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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221020T160000
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SUMMARY:ARC: Summer Kim Lee (UCLA)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-summer-kim-lee-ucla/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T180000
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SUMMARY:Kanner Forum: Matthew Vernon
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Matthew Vernon\, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California\, Davis. Professor Vernon will discuss Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s adaptation of Everyman as it relates to invisibilization of race. Professor Vernon will focus on the problems and possibilities this play raises in relation to politics and race through the Middle Ages. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by UCLA English Professor Matthew Fisher. This event is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Department of African American Studies\, Department of Comparative Literature and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nRegister here for onsite attendance in Kaplan Hall 193 or online attendance on Zoom. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. \nMatthew Vernon is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California\, Davis. His first book\, The Black Middle Ages\, explores the understudied relationship between medievalism and Blackness in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. He has also written articles on a set of his interests around issues of race and genre. This has led to articles on the post-truth phenomenon in nineteenth-century novels\, Black speculative fiction\, and comic books about displacement and vulnerability. He is currently working on an article on the adaptation of the medieval play\, Everyman. \nMatthew Fisher is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. His first book\, Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (2012)\, examines the entangled work of medieval scribes and the writers of history. He is currently writing a book about library fires and the afterlife of medieval manuscripts from the Dissolution to the 18th Century. In addition to his published academic essays and articles\, he has also written for Public Books and Zocalo Public Square. He is the editor of the journal Viator. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/kanner-forum-matthew-vernon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T150000
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UID:10000343-1665752400-1665759600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233200Z
CREATED:20260824T233200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233200Z
UID:10000325-1665741600-1665748800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-33/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233244Z
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UID:10000351-1665590400-1665597600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ERR Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-committee-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221007T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221007T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233254Z
CREATED:20260824T233254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233254Z
UID:10000357-1665140400-1665147600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting-17/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221005T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221005T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233245Z
CREATED:20260824T233245Z
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UID:10000354-1664985600-1664992800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Creative Writing Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-committee-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221002T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233305Z
CREATED:20260824T233305Z
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SUMMARY:Fall Reception
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/fall-reception/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220922T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220922T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233315Z
CREATED:20260824T233315Z
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UID:10000369-1663862400-1663869600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Info Session: Florence Summer Travel Study with Professor Christopher Looby
DESCRIPTION:Professor Christopher Looby will share information about our summer travel study program in Florence\, Italy.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/info-session-florence-summer-travel-study-with-professor-christopher-looby/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220922T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220922T170000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233325Z
CREATED:20260824T233325Z
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UID:10000373-1663851600-1663866000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ERR Open House
DESCRIPTION:Drop by 235 Kaplan Hall for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room (ERR) Open House on Wednesday 9/21 or Thursday 9/22 between 1-5PM. \nYou can: \n\nTour the ERR and find your favorite spot to read\, study\, and write.\nMeet the ERR Librarian and discuss your research interests or schedule a research consultation.\nLearn about the great resources in your departmental reading room.\nColor in a bookmark\nPlay ERR Jeopardy to learn more about the ERR and other resources that will help keep your research and library needs out of jeopardy.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-open-house-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T181500
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UID:10000368-1663776900-1663784100@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Meet the Chair + Summer Travel Study
DESCRIPTION:Meet our Department Chair\, Professor Saree Makdisi\, and learn about summer travel study in London.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/meet-the-chair-summer-travel-study/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T160000
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UID:10000364-1663768800-1663776000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities Welcome
DESCRIPTION:Faculty\, staff\, and students come together to showcase the Humanities at UCLA! \nFeaturing faculty\, alumni\, and student speakers.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/humanities-welcome/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T170000
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UID:10000372-1663765200-1663779600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ERR Open House
