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.