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SUMMARY:The Great Smoke: The Fog of Modernity in 1950s London
DESCRIPTION:Lynda Nead is the Pevsner Professor of British Art at Birkbeck College\, University of London.  Her books include Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain (1988); Victorian Babylon: People\, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London (2000); The Haunted Gallery: Painting\, Photography\, Film c. 1900 (2008); and\, most recently\, The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain (2017)\, from which this lecture is derived.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-great-smoke-the-fog-of-modernity-in-1950s-london/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190219T160000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Workshop with Angela Flournoy
DESCRIPTION:What happens in a creative writing workshop?  Find out on Tuesday\, February 19th in Kaplan 193 at 4pm. \nOpen workshop session featuring 2019 Author in Residence\, Professor Angela Flournoy and creative writing students and Westwind Fiction Editor Taylor Harper discussing a short story by Taylor. \nFor advance copies of the story\, please email creativewriting@english.ucla.edu.  Refreshments will be provided. \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-workshop-with-angela-flournoy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T160000
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SUMMARY:Tennis in Nablus\, Corpses in Baghdad: Colonial Trauma in the Modern Arab City
DESCRIPTION:Ismail Khalidi has quickly established himself as a leading Arab-American playwright. His plays include Tennis in Nablus (Alliance Theater\, 2010); Truth Serum Blues (Pangea World Theater\, 2005); Returning to Haifa (Finborough Theatre\, 2018); and Dead Are My People (Noor Theater\, 2018). The Actors Theater of Louisville recently commissioned Khalidi and fellow playwright Naomi Wallace to adapt Sinan Antoon’s novel The Corpse Washer\, which will premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays this March.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/tennis-in-nablus-corpses-in-baghdad-colonial-trauma-in-the-modern-arab-city/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190204T160000
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SUMMARY:“Making Much of Racial Mixing: Reading Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus alongside the American Multicultural Movement”
DESCRIPTION:Kyle Grady is a UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. His work explores intersections between the study of early modern English literature and culture and the study of African American literature and culture. His current book project rethinks representations of black ascendency\, racial mixing\, and interracial cooperation in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama\, using work from the African American tradition to explore how racism operates in moments of competing tolerance and intolerance. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the journals Early Modern Culture\, Pedagogy\, Shakespeare Quarterly\, and Shakespeare Studies. \nThis talk examines how popular approaches to racial mixing obscure quotidian histories. In contemporary America\, the Multicultural Movement worked to bring mixedness back into the popular consciousness\, but it also helped give rise to post-racial beliefs that racial mixing — particularly between black and white people — offered a salve for the intransigent racism of the past. Such a perspective hinges on the notion that mixedness is new\, even while the work of iconic writers like Frederick Douglass reveal it to be a centuries-old reality of American demographics. In this talk\, I argue that such misconceptions about racial mixing are not isolated to the American example. Early modern accounts of interracialism between English and African people often took a similar approach\, linking racial mixing to drastic and impending cultural consequences. I read Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus — a play that refers to racial mixing as an “experiment” — alongside the example of the Multicultural Movement to demonstrate how sensationalized accounts about racial mixing belie histories that are both mundane and problematic. In conjunction with exploring lesser-known early modern histories\, this talk considers what it means to examine a historical period that held misconceptions similar to our own.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/making-much-of-racial-mixing-reading-shakespeares-titus-andronicus-alongside-the-american-multicultural-movement/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T180000
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SUMMARY:Join us for a reading and Q&A with award winning author in residence Angela Flournoy
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading and Q&A with award winning author in residence Angela Flournoy.  Refreshments will be served. \nHailed as an “assured and memorable novel” by the New York Review of Books\, Flournoy’s book brings us a colorful\, complicated brood full of love and pride\, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It’s a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures\, and the ways in which our families bring us home. The author will be reading excerpts from her debut novel\, followed by a Q& A from the audience. \nFiction First Novel Prize\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. She is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree for 2015. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review\, and she has written for The New York Times\, The Nation\, The Los Angeles Times\, and elsewhere. \nA graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, Flournoy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. She has taught at the University of Iowa\, The New School\, Columbia University and Princeton University. \nFlournoy was the 2016-17 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She is a 2018 National Endowment for the Arts fellow.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/join-us-for-a-reading-and-qa-with-award-winning-author-in-residence-angela-flournoy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T170000
