Events

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...