“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...
Job Market Discussions
Comparative Literature Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CAHumanists @ Work: Graduate Career Workshop
Riverside Art Museum 3425 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 92501, RiversideOur Riverside Workshop is November 13, 2017 at the Riverside Art Museum. APPLY FOR A TRAVEL GRANT REGISTER FOR WORKSHOP WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 8:00–8:45 AM: Breakfast 8:45–9:00 AM: Welcome 9:00–10:30 AM:...
Ari Heinrich: “Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Heirarchies of the Human”
Kaplan Hall 348The first event in the 2017-2018 Sexuality & Geopolitics Seminar Series will feature Ari Heinrich, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSD. Their lecture, “Chinese Bodies as Biological...
Souvenirs of the Organ Trade: The Diasporic Body in Chinese Literature and Art
Kaplan Hall 348Li Zhiwang, “Female Nude.” Abstract: This chapter argues that the works of controversial Chinese contemporary experimental artists known as the “Cadaver Group”—some of whom were at the center of a recent controversy surrounding...
Peter Sigal: “Thinking with Trash: Nahua Knowledge and Queer Being”
Kaplan Hall 348The second event in the 2017-2018 Sexuality & Geopolitics Seminar Series will feature Peter Sigal, Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. His lecture, "Thinking with Trash:...
Making Maya Men: Fantasy, Voyeurism, and Queer Abjection
Kaplan Hall 348Figure 1 from Making Maya Men: Fantasy, Voyeurism, and Queer Abjection Abstract: Franciscan friar Diego de Landa, in the mid sixteenth century, and Hollywood film producer and director Mel Gibson, in...