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SUMMARY:Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Textbooks and US American Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Carmen E. Lamas\, Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. The Spanish-language textbook is a much overlooked and even maligned nineteenth-century genre\, yet it is of upmost importance for understanding US American literature in the nineteenth century. Composed mainly by Latina/o authors these textbooks are not monomodal pedagogical devices: they are integral to US American literary history\, and their Latina/o origins and legacies can be traced to the present day. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Marissa López\, Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. \nRegister here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. \nCarmen E. Lamas is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her book The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature\, Translation\, and Historiography (Oxford 2021) explores nineteenth-century Latina/o history\, literature\, and translation from a hemispheric perspective. Her second book Irene Albar. Novela cubana (1885\, 1886) por Eusebio Guiteras. Edición facsímil was published this Spring 2023 by Editorial Calambur (Valencia\, Spain) and examines the trans-American and trans-Atlantic nature of nineteenth-century Latina/o lives and texts. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/nineteenth-century-spanish-language-textbooks-and-us-american-literature/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T100000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-41/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T193000
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SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Sigrid Nunez
DESCRIPTION:National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez shares her most recent novel What Are You Going Through\, a meditation on friendship\, empathy\, and what it means to die well. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-sigrid-nunez/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T170000
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SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation: Sigrid Nunez
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: \nTea and Conversation with Sigrid Nunez \nSigrid Nunez will discuss her writing. \nThis event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Sigrid Nunez at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. \nBoth events are free and open to the public. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/tea-and-conversation-sigrid-nunez/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T160000
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SUMMARY:A Talk and Welcome Reception Featuring David Russell
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a talk and reception welcoming Associate Professor David Russell\, who joined our department this spring. \nProfessor Russell’s talk\, Art Therapy: Marion Milner’s Essays in Psychoanalysis\, will read the fascinating modernist diaries of the essayist\, painter and psychoanalyst\, Marion Milner\, in order to make the case for her distinctly literary approach to psychological therapy in twentieth-century Britain. It will take up Milner’s question of what it means to live creatively\, with particular attention to her own ways of using literature\, and her essayistic practice at the borders of literature and visual art. \nRegister here to attend. A reception will follow the event. \nDavid Russell is Associate Professor of English at UCLA. He was previously Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford (2015-2023)\, where he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College\, and Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London (2013-2015). \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/a-talk-and-welcome-reception-featuring-david-russell/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T110000
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-10/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T100000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-24/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T160000
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SUMMARY:ARC: Ajay Batra (USC)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-ajay-batra-usc/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T180000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion & Celebration: Mona Simpson’s Commitment
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Professor Mona Simpson’s new novel\, Commitment. \nCommitment is a resonant novel about family and duty and the attendant struggles that come when a parent falls ill. The novel honors the spirit of fragile\, imperfect mothers and the under-chronicled significance of friends\, in determining the lives of our children left on their own. With Commitment\, Mona Simpson\, one of the foremost chroniclers of the American family in our time\, has written her most important and unforgettable novel. \nCreative writing colleagues Justin Torres\, Fred D’Aguiar\, and Michelle Huneven will lead the discussion. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate Mona and her new work! \nRegister here to attend. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/book-discussion-celebration-mona-simpsons-commitment/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T193000
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SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Mona Simpson
DESCRIPTION:Author and UCLA English Professor Mona Simpson reads from her latest release\, Commitment\, a masterful novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state mental hospital in the 1970s. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-mona-simpson/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T123000
