Oral Histories of Environmental Illness (OHEI) Symposium
Hosted by Professors Rachel Lee and Helen Deutsch
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Impairment and Disability in Early Medieval England
Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten
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Whole, Holy, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic
Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten
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Graduate Student Breakfast with Raúl Coronado
UCLA English Graduate Students are welcome to attend breakfast with Raúl Coronado at 10am in Kaplan Hall 250. Following this breakfast, Raúl Coronado will present his talk, How to Write a History of Latinx Desire, at 12:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193. Please RSVP to the form below to attend breakfast. Register here to attend breakfast.
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Raúl Coronado: How to Write a History of Latinx Desire
How can we track the emergence of the literary in the archive of nineteenth-century US Latinx writing? In this talk, Raúl Coronado will argue that aesthetic forms try to capture an energetic quality of life that he'd like to call presence. Rethinking desire as the desire for presence allows us to unravel more carefully not...
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Some Favorite Writers: Justin Torres
Justin Torres’ latest book Blackouts received the 2023 National Book Award for fiction and was called a “shimmering, fable-like novel” by The Washington Post. Filled with tales-within-tales, redacted pages, illustrations and photographs, Torres excavates the devastating history of the 1941 report Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, imaginatively exposing stories that had previously been...