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SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting-28/
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SUMMARY:Southern California Eighteenth-Century Group: Cass Turner
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/southern-california-eighteenth-century-group-cass-turner/
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-15/
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-52/
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-36/
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SUMMARY:After-Hours Tour: Claire McEachern on Sum of the Parts: Serial Imagery in Printmaking\, 1500 to Now
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor of English at the University of California\, Los Angeles Claire McEachern\, for an exhibition tour of Sum of the Parts: Serial Imagery in Printmaking\, 1500 to Now. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/after-hours-tour-claire-mceachern-on-sum-of-the-parts-serial-imagery-in-printmaking-1500-to-now/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T140000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students\, graduate students\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term\, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages\, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No preparation or expertise is required – only enthusiasm! \nOur first meeting this year will take place on Friday\, November 1 at 2:00-4:00pm in Kaplan 193. We will read the Old Norse-Icelandic Jökuls þáttr Buássonar (The Tale of Jökull Búasson). Join us for a discussion of trolls\, princesses\, and wrestling contests\, led by Dr. Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow\, CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies). \nFOR READINGS AND CALENDAR OF MEETINGS\, SEE TINYURL.COM/MTRG-2024-2025 or scan the QR code on the flyer above. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu)
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241031T160000
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SUMMARY:ARC with Richard Yarborough (UCLA)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-richard-yarborough-ucla/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T193000
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SUMMARY:Hammer Poetry Series: Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:The delicate\, undaunted\, disconcerting power of Forrest Gander’s work springs from the view that dimensions of experience\, too often neatly segregated\, intersect. He will read from Mojave Ghost\, which a subtle subtitle designates A Novel Poem and which unfolds from desert walks during which he discovers the reticulations of past and present\, actual and recalled\, physical and spiritual—xeric and eldritch. The cover’s simple image shows a great saguaro cactus casting the shadow of a human. \nOrganized and hosted by poet\, literary critic\, and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by UCLA Department of English and UCLA Recreation. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/hammer-poetry-series-forrest-gander/
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-faculty-meeting-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T093000
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SUMMARY:American Literary History Now
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins\, paradigms\, and future directions. In an era of seeming never-ending crisis\, how may we conceive of the project of American Studies today\, both in terms of its Cold War origins and its reinvention in response to the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s? A certain mood of urgency and crisis attends discussion of US democracy in the present\, while a sense of buoyancy often accompanies discussions of American literature\, reinvigorated by dialogues with African American\, Latinx\, Asian American\, and Indigenous Studies. This conference will assess the state of the field\, by way of leading figures who have contributed foundational research in race\, gender\, ethnicity\, and sexuality. \nOrganized by Yogita Goyal\, Professor of English and African American Studies at UCLA. \nConference Schedule: \nOctober 24 \n10-10.30 \nWelcome and Introductions \nRuss Castronovo and Yogita Goyal \nSession 1 \n10.30-12.30 \nChair: Michael Cohen \n10.30: Timothy Bewes\, “The Freedom to be Wrong” \n11.30: Autumn Womack\, “The Beginning of Things and the End”: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Speculative Imaginary” \nSession 2 \n2-4 \nChair: Summer Kim Lee \n2: Ren Heintz\, “Trans History and Antebellum Obscenity” \n3: Christina A. León\, “Poetics of Omission: Incommensurate Negatives\, Puerto Rican Poetics\, and Fascist Frames” \nOctober 25 \nSession 3 \n9.30-11.30 \nChair: Richard Yarborough \n9.30: Sarah Quesada\, “What was African Decolonization for Afrolatinidad?” \n10.30: Jordan Stein\, “The Queer History of Anti-Slavery Media” \nClosing Roundtable \n11.30-12.30 \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu \nSpeaker Bios \n \nTimothy Bewes is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Brown University\, where he has taught since 2004. His books include Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022)\, The Event of Postcolonial Shame (2011)\, and Reification\, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (2002). He is Associate Editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction\, and convenes the Film-Thinking series at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown. \n \nRen Heintz is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities at Cal State Los Angeles. Heintz received their Ph.D. from the University of California\, San Diego\, and their MA from the University of Pennsylvania. Their working manuscript is titled The Obscenity of White Supremacy: The Antebellum History of Gender and