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SUMMARY:Out of Place: A Marathon Reading
DESCRIPTION:Following in a long tradition of marathon readings sponsored by the UCLA Department of English\, please join a 24-hour reading of Edward Said’s memoir\, Out of Place\, from Oct 1\, 9am – Oct 2\, 9am. \nThe event is co-sponsored by departments and units on campus including: \nAmerican Indian Studies Center\nAsian American Studies Center\nCenter for the Study of Women\, Streisand Center\nCesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies\nCritical Race Studies Program\nDepartment of African American Studies\nDepartment of Art History\nDepartment of Asian American Studies\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of European Languages and Transcultural Studies\nDepartment of Film\, Television\, and Digital Media\nDepartment of Gender Studies\nDepartment of History\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\nDepartment of World Arts and Cultures/Dance\nDisability Studies IDP\nLabor Studies Center\nLatino Policy and Politics Institute\nRalph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\nUCLA Voting Rights Project\nWorking Group in Memory Studies
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/out-of-place-a-marathon-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240925T090000
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SUMMARY:Welcome Week
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to welcome new Bruins and to welcome back familiar faces! \nThe Department of English will be hosting a number of info sessions on Wednesday\, September 25\, 2024. These sessions offer you the opportunity to learn more about specific programs within the department and to meet some of our faculty. We hope to see you there! \nWe encourage all of our students to register to attend the annual Humanities Welcome the afternoon of 9/25. \nLooking for more events? Check out the full True Bruin Welcome calendar here! \nInfo Session: Creative Writing with Professor Frederick D’AguiarWednesday\, 9/259 am to 9:30 amKaplan Hall 193 \nProfessor D’Aguiar will be available to answer your pressing questions about Creative Writing at UCLA. What are the workshops really like? How does the application process work? How can you develop your craft? Come and find out! \nMeet the Chair + London Summer Travel Study with Professor Saree Makdisi\nWednesday\, 9/25\n11 am to 11:30 am\nKaplan Hall 193 \nProfessor Saree Makdisi\, Chair of the Department of English\, leads one of our annual summer travel study programs. Stop by to learn more about summer travel with UCLA English and to meet our Chair! \nInfo Session: Departmental Honors Program with Professor Sarah Kareem\nWednesday\, 9/25\n11:30 am – 12 noon\nKaplan Hall 193 \nInterested in producing a senior honors thesis? Professor Kareem\, Director of Departmental Honors\, invites you to learn more about the departmental honors program. Applications open in January of the junior year–rising juniors and incoming transfer students are encouraged to attend. \nInfo Session: Minor in Professional Writing with Professor Michael Cohen\nWednesday\, 9/25\n4 pm – 4:30 pm\nKaplan 193 \nProfessor Cohen will be answering questions about this popular minor! Learn about the minor’s curriculum\, application process\, capstone experience\, and more. \nInfo Session: Florence Summer Travel Study with Professor Christopher Looby\nWednesday\, 9/25\n4:30 pm – 5 pm\nKaplan Hall 193 \nEnglish and American literatures can be studied around the world! Professor Christopher Looby\, program director\, looks forward to sharing information about summer travel study in Florence\, Italy.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/welcome-week/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T190000
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SUMMARY:The LA Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater
DESCRIPTION:The LA Escena Festival of Hispanic classical theater will be back September 12–17\, 2024. The fourth edition of Diversifying the Classics’ biennial festival will bring fresh takes on the comedia to UCLA’s newly renovated Nimoy Theater in Westwood\, Los Angeles.\nLA Escena is Los Angeles’ first Hispanic classical theater festival\, organized by UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics\, which is part of the Division of Humanities. Since the inaugural edition in 2018\, LA Escena has brought the best of Southern California theater together with acclaimed performers from around the world to celebrate the comedia in performance and adaptation. \nThis year LA Escena will offer productions at the Nimoy Theater by the internationally recognized Spanish theater company Grumelot\, three new adaptations from our popular Golden Tongues series\, and a new performance of our translation of Sor Juana’s Love is the Greater Labyrinth by director Sarah Grunnah. We will also be premiering our latest initiative\, Mex-Clásicos\, with three new versions of comedia by renowned Mexican theater artists\, along with Pedro Osuna’s musical transformation of Ana Caro’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs\, and theatre dybbuk’s “illuminated lecture” of Cervantes’ The Marvelous Puppet Show. To conclude the festival\, Red Bull Theater will present a virtual reading of Diversifying the Classics’ latest translation\, Lope de Vega’s The Beast of Hungary\, as a part of our ongoing collaboration\, Hispanic Golden Age Classics. \nSee full schedule at Diversifying the Classics.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-la-escena-festival-of-hispanic-classical-theater/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240817T193000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Library Presents Maya Angelou's Sister\, Sister