DESCRIPTION:Drop by 235 Kaplan Hall for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room (ERR) Open House on Wednesday 9/21 or Thursday 9/22 between 1-5PM. \nYou can: \n\nTour the ERR and find your favorite spot to read\, study\, and write.\nMeet the ERR Librarian and discuss your research interests or schedule a research consultation.\nLearn about the great resources in your departmental reading room.\nColor in a bookmark\nPlay ERR Jeopardy to learn more about the ERR and other resources that will help keep your research and library needs out of jeopardy.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-open-house/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T140000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233314Z
CREATED:20260824T233314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233314Z
UID:10000366-1663761600-1663768800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Info Session: Creative Writing
DESCRIPTION:Learn about creative writing workshops\, contests\, and opportunities from Professor Justin Torres.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/info-session-creative-writing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T133000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233314Z
CREATED:20260824T233314Z
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UID:10000367-1663759800-1663767000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Info Session: Professional Writing
DESCRIPTION:Professor Michael Cohen will guide students through our newest minor\, designed to prepare you for your chosen career.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/info-session-professional-writing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233305Z
CREATED:20260824T233305Z
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UID:10000365-1663758000-1663765200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Info Session: Departmental Honors
DESCRIPTION:Professor Sarah Kareem will discuss our departmental honors program\, which culminates in a senior thesis.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/info-session-departmental-honors/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220909T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220909T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233200Z
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UID:10000324-1662717600-1662724800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-32/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220610T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T232758Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T232758Z
UID:10000261-1654858800-1654866000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-16/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T100000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233136Z
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SUMMARY:Professor A.W. Strouse Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for this remote event to celebrate the publication of Professor A. W. Strouse’s new book\, Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision (Fordham University Press\, 2021) \nSaturday\, June 4\, 2022 \n9:00am to 10:00am PST / 12:00pm to 1:00pm EST \nZoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95313958125 \nSpeakers: \n\nJeannie Sellick\, Creighton University\nKersti Francis\, UCLA\nCary S. Howie\, Cornell University\nMichael Calabrese\, California State University\, Los Angeles\n\n  \nModerator: \nMarjorie Harrington\, Western Michigan University \nOrganizer: \nArvind Thomas\, UCLA \nFeel free to contact Arvind Thomas\, +1-310-307-9132; email: arvindthomas@g.ucla.edu\, if you have any questions or issues with the link.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/professor-a-w-strouse-book-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T140000
DTSTAMP:20260824T232853Z
CREATED:20260824T232853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T232853Z
UID:10000279-1654257600-1654264800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Last Day of Classes
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/last-day-of-classes-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T232338Z
CREATED:20260824T232338Z
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UID:10000248-1654250400-1654257600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-30/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T220000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233136Z
CREATED:20260824T233136Z
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UID:10000313-1654113600-1654120800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Graduating Student Poets Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, June 1 at 8:00 p.m for a diverse selection of poetry from the graduating poets of the UCLA community. The event will be introduced by Karen Kevorkian and Reed Wilson. The student readers include Tara Bucoy-McNeely\, Corinne Chapkis\, Destiny Diaz\, Alexandra Geurts\, Elana Luo\, Georgie McKeon\, Selena Perez\, Aidan Thompson\, and Alice Zheng. \nThis event is Free & In-Person at Beyond Baroque. Masks are required while inside the theater. We recommend staying masked throughout the event. \nReservation Policy: Please RSVP if you are planning to attend this event. We accept walk-ins\, but priority will be given to people that have registered. In the case of a full program\, your free ticket may not guarantee admission. We recommend arriving early. \nRegister for this event here. \nLocation: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. 681 Venice Blvd. Venice Beach\, Los Angeles\, CA 90291 \nThe Graduates \nTara Bucoy-McNeely \nCorinne Chapkis \nDestiny Diaz \nAlexandra Geurts \nElana Luo \nGeorgie McKeon \nSelena Perez \nAidan Thompson \nAlice Zheng \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduating-student-poets-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T190000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233136Z
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UID:10000312-1654102800-1654110000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Reading Featuring Michelle Huneven
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Michelle Huneven\, Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. \nMichelle Huneven is the author of five novels\, including Round Rock (1996)\, Blame (2009) and her latest\, Search (April\, 2022). She’s been the recipient of a Whiting Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a James Beard Award. She teaches creative writing at UCLA and lives in Altadena. \nPer UCLA COVID-19 protocols\, all attendees are required to complete the UCLA COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring Survey in order to enter the event. Masks are required and may only be removed while eating or drinking. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu \n  \nMichelle Huneven photo (c) Courtney Gregg
