Annual Edward W. Said Lecture – Alexander Weheliye: “Schwarz-Sein: Black Life Beyond the Human”
Date and Time: Friday, May 14, 2021 from 12:00-1:30 PM PST Speaker: Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern University Moderator: Shu-mei Shih, Inaugural edward w. said professor of comparative literature, UCLA Opening Remarks:...
Lecture Series – UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Adrián I. P-Flores
"Traversing Suicide: The Unthought of Blackness in the Suicidological Imagination" Co-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Program in Experimental Critical Theory RSVP HERE About the Lecture This talk...
Lecture Series – Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University
"Petrarch’s African Canzoniere: Lyric Anthropology and the Question of Race" with Ayesha Ramachandran (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University) Il PetrarcaFrontispiece.Lyons: per Gioanni de Tournes, 1550 (The...
Working Group in Memory Studies: Discussion with Gil Hochberg on New Book “Becoming Palestine”
On Monday, February 7th from 1:00-2:00 PM PST, the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies will host a discussion over Zoom with Professor Gil Hochberg of Columbia University on her...
Annual Edward W. Said Lecture – Dr. Angela Davis
"International Solidarity in the Era of Black Lives Matter and Justice for Palestine" CLICK HERE to view a recording of this lecture CLICK HERE to download the flyer...
Heim Memorial Lecture: “Translating Erased Histories” with Dr. Maureen Freely
Fethiye Çetin with her grandmother CLICK HERE TO VIEW LECTURE RECORDING About the Lecture 20 years ago, a loose-knit collective of Turkish journalists, lawyers, writers, publishers, and social justice...
Public Talk: Andreas Mayer
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAIntangible and Recalcitrant Objects: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations and the Predicament of the Human Sciences In 1833, Honoré de Balzac published a short essay entitled La théorie de démarche. In...
Book Discussion with Prof. Russ Castronovo (Wisconsin-Madison)
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAOn Thursday, February 8 from 10:00-11:30 am in 348 Kaplan, the Department of Comparative Literature will host Prof. Russ Castronovo (Wisconsin-Madison) for a discussion of his new book American Insecurity and the Origins...
A Talk with Mark Brudzinski
Kaplan Hall 193Non-Academic Tracks for Ph.D Students Marc Brudzinski designs system-level solutions to real problems. He is constantly amazed by how a deep understanding of real people can inspire groups to re-frame...
Book Talk: Melancholy Acts
Kaplan Hall 348Book Talk Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World ABOUT THE BOOK How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of...