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...
ACLA Conference 2018
The American Comparative Literature Association's 2018 Annual Meeting will take place at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California between March 29th and April 1st,...
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...