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SUMMARY:Spring quarter online instruction begins
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/spring-quarter-online-instruction-begins/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200320T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200320T020000
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SUMMARY:Winter quarter ends
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/winter-quarter-ends/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T150000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-9/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T231047Z
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UID:10000163-1584097200-1584104400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T180000
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SUMMARY:Job talk by Nicole Gervasio
DESCRIPTION:Testimony for the Future: State Redemption as an Art of the Impossible in Contemporary Novels on Genocide \nIn my book project\, “Arts of the Impossible: Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Reconstructing State Memory and Collective Trauma in Contemporary Literature\,” I examine how and why non-Western writers from 1984 to the present fabricate several genres of archival evidence to contest key structural absences in the representation\, memory\, and narratives of modern state violence. I specifically focus on novels by politically engaged authors who critique genocide\, femicide\, and forced disappearance as explicitly heteropatriarchal\, white supremacist\, imperial technologies of authoritarian repression\, including Caryl Phillips\, Edwidge Danticat\, Cristina Peri Rossi\, Roberto Bolaño\, Michael Ondaatje\, Madeleine Thien\, Tommy Orange\, and Boubacar Boris Diop. I take a decolonial feminist approach to trauma studies to scrutinize how these human rights crimes are designed to exert what I call “ontological erasure” on dissident bodies\, whereby the motive is not merely to murder the flesh\, but to render personhood conceptually immaterial and identity unviable. I argue that these writers’ interventions not only metapolitically pursue an always already impossible feat: the radical reconstruction of state archives that are strategically organized to evade moral responsibility for the most incriminating truths\, as feminist theorists of colonial archives\, like Ann Laura Stoler\, Lisa Lowe\, and Saidiya Hartman\, have shown. These writers’ efforts to novelize archival forms also expose gaps and weaknesses in the internal logics of evidentiary standards for justice that privilege Western epistemes as universals. In this talk\, I highlight the testimonial form\, one of five evidentiary types I distinguish (the others being documentarian\, forensic\, analogical\, and phenomenological)\, in two novels reconstructing genocides in the twentieth century. The first is the 1937 Parsley Massacre in Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and\, the second\, the 1994 Rwandan genocide in Diop’s Murambi: The Book of Bones. I argue that both writers emphasize unmarried\, non-reproductive women’s first-person points of view not only to recover missing testimonies from marginalized perspectives. They also expose the many ways in which these suppressed testimonies ironically attest to the state’s failures to transform its racial\, gender\, sexual\, and class order so as to thwart the recurrence of genocide in the future.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/job-talk-by-nicole-gervasio/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200309T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230645Z
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UID:10000155-1583769600-1583776800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Re-Charge: Postcolonial Studies and Energy Humanities
DESCRIPTION:What do Postcolonial Studies and Energy Humanities have to stay to one another? Given that the former is by now a well-established academic field and the latter a recently emergent one\, we might expect the relationship between the two to be marked by wars of position and anxieties of influence. In this essay\, however\, I suggest that there is much to gain from cross-fertilisation and cross-hatching between the two. If Postcolonial Studies have often\, with some justice\, been accused of evacuating the matter of history from its purview\, Energy Humanities has sometimes suffered from insufficient attention to the dynamics of empire. By comparing two classic colonial texts from 19th-century South Asia by Rudyard Kipling and Dinabandhu Mitra\, I suggest that we can go beyond this impasse by looking at how the intersections between energy and empire had already been examined thoroughly by writers long before the formation of the academic disciplines that today take them as their area of study. As ever\, it is to literature and culture we must turn in order to appreciate the limits and possibilities of theory. \nThis lecture was made possible by the support of the Department of English\, the Nineteenth-Century Group\, and the Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies Group. \nhttp://postcolonial.english.ucla.edu/colloquium/
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/re-charge-postcolonial-studies-and-energy-humanities/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200306T140000
DTSTAMP:20260824T231318Z
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UID:10000177-1583496000-1583503200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Gayatri Gopinath Job Talk
DESCRIPTION:“Unruly Visions: The Queer Regional Imaginaries of Sunil Gupta and Agha Shahid Ali” \nABSTRACT:  This talk considers the work of two contemporary South Asian diasporic artists\, the poet Agha Shahid Ali and the photographer Sunil Gupta\, within the framework of archive\, region\, and affect that Gopinath develops in her recently published book Unruly Visions.  Gopinath understands the work of Ali and Gupta as emblematic of what she terms “the aesthetic practices of queer diaspora.” These are practices thatnegotiate the intersection of race\, sexuality\, and migration in multiple geographic locations. She argues that through a sustained engagement with queer aesthetic practices\, we can identify alternative ways of both seeing and knowing capable of challenging the scopic and sensorial regimes of colonial modernity as they persist in the present.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/gayatri-gopinath-job-talk/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230444Z
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UID:10000149-1583424000-1583431200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. A Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:E-mail cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or call (310) 267-5327 to register
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-implicated-subject-beyond-victims-and-perpetrators-a-book-talk/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T140000
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UID:10000142-1583236800-1583244000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kanner Lecture Series: Hazel Carby
