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SUMMARY:Winter Quarter: First Day of Classes
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/winter-quarter-first-day-of-classes/
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SUMMARY:William Caxton’s Multilingualism: The Claims of French and Dutch\, English and Kentish
DESCRIPTION:This lecture by Professor Ad Putter (Professor of Medieval English and Director\, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies\, University of Bristol) explores the multilingualism of England in the fifteenth century by examining the life and works of the first English printer\, William Caxton. In standard histories of the English language\, Caxton and the printing press appear as agents in the standardisation of English\, but Caxton’s language was in many ways unusual\, and shows the impact of the many years he lived in the Low Countries. French\, Latin and English are the languages that usually get mentioned in the context of medieval multilingualism. This lecture extends this range by showing how and why Dutch mattered to merchants like Caxton\, and how and why that language interfered with his English. \nPlease register here to attend.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/william-caxtons-multilingualism-the-claims-of-french-and-dutch-english-and-kentish/
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SUMMARY:"Undigested Sentiment in John Keats's 'Isabella; Or\, The Pot of Basil'."
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undigested-sentiment-in-john-keatss-isabella-or-the-pot-of-basil/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T160000
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SUMMARY:“Almost Beaver’s Brothers”: Reason and Reciprocity in Castor Territory. A Job Talk
DESCRIPTION:This paper close reads seventeenth-century European and Wabanaki stories about human-beaver relations in order to revise our understanding of the confrontation of cultures that colonization comprised. This paper responds to recent work in early American studies at the intersection of the history of science and reason on one hand\, and\, on the other\, research on the cultures of affection or “emotional communities” of English planters and creoles.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/almost-beavers-brothers-reason-and-reciprocity-in-castor-territory-a-job-talk/
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SUMMARY:Hydrophilic Archives: Early Handmade Paper in Unstable Environments
DESCRIPTION:Joshua Calhoun (Associate Professor of English\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison) \nClick here to register to attend. \nPaper loves water\, but the hydrophilic property of paper is both a feature and a bug: it cannot be created without water\, and it can be easily destroyed by water. This talk explores the revolutionary\, vulnerable qualities of early handmade paper and considers the ecological resources we use to preserve the documentary evidence we have received from the past on thin pliable\, handcrafted leaves of organic matter. \n“Hydrophilic Archives” takes up an inconvenient truth: there is an inverse correlation between book preservation strategies and environmental stewardship. The preservation of records has a significant environmental cost\, and that cost is expected to rise precipitously as resources become scarcer. What\, then\, is the future of archival libraries in a changing climate\, and how do we responsibly and sustainably support the preservation of cultural heritages? \nProfessor Calhoun focuses on the history of handmade paper\, in his forthcoming book\, The Nature of the Page\,  which explores the ecopoetic interplay between literary ideas and the physical forms they are made to take as sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts. Made from recycled clothes\, slaughtered animals\, and felled trees\, poetic texts in Renaissance England were filled with visible traces of ecological matter. Calhoun argues that the flora\, fauna\, and mineralia from which a Renaissance text—or a clay tablet\, or a birch bark map\, or an iPhone—is made are legible\, significant elements of its poetic form. \nScholarship on the history of media has tended to imagine humans as the points of textual origination\, as if the materials used to make paper\, to make ink\, to make printing type\, and so on\, simply existed in abundance\, waiting to be harvested. In reality\, ecological availability and scarcity make certain kinds of human records possible; at the moment those possibilities are realized and integrated into textual forms\, textual corruption and disintegration begins. Texts\, in other words\, are and arise from within unique ecosystems. The Nature of the Page reveals a more ecologically deterministic\, but also a more poetic past and future for those endlessly intriguing sites of humanistic and environmental negotiation we call “texts.” \nThe Deaths of Books: Facing the Mortality of Texts is the tentative title for the book he is currently researching. In this work\, he puts the materiality of texts into conversation with the mortality of texts by thinking about how books die. The work extends the “ecology of texts” approach he advocates in The Nature of the Page\, but pushes his new research into deeper conversations with environmental science and conservation practices by asking questions such as: What is the environmental cost of historical preservation? How much preservation is enough? Is digitization really more environmentally friendly than stabilizing aged texts in climate controlled vaults? Why is it common to allow destructive analysis on samples from historical buildings and historical bones\, but not from historical books? \nClick here to register to attend. \nNo fee. Limited seating. Self-pay parking in lots 2\, 3\, and 4. Parking information at\nParking information at main.transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/hydrophilic-archives-early-handmade-paper-in-unstable-environments/
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-2/
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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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SUMMARY:Job Talk by Alex Mazzaferro
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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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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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SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting-2/
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SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
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