UCLA Conversations with Prof. Sara Melzer

Sponsored by the UCLA Emeriti Association and the UCLA Retirees Association.

The Emeriti and Retirees Associations invite you to an insightful UCLA Conversation with Sara Melzer on mindfulness and how mindfulness can improve our lives. Professor Melzer is currently writing two books, one about mindfulness and photography, and a second on mindfulness and tango. She is a professor emeritus of French and Francophone Studies, whose research expertise includes French colonialism in the Classical age and understanding contemporary France through the Classical age. She integrated mindfulness techniques into her teaching of several courses in the Humanities. Professor Melzer is a certified mindfulness coach and has wise insights on topics including how mindfulness can improve not only our focus, but also our relationships and our health.

Sara Melzer is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles whose primary research focus includes French colonialism in the Classical age and understanding contemporary France through the Classical age. She is the author of Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal’s Pensées and coeditor of From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France.

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