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/a-reading-featuring-michelle-huneven/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220531T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220531T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233045Z
CREATED:20260824T233045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233045Z
UID:10000297-1654012800-1654020000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please note: COVID protocols remain in place across campus\, including at organized events. For the safety of our guests and the campus community\, all reception attendees are required to show ONE of the following to enter the event: proof of COVID-19 vaccination; or the UCLA Symptom Monitoring Survey (SMS) clearance certificate from filling out the UCLA Daily Symptom Monitoring Survey; or proof of negative COVID-19 test (if you are not up to date with vaccinations). All attendees are required to wear masks inside the Faculty Club\, including inside the Morrison Room where the ceremony portion of the event will take place. Masks may be removed while eating and drinking during the reception at the outdoor California Terrace. \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/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233115Z
CREATED:20260824T233115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233115Z
UID:10000306-1653656400-1653670800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Department of English Honors Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join our 2021-2022 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will be presenting their honors theses\, carefully crafted over the course of the past year. Both critical research and creative works will be featured. This event is affiliated with UCLA’s annual Undergraduate Research Week. \nFriday\, May 27 at 1:00pm to 5:00pm \nShowcase Program \nGreetings and Introductions \nProfessor Blake Allmendinger \nProfessor Justin Torres \nStudent Presentations \n1:00 PM – Payton Dodd \n1:15 PM – Ashley Leung \n1:30 PM – Mursal Sidigi \n1:45 PM – Jane Shin \n2:00 PM – Ellen Williams \n2:15 PM – Woody Brown \n2:30 PM – Tara Bucoy-McNeely \n2:45 PM – Fiona Deane-Grundman \n3:00 PM – Lillian Robles \n3:15 PM – Frances Guzman \n3:30 PM – Hannah Stark \n3:45 PM – Evan Sakuma \n4:00 PM – Young Kim \n4:15 PM – Rwiet Joseph
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/department-of-english-honors-showcase/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233115Z
CREATED:20260824T233115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233115Z
UID:10000307-1653580800-1653588000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Reading Featuring Claire Stanford
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Claire Stanford\, author and PhD candidate in English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. \nClaire Stanford’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus\, Tin House Flash Fridays\, Black Warrior Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and other publications. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota\, and she is currently a PhD candidate in English at UCLA. Happy for You is her first novel. \nPer UCLA COVID-19 protocols\, all attendees are required to complete the UCLA COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring Survey in order to enter the event. Masks are required and may only be removed while eating or drinking. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu \n  \nClaire Stanford photo (c) Laura Pardo
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/a-reading-featuring-claire-stanford/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T173000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233115Z
CREATED:20260824T233115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233115Z
UID:10000310-1653470100-1653499800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2022 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! \nWednesday\, May 25\, 2022 at 9:15am to 5:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193 \nThe Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The event is held annually during UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Week. \nThe 2022 conference will feature 6 student panels\, with each panel moderated by a Dept. of English faculty member. Please see the program below for a full schedule. \nACES 2022 Final Program \nIf you are unable to attend in-person\, you may watch the conference via zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93027304789 \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/2022-academic-conference-for-english-students-aces/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T213000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233115Z
CREATED:20260824T233115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233115Z
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SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Geoff Dyer
DESCRIPTION:Celebrated writer Geoff Dyer returns with The Last Days of Roger Federer\, an extended meditation on late style and last works. Here Dyer reads from this latest collection\, one of Esquire’s best of spring 2022. \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. \nRegister for this event here. \nWhen artists and athletes age\, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay\, how do we keep on? In this beguiling meditation\, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers\, painters\, footballers\, musicians\, and tennis stars who’ve mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence\, he recounts Friedrich Nietzsche’s breakdown in Turin\, Bob Dylan’s reinventions of old songs\, J. M. W. Turner’s paintings of abstracted light\, John Coltrane’s cosmic melodies\, Bjorn Borg’s defeats\, and Beethoven’s final quartets—and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Throughout\, he stresses the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who defied convention\, and went on doing so even when their beautiful youths were over. \nRanging from Burning Man and the Doors to the nineteenth-century Alps and back\, Dyer’s book on last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beauty—and on the entrancing effect and sudden illumination that an Art Pepper solo or Annie Dillard reflection can engender in even the most jaded and ironic sensibilities. Praised by Steve Martin for his “hilarious tics” and by Tom Bissell as “perhaps the most bafflingly great prose writer at work in the English language today\,” Dyer has now blended criticism\, memoir\, and humorous banter of the most serious kind into something entirely new. The Last Days of Roger Federer is a summation of Dyer’s passions\, and the perfect introduction to his sly and joyous work. \nGeoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham\, England\, in 