BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Department of English - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Department of English X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://english.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Department of English REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T170000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012639Z CREATED:20260825T012639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012639Z UID:10000636-1747407600-1747414800@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group DESCRIPTION:For our Spring 2025 meeting\, we will meet on May 16\,  3:00 – 5:00 PM\, in Kaplan 193\, and we will read the short Middle English poem Wynnere and Wastoure. This peculiar mid-14th century alliterative poem (in Middle English\, but don’t be discouraged! Just do your best!) sets two allegorical figures\, Winner and Waster\, against each other in a debate about the proper use of things. They offer competing understandings of what it means to waste in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Join us for a discussion about over-using\, under-using\, not using\, prematurely using\, belatedly using\, and strange medieval food stuffs led by Prof. Matthew Fisher (English). 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\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T180000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012140Z CREATED:20260825T012140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012140Z UID:10000611-1747324800-1747332000@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Spring Athenaeum DESCRIPTION:The English Graduate Union Presents \nThe Spring Athenaeum \nThursday\, May 15 at 4:00pm – 6:00pm \nFeaturing Miranda Hoegberg and Uri McMillan\, with Louise Hornby as respondent. \nThe Athenaeum brings together one dissertation-stage graduate student and one faculty member to present their research\, providing a venue for grad student and faculty research to be in conversation with one another. The hope is to generate collegiality and dialogue across the department\, spanning historical periods and methodological approaches. Please join us for conversation and refreshments as we celebrate the wonderful research of our colleagues! URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/spring-athenaeum-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T180000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012150Z CREATED:20260825T012150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012150Z UID:10000619-1747238400-1747245600@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:LENS Book Talk with Allison Carruth DESCRIPTION:Novel Ecologies challenges the conviction that climate change and other environmental crises must be met with ever larger-scale forms of technological intervention. Against the new worlds conjured by Google\, Meta\, Open AI\, Amazon\, SpaceX\, and a host of lesser-known start-ups\, Carruth marshals writers and artists who imagine provisionally hopeful environmental futures while refusing to forget the histories that have made the world what it is. \nAllison Carruth is a professor in the Program in American Studies and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Her current research interests include environmental narrative and science communication; the role of artists and writers in contemporary American environmental and food justice movements; and evolving relationships in the United States between technology and ecology. For over a decade\, she has worked on collaborations that aim to bridge ideas from and re-imagine the boundaries between the arts\, humanities\, and sciences. She is the author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food (Cambridge University Press\, 2013) and co-author with Amy L. Tigner of Literature and Food Studies (Routledge\, 2018)\, and Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (University of Chicago Press\, 2025). URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/lens-book-talk-with-allison-carruth/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T150000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012150Z CREATED:20260825T012150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012150Z UID:10000618-1747231200-1747234800@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:EHRG Coffee Hour with Allison Carruth DESCRIPTION:The Environmental Humanities Research Group (EHRG) will host a coffee hour for graduate students and Professor Allison Carruth from 2–3pm in Kaplan 193\, followed by Professor Carruth’s talk at 4pm in Kaplan 193. URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ehrg-coffee-hour-with-allison-carruth/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T180000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012237Z CREATED:20260825T012237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012237Z UID:10000626-1747152000-1747159200@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Stephen Witt Book Talk - The Thinking Machine DESCRIPTION:The  L.A.-based writer\, TV producer and investigative journalist will join us to discuss his new book\, The Thinking Machine.  Stephen’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Rolling Stone\, GQ\, Slate\, WSJ\, and many other venues. He is executive producer of the 2024 streaming series based on his first book\, How Music Got Free. \nRegister here to attend the event. A light reception and book signing will follow the talk. Books will be available to purchase at the event. \n\nAbout THE THINKING MACHINE \nIn June 2024\, spurred by the frenzy of investment following the launch of ChatGPT and thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny’s restaurant\, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth.  