Emeriti Events Calendar

UCLA Conversations with…, an After-Lunch Program series*
Thursdays, 1:30 pm - 3 pm, UCLA Faculty Club
*sponsored by the UCLA Emeriti Association and the UCLA Retirees Association (UCLARA)
Stuart Wolpert, Host and EA Program Committee Chair

• Thursday, May 8, 2025
  Darnell Hunt, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, will discuss topics including UCLA’s Strategic Plan; UCLA’s recent acquisitions in Palos Verdes, Downtown LA, and former Westside Pavilion; Hollywood Diversity Report research; and experiences as Interim Chancellor.
  Recording

• Thursday, January 30, 2025
  Piano recitals by and conversations with Grace Chen and Terry Hsu, students of Inna Faliks, Professor and Head, Piano Department, Herb Alpert School of Music.
  Recording

• Thursday, November 7, 2024
  Judith F. Baca, UCLA Professor Emeritus and one of America’s leading visual artists will engage in a conversation led by host Rosina Becerra, UCLA Professor Emeritus, Social Work and Ethnomusicology. Professor Baca has been creating outstanding public art for four decades. Her public murals focus on revealing and reconciling diverse peoples’ struggles for their rights and reflect the lives and concerns of populations that have been historically disenfranchised, including women, the working poor, youth, the elderly and immigrant communities, throughout Los Angeles, nationally and internationally.
  Recording

Quarterly Dinners

• UCLA Emeriti Spring Dinner, UCLA Faculty Club
  Thursday, May 15, 2025 - Recording
  UCLA Conversations: "The Molecular Basis of Aging and Dementia"
  Conversation with David Eisenberg, Paul D. Boyer Professor of Molecular Biology, and Steven Clarke, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, on topics related to the biochemistry of human aging including protein damage and repair, amyloid fibrils, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, protein structures, and neuron deaths.
• UCLA Emeriti Winter Dinner, UCLA Faculty Club
  Tuesday, February 19, 2025 4:45 pm – 8:30 pm
  Conversation with William Ouchi, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, AGSM, and author of several books including Theory Z; Making Schools Work; and The Secret of TSL, led by Daniel Mitchell, Professor Emeritus, AGSM and Luskin School of Public Affairs.
• UCLA Emeriti Fall Dinner and Awards Presentation, UCLA Faculty Club
  Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 4:45 pm – 8:30 pm
  “The Promise, Peril, and Implications of Artificial Intelligence”, a conversation with Jens Palsberg, UCLA Professor of Computer Science and Jacob Foster, a computational social scientist, currently Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science, Indiana University, and formerly UCLA Professor of Sociology, 2013-2024. This fall he is leading a program on natural and artificial intelligences at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.

Save the Date(s):

• Tuesday, May 20, 2025
  UCLA Emeriti/Retiree Arts & Crafts Exhibit

• Saturday, May 03, 2025 10:00 AM+ (in person)
  ERRC Community Shred Event
  Behind Murphy Hall – Lot A

UCLA Conversations with…, an After-Lunch Program series*
Thursdays, 1:30 pm - 3 pm, UCLA Faculty Club
*sponsored by the UCLA Emeriti Association and the UCLA Retirees Association (UCLARA)
Stuart Wolpert, Host and EA Program Committee Chair

• Thursday, September 14, 2023
  Alan Castel, psychology professor and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging, discussed lessons he has learned from his research and from the personal accounts of older Americans, including John Wooden, UCLA professor Jared Diamond, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Maya Angelou, Warren Buffett, Vin Scully and Bob Newhart.
  Post-conversation Recording
• Thursday, October 12, 2023
  David Schaberg, professor of Asian languages and cultures, a former dean of the UCLA College Division of Humanities from 2011 to 2022, will discuss the role of the humanities in the training of students and the making of societies.
  Post-conversation recording
• Thursday, December 7, 2023 - CANCELLED
  Christel Aragon, director of UCLA Alumni Travel, and Dolores Dyer, director of travel for the UCLA Retirees Association, will answer questions about the UCLA Alumni Travel and UC Retirees Travel programs.
• Thursday, January 11, 2024
  Inna Faliks, professor and head of the piano department at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, will perform on the Faculty Club’s Steinway B piano and read from her new memoir, Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.
  Post conversation recording

