Comparative Literature in a Relational World: A Lecture by UCLA Professor Shu-mei Shih
Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room, Royce Hall 306 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CAIn honor of the 50th Anniversary Celebration and our Fall Welcome, please join the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature for a lecture and reception on October 15, 2019 from 4:00...
Writing in Different (Disciplinary) Languages: On the Occasion of “The Perils of the One”: Lecture and Discussion with Professor Stathis Gourgouris
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAIn honor of the 50th Anniversary Celebration, please join the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature for a lecture and reception on October 28, 2019 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. in...
“The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos” Reading and Book Signing with UCLA Lecturer Dr. Susannah Rodriguez Drissi
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAPlease join the Department of Comparative Literature on Wednesday, November 20th at 12:00 p.m. for a reading and signing of Dr. Susannah Rodríguez Drissi’s new poetry collection, The Latin Poet's...
“‘Ten Tongues and Ten Mouths’: Reading the Iliad in post-9/11 Pakistan” – “UCLA Comparative Literature in the World” Lecture by Alumnae Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAPlease join the Department of Comparative Literature on Tuesday, January 14th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. for a lecture from Professor Maryam Wasif Khan of the Gurmani School of Humanities...
[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] 7th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies
Kaplan Hall 193 CAPlease join the Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures on Monday, May 11th at 5:00 p.m. for a lecture from Professor Maureen Freely,...
Fall 2020 Welcome Week Open House!
ZoomPlease join the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature for our Fall 2020 Welcome Week Open House! This event will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, September 30th at 3:00 p.m....
UC Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA | Alex Ross: Wagner & Hollywood
THURSDAY DEC 3, 2020 | 5 PM PST Co-presented with the UCLA Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology and the Hammer Museum UC Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA in the...
Book Talk: Domenico Ingenito’s “Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry”
Book Launch: Domenico Ingenito's Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry (Brill, 2020) A conversation with Paul Losensky (Indiana University) and Jane Mikkelson (University...
Hebrew Poetry of Life & Love: Rachel Bluwstein, Leah Goldberg and Naomi Shemer
Israeli poetesses Leah Goldberg (left), Rachel Bluwstein, and Naomi Shemer. (Courtesy: Grubner/Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Wikimedia.org; and Wikipedia, respectively; cropped). Used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Nili Alon Amit, a Visiting...
Dr. Leila Pazargadi: “Autographics & the Archive: Visualizing Memory & Trauma in Southwestern Asian Graphic Memoirs”
Lecture by Dr. Leila Pazargadi Associate Professor of English, Nevada State College "Autographics & the Archive: Visualizing Memory & Trauma in Southwestern Asian Graphic Memoirs" Monday, march 1, 2021...
The Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Arabic Literature: Between Discipline and Punishment
Mellon Minorities in the Middle East & North Africa Series A lecture by Dr. Iman Al-Ghafari, moderated by Robert J. Farley (UCLA) Friday, April 16, 2021 11:00 AM (Pacific Time)...
Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua’s Retrospective Imagination
Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua's Retrospective Imagination Thursday, April 22 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Pacific Time RSVP Here Yael Halevi-Wise will talk about her recent book, The Retrospective...