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/kanner-lecture-series-hazel-carby/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T180000
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UID:10000153-1583164800-1583172000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:New Directions in Postcolonial Studies: Literary Genealogies and Material Culture
DESCRIPTION:The Spanish-American Number:\nTravel\, Translation\, and the Literary History of Modernism\nPeter Hulme\, University of Essex \nMines\, Minerals\, Mimesis\, and Memory\nRajani Sudan\, Southern Methodist University \nThis event was organized by the Postcolonial Theory and Literary Studies Colloquium and made possible by generous support from the Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/new-directions-in-postcolonial-studies-literary-genealogies-and-material-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T150000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230846Z
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UID:10000157-1582894800-1582902000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T123000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230846Z
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UID:10000158-1582885800-1582893000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T113000
DTSTAMP:20260824T231318Z
CREATED:20260824T231318Z
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UID:10000176-1582882200-1582889400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T213000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230645Z
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UID:10000151-1582831800-1582839000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Poetry at the Hammer
DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo\, the first Native American to be Poet Laureate\, has published nine books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the PEN America Literary Award for creative nonfiction\, the American Book Award\, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement\, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Harjo also performs on the saxophone internationally\, solo and with her band\, the Arrow Dynamics. \nOrganized and hosted by poet\, literary critic\, and UCLA distinguished service professor Stephen Yenser. \nFree tickets are required and available at the Box Office one hour before the program. One ticket per person; first come\, first served.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/poetry-at-the-hammer-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T193000
DTSTAMP:20260824T231317Z
CREATED:20260824T231317Z
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UID:10000175-1582651800-1582659000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/tea-and-conversation-with-jamaica-kincaid/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230443Z
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UID:10000146-1582214400-1582221600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job Talk by Alison Bigelow
DESCRIPTION:Alison Bigelow\, Assistant Professor\, colonial Latin American literature\, Department of Spanish\, Italian\, and Portuguese\, University of Virginia.\n\nTalk Title: Mining Language: Extractive Industries and Indigenous Knowledge Production in the Early Americas\nTalk Description:\nBetween 1500 and 1820\, three out of every four people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean were enslaved Africans. They arrived to a continent where Indigenous people formed the majority of the population. The literatures of the colonial Americas thus differ from works produced in Europe\, but for most of its history\, our field has followed a European definition of literacy\, and has privileged European representations of Native people rather than works by Indigenous agents (Mt. Pleasant\, Wisecup\, and Wigginton 2018). In this talk\, I show how a combination of literary\, linguistic\, and material cultural studies approaches allows us to read around the silences and fragmentations of colonial archives to center the work of people who wrote “without letters.” My talk focuses on Taíno miners in the Caribbean and Quechua-speaking refiners in the Andes\, but my methods can be applied by scholars working in other world regions\, historical eras\, and textual traditions.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/job-talk-by-alison-bigelow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230846Z
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UID:10000156-1582196400-1582203600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:How to talk about Atmosphere
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/how-to-talk-about-atmosphere/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T231047Z
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UID:10000161-1582128000-1582135200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job talk by Aimee Bahng
DESCRIPTION:Aimee Bahng\, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies\, Pomona College \nTalk Title: “Feminist\, Decolonial Materialisms and the Nuclear History of Settler Environmentalism” \nTalk Description\nWhile much scholarship on the rise of the nuclear age has focused on the concomitant rise of insecurities about body and environment under the duress of wartime\, this talk crafts a different but intertwined history\, showing how the transformation of the Pacific Ocean into a nuclear testing ground was parlayed into governmental projects for the remaking of life itself through the rubrics of securitization and financialization. Through critical readings of official state records and atomic research bulletins\, Bahng traces the narrative strands of “ecosystems\,” “regeneration\,” and “strategic trust” from 1945 on\, to show the structural connections among biopolitics\, ecocide\, and the foundations of international environmental law. To theorize a Pacific undercommons\, the talk ultimately inquires after alternative formulations of interspecies connection that emerge from feminist\, decolonial thought and queer-of-color critique as elucidated through the work of Larissa Lai’s transnational Asian American speculative fiction novel Salt Fish Girl and Marshallese poet Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s video-poem “Anointed.” \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/job-talk-by-aimee-bahng/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230420Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Winter 2020 Athenaeum
DESCRIPTION:This annual event held in Winter and Spring brings together faculty and graduate student research across different fields and areas of study. This quarter\, we’re pleased to have Professor Sarah Kareem and Chelsea Oei Kern present their work\, with Professor Anahid Nersessian as respondent. \nSarah Kareem \n“Vexed: On Resistant Attachment”\n\nChelsea Oei Kern \n“‘The Loss of It’: Reading Artificial Intelligence in Borne“\n\nAnahid Nersessian  \nRespondent
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/cancelled-winter-2020-athenaeum/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230243Z
