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SUMMARY:Working Group in Memory Studies: First Reading Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:  \nFounded in fall 2018\, the Working Group in Memory Studies brings together faculty and graduate students from across the humanities and social sciences who are interested in the interdisciplinary field of cultural memory studies. \n  \nCultural memory studies focuses on the dynamic interplay between the past and the present in local\, national\, and transnational contexts and can involve the study of works of art and literature; memorials and monuments; processes of reparation\, reconciliation\, and transitional justice; activist movements; media; and more. In recent years the field has grown rapidly and there is now an international Memory Studies Association. \n  \nThe Working Group plans to hold regular reading group meetings this academic year where they will discuss important work in the field. In the past they’ve met with visiting speakers; hosted works-in-progress sessions; and organized conferences. \n  \nThe first reading group meeting of the quarter will take place on Thursday\, November 13 from 3:30-5:00 pm in 348 Kaplan. Light refreshments will be provided. \n  \nThe reading group will be discussing Astrid Erll’s “The Hidden Power of Implicit Collective Memory” (2022) and Ben Ratskoff’s “Prosthetic Trauma at the Nova Exhibition: Holocaust Memory\, Reenactment\, and the Affective Reproduction of Genocidal Nightmares” (2025). The essays are available in the group’s Box folder and should be read in advance. \n  \nAll are welcome to attend regardless of whether you are already familiar with the field or are interested in discovering a new theoretical and methodological approach. \n  \nIf you would like to be added to the group’s mailing list so that you are aware of future events or have any questions about the group\, please contact Michael Rothberg (mrothberg@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/working-group-in-memory-studies-first-reading-group-meeting/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Interocepción insular: Lo patológico en la imaginación literaria del laboratorio Caribe
DESCRIPTION:When: Wednesday\, November 12\, 4:30 PM\nLocation: Rolfe Hall 4302 – Lydeen Library \n  \nInterocepción insular (UNC Press\, 2025) examines literary representations of disease and disability to reconceptualize the Hispanic Caribbean as a site of scientific\, economic\, and political experimentation. Exploring how individuals subjected to various forms of testing—eugenic\, medical\, neoliberal\, or otherwise—hyper-monitor a corporeality that is at once their own and alien. By theorizing the “Caribbean laboratory” as distinct from the concentration camp or the plantation\, Ugarte investigates how test subjects apprehend their own bodies within ongoing regimes of experimentation\, while discussing how disease and disability are imagined\, recounted\, and experienced inside and outside medical and colonial diagnoses. \n  \nAna Ugarte (Ph.D.\, Duke U) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. Both a scholar of Health Humanities\, with a focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American fiction and cultural production\, as well as global Latinx studies. Ugarte’s work has appeared in journals including Cultural Dynamics\, Journal for the Study of Gender and Sexuality\, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos\, and Voces del Caribe.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/interocepcion-insular-lo-patologico-en-la-imaginacion-literaria-del-laboratorio-caribe/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
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SUMMARY:Modern French Thought and the History of Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:October 17\, 2025: 4:00-7:00 pm PST\nOctober 18\, 2025: 10:30 am-6:30 pm PST\n\nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)\nIn person and Zoom hybrid\n\n  \nREGISTER TO ATTEND HERE\n\nIn person attendance is encouraged but Zoom attendance also available. Your advance registration will help determine the event catering order. The Zoom meeting link will be sent EOD on October 15. For any questions or concerns\, please contact Lisset at lisset@humnet.ucla.edu.  \n\n  \n\nSchedule\n\nFriday\, October 17\, 2025 (Pacific Standard Time)\n\n\n\n\n	4:00 pmOpening reception and welcome\n\n\n	4:30 pm Alan Schrift\, Grinnell College\n“The Institutionalization of History of Philosophy in Recent French Thought”  \nIntroduced and moderated by Eleanor Kaufman\n\n\n\n	6:00 pm After talk reception for all participants and guests\n\n\n\n\n  \nSaturday\, October 18\, 2025 (Pacific Standard Time)\n\n\n\n\n	10:30 amJacob Schmutz (Zoom)\, University of Louvain\n“Is Metaphysics Dangerous for the Republic? The Debate for a Unique Course of Philosophy in Enlightenment France” \nIntroduced and moderated by Calvin Normore\n\n\n	12:00 pmConference lunch\, attendees welcome\n\n\n	1:00 pmSteven Mailloux\, University of California\, Irvine and Loyola Marymount University \n“Jesuitical Philosophy in Paris: Ignatian Spirituality and Political Theology in the Twentieth Century”\nIntroduced and moderated by Austin Webster  \n\n\n	2:30 pm Davide Panagia\, University of California\, Los Angeles \n“Mimesis\, the explication de texte\, and State Thinking” \nIntroduced and moderated by Grant Hussong\n\n\n\n	4:00 pmJoe Hughes\, University of Melbourne \n“Jean Hyppolite: Philosophy\, Non-Philo-sophy\, and the History of Philosophy” \nIntroduced and moderated by Jessica Marian\n\n\n	5:30 pm Closing reception for all participants and guests \n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\nParking for Campus Visitors:\n\nThe closest parking structures to Kaplan Hall are Structure 2\, Structure 3 North\, and Structure 4. Parking rates vary by structure\, so please refer to the rates here. Guest parking is available on a first come\, first served basis. Please plan to arrive early if you are not familiar with the campus or parking structures.  \n  \nVISITOR PARKING AREAS: \n♦Structure 2: Structure 2 has pay stations for visitors on the first and second floors. These floors are the only floors with visitor parking; there are also signs indicating which parking stalls are for visitors. The Google Maps link for the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”) is here. \n♦ Structure 3 North: Parking Structure 3 North\, Visitor’s Section is located at 215 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA 90024. The parking structure has visitor parking in levels 1\, 2 and 3. The Google Maps link to the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”) is here. \n♦ Structure 4: Parking Structure 4\, Visitor’s Section is located at 221 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. The parking structure has visitor parking in level 1\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. The Google Maps link to the visitor’s section is here. \n\n  \n  \n\nHOW TO PAY FOR PARKING:\nSelf-service pay stations are located in all visitor parking areas. Visitors must pay for parking BEFORE they leave their vehicles. Visitor parking permits are not valid in parking stalls outside of the visitor parking section of the structure and stalls posted for Blue and X permits or otherwise reserved.  \n1. All self-service pay stations use pay-by-plate technology.\n2. Once parked\, go to the nearest parking pay station\n3. Enter your license plate number. If you do not have a license plate number\, please enter the last 6 (six) digits of your Vehicle ID Number (VIN). Your VIN can be found on the driver’s side door or the lower driver’s side of the windshield.\n4. Choose the amount of time that you would like to spend on campus.\n5. Pay using the exact cash amount or with a credit card. For those using their VIN\, please place your receipt on your dashboard\, otherwise nothing else is required. Pay stations do not provide change. There are no refunds for pay station purchases. \nAdditional visitor parking information can be found on the UCLA Transportation website. \n  \nParking for UCLA faculty\, students\, and staff: \nActive Bruin ePemit Holders can request a “Transfer Permit” to cross-park in an alternate lot or structure on campus at no additional cost according to the privileges of your permit type. Check the Parking Permit Privileges for details. \n– You can obtain a 1-Day cross-parking permit through the Bruin ePermit Portal\, excluding Night and Weekend permit holders. The 1-Day cross parking permit is valid for same-day use only.\n– Faculty and staff may receive a maximum of five (5) cross-parking permits per quarter.\n– Please note\, Cross Parking (Transfer) Permits will vary depending on parking space availability.\n– To request a “Transfer Permit” please follow these instructions \n\n  \nThe UCLA Comparative Literature Department is not responsible for any parking tickets or citations received by event attendees. Please contact the UCLA Transportation Department directly for assistance with citations. 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/french-theory-and-the-history-of-philosophy/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Abolition and Constitution. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
DESCRIPTION:A Talk with Michael Hardt\n\n[gravityform id=”31″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\nTuesday\, June 3\, 2025\nKaplan Hall Room #193 (First floor)\n4:00-6:00pm Talk\n6:00pm Reception\n  \nThis 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 and Transcultural Studies\, the Department of Art\, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. \n\n  \nABOUT THE TALK\nAbolitionist politics have become in recent years the focus of some of the most innovative theoretical and activist projects. Drawing on authors in the Marxist and Black Radical traditions\, I will explore some of the philosophical bases and consequences of the abolitionist paradigm. I will argue\, furthermore\, that\, at philosophical and practical levels\, constitution is a necessary complement to abolition. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMichael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. With Antonio Negri\, he co-authored several books\, including Empire. His latest book is The Subversive Seventies. He currently serves as editor of the South Atlantic Quarterly. \n  \nPARKING FOR CAMPUS VISITORS\n\nThe closest parking structure to Kaplan Hall is Structure 2\, followed by Structure 5 and Structure 4. Parking rates vary by structure\, so please refer to the rates here.  \n  \nVISITOR PARKING AREAS: \n♦ Structure 2: Structure 2 has pay stations for visitors on the first and second floors. These floors are the only floors with visitor parking; there are also signs indicating which parking stalls are for visitors. The Google Maps link for the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”) is here. \n♦ Structure 4: Parking Structure 4\, Visitor’s Section is located at 221 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. The parking structure has visitor parking in level 1\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. The Google Maps link to the visitor’s section is here . \n♦ Structure 5: Parking Structure 5\, Visitor’s Section is located at 405 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. The parking structure has visitor parking in both levels 4 and 6\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. The link to the visitor’s section is here . \n  \nHOW TO PAY FOR PARKING:\nSelf-service pay stations are located in all visitor parking areas. Visitors must pay for parking BEFORE they leave their vehicles. Visitor parking permits are not valid in parking stalls outside of the visitor parking section of the structure and stalls posted for Blue and X permits or otherwise reserved.  \n1. All self-service pay stations use pay-by-plate technology.\n2. Once parked\, go to the nearest parking pay station\n3. Enter your license plate number. If you do not have a license plate number\, please enter the last 6 (six) digits of your Vehicle ID Number (VIN). Your VIN can be found on the driver’s side door or the lower driver’s side of the windshield.\n4. Choose the amount of time that you would like to spend on campus.\n5. Pay using the exact cash amount or with a credit card. For those using their VIN\, please place your receipt on your dashboard\, otherwise nothing else is required. Pay stations do not provide change. There are no refunds for pay station purchases. \n  \nAdditional visitor parking information can be found on the UCLA Transportation website. \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/abolition-and-constitution-program-in-experimental-critical-theory-public-talk/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Writing History in a Time of Revolutions: The Arab Novel in English and the Quest for a Narrative
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Alexis Tadié \n\nTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.\nADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY 12PM PST ON 5/19/25\n\nWednesday\, May 21\, 2025\n3:00-5:00pm PST\nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)\n  \nThis talk is part of the Edward W. Said Series organized by Dr. Anjali Prabhu\, Professor and Edward W. Said Chair in Comparative Literature.\n\nAbout the Talk\nThis paper focuses on Arab novels in English which address the 2011 Arab revolutions. I will investigate how these novels are caught between the urge to write about the present moment\, and the acknowledgment of its complex temporal nature. By looking in turn at novels from Libya\, Egypt\, and Syria\, I hope to bring to light their quest for a narrative of the revolutions. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nAlexis Tadié is professor of Anglophone literatures at Sorbonne University and honorary senior research fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. He specialises in eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history\, as well as in sports studies\, and in postcolonial literatures. His recent publications include Les règles du jeu à l’époque de la première modernité. Eds. Line Cottegnies\, Clara Manco\, Alexis Tadié. Paris : Classiques Garnier\, 2025; Writing from India: Literatures in English. Special issue of Etudes Anglaises 77/2. (2024)\, Edited by Alexis Tadié. \n  \nCampus Parking\n\nThe closest parking structure to Kaplan Hall is Structure 2\, followed by Structure 5 and Structure 4. Parking rates vary by structure\, so please refer to the rates here.  \n  \nVISITOR PARKING AREAS: \n♦ Structure 2: Structure 2 has pay stations for visitors on the first and second floors. These floors are the only floors with visitor parking; there are also signs indicating which parking stalls are for visitors. The Google Maps link for the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”) is here. \n♦ Structure 4: Parking Structure 4\, Visitor’s Section is located at 221 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. The parking structure has visitor parking in level 1\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. The Google Maps link to the visitor’s section is here . \n♦ Structure 5: Parking Structure 5\, Visitor’s Section is located at 405 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. The parking structure has visitor parking in both levels 4 and 6\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. The link to the visitor’s section is here . \n  \nHOW TO PAY FOR PARKING:\nSelf-service pay stations are located in all visitor parking areas. Visitors must pay for parking BEFORE they leave their vehicles. Visitor parking permits are not valid in parking stalls outside of the visitor parking section of the structure and stalls posted for Blue and X permits or otherwise reserved. \n  \n1. All self-service pay stations use pay-by-plate technology.\n2. Once parked\, go to the nearest parking pay station\n3. Enter your license plate number. If you do not have a license plate number\, please enter the last 6 (six) digits of your Vehicle ID Number (VIN). Your VIN can be found on the driver’s side door or the lower driver’s side of the windshield.\n4. Choose the amount of time that you would like to spend on campus.\n5. Pay using the exact cash amount or with a credit card. For those using their VIN\, please place your receipt on your dashboard\, otherwise nothing else is required. Pay stations do not provide change. There are no refunds for pay station purchases. \nAdditional visitor parking information can be found on the UCLA Transportation website.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/writing-history-in-a-time-of-revolutions-the-arab-novel-in-english-and-the-quest-for-a-narrative/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Peasants in Space: Faulkner\, Guha\, and South to North Criticism. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
DESCRIPTION:A Talk with Hosam Aboul-Ela\n\n[gravityform id=”30″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\n  \nTuesday\, May 20\, 2025\nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)\n4:00-6:00pm Talk\n6:00pm Reception\n  \nThis 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 and Transcultural Studies\, the Department of Art\, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK\nIn this lecture\, South to North reading is proposed as a critical strategy for rethinking the problem of interpretation with a capacious embrace of the global in mind. South to North reading not only embraces the tradition of employing theoretically-informed approaches to the study of literature; it also directly confronts the rise of nativist\, supremacist\, and traditionalist thinking that is currently in ascent in the public sphere. This lecture will suggest several case studies for this approach and focus in particular on one that employs South Asian subaltern studies in a new reading of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nHosam About-Ela is Professor of English and AAEF/Burhan and Misako Ajouz Professor of Arab Studies at the University of Houston. He is the translator of four Arabic novels and author of numerous articles in the areas of comparative literature\, literature of the Americas\, and Arab cultural studies. In addition to Other South: Faulkner\, Coloniality\, and the Mariátegui Tradition\, he is author of Domestications: American Empire\, Literary Culture\, and the Postcolonial Lens. For Seagull Books\, he curates the Arab list and co-edits with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak the *Elsewhere Texts* series.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/hosam-aboul-ela/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250506T160000
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SUMMARY:Good Enough Art: A Few Theses on Middling Mediation. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
DESCRIPTION:A Talk with Anna Kornbluh\n\n[gravityform id=”29″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\n  \nTuesday\, May 6\, 2025\nbUNCHE HALL ROOM #4357 (FOURTH floor)\n4:00-6:00pm Talk\n6:00pm Reception\n  \nThis 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 and Transcultural Studies\, the Department of Art\, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. \n\nABOUT THE TALK\nThe recent surge of “mid” as an aesthetic judgment paradoxically discloses the missing middle in contemporary cultural arts. Amid the eviction of the middle class\, cultural study of the middlebrow can no longer rely upon the traditional sociological method. Briefly considering architecture\, photography\, fiction\, and television\, this talk experiments with a formalist approach to “good enough art.” \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nAnna Kornbluh is Professor of English and a member of the United Faculty Bargaining Committee at the University of Illinois\, Chicago. She is the author of four books\, including Immediacy\, Or\, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso 2024)\, as well as essays on climate aesthetic. \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/good-enough-art-a-few-theses-on-middling-mediation-program-in-experimental-critical-theory-seminar/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 4357
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SUMMARY:What can we expect from analysis today? A Talk with Dr. Luis Izcovich
