Events

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. The event is co-sponsored by departments and units on campus including: American Indian Studies Center Asian American Studies Center Center for the Study...

Seating is on a first-come basis. Questions about the event? Visit CSW|Streisand Center for full details. Join 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. The author will sign books purchased on site, courtesy of The Reparations...

Wednesday, October 23 Doors: 7 pm Event: 7:30 pm at 2220 Arts + Archives Questions about the event? Visit The Poetic Research Bureau for full details. ~ Roof 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...

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...

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...

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,...