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SUMMARY:Spring Reception
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/spring-reception-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260519T140000
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium! \nDates/Times/Location \nTuesday\, May 19 – Thursday\, May 21 in 126A Kaplan Hall\nTuesday\, 2 to 4:45 pm\nWednesday\, 9 to 10:45 am and 1 to 3:45 pm\nThursday\, 9 am to 1:45 pm and 3 to 3:45 pm \nThe full panel schedule is available here. \nAbout the Colloquium \nUCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English are thrilled to invite you to our fifth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2026. In a series of 45-minute panels across three days\, students from the Professional Writing Minor will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. Fifty-six students will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range\, depth\, and individualized paths possible within the Professional Writing Minor. From astronaut hearts to queer horror\, birthright citizenship to Los Angeles nightlife\, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including memoirs\, websites\, zines\, research articles\, and more. The colloquium is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served\, and a short Q&A will follow each panel. Friends\, family\, faculty\, staff\, and students are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers and soon-to-be graduates share their insights and discoveries. \nThe PWM Capstone Seminars are led in Sp26 by Writing Programs faculty\, Drs. Amber West\, Maja Manojlovic\, Laurel Westrup\, Megan Stephan\, and Ms. Rachel Swanger. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit UCLA Writing Programs for full details. \n“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking\, what I’m looking at\, what I see and what it means.” -Joan Didion
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/5th-annual-professional-writing-minor-capstone-seminar-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:Hammer Poetry Series: A.E. Stallings
DESCRIPTION:A.E. Stallings\, forty-seventh Oxford Professor of Poetry and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship\, has published five volumes of poems (most recently This Afterlife)\, as well as distinguished translations of Lucretius\, Hesiod\, and the pseudo-Homeric Battle between the Frogs and the Mice. Her new book Frieze Frame: How Poets\, Painters\, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon\, is as edifying and entertaining as a son et lumière of its venerable subject. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry\, the Atlantic Monthly\, and the New Yorker. \nOrganized and hosted by poet\, literary critic\, and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by 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-a-e-stallings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T180000
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SUMMARY:2026 Spring Athenaeum
DESCRIPTION:2026 Spring Athenaeum \nWednesday\, May 20 at 4-6pm in Kaplan 193 \nFeaturing Presenters Enrique Olivares-Pesante and Jonathan Grossman\, with Yogita Goyal as Respondent. \nPlease join us in Kaplan 193 for scholarship\, refreshments\, & conversation. \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/2026-spring-athenaeum/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T170000
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SUMMARY:The Sea Within Us: Caring for the Deep
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. \nTo celebrate the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s award-winning and widely influential book\, The Sea Around Us\, an interdisciplinary group of Indigenous culture bearers\, scientists\, artists\, and ocean storytellers will address the legacy of DDT+\, industrial\, and radioactive waste dumping off the southern California coast. As a visionary marine biologist\, Carson represented the science of the ocean alongside an ethic of accountability to what she termed our “mother sea.” To Carson\, the ocean was a teacher\, agent\, and ancestor carried in our briny veins. \nThis panel will engage a wide range of perspectives about the cultures of ocean knowledge including Indigenous stewardship\, the history and science behind the contamination\, its impact on ocean ecosystems and marine mammals\, and how collectively we might chart a path toward healing and accountability through diverse practices of caring for the deep. \nPresenters \nLihini Aluwihare\, Professor\, UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography\nTina Orduno Calderon\, Culture bearer of the Tongva\, Chumash and Yoeme Indigenous People\nElizabeth DeLoughrey\, Professor\, UCLA Department of English and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\nAlissa C. Deming\, Vice President of Conservation Medicine and Science\, Pacific Marine Mammal Center\nRebeca Méndez\, artist and professor\, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts\nTina Treude\, Professor\, UCLA Department of Earth\, Planetary\, and Space Sciences and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences\nRev. Adelia Sandoval\, Spiritual leader of the Acjachemen Indigenous People\nDavid Valentine\, Distinguished Professor\, UCSB Department of Earth Science\nRosanna Xia\, investigative journalist at the Los Angeles Times \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-sea-within-us-caring-for-the-deep/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:ARC with Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and 2025-26 Van Dyck Chair\, UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:“Ambivalence and the Politics of Form: Literary Experiment and the Question of Representation\, 1970-2000.”
