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SUMMARY:Women of the World
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LOCATION:ELTS third floor balcony\, Royce Hall
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SUMMARY:“The Same Frame of Mind\, but a Different Villain”: Conspiracist Narratology and the Decolonization of Africa
DESCRIPTION:A workshop with Christian David Alvarado\n\nKAPLAN HALL ROOM #348\n1:00-2:30pm Workshop\n2:30-3:00pm Reception\n  \nThis workshop is open to UCLA Comparative Literature graduate students\, UCLA English graduate students\, and UCLA African Studies Center students. \n[gravityform id=”26″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\n  \nRelated Document: Workshop Chapter \nThe chapter we will be discussing in this workshop examines a key episode in the history of global conspiracist thought: speculative accounts and narratives regarding the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya across mid-20th century Britain and its empire. In it\, I argue that contemporary allegations about the uprising’s aim of “white genocide\,” the Satanic rituals conducted by those who participated in it\, and its role in global Communist plots should all be read as conspiracy theories which fundamentally shaped its history and attempts to suppress it. Reframing them as such allows us to see how speculative thinking about Mau Mau is part of a longer tradition of reading world events that continues to inform many of the most prominent iterations of conspiracism that shape Western politics and culture today. Developing this chapter also led to my second major research project\, which aims to understand how the history of conspiracist literary production in European and African contexts shaped imperial governance and engagements with processes of decolonization on both of these continents. \n\nAbout the Speaker\nChristian Alvarado received his PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the African American and African Studies Department at the University of California\, Davis. His current book project situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader historical and narratological landscape of 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations\, his work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into the global dimensions of knowledge production regarding African decolonization.\n \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/the-same-frame-of-mind-but-a-different-villain-conspiracist-narratology-and-the-decolonization-of-africa/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:What is this thing called Mau Mau? The “Storm in Kenya” in Global Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:A Talk by Christian David Alvarado\n\nKaplan Hall Room #348\n5:00-8:00 PM\n\n[gravityform id=”25″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\nIn the opening pages of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s 1967 novel A Grain of Wheat\, a European district officer asks a version of the question at the core of discourse about the anticolonial movement that gripped Kenya in the 1950s: “What is this thing called Mau Mau?” As an icon of violent resistance to colonial domination\, one answer regarding the armed struggle that defined late-colonial Kenya has been to read it as an “unfinished revolution” whose decolonial aims remain unfulfilled (or\, more precisely\, betrayed). This talk attends to Mau Mau’s symbolic place in cultural politics in Kenya and beyond by exploring how narratives interpreting it as such have shaped transnational understandings of postcolonialism and decolonization. By tracing the rhetorical politics that cohere around it\, I argue that we should consider the invocation of the idea of Mau Mau — whether it be central to a text or present as an offhand reference — as a catalyst through which broader claims are made. I link how African and diasporic writers have positioned Mau Mau as an episode in the greater “African Revolution” to the challenge it represents to existing racial and ethnic structures. Drawing from Kenyan\, South African\, and American sources\, this talk explores how these dual interpretations have shaped Mau Mau’s prominent position in cultural production and the politics of dissent across the world. \n\nAbout the Speaker\nChristian Alvarado received his PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the African American and African Studies Department at the University of California\, Davis. His current book project situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader historical and narratological landscape of 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations\, his work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into the global dimensions of knowledge production regarding African decolonization.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/christian-alvarado-guest-lecture/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fall 2024 Open House
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on September 25th from 11-12pm in Kaplan 348! Light refreshments will be served. \n\nRSVP HERE \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/fall-2024-open-house/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Relationality as Ternary Structure: On Challenges and Openings for Relational Critical Thinking”
DESCRIPTION:Kathrin Thiele (Director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG); Department of Media and Culture Studies\, Utrecht University) \n\nRSVP to attend in person\nRSVP to attend via Zoom \nIn this talk I want to approach relationality as “ternary structure\,” and explicate what kind of conceptual and practical shifts such onto-epistemological proposition enables. The goal is not to philosophically prove – against dualist traditions – that it is the relation(al) which makes and unmakes worlds. Rather\, the question I pursue is what happens when we situate ourselves as always/already with/in relation(al) matters. With the help of contemporary cultural\, queer feminist thinkers (amongst them Wynter\, Berlant\, Ferreira da Silva\, Barad\, Ettinger\, Kirby)\, I aim to introduce meaningful aspects – challenges and openings – for an alternative to binary\, sequential\, and oppositional critical frameworks. \nKathrin Thiele is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory\, Director of the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University\, and Academic Director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG). Trained trans-disciplinarily in Gender Studies\, Sociology\, Literary Studies and Critical Theory\, her research engages with questions of critical inquiry\, ethics and politics from queer feminist\, decolonial and posthuman(ist) philosophical perspectives. Thiele’s work aims to intervene in discussions around differences\, in/equality\, de/coloniality\, ecologies and post/humanisms\, and her critical attention lies most of all with the troubling consequences of a relational understanding of the world. She deeply engages with the inherent frictions\, the processes of in/exclusion and the always asymmetrical power relations we inhabit. Thiele has published numerous monographs\, edited volumes\, and articles\, including her forthcoming manuscript\, Intra/Sectional Praxis: How to Think-Practice the World Otherwise (2024) and The Ends of Critique: Methods\, Institutions\, Politics (2022)\, eds. Thiele\, K. C.