DESCRIPTION:Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. \nBefore the screening in the lobby\, UCLA Library Performing Arts Curator Miki Bulos will display a selection of stills and other archival materials related to superstar Diahann Carroll from UCLA Library Special Collections. \nSister\, Sister\nU.S.\, 6/7/1982 \nDiahann Carroll\, Rosalind Cash and Irene Cara star as the Lovejoy sisters in this television film that tracks the fissures within a North Carolinian Black family bonded and broken by the relationship with their church and a legacy of migration between the South and North. Written by Maya Angelou\, who was under contract with Twentieth Century-Fox\, Sister\, Sister was initially developed by Peter Andrews\, vice president of special projects at NBC\, in 1978\, as part of the NBC Theatre prestige drama series. Andrews\, who at the time was one of the few Black television executives\, described the project as “Maya’s black-Americanization of Chekhov.” \nDuring an era when television dramas featuring Black casts were rare\, anticipation for Sister\, Sister was high. The program was completed in 1979 and sat on the shelf at NBC until it finally aired in 1982. “Black drama remains the invisible man for all seasons on commercial TV\,” lamented critic Howard Rosenberg\, advocating for the program in the Los Angeles Times\, “especially when it comes to stories about middle-class blacks.” The white\, conservative\, Mississippi-based Coalition for Better Television launched a boycott of the show\, claiming that it portrayed “negative stereotyping of Christian people.” Support from viewers and critics poured in\, and the TV movie’s ratings saw a bump from the controversy. \nDuring the 1970s\, Angelou was prolific as she worked across publishing\, theater\, film and television media platforms. However\, commercial filmmaking and network television were especially challenging for the author. “Everyone and his dog has a chance to pick at a writer’s work\,” remarked Angelou\, who was accustomed to working with a single editor. While she had fought with the director over script and producing credits\, Angelou’s vision of a complex trio of siblings thrives in melodrama’s emotional terrain of jealousy\, dysfunction and family love and reconciliation. \n—Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler \nDCP\, color\, 98 min. NBC. Production: Twentieth Century-Fox. Executive Producer: Irv Wilson. Director: John Berry. Screenwriter: Maya Angelou. With: Irene Cara\, Diahann Carroll\, Rosalind Cash\, Robert Hooks\, Paul Winfield. Special thanks to Amy Crismer\, Clara Earthly. \nQuestions about the event? Visit: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/08/17/sister-sister
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ucla-library-presents-maya-angelous-sister-sister/
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-50/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240614T090000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-34/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240609T160000
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SUMMARY:Year-End Reception
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/year-end-reception-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240608T091500
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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Joseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe conference is free to attend with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. In-person registration will close on Monday\, June 3 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \nPlease visit the event webpage to register to attend. \nThis conference will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials\, which arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male homosexuality\, resulted in a brutal two-year sentence for committing acts of gross indecency with other males\, for which Wilde suffered solitary confinement with hard labor. He was tried under the punitive eleventh section of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885: a law that underwent partial decriminalization in England and Wales in 1967 (somewhat later in Scotland and Northern Ireland). \nThe organizer Joseph Bristow has recently published Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings\, from Arrest to Imprisonment (Yale University Press\, 2022). His book features a comprehensive reconstruction of the trials through a wide range of newspaper and other printed sources. This volume–which turns to British press accounts because the official shorthand court records have been missing from the National Archives since at least 1920–is sorely needed. The last comprehensive account appeared in 1962\, and it contains very uneven coverage of the ways in which the Crown prosecution used unreasonable methods to persuade the jury that Wilde was guilty of an easy-to-corroborate crime. More to the point\, the 1962 edition–on which scholars still rely–presents an outdated view of male homosexual intimacy. Bristow’s volume situates the Wilde trials in relation to several other well-known cases involving homosexual scandal: the Dublin Castle affair; the male brothel on Cleveland Street; the trial of Edward de Cobain; and the Gatty v. Farquharson dispute. \nOscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State takes the occasion of Wilde’s courtroom ordeal as a starting-point for understanding not only the growing awareness of queer subcultures during the 1880s and 1890s but also the long shadow that Wilde’s trials cast upon the proscription of same-sex intimacy in many different parts of the world. The legacy of Wilde’s imprisonment can be felt in divergent areas of the colonial and post-colonial world\, especially in Australia\, New