Monday October 5
National Pan-Hellenic Council Informationals
Mon 10/5 - Fri 10/9
The fraternities and sororities that make up the "Divine Nine" of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) conduct membership intake at a time of a chapter's choosing. Chapters will typically host informational sessions during the fall quarter and then invite interested students to join during the winter or spring quarters. Most chapters also require a university GPA to join. Individual chapters have their own processes for membership intake so please contact the chapter(s) you may be interested in joining directly for additional information. NPHC will be hosting a "Meet the Greeks" event during week 2 in fall.
Tuesday October 6
National Pan-Hellenic Council Informationals
Mon 10/5 - Fri 10/9
The fraternities and sororities that make up the "Divine Nine" of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) conduct membership intake at a time of a chapter's choosing. Chapters will typically host informational sessions during the fall quarter and then invite interested students to join during the winter or spring quarters. Most chapters also require a university GPA to join. Individual chapters have their own processes for membership intake so please contact the chapter(s) you may be interested in joining directly for additional information. NPHC will be hosting a "Meet the Greeks" event during week 2 in fall.
Wednesday October 7
National Pan-Hellenic Council Informationals
Mon 10/5 - Fri 10/9
The fraternities and sororities that make up the "Divine Nine" of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) conduct membership intake at a time of a chapter's choosing. Chapters will typically host informational sessions during the fall quarter and then invite interested students to join during the winter or spring quarters. Most chapters also require a university GPA to join. Individual chapters have their own processes for membership intake so please contact the chapter(s) you may be interested in joining directly for additional information. NPHC will be hosting a "Meet the Greeks" event during week 2 in fall.
Thursday October 8
National Pan-Hellenic Council Informationals
Mon 10/5 - Fri 10/9
The fraternities and sororities that make up the "Divine Nine" of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) conduct membership intake at a time of a chapter's choosing. Chapters will typically host informational sessions during the fall quarter and then invite interested students to join during the winter or spring quarters. Most chapters also require a university GPA to join. Individual chapters have their own processes for membership intake so please contact the chapter(s) you may be interested in joining directly for additional information. NPHC will be hosting a "Meet the Greeks" event during week 2 in fall.
Friday October 9
National Pan-Hellenic Council Informationals
Mon 10/5 - Fri 10/9
The fraternities and sororities that make up the "Divine Nine" of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) conduct membership intake at a time of a chapter's choosing. Chapters will typically host informational sessions during the fall quarter and then invite interested students to join during the winter or spring quarters. Most chapters also require a university GPA to join. Individual chapters have their own processes for membership intake so please contact the chapter(s) you may be interested in joining directly for additional information. NPHC will be hosting a "Meet the Greeks" event during week 2 in fall.
Monday October 12
Indigenous Peoples Day 2026
Mon 10/12
Bruin Walk
This year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration will feature a banner display and Native community/cultural programming led by the American Indian Student Association (AISA).
Thursday October 15
Annual Black Convocation
Thu 10/15 • 5PM - 7PM PDT RSVP
Carnesale Commons, Palisades Room
Join us for an evening of community, food, and celebration! Enjoy student performances, connect with peers and faculty, and explore resources that support the Bruin community.
Wednesday October 28
Cookbook of Cultures Submissions (International Education Week 2026)
Wed 10/28 RSVP
Do you have a favorite dish from home? Do you want to share it with your fellow Bruins? The Dashew Center is now accepting submissions for the second edition of our learning and cultural exchange opportunity, A Cookbook of Cultures, filled with recipes from Bruins from all around the world! Submissions will be collected through our online form and will be published in this year's digital Cookbook of Cultures, coinciding with International Education Week from November 16 - 20. There is a limit of 2 recipes per person, and full details can be found on the form.
Saturday November 14
Memory Rehearsal Presentation by Eleni Sikelianos, Poet
Sat 11/14 • 4PM - 6PM PST
314 Royce Hall
In 1901, Eva Palmer abandoned her life as a privileged New York socialite, moving to Paris with her lover, the writer and salonist, Natalie Barney. The two Americans became the center of a wild tangle of lesbian love affairs and backyard performances based on intentional reimaginings of Sappho’s work and life. A chance encounter led Eva to Greece, where she married Angelos Sikelianos, a visionary poet who would become a Greek national hero. Celebrated American poet Eleni Sikelianos grew up knowing little of these illustrious ancestors, her great grandparents, who, in the early 20th century staged a revival of the ancient Delphic festivals, convinced that it would open a path to world peace. It was not until the age of 20, on her first trip to Greece, that she encountered the breadth of their legacy. In her new book, "Memory Rehearsal" (City Lights, 2026), Sikelianos unearths the story of her search for these pioneering ancestors, in a text that shifts between prose, poetry, imaginary performance texts, fiction, and nonfiction, with archival and family photographs. Eleni will read from and discuss "Memory Rehearsal," which "Kirkus" calls a “moving family memoir and a triumph of cultural archaeology.” Eleni Sikelianos was born into a family of tree workers, bohemians, poets, ne’er-do-wells, visionaries, and smalltime sort-of hustlers. She is a poet, writer, collaborator, and “master of mixing genres.” As a student of the poets of Naropa, she is a lineage-holder in the Outrider poetics family tree. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral work. She has published ten books of poetry (most recently, "Your Kingdom," 2023) and a trilogy of unclassifiable hybrid works, sometimes called nonfiction, sometimes memoirs, sometimes fiction: "The Book of Jon" and "You Animal Machine," and, most recently, "Memory Rehearsal" (City Lights, 2026). "Memory Rehearsal," called “a triumph of cultural archaeology” in a starred Kirkus review and named One of "Publishers Weekly’s" Most Anticipated Books for 2026, is a genre-busting encounter between a poet and her ancestral past documenting a startling intersection of queer history, ancient theater, utopian visions, and modern poetry. Among other honors, she has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Fulbright Artists fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in nonfiction. She grew up in earshot of the ocean, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara, and has since lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Boulder (Colorado), and Providence. "Memory Rehearsal" will be available for purchase at the event! All major credit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay are accepted. Cash is also accepted with exact change only. This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).