Events

Barbara L. Packer event featuring Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Join UCLA English on Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Kirsten Silva Gruesz, acclaimed scholar of Latinx literature and the 19th century. In addition to her formal lectures, Professor Gruesz will lead a graduate workshop, which includes lunch, at 12pm on April 10. An RSVP is required...

Earning a Ph.D. often comes with the expectation of a tenure-track career, but what happens when your path leads elsewhere? In this talk, Dr. La’Tonya "LT" Rease Miles, author of Smart Girl: A First-Gen Origin Story, shares how she leveraged her doctoral training to build a dynamic career in first-gen advocacy, media representation, and social...

First an eminent poet, as well as a literary critic, translator, classicist, and painter, Rosanna Warren reminds one of the protean genius of Max Jacob, from whom she could hardly differ more, yet of whom she has written an exemplary biography. The biography was published in 2020, along with her most recent volume of poems,...

Barbara L. Packer event featuring Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Join us for readings and refreshments this spring! Come hear members of the Writing Programs faculty read from their work. All are welcome! Writing Programs Spring Faculty Reading Friday April 11 4pm Hershey Hall Salon, Room 158 Featuring: Nathan Deuel, Amber West, Mary Spooner, Tom Hitchner, Tamar Christensen, Randall Fallows   --

A Text/Tech event featuring Marylyn Tan

Join The Cleaving editors Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, alongside contributors Lan Cao and Le Ly Hayslip in conversation, on Tuesday, April 15, 6:30 pm in UCLA Bunche 1209B. RSVP limited. Books sold & refreshments served. RSVP HERE TO ATTEND. The Cleaving Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora The first and...

Please join us for an exciting event celebrating art and liberation! On April 19, 2025, join visionary artists, activists, attorneys, advocates, legal scholars, and community members to share innovative, cutting-edge collaborations at the intersection of ART and LAW - aimed at imagining a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance. The art festival will be hosted...

Please join us for the Asian American Reading Group's spring seminar and talk featuring Vivian Huang. 10:30 am - Seminar with Vivian Huang: "Becoming Meat" Open to students and faculty. RSVP required. tinyurl.com/V-Huang 4:00 pm - Vivian Huang Public Talk: "On Surface Relations"