• Thursday, March 7, 2024
  Christel Aragon, director of UCLA Alumni Travel, and Dolores Dyer, director of travel for the UCLA Retirees Association, will answer questions about the UCLA Alumni Travel and UC Retirees Travel programs.
  Post conversation recording

• Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (note Wednesday date)​​​​​​
  Sara Melzer, professor emeritus of French and Francophone studies, will speak about mindfulness and how it can improve people’s relationships, health and lives.
  Post conversation recording
• Thursday, April 11, 2024
  Ming Guo, UCLA’s Laurie and Steven C. Gordon Professor of Neurosciences is a professor of neurology, molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the NIH-funded Aging Center, will discuss aging and the brain.
  Post conversation recording

• Thursday, May 30, 2024
  Christopher Kelty, UCLA Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics and the departments of Information Studies and Anthropology, and director of the Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrative and AI, and Daniel Snelson, a UCLA assistant professor of English and design media arts and a writer, editor and archivist will discuss the implications of artificial intelligence, including how it may impact creativity, art, culture, education, jobs and more.
  Post conversation recording

​​​​​​Quarterly Dinners

• UCLA Emeriti Spring Dinner, UCLA Faculty Club
  Wednesday, May 15, 4:45 pm – 8 pm – CANCELLED
• UCLA Emeriti Winter Dinner, UCLA Faculty Club
  Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 4:45 pm – 8:30 pm
  UCLA Conversation as Lynn Vavreck, UCLA’s Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy, discusses presidential elections including the 2024 election plus political campaigns and public opinion
• UCLA Emeriti Fall Dinner, UCLA Faculty Club
  Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 4:45 pm - 8:30 pm
  UCLA Conversation on "The Art of Teaching"with Neil Garg, Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA

​Save the Date(s):

• Thursday, September 21, 2023, an ERRC program
  LA Parking, Donald Shoup, Distinguished Research Professor, Urban Planning, UCLA
  10:00 am - 11:30 am via Zoom
  Recording

• Thursday, March 7, 2024
  135th Faculty Research Lecture
  Schoenberg Hall
  3 pm - 5:30 pm
  Lecturer: Dana Cuff, Professor, Architecture and Urban Design Department, Urban Humanities Initiative, and Urban Planning Director, cityLAB - UCLA
  "Architecture’s Promise: Designing Equitable Futures"
  Recording

• Saturday, April 13, 2024​​​​​​
  ERRC Community Shred Event
  10:00 AM (in-person)
  Behind Murphy Hall – Lot A

• Friday, April 19, 2024
  136th Faculty Research Lecture
  Schoenberg Hall
  3 pm - 5:30 pm
  Lecturer: Dan Geschwind, Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor, Neurology Psychiatry and Human Genetics, Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor, Precision Health
  "The DNA of Discovery: How Genetics Has Transformed our Understanding of Complex Brain Disorders"
  Professor Geschwind will discuss progress in understanding the causes of complex brain disorders, focusing on autism and related neuropsychiatric conditions.
  Recording
• Friday, May 17, 2024
  Town Hall about UCLA Email Storage
  10 am - 11 am via Zoom
  Info on how to Check Your Usage
  Recording
  Slides (pdf)
• Tuesday, May 21, 2024
  UCLA Emeriti/Retiree Arts & Crafts Exhibit
  Faculty Club, Morrison Room
  11 am – 4 pm
  The Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti/Retiree Arts & Crafts Exhibit, first joint exhibit sponsored by the two organizations, features 20+ emeriti and retiree artists. Their works include a wide range of media from photography, drawing and painting to sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, weaving and calligraphy.
  Featured artists are Jill Waterman, a watercolor artist from the Emeriti Association and Michelle Shin, a landscape painter representing the Retiree Association.

For 2024-2025, Emeriti Association programming will be offered in-person and/or Zoom. Watch for any updates closer to the event date. To ensure that you receive invitations and the opportunity to sign up for in-person events and Zoom sessions, provide the ERRC (Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center) with your current email address. Write emeriti@errc.ucla.edu or call the ERRC at 310-825-7456 and leave a message.