Zealand\, Africa\, South Asia\, Hong Kong\, and Singapore. The fact that more than 50\,000 or so men were convicted under the egregious terms of the 1885 law in Britain speaks to the increasing ways in which male-male intimacy became prosecutable during a period of seventy-two years. The conference provides the opportunity to look at the impact that charges of gross indecency had in Britain\, particularly in relation to persistence of homosexual extortion\, changes in policing methods\, and the attempted criminalization of lesbian intimacy. The symposium provides a forum for legal and humanities scholars to exchange insights into this significant current of modern sexual history. \nSpeakers\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\nDustin Friedman\, American University\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\nChris Waters\, Williams College \n\nProgram Schedule\nAll times listed in Pacific Daylight Time\nQ&A to follow each presentation \nFriday\, June 7 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \n9:15 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nBronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nIntroductory Remarks\nJoseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe Wilde Trials and Nineteenth-Century Sexual Scandal \n9:30 a.m.\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\n“Why the Early Nineteenth Century Matters to the Wilde Trials” \n10:15 a.m.\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\n“Louise Mourey\, Gross Indecency\, and the (Non-)Criminalization of Sex between Women” \n11:00 a.m.\nCoffee Break \n11:15 a.m.\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\n“A German Sexpert at the Old Bailey? Albert Moll\, Lawson Tait\, and the Trials of Oscar Wilde” \n12:00 p.m.\nLunch\nBooks and Manuscripts Exhibition in the North Book Room \n“Gross Indecency”: Then and Now \n1:30 p.m.\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\n“On Knowing It When You See It: Forensic Evidence and the Epistemologies of Gross Indecency” \n2:15 p.m.\nChris Waters\, Williams College\n“The Trials of Oscar Wilde and the Sexual Politics of 1950s Britain” \n3:00 p.m.\nCoffee Break \n3:15 p.m.\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\n“States of Exception: Gross Indecency and U.S. Sodomy Law after Dobbs” \n4:00 p.m.\nReception \nSaturday\, June 8 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \nOscar Wilde\, Pornography\, and Privacy \n9:15 a.m.\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\n“Timelines of Sexuality: Oscar Wilde\, A. C. Swinburne\, and the History of Pornography” \n10:00 a.m.\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\n“Infringing Dorian: Copyright\, Photography\, and Privacy in Oscar Wilde’s Novel” \n10:45 a.m.\nCoffee Break \nObscenity\, Empire\, and the Victorian State \n11:00 a.m.\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\n“Obscenity\, Sedition\, and the Victorian Post Office: Archival Fragments of a Liberal Dilemma” \n11:45 a.m.\nDustin Friedman\, American University\n“Myth\, Mimesis\, and the Imperial State in Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates” \n12:30 p.m.\nProgram Concludes
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/oscar-wilde-sexuality-and-the-state-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T170000
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SUMMARY:English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
DESCRIPTION:The English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception will take place at the UCLA Faculty Club on Friday\, June 7 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm. \n\nQuestions 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-3/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T111500
DTSTAMP:20260825T004814Z
CREATED:20260825T004814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004814Z
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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Joseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe conference is free to attend with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. In-person registration will close on Monday\, June 3 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \nPlease visit the event webpage to register to attend. \nThis conference will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials\, which arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male homosexuality\, resulted in a brutal two-year sentence for committing acts of gross indecency with other males\, for which Wilde suffered solitary confinement with hard labor. He was tried under the punitive eleventh section of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885: a law that underwent partial decriminalization in England and Wales in 1967 (somewhat later in Scotland and Northern Ireland). \nThe organizer Joseph Bristow has recently published Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings\, from Arrest to Imprisonment (Yale University Press\, 2022). His book features a comprehensive reconstruction of the trials through a wide range of newspaper and other printed sources. This volume–which turns to British press accounts because the official shorthand court records have been missing from the National Archives since at least 1920–is sorely needed. The last comprehensive account appeared in 1962\, and it contains very uneven coverage of the ways in which the Crown prosecution used unreasonable methods to persuade the jury that Wilde was guilty of an easy-to-corroborate crime. More to the point\, the 1962 edition–on which scholars still rely–presents an outdated view of male homosexual intimacy. Bristow’s volume situates the Wilde trials in relation to several other well-known cases involving homosexual scandal: the Dublin Castle