Michael Henry Heim 3rd Annual Memorial Lecture
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room 480 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CAEfraín Kristal, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature requests the presence of your company to the Michael Henry Heim Annual Memorial Lecture In Translation and Translation Studies with a...
Bibliomigrancy on the Global Translation Field: Contemporary French Caribbean Literature Translated into Swedish
Comparative Literature Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CAThe Department of Comparative Literature invites you to a special lecture by Professor Yvonne Lindqvist of The Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies (Tolk- och översättarinstitutet), Department of Swedish and Multilingualism, Stockholm University. More than...
Public Lecture by Joseph Cohen: The ‘Unthinkable’ in Heidegger’s History of Being: Judaism and the Black Notebooks
Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room (11360) 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los AngelesLast year Professor Cohen hosted a major international conference at the National Library in Paris on Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, which appeared on its author’s instructions 50 years after his...
Humanists@Work Career Workshop
Japanese American National Museum 100 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CAHumanists@Work is a UC-wide initiative geared towards UC Humanities and humanistic Social Science MAs and PhDs interested in careers outside/alongside the academy. Join us in at the Japanese American National...
Public Lecture: “Thomas Pynchon and Gender: A View From the Typescript of V.”
Humanities Conference Room, Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe UCLA Departments of Comparative Literature and English invite you to attend a public lecture by Visiting Professor and 2016 Van Dyck Chair Luc Herman (University of Antwerp). The typescript...
UCLA Humanities Welcome 2016
UCLA Schoenberg HallThe Humanities Welcome is an annual event held at the beginning of the academic year that invites faculty, staff and students to come together to showcase the Humanities at UCLA....
Department of Comparative Literature Undergraduate Open House
Comparative Literature Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CAInterested in learning more about the Department of Comparative Literature, its course offerings, and its major and minor programs? Join Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor David MacFadyen and the Department's...
UCLA World Languages Day
Bruin Plaza Los Angeles, CAExplore world language offered at UCLA, join language clubs, and learn about cultural activities on campus at the 2016 World Languages Day, hosted by the UCLA Language Alliance and the Division of...
A Film Screening of Recollection, and Q&A and discussion with Kamal Aljafari (Director) and Professor Gil Hochberg
Bunche Hall 6275 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAKamal Aljafari’s filmography includes Recollection , Port of Memory and The Roof . He was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in New York, and in...
Public Lecture by Dr. Omnia El Shakry: “The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis & Islam in Modern Egypt”
Kaplan Hall 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAWhat might it mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a problem, but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? Traversing literatures minor and major, Omnia El...
“Photography in the Middle East”: A Book Celebration in Honor of Ali Behdad
UCLA Fowler Museum 308 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CAIn the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their...
Public Lecture by Professor Eleanor Kaufman: “Ethics and Otherness: Derrida, Levinas, and the Gaze of the Other in the Jewish American Wild West”
Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room, Royce Hall 306 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CAThe AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR LEVINASSIAN STUDIES* presents its third 2016-2017 lecture on “The Return of Ethics” Ethics and Otherness: Derrida, Levinas, and the Gaze of the Other in the Jewish American...