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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T100000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200511T170000
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SUMMARY:[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] 7th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies
DESCRIPTION:[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] \nPlease join the Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures on Monday\, May 11th at 5:00 p.m. for a lecture from Professor Maureen Freely\, University of Warwick\, entitled\, “DRAGOMAN: Translators in the World.” This event is part of the 7th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies. The lecture will take place at Kaplan Hall 193 and a light reception will follow. Please RSVP for the event at this link. \nThe Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies is an annual lecture in memory of Michael Heim to continue his legacy. Professor Heim was a pioneer in translation studies\, which is now an area of considerable significance to the field of comparative literature. He is remembered by his colleagues\, students and friends as a world-class scholar\, a model pedagogue and a devoted mentor\, generous in his commitment to a communication and understanding across languages and cultures\, giving pride of place to translation. \nThis year’s featured lecturer will be Maureen Freely. Maureen Freely is a writer with seven novels to her name and many other strings to her bow.  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\, 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.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/7th-annual-michael-henry-heim-memorial-lecture-in-translation-and-translation-studies/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:"'Ten Tongues and Ten Mouths': Reading the Iliad in post-9/11 Pakistan" - "UCLA Comparative Literature in the World" Lecture by Alumnae Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of Comparative Literature on Tuesday\, January 14th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. for a lecture from Professor Maryam Wasif Khan of the Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences entitled\, “‘Ten Tongues and Ten Mouths’: Reading the Iliad in post-9/11 Pakistan.” This event is part of “UCLA Comparative Literature in the World\,” a series of talks from recent department graduates sponsored by the Division of Humanities. The lecture will take place at Kaplan Hall 348 and a light reception will follow. Please RSVP for the event at this link. \nMaryam Wasif Khan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. She received her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California\, Los Angeles under the supervision of Professor Aamir Mufti. She also holds an A.B. in Comparative Literature (summa cum laude) from Princeton University. Maryam’s research and teaching interests include British orientalism\, Muslim reform\, world literature\, Urdu serial plays and popular narratives. Her work has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies (MFS)\, Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History (MLQ) and PMLA. Her first book\, Who Is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms\, is to be published by Fordham University Press. This work argues against conventional methods of writing literary history for colonial vernaculars such as Urdu or Hindi. Suggesting that Urdu prose fiction from the moment of its inception at Fort William College is coded with certain Orientalist ideals of Muslim identity\, the project demonstrates how this identity\, in the contemporary moment\, manifests as a powerful religio-populist literary impulse. A second project is envisioned as a series of essays and contemplations on the possibilities contained in the act of reading foundational European texts outside of the Academy.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/ten-tongues-and-ten-mouths-reading-the-iliad-in-post-9-11-pakistan-lecture-by-ucla-comparative-literature-alumnae-dr-maryam-wasif-khan/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:"The Latin Poet's Guide to the Cosmos" Reading and Book Signing with UCLA Lecturer Dr. Susannah Rodriguez Drissi
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of Comparative Literature on Wednesday\, November 20th at 12:00 p.m. for a reading and signing of Dr. Susannah Rodríguez Drissi’s new poetry collection\, The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos. The event will be hosted at Kaplan Hall 348. Special guests include writer\, actor\, and translator Magdalena Edwards (Clarice Lispector’s The Chandelier)\, who will offer introductory remarks and read from the collection\, and Yalil Guerra (Latin Grammy Award-winner composer and musician) and Justin Lack (percussionist\, Graham Bonnet Band) who will accompany the poetry reading on guitar and percussion. Q&A and reception will follow. Books will be available for purchase on the day of the event. RSVPs for this event are requested. \nDescription of