affair; the male brothel on Cleveland Street; the trial of Edward de Cobain; and the Gatty v. Farquharson dispute. \nOscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State takes the occasion of Wilde’s courtroom ordeal as a starting-point for understanding not only the growing awareness of queer subcultures during the 1880s and 1890s but also the long shadow that Wilde’s trials cast upon the proscription of same-sex intimacy in many different parts of the world. The legacy of Wilde’s imprisonment can be felt in divergent areas of the colonial and post-colonial world\, especially in Australia\, New Zealand\, Africa\, South Asia\, Hong Kong\, and Singapore. The fact that more than 50\,000 or so men were convicted under the egregious terms of the 1885 law in Britain speaks to the increasing ways in which male-male intimacy became prosecutable during a period of seventy-two years. The conference provides the opportunity to look at the impact that charges of gross indecency had in Britain\, particularly in relation to persistence of homosexual extortion\, changes in policing methods\, and the attempted criminalization of lesbian intimacy. The symposium provides a forum for legal and humanities scholars to exchange insights into this significant current of modern sexual history. \nSpeakers\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\nDustin Friedman\, American University\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\nChris Waters\, Williams College \n\nProgram Schedule\nAll times listed in Pacific Daylight Time\nQ&A to follow each presentation \nFriday\, June 7 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \n9:15 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nBronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nIntroductory Remarks\nJoseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe Wilde Trials and Nineteenth-Century Sexual Scandal \n9:30 a.m.\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\n“Why the Early Nineteenth Century Matters to the Wilde Trials” \n10:15 a.m.\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\n“Louise Mourey\, Gross Indecency\, and the (Non-)Criminalization of Sex between Women” \n11:00 a.m.\nCoffee Break \n11:15 a.m.\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\n“A German Sexpert at the Old Bailey? Albert Moll\, Lawson Tait\, and the Trials of Oscar Wilde” \n12:00 p.m.\nLunch\nBooks and Manuscripts Exhibition in the North Book Room \n“Gross Indecency”: Then and Now \n1:30 p.m.\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\n“On Knowing It When You See It: Forensic Evidence and the Epistemologies of Gross Indecency” \n2:15 p.m.\nChris Waters\, Williams College\n“The Trials of Oscar Wilde and the Sexual Politics of 1950s Britain” \n3:00 p.m.\nCoffee Break \n3:15 p.m.\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\n“States of Exception: Gross Indecency and U.S. Sodomy Law after Dobbs” \n4:00 p.m.\nReception \nSaturday\, June 8 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \nOscar Wilde\, Pornography\, and Privacy \n9:15 a.m.\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\n“Timelines of Sexuality: Oscar Wilde\, A. C. Swinburne\, and the History of Pornography” \n10:00 a.m.\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\n“Infringing Dorian: Copyright\, Photography\, and Privacy in Oscar Wilde’s Novel” \n10:45 a.m.\nCoffee Break \nObscenity\, Empire\, and the Victorian State \n11:00 a.m.\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\n“Obscenity\, Sedition\, and the Victorian Post Office: Archival Fragments of a Liberal Dilemma” \n11:45 a.m.\nDustin Friedman\, American University\n“Myth\, Mimesis\, and the Imperial State in Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates” \n12:30 p.m.\nProgram Concludes
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/oscar-wilde-sexuality-and-the-state/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240606T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240606T200000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004734Z
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SUMMARY:ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors \nStudents in the Creative Writing Program will read from work written during spring quarter. A reception will follow the event. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-writers-series-a-reading-with-student-authors-3/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004734Z
CREATED:20260825T004734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004734Z
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Spring Athenaeum
DESCRIPTION:The English Graduate Union Presents \nThe Spring Athenaeum \nWednesday\, June 5th at 4:00pm – 6:00pm \nFeaturing Miranda Hoegberg and Uri McMillan\, with Louise Hornby as respondent. Please join us in Kaplan 193 for scholarship\, refreshments\, & conversation. \nThe Athenaeum brings together one dissertation-stage graduate student and one faculty member to present their research\, providing a wonderful opportunity for grad student and faculty research to be in conversation with one another. The hope is to generate friendly connections and dialogue across the department\, spanning historical periods and methodological approaches. Please join us for conversation and refreshments as we celebrate the wonderful research of our colleagues! \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-spring-athenaeum/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240603T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240603T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004813Z
CREATED:20260825T004813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004813Z
