Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s award-winning and widely influential book, The Sea Around Us, an interdisciplinary group of Indigenous culture bearers, scientists, artists, and ocean storytellers will address the legacy of DDT+, industrial, and radioactive...
"Ambivalence and the Politics of Form: Literary Experiment and the Question of Representation, 1970-2000."
Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. She discusses her new memoir in conversation with UCLA colleagues, Hannah Jakobsen (Comp Lit), Rachel Lee (English/Gender Studies/Institute of Society & Genetics) & Michael Rothberg (English/Comp Lit). Sponsored by the Working Group in Memory Studies & the Abolition Medicine & Disability...
Post-screening conversation with UCLA English Professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey, UCLA Design Media Arts Professor Rebeca Méndez, and the film’s co-director, investigative journalist Rosanna Xia. Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. From the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia, Out of Plain Sight is...