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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T130000
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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
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SUMMARY:Job Placement Workshop #2: Supplementary Materials Workshop
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LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T153000
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DTSTAMP:20181015T223205Z
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180513
DTSTAMP: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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180409T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180409T190000
DTSTAMP:20180309T234255Z
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180329
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180330
DTSTAMP:20180112T235636Z
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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:California (CA)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T200000
DTSTAMP:20180223T232546Z
CREATED:20180223T232546Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180306T200000
DTSTAMP:20180223T223535Z
CREATED:20171117T181820Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T170000
DTSTAMP:20180217T003004Z
CREATED:20180217T003004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180217T003004Z
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SUMMARY:Souvenirs of the Organ Trade:  The Diasporic Body in Chinese Literature and Art
DESCRIPTION: Li Zhiwang\, “Female Nude.”  \n  \nAbstract: \nThis chapter argues that the works of controversial Chinese contemporary experimental artists known as the “Cadaver Group”—some of whom were at the center of a recent controversy surrounding a retrospective of Chinese art at the Guggenheim—should not be dismissed so easily as “shock art.”  Instead the works could be understood as documenting a transition from an earlier\, “composite” model of politicized corporeality in the spirit of Frankenstein\, to one that speaks more directly to the global biopolitical commons of contemporary Chinese identity and aesthetics: a diasporic model—and thus incidentally\, a divergent history of realism. This chapter therefore briefly reviews the modern history of the cadaver in China; provides a closer reading of themes relating to the diasporic body in literary works by the author Yu Hua; and provides close readings of individual works by members of the Cadaver Group.  \nOpen to UCLA graduate students only.\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING IMAGES CONTAIN GRAPHIC MATERIAL\n\n  \n  \n  \nCover of exhibition catalogue “Fuck Off” (2000)    \n  \n\nArtist:  Peng Donghui\, “Group Photo No. 1-3\,” 1999  \n  \n\nZhu Yu\, “Skin Graft\,” Beijing\, 2000.  \n  \n\nSun Yuan and Peng Yu\, “Link of the Body” (also “Linked Bodies”)\, Beijing\, 2000.  \n  \n[gravityform id=”3″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/souvenirs-organ-trade-diasporic-body-chinese-literature-art/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180227T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180227T200000
DTSTAMP:20180216T001435Z
CREATED:20171116T192300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180216T001435Z
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SUMMARY:Ari Heinrich: "Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Heirarchies of the Human"
DESCRIPTION:The first event in the 2017-2018 Sexuality & Geopolitics Seminar Series will feature Ari Heinrich\, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSD. Their lecture\, “Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Heirarchies of the Human” will question what a comparative examination of Chinese-language discourse on the plastinated human cadaver exhibits might reveal about the political economics of race and capital distribution that inform them. \n[gravityform id=”4″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/ari-heinrich-uc-san-diego-chinese-bodies-biological-surplus-plastinated-cadavers-geopolitical-heirarchies-human/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
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ORGANIZER;CN="Anjali Arondekar":MAILTO:aarondek@ucsc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171114
DTSTAMP:20171031T004305Z
CREATED:20171031T004242Z
