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SUMMARY:American Literary History Now
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins\, paradigms\, and future directions. In an era of seeming never-ending crisis\, how may we conceive of the project of American Studies today\, both in terms of its Cold War origins and its reinvention in response to the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s? A certain mood of urgency and crisis attends discussion of US democracy in the present\, while a sense of buoyancy often accompanies discussions of American literature\, reinvigorated by dialogues with African American\, Latinx\, Asian American\, and Indigenous Studies. This conference will assess the state of the field\, by way of leading figures who have contributed foundational research in race\, gender\, ethnicity\, and sexuality. \nOrganized by Yogita Goyal\, Professor of English and African American Studies at UCLA. \nConference Schedule: \nOctober 24 \n10-10.30 \nWelcome and Introductions \nRuss Castronovo and Yogita Goyal \nSession 1 \n10.30-12.30 \nChair: Michael Cohen \n10.30: Timothy Bewes\, “The Freedom to be Wrong” \n11.30: Autumn Womack\, “The Beginning of Things and the End”: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Speculative Imaginary” \nSession 2 \n2-4 \nChair: Summer Kim Lee \n2: Ren Heintz\, “Trans History and Antebellum Obscenity” \n3: Christina A. León\, “Poetics of Omission: Incommensurate Negatives\, Puerto Rican Poetics\, and Fascist Frames” \nOctober 25 \nSession 3 \n9.30-11.30 \nChair: Richard Yarborough \n9.30: Sarah Quesada\, “What was African Decolonization for Afrolatinidad?” \n10.30: Jordan Stein\, “The Queer History of Anti-Slavery Media” \nClosing Roundtable \n11.30-12.30 \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu \nSpeaker Bios \n \nTimothy Bewes is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Brown University\, where he has taught since 2004. His books include Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022)\, The Event of Postcolonial Shame (2011)\, and Reification\, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (2002). He is Associate Editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction\, and convenes the Film-Thinking series at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown. \n \nRen Heintz is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities at Cal State Los Angeles. Heintz received their Ph.D. from the University of California\, San Diego\, and their MA from the University of Pennsylvania. Their working manuscript is titled The Obscenity of White Supremacy: The Antebellum History of Gender and Sexuality. Heintz’s scholarship has appeared in American Quarterly\, GLQ\, and Feminist Media Histories\, among others. They were awarded the Richard H. Brown/William Lloyd Barber Long-Term Fellowship at the Newberry Library and the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Tulane University. Through their public humanities work\, they are the inaugural creative writing instructor for the nonprofit initiative\, Transchool. Heintz is the editor of the anthology Transchool: Vol. 1 (Co-Conspirator Press\, 2024). \n \nChristina A. León is Assistant Professor of Literature at Duke University. She specializes in literary\, anticolonial\, critical race\, feminist\, and queer theories\, with a concentration on Latinx and Caribbean literature\, art\, and thought. Her scholarly writing focuses on the interplay of materiality and semiosis to better theorize and attend to works by authors and artists who often become known only through their identificatory markers\, overdetermined by grammars of race and gender. She is the author of Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad (NYU Press 2024). Her articles and essays have been published in Women and Performance\, ASAP/Journal\, Diacritics\, GLQ\, Sargasso\, Small Axe\, Representations\, and Post-45. She serves as the co-editor of the Gender Theory book series at SUNY Press. \n \nSarah M. Quesada is an Associate Professor of Romance Studies and by courtesy\, of Gender\, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge UP\, December 2022)\, which received an Honorable Mention for First Book in 2023 from the Modern Languages Association (MLA). Her second book project investigates different internationalist attachments among Chicana\, Mexican\, and African writers\, and unburies the influences of lesser-known feminists in this south-south engagement. Her work has been supported by the National Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned Societies and she currently serves on the Executive Committee for the MLA’s Anthropology and Literature Forum\, and the advisory board of the journal Meridians: feminism\, race\, transnationalism (Duke UP). \n \nJordan Alexander Stein is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University\, where he is also Affiliated Faculty in African and African American Studies. He is the author most recently of Fantasies of Nina Simone (Duke 2024). \n \nAutumn Womack is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data\, 1880-1930 (Chicago\, 2022) which received the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize and was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize. Most recently\, she edited the Norton Library’s edition of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (2023). Womack has published numerous essays on nineteenth-century African American literary culture\, visual studies\, and Black aesthetic practice in journals such as American Literary History\, J19\, Women and Performance\, Black Camera\, and several edited volumes. She is currently at work on two book length projects. The first\, The Wanderer (Knopf) is an archival biography of Toni Morrison. The second project explores the relationship between financialization and aesthetics in turn of the century African American literary aesthetics.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/american-literary-history-now/