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SUMMARY:Westwind Open Mic Night in the ERR
DESCRIPTION:Drop by the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room (235 Kaplan Hall) on Thursday\, January 24th @5pm for Westwind’s Open Mic Night. \nLight refreshments will be provided. \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/westwind-open-mic-night-in-the-err/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T160000
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SUMMARY:American Writers and Artists in Florence: Summer 2019 Travel Study Info Session
DESCRIPTION:This Summer Travel Study program examines the experiences of some of the most important American writers and artists who spent time in Florence\, the beautiful Tuscan city where the Italian Renaissance originated. \nThis info session is led by Program Director and English Department Faculty\, Professor Chris Looby. He will discuss everything you need to know about the program and what to expect when you arrive including: coursework\, excursions\, lodging\, among other questions related to your daily life while in Florence. \nRSVP here to confirm your attendance! \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/american-writers-and-artists-in-florence-summer-2019-travel-study-info-session/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T173000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Student Reading in the ERR
DESCRIPTION:Make plans to drop by the English Reading Room on this Thursday\, November 29th for light refreshments and readings by some of our very talented creative writing students.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-student-reading-in-the-err/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T180000
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SUMMARY:Westwind's Fall Quarter Reading with Juliana Wang
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the Westwind Journal Fall Quarter Reading with award-winning visiting Professor Juliana Wang (author of Home Remedies) and student writers Taylor Leig and Evelyn Jean-Louis.  Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/westwinds-fall-quarter-reading-with-juliana-wang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T193000
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SUMMARY:Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Mary Ruefle
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, November 15\, 2018 7:30pm\nWhere: \n—\nTony Hoagland writes that Mary Ruefle combines “the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens” in a “poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous\, yes\, but also as visceral as anything you are likely to encounter.” Ruefle has written across several genres (including the comic book\, “erasure” poetry\, and essays) and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Whiting Award. \nAdmission to the event is free.  Please arrive early.  Dedicated to the memory of Doris Curran\, this series\, which has provided a stimulating forum for nationally and internationally known poets for fifty years\, is co-sponsored by the Friends of English and the UCLA Office of Cultural and Recreational Affairs. \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/hammer-museum-poetry-reading-with-mary-ruefle/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T053000
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SUMMARY:Author Reading with Zinzi Clemmons
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading with author Zinzi Clemmons\, co-founder of the literary journal Apogee and current Associate Editor at the Believer and a Contributing Editor to Literary Hub. Her debut novel\, What We Lose (Viking 2017) was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal\, the Aspen Words Literary Prize\, and the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize. She was a 2017 National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree.  Ms. Clemmons teaches writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/author-reading-with-zinzi-clemmons/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T160000
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SUMMARY:"What Historical Narratives Offer Us” - Talk with Raúl Coronado
DESCRIPTION:Raúl Coronado is a literary and intellectual historian. He’s an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley\, and is the author of A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture (Harvard 2013)\, winner of the MLA Best First Book Prize\, the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies\, and five other awards. From 2015-2017\, he served as the inaugural President of the Latina/o Studies Association and as a founding committee member of the MLA’s Latina/o Literature and Culture Forum. He’s currently working on his next book on the history of interiority in the Latina/o-Latin American world.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/what-historical-narratives-offer-us-talk-with-raul-coronado/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T093000
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SUMMARY:#masshysteria. Hysteria\, Politics\, and Performance Strategies Conference
DESCRIPTION:Free Admission. Please RSVP here: https://french.ucla.edu/event/masshysteria-hysteria-politics-and-performance-strategies-conference/ \n \nThis conference is generously sponsored by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies\, UCLA Department of English\, UCLA Department of Germanic Languages\, UCLA Department of African American Studies\, UCLA Department of Theater\, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies\, UCLA Center for Performance Studies\, UCLA Center for the Study of Women and supported by Sean Metzger (Professor in the UCLA Department of Theater and President of Performance Studies international). The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance is hosting the coffee break. \nFor more information please visit: www.performing-hysteria.com
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/masshysteria-hysteria-politics-and-performance-strategies-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T180000
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SUMMARY:Life Beyond English with Armen Babasoloukian ‘13