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SUMMARY:Queer Victorian Histories
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US FOR A VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION \nTHURSDAY\, APRIL 27\n12:30pm-2:30pm PDT / 3:30pm-5:30pm EDT \nRegister to attend here. \nFEATURING THE AUTHORS: \nJOSEPH BRISTOW\n(University of California\, Los Angeles) \nSIMON JOYCE\n(College of William and Mary) \nKRISTIN MAHONEY\n(Michigan State University) \nModerated by Zarena Aslami\n(Michigan State University) \nIntroductions to their recently published books will be available in advance. \nPlease direct questions to Zarena Aslami: aslami@msu.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/queer-victorian-histories/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T190000
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SUMMARY:ERR Author Series: Tara Ison
DESCRIPTION:The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading (ERR) Author Series is pleased to present a book talk and reading with Tara Ison. \nUCLA Department of English alum Tara Ison will read from her recent novel\, At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf\, and discuss writing\, publishing\, identity\, and more! \nAt the Hour Between Dog and Wolf\, a recent addition to the Shari Levitt Memorial Collection\, is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France\, living “in hiding” as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village. \nTara Ison is the author of the novels The List (Scribner)\, A Child out of Alcatraz (Faber & Faber\, Inc.)\, a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and Rockaway (Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press)\, featured as one of the “Best Books of Summer” in O\, The Oprah Magazine\, July 2013. Her essay collection\, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live\, Love\, and Die at the Movies\, Winner of the PEN Southwest Book Award for Best Creative Nonfiction\, and her short story collection Ball\, were both published in 2015 by Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-author-series-tara-ison/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T143000
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SUMMARY:Mini Conference with Mihaela Mihai & Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce a series of in-person events with the political theorist Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) sponsored by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Professor Mihai will be in residence the week of April 17-21 and will give a public lecture\, lead a seminar\, and respond to graduate students in a mini-conference. These events will all take place under the rubric of “Landscapes of Political Memory.” Professor Mihai will also be available for one-on-one meetings with graduate students or anyone else who would like to talk with her about relevant issues. Please contact Michael Rothberg if you would like to set up a time to meet (mrothberg@humnet.ucla.edu). \nAll the necessary readings for the reading group session and seminar are available in our Box folder. All events will take place in Kaplan Hall 193\, except for the Friday morning seminar\, which will take place in Kaplan Hall 348. \nTuesday\, April 11 at 1:00-2:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Reading Group Session \nFor this session\, we will familiarize ourselves further with Mihai’s work by reading the introduction and first chapter of her recent book Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance as well as a forthcoming essay from the journal Memory Studies on environmental commemoration. All necessary readings for the reading group session are available in our Box folder. \nWednesday\, April 19 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Representing Environmental Grief \nDespite growing public concern\, environmental loss—accumulating more-than-human deaths\, extinct species\, ravaged ecosystems—is mostly grieved by environmental scientists\, activists\, victims\, and witnesses of devastation. Thus\, over the last decade\, numerous autobiographical texts have chronicled environmental grief and attested to a temporal gulf between those who inhabit the accelerating catastrophe and condemn the slow pace of redress\, and those trapped in a “business-as-usual” temporality. Building on constructivist theories of representation and political theorists’ engagements with autobiography\, Mihai reads these texts as sources of self-authorized representative claims targeting two objectives: first\, to summon the already grieving into a constituency of shared experience built around a vision of grief compatible with both hope and action; second\, to bridge the “segregated temporalities” of hegemonic time and that of environmental activists\, scientists and survivors. \nFriday\, April 21 at 10:00am – 12:00pm in Kaplan Hall 348: Seminar – Architecture\, Political Violence\, and Collective Memory \nFor this seminar\, there will be two readings on architecture\, political violence\, and memory\, also available in our Box folder. This event will be held in Kaplan Hall 348 and will be followed by lunch. \nFriday\, April 21 at 1:30pm – 3:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Mini Conference \nFollowing the seminar on Friday afternoon\, three UCLA graduate students\, Yair Agmon (Information Studies)\, Ivanna Berrios (Comparative Literature)\, and Naomi Ellis (Political Science) will be presenting short papers in a mini-conference.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/mini-conference-with-mihaela-mihai-graduate-students/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T140000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233254Z
CREATED:20260824T233254Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-committee-meeting-3/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233427Z