\, Kaiser\, B. M.\, & O’Leary\, T. \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-kathrin-thiele-director-of-the-netherlands-research-school-of-gender-studies-nog-department-of-media-and-culture-studies-utrecht-university/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 6275\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Visualizing Mestizaje through Zapotec Remappings of the Americas”
DESCRIPTION:Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (Department of Social & Cultural Analysis (SCA)\, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)\, New York University) \nInaugural Dean of Humanities’ Lecture in Critical Humanistic Inquiry \n\nThursday\, May 2\, 2024\n5 pm – 6 pm \nHershey Hall Salon \nRSVP to attend in person\nRSVP to attend via Zoom \nFollowed by a Reception in Hershey Hall Courtyard \nThis event inaugurates the Dean’s Lecture in Critical Humanistic Inquiry\, a newly launched annual lecture that showcases boundary-pushing research in the Humanities. This lecture will be delivered by leading scholars and creatives whose work explores critical questions about what it means to be human\, and how Humanities provides innovative frameworks for navigating and understanding literature\, culture\, and society. \nTens of thousands of Indigenous peoples have migrated to the United States since 1994\, the vast majority from Mexico and Mesoamerica. As a consequence\, the U.S. Native American population increased by 86% between 2010 and 2020. Zapotec is now second only to Navajo as the most-spoken Indigenous language in the US\, while bilingual immersion in Mixtec and English is part of NYC public school curriculum. This is challenging how we define Indigeneity in the United States\, but it is also challenging how Latinx Studies will define itself as a field in light of these new constituents. How does the mass migration that we are witnessing of Indigenous peoples require a hemispheric rethinking of Indigeneity? And how should it redefine knowledge production in the fields of Latinx Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies? \nMaría Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is a Professor in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis Department & the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU. She is one of four Principal Investigators awarded a Mellon Foundation Higher Learning Initiative Grant for the “Beyond a Boundary: Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective” in 2022. Her latest book\, Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States\, received the 2019 Casa de Las Americans Literary Prize in Latino Studies; the 2017 ASA John Hope Franklin Book Prize; and the 2017 National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award. \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-josefina-saldana-portillo-department-of-social-cultural-analysis-sca-center-for-latin-american-and-caribbean-studies-clacs-new-york-university/
LOCATION:Hershey Hall Salon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240429T120000
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Intermediaries\, Translators and Mediators: The Making of World Authorship”
DESCRIPTION:Gisèle Sapiro (Sociology\, EHESS/CNRS\, Paris)\n\n\nRegister to attend via Zoom\nThis event will only be held virtually via Zoom.  \nIn this public seminar\, Professor Sapiro will explore the role of intermediaries and mediators in the process of how literary works cross borders (or not). Based on Bourdieu’s analysis of the social conditions of international circulation of ideas\, she will elaborate on the political\, economic\, and cultural factors weighing on circulation and social inequalities in access to transnational recognition (gender and ethnicity).  \nGisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)\, member of Academia Europeae\, and recipient of the Silver Medal of the CNRS (2021) and Humboldt Research Award (2023). Her areas of interest are the sociology of culture\, literature\, intellectuals\, translation\, publishing\, law\, and the epistemology and history of the social and human sciences. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books that have been translated into many languages. Her most recent monographs include Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur? (2020) and Des mots qui tuent. La responsabilité de l’intellectuel en temps de crise\, 1944-1953 (2020). She is the editor of Dictionnaire international Bourdieu (2020) and of The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas (2024). \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-gisele-sapiro-sociology-ehess-cnrs-paris/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:On Solidarity: Reflect and Restore Film Screening & Discussion
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URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/on-solidarity-reflect-and-restore/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Rethinking Sovereignty with Care and Relationality”
DESCRIPTION:Shannon Speed (Director of American Indian Studies Center; Anthropology/Gender Studies/American Indian Studies\, UCLA) \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). \nRegister to attend via Zoom \nRegister to attend in Royce Hall 306 below: \n[gravityform id=”20″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-shannon-speed-director-of-american-indian-studies-center-anthropology-gender-studies-american-indian-studies-ucla/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T120000
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “The Role of the Renaissance in the Transformation of the Western Political Imaginary: Petrarch’s Africa and Death for the ‘Fatherland’”