Collection: \nA delightfully choreographed\, and ultimately scintillating hoodwink\, this extraordinary collection of poetry constitutes a cross-linguistic poetic event in which the correspondence between Romance languages is so close as to approach the condition of a new vernacular; and where the very issue of movement between languages is somehow central\, and sound and rhythm are the fundamental characteristics of poetry. Written at the intersection of several romance languages\, and most closely related to Spanish and Italian\, the collection wears its Latinity on its sleeve; in other words\, this is a collection fueled by the many convergences and divergences possible between Latin and its vernaculars\, ultimately proposing that true Latinity is always first and foremost expressed through language. And\, sometimes\, also humor. \nEsta extraordinaria colección de poemas\, deliciosamente coreografiados y en última instancia triunfantes\, constituye un evento poético interlingüístico en el que la correspondencia entre las lenguas romances es tan cercana como para abordar la condición de un nuevo idioma vernáculo; y donde el tema mismo del movimiento entre idiomas es de alguna manera central\, y el sonido y el ritmo son las características fundamentales de la poesía. Escrita en la intersección de varias lenguas romances\, y más relacionada con el español e italiano\, la colección lleva su latinidad a flor de piel; en otras palabras\, esta es una colección alimentada por las muchas convergencias y divergencias posibles entre el latín y sus lenguas vernáculas\, que en última instancia proponen que la verdadera latinidad siempre se expresa primero y principalmente a través del lenguaje. Y\, a veces\, también a través del humor. \nQuesta straordinaria collezione di poesie\, deliziosamente coreografata e in ultima analisi trionfante\, costituisce un evento poetico interlinguistico in cui la corrispondenza tra le lingue romanze è così vicina da avvicinarsi alla condizione di un nuovo volgare; e dove la questione stessa del movimento tra le lingue è in qualche modo centrale\, e il suono e il ritmo sono le caratteristiche fondamentali della poesia. Scritto all’incrocio di diverse lingue romanze\, e più strettamente imparentato allo spagnolo e all’italiano\, la collezione indossa la sua latinità sulla manica; in altre parole\, questa è una collezione alimentata dalle molte convergenze e divergenze possibili tra il latino e i suoi vernacolari\, in definitiva proponendo che la vera latinità sia sempre espressa innanzitutto attraverso il linguaggio. E\, a volte\, anche umorismo. \nPraise for The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos: \n“Seriously playful\, sublimely macaronic\, SRD’s poems brilliantly explore the intimate geometries of languages in contact. The reader who accepts the challenge will come away from the collection with a renewed understanding of the ways in which our languages anchor us and set us adrift.” Gustavo Pérez Firmat\, Life on the Hyphen (Author) & The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (Editor) \n“A book to forget other books […] A book that does not end\, that is never reached\, and thus\, reaches toward us.” Los Angeles Review of Books \n“A delightfully choreographed\, and ultimately scintillating hoodwink\, this extraordinary collection of poetry constitutes a cross-linguistic poetic event. A MUST-READ out loud.” Floricanto Press \nCoverage of The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos: \nLARB Review: https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/reviews/begins-unexplored-latin-poets-guide-cosmos/ \nUCLA Newsroom Feature: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/susannah-rodriguez-drissi-poetry-collection?preview=6bd0 \nAuthor’s Biographical Statement: \nSusannah Rodríguez Drissi is a Cuban poet\, writer\, playwright\, translator\, director\, producer\, and scholar. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA where she teaches in Writing Programs and in the Academic Advancement Program. She has been a UC-Cuba Affiliate Scholar since 2009. Currently\, she is at work on her book manuscript\, Moorish Cuba. Her recent academic publications include “Call Him Ismael: Marti’s Oriente and the Arab World\,” in the peer-edited journal Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (2019) and “Reading Abdala in the Arab Spring\,” in Reading Cuba (Aduana Vieja\, 2018). Her poems\, short stories\, creative nonfiction\, and reviews have appeared in anthologies such as In Season—Stories of Discovery\, Loss\, Home\, and Places in Between (2018 Florida Book Award Winner); and journals such as The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Saw Palm\, Literal Magazine\, Diario de Cuba (Madrid)\, SX Salon\, Raising Mothers\, Acentos Review and Cuba Counterpoints\, among other journals. Following readings at the University of California\, Irvine and the University of California\, Los Angeles\, her award-winning play\, Houses Without Walls\, premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2018. Her musical\, Nocturno\, will premiere this coming winter in Miami. Her novel\, Until We’re Fish\, was a finalist for the 2018 Veliz Book Publication Award and the 2019 Tuscarara Historical Novel Award. More recently\, her short plays The Fruit Flies and Rey y Atenea were selected to the 2019 Short+Sweet Theatre Festival. She is the author of the poetry collection The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos (Floricanto Press\, 2019).