DESCRIPTION:UCLA’s Department of English is excited to introduce a year-long series specifically designed for English and American Literature and Culture majors! Life Beyond English offers current students the chance to engage in discussions with recent department graduates from a variety of fields. Join us as our alumni share their lived experiences and answer your questions about building a life and career after graduation. \nOur inaugural event features actor\, comedian\, and combat veteran Armen Babasoloukian ’13. Click the links provided to see clips of Armen’s standup\, character and commercial acting\, and dramatic work. Armen will kick off our new series on Tuesday\, October 30 at 4 PM in Kaplan Hall 193. We hope to see you there!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/life-beyond-english-with-armen-babasoloukian-13/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T210000
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SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Emily Wilson
DESCRIPTION:In her stunning new translation of The Odyssey—the first-ever English translation by a woman—renowned classics scholar Emily Wilson brings a fresh perspective to Homer’s masterpiece while still conveying the humanity and heroic power of the original Greek. \n \nWilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, the author of Mocked to Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton\, and the translator of plays by Seneca and Euripides. \nReadings are followed by a discussion with author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson\, who organizes this series. Supported in part by the UCLA Department of English and the Friends of English.  More information here.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-emily-wilson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T093000
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare’s Plays\, Refugees’ Stories - A Visit by Jessica Bauman
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Bauman\, director of Arden / Everywhere | UCLA | Oct. 23-24\, 2018\nPlease see below for workshop details.  All event RSVPs should be sent to Kim Hedlin at khedlin@ucla.edu \n \nShakespearean Theater Workshop \nTuesday\, Oct. 23\, 9:30-11:00am\, “The Nest” in the UCLA Botanical Gardens \nThis interactive workshop is for undergraduates\, MFAs\, and graduate students with theater experience and/or a committed interest in Shakespearean theater. Participants will workshop a scene from one of Shakespeare’s plays with Bauman’s direction. Max. 20 students—please RSVP. \n“Theater as Pedagogy” Workshop \nWednesday\, Oct. 24\, 9:30-11:00am\, Kaplan 193 \nThis interactive workshop for graduate students and undergraduate upperclassmen will cater to current and future educators at the college and advanced high school level. It will focus on using theater as a pedagogical tool for creating an inclusive classroom. No background in theater is necessary. Max. 20 students—please RSVP. \nAdvocates for Refugees Lunch \nWednesday\, Oct. 24\, noon-1pm\, Kaplan 193 \nThis pizza lunch will give student advocates for refugee populations the opportunity to hear about Bauman’s work\, share their own stories\, and think about refugee advocacy in creative ways. (Please specify dietary restrictions in your RSVP.) \nPresentation to Faculty and Graduate Students \nWednesday\, Oct. 24\, 4:30-6:00pm\, Kaplan 193 \nBauman will discuss her work\, present video clips from Arden / Everywhere\, and answer questions about her theater career\, pedagogy\, and social activism. One-hour presentation with reception to follow. \nPlease RSVP for all events to Prof. Kim Hedlin at khedlin@ucla.edu. \nDirector Jessica Bauman has developed “Arden/Everywhere” through research\, workshops\, and outreach to refugee communities since early 2015. Her work with refugee communities in New York includes teaching drama workshops at Catholic Charities\, the Arab American Association of New York and the International Center\, and the IRC’s Refugee Youth Summer Academy. In May 2016 she taught a two-week theater workshop with 40 refugees at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya through international NGO Film Aid. For more information\, please visit ardeneverywhere.com.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/shakespeares-plays-refugees-stories-a-visit-by-jessica-bauman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181022T160000
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SUMMARY:A Poetry Reading by Major Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Major Jackson is an American poet\, professor and the author of four collections of poetry: Roll Deep (2015)\, Holding Company (2010) and Hoops (2006)\, both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry\, and Leaving Saturn (2002)\, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. He has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, as the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at University of Massachusetts-Lowell and currently serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review. \nThis event is sponsored by the Department of English\, the Department of African American Studies and the John Charles Hillis Endowment in Literature.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/a-poetry-reading-by-major-jackson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180926T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180926T180000
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SUMMARY:Department of English Open House
DESCRIPTION:Stop by the Department of English Open House to learn about the many opportunities and programs we have to offer! Enjoy refreshments\, meet the faculty\, speak with the undergraduate advisors\, and learn how you can take advantage of our departmental offerings.  A full list of attending program representatives is available here.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/department-of-english-open-house/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180921T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180921T020000
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SUMMARY:LA Escena Theater Festival Coming Soon!
