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SUMMARY:Meet the Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 28\, 2026\n3:30pm\nKaplan Hall Room #350A (third floor)\n415 Portola Plaza\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095\nIn person \nREGISTER TO ATTEND \n  \nPlease join Professor Eleanor Kaufman (Comparative Literature Chair) and Professor Whitney Arnold (Director of Undergraduate Studies) to talk about opportunities in the department. This will be an informal conversation\, so please bring any questions you have or items you’d like to discuss. We will also share a presentation opportunity for students who have completed or are currently engaged in research projects or honors theses. Light refreshments will be served.
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LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Voices from Heart Failure with Dr. Marco Cordero
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 28\, 2026\n5:00 PM\nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)\n415 Portola Plaza\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095\nIn person \nRegister to attend \n  \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Comparative Literature and Health Humanities Minor \n  \nDr. Marco Cordero is an Italian cardiologist\, with a background in acute cardiac care and critical care\, focusing particularly on heart failure\, cardiomyopathies and heart transplantation. He has worked in Italy\, Spain and Switzerland and now heads the heart failure division at the Sanremo Hospital in Italy. He has a longstanding interest in “patient – physician communication\,” and has pursued humanistic education at the University of Turin\, the University of Barcelona\, and Stanford University\, currently serving as vice president of the European Society for Narrative Medicine. He has developed a program of “humanistic cardiology” which uses the tools of health humanities to overcome a simple mechanistic approach to heart disease\, thereby returning the failing heart to its anthropological\, symbolic and psychologically integrated dimensions. \n  \nParking for Campus Visitors\nTHERE IS NO FREE PARKING AT UCLA. All campus visitors (including disabled visitors) are required to purchase a valid parking permit to park on campus. Disabled parking spots are not free. \nThe closest parking structures to Kaplan Hall are Structure 2\, Structure 3 North\, Structure 4 and Structure 5. Parking rates vary by structure\, so please refer to the rates here. Guest parking is available on a first come\, first serve basis. Please plan to arrive early if you are not familiar with the campus or parking structures.  \nThe UCLA Comparative Literature Department is not responsible for any tickets or citations received by event attendees. Please contact the UCLA Transportation Department directly for assistance. \n\nVISITOR PARKING AREAS: \n♦ Blue curb/Disabled parking spots in front of Kaplan and Royce Hall: This is not a free parking spot. In order to park by the blue curb\, disabled campus visitors are required to purchase a visitor parking permit at the closest pay station (located in the parking structures listed below) OR they can create a guest account on the Bruin e-Permit Portal and purchase a permit for any structure before hand on the website. Once they have an active visitor parking permit\, disabled guests can park by the blue curb. You will receive a ticket if you park here without purchasing a visitor permit first.  \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. View the Google Maps link for the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”). \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. View the Google Maps link to the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”). \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. View the Google Maps link to the visitor’s section. \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 on level 6\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. View the Google Maps link to the visitor’s section. \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 in the parking structure\, before they head to the event (not after the event). 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 (grey box).\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.\n6. Exit the parking structure and head to your event. \nAdditional visitor parking information\, including disabled parking information\, can be found on the UCLA Transportation website.
