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SUMMARY:Year-End Reception
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/year-end-reception/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230606T173000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Party Featuring Author in Residence Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the end of spring quarter with a party and reading featuring Author in Residence\, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. \nDrinks and light refreshments will be served. \nSarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels\, Ms. Hempel Chronicles\, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award\, and Madeleine Is Sleeping\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies\, including the New Yorker\, Ploughshares\, Tin House\, the Best American Short Stories\, and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her most recent book\, the story collection Likes\, was a finalist for the Story Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-party-featuring-author-in-residence-sarah-shun-lien-bynum/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230606T170000
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SUMMARY:Spring Athenaeum
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce that the Spring Athenaeum is back! Please mark your calendars for Tuesday\, June 6 at 5PM in Kaplan 193. Erica Weaver will present a paper entitled “The Limits of Attention” and Kersti Francis will present “A Queer Science? Masturbatory Alchemy in Early Modern England\,” with Sarah Kareem as respondent. Each presentation will be roughly twenty minutes\, and there will be time for questions following Sarah’s response. Please come celebrate the wonderful research our colleagues have been working on\, enjoy some yummy snacks\, and toast to the end of the 2022-2023 academic year!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/spring-athenaeum-2/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230602T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230602T183000
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SUMMARY:English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
DESCRIPTION:Questions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/english-and-writing-programs-honors-and-awards-reception-2/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230602T100000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-25/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230531T134000
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SUMMARY:Department of English Honors Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Department of English Honors Showcase will take place on Wednesday\, May 31 at 1:40pm – 5pm in Kaplan Hall 193. Please join our 2022-2023 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will speak about the process of crafting their honors theses over the past year. Both critical research and creative works will be featured. Light refreshments will be served. \nView the program below or download the program here. \nWednesday\, May 31 at 1:40pm – 5pm \nShowcase Program \nGreetings and Introductions \nProfessor Sarah Kareem \nStudent Presentations \n2:00 PM – Allyson Roche \n2:15 PM – Kayleigh Morrisey \n2:30 PM – Justin Huwe \n2:45 PM – Kelsey Chan \n3:00 PM – Jolie Sukonik \n3:15 PM – BREAK \n3:30 PM – Tyler Maher \n3:45 PM – Jade Lacy \n4:00 PM – Gabby Bromberg \n4:15 PM – Jessica Wong \n4:30 PM – Ashley Kim \n4:45 PM – Rosemary Galloway
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/department-of-english-honors-showcase-2/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T160000
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SUMMARY:ARC: Kathleen Donegan (UC Berkeley)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-kathleen-donegan-uc-berkeley/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T091500
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SUMMARY:2023 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! \nWednesday\, May 24 at 9:15am to 5:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 \nThe Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The event is held annually during UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Week. \nThe 2023 conference will feature 6 student panels\, with each panel moderated by a Dept. of English faculty member. Please see the program below for a full schedule. \nACES 2023 Final Program
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/2023-academic-conference-for-english-students-aces/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T190000
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SUMMARY:How to Queer the World: Queer Worldbuilding in Video Games and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for our first Text/Tech event: How to Queer the World: Queer Worldbuilding in Video Games and Beyond\, featuring Bo Ruberg. \nBo Ruberg\, PhD (they/them) is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and affiliate faculty in the Department of Informatics at the University of California\, Irvine. They are the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Their research explores gender and sexuality in digital media. They are the author of three monographs: Video Games Have Always Been Queer (NYU Press\, 2019)\, The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, and Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (MIT Press\, 2022). They are also the co-editor of Queer Game Studies (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017) and Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture (MIT Press\, 2023).