DESCRIPTION:Etienne Anheim (History\, EHESS\, Paris)  \n \nThe ideal of “death for the fatherland” (Pro patria mori) may seem to be an invariable reality of the human society\, from Sparta and Athens to today’s wars. In fact\, it is a political imaginary whose periodization can be traced. Ernst Kantorowicz\, in a famous article published in 1951\, proposed an analysis of this problem. In this lecture\, Etienne Anheim will propose a new interpretation\, both historical and historiographical\, based on Francesco Petrarca’s (1304-1374) epic poem Africa. In particular\, Anheim will highlight the role of the Renaissance in the construction of a new imaginary of war in the West\, quite different from the ancient and medieval tradition\, which has served as the foundation for the national and colonial wars of the contemporary era. \nEtienne Anheim‘s research is oriented towards the economic\, social\, and material history of painting as well as the history of written practices between the 13th and the 15th century\, from scholars like Petrarch to library inventories or accounting entries\, at the same time\, addressing questions of historiography and epistemology of history. He also collaborates on the editorial boards of the Revue de Synthese\, Médiévales\, and Annales. \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).\nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies \nRegister to attend in Royce 236 or online via ZOOM
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-etienne-anheim-history-ehess-paris/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T143000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Melancholy Acts
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk \nMelancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World \nABOUT THE BOOK \nHow do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously the agent of its critique? Melancholy Acts offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions through a series of wide-ranging engagements with Arab thought\, literature\, and film in the aftermath of the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians and the 1967 military defeat of Arab armies. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNouri Gana is Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). In addition to Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World (Fordham University Press\, 2023)\, he is the author of Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Bucknell UP\, 2011/paperback 2015)\, and the editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts\, Architects\, Prospects & The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (Edinburgh UP\, 2013/paperback 2015). \nRESPONDENTS \n\nSaree Makdisi (Chair and Professor\, English\, UCLA)\nJeffrey Sacks (Associate Professor and Chair\, Comparative Literature & Arabic\, UC Riverside)\n\n[gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-melancholy-acts/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240405T120000
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SUMMARY:A Talk with Mark Brudzinski
DESCRIPTION:Non-Academic Tracks for Ph.D Students \nMarc 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 complex problems. Recent collaborators include government ministries\, international agencies\, universities\, and companies in the arts and telecommunications sectors. He is most excited about awakening people’s creative confidence towards the pursuit of collective goals \nHe is the founder of onesuchdesign\, whose mission is to “…reframe complex problems to deepen our insights and free our creativity so we can take action & then tell our story.” \nMarc has a Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Duke University. He has published scholarly articles\, literary translations\, and original poems\, and he was awarded a Digital Humanities grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities for his project on creative telecollaboration in the university classroom. He has taught at University of Miami\, State University of New York\, Cornell University\, and Cornell Weill School of Medicine. \nThis event is supported by the Dean’s Discretionary fund and the Edward W. Said Chair. \nPizza and refreshments will be provided so please register for the event by 5pm on 4/4/24.  \n[gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/a-talk-with-mark-brudzinski/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T100000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion with Prof. Russ Castronovo (Wisconsin-Madison)
DESCRIPTION:On 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 of Vulnerability (Princeton UP\, 2023). Two chapters from the book\, which will serve as the basis of the discussion\, are available here.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/book-discussion-with-prof-russ-castronovo-wisconsin-madison/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T173000
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SUMMARY:Public Talk: Andreas Mayer
DESCRIPTION:Intangible and Recalcitrant Objects: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations and the Predicament of the Human Sciences\n\n  \nIn 1833\, Honoré de Balzac published a short essay entitled La théorie de démarche. In this highly original text\, he defines for the first time his historical-anthropological approach to the society of his epoch that would lead to the vast and unfinished project of The Human Comedy. Based on observations on the Parisian boulevards\, Balzac sketches a “code of walking” whose axioms appear to be at first glance no more than an extension of Lavater’s physiognomy which reads in a person’s gait her or his virtues and vices\, work habits and illnesses. However\, a discussion of the complex genesis and contexts of this little studied essay will show that it offers scientific and philosophical reflections on the practice of observation and the predicament of the human sciences and its intangible and recalcitrant objects. \n  \nAndreas Mayer is a Senior Researcher at the CNRS (French National Institute for Scientific Research) and currently co-directs the research department “Dynamics of Globalization” at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. He has taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, at the University of Cambridge\, and at the University of Chicago\, and has received various distinctions. His major monographs include Dreaming by the Book: Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams and the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement (with Lydia Marinelli\, 2003)\, Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting (2013)\, and The Science of Walking. Investigations Into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century (2020). He is currently working on a German translation of the Analytical Studies of Balzac’s The Human Comedy (the first volume containing the Théorie de la démarche has appeared in 2022).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/andreas-mayer/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Heim Memorial Lecture: "Translating Erased Histories" with Dr. Maureen Freely