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SUMMARY:Humanists @ Work: Graduate Career Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Our Riverside Workshop is November 13\, 2017 at the Riverside Art Museum. \n\n\nAPPLY FOR A TRAVEL GRANT \nREGISTER FOR WORKSHOP \n\nWORKSHOP SCHEDULE \n8:00–8:45 AM: Breakfast \n8:45–9:00 AM: Welcome  \n9:00–10:30 AM: Stories from the Field \nFour UC humanities PhDs share their stories as humanists at work in the world. \nMagdalena Edwards\, PhD\nWriter\, Translator\, Actor\, Director\, Producer\nPresident | Zoom & Emar Productions\nContributing Editor | LA Review of Books \nMaggie Gover\, PhD\nDirector\, Graduate Student Professional and Academic Development | UC Riverside \nToni Guglielmo\, PhD\nAssociate Director |  Getty Leadership Institute \nDavid Palter\, PhD\nSenior Associate | Workforce Development at Silicon Valley Leadership Group \n10:30–11:00 AM: Break \n11:00 AM–12:30 PM: Getting Started with ImaginePhD \nImaginePhD is a free\, confidential\, online tool designed to open conversations about career possibilities with humanities PhDs. Join Annie Maxfield\, Design & Development lead for the ImaginePhD project\, to reflect on your skills\, interests\, and values and make sense of results. Participants will learn how to leverage this tool effectively for themselves and peers while providing feedback and suggestions for the next iteration of the project. Please bring your laptop. \n12:30–1:30 PM Lunch \n1:30–2:50 PM: Disrupting⁄ive Expertise \nHumanities expertise are understood to be beyond quantification/measurement. Nonetheless\, in making a case for humanist expertise – without knowing who we are addressing–we do not want to reproduce the conversations currently happening around the transferrable skills of the PhD\, with their emphasis on “collaboration\,” “communication\,” etc.\, that tend to follow a logic of equations. So\, even as we accept that humanities expertise (especially the capacity for critical thinking) is essentially unquantifiable\, we end up asking: What does your PhD equal? What is your PhD worth? How can you translate your degree into X? In this session\, we would like to interrogate the assumptions built into the idea of humanities expertise by asking: how can equations – \nAdditive\, like \nClassroom instruction  + lesson preparation  = curriculum design \nSubtractive\, like \nDissertation — intellectual foci = project management. \n– be disrupted? \nWe also wonder: \n\nWhat does your PhD disrupt?\nDoes professonalization make room for disruption?\nHow does a PhD inform the way we look at/accommodate to/participate in/disrupt the world?\n\n2:50–3:15 PM: Coffee Break and Networking \n3:15–3:30 PM: Meditation Exercise  \n3:30–5:00 PM: “Unbecoming Academic”  \nFor most of those who have devoted the better part of a decade to earning a PhD in the humanities\, a doctoral degree and the experience of earning it holds a deep\, inherent value. And yet\, higher education struggles to articulate the nature of that value\, often resorting to traditional economic notions of earnings and transferrable skills.  In this session\, we will explore the concept of value as it is defined within multiple disciplines and contexts to develop a study of humanistic inquiry and career diversity. Underlying this approach is Peter Bansel’s idea of “unbecoming academic” and the attendant question of how we define the value of an academic degree as we “unbecome” academics at work in the world. \n5:00 PM: Closing Remarks \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/humanists-work-graduate-career-workshop/
LOCATION:Riverside Art Museum\, 3425 Mission Inn Ave.\, Riverside\, CA 92501\, Riverside\, 92501\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171030T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171030T190000
DTSTAMP:20171023T081749Z
CREATED:20171023T081524Z
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SUMMARY:Job Market Discussions
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/job-market-discussions/
LOCATION:Comparative Literature Conference Room\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171028
DTSTAMP:20171025T010203Z
CREATED:20171025T010056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T010203Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Queer Graduate Conference 2017
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Literature’s Robert Farley will be speaking this Friday at the UCLA Queer Graduate Conference 2017. His paper is titled: “Translational Solidarity: Intersectionality\, Women of Color Feminism\, and Kwīr Knowledge Production in Arabic.” \nFurther details may be found here: https://qgradconference.com/  The event is co-sponsored by Comparative Literature. \n  \nWelcome to UCLA’s 2017 Queer Graduate Student Conference–the oldest\, interdisciplinary queer research conference in the United States. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of LGBTQ Studies at UCLA\, the 2017 QGrad Conference will focus on how LGBTQ Studies and trans and queer art and activism have transformed the world in the last 20 years. How have undocumented\, Black and Brown\, Indigenous\, Afro-Latinx\, Muslim\, Fat\, Disabled\, incarcerated\, Transgender and Gender Non-conforming communities/scholar- activists impacted LGBTQ studies? How are all of us systematically attacked and disempowered under the 45th presidential administration? \n  \n\n  \nHow have our radical imaginaries fueled everyday resistance and survival? What kinds of problems and paradoxes arise when LGBTQ individuals and communities attempt to bring these imaginaries into being? What is the relationship between\, what theorist Jose Esteban Munoz called in Cruising Utopia\, the “here and now” and the “then and there”– the restrictive present and the expansive future? What utopias can we imagine for our daily dystopia? What tools have Queer scholar activists developed to dismantle the politics of hate?
