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...
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...