DESCRIPTION:Fethiye Çetin with her grandmother\nCLICK HERE TO VIEW LECTURE RECORDING\n  \nAbout the Lecture \n20 years ago\, a loose-knit collective of Turkish journalists\, lawyers\, writers\, publishers\, and social justice advocates banded together to tell the truth about the Armenian genocide to the Turkish people\, who had by then been subjected to denialist lies for the better part of a century.  The state’s false narrative was so fiercely enforced that even those of full or partial Armenian descent were often afraid to tell the truth to their children. Hrant Dink was amongst the first to break the taboo in his newspaper\, Agos. It was with his encouragement that his lawyer\, Fethiye Çetin\, wrote about her grandmother\, who told her very late in life that she’d been ‘rescued’ from a death march to be renamed and Islamicised. The first of its kind in Turkey\, this memoir offered readers a chance to open conversations about “stories like this in our own family.” \nWhen Maureen Freely decided to take time off from translating Orhan Pamuk to bring this and two other related books into English\, she knew full well that the descendants of genocide survivors outside Turkey would find little new in them. Even so\, she thought it important that they be read outside their land of origin. In this lecture\, she will set out her own reasons for embarking on this unquiet journey\, before considering the political and literary implications of giving voice to erased histories. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nPhoto Credit: Andre Avanessian\nMaureen Freely is a writer with seven novels to her name and many other strings to her bow. She grew up in Istanbul\, on the campus of the old Robert College. Well known as a translator of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk\, she has also brought into English several classics and works by Turkey’s rising stars. For many years she worked as a journalist in London\, writing about literature\, feminism\, social justice\, and human rights. As chair of the Translator’s Association and more recently as President and Chair of English PEN\, she has campaigned for writers and freedom of expression internationally. She teaches at the University of Warwick. \n  \n  \nthe 2022 heim memorial lecture is generously co-sponsored by\nthe ucla Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures; promise armenian institute; center for near eastern studies; and working group in memory studies
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/heim-lecture-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T140000
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SUMMARY:Working Group in Memory Studies: Discussion with Kevin Bruyneel on New Book "Settler Memory"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/working-group-in-memory-studies-discussion-with-kevin-bruyneel-on-new-book-settler-memory/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T120000
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SUMMARY:Annual Edward W. Said Lecture - Dr. Angela Davis
DESCRIPTION:“International Solidarity in the Era of Black Lives Matter and Justice for Palestine”\n  \n\nCLICK HERE to view a recording of this lecture\n  \nCLICK HERE to download the flyer for this lecture\n  \nThis lecture was held virtually via Zoom Webinar at 12:00 PM PST on Thursday\, April 14\, 2022. For more information about the Edward W. Said Professorship and Annual Lecture\, click here. \n  \n \n  \nThrough her activism and scholarship over many decades\, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world.  Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic\, racial\, and gender justice. She is the author of eleven books\, including Abolition.Feminism.Now\, co-authored with Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners\, and Beth Richie\, and a new edition of her Autobiography\, both of which were released this year. Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex\,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without carceral systems and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/annual-edward-w-said-lecture-angela-davis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T090000
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SUMMARY:Working Group in Memory Studies: Discussion with Mihaela Mihai on New Book "Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/working-group-in-memory-studies-discussion-with-mihaela-mihai-on-new-book-political-memory-and-the-aesthetics-of-care/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T130000
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SUMMARY:Working Group in Memory Studies: Discussion with Gil Hochberg on New Book "Becoming Palestine"
DESCRIPTION: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 new book\, entitled Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future. UCLA Professors Rachel Lee and Saree Makdisi will respond. \nRSVP HERE\n  \n\n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/working-group-in-memory-studies-discussion-with-gil-hochberg-on-new-book-becoming-palestine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T123000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series - Ayesha Ramachandran\, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:“Petrarch’s African Canzoniere: Lyric Anthropology and the Question of Race“\n  \nwith Ayesha Ramachandran (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature\, Yale University)\n  \nIl PetrarcaFrontispiece.Lyons: per Gioanni de Tournes\, 1550 (The Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania).\n  \nREGISTER HERE\nAbout the Lecture\nIs the rhetoric of Petrarchan poetry a foundational discourse of early modern race-making? And what might it mean to investigate early modern lyric as site for reflection about race and cross-cultural difference? This talk returns to Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta\, often described as the urtext of modern lyric poetry\, to reveal its textual and conceptual entanglement with his unfinished epic Africa. I suggest that the lyric dynamics of self/other in the canzoniere are\, at their source\, bound up with the challenge of racial and cultural crossing—and that it is this submerged political valence that gives Petrarchan lyric its global mobility and power. Locating the question of alterity between lyric thinking and anthropological thought from the early modern period onward\, I consider how “lyric” as a category might be reimagined as a distinct mode of thinking and engaging with the world. \n  \nCo-sponsored with the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/lecture-series-ayesha-ramachandran/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T183000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series - UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Adrián I. P-Flores
DESCRIPTION:“Traversing Suicide: The Unthought of Blackness in the Suicidological Imagination”\n  \nCo-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Program in Experimental Critical Theory\n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nAbout the Lecture \nThis talk poses a fundamental question: “Is Black suicide possible?” This question aims to excavate\, within the contemporary field of suicidology\, the systematic riveting of blackness to what afropessimism calls “the position of the unthought”—a position hewed by an antiblack violence that clears the existential horizon for human beings to emerge from history as always-already available for Being\, for death\, for a future. This question strives to unsettle the universality and neutrality of the subject or being of suicidality in the “suicidological imagination” to the extent that its universality necessitates the neutralization of being’s racial inscription as conterminously human and non-Black. In this talk\, the fundamental question of Black suicide is opposed to leading questions about suicide causation and prevention—questions that are doubly encumbered by the essentialism of “premature death” and the moral imperative to preserve the sanctity of human life—which obviate posing suicide as a problem for thought. To think this problematic\, it will be argued\, requires grappling with suicide as an architectonic idiom for modern\, racialized Man\, the highest form of Being—and the locus of morality and tragedy—that\, under the imperative of antiblackness\, organizes our very desire for existence. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nAdrián I. P-Flores is the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. He earned his doctorate in Gender & Women’s Studies from The University of Arizona. Flores is currently working on a book manuscript\, What Is Suicide? Entanglements of Philosophy and Literature in the “Afterlife of Slavery.”  What Is Suicide? examines the production of the modern subject through the antiblack racial logics of “suicide.”
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/lecture-series-postdoctoral-fellow-adrian-p-flores/
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SUMMARY:Annual Edward W. Said Lecture - Alexander Weheliye: "Schwarz-Sein: Black Life Beyond the Human"
DESCRIPTION:Date and Time: Friday\, May 14\, 2021 from 12:00-1:30 PM PST\nSpeaker: Alexander Weheliye\, Northwestern University\nModerator: Shu-mei Shih\, Inaugural edward w. said professor of comparative literature\, UCLA\nOpening Remarks: David Schaberg\, Dean of Humanities\, UCLA\n  \nCo-sponsored by the Edward W. Said Professorship in Comparative Literature and “Comparative Thinking in the Age of Black Lives Matter” Lecture Series Committee of the Department of Comparative Literature. \n  \nAbout the Lecture \nThis webinar will focus on some of the different ways Blackness operates as the ontological mattering of ungendering. Conceptualizing Blackness as integral to being as such\, the lecture imagines how its multiple manifestations matter and operate both through and beyond the category of the human. Drawing on examples from the history of science\, popular culture\, and Edward Said’s thinking\, Weheliye highlights how Blackness offers openings for different formings and matterings beyond modern\, western Man. \n  \nAbout the Speakers \nAlexander Ghedi Weheliye is professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University where he teaches Black literature and culture\, critical theory\, social technologies\, and popular culture. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005) and Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages\, Biopolitics\, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014). Currently\, he is working on two projects. The first\, Feenin: R&B’s Technologies of Humanity\, offers a critical history of the intimate relationship between R&B music and technology since the late 1970s. The second\, Black Life/SchwarzSein\, situates Blackness as an ungendered ontology of unbelonging. \n  \n  \nShu-mei Shih is the inaugural Edward W. Said Professor of Comparative Literature\, and Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures & Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is also the President of the American Comparative Literature Association. \n  \n  \n  \n\nDavid Schaberg is Dean of Humanities and Professor in Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA. He is also a past Chair of Asian Languages & Cultures and Co-Director of the Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/edward-w-said-lecture/
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SUMMARY:The Art of Leaving: A Conversation with Ayelet Tsabari