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/how-to-queer-the-world-queer-worldbuilding-in-video-games-and-beyond/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230520T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230520T140000
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SUMMARY:Elemental Readings I: Air
DESCRIPTION:A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference\, co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English\, UCLA. May 19th – 20th\, 2023. \nRegister here to attend. \nOrganizers: Louise Hornby (English) & Alex Purves (Classics) \nKeynote Speaker: John Durham Peters\, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies\, Yale University. \nConfirmed Speakers/Participants\nShane Butler\, Johns Hopkins University\nElizabeth DeLoughrey\, UCLA\nKatharine Earnshaw\, University of Exeter\nLouise Hornby\, UCLA\nHsuan Hsu\, UC Davis\nEleanor Kaufman\, UCLA\nKarla Nielson\, Huntington Library\nJohn Durham Peters\, Yale University\nJustine Pizzo\, University of Southampton\nVerity Platt\, Cornell University\nJames Porter\, UC Berkeley\nAlex Purves\, UCLA\nMario Telò\, UC Berkeley\nBen Tran\, Vanderbilt University\nVictoria Wohl\, University of Toronto\nDora Zhang\, UC Berkeley \nRecent work across a range of fields in the humanities and arts\, as well as in environmental\, media and digital studies\, has paid increasing attention to the role of the elements in shaping our experience and understanding of the world. This conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are seeking to redefine the role of air\, atmosphere\, and the weather in traditionally non-scientific media (predominantly poetry\, writing\, music\, photography\, and film). The topic invites discussion of the mutability of weather as an invisible ontology (and marker of climate change) as well as discussions of atmosphere (whose porous and unfinished nature embraces a broad range of entities\, from modes of knowing and feeling\, to the stuff we breathe\, to outer space). In each of these cases\, air’s mediating possibilities across fields\, materials\, and periods are especially rich for collaboration and the exchange of ideas. \nOur conference seeks fruitful points of contact between two colleagues in English and Classics at UCLA\, who both work on air and the elements\, joining with scholars from media studies\, art history and environmental humanities\, for a multifaceted discussion of a common object. \nMore information on the conference will appear shortly\, including links to register. The conference will be on site only. Please send any enquiries to purves@g.ucla.edu \nProvisional Schedule (not final) \nFriday\, May 19th \n12:00-1:00 Lunch \n1:20 Opening Remarks \nLouise Hornby & Alex Purves \n1:30-3:30 Panel 1: Sentient Air \nHsuan Hsu\, “Smellscape as Distributed Memory” \nVictoria Wohl\, “Intelligent Air” \nResponse: Dora Zhang \n3:30 Coffee Break \n4-5:30 Keynote \nJohn Durham Peters\, “On Sensing and not Sensing the Air and the Weather” \n6pm Dinner \nSaturday\, May 20th \n8:00 am Breakfast \n8:30-10:45 Panel 2: Meteorologies \nVerity Platt\, “Air in Unexpected Places: Foam\, Breath\, and Philostratus’ Truth in Painting” \nKatharine Earnshaw\, “Thought Bubbles and Feeling Blue (or\, Micromeditations on affective Chromacities)” \nJustine Pizzo\, “Character Studies and the Changing Climate of Victorian Realist Fiction” \nResponse: Karla Nielson \n10:45 Coffee break \n11-12.45 Panel 3: Violence in the Air \nBen Tran\, “Unburied Sound and the Atmosphere” \nMario Telò\, “Achrony and Aeropolitics in Aulis” \nResponse: Liz DeLoughrey \n1-2 Lunch \n2- 4:15 Panel 4: Ambience \nShane Butler\, “Ovidian Atmospheres” \nEleanor Kaufman\, “Mudimbe’s Air in French Philosophy” \nResponse: Jim Porter \n4:30-5 Closing Remarks \nLouise Hornby & Alex Purves \n6pm Dinner
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/elemental-readings-i-air-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230520T140000
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SUMMARY:Elemental Readings I: Air
DESCRIPTION:A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference\, co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English\, UCLA. May 19th – 20th\, 2023. \nRegister here to attend. \nOrganizers: Louise Hornby (English) & Alex Purves (Classics) \nKeynote Speaker: John Durham Peters\, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies\, Yale University. \nConfirmed Speakers/Participants\nShane Butler\, Johns Hopkins University\nElizabeth DeLoughrey\, UCLA\nKatharine Earnshaw\, University of Exeter\nLouise Hornby\, UCLA\nHsuan Hsu\, UC Davis\nEleanor Kaufman\, UCLA\nKarla Nielson\, Huntington Library\nJohn Durham Peters\, Yale University\nJustine Pizzo\, University of Southampton\nVerity Platt\, Cornell University\nJames Porter\, UC Berkeley\nAlex Purves\, UCLA\nMario Telò\, UC Berkeley\nBen Tran\, Vanderbilt University\nVictoria Wohl\, University of Toronto\nDora Zhang\, UC Berkeley \nRecent work across a range of fields in the humanities and arts\, as well as in environmental\, media and digital studies\, has paid increasing attention to the role of the elements in shaping our experience and understanding of the world. This conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are seeking to redefine the role of air\, atmosphere\, and the weather in traditionally non-scientific media (predominantly poetry\, writing\, music\, photography\, and film). The topic invites discussion of the mutability of weather as an