Sexuality. Heintz’s scholarship has appeared in American Quarterly\, GLQ\, and Feminist Media Histories\, among others. They were awarded the Richard H. Brown/William Lloyd Barber Long-Term Fellowship at the Newberry Library and the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Tulane University. Through their public humanities work\, they are the inaugural creative writing instructor for the nonprofit initiative\, Transchool. Heintz is the editor of the anthology Transchool: Vol. 1 (Co-Conspirator Press\, 2024). \n \nChristina A. León is Assistant Professor of Literature at Duke University. She specializes in literary\, anticolonial\, critical race\, feminist\, and queer theories\, with a concentration on Latinx and Caribbean literature\, art\, and thought. Her scholarly writing focuses on the interplay of materiality and semiosis to better theorize and attend to works by authors and artists who often become known only through their identificatory markers\, overdetermined by grammars of race and gender. She is the author of Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad (NYU Press 2024). Her articles and essays have been published in Women and Performance\, ASAP/Journal\, Diacritics\, GLQ\, Sargasso\, Small Axe\, Representations\, and Post-45. She serves as the co-editor of the Gender Theory book series at SUNY Press. \n \nSarah M. Quesada is an Associate Professor of Romance Studies and by courtesy\, of Gender\, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge UP\, December 2022)\, which received an Honorable Mention for First Book in 2023 from the Modern Languages Association (MLA). Her second book project investigates different internationalist attachments among Chicana\, Mexican\, and African writers\, and unburies the influences of lesser-known feminists in this south-south engagement. Her work has been supported by the National Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned Societies and she currently serves on the Executive Committee for the MLA’s Anthropology and Literature Forum\, and the advisory board of the journal Meridians: feminism\, race\, transnationalism (Duke UP). \n \nJordan Alexander Stein is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University\, where he is also Affiliated Faculty in African and African American Studies. He is the author most recently of Fantasies of Nina Simone (Duke 2024). \n \nAutumn Womack is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data\, 1880-1930 (Chicago\, 2022) which received the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize and was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize. Most recently\, she edited the Norton Library’s edition of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (2023). Womack has published numerous essays on nineteenth-century African American literary culture\, visual studies\, and Black aesthetic practice in journals such as American Literary History\, J19\, Women and Performance\, Black Camera\, and several edited volumes. She is currently at work on two book length projects. The first\, The Wanderer (Knopf) is an archival biography of Toni Morrison. The second project explores the relationship between financialization and aesthetics in turn of the century African American literary aesthetics.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/american-literary-history-now/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T100000
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SUMMARY:American Literary History Now
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins\, paradigms\, and future directions. In an era of seeming never-ending crisis\, how may we conceive of the project of American Studies today\, both in terms of its Cold War origins and its reinvention in response to the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s? A certain mood of urgency and crisis attends discussion of US democracy in the present\, while a sense of buoyancy often accompanies discussions of American literature\, reinvigorated by dialogues with African American\, Latinx\, Asian American\, and Indigenous Studies. This conference will assess the state of the field\, by way of leading figures who have contributed foundational research in race\, gender\, ethnicity\, and sexuality. \nOrganized by Yogita Goyal\, Professor of English and African American Studies at UCLA. \nConference Schedule: \nOctober 24 \n10-10.30 \nWelcome and Introductions \nRuss Castronovo and Yogita Goyal \nSession 1 \n10.30-12.30 \nChair: Michael Cohen \n10.30: Timothy Bewes\, “The Freedom to be Wrong” \n11.30: Autumn Womack\, “The Beginning of Things and the End”: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Speculative Imaginary” \nSession 2 \n2-4 \nChair: Summer Kim Lee \n2: Ren Heintz\, “Trans History and Antebellum Obscenity” \n3: Christina A. León\, “Poetics of Omission: Incommensurate Negatives\, Puerto Rican Poetics\, and Fascist Frames” \nOctober 25 \nSession 3 \n9.30-11.30 \nChair: Richard Yarborough \n9.30: Sarah Quesada\, “What was African Decolonization for Afrolatinidad?” \n10.30: Jordan Stein\, “The Queer History of Anti-Slavery Media” \nClosing Roundtable \n11.30-12.30 \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu \nSpeaker Bios \n \nTimothy Bewes is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Brown University\, where he has taught since 2004. His books include Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022)\, The Event of Postcolonial Shame (2011)\, and Reification\, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (2002). He is Associate Editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction\, and convenes the Film-Thinking series at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown. \n \nRen Heintz is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities at Cal State Los Angeles. Heintz received their Ph.D. from the University of California\, San Diego\, and their MA