Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Why History Matters: Storytelling on Screen

A conversation about historical imagination and the power of film as public history.

featuring

Ana Isabel Fernández
Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media

Miloš Jovanović
Assistant Professor, UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History

Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Founding Director and Chair, UCLA David C. Copley Center for Costume Design
Distinguished Professor, UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media

Phyllis Nagy
Professor, UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media

moderated by

Jamie Kreiner
Professor and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History

with introductory remarks by

Kevin Terraciano
Chair and Professor
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History