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...
Fall Undergraduate Town Hall
Comparative Literature Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CACLGSA Fall Events Announced!
Comparative Literature Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CAThe Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association (CLGSA) has just announced its forthcoming schedule. Sketched below, these events can investigated further by contacting the CLGSA directly. We hope to see you...
Dimitris Vardoulakis – Stasis Before the State
Comparative Literature Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CAYou are invited to a workshop presentation of Prof. Dimitris Vardoulakis's new book: Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (Fordham University Press, 2017) This book critiques the...
UCLA Queer Graduate Conference 2017
Ackerman Bruin Reception RoomComparative Literature's Robert Farley will be speaking this Friday at the UCLA Queer Graduate Conference 2017. His paper is titled: "Translational Solidarity: Intersectionality, Women of Color Feminism, and Kwīr Knowledge Production...