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The Department of Comparative LiteratureCL Professor Jenny Sharpe has returned from Harvard after a most successful colloquium at the Barker Center. Entitled “The Underwater World of Édouard Duval-Carrié’s Art: Mapping a Vodou Archive,” the event…
Read MoreFor one week this February, the UCLA Comparative Literature Dept was home to a celebration––and critique––of technology’s nascent trajectories. The event, called Cyber Days, brought hundreds of students, faculty, and…
Read MoreMichael Rothberg is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is also the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies. Professor Rothberg’s widely acclaimed book, Multidirectional Memory, is now…
Read MoreUCLA 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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