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her memoir\, “The Art of Leaving” and its themes of longing and belonging\, growing up Mizrahi in Israel\, and reclaiming her Yemeni identity. She will be joined by discussant Rabbi Miriyam Glazer\, Emerita Professor of Literature at American Jewish University.\n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \nPresented by the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in collaboration with the American Jewish University and the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature. \nAbout the Talk \nAcclaimed Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari knows first-hand the challenges faced by immigrants\, as the child of a Yemenite family in Israel and as an author writing about her homeland in English\, her second language. Join her and Prof. Miriyam Glazer\, as they discuss growing up Mizrahi in Israel\, and re-finding and reclaiming that identity through writing and extensive research into Yemeni culture and traditions. In the discussion\, they will also explore how a writer’s cultural background\, mother tongue\, and origins influence and inform her writing\, in terms of both content and style. \nAbout the Speakers \nAyelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She is the author of The Art of Leaving (Random House\, 2019)\, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir\, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize\, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book\, The Best Place on Earth\, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and has been published internationally. Her translations appeared in the New Quarterly\, Berlin Quarterly\, Paper Brigade\, and Mantis. She teaches creative writing at the University of King’s College (Canada) MFA program\, the University of Guelph Writing MFA program\, and at Tel Aviv University. \nRabbi Miriyam Glazer (Discussant) is Emerita Professor of Literature at American Jewish University\, where she created and chaired the Literature\, Communication & Media Department for over 25 years. Prior to that she was chair of the Foreign Literatures Department at Ben-Gurion University. She has published many essays and book chapters on Jewish literature\, as well as on nature\, gender\, and spirituality in Judaism and Jewish culture. Her books include Dreaming the Actual: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Israeli Women Writers (State University of New York Press\, 2000) and Psalms of the Jewish Liturgy: A Guide to their Beauty\, Power\, and Meaning (Aviv Press\, 2009). \n  \nDISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker’s views or opinions. \nSponsor(s): Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies\, Comparative Literature\, American Jewish University\, UC Berkeley’s Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/the-art-of-leaving-a-conversation-with-ayelet-tsabari/
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SUMMARY:Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua's Retrospective Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua’s Retrospective Imagination\nThursday\, April 22\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Pacific Time\nRSVP Here\n\nYael Halevi-Wise will talk about her recent book\, The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua(2020)\, which examines the work and ethos of one of Israel’s foremost contemporary authors. An internationally-recognized novelist\, the New York Times has called Yehoshua the “Israeli Faulkner.”\nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature. \nAbout the Program \nExploring the work of celebrated Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua\, the program brings together McGill University Associate Professor of Literature and Chair of Jewish Studies Yael Halevi-Wise\, author of The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua and discussant and scholar\, Rabbi Dr. William Cutter\, Emeritus Professor of Human Relations at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. \nHalevi-Wise’s talk will examine how Yehoshua’s speeches\, interviews and op-eds have turned him into a prominent public intellectual in the eye of the Zionist storm; but Yehoshua’s fame – the fact that anyone is even interested in hearing his opinions about Jewish identity – rests on his impressive and considerable literary abilities. Without reducing Yehoshua’s art to a vehicle for conveying ideological positions\, she will showcase how he mounts a multilayered engagement with the here and now – in light of the past and future – to elicit a deeper conversation about core aspects of Jewish history and thought.\n\n\n\nAbout the Book \nYael Halevi-Wise’s new book\, The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua (Penn State University Press\, 2020) explores the work of the internationally-recognized novelist whom the New York Times has called the “Israeli Faulkner.” Instead of an exhaustive chronological-biographical account of Yehoshua’s artistic growth\, Halevi-Wise’s book calls for a systematic appreciation of the author’s major themes and compositional patterns. Specifically\, she argues for reading Yehoshua’s novels as reflections on the “condition of Israel\,” constructed multifocally to engage four intersecting levels of signification: psychological\, sociological\, historical\, and historiosophic. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Yael Halevi-Wise is Associate Professor of Literature and Chair of Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal\, Canada. Her areas of interest include the theory of the novel\, contemporary Israeli literature\, 19th century English literature and 20th century Latin American literature. Before coming to Montreal\, she taught at Brandeis\, Cornell and Princeton universities. Dr. Halevi-Wise is the author of many journal articles and several books\, including most recently The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua (Penn State University Press\, 2020). Her other books are Sephardism: Spanish/Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination (Stanford University Press\, 2012) and Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel (Praeger/Greenwood Press\, 2003). She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. \nDISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker’s views or opinions.  \nSponsor(s): Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies\, Comparative Literature\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/wrestling-with-redemption/
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SUMMARY:The Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Arabic Literature: Between Discipline and Punishment