DESCRIPTION:[gravityform id=”28″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\n  \nFriday\, April 18\, 2025\nKaplan Hall Room #193 (first floor)\n4:00pm\nLight refreshments will be provided \nThis 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. \nAbout the Talk\nWhen the subject’s encounter with something impossible to bear is added to the social malaise\, there’s often the emergency of a demand\, pushing the subject to find a partner who could be the convenient interlocutor. Among all possible responses to this demand\, there’s one that radically differs from the others: a psychoanalysis. \nThis lecture will discuss the psychoanalytic promise\, its actual results\, and whether its offer meets the subjective demands of our time. And\, by clarifying the aims of psychoanalysis according to Jacques Lacan’s approach\, the ongoing relevance of psychoanalysis will be highlighted. \nAbout the Speaker\nLuis Izcovich is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He currently teaches at the College of the Psychoanalytic Clinic of Paris and practices psychoanalysis in Paris. He is a founding member of the International Forums of the Lacanian Field and its School of psychoanalysis\, the SPFLF. Additionally\, Izcovich is the author of several influential texts\, including The Marks of a Psychoanalysis (2015). \nParking for Campus Visitors\n\nThe closest parking structure to Kaplan Hall is Structure 2\, followed by Structure 5 and Structure 4. Parking rates vary by structure\, so please refer to the rates here.  \n  \nVISITOR PARKING AREAS: \n♦ Structure 2: Structure 2 has pay stations for visitors on the first and second floors. These floors are the only floors with visitor parking; there are also signs indicating which parking stalls are for visitors. The Google Maps link for the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”) is here. \n♦ Structure 4: Parking Structure 4\, Visitor’s Section is located at 221 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. The parking structure has visitor parking in level 1\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. The Google Maps link to the visitor’s section is here . \n♦ Structure 5: Parking Structure 5\, Visitor’s Section is located at 405 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. The parking structure has visitor parking in both levels 4 and 6\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. The link to the visitor’s section is here . \n  \nHOW TO PAY FOR PARKING:\nSelf-service pay stations are located in all visitor parking areas. Visitors must pay for parking BEFORE they leave their vehicles. Visitor parking permits are not valid in parking stalls outside of the visitor parking section of the structure and stalls posted for Blue and X permits or otherwise reserved.  \n  \n1. All self-service pay stations use pay-by-plate technology.\n2. Once parked\, go to the nearest parking pay station\n3. Enter your license plate number. If you do not have a license plate number\, please enter the last 6 (six) digits of your Vehicle ID Number (VIN). Your VIN can be found on the driver’s side door or the lower driver’s side of the windshield.\n4. Choose the amount of time that you would like to spend on campus.\n5. Pay using the exact cash amount or with a credit card. For those using their VIN\, please place your receipt on your dashboard\, otherwise nothing else is required. Pay stations do not provide change. There are no refunds for pay station purchases. \nAdditional visitor parking information can be found on the UCLA Transportation website.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/what-can-we-expect-from-analysis-today-a-talk-with-dr-luis-izcovich/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T180000
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SUMMARY:Women of the World
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URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/women-of-the-world/
LOCATION:ELTS third floor balcony\, Royce Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T150000
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SUMMARY:“The Same Frame of Mind\, but a Different Villain”: Conspiracist Narratology and the Decolonization of Africa
DESCRIPTION:A workshop with Christian David Alvarado\n\nKAPLAN HALL ROOM #348\n1:00-2:30pm Workshop\n2:30-3:00pm Reception\n  \nThis workshop is open to UCLA Comparative Literature graduate students\, UCLA English graduate students\, and UCLA African Studies Center students. \n[gravityform id=”26″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\n  \nRelated Document: Workshop Chapter \nThe chapter we will be discussing in this workshop examines a key episode in the history of global conspiracist thought: speculative accounts and narratives regarding the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya across mid-20th century Britain and its empire. In it\, I argue that contemporary allegations about the uprising’s aim of “white genocide\,” the Satanic rituals conducted by those who participated in it\, and its role in global Communist plots should all be read as conspiracy theories which fundamentally shaped its history and attempts to suppress it. Reframing them as such allows us to see how speculative thinking about Mau Mau is part of a longer tradition of reading world events that continues to inform many of the most prominent iterations of conspiracism that shape Western politics and culture today. Developing this chapter also led to my second major research project\, which aims to understand how the history of conspiracist literary production in European and African contexts shaped imperial governance and engagements with processes of decolonization on both of these continents. \n\nAbout the Speaker\nChristian Alvarado received his PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the African American and African Studies Department at the University of California\, Davis. His current book project situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader historical and narratological landscape of 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations\, his work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into the global dimensions of knowledge production regarding African decolonization.\n \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/the-same-frame-of-mind-but-a-different-villain-conspiracist-narratology-and-the-decolonization-of-africa/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T170000
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SUMMARY:What is this thing called Mau Mau? The “Storm in Kenya” in Global Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:A Talk by Christian David Alvarado\n\nKaplan Hall Room #348\n5:00-8:00 PM\n\n[gravityform id=”25″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\nIn 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 called Mau Mau?” As an icon of violent resistance to colonial domination\, one answer regarding the armed struggle that defined late-colonial Kenya has been to read it as an “unfinished revolution” whose decolonial aims remain unfulfilled (or\, more precisely\, betrayed). This talk attends to Mau Mau’s symbolic place in cultural politics in Kenya and beyond by exploring how narratives interpreting it as such have shaped transnational understandings of postcolonialism and decolonization. By tracing the rhetorical politics that cohere around it\, I argue that we should consider the invocation of the idea of Mau Mau — whether it be central to a text or present as an offhand reference — as a catalyst through which broader claims are made. I link how African and diasporic writers have positioned Mau Mau as an episode in the greater “African Revolution” to the challenge it represents to existing racial and ethnic structures. Drawing from Kenyan\, South African\, and American sources\, this talk explores how these dual interpretations have shaped Mau Mau’s prominent position in cultural production and the politics of dissent across the world. \n\nAbout the Speaker\nChristian Alvarado received his PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the African American and African Studies Department at the University of California\, Davis. His current book project situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader historical and narratological landscape of 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations\, his work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into the global dimensions of knowledge production regarding African decolonization.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/christian-alvarado-guest-lecture/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240925T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240925T120000