In The Thinking Machine\, acclaimed journalist Stephen Witt recounts the unlikely story of how a manufacturer of video game components shocked Silicon Valley by conquering the market for AI hardware\, and in the process reinvented the computer. \n“The story of how Nvidia became the hottest investment on Wall Street and a household name is fascinating.” — The New York Times Book Review URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/stephen-witt-book-talk-the-thinking-machine/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T190000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012140Z CREATED:20260825T012140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012140Z UID:10000614-1746810000-1746817200@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Retirement Party in Honor of Jenny Sharpe DESCRIPTION:Professor Jenny Sharpe\, a renowned scholar of postcolonial studies\, the Black Atlantic\, and cultural theories of globalization\, is retiring after a 32-year distinguished career marked by groundbreaking scholarship and dedicated service. We invite you to join us for a special reception in honor of Professor Sharpe that will bring together colleagues\, former students\, and friends to reflect on her lasting impact and the profound influence of her research and teaching. \nWe request your RSVP to attend. Please RSVP here. \nProfessor Sharpe profoundly shaped the field of literary studies with important works such as Allegories of Empire\, which examines representations of interracial rape for managing crises in British colonial authority\, and Slavery: A Literary Archeology of Black Women’s Lives\, which challenges conventional notions of subaltern agency. Most recently\, her book Immaterial Archives theorizes an African Diaspora poetics of loss\, further cementing her legacy as a transformative thinker. Beyond her scholarship\, she has been an advocate for diversity\, equity\, and inclusion\, serving as Associate Dean of Humanities for the past six years. Her career and contributions will be celebrated at her retirement party\, honoring the lasting impact she has had on the field and academic community. \nThe reception is organized by Ali Behdad\, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. This reception is co-sponsored by UCLA Department of English and UCLA Division of Humanities. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Ali Behdad: behdad@humnet.ucla.edu URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/retirement-party-in-honor-of-jenny-sharpe/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T120000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005024Z CREATED:20260825T005024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005024Z UID:10000549-1746784800-1746792000@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-57/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T121500 DTSTAMP:20260825T012438Z CREATED:20260825T012438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012438Z UID:10000632-1746267300-1746274500@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The No-Body Problem DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to think collaboratively without the body? Please join us on Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd at Hershey Hall on the UCLA campus to hear—and participate in—a series of conversations on this subject. \nThis two-day event gathers a group of scholars working broadly in eighteenth-century studies under the heading of what we are calling “The No-Body Problem\,” the long history of thinking about the yields of—and yieldings to—disembodied media. The eighteenth century is a natural moment to launch these questions\, since it witnessed the emergence of modern media (including print)\, new collectivities in so-called republics of letters\, the epistolary novel\, widespread literacy\, theories of information and social complexity\, and forms of being attendant on communication at a distance. That age is rich in reflections upon\, and responses to\, innovations in communication media\, since it was encountering modes of disembodied relationality which anticipate our own. \nOur goal is to think collectively\, in person\, about the long history of thought about the relationship between embodiment and modern media; we aim to unearth the roots of modern patterns of thought in early experiments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, offering a historical counterweight to arguments over virtuality which are anything but novel. \nSeating is limited; please RSVP here. URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-no-body-problem-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T153000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012237Z CREATED:20260825T012237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012237Z UID:10000630-1746192600-1746199800@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday May 2nd at 1:30pm for a public lecture by Emily Hodgson Anderson\, “Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write.” \nLocation: Hershey Hall Salon \nLunch is offered; RSVP here to attend. \n“Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write.” \nWe’ve probably all had this thought\, recently\, reading a campus-wide email\, or a student essay\, or the transcript of a politician’s speech: who really wrote these words? \nThe looming presence of AI is clearly one reason why this question is at the forefront of our minds—but the question also predates AI and brings up new questions of its own.  \nWhen is an author not an author?  \nThe question might feel like the set up for a joke with Barthes or Foucault as the punchline\, however\, in this talk\, Emily Hodgson Anderson’s answer to this question will take us in a different direction. \nWhen is an author not an author? When an author uses a ghostwriter ….   \nUnderstood broadly as the act of one person writing in another person’s name\, the practice has\, according to many ghostwriters\, been around since written language itself. And yet the implementation\, and acknowledgment\, of this practice have varied greatly over time. Who are these invisible figures? Why do they do what they do? And why do they remain disembodied— behind the scenes?  In part a cultural history of this mysterious and intuitively captivating profession\, in part an exposé of how contemporary professional ghostwriting works\, this public lecture uses ghostwriting to animate the questions posed by the workshop on the No-Body Problem. \nEmily Hodgson Anderson is Professor of English and Dean of Undergraduate Education for Dornsife College at USC. She is the author of two books of literary criticism\, Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction (Routledge\, 2009) and Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss (University of Michigan Press\, 2018). She is also author of the newly published cross-over book Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life (Columbia UP 2025). For five years\, she served as the editor-in-chief for the academic journal The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her academic work has appeared in the journals PMLA\, ELH\, and Studies in the Novel\, among others\, and her public-facing writing has appeared in places such as the Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Rambling\, LitHub and Air/Light.  She is currently at work on a new book titled Ghostwriting: A Secret History\, from God to AI. URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ghost-writing-the-secret-history-of-the-no-bodies-who-write/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T113000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012438Z CREATED:20260825T012438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012438Z UID:10000631-1746178200-1746185400@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The No-Body Problem DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to think collaboratively without the body? Please join us on Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd at Hershey Hall on the UCLA campus to hear—and participate in—a series of conversations on this subject. \nThis two-day event gathers a group of scholars working broadly in eighteenth-century studies under the heading of what we are calling “The No-Body Problem\,” the long history of thinking about the yields of—and yieldings to—disembodied media. The eighteenth century is a natural moment to launch these questions\, since it witnessed the emergence of modern media (including print)\, new collectivities in so-called republics of letters\, the epistolary novel\, widespread literacy\, theories of information and social complexity\, and forms of being attendant on communication at a distance. That age is rich in reflections upon\, and responses to\, innovations in communication media\, since it was encountering modes of disembodied relationality which anticipate our own. \nOur goal is to think collectively\, in person\, about the long history of thought about the relationship between embodiment and modern media; we aim to unearth the roots of modern patterns of thought in early experiments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, offering a historical counterweight to arguments over virtuality which are anything but novel. \nSeating is limited; please RSVP here. URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-no-body-problem/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250501T210000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005425Z CREATED:20260825T005425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005425Z UID:10000583-1746126000-1746133200@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Southern California Eighteenth-Century Group: Serena Zabin DESCRIPTION: URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/southern-california-eighteenth-century-group-serena-zabin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T133000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012227Z CREATED:20260825T012227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012227Z UID:10000625-1745841600-1745847000@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Ussama Makdisi - Gaza\, Genocide\, and the Palestine Exception DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture on Monday\, April 28 at 12 pm with Dr. Ussama Makdisi\, Inaugural May Ziadeh Chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies and Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Refreshments from Panini Kabob Grill will be served! \nMonday\, April 28 at 12 – 1:30 pm \n\n\nRoyce Hall 314 \n“Gaza\, Genocide\, and the Palestine Exception”: \nThis talk draws attention to how and why actual Palestinian history and humanity have been consistently denied and removed from view and how and why a different philozionist narrative has been made central to Western liberalism. The talk shows how one narrative of actual Palestinian history has been consistently utterly submerged by another narrative that forces Palestinians into the role of being the antisemitic persecutors. What are the ethical and political consequences of this substitution? Does this substitution explain the fury and self-righteousness