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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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SUMMARY:Fall Reception
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/fall-reception-3/
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting-35/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-51/
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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: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/
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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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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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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/canceled-faculty-meeting-2/
LOCATION:CA
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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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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