DESCRIPTION:Mellon Minorities in the Middle East & North Africa Series\nA lecture by Dr. Iman Al-Ghafari\, moderated by Robert J. Farley (UCLA)\nFriday\, April 16\, 2021\n11:00 AM (Pacific Time)\n  \nClick Here to RSVP\n  \nLesbian subjectivities have persistently been neglected\, suppressed\, misrepresented\, or portrayed through the lenses of the inherited and recycled moral views in the mainstream Arab\, Islamic and Middle Eastern cultures. In such oppressive socio-political contexts\, the independent lesbian subjectivity remains engulfed within the heterosexual morality of the ‘closet’ that advocates invisibility. Deprived of the means and tools of self-representation\, how can the lesbian subjectivity become a speaking subject? And to what extent it is possible for daily discursive practices in Contemporary Arabic cultures or to the formal disciplinary narratives of Arabic literature to give a self-assertive voice to the autonomous lesbian subjectivity. \nDr. Iman Al-Ghafari is a doctor of literature\, a researcher\, a lesbian poet\, a writer\, an illustrator\, and a literary translator. She received her Ph.D. with first class honors on “The Quest for Identity in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath: A Feminist Approach.” From 2012-2014\, She was hosted as a post-doctoral researcher in Amsterdam research Centre for Gender and Sexuality. She has lectured widely on lesbian poetry. She has many publications about lesbian issues in Contemporary Middle Eastern cultures and literature. Her works include poetry\, essays\, short stories\, academic articles and literary translations. She has received several grants and fellowships for her writings. In 2017\, she won Natur and Kultur prize in Sweden. \nRobert J. Farley is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at UCLA\, writing a dissertation on digital magazines\, archives\, and the contemporary emergence of kwīr in Arabic. He works as an Arabic scholar\, translator\, and consultant in instructional technology and design\, digital research in the humanities\, and cultural representation. \n  \n  \nSponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Comparative Literature\, LGBTQ Studies
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/lesbian-subjectivity/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Leila Pazargadi: "Autographics & the Archive: Visualizing Memory & Trauma in Southwestern Asian Graphic Memoirs"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Dr. Leila Pazargadi\nAssociate Professor of English\, Nevada State College\n“Autographics & the Archive: Visualizing Memory & Trauma in Southwestern Asian Graphic Memoirs”\n  \nMonday\, march 1\, 2021 at 5:00 PM PST\nLECTURE VIA ZOOM\nCLICK HERE TO RSVP\n  \nABOUT THE LECTURE \nSince its reformulation as a historical and autobiographical storytelling tool in Art Spiegelman’s serialization of the Holocaust in Maus (1980)\, the comics form has allowed political storytellers to engage in revisiting\, recreating\, and retelling memories of trauma bound up in resistance movements. In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Zeina Abirached’s I Remember Beirut\, the authors respectively employ the visual form of comics to revisit the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Persepolis tells the story of Marjane’s life throughout the revolution\, her move to Vienna\, return to Iran\, and eventual immigration to France. Similarly\, I Remember Beirut recalls Zeina’s navigation of the Lebanese Civil War as it religiously demarcated Beirut before her subsequent move to France. These political conflicts are not only regionally and temporally parallel\, but their similar representations in these two texts are striking\, particularly as themes of resistance\, violence\, trauma\, and nation-making are visually cued through the dramatic\, yet simplified form of comics. Drawing on the aesthetics of the comics form as well as conventions of autobiographical theory and its relation to storytelling\, this talk discusses the way in which transnational Southwestern Asian literature produced in the diaspora\, attempts to confront exile\, migration\, displacement\, and civil war from creative vantage points. Through the employment of techniques like the Belgian clear line and black-and-white storyboarding\, these texts simplify the representation of violence to paradoxically draw attention to the stark realities and devastating effects of conflict on the storyteller and the world around them. The genres of life writing\, storytelling\, and comics converge to offer a new aesthetic capable of representing the nuances of Southwestern Asian political conflicts in the form of resistance literature. \n  \nABOUT DR. PAZARGADI \nLeila Moayeri Pazargadi is Associate Professor of English at Nevada State College\, teaching composition\, postcolonial literature\, life writing\, ethnic American literature\, and Southwestern Asian literature courses. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Comparative Literature with a certification in Gender Studies from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2012. Her research focuses on Southwestern Asian women writers producing autobiographical material in fiction and nonfiction after 9/11\, but it also extends to include scholarship on the visual forms of comics\, in addition to Persian photography of the Qajar era. In 2020\, she was a Visiting Scholar at UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies researching her upcoming monograph on Southwestern Asian women’s memoirs. \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/dr-leila-pazargadi-autographics-the-archive-visualizing-memory-trauma-in-southwestern-asian-graphic-memoirs/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T110000
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SUMMARY:Hebrew Poetry of Life & Love: Rachel Bluwstein\, Leah Goldberg and Naomi Shemer
DESCRIPTION: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 \nNili Alon Amit\, a Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies\, will discuss the works of several important Israeli poetesses Rachel Bluwstein and Leah Goldberg\, and beloved songwriter Naomi Shemer\, and relate them to world philosophy and literature of happiness.\n\nRSVP HERE\nClick the link above to register and join the online event. After registering\, you will be emailed a meeting link and ID information to join us via Zoom on your computer\, tablet o smartphone\, or to call into the event on your phone. If you do not receive your email confirmation\, check your spam or junk mail folders. \nNote: This live event will be recorded and posted online afterward for later viewing on the Y&S Nazarian Center’s multimedia page. \nAbout the Talk\nThis lecture by Nili Alon Amit will focus on two prominent poetesses of the Israeli pre-state and early-state periods – Rachel Bluwstein (1890–1931) and Leah Goldberg (1911-1970) – and on the celebrated songwriter\, composer and singer Naomi Shemer (1930-2004). The talk will explore the place of early Israeli poetry in the development of modern Western thought on well-being\, life and love. \nIn the presentation\, Dr. Alon Amit will relate the work of these Hebrew poets to broader themes in world philosophy and literature of happiness. She will discuss excerpts from her new book\, On Happy Souls: The History of Happiness in Western Culture (forthcoming\, Cambridge Scholars\, 2021)\, and her original translations to English of Rachel’s Hebrew poetry. