Emeriti Events Calendar

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

• Thursday, October 9, 2025 – Register
  Ruth Iskin, art historian and author, will discuss her latest book Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Trans-Atlantic Legacy.Rather than defining her as either an American artist or a French impressionist, Ruth Iskin argues that we can best understand Cassatt through the complexity of her multiple identifications as an American patriot, a committed French impressionist, and a suffragist.

• Wednesday, October 15, 2025 – Register
  Cori Close, the Michael Price Family UCLA Women’s Head Basketball Coach, selected as the 2025 Naismith Coach of the Year, will discuss women’s basketball, her team’s program, and her teaching and mentoring of young women.

Quarterly Dinners

UCLA Emeriti Awards Presentation, Fall Dinner, and Conversation
Tuesday, October 21, 2025: 4:45 – 8:30 pm, UCLA University Club
Dinner reservations ; note: Reservations for dinner must be received by 5:00 pm, Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Dinner tickets must be purchased in advance; no onsite dinner reservations

• 4:45 pm – Reception
• 5:00 pm – Awards Presentation – 2024-2025 Dickson awardees Marvin C. Alkin (Education) and Walter Gekelman (Physics and Astronomy) and Carol E. Goldberg awardee Robert Gurval (Classics); details – Featured Emeriti & Interviews
• 6:00 pm – Buffet Dinner
• 7:00 pm – Conversation with UCLA Professor Dino Di Carlo on the impact of deep federal budget cuts on research, his laboratory’s major research findings and their potential health benefits led by Stuart Wolpert, EA Program Chair. Professor Di Carlo is Chair of Bioengineering and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and a member of both the California NanoSystems Institute and the Jonsson Cancer Center.

Save the Date(s)

• Tuesday, May 19, 2026
  UCLA Emeriti/Retiree Arts & Crafts Exhibit

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, 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

For 2025-2026, 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.