invisible ontology (and marker of climate change) as well as discussions of atmosphere (whose porous and unfinished nature embraces a broad range of entities\, from modes of knowing and feeling\, to the stuff we breathe\, to outer space). In each of these cases\, air’s mediating possibilities across fields\, materials\, and periods are especially rich for collaboration and the exchange of ideas. \nOur conference seeks fruitful points of contact between two colleagues in English and Classics at UCLA\, who both work on air and the elements\, joining with scholars from media studies\, art history and environmental humanities\, for a multifaceted discussion of a common object. \nMore information on the conference will appear shortly\, including links to register. The conference will be on site only. Please send any enquiries to purves@g.ucla.edu \nProvisional Schedule (not final) \nFriday\, May 19th \n12:00-1:00 Lunch \n1:20 Opening Remarks \nLouise Hornby & Alex Purves \n1:30-3:30 Panel 1: Sentient Air \nHsuan Hsu\, “Smellscape as Distributed Memory” \nVictoria Wohl\, “Intelligent Air” \nResponse: Dora Zhang \n3:30 Coffee Break \n4-5:30 Keynote \nJohn Durham Peters\, “On Sensing and not Sensing the Air and the Weather” \n6pm Dinner \nSaturday\, May 20th \n8:00 am Breakfast \n8:30-10:45 Panel 2: Meteorologies \nVerity Platt\, “Air in Unexpected Places: Foam\, Breath\, and Philostratus’ Truth in Painting” \nKatharine Earnshaw\, “Thought Bubbles and Feeling Blue (or\, Micromeditations on affective Chromacities)” \nJustine Pizzo\, “Character Studies and the Changing Climate of Victorian Realist Fiction” \nResponse: Karla Nielson \n10:45 Coffee break \n11-12.45 Panel 3: Violence in the Air \nBen Tran\, “Unburied Sound and the Atmosphere” \nMario Telò\, “Achrony and Aeropolitics in Aulis” \nResponse: Liz DeLoughrey \n1-2 Lunch \n2- 4:15 Panel 4: Ambience \nShane Butler\, “Ovidian Atmospheres” \nEleanor Kaufman\, “Mudimbe’s Air in French Philosophy” \nResponse: Jim Porter \n4:30-5 Closing Remarks \nLouise Hornby & Alex Purves \n6pm Dinner
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/elemental-readings-i-air/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230518T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230518T190000
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SUMMARY:The Americas Archive: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a conversation featuring Carmen E. Lamas\, Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Professor Lamas will be in conversation with UCLA English and Chicana/o Studies Professor Marissa López to discuss the temporal\, geographic\, ideological\, and speculative archives that emerge from the study of nineteenth-century Latina/o texts and how these texts invite scholars to navigate and imagine different methodological approaches and archival formations. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Professor López. \nRegister here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. \nCarmen E. Lamas is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her book The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature\, Translation\, and Historiography (Oxford 2021) explores nineteenth-century Latina/o history\, literature\, and translation from a hemispheric perspective. Her second book Irene Albar. Novela cubana (1885\, 1886) por Eusebio Guiteras. Edición facsímil was published this Spring 2023 by Editorial Calambur (Valencia\, Spain) and examines the trans-American and trans-Atlantic nature of nineteenth-century Latina/o lives and texts. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-americas-archive-a-conversation/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T140000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233415Z
CREATED:20260824T233415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233415Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Lunch with Carmen E. Lamas
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-student-lunch-with-carmen-e-lamas/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T190000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233151Z
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SUMMARY:Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Textbooks and US American Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Carmen E. Lamas\, Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. The Spanish-language textbook is a much overlooked and even maligned nineteenth-century genre\, yet it is of upmost importance for understanding US American literature in the nineteenth century. Composed mainly by Latina/o authors these textbooks are not monomodal pedagogical devices: they are integral to US American literary history\, and their Latina/o origins and legacies can be traced to the present day. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Marissa López\, Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. \nRegister here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. \nCarmen E. Lamas is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her book The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature\, Translation\, and Historiography (Oxford 2021) explores nineteenth-century Latina/o history\, literature\, and translation from a hemispheric perspective. Her second book Irene Albar. Novela cubana (1885\, 1886) por Eusebio Guiteras. Edición facsímil was published this Spring 2023 by Editorial Calambur (Valencia\, Spain) and examines the trans-American and trans-Atlantic nature of nineteenth-century Latina/o lives and texts. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/nineteenth-century-spanish-language-textbooks-and-us-american-literature/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233215Z