DESCRIPTION:Diversifying the Classics is proud to present LA Escena\, Los Angeles’ first Hispanic classical theater festival\, coming to the Greenway Court Theatre (544 N. Fairfax Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA 90036) from Friday September 21st through Sunday September 23rd. \nCutting-edge Mexican company EFE Tres will present Lope de Vega’s El príncipe inocente (The Innocent Prince)\, a meditation on political power and culpability reimagined as a dialogue in a prison cell\, and El Merolico (The Mountebank)\, a reworking of Cervantes’ comic interludes as delivered by a traveling performer in small-town Mexico. (In Spanish\, with English subtitles) \nPlaywrights’ Arena will present the fourth Golden Tongues\, brand-new comedia adaptations from LA playwrights in staged readings: Madhuri Shekar’s School for Witches\, or Friendship Betrayed\, based on María de Zayas’ La traición en la amistad; Janine Salinas Schoenberg’s Like/Share\, a riff on Calderón’s Los cabellos de Absalón; and Michael Premsrirat’s La locura de los ángeles/The madness of angels\, adapted from Lope de Vega’s Los locos de Valencia. (In English) \nSylvia Blush and Jean Carlo Yunen Arostegui will direct UCLA’s LatinX Theater Comunión in Women and Servants\, Lope de Vega’s exploration of class\, loyalty and desire in a very modern Madrid. The play\, only recently rediscovered after 400 years\, has been translated into English by UCLA Professor and LA Escena director Barbara Fuchs. (In English) \nFor more information and to purchase tickets\, visit our website: \nhttp://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/la-escena/ \nLA Escena is made possible by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, Latin American Institute\, and Departments of Spanish and Portuguese\, Theater\, and English\, as well as by the generous support of UC Riverside’s College of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences\, UC MEXUS\, the College of Letters\, Arts\, and Social Sciences at Cal Poly Pomona\, and USC.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/la-escena-theater-festival-coming-soon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180604T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180604T210000
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SUMMARY:English Reading Room Writers Series – A Reading with Student Authors
DESCRIPTION:Make plans to drop by the English Reading Room on Monday\, June 4th for light refreshments and readings by some of our very talented creative writing students enrolled in English 137 this session.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/english-reading-room-writers-series-a-reading-with-student-authors-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T180000
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SUMMARY:2018 Spring Athenaeum
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Spring Athenaeum will be held Thursday\, May 24 from 4–6pm. The event will be in Humanities 193 with a reception to follow. The Spring Athenaeum will feature work by Alexandra Verini and Professor Danny Snelson with Professor Brian Kim Stefans serving as the respondent.  Hope to see you there!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/2018-spring-athenaeum/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180522T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180522T210000
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SUMMARY:A Reading of the Favorite Poem Project
DESCRIPTION:Come see members of the Los Angeles community read their favorite poems!  Since its founding 20 years ago by Robert Pinsky\, the 39th Poet Laureate of the U.S.\, the  Favorite Poem Project has presented programs that feature people from many walks of life reading and commenting on poems meaningful to them. The Project has also produced the video series at www.favoritepoem.org as shown on the PBS NewsHour.  Among the readers on this occasion are an art gallery owner\, a liturgical events manager\, a university dean\, a financial services manager\, a high school junior who is treasurer of the student council\, and an Oscar winning film producer. In the past\, participants have read poems by Gwendolyn Brooks\, Emily Dickinson\, Pablo Neruda\, William Shakespeare\, and many others. Robert Pinsky will introduce the evening.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/a-reading-of-the-favorite-poem-project/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180521T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Mark McGurl (Stanford University)