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SUMMARY:What the World’s Silence Says: A Reading With Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a poetry reading and conversation with Gazan poet Yahya Ashour. Yahya Ashour\, born in Gaza City on April 22nd\, 1998\, is a touring poet and awarded author. He’s a 2022 honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. His recent poetry e-book\, titled “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide\,” was published by Mizna in March 2024. Ashour has also authored a poetry collection and a children’s book in Arabic\, along with contributing to numerous printed anthologies and online journals worldwide. His works have been translated into several languages\, including English\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, Finnish\, Japanese\, and Bengali. Since October 2023\, he has presented his poetry and talked about Gaza at several organizations and 30 universities across the United States\, including Princeton\, Stanford\, and Cornell. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Mona Simpson\, Professor of English at UCLA. \nRegister here to attend. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/what-the-worlds-silence-says-a-reading-with-gazan-poet-yahya-ashour/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240602T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240602T160000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004813Z
CREATED:20260825T004813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004813Z
UID:10000537-1717336800-1717344000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:For the Unnamed: On the Poetics of Afro-Mexican Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and conversation with Fred D’Aguiar\, Marissa López\, and Gabriela Valenzuela about D’Aguiar’s new book. The poems in For the Unnamed tell the story of the unnamed Black jockey who\, in 1852\, rode the winning steed in the race between Pio Pico’s Sarco and Jose Sepulveda’s Black Swan in Los Angeles. We know the horses’ names\, their owner’s names\, and the place and date of the race. But apart from his color and his victory\, we know nothing about the jockey who made the whole thing happen. That forgetfulness speaks to the past as much as it does to our present moment\, the networks of absence that connect black and brown lives today\, and the role poetry can play in building a better tomorrow. \nIn conjunction with the exhibition “Layered Lands: Synchronous Stories of Greater Los Angeles\,” on view from May 4 through August 4\, 2024 in the Central Library’s Annenberg Gallery.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/for-the-unnamed-on-the-poetics-of-afro-mexican-solidarity/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004803Z
CREATED:20260825T004803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004803Z
UID:10000532-1717174800-1717182000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Retirement Party in Honor of Janel Munguia
DESCRIPTION:After 30+ years of dedicated service\, Janel Munguia is retiring! Please join us for an evening of joy and nostalgia as we honor Janel’s commitment and achievements. \nLet us know if you plan to attend by submitting your RSVP here. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/retirement-party-in-honor-of-janel-munguia/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240530T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240530T213000
DTSTAMP:20260824T234427Z
CREATED:20260824T234427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T234427Z
UID:10000495-1717097400-1717104600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Fae Myenne Ng
DESCRIPTION:Best-selling author Fae Myenne Ng’s new memoir\, Orphan Bachelors\, offers a personal\, timely portrait of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. Hua Hsu called Orphan Bachelors\, “so many treasures at once: an enthralling memoir\, an act of reckoning\, a history of American exclusion and Chinatown resilience\, an attempt to conjure the vast horizons that her forebears were never allowed to imagine.” \nOrganized and hosted by author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson. Copresented by the UCLA Department of English. \nFae Myenne Ng is the author of bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone and American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Rome Prize\, American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Guggenheim Foundation\, Lannan Foundation\, NEA\, Radcliffe Institute\, Bellagio Center\, and Rockefeller Foundation. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-fae-myenne-ng/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240530T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240530T200000
DTSTAMP:20260824T234551Z
CREATED:20260824T234551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T234551Z
UID:10000496-1717092000-1717099200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation: Fae Myenne Ng
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: \nTea and Conversation with Fae Myenne Ng \nFae Myenne Ng will discuss her writing. \nThis event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Fae Myenne Ng at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. \nBoth events are free and open to the public. \nFae Myenne Ng is the author of bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone and American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Rome Prize\, American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Guggenheim Foundation\, Lannan Foundation\, NEA\, Radcliffe Institute\, Bellagio Center\, and Rockefeller Foundation. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/tea-and-conversation-fae-myenne-ng/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T153000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004813Z
CREATED:20260825T004813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004813Z