CREATED:20260824T233215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233215Z
UID:10000333-1683885600-1683892800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-41/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T213000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233415Z
CREATED:20260824T233415Z
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SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Sigrid Nunez
DESCRIPTION:National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez shares her most recent novel What Are You Going Through\, a meditation on friendship\, empathy\, and what it means to die well. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-sigrid-nunez/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T190000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233415Z
CREATED:20260824T233415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233415Z
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SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation: Sigrid Nunez
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: \nTea and Conversation with Sigrid Nunez \nSigrid Nunez will discuss her writing. \nThis event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Sigrid Nunez at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. \nBoth events are free and open to the public. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/tea-and-conversation-sigrid-nunez/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233530Z
CREATED:20260824T233530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233530Z
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SUMMARY:A Talk and Welcome Reception Featuring David Russell
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a talk and reception welcoming Associate Professor David Russell\, who joined our department this spring. \nProfessor Russell’s talk\, Art Therapy: Marion Milner’s Essays in Psychoanalysis\, will read the fascinating modernist diaries of the essayist\, painter and psychoanalyst\, Marion Milner\, in order to make the case for her distinctly literary approach to psychological therapy in twentieth-century Britain. It will take up Milner’s question of what it means to live creatively\, with particular attention to her own ways of using literature\, and her essayistic practice at the borders of literature and visual art. \nRegister here to attend. A reception will follow the event. \nDavid Russell is Associate Professor of English at UCLA. He was previously Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford (2015-2023)\, where he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College\, and Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London (2013-2015). \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/a-talk-and-welcome-reception-featuring-david-russell/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233541Z
CREATED:20260824T233541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233541Z
UID:10000421-1683284400-1683291600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-10/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233224Z
CREATED:20260824T233224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233224Z
UID:10000341-1683280800-1683288000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-24/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233325Z
CREATED:20260824T233325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233325Z
UID:10000375-1683216000-1683223200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ARC: Ajay Batra (USC)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-ajay-batra-usc/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233530Z
CREATED:20260824T233530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233530Z
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion & Celebration: Mona Simpson’s Commitment
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Professor Mona Simpson’s new novel\, Commitment. \nCommitment is a resonant novel about family and duty and the attendant struggles that come when a parent falls ill. The novel honors the spirit of fragile\, imperfect mothers and the under-chronicled significance of friends\, in determining the lives of our children left on their own. With Commitment\, Mona Simpson\, one of the foremost chroniclers of the American family in our time\, has written her most important and unforgettable novel. \nCreative writing colleagues Justin Torres\, Fred D’Aguiar\, and Michelle Huneven will lead the discussion. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate Mona and her new work! \nRegister here to attend. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/book-discussion-celebration-mona-simpsons-commitment/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T213000
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UID:10000406-1682623800-1682631000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Mona Simpson
DESCRIPTION:Author and UCLA English Professor Mona Simpson reads from her latest release\, Commitment\, a masterful novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state mental hospital in the 1970s. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-mona-simpson/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T143000