from the University of Pennsylvania. Their working manuscript is titled The Obscenity of White Supremacy: The Antebellum History of Gender and Sexuality. Heintz’s scholarship has appeared in American Quarterly\, GLQ\, and Feminist Media Histories\, among others. They were awarded the Richard H. Brown/William Lloyd Barber Long-Term Fellowship at the Newberry Library and the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Tulane University. Through their public humanities work\, they are the inaugural creative writing instructor for the nonprofit initiative\, Transchool. Heintz is the editor of the anthology Transchool: Vol. 1 (Co-Conspirator Press\, 2024). \n \nChristina A. León is Assistant Professor of Literature at Duke University. She specializes in literary\, anticolonial\, critical race\, feminist\, and queer theories\, with a concentration on Latinx and Caribbean literature\, art\, and thought. Her scholarly writing focuses on the interplay of materiality and semiosis to better theorize and attend to works by authors and artists who often become known only through their identificatory markers\, overdetermined by grammars of race and gender. She is the author of Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad (NYU Press 2024). Her articles and essays have been published in Women and Performance\, ASAP/Journal\, Diacritics\, GLQ\, Sargasso\, Small Axe\, Representations\, and Post-45. She serves as the co-editor of the Gender Theory book series at SUNY Press. \n \nSarah M. Quesada is an Associate Professor of Romance Studies and by courtesy\, of Gender\, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge UP\, December 2022)\, which received an Honorable Mention for First Book in 2023 from the Modern Languages Association (MLA). Her second book project investigates different internationalist attachments among Chicana\, Mexican\, and African writers\, and unburies the influences of lesser-known feminists in this south-south engagement. Her work has been supported by the National Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned Societies and she currently serves on the Executive Committee for the MLA’s Anthropology and Literature Forum\, and the advisory board of the journal Meridians: feminism\, race\, transnationalism (Duke UP). \n \nJordan Alexander Stein is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University\, where he is also Affiliated Faculty in African and African American Studies. He is the author most recently of Fantasies of Nina Simone (Duke 2024). \n \nAutumn Womack is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data\, 1880-1930 (Chicago\, 2022) which received the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize and was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize. Most recently\, she edited the Norton Library’s edition of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (2023). Womack has published numerous essays on nineteenth-century African American literary culture\, visual studies\, and Black aesthetic practice in journals such as American Literary History\, J19\, Women and Performance\, Black Camera\, and several edited volumes. She is currently at work on two book length projects. The first\, The Wanderer (Knopf) is an archival biography of Toni Morrison. The second project explores the relationship between financialization and aesthetics in turn of the century African American literary aesthetics.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/american-literary-history-now-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T193000
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SUMMARY:Roof Books Launch Reading
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 23\nDoors: 7 pm\nEvent: 7:30 pm\nat 2220 Arts + Archives \nQuestions about the event? Visit The Poetic Research Bureau for full details.\n \n~ \nRoof Books\, the legendary New York publisher of experimental and avant-garde poetry\, invites you to a reading to celebrate the launch of two new titles by California poets: Bumblebees\, by Deborah Meadows\, and Through a Window by Norman Fischer. Hosted by the publisher and editor of Roof\, James Sherry\, readers also include Roof authors Diane Ward and Brian Kim Stefans. \n~ \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest. His recent poetry titles are Nature\, There Was a Clattering As…\, The Museum of Capitalism\, and Men in Suits. Just out from Roof Books is his serial poem Through a Window. In 2022 Chax Press brought out his Selected Poems 1980-2013. His latest Buddhist title is When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen. He lives in Muir Beach CA with his wife Kathie\, also a Zen priest. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation wwww.everydayzen.org \n“Through a Window teems with the exquisite flora (cypresses\, opium poppies\, eucalyptus and plum trees) and fauna (sparrows\, foxes\, juncos\, deer) of Fischer’s home in Muir Beach\, and reading it feels like a kind invitation to sit there with him. —Nada Gordon \nDeborah Meadows’ new book of poetry is Bumblebees. She recently had work included in Hyena\, a publication that celebrates the legacy of women’s surrealism on the occasion of the journal’s centennial. Recent poetry titles include Neo-bedrooms (Shearsman\, 2022): Lecture Notes\, a duration poem in twelve parts (2018)\, and The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays (2017). She is an Emerita faculty member at California State Polytechnic University\, Pomona\, lives with her husband in Los Angeles’ Arts District/Little Tokyo. www.deborahmeadows.com \n“In Bumblebees\, Meadows’s lines stitch topographic contours through mountains of thrown out sound\, hyphae reaching out to fellow artists\, with mycelial kin drawing a collective map of California from the carbon museum of the future.”