Events

In conjunction with Professor King-Kok Cheung's English 19.1 Fiat Lux seminar

Please join us in Royce 306 on Tuesday, February 17 at 4:00pm for Hannah Weaver's talk, "The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication.” On the basis of manuscript evidence and a textual tradition that includes Ovid, Chrétien de Troyes, and Chaucer, this paper traces the uneven capacity of cloth to communicate. This event is sponsored by...

Attention English Department graduate students: You're invited to join The Environmental Humanities Research Group's (EHRG) February meeting at SIPP Coffee House on Westwood Blvd. The meeting will take place on February 19 at 10:30am. The group will discuss the introduction of "Pollution is Colonialism" by Max Liboiron. The group can share a PDF of the...

Please join us in Hershey Salon on Thursday February 19th at 4 PM for Dr. Jina B. Kim's talk on her new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing. This is one of the most highly anticipated books in disability studies this year! In Care at the End...

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Katie Kitamura Katie Kitamura will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Katie Kitamura at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel Audition asks who we are to the people we love. In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think...

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been canceled.

With W. J. T. Mitchell

"Literary Value from a Socio-Institutional Perspective."