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The Department of Comparative LiteratureUCLA Comparative Literature professor Dominic Thomas is also Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies. Given his extensive knowledge of European culture and politics overall, he has been…
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Cyber Days conference on blockchain highlights technology as a vital tool for humanities students Professor and Chair David MacFadyen was recently featured in a UCLA Newsroom article highlighting his “Cyber…
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Kathleen L. Komar, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, and Ross Shideler, Research Professor of Comparative Literature and Scandinavian, have made a generous donation to the UCLA Division of Humanities in…
Read MoreOctober, 2017. Princeton’s Department of French and Italian hosted the renowned French philosopher and playwright, Alain Badiou. UCLA’s Professor Kenneth Reinhard offered a related lecture entitled “The Fundamental Philosophy of…
Read MoreProfessor Nouri Gana will be speaking in Munich at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität for a “Histories of Arab Documentary” conference. Taking place October 27-29, the event is described as follows. The conference…
Read MoreProfessor Aamir Mufti will be giving the keynote speech at Northwestern University’s international conference this month: “Globalization, Global, and World – History, Literary Criticism, and Spaces of the Present.”
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Professor Zrinka Stahuljak has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim award; she has also been in residence at the University of Iceland, thanks to the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual…
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The American Comparative Literature Association is coming to UCLA and we have plenty to do as hosts! The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting will take place at the University of…
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Congratulations to Dr. Yasemin Yildiz, the recipient of the 2016 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies for her outstanding academic work in the Humanities. Dr. Yildiz is…
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Nouri Gana, associate professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has been named one of 13 recipients of the 2017 New Directions fellowship from the Andrew…
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