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SUMMARY:Hammer Poetry Series: Armen Davoudian
DESCRIPTION:Armen Davoudian\, who grew up in Isfahan\, Iran\, has published his first volume of poems\, The Palace of Forty Pillars\, which the San Francisco Chronicle named “Best Book of Spring.” Davoudian also translated from Persian Hopscotch\, by the contemporary dissident Persian poet Fatemeh Shams. Currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University\, Davoudian’s dissertation focuses on metanoia\, a figure emergent in the Renaissance and embodied in the work of many poets over the centuries. \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-armen-davoudian/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250213T160000
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SUMMARY:Extractive Mediation and Epistemologies of the Deep
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation with Lisa Yin Han in dialogue with Elizabeth DeLoughrey about the oceanic humanities. \nLisa Yin Han is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College and the author of Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor (2024). \nSupported by the UCLA Program in Digital Humanities and Department of English.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/extractive-mediation-and-epistemologies-of-the-deep/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T090000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-39/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T100000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-54/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T150000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005147Z
CREATED:20260825T005147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005147Z
UID:10000561-1739538000-1739545200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-16/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T010429Z
CREATED:20260825T010429Z
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UID:10000606-1739980800-1739988000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop for WP Search
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/workshop-for-wp-search-2/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T160000
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DTSTAMP:20260825T010429Z
CREATED:20260825T010429Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop for WP Search
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/workshop-for-wp-search-3/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T160000
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DTSTAMP:20260825T010429Z
CREATED:20260825T010429Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop for WP Search
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/workshop-for-wp-search-4/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T213000
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SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Adam Phillips
DESCRIPTION:This program will take place at the Landmark Westwood Theater\, at 1045 Broxton Avenue. View directions \nAdam Phillips\, “Britain’s foremost contemporary psychoanalytic thinker” (The New Yorker)\, will be in conversation with UCLA English Professors David Russell and Mona Simpson on Kindness\, Missing Out\, Wanting to Change\, Getting Better and Giving Up. \nAdam Phillips\, formerly a principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital\, London\, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism\, including Missing Out\, Unforbidden Pleasures\, In Writing\, Attention Seeking\, On Wanting to Change\, and On Getting Better. He is the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. \nCopresented by the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-adam-phillips/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Info Session: Summer Travel Study in Florence
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/info-session-summer-travel-study-in-florence/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250307T130000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting-29/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250310T160000
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SUMMARY:Info Session: Summer Travel Study in Dublin
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/info-session-summer-travel-study-in-dublin/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250310T170000
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UID:10000604-1741626000-1741633200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Prospective Graduate Students Welcome Week Reception
DESCRIPTION:UCLA English faculty\, graduate students\, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception\, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/prospective-graduate-students-welcome-week-reception-3/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250311T170000
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SUMMARY:ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited and welcome to join the party this Tuesday\, March 11 at 5pm in the ERR for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors. \nCome join us for a night of good food and drinks as students in the Creative Writing Program read from work written during winter quarter. Everyone is welcome to attend and bring guests! \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-writers-series-a-reading-with-student-authors-5/
LOCATION:CA
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005425Z
CREATED:20260825T005425Z
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UID:10000581-1743091200-1743098400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Southern California Eighteenth-Century Group: Alex Mazzaferro
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/southern-california-eighteenth-century-group-alex-mazzaferro/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T123000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005626Z
CREATED:20260825T005626Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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/
LOCATION:CA
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/
LOCATION:CA
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/
LOCATION:CA
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/
LOCATION:CA
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/
LOCATION:CA
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/
LOCATION:CA
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/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T012150Z
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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/
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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/
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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/
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