UCLA Humanities Welcome 2015
UCLA Schoenberg HallThe Humanities Welcome is an annual event held at the beginning of the academic year that invites faculty, staff and students to come together to showcase the Humanities at UCLA. At the event, we introduce the UCLA campus to the benefits of coursework and degrees in the Humanities. The program includes an introduction from the Dean of...
Michael Henry Heim 3rd Annual Memorial Lecture
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room 480 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CAEfraín Kristal, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature requests the presence of your company to the Michael Henry Heim Annual Memorial Lecture In Translation and Translation Studies with a special lecture, "Transnational vs. National Literature " by novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić. In her lecture, "Transnational vs. National Literature" Dubravka Ugrešić will address what it means...
Bibliomigrancy on the Global Translation Field: Contemporary French Caribbean Literature Translated into Swedish
Comparative Literature Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CAThe Department of Comparative Literature invites you to a special lecture by Professor Yvonne Lindqvist of The Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies (Tolk- och översättarinstitutet), Department of Swedish and Multilingualism, Stockholm University. More than 71% of all translated literature in Sweden today uses English as the source language. In her talk "Bibliomigrancy on the Global Translation Field: Contemporary French Caribbean Literature Translated...
Public Lecture by Joseph Cohen: The ‘Unthinkable’ in Heidegger’s History of Being: Judaism and the Black Notebooks
Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room (11360) 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los AngelesLast year Professor Cohen hosted a major international conference at the National Library in Paris on Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, which appeared on its author’s instructions 50 years after his death. Given its contents, this publication warrants a reconsideration of the role Judaism played in Heidegger’s philosophical views. Professor Cohen is ideally suited to address...
Humanists@Work Career Workshop
Japanese American National Museum 100 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CAHumanists@Work is a UC-wide initiative geared towards UC Humanities and humanistic Social Science MAs and PhDs interested in careers outside/alongside the academy. Join us in at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles for our Spring 2016 Graduate Career Workshop. More details, including links for graduate students, faculty, and staff to register, are available on...
Public Lecture: “Thomas Pynchon and Gender: A View From the Typescript of V.”
Humanities Conference Room, Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe UCLA Departments of Comparative Literature and English invite you to attend a public lecture by Visiting Professor and 2016 Van Dyck Chair Luc Herman (University of Antwerp). The typescript of V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin is an early version of Thomas Pynchon's first novel, which would be published in 1963. When...