of Western outrage at Palestinian violence and why advocates or activists for Palestinian humanity so often find themselves voiceless in a Western liberal wilderness even amidst the first livestreamed genocide of modern history? \nFor more information\, click here. \nThis event is hosted by the History Department and co-sponsored by the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department\, the English Department\, the Center for Near Eastern Studies\, and the Consortium for Palestine Studies. \nBio: \nDr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. During AY 2019-2020\, Professor Makdisi was a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of History. In 2012-2013\, Makdisi was an invited Resident Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study\, Berlin). In April 2009\, the Carnegie Corporation named Makdisi a 2009 Carnegie Scholar as part of its effort to promote original scholarship regarding Muslim societies and communities\, both in the United States and abroad. Makdisi was awarded the Berlin Prize and spent the Spring 2018 semester as a Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin. \nProfessor Makdisi’s most recent book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World was published in 2019 by the University of California Press. He is also the author of Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations\, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs\, 2010). His previous books include Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press\, 2008)\, which was the winner of the 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association\, the 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association\, and a co-winner of the 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. \nMakdisi is also the author of The Culture of Sectarianism: Community\, History\, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press\, 2000) and co-editor of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa (Indiana University Press\, 2006). He has published widely on Ottoman and Arab history as well as on U.S.-Arab relations and U.S. missionary work in the Middle East. Among his major articles are “Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: An Interpretation of Brief History” which appeared in the Journal of American History and “Ottoman Orientalism” and “Reclaiming the Land of the Bible: Missionaries\, Secularism\, and Evangelical Modernity” both of which appeared in the American Historical Review. Professor Makdisi has also published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, and in the Middle East Report. URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ussama-makdisi-gaza-genocide-and-the-palestine-exception/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T180000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012227Z CREATED:20260825T012227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012227Z UID:10000624-1745424000-1745431200@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Vivian Huang Public Talk: "On Surface Relations" DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Asian American Reading Group’s spring seminar and talk featuring Vivian Huang. \n10:30 am – Seminar with Vivian Huang: “Becoming Meat”\nOpen to students and faculty. RSVP required. tinyurl.com/V-Huang \n4:00 pm – Vivian Huang Public Talk: “On Surface Relations” URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/vivian-huang-public-talk-on-surface-relations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T123000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012227Z CREATED:20260825T012227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012227Z UID:10000623-1745404200-1745411400@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Seminar with Vivian Huang: "Becoming Meat" DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Asian American Reading Group’s spring seminar and talk featuring Vivian Huang. \n10:30 am – Seminar with Vivian Huang: “Becoming Meat”\nOpen to students and faculty. RSVP required. tinyurl.com/V-Huang \n4:00 pm – Vivian Huang Public Talk: “On Surface Relations” URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/seminar-with-vivian-huang-becoming-meat/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250419T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250419T110000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012237Z CREATED:20260825T012237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012237Z UID:10000627-1745053200-1745060400@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Just Culture x Connecting Art and Law for Liberation DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an exciting event celebrating art and liberation!\n\nOn 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 at UCLA School of Law. \nThe best way to follow along is to check out our website: uclacalltoaction.com. There\, you’ll find information regarding our lineup\, venue locations\, room numbers for workshops and roundtables\, maps\, and the schedule for each day. Please continue to check out the website to guide your festival experience throughout the weekend! \nLater in the day\, join the Underground Scholars Initiative for the Just Culture Festival in Dickson Plaza\, right across from the law school. Dive into discussions\, workshops\, and networking opportunities with experts in the field. Explore how we can create a fair and accountable culture in various aspects of society. \nYou can sign up for Just Culture x CALL Festival here. You can sign up for specific workshops at the CALL Festival here.  URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/just-culture-x-connecting-art-and-law-for-liberation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250415T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250415T203000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012227Z CREATED:20260825T012227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012227Z UID:10000621-1744741800-1744749000@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk & Signing - The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora DESCRIPTION: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. \nRSVP limited. Books sold & refreshments served. \n\n\nRSVP HERE TO ATTEND. \nThe Cleaving \n\n\nVietnamese Writers in the Diaspora \nThe first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe. \n\n\nEdited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud\, Lan P. Duong\, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen\, The Cleaving brings together Vietnamese artists and writers from around the world in conversation about their craft and how their work has been shaped and received by mainstream culture and their own communities. This collection highlights how Vietnamese diasporic writers speak about having been cleaved—a condition in which they have been separated from\, yet still hew to\, the country that they have left behind. \nComposed of eighteen dialogues among thirty-seven writers from France\, Indonesia\, Kyrgyzstan\, Canada\, Australia\, Israel\, and the United States\, the book expands on the many lives that Vietnamese writers inhabit. The dialogues touch on family history\, legacies of colonialism and militarism\, and the writers’ own artistic and literary achievements. Taken together\, these conversations insist on a deeper reckoning with the conditions of displacement. URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-signing-the-cleaving-vietnamese-writers-in-the-diaspora/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T190000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012150Z CREATED:20260825T012150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012150Z UID:10000620-1744650000-1744657200@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:tagged 'Singapore': (Dis)embodied Desires and Digital Witchcraft DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English and the Text/Tech Lab for a poetry reading featuring writer-artist Marylyn Tan. \nDisseminating & dissociating—let’s get textual in the virtual. This poetry reading and Q&A session will focus on writing form(lessness)\, bodies\, queerness\, the occult and what used to be the wild west of desires with new names\, but has now become an endless spoon-feed of algorhithmic doom-scrolling. \nRegister here to attend. A light reception and book signing will follow the talk. Books will be available to purchase at the event. \nMarylyn Tan is a queer\, female\, Chinese Singaporean writer-artist.  Her first child\, GAZE BACK (Lambda loser\, Singapore Literature Prize 2020)\, is the lesbo Singaporean trans-genre witch grimoire you never knew you needed. Her work trades in the abject\, vulgar and pleasurable\, striving to emancipate and restore the alienated\, endangered body. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/tagged-singapore-disembodied-desires-and-digital-witchcraft/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T180000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012227Z CREATED:20260825T012227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012227Z UID:10000622-1744387200-1744394400@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Writing Programs Spring Faculty Reading DESCRIPTION:Join us for readings and refreshments this spring! Come hear members of the Writing Programs faculty read from their work. All are welcome! \nWriting Programs Spring Faculty Reading \n\nFriday April 11\n4pm\n\nHershey Hall Salon\, Room 158 \nFeaturing: Nathan Deuel\, Amber West\, Mary Spooner\, Tom Hitchner\, Tamar Christensen\, Randall Fallows \n\n  \n— URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/writing-programs-spring-faculty-reading/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T150000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005147Z CREATED:20260825T005147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005147Z UID:10000562-1744376400-1744383600@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-17/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T143000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005626Z CREATED:20260825T005626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005626Z UID:10000589-1744374600-1744381800@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:California Before America: Doing Without Dreams and Destinies DESCRIPTION: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 to attend. Please RSVP at the link below. \nRegister here to attend the lectures and workshop. \nLecture Schedule: \nThursday\, April 10 at 10:30am\, followed by a lunch workshop at 12pm\, in Kaplan 193: \nJust My Type: Following Latin(X) Letters Through the C19 and Beyond \nLetterforms\, whether hand-drawn or reproduced in print\, encode visual meanings that vibrate through texts. Following the traces of Spanish-serving printers and their equipment across the nineteenth-century US\, this talk argues that a more literal understanding of “LatinX letters” helps connect these earlier writer-artisans to contemporary poets. \nGraduate students and faculty are welcome to attend a lunch workshop with Professor Gruesz following this talk. The lunch workshop will take place at 12pm in Kaplan 193. \nFriday\, April 11 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm\, in Kaplan 193: \nCalifornia Before America: Doing Without Dreams and Destinies \nWhere does California fit in American literary history? Pushing back against hypertrophic metaphors of golden dreams and disappointments\, of Manifest Destiny pushed to its continental margins\, this talk focuses instead on the early Pacific and on Indigenous world-making prior to and during the Spanish mission period to conjure alternate models of relating\, and relating to\, the past. \nKirsten Silva Gruesz is Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of over forty essays on Spanish-language print culture in the U.S. and LatinX literature and culture\, stretching from the colonial period to the present day. Her books include Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (Princeton\, 2002) and Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language\, Race\, and Belonging in the Early Americas (Harvard\, 2022)\, which was recognized with the Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association\, the John Winthrop Award from the Colonial Society of Massachusetts\, the History of the Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship\, Readership\, and Publishing\, and the Early American Literature Book Prize. She is currently Co-PI of a multi-institutional Mellon Foundation-funded Crossing Latinidades working group\, The Latinx Past. \nQuestions about the events?\nContact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/california-before-america-doing-without-dreams-and-destinies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T120000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005024Z CREATED:20260825T005024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005024Z UID:10000548-1744365600-1744372800@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-56/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T213000 DTSTAMP:20260825T010228Z CREATED:20260825T010228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T010228Z UID:10000601-1744313400-1744320600@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Hammer Poetry Series: Rosanna Warren DESCRIPTION: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\, So Forth\, characterized by her elegance\, vivacity\, and relentless specificity. Her verse reminds us everywhere of the wisdom of Thales that “all things are full of gods.” \nOrganized and hosted by poet\, literary critic\, and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by the 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-rosanna-warren/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T190000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012140Z CREATED:20260825T012140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012140Z UID:10000615-1744304400-1744311600@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Smart Moves: From Ph.D. to First-Gen Advocacy with La’Tonya Rease Miles DESCRIPTION: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 impact. Through storytelling and practical insights\, she challenges traditional notions of academic success and explores the smart moves that redefine what a Ph.D. can do. \nRegister here to attend. A light reception and book signing will follow the talk. Books will be available to purchase at the event. \nDr. La’Tonya “LT” Rease Miles is a trailblazer in first-generation higher education. As a first-gen graduate herself\, she has designed groundbreaking programs at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University to support first-gen students. A co-founder of the Black First Gen Collective and My Tribe Media\, LT advocates for non-traditional learners and elevates first-gen narratives through scholarly work and digital communities. An avid fan of NBA basketball\, college football\, and pop culture\, she holds a Ph.D. in American literature from UCLA and explores the intersections of first-gen identity and cultural representation in her writing. URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/smart-moves-from-ph-d-to-first-gen-advocacy-with-latonya-rease-miles/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T180000 DTSTAMP:20260825T012150Z CREATED:20260825T012150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T012150Z UID:10000616-1744300800-1744308000@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:ARC with Will Clark (SFSU) DESCRIPTION: URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-will-clark-sfsu/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T140000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005625Z CREATED:20260825T005625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005625Z UID:10000587-1744286400-1744293600@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Lunch Workshop with Kirsten Silva Gruesz DESCRIPTION: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 to attend. Please RSVP at the link below. \nRegister here to attend the lectures and workshop. \nLecture Schedule: \nThursday\, April 10 at 10:30am\, followed by a lunch workshop at 12pm\, in Kaplan 193: \nJust My Type: Following Latin(X) Letters Through the C19 and Beyond \nLetterforms\, whether hand-drawn or reproduced in print\, encode visual meanings that vibrate through texts. Following the traces of Spanish-serving printers and their equipment across the nineteenth-century US\, this talk argues that a more literal understanding of “LatinX letters” helps connect these earlier writer-artisans to contemporary poets. \nGraduate students and faculty are welcome to attend a lunch workshop with Professor Gruesz following this talk. The lunch workshop will take place at 12pm in Kaplan 193. \nFriday\, April 11 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm\, in