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UID:10000408-1682598600-1682605800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Queer Victorian Histories
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US FOR A VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION \nTHURSDAY\, APRIL 27\n12:30pm-2:30pm PDT / 3:30pm-5:30pm EDT \nRegister to attend here. \nFEATURING THE AUTHORS: \nJOSEPH BRISTOW\n(University of California\, Los Angeles) \nSIMON JOYCE\n(College of William and Mary) \nKRISTIN MAHONEY\n(Michigan State University) \nModerated by Zarena Aslami\n(Michigan State University) \nIntroductions to their recently published books will be available in advance. \nPlease direct questions to Zarena Aslami: aslami@msu.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/queer-victorian-histories/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T190000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233530Z
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SUMMARY:ERR Author Series: Tara Ison
DESCRIPTION:The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading (ERR) Author Series is pleased to present a book talk and reading with Tara Ison. \nUCLA Department of English alum Tara Ison will read from her recent novel\, At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf\, and discuss writing\, publishing\, identity\, and more! \nAt the Hour Between Dog and Wolf\, a recent addition to the Shari Levitt Memorial Collection\, is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France\, living “in hiding” as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village. \nTara Ison is the author of the novels The List (Scribner)\, A Child out of Alcatraz (Faber & Faber\, Inc.)\, a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and Rockaway (Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press)\, featured as one of the “Best Books of Summer” in O\, The Oprah Magazine\, July 2013. Her essay collection\, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live\, Love\, and Die at the Movies\, Winner of the PEN Southwest Book Award for Best Creative Nonfiction\, and her short story collection Ball\, were both published in 2015 by Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-author-series-tara-ison/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T143000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233454Z
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UID:10000415-1682083800-1682087400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mini Conference with Mihaela Mihai & Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce a series of in-person events with the political theorist Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) sponsored by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Professor Mihai will be in residence the week of April 17-21 and will give a public lecture\, lead a seminar\, and respond to graduate students in a mini-conference. These events will all take place under the rubric of “Landscapes of Political Memory.” Professor Mihai will also be available for one-on-one meetings with graduate students or anyone else who would like to talk with her about relevant issues. Please contact Michael Rothberg if you would like to set up a time to meet (mrothberg@humnet.ucla.edu). \nAll the necessary readings for the reading group session and seminar are available in our Box folder. All events will take place in Kaplan Hall 193\, except for the Friday morning seminar\, which will take place in Kaplan Hall 348. \nTuesday\, April 11 at 1:00-2:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Reading Group Session \nFor this session\, we will familiarize ourselves further with Mihai’s work by reading the introduction and first chapter of her recent book Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance as well as a forthcoming essay from the journal Memory Studies on environmental commemoration. All necessary readings for the reading group session are available in our Box folder. \nWednesday\, April 19 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Representing Environmental Grief \nDespite growing public concern\, environmental loss—accumulating more-than-human deaths\, extinct species\, ravaged ecosystems—is mostly grieved by environmental scientists\, activists\, victims\, and witnesses of devastation. Thus\, over the last decade\, numerous autobiographical texts have chronicled environmental grief and attested to a temporal gulf between those who inhabit the accelerating catastrophe and condemn the slow pace of redress\, and those trapped in a “business-as-usual” temporality. Building on constructivist theories of representation and political theorists’ engagements with autobiography\, Mihai reads these texts as sources of self-authorized representative claims targeting two objectives: first\, to summon the already grieving into a constituency of shared experience built around a vision of grief compatible with both hope and action; second\, to bridge the “segregated temporalities” of hegemonic time and that of environmental activists\, scientists and survivors. \nFriday\, April 21 at 10:00am – 12:00pm in Kaplan Hall 348: Seminar – Architecture\, Political Violence\, and Collective Memory \nFor this seminar\, there will be two readings on architecture\, political violence\, and memory\, also available in our Box folder. This event will be held in Kaplan Hall 348 and will be followed by lunch. \nFriday\, April 21 at 1:30pm – 3:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Mini Conference \nFollowing the seminar on Friday afternoon\, three UCLA graduate students\, Yair Agmon (Information Studies)\, Ivanna Berrios (Comparative Literature)\, and Naomi Ellis (Political Science) will be presenting short papers in a mini-conference.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/mini-conference-with-mihaela-mihai-graduate-students/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T140000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233254Z
