation from campus to the Rose Bowl, and free student tickets will be available through UCLA Athletics. We'll meet on campus, ride together to the Rose Bowl, enjoy a sober tailgate with food, games, and activities before kickoff, and return to UCLA together after the game. Event Schedule 12:15 PM: Check-in at the BRC (SAC B44) 1:00 PM: Bus departs UCLA Approximately 2:30 PM: Arrive at the Rose Bowl Stadium 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM: Sober Tailgate (food, games, and activities) 6:00 PM: UCLA vs. Illinois kickoff 9:45 PM: Return to the bus following the game 10:15 PM: Bus departs the Rose Bowl for UCLA Free Football Tickets for Students Free student tickets will be available through UCLA Athletics beginning Monday, November 9. Tickets must be registered by 5:00 PM on Monday, Visit: uclabruins.com/ucla-football-tickets Click “Buy Now” on nov 13th Game Click “students” on the top of the page. Location: Rose Bowl Stadium

U.S.–China tensions are shaping domestic policy far beyond traditional diplomacy and national security. This conversation examines how initiatives that came to the fore during the China Initiative (2018-2022) continue to shape debates about research security, state laws limiting property ownership, and restrictions on international students and scholarly collaboration. Location: UCLA Law, Room 1457

Let's celebrate together by attending the I'm Going to College Fair hosted at the UCLA Football Game! TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR CURRENTLY ENROLLED UCLA STUDENTS WITH DEPENDENT(S) Children 2 and under DO NOT NEED A TICKET Ticket quantity is limited and available while supplies last 4 tickets max per family, additional tix may be avail based on supply Note: Parking Cost Not Included - Parking Cost $38 online or $44 purchased day of Join us at the UCLA vs. Illinois Game on Nov 13th! I'm Going to College Fair: 3-5p FAIR ACTIVITIES: interactive photobooth, face painting, swag items, arts and crafts, and more! Specific details regarding fair and layout will be provided in the upcoming weeks! Game Start: 6pm Please reach out to swd@saonet.ucla.edu for inquiries Location: Rose Bowl

Depicting the remarkable chance encounter in Paris of a French nursing home director and a Japanese theater director facing terminal cancer, All of a Sudden is a moving testimony to the power of human empathy. Followed by a conversation with writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/C26AOAS Location: Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Scrum by the Sea Location: La Jolla, CA

Battle at Sparta Location: San Jose

Friendly Match Location: Intramural Field

You are invited to attend an intimate conversation with Leonard Peltier, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a lifelong activist, and a member of the American Indian Movement. In conversation with Shannon Rivers, member of the Akimel O’otham Nation, spiritual leader, human rights activist, and advisor to BRAID, Leonard Peltier will reflect on his life, experience of incarceration, and the vital role of books, literature, and art during his time in prison. Location: UCLA Law, Room 1347

In 1901, Eva Palmer abandoned her life as a privileged New York socialite, moving to Paris with her lover, the writer and salonist, Natalie Barney. The two Americans became the center of a wild tangle of lesbian love affairs and backyard performances based on intentional reimaginings of Sappho’s work and life. A chance encounter led Eva to Greece, where she married Angelos Sikelianos, a visionary poet who would become a Greek national hero. Celebrated American poet Eleni Sikelianos grew up knowing little of these illustrious ancestors, her great grandparents, who, in the early 20th century staged a revival of the ancient Delphic festivals, convinced that it would open a path to world peace. It was not until the age of 20, on her first trip to Greece, that she encountered the breadth of their legacy. In her new book, "Memory Rehearsal" (City Lights, 2026), Sikelianos unearths the story of her search for these pioneering ancestors, in a text that shifts between prose, poetry, imaginary performance texts, fiction, and nonfiction, with archival and family photographs. Eleni will read from and discuss "Memory Rehearsal," which "Kirkus" calls a “moving family memoir and a triumph of cultural archaeology.” Eleni Sikelianos was born into a family of tree workers, bohemians, poets, ne’er-do-wells, visionaries, and smalltime sort-of hustlers. She is a poet, writer, collaborator, and “master of mixing genres.” As a student of the poets of Naropa, she is a lineage-holder in the Outrider poetics family tree. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral work. She has published ten books of poetry (most recently, "Your Kingdom," 2023) and a trilogy of unclassifiable hybrid works, sometimes called nonfiction, sometimes memoirs, sometimes fiction: "The Book of Jon" and "You Animal Machine," and, most recently, "Memory Rehearsal" (City Lights, 2026). "Memory Rehearsal," called “a triumph of cultural archaeology” in a starred Kirkus review and named One of "Publishers Weekly’s" Most Anticipated Books for 2026, is a genre-busting encounter between a poet and her ancestral past documenting a startling intersection of queer history, ancient theater, utopian visions, and modern poetry. Among other honors, she has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Fulbright Artists fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in nonfiction. She grew up in earshot of the ocean, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara, and has since lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Boulder (Colorado), and Providence. "Memory Rehearsal" will be available for purchase at the event! All major credit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay are accepted. Cash is also accepted with exact change only. This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Location: 314 Royce Hall

