10 QUESTIONS: WHAT IS TIME?

Giving community members a special opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at the university, this fall the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture presents “10 Questions,” a hybrid academic course and public event series that brings together leading minds from across the university to discuss ten fundamental questions.

This week, Rebeca Méndez, James Newton, Asma Sayeed, and Scott Waugh, will join Brett Steele, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture to explore the question, “What is Time?”

Rebeca Méndez, designer and media artist
Professor, Department of Design|Media Arts

James Newton, composer, flutist, conductor
Distinguished Professor, Department of Ethnomusicology

Asma Sayeed, scholar of Islamic studies
Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Program Director, Islamic Studies

Scott Waugh, UCLA executive vice chancellor and provost
Professor, Department of History