DESCRIPTION:Mark McGurl’s scholarly work centers on the relation of literature to social\, educational and other institutions from the late 19th century to the present.  He is the author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Harvard)\, which was the recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for 2011. \n \nMcGurl’s previous book was The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James (Princeton).  He has also published articles in journals such as Critical Inquiry\, Representations\, American Literary History\, and New Literary History.  He teaches a range of classes on American literature and related topics.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/lecture-by-mark-mcgurl-stanford-university/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T213000
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SUMMARY:Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Jennifer Moxley
DESCRIPTION:California native Jennifer Moxley’s most recent collection of poems Druthers (Flood 2018) “elegantly characterizes poetry as a vehicle for immortality” (Publishers Weekly).  Her book The Open Secret (Flood 2014) was awarded the 2015 William Carlos Williams award\, and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts award. Moxley is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Maine. \nAdmission to the event is free.  Please arrive early.  Dedicated to the memory of Doris Curran\, this series\, which has provided a stimulating forum for nationally and internationally known poets for fifty years\, is co-sponsored by the Friends of English and the UCLA Office of Cultural and Recreational Affairs.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/hammer-museum-poetry-reading-with-jennifer-moxley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T160000
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SUMMARY:"English Exercises" - Talk with Jeff Dolven
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Dolven is Professor of English at Princeton University and teaches poetry and poetics\, especially of the English Renaissance.  He is the author of three books of criticism\, Scenes of Instruction (Chicago\, 2007)\, Senses of Style (Chicago\, 2017)\, and the admittedly hasty Take Care (Cabinet\, 2017)\, as well as essays on a variety of subjects\, including Renaissance metrics\, Edmund Spenser\, Shakespeare’s reading\, Fairfield Porter\, and player pianos. His poems have appeared in magazines and journals in the US and the UK and are collected in a volume\, Speculative Music (Sarabande\, 2013).  He is also an editor-at-large at Cabinet Magazine\, and was the founding director of Princeton’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/english-exercises-talk-with-jeff-dolven/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T160000
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SUMMARY:Grace M. Hunt Travel Award Talk with Kim Hedlin
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, May 9th at 4pm in Room 193 Humanities Building for a talk and reception with Kim Hedlin\, a recipient of the Grace M. Hunt Award for Archival Research. \nLearn more about the Grace M. Hunt Award for Archival Research and hear how Kim used her archival travel award. Kim will share tips on submitting a successful proposal\, and she will discuss her dissertation archival research. Drop by to share some good company and refreshments as we discover what made Kim’s proposal stand out and hear about her research travels.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/grace-m-hunt-travel-award-talk-with-kim-hedlin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180508T000000
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SUMMARY:UCLA English Marathon Reading of "Jane Eyre" and "Wide Sargasso Sea"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: goo.gl/3ofdkH \nYou’re invited to the 2018 Marathon Reading\, presented by the UCLA English department and Friends of English! For a full day\, UCLA students and faculty will team up with distinguished guests to read both novels\, relay-style\, for an audience. Discussions\, performances\, and other fun breaks will be planned throughout the day. This fantastic event will bring together people across the UCLA campus and wider Los Angeles area to celebrate literature and enhance UCLA’s presence in the community.  \nTo learn more and receive updates\, you can follow us on social media: \n1) Like the UCLA English Marathon Reading page on Facebook: \nwww.facebook.com/UCLAmarathonreading \n2) RSVP to this year’s event on Facebook: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2049950615034317/ \n3) Invite your LA-area Facebook friends to the event. (The “Invite” button is at the link above.) \n4) Follow us on Twitter (@UCLA_reading): \nwww.twitter.com/UCLA_reading \n5) Follow our official Instagram (@UCLA_reading): \nwww.instagram.com/UCLA_reading \nThe Marathon Reading has a long history of exciting partnerships between UCLA and the Los Angeles community. In past years\, our celebrity readers have included Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings)\, Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager\, OITNB)\, Mayim Bialik (Big Bang Theory)\, John Lithgow (Dexter\, The Crown)\, and Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur). \nPlease join us as an audience member for any part of the day and feel free to contact us at marathon@english.ucla.edu if you’d like to get involved as a volunteer. We welcome any potential designers\, readers\, organizers\, or day-of helpers from all departments across campus.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ucla-english-marathon-reading-of-jane-eyre-and-wide-sargasso-sea/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T090000