1958. He was educated at the local Grammar School and Corpus Christi College\, Oxford. He is currently living in Los Angeles where he is a writer in residence at USC. His new book See/Saw: Looking at Photographs will be released in spring 2022. \nHe is the author of four novels: Paris Trance\, The Search\, The Colour of Memory\, and Jeff in Venice\, Death in Varanasi; a critical study of John Berger\, Ways of Telling; two collections of essays\, Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room; and many genre-defying books: But Beautiful\, The Missing of the Somme\, Out of Sheer Rage\, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It\, The Ongoing Moment\, Zona\, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker\, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H W Bush\, White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World\, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand\, and “Broadsword Calling Danny Boy\,” about the film Where Eagles Dare. He is the editor of John Berger: Selected Essays\, Life with a Capital L: Selected Essays by D H Lawrence\, and co-editor\, with Margaret Sartor\, of What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney. \nA selection of essays from Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room entitled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition was published in 2011 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. \nHe has been a visiting professor at the University of Iowa\, Columbia University in New York\, and the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas in Austin. in 2014\, he was a Mellon Distinguished Scholar at Wits University in Johannesburg. He is currently writer in residence at the University of Southern California\, Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College\, Oxford\, and in 2015 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
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SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation: Geoff Dyer
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Geoff Dyer. \nThis event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm.Visit the Hammer Museum website for full details. \nGeoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham\, England\, in 1958. He was educated at the local Grammar School and Corpus Christi College\, Oxford. He is currently living in Los Angeles where he is a writer in residence at USC. His new book See/Saw: Looking at Photographs will be released in spring 2022. \nHe is the author of four novels: Paris Trance\, The Search\, The Colour of Memory\, and Jeff in Venice\, Death in Varanasi; a critical study of John Berger\, Ways of Telling; two collections of essays\, Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room; and many genre-defying books: But Beautiful\, The Missing of the Somme\, Out of Sheer Rage\, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It\, The Ongoing Moment\, Zona\, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker\, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H W Bush\, White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World\, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand\, and “Broadsword Calling Danny Boy\,” about the film Where Eagles Dare. He is the editor of John Berger: Selected Essays\, Life with a Capital L: Selected Essays by D H Lawrence\, and co-editor\, with Margaret Sartor\, of What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney. \nA selection of essays from Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room entitled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition was published in 2011 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. \nHe has been a visiting professor at the University of Iowa\, Columbia University in New York\, and the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas in Austin. in 2014\, he was a Mellon Distinguished Scholar at Wits University in Johannesburg. He is currently writer in residence at the University of Southern California\, Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College\, Oxford\, and in 2015 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nPer UCLA COVID-19 protocols\, all attendees are required to complete the UCLA COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring Survey in order to enter the event. Masks are strongly recommended for attendees who are up to date on vaccinations\, and they are required for attendees who are not up to date on vaccinations. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Barbara L. Packer Lecture: Yopie Prins
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins\, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. \nTuesday\, May 17 at 5:00pm – 6:30pm PST: Anne Carson [     ] Sappho \nIn If Not\, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002)\, Anne Carson famously uses brackets [     ] in her translations from Greek to English\, to mark what is missing from the Sapphic fragments and also to imply “a space for imaginal adventure.” In her talk\, Professor Prins looks more closely at how the bracket itself is translated in Carson’s reworking of Sappho in other media: a hand-painted mini-book\, the environmental installation of “Cliff Sappho\,” and a performance piece entitled “BRACKO.” \nRegister here for onsite attendance in Kaplan Hall 193 or online attendance on Zoom. \nThursday\, May 19 at 5:00pm – 6:30pm PST: Reversing Classical Meters \nIn her talk\, Professor Prins asks what is the past and future of classical models for English versification? Nineteenth-century ideas about the revival of classical meters in English poetry prompted a wide range of metrical experiments in Victorian England and America: strange attempts to translate quantitative classical verse into English accentual-syllabic verse\, and conversely\, to translate English verse into Greek and Latin meters. Was this a dead-end for Victorian prosody? How might we read the reversing of Classical meters today? \nRegister here for onsite attendance in Kaplan Hall 193 or online attendance on Zoom. \nBoth lectures are co-sponsored by UCLA Department of Classics. \nYopie Prins is the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.  She is the author of Victorian Sappho (1999) and Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy (2017) and co-editor\, with Virginia Jackson\, of The Lyric Theory Reader (2014). \nPer UCLA COVID-19 protocols\, all attendees are required to complete the UCLA COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring Survey in order to enter the event. Masks are strongly recommended for attendees who are up to date on vaccinations\, and they are required for attendees who are not up to date on vaccinations. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/barbara-l-packer-lecture-yopie-prins-2/
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