— Jonathan Skinner \nDiane Ward’s poetry appears in the Spontaneous Publication “What Do You Say?” and is forthcoming in Julebord. Her books include Never Without One and Relation (both published by Roof Books)\, and Theory of Emotion (Segue / O Books). She is working with Phyllis Rosenzweig\, Rod Smith and P.Inman to edit the Collected Works of Tina Darragh\, and with Jacob Kahn on a collection of essays & poems by Roberto Bedoya. She lives in Sacramento where she works with urban agriculture programs and nonprofit groups. \nBrian Kim Stefans‘s most recent books are For Trapped Things (Roof\, 2023)\, a collection of poems\, and Festivals of Patience: The Verse Poems of Arthur Rimbaud (Kenning Editions\, 2021)\, translations. Word Toys: Poetry and Technics\, about poetry and the philosophy of technology\, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2017. He teaches English and new media studies at UCLA. His website is: www.arras.net \nJames Sherry is the author of 15 books of poetry and prose. His selected works\, Comin’ ‘Round\, is just out from Chax Press. Selfie: Poetry\, Social Change & Ecological Connection was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2022. Since 1976\, he has edited Roof Books and Roof Magazine\, publishing nearly 200 titles of seminal works of language writing\, flarf\, conceptual poetry\, new narrative\, and environmental poetry. \nRoof Books can be ordered here: https://www.roofbooks.com/
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/roof-books-launch-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T180000
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SUMMARY:Alexis Pauline Gumbs Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Seating is on a first-come basis. Questions about the event? Visit CSW|Streisand Center for full details.\n \nJoin us for Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley on her recent book\, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. \nThe author will sign books purchased on site\, courtesy of The Reparations Club. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a self-described “Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings.” She has revolutionized intellectual\, creative and oracular writing with her triptych of experimental works published by Duke University Press (Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity in 2016\, M Archive: After the End of the World in 2018 and Dub: Finding Ceremony\, 2020.) She is also the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals\, which won a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2022. In 2023\, she won a Windham Campbell Prize for her poetry. \nCo-sponsored by: \nCSW|Streisand Center\, UCLA Department of English\, UCLA Department of History\, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in History
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/alexis-pauline-gumbs-book-talk/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T120000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004823Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-51/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T110000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-35/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241006T160000
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SUMMARY:Fall Reception
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/fall-reception-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241001T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241001T110000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005415Z
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SUMMARY:Out of Place: A Marathon Reading
DESCRIPTION:Following in a long tradition of marathon readings sponsored by the UCLA Department of English\, please join a 24-hour reading of Edward Said’s memoir\, Out of Place\, from Oct 1\, 9am – Oct 2\, 9am. \nThe event is co-sponsored by departments and units on campus including: \nAmerican Indian Studies Center\nAsian American Studies Center\nCenter for the Study of Women\, Streisand Center\nCesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies\nCritical Race Studies Program\nDepartment of African American Studies\nDepartment of Art History\nDepartment of Asian American Studies\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of European Languages and Transcultural Studies\nDepartment of Film\, Television\, and Digital Media\nDepartment of Gender Studies\nDepartment of History\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\nDepartment of World Arts and Cultures/Dance\nDisability Studies IDP\nLabor Studies Center\nLatino Policy and Politics Institute\nRalph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\nUCLA Voting Rights Project\nWorking Group in Memory Studies
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/out-of-place-a-marathon-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240925T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240925T093000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005359Z
CREATED:20260825T005359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005359Z
UID:10000573-1727254800-1727256600@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Welcome Week
