Events

Featuring Caldecott Medal-winner, Brian Selznick & NYU- based Whitman scholar, Karen Karbiener

A Lecture from Professor Ian Smith

Open to UCLA students and faculty. Please contact Professor Fisher fisher@humnet.ucla.edu for  further details.

This minor is designed for undergraduate students who wish to enhance their major in another field with intensive study of literature in its relationship to the natural environment, while improving their skills in reading, writing, creative and critical thinking, and analysis of complex situations in an ethical frame. The minor examines how different cultural forms...

A poetry reading by poet Jana Prikryl

The Entrepreneurship minor introduces undergraduate students to the field of entrepreneurship. A key element of entrepreneurship is the concept of opportunity recognition where individuals or teams pursue business concepts without regard to immediate access to resources utilizing lean start-up principles. In support of the minor, faculty members from applied fields in the professional schools and...

At the Beyond Salon

By Lisa Mendelman

The UCLA Americanist Research Colloquium (ARC) meets three to four times a quarter, providing American literature graduate students, faculty, and invited guests with an opportunity to share their works- in-progress. Lisa Mendelman (Menlo College), “Diagnosing America: Mental Health and Modern Literature, 1890-1940.”

A conference to commemorate David Wong Louie's writing and teaching legacy by bringing together scholars, writers, and student that were and continue to be influenced and inspired by Louie's work. Internationally recognized as a literary pioneer in Chinese-American writing in several genres—novel, short story, and personal essay—Louie forged a powerfully eloquent voice that mapped with...