Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Intermediaries, Translators and Mediators: The Making of World Authorship”
ZoomGisèle Sapiro (Sociology, EHESS/CNRS, Paris) Register to attend via Zoom This event will only be held virtually via Zoom. In this public seminar, Professor Sapiro will explore the role of intermediaries and mediators in the process of how literary works cross borders (or not). Based on Bourdieu's analysis of the social conditions of international circulation...
Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Visualizing Mestizaje through Zapotec Remappings of the Americas”
Hershey Hall SalonJosefina Saldaña-Portillo (Department of Social & Cultural Analysis (SCA), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), New York University) Inaugural Dean of Humanities’ Lecture in Critical Humanistic Inquiry Thursday, May 2, 2024 5 pm – 6 pm Hershey Hall Salon RSVP to attend in person RSVP to attend via Zoom Followed by a Reception...
Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Relationality as Ternary Structure: On Challenges and Openings for Relational Critical Thinking”
Bunche Hall 6275 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAKathrin Thiele (Director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG); Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University) RSVP to attend in person RSVP to attend via Zoom In this talk I want to approach relationality as “ternary structure,” and explicate what kind of conceptual and practical shifts such onto-epistemological proposition enables. The...
Fall 2024 Open House
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAPlease join us on September 25th from 11-12pm in Kaplan 348! Light refreshments will be served. RSVP HERE
What is this thing called Mau Mau? The “Storm in Kenya” in Global Perspectives
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA Talk by Christian David Alvarado Kaplan Hall Room #348 5:00-8:00 PM In the opening pages of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s 1967 novel A Grain of Wheat, a European district officer asks a version of the question at the core of discourse about the anticolonial movement that gripped Kenya in the 1950s: “What is this thing...
“The Same Frame of Mind, but a Different Villain”: Conspiracist Narratology and the Decolonization of Africa
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA workshop with Christian David Alvarado KAPLAN HALL ROOM #348 1:00-2:30pm Workshop 2:30-3:00pm Reception This workshop is open to UCLA Comparative Literature graduate students, UCLA English graduate students, and UCLA African Studies Center students. Related Document: Workshop Chapter The chapter we will be discussing in this workshop examines a key episode in the...
Women of the World
ELTS third floor balcony, Royce Hall
What can we expect from analysis today? A Talk with Dr. Luis Izcovich
Kaplan Hall 193 CAFriday, April 18, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #193 (first floor) 4:00pm Light refreshments will be provided This talk is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory, and the California Forum of the Lacanian Field. About the Talk When the subject’s encounter with something impossible to bear...
Good Enough Art: A Few Theses on Middling Mediation. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
Bunche Hall 4357A Talk with Anna Kornbluh Tuesday, May 6, 2025 bUNCHE HALL ROOM #4357 (FOURTH floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of...
Peasants in Space: Faulkner, Guha, and South to North Criticism. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA Talk with Hosam Aboul-Ela Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Political Science, the Department of European Languages...
CANCELLED Writing History in a Time of Revolutions: The Arab Novel in English and the Quest for a Narrative
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA Conversation with Alexis Tadié THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY 12PM PST ON 5/19/25 Wednesday, May 21, 2025 3:00-5:00pm PST Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) This talk is part of the Edward W. Said Series organized by Dr. Anjali Prabhu, Professor and Edward W. Said Chair in Comparative Literature....
Abolition and Constitution. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
Kaplan Hall 193A Talk with Michael Hardt Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #193 (First floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Political Science, the Department of European Languages...