Kaplan 193: \nCalifornia Before America: Doing Without Dreams and Destinies \nWhere does California fit in American literary history? Pushing back against hypertrophic metaphors of golden dreams and disappointments\, of Manifest Destiny pushed to its continental margins\, this talk focuses instead on the early Pacific and on Indigenous world-making prior to and during the Spanish mission period to conjure alternate models of relating\, and relating to\, the past. \nKirsten Silva Gruesz is Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of over forty essays on Spanish-language print culture in the U.S. and LatinX literature and culture\, stretching from the colonial period to the present day. Her books include Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (Princeton\, 2002) and Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language\, Race\, and Belonging in the Early Americas (Harvard\, 2022)\, which was recognized with the Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association\, the John Winthrop Award from the Colonial Society of Massachusetts\, the History of the Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship\, Readership\, and Publishing\, and the Early American Literature Book Prize. She is currently Co-PI of a multi-institutional Mellon Foundation-funded Crossing Latinidades working group\, The Latinx Past. \nQuestions about the events?\nContact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-lunch-workshop-with-kirsten-silva-gruesz/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T123000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005626Z CREATED:20260825T005626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005626Z UID:10000588-1744281000-1744288200@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Just My Type: Following Latin(X) Letters Through the C19 and Beyond DESCRIPTION: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 to attend. Please RSVP at the link below. \nRegister here to attend the lectures and workshop. \nLecture Schedule: \nThursday\, April 10 at 10:30am\, followed by a lunch workshop at 12pm\, in Kaplan 193: \nJust My Type: Following Latin(X) Letters Through the C19 and Beyond \nLetterforms\, whether hand-drawn or reproduced in print\, encode visual meanings that vibrate through texts. Following the traces of Spanish-serving printers and their equipment across the nineteenth-century US\, this talk argues that a more literal understanding of “LatinX letters” helps connect these earlier writer-artisans to contemporary poets. \nGraduate students and faculty are welcome to attend a lunch workshop with Professor Gruesz following this talk. The lunch workshop will take place at 12pm in Kaplan 193. \nFriday\, April 11 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm\, in Kaplan 193: \nCalifornia Before America: Doing Without Dreams and Destinies \nWhere does California fit in American literary history? Pushing back against hypertrophic metaphors of golden dreams and disappointments\, of Manifest Destiny pushed to its continental margins\, this talk focuses instead on the early Pacific and on Indigenous world-making prior to and during the Spanish mission period to conjure alternate models of relating\, and relating to\, the past. \nKirsten Silva Gruesz is Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of over forty essays on Spanish-language print culture in the U.S. and LatinX literature and culture\, stretching from the colonial period to the present day. Her books include Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (Princeton\, 2002) and Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language\, Race\, and Belonging in the Early Americas (Harvard\, 2022)\, which was recognized with the Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association\, the John Winthrop Award from the Colonial Society of Massachusetts\, the History of the Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship\, Readership\, and Publishing\, and the Early American Literature Book Prize. She is currently Co-PI of a multi-institutional Mellon Foundation-funded Crossing Latinidades working group\, The Latinx Past. \nQuestions about the events?\nContact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/just-my-type-following-latinx-letters-through-the-c19-and-beyond/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T180000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005425Z CREATED:20260825T005425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005425Z UID:10000581-1743091200-1743098400@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Southern California Eighteenth-Century Group: Alex Mazzaferro DESCRIPTION: URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/southern-california-eighteenth-century-group-alex-mazzaferro/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T160000 DTSTAMP:20260825T010429Z CREATED:20260825T010429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T010429Z UID:10000609-1741960800-1741968000@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-19/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T150000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005158Z CREATED:20260825T005158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005158Z UID:10000567-1741957200-1741964400@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting-30/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T120000 DTSTAMP:20260825T005024Z CREATED:20260825T005024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005024Z UID:10000547-1741946400-1741953600@english.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-55/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR