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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
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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 
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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
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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.
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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/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T190000
DTSTAMP:20190927T012824Z
CREATED:20190927T012824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T012824Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T183000
DTSTAMP:20190925T013140Z
CREATED:20190915T170213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190925T013140Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20190819T235244Z
CREATED:20190819T235244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190819T235244Z
UID:5385-1569420000-1569427200@complit.ucla.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T140000
DTSTAMP:20190827T154210Z
CREATED:20190827T154210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190827T154210Z
UID:5400-1569416400-1569420000@complit.ucla.edu
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
LAST-MODIFIED:20190509T215921Z
UID:5131-1560596400-1560601800@complit.ucla.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190603
DTSTAMP:20190528T202936Z
CREATED:20190510T230822Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
LAST-MODIFIED:20190326T181622Z
UID:5066-1554831000-1554836400@complit.ucla.edu
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
CREATED:20180813T223234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180813T223234Z
UID:4787-1554393600-1554404400@complit.ucla.edu
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
CREATED:20180813T222541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180813T222541Z
UID:4784-1551369600-1551380400@complit.ucla.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T190000
DTSTAMP:20181126T213230Z
CREATED:20180813T221646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T213230Z
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SUMMARY:The Human Chameleon: Hybrid Jews in Cinema
DESCRIPTION:The 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 sources. The films that will be discussed are mixtures of Jewish characters and themes with genres that usually do not include Jews (for example the western or the blaxploitation genres). We will see not only how Jews function within typically non-Jewish genres\, but also how these genres are reshaped and challenged by the peculiar intrusion of hybrid Jews. \n  \nDr. Amir Vodka is a lecturer and researcher at the department of media studies\, University of Amsterdam. He is a film programmer at theater De Nieuwe Regentes (The Hague)\, the artistic director of Sounds of Silence festival for silent films and contemporary music\, and the director of Palestinorama festival for Palestinian cinema and culture. He was a film curator at Amsterdam’s Jewish Historical Museum\, and was the head of Jewish education at Beit ha Chidush synagogue (Amsterdam). His PhD titled “The Human Chameleon” was about hybrid Jews in Cinema. He currently writes about the reincarnations of the golem – from the Jewish tradition to contemporary sci-fi. \nModerator: Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA)
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/the-human-chameleon-hybrid-jews-in-cinema/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T130000
DTSTAMP:20181129T193000Z
CREATED:20181129T193000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181129T193000Z
UID:4958-1547640000-1547643600@complit.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Comparative Literature-Edinburgh: Summer Travel Study Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Come 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 of inclusion\, diversity\, and small-scale/amateur arts\, offering over 50\,000 performances in more than 300 venues across Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Festivals (which include an additional 14 festivals on top of the two mentioned) embraces more literary fairs\, move festivals\, innovative galleries\, comedy\, and street art than one person can possibly manage. \nThis info session will be led by Program Director\, Prof. David MacFadyen.  The session will discuss everything you need to know about the program and what to expect when you arrive including: coursework\, excursions\, and lodging\, among other questions related to your daily life while in Scotland. \nRSVP on the International Education Office website: https://be.my.ucla.edu/EventReservation/EventReservation.aspx?featureID=79&calendarID=37483
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/comparative-literature-edinburgh-summer-travel-study-information-session/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181212T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181212T160000
DTSTAMP:20181114T215109Z
CREATED:20181107T193945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T215109Z
UID:4884-1544623200-1544630400@complit.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job Placement Workshop #2: Supplementary Materials Workshop
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URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/job-placement-workshop-2-supplementary-materials-workshop/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T170000
DTSTAMP:20181015T223205Z
CREATED:20181015T223205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181015T223205Z
UID:4863-1540395000-1540400400@complit.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Job Placement Workshop #1: Curriculum Vitae and Letters Workshop
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URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/job-placement-workshop-1-curriculum-vitae-and-letters-workshop/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180926T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180926T170000
DTSTAMP:20180912T174819Z
CREATED:20180912T174819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180912T174819Z
UID:4825-1537977600-1537981200@complit.ucla.edu