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to welcome new Bruins and to welcome back familiar faces! \nThe Department of English will be hosting a number of info sessions on Wednesday\, September 25\, 2024. These sessions offer you the opportunity to learn more about specific programs within the department and to meet some of our faculty. We hope to see you there! \nWe encourage all of our students to register to attend the annual Humanities Welcome the afternoon of 9/25. \nLooking for more events? Check out the full True Bruin Welcome calendar here! \nInfo Session: Creative Writing with Professor Frederick D’AguiarWednesday\, 9/259 am to 9:30 amKaplan Hall 193 \nProfessor D’Aguiar will be available to answer your pressing questions about Creative Writing at UCLA. What are the workshops really like? How does the application process work? How can you develop your craft? Come and find out! \nMeet the Chair + London Summer Travel Study with Professor Saree Makdisi\nWednesday\, 9/25\n11 am to 11:30 am\nKaplan Hall 193 \nProfessor Saree Makdisi\, Chair of the Department of English\, leads one of our annual summer travel study programs. Stop by to learn more about summer travel with UCLA English and to meet our Chair! \nInfo Session: Departmental Honors Program with Professor Sarah Kareem\nWednesday\, 9/25\n11:30 am – 12 noon\nKaplan Hall 193 \nInterested in producing a senior honors thesis? Professor Kareem\, Director of Departmental Honors\, invites you to learn more about the departmental honors program. Applications open in January of the junior year–rising juniors and incoming transfer students are encouraged to attend. \nInfo Session: Minor in Professional Writing with Professor Michael Cohen\nWednesday\, 9/25\n4 pm – 4:30 pm\nKaplan 193 \nProfessor Cohen will be answering questions about this popular minor! Learn about the minor’s curriculum\, application process\, capstone experience\, and more. \nInfo Session: Florence Summer Travel Study with Professor Christopher Looby\nWednesday\, 9/25\n4:30 pm – 5 pm\nKaplan Hall 193 \nEnglish and American literatures can be studied around the world! Professor Christopher Looby\, program director\, looks forward to sharing information about summer travel study in Florence\, Italy.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/welcome-week/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240917T210000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005158Z
CREATED:20260825T005158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T005158Z
UID:10000568-1726167600-1726606800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The LA Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater
DESCRIPTION:The LA Escena Festival of Hispanic classical theater will be back September 12–17\, 2024. The fourth edition of Diversifying the Classics’ biennial festival will bring fresh takes on the comedia to UCLA’s newly renovated Nimoy Theater in Westwood\, Los Angeles.\nLA Escena is Los Angeles’ first Hispanic classical theater festival\, organized by UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics\, which is part of the Division of Humanities. Since the inaugural edition in 2018\, LA Escena has brought the best of Southern California theater together with acclaimed performers from around the world to celebrate the comedia in performance and adaptation. \nThis year LA Escena will offer productions at the Nimoy Theater by the internationally recognized Spanish theater company Grumelot\, three new adaptations from our popular Golden Tongues series\, and a new performance of our translation of Sor Juana’s Love is the Greater Labyrinth by director Sarah Grunnah. We will also be premiering our latest initiative\, Mex-Clásicos\, with three new versions of comedia by renowned Mexican theater artists\, along with Pedro Osuna’s musical transformation of Ana Caro’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs\, and theatre dybbuk’s “illuminated lecture” of Cervantes’ The Marvelous Puppet Show. To conclude the festival\, Red Bull Theater will present a virtual reading of Diversifying the Classics’ latest translation\, Lope de Vega’s The Beast of Hungary\, as a part of our ongoing collaboration\, Hispanic Golden Age Classics. \nSee full schedule at Diversifying the Classics.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-la-escena-festival-of-hispanic-classical-theater/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240817T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240817T213000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004823Z
CREATED:20260825T004823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004823Z
UID:10000542-1723923000-1723930200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Library Presents Maya Angelou's Sister\, Sister
DESCRIPTION:Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. \nBefore the screening in the lobby\, UCLA Library Performing Arts Curator Miki Bulos will display a selection of stills and other archival materials related to superstar Diahann Carroll from UCLA Library Special Collections. \nSister\, Sister\nU.S.\, 6/7/1982 \nDiahann Carroll\, Rosalind Cash and Irene Cara star as the Lovejoy sisters in this television film that tracks the fissures within a North Carolinian Black family bonded and broken by the relationship with their church and a legacy of migration between the South and North. Written by Maya Angelou\, who was under contract with Twentieth Century-Fox\, Sister\, Sister was initially developed by Peter Andrews\, vice president of special projects at NBC\, in 1978\, as part of the NBC Theatre prestige drama series. Andrews\, who at the time was one of the few Black television executives\, described the project as “Maya’s black-Americanization of Chekhov.” \nDuring an era when television dramas featuring Black casts were rare\, anticipation for Sister\, Sister was high. The program was completed in 1979 and sat on the shelf at NBC until it finally aired in 1982. “Black drama remains the invisible man for all seasons on commercial TV\,” lamented critic Howard Rosenberg\, advocating for the program in the Los Angeles Times\, “especially when it comes to stories about middle-class blacks.” The white\, conservative\, Mississippi-based Coalition for Better Television launched a boycott of the show\, claiming that it portrayed “negative stereotyping of Christian people.” Support from viewers and critics poured in\, and the TV movie’s ratings saw a bump from the controversy. \nDuring the 1970s\, Angelou was prolific as she worked across publishing\, theater\, film and television media platforms. However\, commercial filmmaking and network television were especially challenging for the author. “Everyone and his dog has a chance to pick at a writer’s work\,” remarked Angelou\, who was accustomed to working with a single editor. While she had fought with the director over script and producing credits\, Angelou’s vision of a complex trio of siblings thrives in melodrama’s emotional terrain of jealousy\, dysfunction and family love and reconciliation. \n—Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler \nDCP\, color\, 98 min. NBC. Production: Twentieth Century-Fox. Executive Producer: Irv Wilson. Director: John Berry. Screenwriter: Maya Angelou. With: Irene Cara\, Diahann Carroll\, Rosalind Cash\, Robert Hooks\, Paul Winfield. Special thanks to Amy Crismer\, Clara Earthly. \nQuestions about the event? Visit: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/08/17/sister-sister