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SUMMARY:20/21 Reading Group: Contingency and Form
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 21st\, the 20/21 Working Group will host “Contingency and Form\,” a conversation with Noa Saunders (Boston University)\, Lucy Alford (Wake Forest)\, and Louise Hornby. The event will take place in person at 11am in Kaplan 193. \nPlease email Louise Hornby (lhornby@humnet.ucla.edu) for copies of the readings\, and feel free to invite colleagues\, students\, and anyone else who may be interested.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/20-21-reading-group-contingency-and-form/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233454Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Architecture\, Political Violence\, and Collective Memory
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce a series of in-person events with the political theorist Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) sponsored by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Professor Mihai will be in residence the week of April 17-21 and will give a public lecture\, lead a seminar\, and respond to graduate students in a mini-conference. These events will all take place under the rubric of “Landscapes of Political Memory.” Professor Mihai will also be available for one-on-one meetings with graduate students or anyone else who would like to talk with her about relevant issues. Please contact Michael Rothberg if you would like to set up a time to meet (mrothberg@humnet.ucla.edu). \nAll the necessary readings for the reading group session and seminar are available in our Box folder. All events will take place in Kaplan Hall 193\, except for the Friday morning seminar\, which will take place in Kaplan Hall 348. \nTuesday\, April 11 at 1:00-2:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Reading Group Session \nFor this session\, we will familiarize ourselves further with Mihai’s work by reading the introduction and first chapter of her recent book Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance as well as a forthcoming essay from the journal Memory Studies on environmental commemoration. All necessary readings for the reading group session are available in our Box folder. \nWednesday\, April 19 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Representing Environmental Grief \nDespite growing public concern\, environmental loss—accumulating more-than-human deaths\, extinct species\, ravaged ecosystems—is mostly grieved by environmental scientists\, activists\, victims\, and witnesses of devastation. Thus\, over the last decade\, numerous autobiographical texts have chronicled environmental grief and attested to a temporal gulf between those who inhabit the accelerating catastrophe and condemn the slow pace of redress\, and those trapped in a “business-as-usual” temporality. Building on constructivist theories of representation and political theorists’ engagements with autobiography\, Mihai reads these texts as sources of self-authorized representative claims targeting two objectives: first\, to summon the already grieving into a constituency of shared experience built around a vision of grief compatible with both hope and action; second\, to bridge the “segregated temporalities” of hegemonic time and that of environmental activists\, scientists and survivors. \nFriday\, April 21 at 10:00am – 12:00pm in Kaplan Hall 348: Seminar – Architecture\, Political Violence\, and Collective Memory \nFor this seminar\, there will be two readings on architecture\, political violence\, and memory\, also available in our Box folder. This event will be held in Kaplan Hall 348 and will be followed by lunch. \nFriday\, April 21 at 1:30pm – 3:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Mini Conference \nFollowing the seminar on Friday afternoon\, three UCLA graduate students\, Yair Agmon (Information Studies)\, Ivanna Berrios (Comparative Literature)\, and Naomi Ellis (Political Science) will be presenting short papers in a mini-conference.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/seminar-architecture-political-violence-and-collective-memory/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233245Z
CREATED:20260824T233245Z
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SUMMARY:ERR Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-committee-meeting-3/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233415Z
CREATED:20260824T233415Z
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SUMMARY:ARC: Caleb Smith (Yale)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-caleb-smith-yale/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233454Z
CREATED:20260824T233454Z
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SUMMARY:Mihaela Mihai Lecture: Representing Environmental Grief
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce a series of in-person events with the political theorist Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) sponsored by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Professor Mihai will be in residence the week of April 17-21 and will give a public lecture\, lead a seminar\, and respond to graduate students in a mini-conference. These events will all take place under the rubric of “Landscapes of Political Memory.” Professor Mihai will also be available for one-on-one meetings with graduate students or anyone else who would like to talk with her about relevant issues. Please contact Michael Rothberg if you would like to set up a time to meet (mrothberg@humnet.ucla.edu). \nAll the necessary readings for the reading group session and seminar are available in our Box folder. All events will take place in Kaplan Hall 193\, except for the Friday morning seminar\, which will take place in Kaplan Hall 348. \nTuesday\, April 11 at 1:00-2:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Reading