SUMMARY: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 refreshments will be served.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/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:20180525T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180525T183000
DTSTAMP:20180419T150537Z
CREATED:20171117T182946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180419T150537Z
UID:4015-1527240600-1527273000@complit.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Within 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 to nationalist coagulations/formations.  This symposium brings together speakers who engage comparative analytical forms towards a more disruptive and capacious queer geopolitics. \nProgram\n9:30-10:00am \nIntroductory remarks\nAnjali Arondekar\, Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature\, UCLA and Associate Professor\, Feminist Studies\, UCSC \nWelcome address\nDavid Schaberg\, Dean of Humanities\, UCLA \n10:00-10:45am \nQueer Coolitude/ An Indo-Caribbean Reading\nRajiv Mohabir\, Assistant Professor of English\, Auburn University. \n11:00am-12:30pm \nFreud in Translation/ Three Essays\, a Survey\, and a Group\nOmnia El Shakry\, Professor of History\, UCD \nRespondent: Gil Hochberg\, Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature\, and Middle East Studies\, Columbia University \n12:30-1:30pm \nLunch for participants \n1:30-3:15pm \nTrespassing Queer Kindship/ Temporality and the Geopolitics of Attachment\nSima Shakhsari\, Assistant Professor of Gender\, Women\, and Sexuality Studies\, University of Minnesota \nRespondent: Ananya Roy\, Professor of Urban Planning\, Social Welfare and Geography\, UCLA \n3:15-3.30pm \nCoffee break \n3:30 -5:00 p.m. \nNone Like Us/ Black Exception Black Exemption\nStephen M. Best\, Associate Professor of English\, University of California\, Berkeley \nRespondent: Shana Redmond\, Associate Professor\, Musicology and African-American Studies\, UCLA \n5:00-6:30pm \nReception \n[gravityform id=”8″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/area-impossible-sexuality-geopolitics/
LOCATION:Humanities Conference Room\, Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180513
DTSTAMP:20180501T183732Z
CREATED:20180501T183429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180501T183732Z
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Knowledge. Taiwan: Comparative and Relational Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:       \nImportant conference news from UCLA Professor of Comparative Literature\, Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu) \nRSVP FOR THIS EVENT HERE \nThe UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative Conference\nIndigenous Knowledge\, Taiwan:\nComparative and Relational Perspectives \nFriday–Saturday\, May 11–12\nRoyce Hall 314\nUCLA \n\nThis conference aims to engender transnational conversations about indigenous knowledge\, with Taiwan as its comparative pivot and relational node. Setting discussions on indigenous knowledge and settler colonialism in Taiwan in dialogue with those in the United States\, Okinawa\, and the Philippines\, this conference explores some initial and necessarily broad questions: What is indigenous knowledge and how is it defined in different places? How is indigenous knowledge relevant to such taxonomies as philosophy\, epistemology\, ontology\, or cosmology? How has it been suppressed and/or erased\, and how has it transformed and grown over time? What is being preserved\, lost\, and strengthened\, and what might be the politics and poetics of preservation\, loss\, transformation\, and growth? How have settler colonizers perceived\, represented\, and usurped indigenous knowledge? What imaginary of the future does indigenous knowledge present? How is indigenous knowledge a resource for all? \nIn Taiwan\, the indigenous Austronesian peoples have been subjected to settler colonialism by waves of Han people from China for over three centuries\, during which other colonial regimes came and went\, including the Dutch Formosa in southern Taiwan (1642-1662)\, the Spanish Formosa in northern Taiwan (1646-1662)\, and Japanese colonial rule (1895-1945). For Austronesians\, as is the case for all indigenous peoples living under settler colonialism\, colonialism is a “structure” (Wolfe) almost impossible to overcome. Seen in this light\, postcolonial theory as an academic discourse in settler colonies\, such as Taiwan and the United States\, is a disavowal of indigeneity and settler colonialism\, and can be understood as another settler’s “move to innocence” (Tuck and Yang) or “strategy of transfer” (Veracini). For indigenous scholars and activists everywhere\, what has been indispensable to their resistance against settler colonialism is the centering of indigenous knowledge as an act of decolonization and a way to envision a better world (Goeman; LaDuke; Moreton-Robinson)\, resulting in a wide-spread indigenous knowledge movement of which Taiwan’s indigenous discourse\, though little known\, is a constitutive part. For this and other reasons\, this conference hopes to bring comparative and relational insights to indigenous knowledge formation in different parts of the world to see how situating Taiwan’s indigenous studies in a global context recalibrates indigenous studies in general and Taiwan studies in particular. \nDownload the flyer for this event \nPart of the UCLA-National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Studies Initiative. Cosponsored by American Indian Studies Center\, Center for Chinese Studies\, Center for Southeast Asian Studies\, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies\, and the UCLA Taiwan Studies Lectureship.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/indigenous-knowledge-taiwan-comparative-and-relational-perspectives/
LOCATION:UCLA ROYCE HALL 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095\, Los Angeles\, California (CA)\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180506T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180506T110000
DTSTAMP:20180426T232108Z
CREATED:20180426T232108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180426T232108Z
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SUMMARY:Primo Levi Symposium