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ucla-library-presents-maya-angelous-sister-sister/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240614T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240614T120000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233602Z
CREATED:20260824T233602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233602Z
UID:10000438-1718359200-1718366400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-50/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240614T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240614T110000
DTSTAMP:20260824T233740Z
CREATED:20260824T233740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T233740Z
UID:10000447-1718355600-1718362800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-34/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240609T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240609T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004804Z
CREATED:20260825T004804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004804Z
UID:10000535-1717948800-1717956000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Year-End Reception
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/year-end-reception-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240608T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240608T111500
DTSTAMP:20260825T004823Z
CREATED:20260825T004823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004823Z
UID:10000541-1717838100-1717845300@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Joseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe conference is free to attend with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. In-person registration will close on Monday\, June 3 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \nPlease visit the event webpage to register to attend. \nThis conference will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials\, which arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male homosexuality\, resulted in a brutal two-year sentence for committing acts of gross indecency with other males\, for which Wilde suffered solitary confinement with hard labor. He was tried under the punitive eleventh section of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885: a law that underwent partial decriminalization in England and Wales in 1967 (somewhat later in Scotland and Northern Ireland). \nThe organizer Joseph Bristow has recently published Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings\, from Arrest to Imprisonment (Yale University Press\, 2022). His book features a comprehensive reconstruction of the trials through a wide range of newspaper and other printed sources. This volume–which turns to British press accounts because the official shorthand court records have been missing from the National Archives since at least 1920–is sorely needed. The last comprehensive account appeared in 1962\, and it contains very uneven coverage of the ways in which the Crown prosecution used unreasonable methods to persuade the jury that Wilde was guilty of an easy-to-corroborate crime. More to the point\, the 1962 edition–on which scholars still rely–presents an outdated view of male homosexual intimacy. Bristow’s volume situates the Wilde trials in relation to several other well-known cases involving homosexual scandal: the Dublin Castle affair; the male brothel on Cleveland Street; the trial of Edward de Cobain; and the Gatty v. Farquharson dispute. \nOscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State takes the occasion of Wilde’s courtroom ordeal as a starting-point for understanding not only the growing awareness of queer subcultures during the 1880s and 1890s but also the long shadow that Wilde’s trials cast upon the proscription of same-sex intimacy in many different parts of the world. The legacy of Wilde’s imprisonment can be felt in divergent areas of the colonial and post-colonial world\, especially in Australia\, New Zealand\, Africa\, South Asia\, Hong Kong\, and Singapore. The fact that more than 50\,000 or so men were convicted under the egregious terms of the 1885 law in Britain speaks to the increasing ways in which male-male intimacy became prosecutable during a period of seventy-two years. The conference provides the opportunity to look at the impact that charges of gross indecency had in Britain\, particularly in relation to persistence of homosexual extortion\, changes in policing methods\, and the attempted criminalization of lesbian intimacy. The symposium provides a forum for legal and humanities scholars to exchange insights into this significant current of modern sexual history. \nSpeakers\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\nDustin Friedman\, American University\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\nChris Waters\, Williams College \n\nProgram Schedule\nAll times listed in Pacific Daylight Time\nQ&A to follow each presentation \nFriday\, June 7 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \n9:15 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nBronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nIntroductory Remarks\nJoseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe Wilde Trials and Nineteenth-Century Sexual Scandal \n9:30 a.m.