Group Session \nFor this session\, we will familiarize ourselves further with Mihai’s work by reading the introduction and first chapter of her recent book Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance as well as a forthcoming essay from the journal Memory Studies on environmental commemoration. All necessary readings for the reading group session are available in our Box folder. \nWednesday\, April 19 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Representing Environmental Grief \nDespite growing public concern\, environmental loss—accumulating more-than-human deaths\, extinct species\, ravaged ecosystems—is mostly grieved by environmental scientists\, activists\, victims\, and witnesses of devastation. Thus\, over the last decade\, numerous autobiographical texts have chronicled environmental grief and attested to a temporal gulf between those who inhabit the accelerating catastrophe and condemn the slow pace of redress\, and those trapped in a “business-as-usual” temporality. Building on constructivist theories of representation and political theorists’ engagements with autobiography\, Mihai reads these texts as sources of self-authorized representative claims targeting two objectives: first\, to summon the already grieving into a constituency of shared experience built around a vision of grief compatible with both hope and action; second\, to bridge the “segregated temporalities” of hegemonic time and that of environmental activists\, scientists and survivors. \nFriday\, April 21 at 10:00am – 12:00pm in Kaplan Hall 348: Seminar – Architecture\, Political Violence\, and Collective Memory \nFor this seminar\, there will be two readings on architecture\, political violence\, and memory\, also available in our Box folder. This event will be held in Kaplan Hall 348 and will be followed by lunch. \nFriday\, April 21 at 1:30pm – 3:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Mini Conference \nFollowing the seminar on Friday afternoon\, three UCLA graduate students\, Yair Agmon (Information Studies)\, Ivanna Berrios (Comparative Literature)\, and Naomi Ellis (Political Science) will be presenting short papers in a mini-conference.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/mihaela-mihai-lecture-representing-environmental-grief/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230418T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233443Z
CREATED:20260824T233442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233443Z
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SUMMARY:Trans of Color Approaches to Trans* Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Jian Neo Chen\, associate professor of queer studies in the departments of English and Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Chen will share their reflections on reading contemporary trans* literature during the ongoing racial gender/sex wars. Their talk will offer some initial thoughts on the politics\, aesthetics\, and science of trans* auto- writing and theory spanning the late twentieth to early twenty-first centuries. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Summer Kim Lee\, assistant professor in UCLA’s English Department. \nRegister here to attend. \nThis event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow the event. \nJian Neo Chen (they/ he) is associate professor of queer studies in English and Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Their research focuses on transgender and queer aesthetics and embodied practices in literature\, visual culture and contemporary theory and their reimagining and reconstruction of social relations and movements. Chen’s first book Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement (ANIMA series\, Duke University Press\, 2019) was awarded a 2021 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award and was a 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They serve as a co-editor in the new ASTERISK book series at Duke University Press with Susan Stryker and Eliza Steinbock. Chen is working on two new books. The first engages with lineages of Asian American and Asian diasporic queer and feminist thought to develop a racial trans/disciplinary methodology attuned to the literary and visual sensorium of Asian American trans and gender variant political experience. The second explores the potential autonomy of trans* literature within and outside the aesthetic\, political\, and scientific orders of US and Western European settler racial capitalism. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/trans-of-color-approaches-to-trans-literature/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233214Z
CREATED:20260824T233214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233214Z
UID:10000332-1681466400-1681473600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-40/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T110000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-23/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T160000
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SUMMARY:Articulating and Enacting Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Dr. Sami Schalk\, associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk will provide a brief history of the National Black Women’s Health Project and analyze how the organization articulated and enacted Black disability politics within their Black feminist health activism. This talk is excerpted from the book Black Disability Politics which explores Black activist and cultural worker engagement with disability as a political and social issue. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Dr. Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne\, assistant professor in UCLA’s English Department. \nRegister here to attend. \nDr. Sami Schalk is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on race\, disability and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke UP 2022). Schalk is also a fat Black queer disabled femme\, public intellectual and pleasure activist. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/articulating-and-enacting-black-disability-politics-in-the-national-black-womens-health-project/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T143000