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SUMMARY:Fall 2024 Open House
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on September 25th from 11-12pm in Kaplan 348! Light refreshments will be served. \n\nRSVP HERE \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/fall-2024-open-house/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240506T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240506T130000
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Relationality as Ternary Structure: On Challenges and Openings for Relational Critical Thinking”
DESCRIPTION:Kathrin Thiele (Director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG); Department of Media and Culture Studies\, Utrecht University) \n\nRSVP to attend in person\nRSVP to attend via Zoom \nIn 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 goal is not to philosophically prove – against dualist traditions – that it is the relation(al) which makes and unmakes worlds. Rather\, the question I pursue is what happens when we situate ourselves as always/already with/in relation(al) matters. With the help of contemporary cultural\, queer feminist thinkers (amongst them Wynter\, Berlant\, Ferreira da Silva\, Barad\, Ettinger\, Kirby)\, I aim to introduce meaningful aspects – challenges and openings – for an alternative to binary\, sequential\, and oppositional critical frameworks. \nKathrin Thiele is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory\, Director of the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University\, and Academic Director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG). Trained trans-disciplinarily in Gender Studies\, Sociology\, Literary Studies and Critical Theory\, her research engages with questions of critical inquiry\, ethics and politics from queer feminist\, decolonial and posthuman(ist) philosophical perspectives. Thiele’s work aims to intervene in discussions around differences\, in/equality\, de/coloniality\, ecologies and post/humanisms\, and her critical attention lies most of all with the troubling consequences of a relational understanding of the world. She deeply engages with the inherent frictions\, the processes of in/exclusion and the always asymmetrical power relations we inhabit. Thiele has published numerous monographs\, edited volumes\, and articles\, including her forthcoming manuscript\, Intra/Sectional Praxis: How to Think-Practice the World Otherwise (2024) and The Ends of Critique: Methods\, Institutions\, Politics (2022)\, eds. Thiele\, K. C.\, Kaiser\, B. M.\, & O’Leary\, T. \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-kathrin-thiele-director-of-the-netherlands-research-school-of-gender-studies-nog-department-of-media-and-culture-studies-utrecht-university/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 6275\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240502T170000
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Visualizing Mestizaje through Zapotec Remappings of the Americas”
DESCRIPTION:Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (Department of Social & Cultural Analysis (SCA)\, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)\, New York University) \nInaugural Dean of Humanities’ Lecture in Critical Humanistic Inquiry \n\nThursday\, May 2\, 2024\n5 pm – 6 pm \nHershey Hall Salon \nRSVP to attend in person\nRSVP to attend via Zoom \nFollowed by a Reception in Hershey Hall Courtyard \nThis event inaugurates the Dean’s Lecture in Critical Humanistic Inquiry\, a newly launched annual lecture that showcases boundary-pushing research in the Humanities. This lecture will be delivered by leading scholars and creatives whose work explores critical questions about what it means to be human\, and how Humanities provides innovative frameworks for navigating and understanding literature\, culture\, and society. \nTens of thousands of Indigenous peoples have migrated to the United States since 1994\, the vast majority from Mexico and Mesoamerica. As a consequence\, the U.S. Native American population increased by 86% between 2010 and 2020. Zapotec is now second only to Navajo as the most-spoken Indigenous language in the US\, while bilingual immersion in Mixtec and English is part of NYC public school curriculum. This is challenging how we define Indigeneity in the United States\, but it is also challenging how Latinx Studies will define itself as a field in light of these new constituents. How does the mass migration that we are witnessing of Indigenous peoples require a hemispheric rethinking of Indigeneity? And how should it redefine knowledge production in the fields of Latinx Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies? \nMaría Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is a Professor in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis Department & the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU. She is one of four Principal Investigators awarded a Mellon Foundation Higher Learning Initiative Grant for the “Beyond a Boundary: Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective” in 2022. Her latest book\, Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States\, received the 2019 Casa de Las Americans Literary Prize in Latino Studies; the 2017 ASA John Hope Franklin Book Prize; and the 2017 National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award. \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-josefina-saldana-portillo-department-of-social-cultural-analysis-sca-center-for-latin-american-and-caribbean-studies-clacs-new-york-university/
LOCATION:Hershey Hall Salon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240429T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240429T130000
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Intermediaries\, Translators and Mediators: The Making of World Authorship”
