CLAFI at UCLA
Welcome to the Center for Liberal Arts and Free Institutions (CLAFI) at UCLA.
CLAFI’s purpose is to study great literary, artistic, and cultural achievements, with particular emphasis on the foundations of free institutions. Through undergraduate course offerings and public events, CLAFI serves UCLA students and faculty as well as the general public.
James Hankins - "What Can We Learn From The Western Tradition?"
Andrew Lang - "Whither 'Gratitude To Our Fathers?' Abraham Lincoln And The American Union"
Cyndia Clegg - “Censoring Shakespeare: Custom and the Rule of Law.”
Gloria Cheng - "Music and Math: A Perfectly Imperfect Harmony – From Pythagoras to Adès"
CLAFI Office Hour #3 - Helmut K. Anheier
James Muller - "Churchill’s Thoughts as Adventures"
Daniel Hannan - “How Like a God: Shakespeare and the Making of Our Reality.”
Michael Ward - "C.S. Lewis and Liberality"
Jonathan Bank - "Exploding the Dramatic Canon"
Paul Rahe - "Tyranny: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern"
Carol McNamara - "Tom Wolfe's America"
Stephen Dickey - "Deploying Shakespeare in the Civil War Era"
Michael Lewis - "The Building that Broke My Heart"
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw - "Every Eye Is Upon Me: Portraiture and the First Ladies"
Peter Baehr - "Moral Responsibility Under Dictatorship"
CLAFI Office Hours #2 – Teofilo Ruiz, History
Teofilo Ruiz – "The Witch Craze in Medieval and Early Modern Europe"
Calvin Normore – "A (Very) Short History of Natural Rights"
Kate Kennedy – "Music's War Poets: The First World War Reflected in British Classical Music"
CLAFI Office Hours #1 – Peter Sellars, World Arts and Cultures
Constance Walker – "Jane Austen, Aristotle, and the Perfect Plot"
Gary Gallagher – "Was Reconstruction a Lost Moment?"
Monica Sandler – "The Oscars in Review"
Allen Guelzo – "Reconstruction: The Last Bourgeois Revolution"
Barry Shain – "The Tragic American Revolution and the Accidental Republic"
Andy Robinson – "Putting It Together: From Stage to Audience"
Wanda Corn – "The Three Lives of Grant Wood's American Gothic"
Robert Alter – "The Challenge of Translating the Bible"
Joan Waugh – "Ulysses S. Grant: When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend"
Paul O'Reilly – "Does Religious Faith Delude Reason?"