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/ucla-queer-graduate-conference-2017/
LOCATION:Ackerman Bruin Reception Room
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T180000
DTSTAMP:20171024T020346Z
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SUMMARY:Dimitris Vardoulakis - Stasis Before the State
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a workshop presentation of Prof. Dimitris Vardoulakis’s new book: \nStasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy \n(Fordham University Press\, 2017) \n\nThis book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses\, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power and excludes refugees and immigrants from citizenship. Within this structure\, to resist sovereignty is to reproduce the logic of exclusion characteristic of sovereignty. \nIn contrast to this “ruse of sovereignty\,” Vardoulakis proposes an alternative model for political change. He argues that democracy can be understood as the structure of power that does not rely on exclusions and whose relation to sovereignty is marked not by exclusion but of incessant agonism. \nThe term stasis\, which refers both to the state and to revolution against it\, offers a tension that helps to show how the democratic imperative is presupposed by the logic of sovereignty\, and how agonism is more primary than exclusion. In elaborating this ancient but only recently recovered concept of stasis\, Vardoulakis illustrates the radical potential of democracy to move beyond the logic of exclusion and the ruse of sovereignty. \nThe Talk will take place on: \nThursday\, October 26\, 2017\, 4-6 p.m. \n4357 Bunche Hall \nUCLA \n\nDimitris Vardoulakis is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Western Sydney University in Australia. He is the author of The Doppelgänger: Literature’s Philosophy (Fordham UP\, 2010)\, Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka’s Laughter (SUNY Press\, 2016)\, and Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (Fordham UP\, 2017). He has also edited or co-edited numerous books\, including Spinoza Now (U of Minnesota Press\, 2011) and Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger (SUNY Press\, 2015). He is the director of “Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society.” \nSponsored by: \nThe UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory \nThe UCLA Political Theory Workshop
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/dimitris-vardoulakis-stasis-state/
LOCATION:Comparative Literature Conference Room\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171024T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171024T190000
DTSTAMP:20171016T065719Z
CREATED:20171016T065246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171016T065719Z
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SUMMARY:CLGSA Fall Events Announced!
DESCRIPTION:The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association (CLGSA) has just announced its forthcoming schedule. \nSketched below\, these events can investigated further by contacting the CLGSA directly. We hope to see you all––as often as possible!
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/3928/
LOCATION:Comparative Literature Conference Room\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171019T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T190000
DTSTAMP:20171017T055031Z
CREATED:20171017T054937Z
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SUMMARY:Fall Undergraduate Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/fall-undergraduate-town-hall/
LOCATION:Comparative Literature Conference Room\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170406T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170406T210000
DTSTAMP:20170328T234820Z
CREATED:20170328T234820Z
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture by Professor Eleanor Kaufman: "Ethics and Otherness: Derrida\, Levinas\, and the Gaze of the Other in the Jewish American Wild West"
DESCRIPTION:The AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR LEVINASSIAN STUDIES* presents its third 2016-2017 lecture on “The Return of Ethics” \nEthics and Otherness: Derrida\, Levinas\, and the Gaze of the Other in the Jewish American Wild West  by Professor Eleanor Kaufman (Comparative Literature\, English\, and French and Francophone Studies\, UCLA) \nPresented in English \nDiscussion moderated by Professor Lia Brozgal (UCLA) \nIt is not surprising that in the memoirs and fictionalized accounts of early Jewish settlement in the rural American West\, there is a marked concern with Christian neighbors’ perception and reception of the Jewish community.  In particular\, this real and imagined gaze of the Christian other punctuates Western Jewish homesteader\, cowboy\, and small town settler narratives\, alongside a predominant focus on issues related to Jewish family relations and Jewish observance.  Emmanuel Levinas’s notion of ethical relation as determined by the encounter with the other serves as a remarkably apt model for understanding Jewish systems of belonging and assimilation in the American West of the late nineteenth century—almost.  This presentation focuses on a seemingly exceptional case\, that of Wyatt Earp’s Jewish wife Sarah Josephine Marcus (“Josie”) Earp and the set of larger than life memoirs and biographies devoted to her.  The example of Josie Earp in turn helps illustrate a major difference between the Levinassian model of ethics and that of Jacques Derrida. \nPlease RSVP by April 1 at ADMIN@AFDELA.ORG \nThis event was made possible by the generous support of the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies. The event is also co-sponsored by the Alliance Française de Los Angeles and the Cultural Services of the French Consulate in Los Angeles. \n* The goal of the recently created American Institute for Levinassian Studies (AILS) is to extend the activities of the French Institut d’Études Lévinassiennes (http://www.levinas.fr) to this side of the Atlantic. The AILS proposes to offer to an American public an annual series of seminars\, a forum of discussion\, local events\, and electronic access to a database of philosophical documentation. Serving as broad impulse for our endeavor\, Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a French philosopher and religious thinker known for his work related to phenomenology\, ontology\, ethics\, and Jewish philosophy. Ethics as responsibility for the “Other” is the main tenant of his philosophy.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/public-lecture-professor-eleanor-kaufman-ethics-otherness-derrida-levinas-gaze-jewish-american-wild-west/
