Events

UCLA English faculty, graduate students, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students. Monday, March 11 at 5pm Royce 306 Balcony (Weather permitting. Royce 314 otherwise.)

Join us for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors Students in the Creative Writing Fiction Program will read from work written during winter quarter. A reception will follow the event. Questions about the event? Email: englishevents@ucla.edu

Maureen McLane, poet, literary critic, and connoisseur of both the canon and the experimental tradition, epitomizes Wallace Steven’s dictum that “poetry is the scholar’s art.” Her six distinguished volumes of poems include World Enough, chosen Best Poetry Book of the Year by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker, and her genre-breaking book of criticism and...

Sponsored by UCLA Initiative to Study Hate

Livestream available via HowlRound TV on Wednesday, April 3 at 1 p.m. PDT. For a Resilient US Theater, by UCLA researchers Barbara Fuchs and Rhonda Sharrah, is part of Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts, a comparative transnational study on the resilience of theatre post-COVID funded by the British Academy. Between April 2023 and...

Presented by UCLA Library Film & Television Archive

Join the XR Spring Summit 2024 for a hybrid event featuring UCLA English and Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Danny Snelson. This presentation will focus on recent trends in AI production of 3D-generative assets and environments for VR play. XR platforms and tools covered include: LUMA Genie, Sketchfab, Pistol Whip, Beat Sage, Mozilla Hubs, New...

"R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity" Film Screening & Discussion

Why do non-wealthy minority students pirate academic textbooks? In this talk, Professor Gail De Kosnik will discuss her interviews with Black, brown, and Indigenous internet users about their pirate practices, and will analyze their conceptualizations of illicit media and information access as connection, cultural participation, and upward mobility—in other words, as survival. Register here to...

A Text/Tech event

The Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures (SEEELC) is pleased to present The Dmitriev Affair: Film Screening and Q&A with Director Jessica Gorter that will take place on Friday, May 3rd in the Darren Star Screening Room from 7:30-9:30pm. This screening is part of How Soviet Prison Subculture Shapes the Russian...

The Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures (SEEELC) is pleased to present the upcoming symposium How Soviet Prison Subculture Shapes the Russian Political Landscape at the Luskin Conference Center. The symposium will take place on Saturday, May 4th, 2024 from 9:00am-5:00pm PST. Please register to attend the event here.

A Barbara L. Packer event featuring Kirsten Silva Gruesz

This event has been canceled and will be rescheduled for the following spring.

A Barbara L. Packer event featuring Kirsten Silva Gruesz

A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures (2024) and Ghost Of (2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her video work has been exhibited at the Miller ICA. Nguyen is a MacDowell and Kundiman fellow, and a member of the Vietnamese artist collective, She Who...

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

In Adam Moss’s new book The Work of Art, the former editor of New York magazine asks “What is the work of art?” Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that were their tools, Moss traces the tortuous paths and artist...

Grand Theft Eco is a machinima series and pedagogical engine that repurposes the video game Grand Theft Auto to explore possible eco-futures of LA in the year 2050. In this premiere screening, we share the first episode of Grand Theft Eco, The iBear in the River, which focuses on a vibrant and revitalized LA River...

Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, award-winning poet V. Penelope Pelizzon’s latest collection, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject. Playful and wrenching by turns, with lines inflected by the spoken music of their Arabic, Oshiwambo, Xhosa, and Italian...

Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! Wednesday, May 22 at 9:15am to 5:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 and on Zoom. Join the event via Zoom here. The Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The...

The Text/Tech Media Lab invites you to attend a Poetry Writing Workshop with Stacie Cassarino May 22 12-3pm Text/Tech Kaplan 211 Free and open to all UCLA students and poets of all levels. To Apply: Please submit up to 3 poems and a short statement answering the question "Why I write" by May 18 to medialab@english.ucla.edu Following...

Join us for a poetry reading featuring Stacie Cassarino, who will read from her book, Each Luminous Thing, and additional published pieces. Register here to attend the reading. This event is preceded by a Poetry Writing Workshop from 12:00 pm to 3:00pm. Stacie Cassarino's recent collection, Each Luminous Thing (Persea Books, 2023) won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's...

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