DESCRIPTION:Gisèle Sapiro (Sociology\, EHESS/CNRS\, Paris)\n\n\nRegister to attend via Zoom\nThis event will only be held virtually via Zoom.  \nIn 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 of ideas\, she will elaborate on the political\, economic\, and cultural factors weighing on circulation and social inequalities in access to transnational recognition (gender and ethnicity).  \nGisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)\, member of Academia Europeae\, and recipient of the Silver Medal of the CNRS (2021) and Humboldt Research Award (2023). Her areas of interest are the sociology of culture\, literature\, intellectuals\, translation\, publishing\, law\, and the epistemology and history of the social and human sciences. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books that have been translated into many languages. Her most recent monographs include Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur? (2020) and Des mots qui tuent. La responsabilité de l’intellectuel en temps de crise\, 1944-1953 (2020). She is the editor of Dictionnaire international Bourdieu (2020) and of The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas (2024). \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-gisele-sapiro-sociology-ehess-cnrs-paris/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240422T193000
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SUMMARY:On Solidarity: Reflect and Restore Film Screening & Discussion
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URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/on-solidarity-reflect-and-restore/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240422T120000
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Rethinking Sovereignty with Care and Relationality”
DESCRIPTION:Shannon Speed (Director of American Indian Studies Center; Anthropology/Gender Studies/American Indian Studies\, UCLA) \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). \nRegister to attend via Zoom \nRegister to attend in Royce Hall 306 below: \n[gravityform id=”20″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-shannon-speed-director-of-american-indian-studies-center-anthropology-gender-studies-american-indian-studies-ucla/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T130000
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “The Role of the Renaissance in the Transformation of the Western Political Imaginary: Petrarch’s Africa and Death for the ‘Fatherland’”
DESCRIPTION:Etienne Anheim (History\, EHESS\, Paris)  \n \nThe ideal of “death for the fatherland” (Pro patria mori) may seem to be an invariable reality of the human society\, from Sparta and Athens to today’s wars. In fact\, it is a political imaginary whose periodization can be traced. Ernst Kantorowicz\, in a famous article published in 1951\, proposed an analysis of this problem. In this lecture\, Etienne Anheim will propose a new interpretation\, both historical and historiographical\, based on Francesco Petrarca’s (1304-1374) epic poem Africa. In particular\, Anheim will highlight the role of the Renaissance in the construction of a new imaginary of war in the West\, quite different from the ancient and medieval tradition\, which has served as the foundation for the national and colonial wars of the contemporary era. \nEtienne Anheim‘s research is oriented towards the economic\, social\, and material history of painting as well as the history of written practices between the 13th and the 15th century\, from scholars like Petrarch to library inventories or accounting entries\, at the same time\, addressing questions of historiography and epistemology of history. He also collaborates on the editorial boards of the Revue de Synthese\, Médiévales\, and Annales. \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).\nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies \nRegister to attend in Royce 236 or online via ZOOM
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-etienne-anheim-history-ehess-paris/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Melancholy Acts
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk \nMelancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World \nABOUT THE BOOK \nHow do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously the agent of its critique? Melancholy Acts offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions through a series of wide-ranging engagements with Arab thought\, literature\, and film in the aftermath of the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians and the 1967 military defeat of Arab armies. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNouri Gana is Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). In addition to Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World (Fordham University Press\, 2023)\, he is the author of Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Bucknell UP\, 2011/paperback 2015)\, and the editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts\, Architects\, Prospects & The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (Edinburgh UP\, 2013/paperback 2015). \nRESPONDENTS \n\nSaree Makdisi (Chair and Professor\, English\, UCLA)\nJeffrey Sacks (Associate Professor and Chair\, Comparative Literature & Arabic\, UC Riverside)\n\n[gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-melancholy-acts/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240405T120000
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SUMMARY:A Talk with Mark Brudzinski
DESCRIPTION:Non-Academic Tracks for Ph.D Students \nMarc Brudzinski designs system-level solutions to real problems. He is constantly amazed by how a deep understanding of real people can inspire groups to re-frame complex problems. Recent collaborators include government ministries\, international agencies\, universities\, and companies in the arts and telecommunications sectors. He is most excited about awakening people’s creative confidence towards the pursuit of collective goals \nHe is the founder of onesuchdesign\, whose mission is to “…reframe complex problems to deepen our insights and free our creativity so we can take action & then tell our story.” \nMarc has a Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Duke University. He has published scholarly articles\, literary translations\, and original poems\, and he was awarded a Digital Humanities grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities for his project on creative telecollaboration in the university classroom. He has taught at University of Miami\, State University of New York\, Cornell University\, and Cornell Weill School of Medicine. \nThis event is supported by the Dean’s Discretionary fund and the Edward W. Said Chair. \nPizza and refreshments will be provided so please register for the event by 5pm on 4/4/24.  \n[gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/a-talk-with-mark-brudzinski/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T113000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion with Prof. Russ Castronovo (Wisconsin-Madison)
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, February 8 from 10:00-11:30 am in 348 Kaplan\, the Department of Comparative Literature will host Prof. Russ Castronovo (Wisconsin-Madison) for a discussion of his new book American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability (Princeton UP\, 2023). Two chapters from the book\, which will serve as the basis of the discussion\, are available here.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/book-discussion-with-prof-russ-castronovo-wisconsin-madison/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T173000