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis half-day symposium brings together an array of international scholars and writers engaged with the history\, literature\, and impact of Primo Levi\, a chemist\, writer\, and humanist who survived Auschwitz and\, through his writing\, provided generations of students and scholars with the philosophical language to understand the Shoah—and the modern condition. The symposium celebrates the publication\, in 2015\, of Levi’s complete works in English (by translator Ann Goldstein\, published by W. W. Norton) and probes the literary\, philosophical\, and historical legacy of Levi.  \nYou may find the attached program here. \nTo RSVP\, please click here. \nUCLA FACULTY CENTER\, CALIFORNIA ROOM \n11AM  INTRODUCTION BY CONVENERS \nTODD SAMUEL PRESNER| UCLA   \nMICHAEL ROTHBERG | UCLA   \nSARAH ABREVAYA STEIN | UCLA  \n  \n11:15AM  SESSION 1: THE LEGACIES OF ITALIAN JEWISH HISTORY  \nChair: SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN | UCLA   \nANDREW VITERBI | UC San Diego (Emeritus)   \n\n   My Cousin\, Primo Levi  \n\nSERGIO LUZZATTO | University in Turin\, Italy   \n\n   Reluctant Veteran: Primo Levi’s Position in Postwar Italy  \n\n  \n12:30PM  LUNCH BREAK  \n  \n1:30PM  SESSION 2: TESTIMONY & TRANSLATION  \nChair: STEF CRAPS | Ghent   \nJONATHAN DRUKER | Illinois State University   \n\n   Levi’s ‘Shame of the Just’: On Ethical and Political Resistance after State Violence  \n\nLINA INSANA | University of Pittsburgh   \n\n   ‘The Language They Spoke Together was German’: Translating the Scene of Bad Science in Levi’s Science Fiction  \n\n  \n3PM  BREAK  \n  \n3:30PM  SESSION 3: THE POLITICS OF THE PRESENT  \nChair: MICHAEL ROTHBERG | UCLA   \nSIMONA FORTI | Università del Piemonte Orientale\, Italy   \n\n   Primo Levi’s Hidden Philosophy of Power  \n\nENZO TRAVERSO | Cornell University   \n\n   Beyond the Holocaust: Primo Levi and the Public Use of the Past  \n\n  \n5PM  WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION (WITH BOOK SALE)  \n  \n5:30PM  KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE ART AND CRAFT OF TRANSLATION  \nANN GOLDSTEIN | Translator 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/primo-levi-symposium/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center\, California Room\, 480 Charles E. Young Drive East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The 2018 Michael Henry Heim Annual Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies\, entitled “Self-Translation and Its Discontents; Or: The Translational Work Lost in the Theory of Bilingualism”\, will be given by Dr. Sigrid Weigel (Professor of German Literature and Director of the Centre for Literature Research in Berlin). Members of the community are welcome to attend. \n[gravityform id=”7″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/michael-henry-heim-annual-memorial-lecture/
LOCATION:Humanities Conference Room\, Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180330
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SUMMARY:ACLA Conference 2018
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe American Comparative Literature Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting will take place at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles\, California between March 29th and April 1st\, 2018. \nThe ACLA’s annual conferences have a distinctive structure in which most papers are grouped into twelve-person seminars that meet two hours per day for three days of the conference to foster extended discussion. Some eight-person (or smaller) seminars meet just the first two days of the conference. This structure allows each participant to be a full member of one seminar\, and to sample other seminars during the remaining time blocks. Depending on space availability\, we may also consider accepting a limited number of one-day seminars\, especially if they are innovative either in presentation format or in terms of theme. The conference also includes plenary sessions\, workshops and roundtable discussions\, and other events. \n  \nRegistration pricing for the 2018 ACLA Annual Meeting is as follows: \n\n\n\nUndergraduate\n$35.00 (USD)\n\n\nGraduate Student\n$85.00 (USD)\n\n\nIndependent Scholar\n(includes retired faculty)\n$95.00 (USD)\n\n\nFaculty\n$195.00 (USD)\n\n\n\n  \nMore information can be found at the ACLA official site.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/acla-conference-2018/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T200000
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SUMMARY:Making Maya Men: Fantasy\, Voyeurism\, and Queer Abjection
DESCRIPTION:Figure 1 from Making Maya Men: Fantasy\, Voyeurism\, and Queer Abjection \nAbstract:\nFranciscan friar Diego de Landa\, in the mid sixteenth century\, and Hollywood film producer and director Mel Gibson\, in the early twenty-first century\, created Maya men as abject queer beings. In 1566 Landa wrote his Relación de las cosas de Yucatán\, an extensive ethnographic text. In 2006\, Gibson released Apocalypto\, a Hollywood film in which all dialogue was in Yucatec Maya. Landa and Gibson both argued that they showed the true Maya world\, but each expressed a visceral reaction to Maya sacrifice\, and\, in so doing\, infested their own fantasies with nightmares of savage Maya men. This article argues that by analyzing the voyeurism and fantasies of Landa and Gibson we can come to terms with the position of Maya society in the modern Western imagination. \nOPEN TO UCLA GRADUATE STUDENTS AND FACULTY ONLY\n[gravityform id=”6″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n  \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/making-maya-men-fantasy-voyeurism-queer-abjection/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180306T173000
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SUMMARY:Peter Sigal: "Thinking with Trash: Nahua Knowledge and Queer Being"
DESCRIPTION:The second event in the 2017-2018 Sexuality & Geopolitics Seminar Series will feature Peter Sigal\, Professor of History and Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. His lecture\, “Thinking with Trash: Nahua Knowledge and Queer Being” discusses how the Nahuas of central Mexico help us to see how indigenous meaning-making relates to the intellectual enterprise that we now call queer theory. \n[gravityform id=”5″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/peter-sigal-thinking-trash-nahua-knowledge-queer/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
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