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-faculty-meeting-2/
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SUMMARY:Hammer Poetry Series: Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:The delicate\, undaunted\, disconcerting power of Forrest Gander’s work springs from the view that dimensions of experience\, too often neatly segregated\, intersect. He will read from Mojave Ghost\, which a subtle subtitle designates A Novel Poem and which unfolds from desert walks during which he discovers the reticulations of past and present\, actual and recalled\, physical and spiritual—xeric and eldritch. The cover’s simple image shows a great saguaro cactus casting the shadow of a human. \nOrganized and hosted by poet\, literary critic\, and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by UCLA Department of English and UCLA Recreation. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/hammer-poetry-series-forrest-gander/
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SUMMARY:ARC with Richard Yarborough (UCLA)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-richard-yarborough-ucla/
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION: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 get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages\, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No preparation or expertise is required – only enthusiasm! \nOur first meeting this year will take place on Friday\, November 1 at 2:00-4:00pm in Kaplan 193. We will read the Old Norse-Icelandic Jökuls þáttr Buássonar (The Tale of Jökull Búasson). Join us for a discussion of trolls\, princesses\, and wrestling contests\, led by Dr. Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow\, CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies). \nFOR READINGS AND CALENDAR OF MEETINGS\, SEE TINYURL.COM/MTRG-2024-2025 or scan the QR code on the flyer above. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu)
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T180000
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SUMMARY:After-Hours Tour: Claire McEachern on Sum of the Parts: Serial Imagery in Printmaking\, 1500 to Now
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor of English at the University of California\, Los Angeles Claire McEachern\, for an exhibition tour of Sum of the Parts: Serial Imagery in Printmaking\, 1500 to Now. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/after-hours-tour-claire-mceachern-on-sum-of-the-parts-serial-imagery-in-printmaking-1500-to-now/
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-36/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-52/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T130000
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-15/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T190000
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SUMMARY:Southern California Eighteenth-Century Group: Cass Turner
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/southern-california-eighteenth-century-group-cass-turner/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T110000
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SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting-28/
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SUMMARY:Benedit a contrapelo/Benedit Against the Grain
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Comparative Literature invites you to a presentation and conversation with Argentine scholar and writer Alejandro Manara who will be discussing his most recent book Benedit a contrapelo (Benedit Against the Grain.) The event will be held on Friday November 15\, 2024 at 1:00pm PST in Kaplan Hall 193. Alternatively\, you may choose to attend the event remotely via Zoom. Please click here to join. \nLuis Fernando Benedit (1937-2011) was an Argentine architect\, artist\, and designer who pushed boundaries\, both physical and metaphorical. His multimodal work explored many critical aspects of Argentine life and identity\, pushing the limits between art and the sciences. Manara will be joined in conversation with Jason Araújo\, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and Assistant Director of the Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de Montevideo\, and Dr. Marcela Vieira\, curator and editor of Revista Rosa.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/benedit-a-contrapelo-benedit-against-the-grain/
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SUMMARY:ARC with Noah Hansen (UCLA)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-noah-hansen-ucla/
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SUMMARY:ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors \nStudents in the Creative Writing Program will read from work written during fall quarter. A reception will follow the event. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-writers-series-a-reading-with-student-authors-4/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting-27/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T084500
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SUMMARY:African American Literature at UCLA: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Richard Yarborough