In person: Q&A with UCLA Asian American Studies Assistant Professors Loubna Qutami and Nour Joudah, moderated by UCLA Comparative Literature Ph.D. student Aciah Abdulsater. Guest speaker Every space hosts the accumulation of time and is thus a repository of memory, one that is active and dynamic. Jean Khalil Chamoun’s Women Beyond Borders (2004) and Theo Panagopoulos’ The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (2024) were made two decades apart, but together they foster an ongoing conversation at the intersection of identity, memory and place across Lebanon and Palestine. Though distinct in form, the films consider the relationship between people’s lived environments and their individual and collective identities. The films navigate through spaces both historically and presently marked by displacement, violence and resilience. Both offer meditations and testimonies on how these spaces can inhabit a people’s memories, linger into their present realities and influence their futures. Rather than attempting to unearth a singular tradition, this program amplifies an ongoing cinematic conversation across Lebanon and Palestine that is rooted in intertwined histories of occupation and resistance. This conversation is an urgent one to hold today in light of the ongoing aggression against southern Lebanon and historic Palestine that continues to target complete ecosystems. This systematic surge of destruction and harm affects far beyond the physical; it seeks to fracture memory, sever a people’s sense of being and belonging, and jeopardize social relations that places sustain. The moving image as a tool presents an opportunity to forge an alternative place of memory work, one capable of preserving spatial memory, making visible the forms of erasure, and imagining continuities that exceed the violence of occupation and its imposed restriction on bodies and space. Programmed by UCLA Comparative Literature Ph.D. student Aciah Abdulsater and Archive Research and Public Access Coordinator Nicole Ucedo. Notes and concept by Aciah Abdulsater. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

It’s a saxophone Tour de France! From early works by Elsa Barraine, Fernande Decruck and Darius Milhaud to Roger Boutry’s mid-century Divertimento to Vincent David’s exploration of contemporary techniques and wake trails in Sillage – join the UCLA saxophone studio for our fall studio recital!

n person: Pre-screening talk by Laura Horak, author, Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds. Post-screening Q&A. Archive Talks pairs leading historians and scholars with screenings of the moving image media that is the focus of their writing and research. Each program will begin with a special talk by the invited scholar that will introduce audiences to new insights, interpretations and contexts for the films and media being screened. This screening will be preceded by a book signing of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds with author Laura Horak beginning at 6 p.m. in the lobby. The Archive first worked with archivist and scholar Laura Horak in 2022 when we presented a series of films unearthed by Horak and her collaborators, Maggie Hennefeld and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi. Their archival project Cinema’s First Nasty Women celebrated the work of silent comedians who brought an anarchic brand of gender non-conformity to slapstick. Alongside that work, Horak is also the director of the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University, which created the Transgender Media Portal(opens in a new tab), a database of trans creators, including links to where their work can be seen. Suffice it to say, increasing the visibility and access to the media she studies is an essential element of Horak’s ongoing research project. With her latest book, Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds, Horak dives deep into the history, practice and aesthetics of trans artists in the United States and Canada in the 21st century while positioning them within the larger history of trans media production and representation. The Archive is pleased to welcome Horak back to the Billy Wilder Theater for a brief talk about her work followed by a selection of works by trans artists and an on-stage conversation, with more special guests to be announced soon! Part of the Archive’s Legacy Project Screening Series. Support for the screening is provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation Queer Screening Endowment and The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for an evening of chamber music highlighting members of the brass family.