UID:10000538-1716989400-1716996600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Department of English Honors Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join students from our 2023-2024 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. \n \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/department-of-english-honors-showcase-3/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240528T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240528T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004715Z
CREATED:20260825T004715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004715Z
UID:10000520-1716912000-1716919200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Canceled: ARC with Richard Yarborough (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-arc-with-richard-yarborough-ucla/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004814Z
CREATED:20260825T004814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004814Z
UID:10000539-1716483600-1716490800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:An Evening with Dan Taulapapa McMullin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Dan Taulapapa McMullin\, author of The Healer’s Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia\, the poetry collections Coconut Milk  and A Drag Queen Named Pippi\, as well as films such as Sinalela and 100 Tikis. \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Asian American Studies and UCLA American Indian Studies.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/an-evening-with-dan-taulapapa-mcmullin/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004724Z
CREATED:20260825T004724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004724Z
UID:10000521-1716480000-1716487200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Canceled: ARC with Noah Hansen (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-arc-with-noah-hansen-ucla/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004714Z
CREATED:20260825T004714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004714Z
UID:10000516-1716397200-1716404400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Poetry Reading Featuring Stacie Cassarino
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry reading featuring Stacie Cassarino\, who will read from her book\, Each Luminous Thing\, and additional published pieces. \nRegister here to attend the reading. \nThis event is preceded by a Poetry Writing Workshop from 12:00 pm to 3:00pm. \nStacie Cassarino’s recent collection\, Each Luminous Thing (Persea Books\, 2023) won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award\, and was recommended by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post Book Club. She is the author of Zero at the Bone (New Issues Press\, 2009)\, which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award\, and a scholarly monograph\, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature (OSU Press\, 2018). She teaches at Smith College. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/poetry-reading-featuring-stacie-cassarino/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T150000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004803Z
CREATED:20260825T004803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004803Z
UID:10000533-1716379200-1716390000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop with Stacie Cassarino
DESCRIPTION:The Text/Tech Media Lab invites you to attend a Poetry Writing Workshop with Stacie Cassarino \nMay 22 12-3pm \n\n\nText/Tech Kaplan 211 \nFree and open to all UCLA students and poets of all levels. \nTo Apply: Please submit up to 3 poems and a short statement answering the question “Why I write” by May 18 to medialab@english.ucla.edu \nFollowing this workshop\, Stacie will give a reading at 5pm in the Text/Tech Lab. All are invited! \nStacie Cassarino’s recent collection\, Each Luminous Thing (Persea Books\, 2023) won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award\, and was recommended by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post Book Club. She is the author of Zero at the Bone (New Issues Press\, 2009)\, which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award\, and a scholarly monograph\, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature (OSU Press\, 2018). She teaches at Smith College.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/poetry-workshop-with-stacie-cassarino/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T170000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004804Z
CREATED:20260825T004804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004804Z
UID:10000534-1716369300-1716397200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2024 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! \nWednesday\, May 22 at 9:15am to 5:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 and on Zoom. Join the event via Zoom here.\n \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. \nACES 2024 Final Program
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/2024-academic-conference-for-english-students-aces/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T213000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004734Z
CREATED:20260825T004734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004734Z
UID:10000526-1716319800-1716327000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Hammer Poetry Series: V. Penelope Pelizzon