LOCATION:Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room\, Royce Hall 306\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170405T060000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170405T200000
DTSTAMP:20170329T001539Z
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SUMMARY:"Photography in the Middle East": A Book Celebration in Honor of Ali Behdad
DESCRIPTION:In the decades after its invention in 1839\, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings\, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making the region one of the original sites for the practice of photography. \nThis panel addresses how the Middle East played a crucial role in the development of photography both as a new technology and as a commercialized mass medium. Stephen Sheehi (the author of Arab Imago) and Joseph Boone (the author of The Homoerotics of Orientalism) will discuss the Middle East’s influences on photography’s evolution in the context of Ali Behdad’s newly published Camera Orientalis.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/photography-middle-east-book-celebration-honor-ali-behdad/
LOCATION:UCLA Fowler Museum\, 308 Charles E Young Drive East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161110T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161110T180000
DTSTAMP:20161104T222907Z
CREATED:20161022T045127Z
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture by Dr. Omnia El Shakry: "The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis & Islam in Modern Egypt"
DESCRIPTION:What might it mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together\, not as a problem\, but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? Traversing literatures minor and major\, Omnia El Shakry shows how postwar thinkers in Egypt translated and blended psychoanalytic theories with classical Islamic concepts. El Shakry explores how Freudian ideas of the unconscious were crucial to the formation of modern discourses of subjectivity in fields as diverse as psychology\, Islamic philosophy\, and the law. Rather than view Islamic discourses as hermetically sealed\, or traffic in dichotomous juxtapositions between East and West\, this talk focuses on the points of intersection and articulation between Islamic discourses and modern social scientific thought\, and between religious and secular ethics. The hybridization of psychoanalytic thought with Arab and Islamic discursive formations thus illustrates that the Arabic Freud\, like psychoanalysis itself\, was elaborated across the space of human difference. \nOmnia El Shakry is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Davis\, specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Middle East. She is the author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt\, and editor of the multi-volume Gender and Sexuality in Islam. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies\, Department of Comparative Literature\, and Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/public-lecture-dr-omnia-el-sharky-arabic-freud-psychoanalysis-islam-modern-egypt/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nouri Gana":MAILTO:gana@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T210000
DTSTAMP:20161025T000600Z
CREATED:20161025T000600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T000600Z
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SUMMARY:A Film Screening of Recollection\, and Q&A and discussion with Kamal Aljafari (Director) and Professor Gil Hochberg
DESCRIPTION:Kamal Aljafari’s filmography includes Recollection [2015\, PS/DE\, 70]\, Port of Memory [2009] and The Roof [2006].  He was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in New York\, and in 2009/2010 was the Benjamin White Whitney Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Film Study Center.  In 2010\, he taught film at The New School in New York City\, and from 2011 to 2013 he was a senior lecturer and head of the directing program for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB)\, Berlin.  He is the recipient of numerous film prizes and art grants.  In 2013\, Aljafari received the art medal of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.  A retrospect of his work is planned for 2016 at Lussas Film Festival in France and at the Cinémathèque québécoise. \n  \nGil Hochberg\, is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at UCLA. Her work focuses on the intersections among psychoanalysis\, postcolonial theory\, nationalism\, and Visual Culture. She has published essays on a wide range of issues including: Francophone North African literature\, Palestinian literature\, the modern Levant\, gender and nationalism\, cultural memory and immigration\, memory andgender\, Language Politics\, Hebrew Literature\, Mediterraneanism\, and Minority literatures. Her book\, In Spite of Partition: Jews\, Arabs\, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination (Princeton University Press\, 2007)\, examines the complex relationship between the signifiers “Arab” and “Jew” in contemporary Jewish and Arab literatures. Her lastest published book is a study of the Visual Politics of the Israeli-Palestinian entitled Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Departmnet of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, Department of Film\, Television and Digital Media\, and Dean of Humanities. \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/film-screening-recollection-qa-discussion-kamal-aljafari-director-professor-gil-hochberg/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 6275\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Johanna Romero":MAILTO:romero@international.ucla.edu
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