Events

Earning a Ph.D. often comes with the expectation of a tenure-track career, but what happens when your path leads elsewhere? In this talk, Dr. La’Tonya "LT" Rease Miles, author of Smart Girl: A First-Gen Origin Story, shares how she leveraged her doctoral training to build a dynamic career in first-gen advocacy, media representation, and social...

First an eminent poet, as well as a literary critic, translator, classicist, and painter, Rosanna Warren reminds one of the protean genius of Max Jacob, from whom she could hardly differ more, yet of whom she has written an exemplary biography. The biography was published in 2020, along with her most recent volume of poems,...

Barbara L. Packer event featuring Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Join us for readings and refreshments this spring! Come hear members of the Writing Programs faculty read from their work. All are welcome! Writing Programs Spring Faculty Reading Friday April 11 4pm Hershey Hall Salon, Room 158 Featuring: Nathan Deuel, Amber West, Mary Spooner, Tom Hitchner, Tamar Christensen, Randall Fallows   --

A Text/Tech event featuring Marylyn Tan

Join The Cleaving editors Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, alongside contributors Lan Cao and Le Ly Hayslip in conversation, on Tuesday, April 15, 6:30 pm in UCLA Bunche 1209B. RSVP limited. Books sold & refreshments served. RSVP HERE TO ATTEND. The Cleaving Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora The first and...

Please join us for an exciting event celebrating art and liberation! On April 19, 2025, join visionary artists, activists, attorneys, advocates, legal scholars, and community members to share innovative, cutting-edge collaborations at the intersection of ART and LAW - aimed at imagining a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance. The art festival will be hosted...

Please join us for the Asian American Reading Group's spring seminar and talk featuring Vivian Huang. 10:30 am - Seminar with Vivian Huang: "Becoming Meat" Open to students and faculty. RSVP required. tinyurl.com/V-Huang 4:00 pm - Vivian Huang Public Talk: "On Surface Relations"

Please join us for the Asian American Reading Group's spring seminar and talk featuring Vivian Huang. 10:30 am - Seminar with Vivian Huang: "Becoming Meat" Open to students and faculty. RSVP required. tinyurl.com/V-Huang 4:00 pm - Vivian Huang Public Talk: "On Surface Relations"

Please join us for a lecture on Monday, April 28 at 12 pm with Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Inaugural May Ziadeh Chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies and Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Refreshments from Panini Kabob Grill will be served! Monday, April 28 at 12 – 1:30 pm Royce Hall 314 “Gaza, Genocide, and...

What does it mean to think collaboratively without the body? Please join us on Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd at Hershey Hall on the UCLA campus to hear—and participate in—a series of conversations on this subject. This two-day event gathers a group of scholars working broadly in eighteenth-century studies under the heading of what we...

Please join us on Friday May 2nd at 1:30pm for a public lecture by Emily Hodgson Anderson, “Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write.” Location: Hershey Hall Salon Lunch is offered; RSVP here to attend. “Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write.” We’ve probably all had this thought,...

What does it mean to think collaboratively without the body? Please join us on Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd at Hershey Hall on the UCLA campus to hear—and participate in—a series of conversations on this subject. This two-day event gathers a group of scholars working broadly in eighteenth-century studies under the heading of what we...