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In the News: “Hacking the humanities”

Published: February 16, 2018

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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Thank You, Kathy and Ross

Published: February 14, 2018

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…

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Professor Reinhard and Alain Badiou

Published: October 25, 2017

October, 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…

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Histories of Arab Documentary

Published: October 25, 2017

Professor 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…

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Major Talk by Professor Aamir Mufti

Published: October 17, 2017

Professor 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 Wins Guggenheim Award

Published: October 15, 2017

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 ACLA is Coming to UCLA

Published: September 15, 2017

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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