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-hannah-van-hove-vrije-universiteit-brussel-and-2025-26-van-dyck-chair-ucla/
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SUMMARY:Memory\, Madness\, and Messianism: Thinking with My Father\, the Messiah by Gil Z. Hochberg
DESCRIPTION:Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew\, Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies at Columbia University.  She discusses her new memoir in conversation with UCLA colleagues\, Hannah Jakobsen (Comp Lit)\, Rachel Lee (English/Gender Studies/Institute of Society & Genetics) & Michael Rothberg (English/Comp Lit). \nSponsored by the Working Group in Memory Studies & the Abolition Medicine &  Disability Justice Project. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women/ Barbra Streisand Center\, the UCLA Departments of Gender Studies\, Comparative Literature and English; UCLA Division of Humanities & the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \n* Pay-by-space parking available in Lot Five (Level Six) and Lot Three.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/memory-madness-and-messianism-thinking-with-my-father-the-messiah-by-gil-z-hochberg/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T193000
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SUMMARY:Out of Plain Sight
DESCRIPTION:Post-screening conversation with UCLA English Professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey\, UCLA Design Media Arts Professor Rebeca Méndez\, and the film’s co-director\, investigative journalist Rosanna Xia. \nCo-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. \nFrom the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia\, Out of Plain Sight is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California. \nNot far from Catalina Island\, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world\, David Valentine discovers a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Xia\, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II\, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean—and the consequences continue to haunt the world today. \n2024\, Dir. Daniel Straub\, Rosanna Xia\, DCP\, color\, 94 min. \n \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/out-of-plain-sight/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T170000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students\, graduate students\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. Once each term\, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages\, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. \nEach discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No expertise or preparation beyond a brief skim of the text is required – only enthusiasm! \nFor our Spring meeting this year\, we will read Cædmon’s Hymn and some related texts. Discussion will be led by Professor Erica Weaver (English). \nView the readings. \nSponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-6/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T180000
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SUMMARY:Revelation Reading: Cymbeline\, Refinished
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Cymbeline\, Refinished\, directed by Michael Sexton and produced by Red Bull Theater. This event is part of the Revelation Reading Series. \nCymbeline\, Refinished\nFriday\, May 22nd\n4:00 PM (approx. 2 hours 15 minutes)\nKaplan Hall 193 \nThe reading will feature Shakespeare’s original play\, with Shaw’s reimagined final act\, giving us a seamless experience of the two singular geniuses. \nExperience this powerful adaptation and join in brief discussions\, with opportunities to connect with others after the screening. \nHosted by: Mayra Cortes\, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, English Department. \n\n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/revelation-reading-cymbeline-refinished/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260526T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260526T143000
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SUMMARY:Packer Lecture with Caleb Smith: On Disavowal
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English on Tuesday\, May 26 and Thursday\, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith\, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In addition to his formal lectures\, Professor Smith will lead a graduate workshop on Wednesday\, May 27. All events include a light lunch. An RSVP is required to attend the lectures and graduate workshop. Please RSVP at the link below. \nRegister here to attend the lectures and graduate workshop. \nAbout the lectures: \nAncient speech acts like confession\, disavowal\, and testimony have strange afterlives in modern\, secular culture. Smith’s lectures reflect on how we use these rituals and what kind of justice we want from them. \nEvent Schedule: \n“On Disavowal”: Tuesday\, May 26 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm. \n“On Disavowal\,” is an essay in the genealogy of morals\, tracing the development of disavowal from religious and legal ceremonies through psychoanalysis to contemporary political rhetoric and critical theory. \nGraduate Workshop: Wednesday\, May 27 at 12:00pm. Lunch provided. \nGraduate students and faculty are welcome to attend a lunch workshop with Professor Smith. \n“Revenge Vows”: Thursday\, May 28 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm. \n“Revenge Vows\,” takes up a case study from nineteenth-century American literature\, Charles Chesnutt’s “The Dumb Witness” (1897)\, where a testifying voice becomes an instrument of binding punishment. \nCaleb Smith is professor of English and American Studies at Yale University\, where he teaches courses in American literature\, cultural history\, and critical theory. His books include The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press\, 2009); The Oracle and the Curse (Harvard University Press\, 2013); and the first published edition of Austin Reed’s 1858 prison memoir\, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict (Random House\, 2016). His latest\, Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture\, appeared from Princeton University Press in 2023. \nQuestions about the events?