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SUMMARY:Public Talk: Andreas Mayer
DESCRIPTION:Intangible and Recalcitrant Objects: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations and the Predicament of the Human Sciences\n\n  \nIn 1833\, Honoré de Balzac published a short essay entitled La théorie de démarche. In this highly original text\, he defines for the first time his historical-anthropological approach to the society of his epoch that would lead to the vast and unfinished project of The Human Comedy. Based on observations on the Parisian boulevards\, Balzac sketches a “code of walking” whose axioms appear to be at first glance no more than an extension of Lavater’s physiognomy which reads in a person’s gait her or his virtues and vices\, work habits and illnesses. However\, a discussion of the complex genesis and contexts of this little studied essay will show that it offers scientific and philosophical reflections on the practice of observation and the predicament of the human sciences and its intangible and recalcitrant objects. \n  \nAndreas Mayer is a Senior Researcher at the CNRS (French National Institute for Scientific Research) and currently co-directs the research department “Dynamics of Globalization” at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. He has taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, at the University of Cambridge\, and at the University of Chicago\, and has received various distinctions. His major monographs include Dreaming by the Book: Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams and the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement (with Lydia Marinelli\, 2003)\, Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting (2013)\, and The Science of Walking. Investigations Into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century (2020). He is currently working on a German translation of the Analytical Studies of Balzac’s The Human Comedy (the first volume containing the Théorie de la démarche has appeared in 2022).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/andreas-mayer/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T120000
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SUMMARY:Heim Memorial Lecture: "Translating Erased Histories" with Dr. Maureen Freely
DESCRIPTION:Fethiye Çetin with her grandmother\nCLICK HERE TO VIEW LECTURE RECORDING\n  \nAbout the Lecture \n20 years ago\, a loose-knit collective of Turkish journalists\, lawyers\, writers\, publishers\, and social justice advocates banded together to tell the truth about the Armenian genocide to the Turkish people\, who had by then been subjected to denialist lies for the better part of a century.  The state’s false narrative was so fiercely enforced that even those of full or partial Armenian descent were often afraid to tell the truth to their children. Hrant Dink was amongst the first to break the taboo in his newspaper\, Agos. It was with his encouragement that his lawyer\, Fethiye Çetin\, wrote about her grandmother\, who told her very late in life that she’d been ‘rescued’ from a death march to be renamed and Islamicised. The first of its kind in Turkey\, this memoir offered readers a chance to open conversations about “stories like this in our own family.” \nWhen Maureen Freely decided to take time off from translating Orhan Pamuk to bring this and two other related books into English\, she knew full well that the descendants of genocide survivors outside Turkey would find little new in them. Even so\, she thought it important that they be read outside their land of origin. In this lecture\, she will set out her own reasons for embarking on this unquiet journey\, before considering the political and literary implications of giving voice to erased histories. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nPhoto Credit: Andre Avanessian\nMaureen Freely is a writer with seven novels to her name and many other strings to her bow. She grew up in Istanbul\, on the campus of the old Robert College. Well known as a translator of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk\, she has also brought into English several classics and works by Turkey’s rising stars. For many years she worked as a journalist in London\, writing about literature\, feminism\, social justice\, and human rights. As chair of the Translator’s Association and more recently as President and Chair of English PEN\, she has campaigned for writers and freedom of expression internationally. She teaches at the University of Warwick. \n  \n  \nthe 2022 heim memorial lecture is generously co-sponsored by\nthe ucla Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures; promise armenian institute; center for near eastern studies; and working group in memory studies
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/heim-lecture-2022/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T140000
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SUMMARY:Working Group in Memory Studies: Discussion with Kevin Bruyneel on New Book "Settler Memory"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/working-group-in-memory-studies-discussion-with-kevin-bruyneel-on-new-book-settler-memory/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T120000
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SUMMARY:Annual Edward W. Said Lecture - Dr. Angela Davis
DESCRIPTION:“International Solidarity in the Era of Black Lives Matter and Justice for Palestine”\n  \n\nCLICK HERE to view a recording of this lecture\n  \nCLICK HERE to download the flyer for this lecture\n  \nThis lecture was held virtually via Zoom Webinar at 12:00 PM PST on Thursday\, April 14\, 2022. For more information about the Edward W. Said Professorship and Annual Lecture\, click here. \n  \n \n  \nThrough her activism and scholarship over many decades\, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world.  Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic\, racial\, and gender justice. She is the author of eleven books\, including Abolition.Feminism.Now\, co-authored with Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners\, and Beth Richie\, and a new edition of her Autobiography\, both of which were released this year. Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex\,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without carceral systems and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/annual-edward-w-said-lecture-angela-davis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T090000
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SUMMARY:Working Group in Memory Studies: Discussion with Mihaela Mihai on New Book "Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care"
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URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/working-group-in-memory-studies-discussion-with-mihaela-mihai-on-new-book-political-memory-and-the-aesthetics-of-care/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T130000
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SUMMARY:Working Group in Memory Studies: Discussion with Gil Hochberg on New Book "Becoming Palestine"