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/the-latin-poets-guide-to-the-cosmos-reading-and-book-signing-with-ucla-lecturer-dr-susannah-rodriguez-drissi/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writing in Different (Disciplinary) Languages: On the Occasion of "The Perils of the One": Lecture and Discussion with Professor Stathis Gourgouris
DESCRIPTION:In honor of the 50th Anniversary Celebration\, please join the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature for a lecture and reception on October 28\, 2019 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in 348 Kaplan Hall. In honor of his new book\, The Perils of the One (Columbia University Press\, 2019)\, Stathis Gourgouris (Professor of Classics\, English\, and Comparative Literature at Columbia University) will be delivering a lecture and leading a discussion on “Writing in Different (Disciplinary) Languages: On the Occasion of The Perils of the One.” A light reception will follow the lecture and discussion. RSVPs for this event are requested. \nStathis Gourgouris is professor of classics\, English\, and comparative literature and society at Columbia University. He is the author of several books\, including Dream Nation (1996)\, Does Literature Think? (2003)\, Lessons in Secular Criticism (2013)\, and The Perils of the One (2019).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/writing-in-different-disciplinary-languages-on-the-occasion-of-the-perils-of-the-one-lecture-and-discussion-with-professor-stathis-gourgouris/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000
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SUMMARY:Comparative Literature in a Relational World: A Lecture by UCLA Professor Shu-mei Shih
DESCRIPTION:In honor of the 50th Anniversary Celebration and our Fall Welcome\, please join the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature for a lecture and reception on October 15\, 2019 from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m. in Royce Hall 306 (the Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room. Professor Shu-mei Shih (Department of Comparative Literature\, Department of Asian Languages and Culture\, and the Department of Asian American Studies) will be delivering a lecture on “Comparative Literature in a Relational World.” The lecture will be from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. with a light reception to follow. RSVPs for this event are requested. \nProfessor Shu-mei Shih received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA in 1992 and currently has a joint appointment in Comparative Literature\, Asian Languages and Cultures\, and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is the second vice-president of the American Comparative Literature Association\, set to assume presidency in 2021-2022. This lecture is part of her current book project\, which draws inspiration from several other disciplines\, including world history\, geography\, and sociology\, to reconsider the object\, scope\, and method of comparative literature.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/comparative-literature-in-a-relational-world-a-lecture-by-ucla-professor-shu-mei-shih/
LOCATION:Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room\, Royce Hall 306\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T160000
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SUMMARY:7th Annual Humanities Division Welcome
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/7th-annual-humanities-division-welcome/
LOCATION:UCLA Schoenberg Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T140000
DTSTAMP:20190827T154210Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Department of Comparative Literature Welcome Week Open House
DESCRIPTION:Please 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: \n\nGE/Writing II courses\nMajor and minor programs\nUnique research opportunities\n\nMeet new and continuing COM LIT students\, faculty and department staff. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/2019-department-of-comparative-literature-welcome-week-open-house/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190615T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190615T123000
DTSTAMP:20190509T215921Z
CREATED:20190509T215921Z
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SUMMARY:Departmental Commencement Reception
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URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/departmental-commencement-reception/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190603
DTSTAMP:20190528T202936Z
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SUMMARY:50th Anniversary Celebration!