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature\, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\, and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Nili Alon Amit is a researcher and lecturer of philosophy of soul and philosophy of education at Hakibbutzim Academic College in Tel Aviv\, Israel. During the 2020-21 academic year\, Alon Amit is a Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. She previously served as an Israel Institute Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center. Dr. Alon Amit received her Ph.D. in Ancient Philosophy from Haifa University. Her research explores the history of ideas from Ancient Greece to modern times. She is the author of the forthcoming book: On Happy Souls: The History of Soul in Western Culture (Cambridge Scholars\, 2021). \n  \nDISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker’s views or opinions.  \nSponsor(s): Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Comparative Literature\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/hebrew-poetry-of-life-and-love/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Domenico Ingenito's "Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry"
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: Domenico Ingenito’s Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry (Brill\, 2020)\nA conversation with Paul Losensky (Indiana University) and Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia)\nWednesday\, January 27\, 2021\n10:00 AM (Pacific Time)\nClick Here to RSVP\nBeholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry explores the relationship between sexuality\, politics\, and spirituality in the lyrics of Saʿdi Shirazi (d. 1292 CE)\, one of the most revered masters of classical Persian literature. Relying on a variety of sources\, including unstudied manuscripts\, Domenico Ingenito presents the so-called “inimitable smoothness” of Saʿdi’s lyric style as a serene yet multifaceted window into the uncanny beauty of the world\, the human body\, and the realm of the unseen.\n\nThe book constitutes the first attempt to study Saʿdi’s lyric meditations on beauty in the context of the major artistic\, scientific and intellectual trends of his time. By charting unexplored connections between Islamic philosophy and mysticism\, obscene verses and courtly ideals of love\, Ingenito approaches Saʿdi’s literary genius from the perspective of sacred homoeroticism and the psychology of performative lyricism in their historical context.\n\nOrganized by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies with the co-sponsorship of the Program on Central Asia\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Iranian Studies\, and Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World \n\nRSVP HERE\nUpdated information on this event can be found HERE\nFor questions\, contact UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, CNES@international.ucla.edu. 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-domenico-ingenito-beholding-beauty/
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SUMMARY:UC Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA | Alex Ross: Wagner & Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:  \nTHURSDAY DEC 3\, 2020 | 5 PM PST\nCo-presented with the UCLA Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology and the Hammer Museum \nUC Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA in the Department of Comparative Literature Alex Ross\, the longtime music critic of The New Yorker\, discusses his recently released third book\, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. Ross’s first book\, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century\, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Guardian First Book Award\, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ross has received the George Peabody Medal\, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Belmont Prize in Germany\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a MacArthur Fellowship. \nATTENDING THIS PROGRAM? \nJoin live online: RSVP at the Hammer website to receive an email reminder on the day of the program with the link to tune in. The link to join will also be posted here 2 hours before the program starts. \nGive back: This online program is free. The Hammer relies on your support in order to present its programs and exhibitions. Please consider making a contribution. \nPlease note that this event will be recorded. By attending\, you grant the Hammer permission to use your image\, statements\, and actions in any medium or context without further authorization or compensation. \nAll public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from an anonymous donor. Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy\, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley\, the Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation\, The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation\, an anonymous donor\, and all Hammer members. \nReadings are supported by GRoW @ Annenberg. \nDigital presentation of Hammer public programs is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation. \nHammer public programs are presented online in partnership with the #KeepThePromise campaign—a movement promoting social justice and human rights through the arts.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/uc-regents-lecturer-at-ucla-alex-ross-wagner-hollywood/
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SUMMARY:Fall 2020 Welcome Week Open House!
DESCRIPTION:Please 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. (right after the Humanities Welcome). The Open House will be a great opportunity to meet both new and continuing students\, ask questions of our department faculty\, and learn what it means to be a part of the Comparative Literature community at UCLA! If interested in attending\, please RSVP at the link below and you will be sent the Zoom meeting ID/password prior to the event. We look forward to meeting you! \nRSVP for Department of Comparative Literature Welcome Week Open House
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/fall-2020-welcome-week-open-house/
LOCATION:Zoom
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