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, February 7th from 1:00-2:00 PM PST\, the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies will host a discussion over Zoom with Professor Gil Hochberg of Columbia University on her new book\, entitled Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future. UCLA Professors Rachel Lee and Saree Makdisi will respond. \nRSVP HERE\n  \n\n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/working-group-in-memory-studies-discussion-with-gil-hochberg-on-new-book-becoming-palestine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T123000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series - Ayesha Ramachandran\, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:“Petrarch’s African Canzoniere: Lyric Anthropology and the Question of Race“\n  \nwith Ayesha Ramachandran (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature\, Yale University)\n  \nIl PetrarcaFrontispiece.Lyons: per Gioanni de Tournes\, 1550 (The Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania).\n  \nREGISTER HERE\nAbout the Lecture\nIs the rhetoric of Petrarchan poetry a foundational discourse of early modern race-making? And what might it mean to investigate early modern lyric as site for reflection about race and cross-cultural difference? This talk returns to Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta\, often described as the urtext of modern lyric poetry\, to reveal its textual and conceptual entanglement with his unfinished epic Africa. I suggest that the lyric dynamics of self/other in the canzoniere are\, at their source\, bound up with the challenge of racial and cultural crossing—and that it is this submerged political valence that gives Petrarchan lyric its global mobility and power. Locating the question of alterity between lyric thinking and anthropological thought from the early modern period onward\, I consider how “lyric” as a category might be reimagined as a distinct mode of thinking and engaging with the world. \n  \nCo-sponsored with the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/lecture-series-ayesha-ramachandran/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T183000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series - UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Adrián I. P-Flores
DESCRIPTION:“Traversing Suicide: The Unthought of Blackness in the Suicidological Imagination”\n  \nCo-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Program in Experimental Critical Theory\n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nAbout the Lecture \nThis talk poses a fundamental question: “Is Black suicide possible?” This question aims to excavate\, within the contemporary field of suicidology\, the systematic riveting of blackness to what afropessimism calls “the position of the unthought”—a position hewed by an antiblack violence that clears the existential horizon for human beings to emerge from history as always-already available for Being\, for death\, for a future. This question strives to unsettle the universality and neutrality of the subject or being of suicidality in the “suicidological imagination” to the extent that its universality necessitates the neutralization of being’s racial inscription as conterminously human and non-Black. In this talk\, the fundamental question of Black suicide is opposed to leading questions about suicide causation and prevention—questions that are doubly encumbered by the essentialism of “premature death” and the moral imperative to preserve the sanctity of human life—which obviate posing suicide as a problem for thought. To think this problematic\, it will be argued\, requires grappling with suicide as an architectonic idiom for modern\, racialized Man\, the highest form of Being—and the locus of morality and tragedy—that\, under the imperative of antiblackness\, organizes our very desire for existence. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nAdrián I. P-Flores is the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. He earned his doctorate in Gender & Women’s Studies from The University of Arizona. Flores is currently working on a book manuscript\, What Is Suicide? Entanglements of Philosophy and Literature in the “Afterlife of Slavery.”  What Is Suicide? examines the production of the modern subject through the antiblack racial logics of “suicide.”
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/lecture-series-postdoctoral-fellow-adrian-p-flores/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T120000
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SUMMARY:Annual Edward W. Said Lecture - Alexander Weheliye: "Schwarz-Sein: Black Life Beyond the Human"
DESCRIPTION:Date and Time: Friday\, May 14\, 2021 from 12:00-1:30 PM PST\nSpeaker: Alexander Weheliye\, Northwestern University\nModerator: Shu-mei Shih\, Inaugural edward w. said professor of comparative literature\, UCLA\nOpening Remarks: David Schaberg\, Dean of Humanities\, UCLA\n  \nCo-sponsored by the Edward W. Said Professorship in Comparative Literature and “Comparative Thinking in the Age of Black Lives Matter” Lecture Series Committee of the Department of Comparative Literature. \n  \nAbout the Lecture \nThis webinar will focus on some of the different ways Blackness operates as the ontological mattering of ungendering. Conceptualizing Blackness as integral to being as such\, the lecture imagines how its multiple manifestations matter and operate both through and beyond the category of the human. Drawing on examples from the history of science\, popular culture\, and Edward Said’s thinking\, Weheliye highlights how Blackness offers openings for different formings and matterings beyond modern\, western Man. \n  \nAbout the Speakers \nAlexander Ghedi Weheliye is professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University where he teaches Black literature and culture\, critical theory\, social technologies\, and popular culture. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005) and Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages\, Biopolitics\, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014). Currently\, he is working on two projects. The first\, Feenin: R&B’s Technologies of Humanity\, offers a critical history of the intimate relationship between R&B music and technology since the late 1970s. The second\, Black Life/SchwarzSein\, situates Blackness as an ungendered ontology of unbelonging. \n  \n  \nShu-mei Shih is the inaugural Edward W. Said Professor of Comparative Literature\, and Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures & Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is also the President of the American Comparative Literature Association. \n  \n  \n  \n\nDavid Schaberg is Dean of Humanities and Professor in Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA. He is also a past Chair of Asian Languages & Cultures and Co-Director of the Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/edward-w-said-lecture/
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