DESCRIPTION:As part of UCLA’s Centennial Celebration\, the Department of Comparative Literature is celebrating its 50th birthday on June 1 & 2\, 2019.  We will have two events. The first is a reception on June 1st from 4-6pm at Ross Shideler and Kathy Komar’s home. The second will be a series of panels in Royce Hall with some of the Department’s former chairs scheduled for the morning and an afternoon panel with a few of our former Ph.Ds.  \nSCHEDULE \n*** \nSaturday\, June 1\, 2019: Shideler/Komar Home \nReception\, 4:00-6:00pm \n*** \nSunday\, June 2\, 2019: Herb Morris Room\, Royce 306 \n–Breakfast\, 9:00-9:30am– \nIntroductory Remarks\, Comparative Literature Chair David MacFadyen 9:30-9:45am \nRemarks by Dean of Humanities David Schaberg\, 9:45-10:00am \nAddress by Founder Arnold Band 10-10:30 \nPanel of Former Chairs\, 10:30am-12:30pm \nProfessor Ross Shideler \nProfessor Katherine King \nProfessor Kathleen Komar \nProfessor Efrain Kristal \nProfessor Ali Behdad \n–Lunch\, 12:30pm-2:00pm– \nPanel of Former Students\, 2:00pm-4:00p \nModerator: Jason Araújo\, Comparative Literature UCLA \nCarl Fisher\, Senior Director\, Academic Personnel\, CSU Office of the Chancellor & Former Chair of Comparative World Literature\, California State University Long Beach \nClaire Gallou\, Instructor of French\, Phillips Academy\, Andover \nHala Halim\, Professor of Comparative Literature & Middle Eastern Studies at NYU \nDamian Stocking\, Associate Professor\, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture\, Occidental College \n–Reception\, 4:00pm-6:00pm– \n[gravityform id=”14″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/50th/
LOCATION:Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room\, Royce Hall 306\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T190000
DTSTAMP:20190326T181622Z
CREATED:20190326T181316Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Bové: "Language\, Criticism\, and the Intellectual Virtues"
DESCRIPTION:Paul A. Bové (Distinguished Professor\, University of Pittsburgh) is the Editor of boundary 2\, an international journal of literature and culture\, published by Duke University Press. The journal has published recent special issues on major topics in the academy\, including Antinomies of the Post-Secular\, Second Hand Europe\, as well as a Dossier: Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures. Forthcoming special issues include studies of Stuart Hall as an exemplary intellectual\, “Marxism\, Communism\, and Translation\,” and “New Perspectives on Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminism”–among others. He is also the Editor of the B2 Review\, which publishes extended online magazines on Digital Culture\, Gender and Sexuality and Literature and Politics. You can follow the journal on Twitter\, @Boundary2 as well as on Face Book (boundary 2 Facebook Page). He also edits the journal’s YouTube channel for video lectures and interviews. \nRSVP FORM\n[gravityform id=”12″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n  \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/paul-bove/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190404T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190404T190000
DTSTAMP:20180813T223234Z
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SUMMARY:The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Hannah Arendt's Message of Ill-Tidings
DESCRIPTION:‘It was not only their own misfortunes that the refugees carried with them from land to land\, from continent to continent\,’ Hannah Arendt wrote\, ‘but the great misfortune of the whole world.’ Shortly before her death\, Arendt said that the real story of her generation of Jewish refugees from Nazism had yet to be fully understood. This lecture will return to Arendt’s refugee years to show how her influential theories about rights\, the human condition\, and political life were forged through her understanding of statelessness as an existential condition. \n  \nLyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham\, England. Her latest books are Placeless People: Writing\, Rights\, and Refugees (2018) and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011)\, Winner of the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Placeless People: Rights\, Writing and Refugees is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.  Her other books include:  The Destructive Element (1998)\, Reading Melanie Klein (with John Phillips\, 1998)\, The Writing of Anxiety (2007) and British Fiction after Modernism (with Marina MacKay\, 2007).  She is currently working on a large interdisciplinary project on refugee host communities in Jordan\, Lebanon and Turkey and writing a short literary history of human rights. She is a co-editor of Refugee History of OUP’s Mid-Century series. \nModerator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/the-1939-society-lecture-in-holocaust-studies-hannah-arendts-message-of-ill-tidings/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T190000
DTSTAMP:20180813T222541Z
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SUMMARY:1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: The Matter of the Neighbor: Budd Schulberg\, James Baldwin\, and the Watts Writers Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis talk explores the Watts Writers Workshop\, founded in the heart of Watts by Jewish American writer Budd Schulberg immediately after the Watts Rebellion of 1965\, and argues that the success and final demise of the project tracks Schulberg’s shift from prose to property. Drawing on Schulberg’s archives\, including lease contracts\, letters\, and personal notes\, I argue that Schulberg’s personal and financial investment in Watts re-located his political standing as the “neighbor” to the Watts writers with whom he worked.  The catch is that being a neighbor subjected Schulberg to political marginality and police harassment\, culminating in the FBI sabotage of the Workshop (it was burned down by an admitted FBI plant in 1973).  Schulberg never fully understood his outsider-insider status\, a claim I substantiate through a careful reading of a conversation between Schulberg and James Baldwin\, where Baldwin is able to peel back the multiple layers of identity sustaining whiteness’s controlling claims on black property\, thereby recalibrating what “Jewish” and “black” meant to each other in Watts and beyond. \n  \nModerator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/1939-society-lecture-in-holocaust-studies-the-matter-of-the-neighbor-budd-schulberg-james-baldwin-and-the-watts-writers-workshop/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
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