\nContact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/packer-lecture-with-caleb-smith-on-disavowal/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260527T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260527T140000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Lunch Workshop: Caleb Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English on Tuesday\, May 26 and Thursday\, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith\, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In addition to his formal lectures\, Professor Smith will lead a graduate workshop on Wednesday\, May 27. All events include a light lunch. An RSVP is required to attend the lectures and graduate workshop. Please RSVP at the link below. \nRegister here to attend the lectures and graduate workshop. \nAbout the lecturers: \nAncient speech acts like confession\, disavowal\, and testimony have strange afterlives in modern\, secular culture. Smith’s lectures reflect on how we use these rituals and what kind of justice we want from them. \nLectures and Graduate Workshop Schedule: \n“On Disavowal”: Tuesday\, May 26 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm. \n“On Disavowal\,” is an essay in the genealogy of morals\, tracing the development of disavowal from religious and legal ceremonies through psychoanalysis to contemporary political rhetoric and critical theory. \nGraduate Workshop: Wednesday\, May 27 at 12:00pm. Lunch provided. \nGraduate students and faculty are welcome to attend a lunch workshop with Professor Smith. \n“Revenge Vows”: Thursday\, May 28 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm. \n“Revenge Vows\,” takes up a case study from nineteenth-century American literature\, Charles Chesnutt’s “The Dumb Witness” (1897)\, where a testifying voice becomes an instrument of binding punishment. \nCaleb Smith is professor of English and American Studies at Yale University\, where he teaches courses in American literature\, cultural history\, and critical theory. His books include The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press\, 2009); The Oracle and the Curse (Harvard University Press\, 2013); and the first published edition of Austin Reed’s 1858 prison memoir\, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict (Random House\, 2016). His latest\, Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture\, appeared from Princeton University Press in 2023. \nQuestions about the events?\nContact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-lunch-workshop-caleb-smith/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260527T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260527T180000
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SUMMARY:20/21 Working Group with John Lurz (Tufts University)
DESCRIPTION:The Barthes Fantastic: John Lurz in conversation with Louise Hornby \nWednesday\, May 27 at 4:00 pm\nKaplan 193 \nJohn Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life in the work of Roland Barthes. Doing so allows him to develop an expanded understanding of the fantastic as a conceptual category—a way of thinking—in which the texts we read come to inform the texture of our real lives. \nRSVP: bit.ly/425BmDD
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/20-21-working-group-with-john-lurz-tufts-university/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260528T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260528T143000
DTSTAMP:20260825T030114Z
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SUMMARY:Packer Lecture with Caleb Smith: Revenge Vows
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English on Tuesday\, May 26 and Thursday\, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith\, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In addition to his formal lectures\, Professor Smith will lead a graduate workshop on Wednesday\, May 27. All events include a light lunch. An RSVP is required to attend the lectures and graduate workshop. Please RSVP at the link below. \nRegister here to attend the lectures and graduate workshop. \nAbout the lecturers: \nAncient speech acts like confession\, disavowal\, and testimony have strange afterlives in modern\, secular culture. Smith’s lectures reflect on how we use these rituals and what kind of justice we want from them. \nLectures and Graduate Workshop Schedule: \n“On Disavowal”: Tuesday\, May 26 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm. \n“On Disavowal\,” is an essay in the genealogy of morals\, tracing the development of disavowal from religious and legal ceremonies through psychoanalysis to contemporary political rhetoric and critical theory. \nGraduate Workshop: Wednesday\, May 27 at 12:00pm. Lunch provided. \nGraduate students and faculty are welcome to attend a lunch workshop with Professor Smith. \n“Revenge Vows”: Thursday\, May 28 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm. \n“Revenge Vows\,” takes up a case study from nineteenth-century American literature\, Charles Chesnutt’s “The Dumb Witness” (1897)\, where a testifying voice becomes an instrument of binding punishment. \nCaleb Smith is professor of English and American Studies at Yale University\, where he teaches courses in American literature\, cultural history\, and critical theory. His books include The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press\, 2009); The Oracle and the Curse (Harvard University Press\, 2013); and the first published edition of Austin Reed’s 1858 prison memoir\, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict (Random House\, 2016). His latest\, Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture\, appeared from Princeton University Press in 2023. \nQuestions about the events?\nContact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/packer-lecture-with-caleb-smith-revenge-vows/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260529T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260529T190000
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SUMMARY:English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
