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SUMMARY:Southern California Eighteenth-Century Group: Serena Zabin
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/southern-california-eighteenth-century-group-serena-zabin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T093000
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SUMMARY:The No-Body Problem
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to think collaboratively without the body? Please join us on Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd at Hershey Hall on the UCLA campus to hear—and participate in—a series of conversations on this subject. \nThis two-day event gathers a group of scholars working broadly in eighteenth-century studies under the heading of what we are calling “The No-Body Problem\,” the long history of thinking about the yields of—and yieldings to—disembodied media. The eighteenth century is a natural moment to launch these questions\, since it witnessed the emergence of modern media (including print)\, new collectivities in so-called republics of letters\, the epistolary novel\, widespread literacy\, theories of information and social complexity\, and forms of being attendant on communication at a distance. That age is rich in reflections upon\, and responses to\, innovations in communication media\, since it was encountering modes of disembodied relationality which anticipate our own. \nOur goal is to think collectively\, in person\, about the long history of thought about the relationship between embodiment and modern media; we aim to unearth the roots of modern patterns of thought in early experiments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, offering a historical counterweight to arguments over virtuality which are anything but novel. \nSeating is limited; please RSVP here.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-no-body-problem/
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SUMMARY:Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday May 2nd at 1:30pm for a public lecture by Emily Hodgson Anderson\, “Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write.” \nLocation: Hershey Hall Salon \nLunch is offered; RSVP here to attend. \n“Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write.” \nWe’ve probably all had this thought\, recently\, reading a campus-wide email\, or a student essay\, or the transcript of a politician’s speech: who really wrote these words? \nThe looming presence of AI is clearly one reason why this question is at the forefront of our minds—but the question also predates AI and brings up new questions of its own.  \nWhen is an author not an author?  \nThe question might feel like the set up for a joke with Barthes or Foucault as the punchline\, however\, in this talk\, Emily Hodgson Anderson’s answer to this question will take us in a different direction. \nWhen is an author not an author? When an author uses a ghostwriter ….   \nUnderstood broadly as the act of one person writing in another person’s name\, the practice has\, according to many ghostwriters\, been around since written language itself. And yet the implementation\, and acknowledgment\, of this practice have varied greatly over time. Who are these invisible figures? Why do they do what they do? And why do they remain disembodied— behind the scenes?  In part a cultural history of this mysterious and intuitively captivating profession\, in part an exposé of how contemporary professional ghostwriting works\, this public lecture uses ghostwriting to animate the questions posed by the workshop on the No-Body Problem. \nEmily Hodgson Anderson is Professor of English and Dean of Undergraduate Education for Dornsife College at USC. She is the author of two books of literary criticism\, Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction (Routledge\, 2009) and Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss (University of Michigan Press\, 2018). She is also author of the newly published cross-over book Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life (Columbia UP 2025). For five years\, she served as the editor-in-chief for the academic journal The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her academic work has appeared in the journals PMLA\, ELH\, and Studies in the Novel\, among others\, and her public-facing writing has appeared in places such as the Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Rambling\, LitHub and Air/Light.  She is currently at work on a new book titled Ghostwriting: A Secret History\, from God to AI.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ghost-writing-the-secret-history-of-the-no-bodies-who-write/
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SUMMARY:The No-Body Problem
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to think collaboratively without the body? Please join us on Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd at Hershey Hall on the UCLA campus to hear—and participate in—a series of conversations on this subject. \nThis two-day event gathers a group of scholars working broadly in eighteenth-century studies under the heading of what we are calling “The No-Body Problem\,” the long history of thinking about the yields of—and yieldings to—disembodied media. The eighteenth century is a natural moment to launch these questions\, since it witnessed the emergence of modern media (including print)\, new collectivities in so-called republics of letters\, the epistolary novel\, widespread literacy\, theories of information and social complexity\, and forms of being attendant on communication at a distance. That age is rich in reflections upon\, and responses to\, innovations in communication media\, since it was encountering modes of disembodied relationality which anticipate our own. \nOur goal is to think collectively\, in person\, about the long history of thought about the relationship between embodiment and modern media; we aim to unearth the roots of modern patterns of thought in early experiments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, offering a historical counterweight to arguments over virtuality which are anything but novel. \nSeating is limited; please RSVP here.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-no-body-problem-2/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-57/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Retirement Party in Honor of Jenny Sharpe
DESCRIPTION:Professor Jenny Sharpe\, a renowned scholar of postcolonial studies\, the Black Atlantic\, and cultural theories of globalization\, is retiring after a 32-year distinguished career marked by groundbreaking scholarship and dedicated service. We invite you to join us for a special reception in honor of Professor Sharpe that will bring together colleagues\, former students\, and friends to reflect on her lasting impact and the profound influence of her research and teaching. \nWe request your RSVP to attend. Please RSVP here. \nProfessor Sharpe profoundly shaped the field of literary studies with important works such as Allegories of Empire\, which examines representations of interracial rape for managing crises in British colonial authority\, and Slavery: A Literary Archeology of Black Women’s Lives\, which challenges conventional notions of subaltern agency. Most recently\, her book Immaterial Archives theorizes an African Diaspora poetics of loss\, further cementing her legacy as a transformative thinker. Beyond her scholarship\, she has been an advocate for diversity\, equity\, and inclusion\, serving as Associate Dean of Humanities for the past six years. Her career and contributions will be celebrated at her retirement party\, honoring the lasting impact she has had on the field and academic community. \nThe reception is organized by Ali Behdad\, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. This reception is co-sponsored by UCLA Department of English and UCLA Division of Humanities. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Ali Behdad: behdad@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/retirement-party-in-honor-of-jenny-sharpe/
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SUMMARY:Stephen Witt Book Talk - The Thinking Machine