CREATED:20260824T233254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233254Z
UID:10000356-1682078400-1682085600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Creative Writing Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-committee-meeting-3/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233427Z
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UID:10000403-1682074800-1682082000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:20/21 Reading Group: Contingency and Form
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 21st\, the 20/21 Working Group will host “Contingency and Form\,” a conversation with Noa Saunders (Boston University)\, Lucy Alford (Wake Forest)\, and Louise Hornby. The event will take place in person at 11am in Kaplan 193. \nPlease email Louise Hornby (lhornby@humnet.ucla.edu) for copies of the readings\, and feel free to invite colleagues\, students\, and anyone else who may be interested.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/20-21-reading-group-contingency-and-form/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233454Z
CREATED:20260824T233454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233454Z
UID:10000414-1682071200-1682078400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Seminar: Architecture\, Political Violence\, and Collective Memory
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce a series of in-person events with the political theorist Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) sponsored by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Professor Mihai will be in residence the week of April 17-21 and will give a public lecture\, lead a seminar\, and respond to graduate students in a mini-conference. These events will all take place under the rubric of “Landscapes of Political Memory.” Professor Mihai will also be available for one-on-one meetings with graduate students or anyone else who would like to talk with her about relevant issues. Please contact Michael Rothberg if you would like to set up a time to meet (mrothberg@humnet.ucla.edu). \nAll the necessary readings for the reading group session and seminar are available in our Box folder. All events will take place in Kaplan Hall 193\, except for the Friday morning seminar\, which will take place in Kaplan Hall 348. \nTuesday\, April 11 at 1:00-2:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Reading Group Session \nFor this session\, we will familiarize ourselves further with Mihai’s work by reading the introduction and first chapter of her recent book Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance as well as a forthcoming essay from the journal Memory Studies on environmental commemoration. All necessary readings for the reading group session are available in our Box folder. \nWednesday\, April 19 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Representing Environmental Grief \nDespite growing public concern\, environmental loss—accumulating more-than-human deaths\, extinct species\, ravaged ecosystems—is mostly grieved by environmental scientists\, activists\, victims\, and witnesses of devastation. Thus\, over the last decade\, numerous autobiographical texts have chronicled environmental grief and attested to a temporal gulf between those who inhabit the accelerating catastrophe and condemn the slow pace of redress\, and those trapped in a “business-as-usual” temporality. Building on constructivist theories of representation and political theorists’ engagements with autobiography\, Mihai reads these texts as sources of self-authorized representative claims targeting two objectives: first\, to summon the already grieving into a constituency of shared experience built around a vision of grief compatible with both hope and action; second\, to bridge the “segregated temporalities” of hegemonic time and that of environmental activists\, scientists and survivors. \nFriday\, April 21 at 10:00am – 12:00pm in Kaplan Hall 348: Seminar – Architecture\, Political Violence\, and Collective Memory \nFor this seminar\, there will be two readings on architecture\, political violence\, and memory\, also available in our Box folder. This event will be held in Kaplan Hall 348 and will be followed by lunch. \nFriday\, April 21 at 1:30pm – 3:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Mini Conference \nFollowing the seminar on Friday afternoon\, three UCLA graduate students\, Yair Agmon (Information Studies)\, Ivanna Berrios (Comparative Literature)\, and Naomi Ellis (Political Science) will be presenting short papers in a mini-conference.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/seminar-architecture-political-violence-and-collective-memory/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233245Z
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UID:10000353-1682071200-1682078400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ERR Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-committee-meeting-3/
LOCATION:CA
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