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SUMMARY:Reading Group Session: Mihaela Mihai
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce a series of in-person events with the political theorist Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) sponsored by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Professor Mihai will be in residence the week of April 17-21 and will give a public lecture\, lead a seminar\, and respond to graduate students in a mini-conference. These events will all take place under the rubric of “Landscapes of Political Memory.” Professor Mihai will also be available for one-on-one meetings with graduate students or anyone else who would like to talk with her about relevant issues. Please contact Michael Rothberg if you would like to set up a time to meet (mrothberg@humnet.ucla.edu). \nAll the necessary readings for the reading group session and seminar are available in our Box folder. All events will take place in Kaplan Hall 193\, except for the Friday morning seminar\, which will take place in Kaplan Hall 348. \nTuesday\, April 11 at 1:00-2:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Reading Group Session \nFor this session\, we will familiarize ourselves further with Mihai’s work by reading the introduction and first chapter of her recent book Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance as well as a forthcoming essay from the journal Memory Studies on environmental commemoration. All necessary readings for the reading group session are available in our Box folder. \nWednesday\, April 19 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Representing Environmental Grief \nDespite growing public concern\, environmental loss—accumulating more-than-human deaths\, extinct species\, ravaged ecosystems—is mostly grieved by environmental scientists\, activists\, victims\, and witnesses of devastation. Thus\, over the last decade\, numerous autobiographical texts have chronicled environmental grief and attested to a temporal gulf between those who inhabit the accelerating catastrophe and condemn the slow pace of redress\, and those trapped in a “business-as-usual” temporality. Building on constructivist theories of representation and political theorists’ engagements with autobiography\, Mihai reads these texts as sources of self-authorized representative claims targeting two objectives: first\, to summon the already grieving into a constituency of shared experience built around a vision of grief compatible with both hope and action; second\, to bridge the “segregated temporalities” of hegemonic time and that of environmental activists\, scientists and survivors. \nFriday\, April 21 at 10:00am – 12:00pm in Kaplan Hall 348: Seminar – Architecture\, Political Violence\, and Collective Memory \nFor this seminar\, there will be two readings on architecture\, political violence\, and memory\, also available in our Box folder. This event will be held in Kaplan Hall 348 and will be followed by lunch. \nFriday\, April 21 at 1:30pm – 3:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193: Mini Conference \nFollowing the seminar on Friday afternoon\, three UCLA graduate students\, Yair Agmon (Information Studies)\, Ivanna Berrios (Comparative Literature)\, and Naomi Ellis (Political Science) will be presenting short papers in a mini-conference.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/reading-group-session-mihaela-mihai/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T123000
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SUMMARY:Self-Care and Pleasure Activism: Research\, Theory and Praxis
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a seminar featuring Dr. Sami Schalk\, associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk will discuss her co-authored article\, “Re-claiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care\,” (co-authored with Jina B. Kim in American Quarterly) and her current project on the practice of pleasure activism. Participants will be asked to explore how our lives\, identities and politics influence our research\, theory and praxis. Please note that this is a closed seminar and an RSVP is required to attend. \nRegister here to attend. \nDr. Sami Schalk is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on race\, disability and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics. Schalk is also a fat Black queer disabled femme\, public intellectual and pleasure activist. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/self-care-and-pleasure-activism-research-theory-and-praxis/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230407T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230407T150000
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-9/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T160000
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SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting-22/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T143000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233235Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233235Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting-19/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233427Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-42/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T180000
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SUMMARY:ARC: Joseph Dimuro (UCLA)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-joseph-dimuro-ucla/
LOCATION:CA
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