DESCRIPTION:The English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception will take place at the UCLA University Club on Friday\, May 29 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm. \n\nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/english-and-writing-programs-honors-and-awards-reception-5/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260602T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260602T190000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Prose Reading
DESCRIPTION:Looking for a fun way to celebrate the end of spring quarter? Come hang out with us at the Creative Writing Prose Reading Tuesday\, June 2 at 5 PM in Kaplan 193. \nStudents from the Creative Writing Program will read from their work. Bring your friends\, grab some pizza and drinks\, and enjoy the party. Everyone is welcome and invited! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-prose-reading-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T110000
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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies \nDate/Time\nFriday\, June 5 – Saturday\, June 6\n9:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT \nLocation\nUCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\n2520 Cimarron Street \nOrganized by Professors Joseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, and Deaglán Ó Donghaile\, Liverpool John Moores University \nA central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the late nineteenth century\, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originator of Irish modernism. Still\, literary scholarship has largely sidelined his powerful influence over this movement. Regarded by his contemporaries as an outstanding artist\, critic\, and public intellectual until his imprisonment in 1895\, current research on Wilde tends to confine his leading presence within the late Victorian aesthetic and decadent movements. By highlighting this overlooked aspect of Wilde’s legacy\, “Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies” will raise critical and theoretical awareness of his influence over modernist innovation not only within the field of literary production but also in related artistic areas in Ireland and beyond. \nThe literary revival of the 1890s has been cited as the launching ground for experimental modernism in Ireland\, with the publication and staging of works by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)\, John Millington Synge (1871–1909)\, and Augusta Gregory (1852–1932) that celebrate rural or Celticist versions of modernity. The revival’s longer-term origins\, however\, can be traced to the metropolitan and radical aesthetes\, feminists\, queer artists\, anarchists\, and Irish separatists who belonged to the milieus in which Oscar Wilde moved.  This conference will draw on the Clark Library’s imposing archive\, the “Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle Collection\,” to explore the dialogues that these figures established\, along with their interactions with traditions of Irish and\, more broadly\, American and European modernism. \nOrganized thematically around the materials held at the Clark Library\, the conference’s opening panel will allow scholars to reflect upon important archives such as the More House Archive\, the Pierre Louÿs Collection\, and the Clark’s important fine press collection\, which includes important material produced by the Cuala Press in Ireland (1908–1946). Besides these sources\, the conference will address the library’s important collections of rare books\, manuscripts (including the work of the Scottish anarchist and friend of Wilde’s\, Thomas Hastie Bell)\, pamphlets\, and ephemera relating to the interchanges between experimental writing and cultural expression of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nThe organizers: Deaglán Ó Donghaile\, Reader in English at Liverpool John Moores University\, is the author of Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle (Edinburgh University Press\, 2020) and Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism (Edinburgh University Press\, 2011). Joseph Bristow\, Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA\, has published widely on Wilde’s life and works. His most recent monograph is Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings\, from Arrest to Imprisonment (Yale University Press\, 2022). Currently\, he is co-editing (with Yvonne Ivory and Rebecca N. Mitchell) two volumes of Wilde’s unfinished and miscellaneous writings (for Oxford University Press). \nSpeakers\nPatrick Bixby\, Arizona State University\nEnda Duffy\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\nKate Hext\, University of Exeter and Ewha Womans University\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\nGregory Mackie\, The University of British Columbia\nKristin Mahoney\, Michigan State University\nAlex Murray\, Queen’s University Belfast\nBrian Ó Conchubhair\, University of Notre Dame\nAna Rodríguez Navas\, Loyola University Chicago \n\nThe conference is free to attend with advance registration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. No registration is required to watch the livestream. \nPresentations will be recorded and made available on the Center’s YouTube Channel until December 7\, 2026: youtube.com/@ucla-c1718cs \nSeating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \nQuestions about the conference?\nVisit The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies for more information.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/oscar-wildes-modernist-legacies/
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-27/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Book Launch – The Last Amateur by Helen Deutsch
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join us for a book launch and roundtable to celebrate the release of Helen Deutsch’s The Last Amateur: Jonathan Swift\, Edward Said\, and the Profession of Literature. The event will feature a roundtable chaired by Saree Makdisi\, with fellow faculty Yogita Goyal\, Louise Hornby\, Sarah Kareem and David Russell. \nRegister here to attend. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate Helen’s new work!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/book-launch-the-last-amateur-by-helen-deutsch/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260612T090000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-49/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260612T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260612T120000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-66/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260614T140000
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SUMMARY:Department of English Commencement
DESCRIPTION:Congratulations\, class of 2026! We look forward to celebrating with you at our departmental commencement event in June. \nEVENT DETAILS AND EXPECTATIONS: \nThe departmental event is a smaller\, more personal ceremony for our graduates and their families. You will be able to celebrate your accomplishment with your fellow classmates and the English department’s faculty and staff. \nOur departmental event includes: \n\nAddresses from the Department of English chair\, featured faculty speaker\, and featured alumni speaker.\nAnnouncement of Dept. of English creative writing awards\, essay contest winners\, and departmental honors designations.\nIndividual recognition of graduates: your name will be called and you will cross the stage for a ceremonial photo with the chair. We ask that all graduates and their guests remain until the end of the ceremony to honor each student as their name is announced.\nFaculty receiving line: after all graduates have received individual recognition\, our faculty will form a receiving line to congratulate you on your accomplishments. The end of the receiving line marks the end of our ceremony.\n\n  \nOur departmental ceremony typically lasts 1.5 – 2 hours. Please plan accordingly when making restaurant reservations\, travel plans\, etc. \nOur departmental ceremony does not include College Honors or Latin Honors announcements. \nONLINE REGISTRATION FORM AND TICKET ORDERING: \nTicket ordering information will be emailed to students in late April or early May. \n2026 FACULTY SPEAKER: Professor Justin Torres \n \nJustin Torres is the author of Blackouts\, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction\, among other awards. A 2025 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy\, he’s also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard\, and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His first novel\, We the Animals was a national bestseller\, adapted into a feature film\, and recently reissued as part of HarperCollins American Classics series. \n2026 ALUMNI SPEAKER: Ali Haeri \n \nAli Haeri is Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Ouma Health\, one of the nation’s largest maternity telehealth platforms. He also teaches product marketing in Northwestern University’s Medill IMC graduate program and previously taught digital analytics and marketing at UCLA Extension. He previously served as Chief Marketing Officer of MNTN\, a streaming TV advertising software company\, where he led marketing from the company’s early days through its IPO. A UCLA English alumnus\, Ali was named to the 2025 Adweek 50 – Adweek’s annual list honoring standout leaders in advertising\, marketing\, media\, and technology – and has delivered keynotes at major marketing and advertising events across the country. \n \n** \nPlease note that this page pertains only to the Dept. of English commencement event. For more information about the College of Letters & Science commencement events\, please visit the UCLA Commencement website. \nStudents with questions about College Commencement or academic eligibility to participate may direct their inquiries here: http://www.college.ucla.edu/commencement/help/contact/. \nPast Departmental commencement speakers: \nKwame Granderson (2025) \nStephanie Ellis-Smith (2024) \nFrank Spotnitz (2019) \nMatea Gold (2018) \nRandall Park (2017) \nChristopher Zyda (2013)
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/department-of-english-commencement/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260925T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260925T110000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-50/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260925T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260925T120000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-69/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260925T153000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting-34/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260927T180000
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SUMMARY:Fall Reception
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/fall-reception-4/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260929T173000
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SUMMARY:Ecology\, Memory\, Poetry: Reading Paul Celan in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:The Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) and the Working Group in Memory Studies present: Ecology\, Memory\, Poetry: Reading Paul Celan in the Anthropocene \nPaul Celan\, one of the most important poets of post-World War II literature\, is famous for his lyrical engagements with memory and the Holocaust. In recent years\, he has also been read as a poet who addresses some of the most fundamental issues of environmental thought and writing in the Anthropocene: deep time\, altered landscapes\, new materialisms\, posthumanisms\, expressions of more-than-human loss\, and poetry in its relation to geology. This roundtable brings together two experts on Celan and the environmental humanities – Jason Groves and Paweł Piszczatowski–with a poet and researcher\, Rachel Kaufman\, to explore Celan as an environmental poet. \nA roundtable with: \nJason Groves (University of Washington)\nAuthor of The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and Mineral Imaginary (2020) \nRachel Kaufman (UCLA)\nAuthor of Many to Remember (2021) \nPaweł Piszczatowski (University of Warsaw)\nAuthor of Chthonic Shards: Paul Celan’s Poetics of Earth (2026) \nModerators: Ursula K. Heise and Michael Rothberg \nCo-Sponsored by the Department of English
