Events

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Everyone is invited and welcome to join the party Tuesday, December 2 at 5pm in the ERR for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors. Come join us for a night of good food and drinks as students in the Creative Writing Program read from work written...

Please join Text/Tech, the English Media Lab of UCLA, for a conversation at the edge of literature and code. Authorship and/or Automation brings together four major digital artist-theorists to explore how emerging forms of technology are reshaping the acts of writing, performing, and publishing. Through short presentations and a roundtable discussion, participants explore the consequences...

Please join us in Kaplan 193 or online on Monday, December 8 at 5pm PST to hear about Visiting Researcher Jessica Marian's book project, “Form, Style, ‘Critique’: The Review in Postwar France.” Zoom: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/84302879494?pwd=775ONMJo1zAVMwicLhnHMf9XeXxdjq.1 Abstract: Several now-iconic works in the tradition of postwar French theory began as book reviews: Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology, Giles Deleuze’s...

Please join us for the next in-person meeting of the Working Group in Memory Studies on Wednesday, December 10, from 2:00-3:30 pm in 348 Kaplan Hall. This session will be dedicated to a discussion of gaming and memory. Visiting graduate researcher Sara Morini (Sapienza University, Rome) will help lead the discussion. Our readings will be: Emil Lundedal...

A conversation and live LENS podcast recording with Sammy Roth

All are welcome to join us for a co-book launch and roundtable to celebrate the release of Summer Kim Lee's Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair and Danny Snelson's The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats. The event will feature roundtable presentations by special guests (TBA), author responses, and a range of open conversations...

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

In her newest publication Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, award-winning author Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Family Romance looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all these...

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.”