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SUMMARY:The Trouble with Ghosts | Book talk with Martine Beugnet and Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli | Program in Experimental Critical Theory
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 30\, 2026\n4:30 pm\nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)\n415 Portola Plaza\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095\nIn person \n  \nREGISTER TO ATTEND \n  \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Cinema and Media Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature.  \n  \nAbout the Talk\nSo commonplace is the white sheet with two cut out holes for eyes that we tend to forget what is so strange about the ghost. It is a liminal figure whose trajectory is unstable: it may be said to  return with a vengeance or aimlessly linger between a past that once or never was and some ominous\, if not inevitable\, common future in which everything that lives will eventually die. As an entity it is betwixt and between the unnatural\, the supernatural\, and the imaginary. Yet\, this curious figure connects the incompatible worlds of the living with the dead. However\, those ghosts that make their presence known through various types of audiovisual media cannot be contained within the confines of the haunted house nor can they be personalized as conventional ghost stories do. They may not even be identifiable as a distinct entity.  Rather\, they may appear as an interruption in modes of communication or the transfer of information\, a glitch in the system\, or some overwhelming feeling of dread. \n  \nThe Trouble With Ghosts offers a study of the troubling politics of ghosts. Because ghost stories have been proliferating everywhere\, we have selected what we consider to be emblematic films\, television shows\, installation artworks\, and social media trends that help us illustrate the troubling concepts they bring to bear. While the ghost story is often considered a subcategory of the horror genre\, we are not interested in horror. The ghosts we are interested in are the “reflexive” kind\, the kind that asks us to think deeply about how media envision or extend an unhuman (ghostly) gaze; that forces us to consider just how demons can take hold of (possess or dispossess) our being; force us to distinguish between the person as they existed and the ghost that affects us in uncanny ways; that makes us understand how the ghost can itself be turned into a possession; or how the living can be ghosted (and made to disappear altogether). \n  \nAbout the Speakers\nMartine Beugnet is a Professor of Visual Studies at Université de Paris Cité and a member of ECHELLES Research Institute. She has written for Screen\, NRFTS\, Arts\, InMedia amongst other journals. Books include Claire Denis (M.U.P\, 2004)\, Proust at the Movies (2005)\, with Marion Schmid\, Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression (E.U.P\, 2012)\, and co-edited Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty with A.Cameron and A.Fetveit (E.U.P\, 2017). Le cinéma et ses doubles (Bord de l’Eau)\, on the circulation of the film image came out in 2021. Blur\, on the history and aesthetics of blur in film\, was published in English by Fordham University Press in 2025.  \n  \nKriss Ravetto-Biagioli is Professor of Film\, Television and Digital Media at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her work focuses on representations and theorizations of violence in film\, media\, and social media. She is the author of The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics (University of Minnesota Press\, 2001)\, Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity (Columbia University Press\, 2017)\, Digital Uncanny (Oxford University Press\, 2019) and completed a co-authored book project with Martine Beugnet entitled The Trouble with Ghosts (forthcoming Oxford University Press\, 2027). \nProfessor Ravetto-Biagioli will present The Trouble With Ghosts film series at the Hammer Musem. \nParking for Campus Visitors\nTHERE IS NO FREE PARKING AT UCLA. All campus visitors (including disabled visitors) are required to purchase a valid parking permit to park on campus. Disabled parking spots are not free. \nThe closest parking structures to Kaplan Hall are Structure 2\, Structure 3 North\, Structure 4 and Structure 5. Parking rates vary by structure\, so please refer to the rates here. Guest parking is available on a first come\, first serve basis. Please plan to arrive early if you are not familiar with the campus or parking structures.  \nThe UCLA Comparative Literature Department is not responsible for any tickets or citations received by event attendees. Please contact the UCLA Transportation Department directly for assistance. \n\nVISITOR PARKING AREAS: \n♦ Blue curb/Disabled parking spots in front of Kaplan and Royce Hall: This is not a free parking spot. In order to park by the blue curb\, disabled campus visitors are required to purchase a visitor parking permit at the closest pay station (located in the parking structures listed below) OR they can create a guest account on the Bruin e-Permit Portal and purchase a permit for any structure before hand on the website. Once they have an active visitor parking permit\, disabled guests can park by the blue curb. You will receive a ticket if you park here without purchasing a visitor permit first.  \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. View the Google Maps link for the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”). \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. View the Google Maps link to the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”). \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. View the Google Maps link to the visitor’s section. \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 on level 6\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. View the Google Maps link to the visitor’s section. \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 in the parking structure\, before they head to the event (not after the event). 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 (grey box).\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.\n6. Exit the parking structure and head to your event. \nAdditional visitor parking information\, including disabled parking information\, can be found on the UCLA Transportation website.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/the-trouble-with-ghosts-book-talk-with-martine-beugnet-and-kriss-ravetto-biagioli-program-in-experimental-critical-theory/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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