\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\n“Why the Early Nineteenth Century Matters to the Wilde Trials” \n10:15 a.m.\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\n“Louise Mourey\, Gross Indecency\, and the (Non-)Criminalization of Sex between Women” \n11:00 a.m.\nCoffee Break \n11:15 a.m.\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\n“A German Sexpert at the Old Bailey? Albert Moll\, Lawson Tait\, and the Trials of Oscar Wilde” \n12:00 p.m.\nLunch\nBooks and Manuscripts Exhibition in the North Book Room \n“Gross Indecency”: Then and Now \n1:30 p.m.\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\n“On Knowing It When You See It: Forensic Evidence and the Epistemologies of Gross Indecency” \n2:15 p.m.\nChris Waters\, Williams College\n“The Trials of Oscar Wilde and the Sexual Politics of 1950s Britain” \n3:00 p.m.\nCoffee Break \n3:15 p.m.\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\n“States of Exception: Gross Indecency and U.S. Sodomy Law after Dobbs” \n4:00 p.m.\nReception \nSaturday\, June 8 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \nOscar Wilde\, Pornography\, and Privacy \n9:15 a.m.\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\n“Timelines of Sexuality: Oscar Wilde\, A. C. Swinburne\, and the History of Pornography” \n10:00 a.m.\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\n“Infringing Dorian: Copyright\, Photography\, and Privacy in Oscar Wilde’s Novel” \n10:45 a.m.\nCoffee Break \nObscenity\, Empire\, and the Victorian State \n11:00 a.m.\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\n“Obscenity\, Sedition\, and the Victorian Post Office: Archival Fragments of a Liberal Dilemma” \n11:45 a.m.\nDustin Friedman\, American University\n“Myth\, Mimesis\, and the Imperial State in Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates” \n12:30 p.m.\nProgram Concludes
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/oscar-wilde-sexuality-and-the-state-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T190000
DTSTAMP:20260824T234829Z
CREATED:20260824T234829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T234829Z
UID:10000507-1717779600-1717786800@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
DESCRIPTION:The English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception will take place at the UCLA Faculty Club on Friday\, June 7 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm. \n\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-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T111500
DTSTAMP:20260825T004814Z
CREATED:20260825T004814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004814Z
UID:10000540-1717751700-1717758900@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Joseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe conference is free to attend with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. In-person registration will close on Monday\, June 3 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \nPlease visit the event webpage to register to attend. \nThis conference will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials\, which arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male homosexuality\, resulted in a brutal two-year sentence for committing acts of gross indecency with other males\, for which Wilde suffered solitary confinement with hard labor. He was tried under the punitive eleventh section of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885: a law that underwent partial decriminalization in England and Wales in 1967 (somewhat later in Scotland and Northern Ireland). \nThe organizer Joseph Bristow has recently published Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings\, from Arrest to Imprisonment (Yale University Press\, 2022). His book features a comprehensive reconstruction of the trials through a wide range of newspaper and other printed sources. This volume–which turns to British press accounts because the official shorthand court records have been missing from the National Archives since at least 1920–is sorely needed. The last comprehensive account appeared in 1962\, and it contains very uneven coverage of the ways in which the Crown prosecution used unreasonable methods to persuade the jury that Wilde was guilty of an easy-to-corroborate crime. More to the point\, the 1962 edition–on which scholars still rely–presents an outdated view of male homosexual intimacy. Bristow’s volume situates the Wilde trials in relation to several other well-known cases involving homosexual scandal: the Dublin Castle affair; the male brothel on Cleveland Street; the trial of Edward de Cobain; and the Gatty v. Farquharson dispute. \nOscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State takes the occasion of Wilde’s courtroom ordeal as a starting-point for understanding not only the growing awareness of queer subcultures during the 1880s and 1890s but also the long shadow that Wilde’s trials cast upon the proscription of same-sex intimacy in many different parts of the world. The legacy of Wilde’s imprisonment can be felt in divergent areas of the colonial and post-colonial world\, especially in Australia\, New Zealand\, Africa\, South Asia\, Hong Kong\, and Singapore. The fact that more than 50\,000 or so men were convicted under the egregious terms of the 1885 law in Britain speaks to the increasing ways in which male-male intimacy became prosecutable during a period of seventy-two years. The conference provides the opportunity to look at the impact that charges of gross indecency had in Britain\, particularly in relation to persistence of homosexual extortion\, changes in policing methods\, and the attempted criminalization of lesbian intimacy. The symposium provides a forum for legal and humanities scholars to exchange insights into this significant current of modern sexual history. \nSpeakers\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\nDustin Friedman\, American University\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\nChris Waters\, Williams College \n\nProgram Schedule\nAll times listed in Pacific Daylight Time\nQ&A to follow each presentation \nFriday\, June 7 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \n9:15 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nBronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nIntroductory Remarks\nJoseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe Wilde Trials and Nineteenth-Century Sexual Scandal \n9:30 a.m.