DESCRIPTION:Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents\, award-winning poet V. Penelope Pelizzon’s latest collection\, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye\, maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject. Playful and wrenching by turns\, with lines inflected by the spoken music of their Arabic\, Oshiwambo\, Xhosa\, and Italian contexts\, these profound poems explore a life where displacement is the norm. \nOrganized and hosted by poet\, literary critic\, and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of English and UCLA Recreation. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/hammer-poetry-series-v-penelope-pelizzon/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004734Z
CREATED:20260825T004734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004734Z
UID:10000527-1716220800-1716228000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Canceled: Grand Theft Eco Screening: The iBear in the River
DESCRIPTION:Grand Theft Eco is a machinima series and pedagogical engine that repurposes the video game Grand Theft Auto to explore possible eco-futures of LA in the year 2050. \nIn this premiere screening\, we share the first episode of Grand Theft Eco\, The iBear in the River\, which focuses on a vibrant and revitalized LA River landscape that brings together two teenagers\, Kerstin Connor and Yolanda Arellanos\, in an adventurous chase to retrieve a lost electronic toy. As the girls explore the landscapes and neighborhoods along the river\, they forge a temporary friendship that persistent inequalities ultimately drive apart. \nVisit the IOES website for more information.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-grand-theft-eco-screening-the-ibear-in-the-river/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T213000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004714Z
CREATED:20260825T004714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004714Z
UID:10000517-1715887800-1715895000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Adam Moss
DESCRIPTION:In Adam Moss’s new book The Work of Art\, the former editor of New York magazine asks “What is the work of art?” Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal entries\, napkin doodles\, and sketches that were their tools\, Moss traces the tortuous paths and artist decisions that led to the making of transcendent novels\, paintings\, movies\, songs\, jokes\, and more. \nOrganized and hosted by author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson. Copresented by UCLA Department of English. \n\n\nAdam Moss was the editor of New York magazine\, The New York Times Magazine\, and 7 Days. As editor of New York\, he also oversaw the creation of five digital magazines: Vulture\, The Cut\, Daily Intelligencer\, Grub Street\, and The Strategist. During his tenure\, New York won forty-one National Magazine Awards\, including Magazine of the Year. He was an assistant managing editor of The New York Times with oversight of the Magazine\, the Book Review\, and the Culture and Style sections\, as well as managing editor of Esquire. He was elected to the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame in 2019. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-adam-moss/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T200000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004714Z
CREATED:20260825T004714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004714Z
UID:10000518-1715882400-1715889600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation: Adam Moss
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: \nTea and Conversation with Adam Moss \nAdam Moss will discuss his writing. \nThis event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Adam Moss at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. \nBoth events are free and open to the public. \nAdam Moss was the editor of New York magazine\, The New York Times Magazine\, and 7 Days. As editor of New York\, he also oversaw the creation of five digital magazines: Vulture\, The Cut\, Daily Intelligencer\, Grub Street\, and The Strategist. During his tenure\, New York won forty-one National Magazine Awards\, including Magazine of the Year. He was an assistant managing editor of The New York Times with oversight of the Magazine\, the Book Review\, and the Culture and Style sections\, as well as managing editor of Esquire. He was elected to the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame in 2019. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/tea-and-conversation-adam-moss/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260824T234829Z
CREATED:20260824T234829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T234829Z
UID:10000506-1715706000-1715713200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Creative Writing Party Featuring Author in Residence Diana Khoi Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:A poet and multimedia artist\, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures (2024) and Ghost Of (2018)\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her video work has been exhibited at the Miller ICA. Nguyen is a MacDowell and Kundiman fellow\, and a member of the Vietnamese artist collective\, She Who Has No Master(s). She’s received an NEA fellowship and awards from the 92Y “Discovery” Poetry and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery contests. She teaches in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. \nDrinks and light refreshments will be served. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-party-featuring-author-in-residence-diana-khoi-nguyen/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240510T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240510T160000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233941Z
CREATED:20260824T233941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233941Z
UID:10000459-1715349600-1715356800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Creative Writing Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-committee-meeting-6/
LOCATION:CA
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