DESCRIPTION:After 45 years of distinguished service\, Professor Richard Yarborough is embarking on a well-deserved retirement. We are pleased to invite you to a special symposium in honor of Professor Yarborough to celebrate his extraordinary contributions to the field of African American literature and U.S. literature. This symposium will bring together colleagues\, former students\, and friends to reflect on his legacy and explore the enduring impact of his research and teaching. \nFollowing the symposium\, we invite you to join us for a reception to celebrate Professor Yarborough’s contributions to UCLA and the academic community. \nLet us know if you plan to attend by filling out the RSVP form here.\nWe request that you submit your RSVP to attend. \nDate: Friday\, December 6\nSymposium: 8:45am – 4:00pm\nReception: 4:30pm – 6:00pm\nSymposium & Reception Location: Royce Hall\, Room 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095\nQuestions about the event? Contact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu \nThis event is organized by Yogita Goyal\, Professor of English and African American Studies at UCLA. This event is co-sponsored by UCLA Departments of English and African American Studies\, The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\, UCLA Division of Humanities\, and UCLA Division of Social Sciences. \nSymposium Schedule \n8:45am – 9:15am: Welcome and Introductions \nMorning session: 9:30am – 11:30am \n9:30am – 10:00am: Daphne Brooks\,\n“Said the Joker to the Thief…”: Black Rock Nerd Praxis in the Post Soul Era \n10:00am – 10:30am: P. Gabrielle Foreman\,\nEditions for Impact: Baton Passing\, Pipeline and Field Building the Yarborough Way \n10:30am – 11:00am: Sandra Gunning\,\nMemory and Trauma in Charlotte Forten’s Civil War Diary\, 1862-1863 \n11:45am – 1:30pm: Lunch break \nAfternoon session: 1:30pm – 4:00pm \n1:30pm – 2:00pm: Dennis Tyler\,\nHow Oprah Gail Winfrey Makes Love for Books \n2:00pm – 2:30pm: Kimberly Mack\,\nBlack Writers Write Rock: A Movement Towards A Reimagined Canon of Rock Criticism and Journalism \n2:45pm – 3:15pm: Ryan Kernan\,\n“Hang Yourself\, Poet”: Langston Hughes\, Translation\, and the Noose of Radical Politics \n3:15pm – 3:45pm: Denise Cruz\,\nAsian America’s Regional Archive \n4:30pm – 6:00pm: Reception \nSpeaker Bios\, Presentation Titles & Descriptions \nDaphne A. Brooks received her Ph.D. in English from UCLA. Richard Yarborough served on her dissertation committee. Brooks is William R. Kenan\, Jr. Professor of African American Studies\, American Studies\, Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, and Music at Yale University. Full bio can be found here. \nPresentation Title:\n“Said the Joker to the Thief…”: Black Rock Nerd Praxis in the Post Soul Era \nDescription:\nThis talk traces meaningful connections between the aesthetics and performance practices of a range of legendary African American musicians and the academic career of Professor Richard Yarborough. As it will show\, the praxis of Black rock nerd culture is equally born out in the music of these artists and the pedagogy and scholarship of one of Black Studies and UCLA’s singular mvps. \nDenise Cruz received her Ph.D. in English from UCLA. Richard Yarborough served as co-chair on her dissertation committee. Cruz (she/hers) is Professor and Chair of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She writes and teaches about gender and sexuality in national and transnational cultures. \nPresentation Title:\nAsian America’s Regional Archives \nDescription:\nThis talk is inspired by Richard Yarborough’s groundbreaking editorial and archival research. Yarborough’s editorial work on literary series such as The Heath Anthology of American Literature and The Library of Black Literature\, dramatically reshaped our understanding of African American and American literary history. In this presentation\, Cruz will draw connections between Yarborough’s archival and editorial work and a regional archive of early twentieth-century Asian American literature. \nGabrielle Foreman received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UCB. Richard Yarborough served on her dissertation committee. Foreman is the Paterno Family Chair of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History at PSU. She co-founded and co-directs the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk and is the founding director of the Colored Conventions Project. Full bio can be found here. \nPresentation Title:\nEditions for Impact: Baton Passing\, Pipeline and Field Building the Yarborough Way \nDescription:\nThis talk will highlight systems for pipeline and field building used by the The Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk. Inspired by Richard Yarborough’s dedication to mentoring and pipeline building and also to his investments in field building through the under-valued work of editing\, this talk will focus on how The Center merges these two areas through a yearly academic symposium. The Center’s yearly symposium builds on the foundation and legacy of the work of Richard Yarborough. \nSandra Gunning received her B.A. in English from UCLA and her Ph.D. in English from UCB. Richard Yarborough served on her dissertation committee. Gunning is Professor of American Studies and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Full bio can be found here. \nPresentation Title:\n“Memory and Trauma in Charlotte Forten’s Civil War Diary\, 1862-1863” \nDescription:\nIn discussing abolitionist and educator Charlotte Forten\, scholars continue to interpret the entire 1854-1892 span of her diaries as evidence of her “representative” nineteenth-century Black womanhood\, proving her to have been high minded; modest; artistically talented; and committed to racial uplift. However\, this approach ignores the ways Forten’s Civil War-era entries reverberate with the horror of tending to wounded soldiers in South Carolina\, and the ever present danger of sexual assault facing all Black women at the hands of both white Union troops and Confederate guerillas. Gunning will explore the omissions\, confrontations\, containments\, and deflections in Forten’s wartime writing. \nRyan James Kernan received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA.  