CREATED:20260824T230243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230243Z
UID:10000137-1581073200-1581080400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230242Z
CREATED:20260824T230242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230242Z
UID:10000136-1581069600-1581076800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230645Z
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UID:10000154-1580922000-1580929200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series
DESCRIPTION:Recently named a Fulbright All Disciplines Scholar\, celebrated British poet Karen McCarthy Woolf is currently poet-in-residence at the UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights. Described in The Poetry Review as ‘extraordinarily moving and technically flawless’\, Karen McCarthy Woolf’s celebrated début An Aviary of Small Birds was shortlisted for the 2015 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize\, as well as being a Guardian Book of the Year and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her follow-up collection Seasonal Disturbances was a PBS Recommendation. McCarthy Woolf is the editor of four literary anthologies\, including Ten: The New Wave\, and her poetry has been published in Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation among others. She has presented her poetry in many forms\, from collaborative choreography and radio soundscape to audiovisual installation\, in venues around the world\, from Mexico City and Singapore to the US and the Caribbean.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-grace-m-hunt-memorial-english-reading-room-writers-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230420Z
CREATED:20260824T230420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230420Z
UID:10000145-1580918400-1580925600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job Talk by Kimberly Takahata
DESCRIPTION:Details Coming Soon
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/job-talk-by-kimberly-takahata/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230243Z
CREATED:20260824T230243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230243Z
UID:10000140-1580745600-1580752800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"After English" A look into professional life with an English degree
DESCRIPTION:” After 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. This series caters primarily to English and American Literature and Culture majors and minors\, but students from all majors are welcome to attend!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/after-english-a-look-into-professional-life-with-an-english-degree/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200131T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200131T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230444Z
CREATED:20260824T230444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230444Z
UID:10000148-1580468400-1580475600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200131T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200131T113000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230219Z
CREATED:20260824T230219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230219Z
UID:10000135-1580463000-1580470200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T140000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230219Z
CREATED:20260824T230219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230219Z
UID:10000134-1580126400-1580133600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Cultural Evolution & Its Discontents: A Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:People worry that computers\, robots\, interstellar aliens\, or Satan himself – brilliant\, stealthy\, ruthless creatures – may seize control of our world and destroy what’s uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems – especially those whose last names are “ism” – are already doing that\, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice. Like other parasites\, they’ve blindly evolved to exploit us for their own survival. Creative arts and humanistic scholarship are our best tools for diagnosis and cure. \nAnyone who has wondered how our species can be so brilliant and so stupid at the same time may find an answer here: human mentalities are so complex that we crave the simplifications provided by our cultures\, but the cultures that thrive are the ones that blind us to any interests that don’t correspond to their own. \nIn this interdisciplinary book talk\, the author Robert Watson\, Distinguished Professor of English\, in conversation with Professors Jan Reiff from History and Clark Barrett from Anthropology\, will explore the creative and humanistic avenues that may shed light on our cultural addiction to ideological parasites.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/cultural-evolution-its-discontents-a-book-talk/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T160000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230444Z
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UID:10000150-1580047200-1580054400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Poetry at the Hammer
DESCRIPTION:Jorie Graham has authored numerous poetry collections\, one of which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her many honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. \nReadings are organized and hosted by poet\, literary critic\, and UCLA distinguished professor emeritus Stephen Yenser. \nEvent tickets are free and available at the Box Office one hour before the program. One ticket per person; first come\, first served.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/poetry-at-the-hammer/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230420Z
CREATED:20260824T230420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T230420Z
UID:10000144-1579708800-1579716000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job Talk by Alex Mazzaferro
DESCRIPTION:Details coming soon
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/job-talk-by-alex-mazzaferro/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200121T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200121T193000
DTSTAMP:20260824T230645Z
CREATED:20260824T230645Z
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UID:10000152-1579627800-1579635000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Author Event in the ERR: Tea & Conversation with Tobias Wolff
DESCRIPTION:One of America’s preeminent writers\, Tobias Wolff is the author of the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army\, the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School\, and the short-story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs\, Back in the World\, The Night in Question\, and Our Story Begins. \nHis honors include the PEN/Malamud Award\, the Rea Award\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, and Harper’s.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/author-event-in-the-err-tea-conversation-with-tobias-wolff/
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