Indigenous Knowledge. Taiwan: Comparative and Relational Perspectives
UCLA ROYCE HALL 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Los Angeles, California (CA)Important conference news from UCLA Professor of Comparative Literature, Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu) RSVP FOR THIS EVENT HERE The UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative Conference Indigenous Knowledge, Taiwan: Comparative and Relational Perspectives Friday–Saturday, May 11–12 Royce Hall 314 UCLA This conference aims to engender transnational conversations about indigenous knowledge, with Taiwan as its comparative pivot...
Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium
Humanities Conference Room, Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CAWithin queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that often mire the field in the US), especially in the aftermath of the turn to transnationalism. Comparative literature has historically fashioned its domains outside US borders, but despite its range has remained somewhat tied...
Welcome Week Open House
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAPlease join the Department of Comparative Literature for its annual Welcome Week Open House! Students from all majors are welcome to come learn about UCLA's exciting Comparative Literature undergraduate program! The Department offers: GE/Writing II courses Major and minor programs Unique research opportunities Meet new and continuing COM LIT students, faculty and department staff. Light refreshments will be...
Job Placement Workshop #1: Curriculum Vitae and Letters Workshop
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAJob Placement Workshop #2: Supplementary Materials Workshop
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Comparative Literature-Edinburgh: Summer Travel Study Information Session
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CACome learn about the Comparative Literature-Edinburgh program, new for 2019. Each August, Edinburgh is home to the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), founded in 1947 and now the biggest arts celebration in the world. Along with EIF, which showcases classical music, major theater, dance, and cinema in the city’s primary venues, The Fringe is a carnival...
The Human Chameleon: Hybrid Jews in Cinema
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CAThe lecture will explore representations of “chameleon” or hybrid Jewish figures in cinema: Jewish characters that change their appearance, transform their identity, infiltrate other cultures and express their Jewishness by becoming “other-than-Jewish.” The hybrid Jew will be discussed from the theoretical perspective of postcolonial studies, feminism and queer studies, post-structural French philosophy and traditional Jewish...
1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: The Matter of the Neighbor: Budd Schulberg, James Baldwin, and the Watts Writers Workshop
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CAThis 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...
The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Hannah Arendt’s Message of Ill-Tidings
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA'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...
Paul Bové: “Language, Criticism, and the Intellectual Virtues”
Kaplan Hall 193Paul 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...
50th Anniversary Celebration!
Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room, Royce Hall 306 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CAAs 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...