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ecology-memory-poetry-reading-paul-celan-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Homepage
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SUMMARY:Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Kanner Forum featuring Benjamin Moser\, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History. \nIn Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History\, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists\, rabbis\, poets\, lawyers\, activists\, journalists\, and politicians—from Europe and Africa and Asia and Latin America—Moser traces a lineage of Jewish dissenters who confronted Zionism’s moral and political stakes—often at devastating personal cost\, including censorship\, exile\, and death. \nRegister here to attend. \nBenjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence\, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. Sontag: Her Life and Work won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020\, and The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters appeared in 2023. He completed the present book at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/anti-zionism-a-jewish-history/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Homepage
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-28/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T180000
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SUMMARY:40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies\, the nation’s first research center for early modern studies. Founded in 1985\, the Center provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies\, and organizes a wide range of academic and cultural programs. Additionally\, the Center administers the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, located on a historic property in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles\, which serves as the research laboratory for a distinguished array of fellows working either in early modern studies or the fin-de-siècle world of Oscar Wilde. \nRegister here to attend. This event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in-person on the UCLA campus in Royce Hall 314 and 306. Seating is limited; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. Registration will close on Thursday\, October 1\, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. \nThe program features a talk presented by UCLA Professor of English Helen Deutsch\, who served as the Center & Clark’s Director for a four year-term from 2017 to 2020. Following the talk\, guests are invited to mingle with friends and colleagues in Royce 306\, where they can add a message to the 40th anniversary Padlet\, view a display of Center & Clark ephemera and a slideshow\, and enjoy a reception on the terrace. \nAt a moment when higher education is under siege\, the study of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries might seem a luxury at best\, irrelevant at worst. Professor Deutsch’s talk\, a review and celebration of the Center and its history\, refutes such assumptions. She will argue that the work of the Center and its partner the Clark—research\, musical and theatrical performance\, conferences\, collaborations in many forms—is not a retreat to the past but rather an ongoing engagement with our present. Critical University Studies scholar Christopher Newfield has recently described universities as “places of unique challenge\, novelty\, and happiness\, of intellectual revolutions and personal transformations.”  The Center is just such a place\, and our imaginative and intellectual investments in the past illuminate the ways in which such revolutions are both rooted in history and ongoing collective projects of the utmost relevance. \nProfessor Deutsch joined UCLA’s English department in 1995 and was first affiliated with the Center & Clark as an Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral fellow in 1992–93. In addition to serving as Director\, she has assisted the Center & Clark in many capacities over the years\, including as Clark Professor in 2005–06\, and as a member and chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee. \nHer research is fueled by the love of literature and the love of authors. She practices a unique kind of feminist historical formalism that reads texts in relationship to the embodied lives of the writers who produced them. Her first two books consider the singular bodies of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in symbiotic relationship to each author’s uniquely imitative literary style and contested critical reception. \nHer most recent book\, The Last Amateur\, goes beyond the single-author framework to consider what it means to learn to love one author through another\, and to be transformed in the process. Deutsch scrutinizes Edward Said’s career-long conversation with Jonathan Swift\, which began with an unfinished book (a part of which was presented at the Clark)\, in order to raise questions of her own about the path of literary studies. At a time when many in the field have lost faith in critique\, she shows how passion and refusal of professional propriety—the hallmarks of the amateur—can enliven critique again. \nIn addition to serving as departmental Vice Chair for Graduate Studies\, she successfully spearheaded the founding of UCLA’s interdisciplinary Disability Studies Minor\, which she chaired from 2006 to 2011. She has been a member at large of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies\, chair of the Division for Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature of the Modern Language Association\, an advisory editor for PMLA\, the association’s journal\, and a member of its Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/40th-anniversary-celebration-of-the-center-for-17th-18th-century-studies/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Homepage
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