Events

This meeting will now take place on Friday, January 30 at 3pm in Kaplan Hall 193. See updated listing here.

Please join us for the Asian American Reading Group’s winter seminar featuring Summer Kim Lee. Summer Kim Lee will discuss her new book, Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair (Duke University Press, 2025). The seminar will take place on Thursday, January 29 from 3:30-5:00 pm in Kaplan Hall, room 250. Email Katarina (kyuan3@g.ucla.edu) if...

Led by Professor Christopher Looby

The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term, we meet to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and consider what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will...

Chris Looby, “Revisiting Jonathan Edwards and the ‘bad books’ controversy.”

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...