Richard Yarborough served as co-chair on his dissertation committee. Kernan is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University\, where he specializes in the study of African American and African Diasporic cultural production\, Literature of the Americas and translation studies. \nPresentation Title:\n“Hang Yourself\, Poet”: Langston Hughes\, Translation\, and the Noose of Radical Politics \nDescription:\nThis paper offers a meditation on Black writing and radical politics by way of an examination of both Langston Hughes’s work in translation and Langston Hughes’s work as a translator.  In Hughes’s case\, the common consensus has been that his commitment to radical politics and poetics was a miscalculation that not only led him to produce poor poetry but also to his political persecution.  In this paradigm\, Hughes’s engagement with radical politics is seen as the cause of his poetic and personal downfall\, and his alleged abandonment of his so-called radical phase is figured as his poetic resurrection.  Kernan’s talk will challenge this narrative. \nKimberly Mack received her Ph.D. in English from UCLA. Richard Yarborough served as chair on her dissertation committee. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her book\, Living Colour’s Time’s Up\, part of Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 book series\, was published in May 2023. Full bio can be found here. \nPresentation Title:\nBlack Writers Write Rock: A Movement Towards A Reimagined Canon of Rock Criticism and Journalism \nDescription:\nIn this talk\, Mack will focus on Vernon Gibbs\, a Black writer who wrote about rock during the 1970s and into the 1980s for many publications\, including Detroit’s legendary Creem magazine. Using Gibbs’ 1983 Creem feature about Prince\, and his first-person accounts from their 2021 interview\, Mack considers the ways in which Gibbs’ bold and confrontational writing style disrupts the race and gender expectations prevalent in the 1970s and early 1980s (and beyond) for what a rock star—and a rock critic for that matter—should look like. \nDennis Tyler received his Ph.D. in English from UCLA. Richard Yarborough served as chair on his dissertation committee. Tyler is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in African American literature and culture\, disability studies\, critical race studies\, popular culture\, and performance studies. He is the author of Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present (NYU Press\, 2022). Full bio can be found here. \nPresentation Title:\n“How Oprah Gail Winfrey Makes Love for Books” \nDescription:\nUsing Richard Yarborough’s impressive canon-building work as a starting point\, this talk will shift to examine how Winfrey\, in creating and developing Oprah’s Book Club\, forms a distinct canon of her own. To create a diverse and inclusive community of readers\, Winfrey engages in an ethic of love\, a practice of cultivating care for and appreciation of books\, authors\, and readers by foregrounding notions of community\, attachment\, and pleasure. Winfrey’s literary affections—in particular\, how she describes books as companions\, cultivates intimate attachments to authors\, and regards reading as a form of self-care––reveals how a book can be both savior and sanctuary\, a means of self-affirmation and protection in an otherwise hostile and perilous world.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/african-american-literature-at-ucla-a-symposium-in-honor-of-professor-richard-yarborough/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T110000
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SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting-29/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241213T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241213T110000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-37/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241213T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241213T120000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004824Z
CREATED:20260825T004824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004824Z
UID:10000545-1734084000-1734091200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-53/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241213T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241213T143000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005626Z
CREATED:20260825T005626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005626Z
