Events

With Huda J. Fakhreddine

Armen Davoudian, who grew up in Isfahan, Iran, has published his first volume of poems, The Palace of Forty Pillars, which the San Francisco Chronicle named “Best Book of Spring.” Davoudian also translated from Persian Hopscotch, by the contemporary dissident Persian poet Fatemeh Shams. Currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University, Davoudian's dissertation...

Please join us for a conversation with Lisa Yin Han in dialogue with Elizabeth DeLoughrey about the oceanic humanities. Lisa Yin Han is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College and the author of Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor (2024). Supported by the UCLA Program in Digital Humanities and Department...

This program will take place at the Landmark Westwood Theater, at 1045 Broxton Avenue. View directions Adam Phillips, “Britain’s foremost contemporary psychoanalytic thinker” (The New Yorker), will be in conversation with UCLA English Professors David Russell and Mona Simpson on Kindness, Missing Out, Wanting to Change, Getting Better and Giving Up. Adam Phillips, formerly a...