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SUMMARY:The Crescent Moon Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The one-day Crescent Moon Symposium (May 4\, 2018) explores the lives of philosopher Hu Shih 胡适 (1891-1962)\, poet Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897-1931)\, scholar/Shakespearean Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋\, writer/painter Ling Shuhua 凌淑华 (1900-1990)\, and their literary communities.  The quartet of bilingual intellectuals epitomized the vibrant East-West exchanges in the wake of the May Fourth movement. All four were members of the Crescent Moon Society 新月社\, established by Xu Zhimo and Hu Shi and designed as a counterpart of the Bloomsbury Group of England. Three also happened to be prolific epistolary writers. A cosmopolitan friendly with Katherine Mansfield\, Roger Fry\, and Rabindranath Tagore\, Xu was most famous for his Chinese poetry and love letters. Hu Shi corresponded with Bertrand Russell\, Arthur Waley\, and a number of American literary luminaries. Ling Shuhua corresponded with Virginia Woolf\, Vanessa Bell\, and Julian Bell. \nTwo of the four keynote speakers are descendants of Xu Zhimo and Ling Shuhua\, respectively: Tony S. Hsu 徐善曾\, Xu Zhimo’s only grandson and author of Chasing the Modern 《志在摩登》(2017); Sasha Su-Ling Welland 魏淑凌 (U of Washington)\, grandniece of Ling Shuhua and author of A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (2007). The other two keynoters are Susan Chan Egan 陈毓贤\, co-author of A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams (2009)\, and Michelle Yeh (UC Davis)\, author of Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917 (1991). The symposium will also feature a round table discussion of the Crescent Moon Society (a literary society named after a volume of prose poems by Rabindranath Tagore) and its Bloomsbury connection\, and a literary salon with bilingual readings\, songs\, slides\, and documentaries about Xu\, Hu\, and Ling. Round table participants include the four keynoters\, Visiting scholar Liu Cong 刘聪 (Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋 scholar)\, and three UCLA faculty members (Michael Berry 白睿文\, King-Kok Cheung 张敬珏\, Louise Hornby). Admission is free and open to the community. \nPlease click here for full program details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-crescent-moon-symposium/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180501T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture with Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture given by Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (University of Notre Dame) on the topic of “The Amphibian Clericus Class\, Underemployment\, and Career Diversification in Late Medieval England.”  Kathryn Kerby-Fulton holds an endowed chair at University of Notre Dame\, and has published on Middle English literature and medieval intellectual history\, including censorship\, apocalypticism\, visionary writing and women’s mysticism. \nIn addition\, she works on medieval manuscript studies in England and Anglo-Ireland\, medieval literary theory\, text-image relations\, and reading practices before print. Her books include Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman (Cambridge\, 1990)\, which won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America; Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman\, with Denise Despres (Minnesota\, 1999); Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame\, 2006)\, which won the Haskins Gold Medal from the Medieval Academy; and Opening Medieval English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches\, with Maidie Hilmo and Linda Olson (Cornell\, 2012)\, which won a Choice Award from the American Library Association.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/lecture-with-kathryn-kerby-fulton/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T160000
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SUMMARY:Form and Interdisciplinarity Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Graduate students and interested faculty are invited to a colloquium on the core topics of form and interdisciplinarity\, led by Anahid Nersessian (UCLA) and Jonathan Kramnick (Yale).  Readings for the meeting will be sent via email.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/form-and-interdisciplinarity-colloquium/
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