5th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture
Humanities Conference Room, Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe 2018 Michael Henry Heim Annual Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies, entitled “Self-Translation and Its Discontents; Or: The Translational Work Lost in the Theory of Bilingualism”, will be given by...
Primo Levi Symposium
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room 480 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CAThis half-day symposium brings together an array of international scholars and writers engaged with the history, literature, and impact of Primo Levi, a chemist, writer, and humanist who survived...
Indigenous Knowledge. Taiwan: Comparative and Relational Perspectives
UCLA ROYCE HALL 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Los Angeles, California (CA)Important conference news from UCLA Professor of Comparative Literature, Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu) RSVP FOR THIS EVENT HERE The UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative Conference Indigenous Knowledge, Taiwan: Comparative and...
Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium
Humanities Conference Room, Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CAWithin queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that often mire the field in the US), especially in...
Welcome Week Open House
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAPlease join the Department of Comparative Literature for its annual Welcome Week Open House! Students from all majors are welcome to come learn about UCLA's exciting Comparative Literature undergraduate program! The Department offers:...
Job Placement Workshop #1: Curriculum Vitae and Letters Workshop
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAJob Placement Workshop #2: Supplementary Materials Workshop
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Comparative Literature-Edinburgh: Summer Travel Study Information Session
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CACome learn about the Comparative Literature-Edinburgh program, new for 2019. Each August, Edinburgh is home to the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), founded in 1947 and now the biggest arts celebration...
The Human Chameleon: Hybrid Jews in Cinema
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CAThe lecture will explore representations of “chameleon” or hybrid Jewish figures in cinema: Jewish characters that change their appearance, transform their identity, infiltrate other cultures and express their Jewishness by...
1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: The Matter of the Neighbor: Budd Schulberg, James Baldwin, and the Watts Writers Workshop
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CAThis talk explores the Watts Writers Workshop, founded in the heart of Watts by Jewish American writer Budd Schulberg immediately after the Watts Rebellion of 1965, and argues that...
The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Hannah Arendt’s Message of Ill-Tidings
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA'It was not only their own misfortunes that the refugees carried with them from land to land, from continent to continent,' Hannah Arendt wrote, 'but the great misfortune of the...
Paul Bové: “Language, Criticism, and the Intellectual Virtues”
Kaplan Hall 193Paul A. Bové (Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh) is the Editor of boundary 2, an international journal of literature and culture, published by Duke University Press. The journal has published...