The Human Chameleon: Hybrid Jews in Cinema
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CAThe lecture will explore representations of “chameleon” or hybrid Jewish figures in cinema: Jewish characters that change their appearance, transform their identity, infiltrate other cultures and express their Jewishness by becoming “other-than-Jewish.” The hybrid Jew will be discussed from the theoretical perspective of postcolonial studies, feminism and queer studies, post-structural French philosophy and traditional Jewish...
1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: The Matter of the Neighbor: Budd Schulberg, James Baldwin, and the Watts Writers Workshop
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CAThis talk explores the Watts Writers Workshop, founded in the heart of Watts by Jewish American writer Budd Schulberg immediately after the Watts Rebellion of 1965, and argues that the success and final demise of the project tracks Schulberg’s shift from prose to property. Drawing on Schulberg’s archives, including lease contracts, letters, and personal...
The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Hannah Arendt’s Message of Ill-Tidings
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA'It was not only their own misfortunes that the refugees carried with them from land to land, from continent to continent,' Hannah Arendt wrote, 'but the great misfortune of the whole world.' Shortly before her death, Arendt said that the real story of her generation of Jewish refugees from Nazism had yet to be fully...
Paul Bové: “Language, Criticism, and the Intellectual Virtues”
Kaplan Hall 193Paul A. Bové (Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh) is the Editor of boundary 2, an international journal of literature and culture, published by Duke University Press. The journal has published recent special issues on major topics in the academy, including Antinomies of the Post-Secular, Second Hand Europe, as well as a Dossier: Orientalism and the...
50th Anniversary Celebration!
Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room, Royce Hall 306 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CAAs part of UCLA’s Centennial Celebration, the Department of Comparative Literature is celebrating its 50th birthday on June 1 & 2, 2019. We will have two events. The first is a reception on June 1st from 4-6pm at Ross Shideler and Kathy Komar’s home. The second will be a series of panels in Royce Hall with...
Departmental Commencement Reception
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Department of Comparative Literature Welcome Week Open House
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAPlease join the Department of Comparative Literature for its annual Welcome Week Open House! Students from all majors are welcome to come learn about UCLA’s exciting Comparative Literature undergraduate program! The Department offers: GE/Writing II courses Major and minor programs Unique research opportunities Meet new and continuing COM LIT students, faculty and department staff. Light snacks and refreshments will...
7th Annual Humanities Division Welcome
UCLA Schoenberg Hall
Comparative Literature in a Relational World: A Lecture by UCLA Professor Shu-mei Shih
Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room, Royce Hall 306 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CAIn honor of the 50th Anniversary Celebration and our Fall Welcome, please join the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature for a lecture and reception on October 15, 2019 from 4:00 - 6:30 p.m. in Royce Hall 306 (the Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room. Professor Shu-mei Shih (Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Asian Languages and...
Writing in Different (Disciplinary) Languages: On the Occasion of “The Perils of the One”: Lecture and Discussion with Professor Stathis Gourgouris
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAIn honor of the 50th Anniversary Celebration, please join the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature for a lecture and reception on October 28, 2019 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. in 348 Kaplan Hall. In honor of his new book, The Perils of the One (Columbia University Press, 2019), Stathis Gourgouris (Professor of Classics, English, and...
“The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos” Reading and Book Signing with UCLA Lecturer Dr. Susannah Rodriguez Drissi
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAPlease join the Department of Comparative Literature on Wednesday, November 20th at 12:00 p.m. for a reading and signing of Dr. Susannah Rodríguez Drissi’s new poetry collection, The Latin Poet's Guide to the Cosmos. The event will be hosted at Kaplan Hall 348. Special guests include writer, actor, and translator Magdalena Edwards (Clarice Lispector's The Chandelier),...
“‘Ten Tongues and Ten Mouths’: Reading the Iliad in post-9/11 Pakistan” – “UCLA Comparative Literature in the World” Lecture by Alumnae Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAPlease join the Department of Comparative Literature on Tuesday, January 14th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. for a lecture from Professor Maryam Wasif Khan of the Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences entitled, “‘Ten Tongues and Ten Mouths’: Reading the Iliad in post-9/11 Pakistan.” This event is...