DESCRIPTION:The  L.A.-based writer\, TV producer and investigative journalist will join us to discuss his new book\, The Thinking Machine.  Stephen’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Rolling Stone\, GQ\, Slate\, WSJ\, and many other venues. He is executive producer of the 2024 streaming series based on his first book\, How Music Got Free. \nRegister here to attend the event. A light reception and book signing will follow the talk. Books will be available to purchase at the event. \n\nAbout THE THINKING MACHINE \nIn June 2024\, spurred by the frenzy of investment following the launch of ChatGPT and thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny’s restaurant\, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth.  In The Thinking Machine\, acclaimed journalist Stephen Witt recounts the unlikely story of how a manufacturer of video game components shocked Silicon Valley by conquering the market for AI hardware\, and in the process reinvented the computer. \n“The story of how Nvidia became the hottest investment on Wall Street and a household name is fascinating.” — The New York Times Book Review
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/stephen-witt-book-talk-the-thinking-machine/
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SUMMARY:EHRG Coffee Hour with Allison Carruth
DESCRIPTION:The Environmental Humanities Research Group (EHRG) will host a coffee hour for graduate students and Professor Allison Carruth from 2–3pm in Kaplan 193\, followed by Professor Carruth’s talk at 4pm in Kaplan 193.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ehrg-coffee-hour-with-allison-carruth/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T160000
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SUMMARY:LENS Book Talk with Allison Carruth
DESCRIPTION:Novel Ecologies challenges the conviction that climate change and other environmental crises must be met with ever larger-scale forms of technological intervention. Against the new worlds conjured by Google\, Meta\, Open AI\, Amazon\, SpaceX\, and a host of lesser-known start-ups\, Carruth marshals writers and artists who imagine provisionally hopeful environmental futures while refusing to forget the histories that have made the world what it is. \nAllison Carruth is a professor in the Program in American Studies and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Her current research interests include environmental narrative and science communication; the role of artists and writers in contemporary American environmental and food justice movements; and evolving relationships in the United States between technology and ecology. For over a decade\, she has worked on collaborations that aim to bridge ideas from and re-imagine the boundaries between the arts\, humanities\, and sciences. She is the author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food (Cambridge University Press\, 2013) and co-author with Amy L. Tigner of Literature and Food Studies (Routledge\, 2018)\, and Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (University of Chicago Press\, 2025).
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/lens-book-talk-with-allison-carruth/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T160000
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SUMMARY:Spring Athenaeum
DESCRIPTION:The English Graduate Union Presents \nThe Spring Athenaeum \nThursday\, May 15 at 4:00pm – 6:00pm \nFeaturing Miranda Hoegberg and Uri McMillan\, with Louise Hornby as respondent. \nThe Athenaeum brings together one dissertation-stage graduate student and one faculty member to present their research\, providing a venue for grad student and faculty research to be in conversation with one another. The hope is to generate collegiality 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!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/spring-athenaeum-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T170000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:For our Spring 2025 meeting\, we will meet on May 16\,  3:00 – 5:00 PM\, in Kaplan 193\, and we will read the short Middle English poem Wynnere and Wastoure. This peculiar mid-14th century alliterative poem (in Middle English\, but don’t be discouraged! Just do your best!) sets two allegorical figures\, Winner and Waster\, against each other in a debate about the proper use of things. They offer competing understandings of what it means to waste in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Join us for a discussion about over-using\, under-using\, not using\, prematurely using\, belatedly using\, and strange medieval food stuffs led by Prof. Matthew Fisher (English). Handouts of each reading will be available during the group meeting\, but are also linked in the calendar below and can also be found HERE. \nThe 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 and 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. \nNo preparation is necessary (other than a brief skim of the text) and no expertise or medieval knowledge is required – only enthusiasm! Suggestions for what to read (or what kinds of texts to read) are very welcome. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu). \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T120000
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SUMMARY:Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:4th annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\n“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”\n-Anne Lamott \nAbout The Event\nUCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English cordially invite you to our fourth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2025. In this series of panels\, students from the Professional Writing Minor (PWM) will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. \nA new and growing minor with just eleven graduating seniors in 2020\, forty-three of the PWM’s eighty-one graduating seniors in AY 24-25 will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range\, depth\, and individualized paths possible within the Professional Writing Minor. From Rachel Zegler to the Armenian diaspora\, urban planning to the effects of SSRIs during pregnancy\, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including memoirs\, websites\, zines\, research articles\, and digital marketing campaigns. \nThe colloquium is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Friends\, family\, faculty\, staff\, and students are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers and soon-to-be graduates share their insights and discoveries.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/professional-writing-minor-capstone-seminar-colloquium/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T091500
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SUMMARY:2025 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! \nWednesday\, May 21 in Kaplan Hall 193 \nZoom livestream link here\n \nThe full conference schedule is now available: ACES 2025 Conference Program. \nThe Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The event is held annually during UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Week.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/2025-academic-conference-for-english-students-aces/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T180000
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SUMMARY:ARC with Jené Pledger (UCLA)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-jene-pledger-ucla/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion & Celebration: Michelle Huneven’s Bug Hollow
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Michelle Huneven’s new novel\, Bug Hollow. Bug Hollow is a decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson clan trying to make sense of the world after the loss of their son Ellis. \nRegister here to attend. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate Michelle and her new work!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/book-discussion-celebration-michelle-hunevens-bug-hollow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T130000
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SUMMARY:Honors Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join students from our 2024-2025 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will speak about the process of crafting their honors theses over the past year. Both critical research and creative works will be featured. Light refreshments will be served. \nClick here to download the event program. \nClick here to join the Zoom livestream.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/honors-showcase/
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