UID:10000590-1734093000-1734100200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Poetics in Refusal of Settler Life: Mahmoud Darwish and the Question of Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Register here to attend. A light lunch will be provided. An RSVP is required to attend. \nJoin us for our Kanner Forum featuring Jeffrey Sacks\, Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at UC Riverside. This talk will offer a reading of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in relation to poetic form and the generalizing and obliterating violences of settler life. Rather than exceptionalize the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people\, this talk studies it as an expression of the normative terms for western hemispheric existence and outlines the refusal of these terms in the poetic formulations and reverberations of Darwish’s poetics. To think the poetic in a time of genocide is also to think genocide in relation to the broader terms of settler life and the particular enactments of the Zionist state\, in order to articulate collective terrains of struggle through the poetic: a collective refusal of settler life in relation to the Question of Palestine. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Saree Makdisi\, Professor and Department Chair of English at UCLA. \nJeffrey Sacks is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at UC Riverside. He is the author of a forthcoming book\, Poeticality: Anontological Form and the Critique of Settler Life (Fordham University Press) and Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form\, al-Shidyaq to Darwish (Fordham UP\, 2015). He has published a translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (New York: Archipelago\, 2006).
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/poetics-in-refusal-of-settler-life-mahmoud-darwish-and-the-question-of-palestine/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T110000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005043Z
CREATED:20260825T005043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005043Z
UID:10000554-1736499600-1736506800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-38/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T150000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005054Z
CREATED:20260825T005054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005054Z
UID:10000560-1737118800-1737126000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CANCELED: Undergraduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-undergraduate-committee-meeting/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T010027Z
CREATED:20260825T010027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T010027Z
UID:10000597-1737475200-1737482400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job Talk for Postcolonial Literature Search
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/job-talk-for-postcolonial-literature-search-3/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250123T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T010027Z
CREATED:20260825T010027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T010027Z
UID:10000596-1737648000-1737655200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job Talk for Postcolonial Literature Search
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/job-talk-for-postcolonial-literature-search-2/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T130000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005053Z
CREATED:20260825T005053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005053Z
UID:10000557-1737716400-1737723600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting-30/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260825T010027Z
CREATED:20260825T010027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T010027Z
UID:10000598-1737730800-1737738000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Medieval Texts Reading Group Winter 2025 Meeting\nFriday\, January 24\n3:00-5:00 pm\nKaplan 193\, UCLA \nFor our Winter 2025 meeting\, we will meet on Jan 24\,  3:00 – 5:00 PM\, in Kaplan 193\, and we will read a selection from Gregory of Tours’ Libri historiarum X (Ten Books of History) (in English and in Latin). Join us for a discussion of scandals\, revolutions\, and unruly nuns led by Prof. Jaime Kreiner (Professor and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History). A calendar of planned meetings is HERE. Handouts of each reading will be available during the group meeting\, but are also linked in the calendar below and can also be found HERE. \nThe 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 get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. \nNo preparation is necessary (other than a brief skim of the text) and no expertise or medieval knowledge is required – only enthusiasm! Suggestions for what to read (or what kinds of texts to read) are very welcome. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-2/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005826Z
CREATED:20260825T005826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005826Z
UID:10000595-1738080000-1738087200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job Talk for Postcolonial Literature Search
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/job-talk-for-postcolonial-literature-search/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T103000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005147Z
CREATED:20260825T005147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005147Z
UID:10000565-1738225800-1738233000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting-28/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250131T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250131T120000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005826Z
CREATED:20260825T005826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005826Z
UID:10000594-1738317600-1738324800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CANCELED: Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-faculty-meeting-3/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005053Z
CREATED:20260825T005053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005053Z
UID:10000558-1738926000-1738933200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting-31/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
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