Events

Join the UCLA's Center for Near Eastern Studies for a reading featuring André Naffis-Sahely, Professor of English at University of California, Davis and the editor of Poetry London in the UK. Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from present-day...

Trans Negative Affect

Join UCLA’s Asian American Studies, Center for the Study of Women (CSW), UCLA Departments of English and the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) for “Elemental Cartographies: Mapping Winds in Indigenous Economies of Abundance in an Era of Climate Change,” featuring Candace Fujikane, Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i. As we bear witness...

Taxonomically Queer?: Sexology and New Queer, Trans, and Asexual Identities

A Creative Showcase and Discussion 3:30pm to 5:00pm at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center: Laureate Classroom Literary practitioners have expanded their interests to include video games, performance art and visual poetics. “Expanded media” is our catchall term for all of those spaces between common forms of “media” — TV shows, video games, networked culture —...

LENS has canceled the talk with Traci Brynne Voyles.

The Experience of Literature Before Literature: From the History of Latinx Sexuality to the History of Desire

Ange Mlinko reads from her poetry collection Venice (2022). Mlinko is the author of several books of poetry, including Distant Mandate and Marvelous Things Overheard. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism, and has served as poetry editor for The Nation. Her essays and reviews have been published...

This event has been postponed to January 12, 2023 at 4:00pm. See new event listing here.   Explore the connections between surveillance culture, memory, and narrative, using samples from Jamika Ajalon's book Skye Papers, digital audio visual projection, spoken text and live sonics. Interdisciplinary/multimedia artist, poet, performer, and author Jamika Ajalon's  debut novel Skye Papers...

This event is cancelled.

The winter reception has been postponed.

Explore the connections between surveillance culture, memory, and narrative, using samples from Jamika Ajalon's book Skye Papers, digital audio visual projection, spoken text and live sonics. Register here to attend. This event is free and open to the public. Interdisciplinary/multimedia artist, poet, performer, and author Jamika Ajalon's  debut novel Skye Papers came out last summer...

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Alice Elliott Dark This event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to the public. Questions about the event? Contact...

The award-winning writer Alice Elliott Dark reads from her work, including her most recent novel Fellowship Point. Dark is also the author of the novel Think of England and two collections of short stories, In The Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Readings are followed by a discussion with author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson,...

Celebrated poet Robert Pinsky reads from his work, including his new memoir, Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet, which offers a candid, engaging, and wry self-portrait and a unique reflection of American culture. Pinsky served as Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress from 1997 to 2000. He is the author of 19 books, most...

Join UCLA English for this remote event to celebrate the publication of Professor Jennifer Smith’s translation of The Book of Faith by Reginald Pecock (UCLA-CMRS, 2020). Saturday, February 18, 2023 9:00am to 10:00am PST / 12:00pm to 1:00pm EST Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94335688131 Organizer: Arvind Thomas, UCLA Feel free to contact Arvind Thomas, +1-310-307-9132; email: arvindthomas@g.ucla.edu, if...

The Racial Violence Hub invites you to join our 2023 round table event "Anti-Muslim Racism, Palestine, and White Supremacy" on Tuesday, February 21st from 12-2 pm PST. In-person in Kaplan Hall 193 or online. Click here to join the livestream. Panelists: • Dr. Sherene H. Razack, UCLA, Gender Studies Penny Kanner Endowed Chair, author of...

Join us for an evening with poet Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning 3 Sections.  Seshadri is also the author of That Was Now, This Is Then, The Long Meadow, and Wild Kingdom. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications and anthologies including The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares,...