Join us for the second of six workshops as part of the Modal Interchange: Conversations on 21st-Century Performance Practices series with Jonathan Hepfer, percussionist and artistic director of Monday Evening Concerts, who will join Wendy Richman (Academic Lecturer and Director of uclaFLUX at UCLA) in a conversation about how to develop as a working artist. Sisyphus as Artist (Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work) Whether navigating complex scores or directing a series, the common denominator is simply problem solving: using one’s sense of logic, aesthetics, ethics, and intuition to figure out how to get from A to B. Every project or piece is completely different, requiring constant reinvention and re-equipping of one’s toolbox. More abstractly, but of equal or greater weight, is the importance of nurturing non-musical artistic and creative interests while we hone our problem-solving skills. Whether performer, presenter, painter, or poet, artists flourish when we connect through our shared goal: to make a lasting impression on the souls of those around us. Bio Jonathan Hepfer is a percussionist, conductor, and concert curator. He began playing classical music at age seventeen after discovering the work of John Cage while studying at SUNY Buffalo. Subsequently, Jonathan attended Oberlin Conservatory, UC San Diego and the Musikhochschule Freiburg (on a DAAD fellowship) where he studied with Michael Rosen, Steven Schick and Bernhard Wulff. ​Since 2015, he has been the Artistic Director of Monday Evening Concerts (MEC) in Los Angeles as well as its resident ensemble ECHOI. At MEC, Jonathan has directed performances of major works by Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Julius Eastman, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Gérard Grisey, Sarah Hennies, Yves Klein, Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, Salvatore Sciarrino, Caroline Shaw, Tyshawn Sorey, Simeon Ten Holt and Iannis Xenakis. As a curator and producer, he has presented works by Georges Aperghis, Pierluigi Billone, Carolyn Chen, Chaya Czernowin, Julius Eastman, David Hammons, Sarah Hennies, György Kurtág, Klaus Lang, Alvin Lucier, Hans Otte, Éliane Radigue, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Caroline Shaw, Wadada Leo Smith, Steven Takasugi, Davóne Tines and Wu Tsang. Jonathan has directed (or co-directed) projects at venues such as the Getty Museum, Harvard University, Hauser & Wirth, Jeffrey Deitch, LACMA, LAXART, Marciano Art Foundation, the Santa Monica Carousel (Frieze), Thomas Mann House and the Pinault Collection in Paris. ​As a percussion soloist, Jonathan has focused extensively on the works of Georges Aperghis, Pierluigi Billone, Julius Eastman, Brian Ferneyhough, Morton Feldman, Vinko Globokar, Helmut Lachenmann, Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Xenakis and Walter Zimmermann. In this capacity, he has performed widely across the United States, Europe and Asia. Recent independent projects have included serving as artistic director for a portrait of Julius Eastman at the Pinault Collection in Paris (a collaboration with Anaïs Ngbanzo, Dev Hynes and Adam Tendler) and performing the role of conductor in a revival of Deborah Hay’s ‘Solo 2’ at the Getty Museum. Jonathan has also contributed to projects by friends such as Henrik Purienne (‘Tasjaki’ at Galerie Chenel), Vanessa Beecroft and Gustave Rudman (‘Two Shadows’ at Jeffrey Deitch) and Henri Levy Alexandre (Enfants Riches Déprimés S/S ’25). He has published interviews with Meredith Monk (Autre Magazine), Éliane Radigue (Purple Magazine) and Steve Reich (Kaleidoscope Magazine). Jonathan also documented the oral histories of the pioneering generation of percussion soloists (Jan Williams, Christoph Caskel, Sylvio Gualda, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Gaston Sylvestre, Maurizio Ben Omar). Jonathan has served on the faculty at Art Center Pasadena and Cal Arts. He is interested in the ways that music intersects with visual art, literature, architecture, fashion and film. More about Modal Interchange: Conversations on 21st-Century Performance Practices The personality of Los Angeles’s new music scene mirrors its city’s culture and geography as a whole: equal parts diversity and decentralization, in a battle for recognition and relevance that crisscrosses 650 freeway miles. The Modal Interchange series casts a wide net around LA’s new music community, hosting a diverse group of individuals who might not otherwise share the same artistic and academic spaces, in a series of lecture-workshops geared to an audience of performers. Modal Interchange is a series of six workshops through 2026-27. Each workshop focuses on an element of 21st-century performing, programming, and music-making in the world of contemporary music, with special focus on the topics’ relevance in greater LA: histories of experimental music and the avant-garde, commissioning new works, concert programming, listening as an audience member, listening as a performer, score-reading and part-marking, learning and practicing contemporary works, improvisation practices, and arts activism. This series is conceived and hosted by violist Wendy Richman and produced in partnership with the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities. Dr. Richman is Lecturer in Performance Studies, Director of uclaFLUX, and a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble. For the full schedule, please visit our website: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/modal-interchange-conversations-on-21st-century-performance-practices/

Hogarth' "Lost" Annotations, presented by Dr. Zirwat Chowdhury, Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Art, Department of Art History (UCLA), focuses on an annotated copy of The Investigator No. CCCXXII, one of a series of essays published by the 18th-century Scottish painter, Allan Ramsay. The annotations are those of Ramsay’s contemporary, the English painter and printmaker, William Hogarth. A prized document for its contribution to the artists’ important debates on art theory and aesthetic philosophy, the annotated volume has been understood by Hogarth scholars to have been long lost, even though it has been part of the Clark collections since it was acquired by William Andrews Clark Jr. in 1929. This talk will discuss how the annotated volume might expand our understanding of Hogarth’s theory of art, foundational to the history of 18th-century British art and controversially espoused by the artist in 1753 in his treatise on art and aesthetics, The Analysis of Beauty. Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library - https://www.youtube.com/@ucla-c1718cs

The UCLA Flute Studio welcomes Rose Lombardo, Principal Flute of the San Diego Symphony, for a guest artist masterclass with Professor Benjamin Smolen’s flute studio. Students Ricky Medina, Minami Mori, Ksenia Mezhenny, Grace Brandes, Amanda Lee, and Daniel Chavez will perform solo flute and flute/piano repertoire for Ms. Lombardo during the studio’s regular Monday class.

Join us for a night of new music composed by UCLA Graduate composition students!   Among one of the most competitive schools for composition in the country, Herb Alpert School of Music boasts performances of music written by ferociously talented and exceptionally gifted young composers.   Please come support their endeavors as we kick off the 2026-27 school year of graduate composers concerts!