\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\n“Why the Early Nineteenth Century Matters to the Wilde Trials” \n10:15 a.m.\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\n“Louise Mourey\, Gross Indecency\, and the (Non-)Criminalization of Sex between Women” \n11:00 a.m.\nCoffee Break \n11:15 a.m.\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\n“A German Sexpert at the Old Bailey? Albert Moll\, Lawson Tait\, and the Trials of Oscar Wilde” \n12:00 p.m.\nLunch\nBooks and Manuscripts Exhibition in the North Book Room \n“Gross Indecency”: Then and Now \n1:30 p.m.\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\n“On Knowing It When You See It: Forensic Evidence and the Epistemologies of Gross Indecency” \n2:15 p.m.\nChris Waters\, Williams College\n“The Trials of Oscar Wilde and the Sexual Politics of 1950s Britain” \n3:00 p.m.\nCoffee Break \n3:15 p.m.\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\n“States of Exception: Gross Indecency and U.S. Sodomy Law after Dobbs” \n4:00 p.m.\nReception \nSaturday\, June 8 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \nOscar Wilde\, Pornography\, and Privacy \n9:15 a.m.\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\n“Timelines of Sexuality: Oscar Wilde\, A. C. Swinburne\, and the History of Pornography” \n10:00 a.m.\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\n“Infringing Dorian: Copyright\, Photography\, and Privacy in Oscar Wilde’s Novel” \n10:45 a.m.\nCoffee Break \nObscenity\, Empire\, and the Victorian State \n11:00 a.m.\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\n“Obscenity\, Sedition\, and the Victorian Post Office: Archival Fragments of a Liberal Dilemma” \n11:45 a.m.\nDustin Friedman\, American University\n“Myth\, Mimesis\, and the Imperial State in Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates” \n12:30 p.m.\nProgram Concludes
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/oscar-wilde-sexuality-and-the-state/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240606T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240606T200000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004734Z
CREATED:20260825T004734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004734Z
UID:10000528-1717696800-1717704000@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors \nStudents in the Creative Writing Program will read from work written during spring quarter. A reception will follow the event. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/err-writers-series-a-reading-with-student-authors-3/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004734Z
CREATED:20260825T004734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004734Z
UID:10000529-1717603200-1717610400@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Canceled: Spring Athenaeum
DESCRIPTION:The English Graduate Union Presents \nThe Spring Athenaeum \nWednesday\, June 5th at 4:00pm – 6:00pm \nFeaturing Miranda Hoegberg and Uri McMillan\, with Louise Hornby as respondent. Please join us in Kaplan 193 for scholarship\, refreshments\, & conversation. \nThe Athenaeum brings together one dissertation-stage graduate student and one faculty member to present their research\, providing a wonderful opportunity for grad student and faculty research to be in conversation with one another. The hope is to generate friendly connections and dialogue across the department\, spanning historical periods and methodological approaches. Please join us for conversation and refreshments as we celebrate the wonderful research of our colleagues! \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-spring-athenaeum/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240603T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240603T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T004813Z
CREATED:20260825T004813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T004813Z
UID:10000536-1717434000-1717441200@english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:What the World’s Silence Says: A Reading With Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a poetry reading and conversation with Gazan poet Yahya Ashour. Yahya Ashour\, born in Gaza City on April 22nd\, 1998\, is a touring poet and awarded author. He’s a 2022 honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. His recent poetry e-book\, titled “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide\,” was published by Mizna in March 2024. Ashour has also authored a poetry collection and a children’s book in Arabic\, along with contributing to numerous printed anthologies and online journals worldwide. His works have been translated into several languages\, including English\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, Finnish\, Japanese\, and Bengali. Since October 2023\, he has presented his poetry and talked about Gaza at several organizations and 30 universities across the United States\, including Princeton\, Stanford\, and Cornell. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Mona Simpson\, Professor of English at UCLA. \nRegister here to attend. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/what-the-worlds-silence-says-a-reading-with-gazan-poet-yahya-ashour/
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