What can we expect from analysis today? A Talk with Dr. Luis Izcovich
Kaplan Hall 193 CAFriday, April 18, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #193 (first floor) 4:00pm Light refreshments will be provided This talk is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory, and the California Forum of the Lacanian Field. About the Talk When the subject’s encounter with something impossible to bear...
Good Enough Art: A Few Theses on Middling Mediation. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
Bunche Hall 4357A Talk with Anna Kornbluh Tuesday, May 6, 2025 bUNCHE HALL ROOM #4357 (FOURTH floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of...
Peasants in Space: Faulkner, Guha, and South to North Criticism. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA Talk with Hosam Aboul-Ela Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Political Science, the Department of European Languages...
CANCELLED Writing History in a Time of Revolutions: The Arab Novel in English and the Quest for a Narrative
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA Conversation with Alexis Tadié THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY 12PM PST ON 5/19/25 Wednesday, May 21, 2025 3:00-5:00pm PST Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) This talk is part of the Edward W. Said Series organized by Dr. Anjali Prabhu, Professor and Edward W. Said Chair in Comparative Literature....
Abolition and Constitution. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
Kaplan Hall 193A Talk with Michael Hardt Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #193 (First floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Political Science, the Department of European Languages...
Modern French Thought and the History of Philosophy
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAOctober 17, 2025: 4:00-7:00 pm PST October 18, 2025: 10:30 am-6:30 pm PST Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) In person and Zoom hybrid REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE In person attendance is encouraged but Zoom attendance also available. Your advance registration will help determine the event catering order. The Zoom meeting link will be...
Interocepción insular: Lo patológico en la imaginación literaria del laboratorio Caribe
Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen LibraryWhen: Wednesday, November 12, 4:30 PM Location: Rolfe Hall 4302 – Lydeen Library Interocepción insular (UNC Press, 2025) examines literary representations of disease and disability to reconceptualize the Hispanic Caribbean as a site of scientific, economic, and political experimentation. Exploring how individuals subjected to various forms of testing—eugenic, medical, neoliberal, or otherwise—hyper-monitor a corporeality that is at...
Working Group in Memory Studies: First Reading Group Meeting
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAFounded in fall 2018, the Working Group in Memory Studies brings together faculty and graduate students from across the humanities and social sciences who are interested in the interdisciplinary field of cultural memory studies. Cultural memory studies focuses on the dynamic interplay between the past and the present in local, national, and transnational...
End of Year Gathering
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe UCLA Comparative Literature department invites faculty and students to the annual Holiday Celebration on Friday, December 5th from 2-4pm in Kaplan 348. Join fellow faculty and students as we mark the end of the year with hot chocolate & cookies, and an optional book swap. Interested in participating in the optional book swap? Please bring...
Finding and Applying for Fellowship Funding
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAFriday, January 16, 2026 2:30-4:00pm PST Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) and via Zoom Advanced registration Advanced registration is required by Wednesday, January 14th. The Zoom meeting link will be sent on Thursday, January 15th. REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON AND VIA ZOOM HERE Presented by Lika Balenovich (PhD Candidate, Graduate Writing...
Structuralism to Poststructuralism: Derrida on Lévi-Strauss. A Talk with Jonathan Culler │ Program in Experimental Critical Theory
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe Program in Experimental Critical Theory presents Structuralism to Poststructuralism: Derrida on Lévi-Strauss A Talk with Jonathan Culler Monday, January 26 3:00-4:30pm PST Via Zoom Advanced Registration Advanced registration is required by Friday, January 23. The Zoom meeting link will be sent end of day on January 23, 2026. REGISTER TO ATTEND VIA ZOOM HERE ...
The Edward W. Said Series Presents: A Brownbag Lunch Seminar with Roxanne Euben
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CATuesday, February 10, 2026 Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) 12:30pm PST In-person only. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Advanced Registration Advanced registration is required by Friday, February 6th. PLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE. This talk is part of the Edward W. Said Series organized by Dr. Anjali Prabhu, Professor and Edward...