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SUMMARY:A Talk with Mark Brudzinski
DESCRIPTION:Non-Academic Tracks for Ph.D Students \nMarc Brudzinski designs system-level solutions to real problems. He is constantly amazed by how a deep understanding of real people can inspire groups to re-frame complex problems. Recent collaborators include government ministries\, international agencies\, universities\, and companies in the arts and telecommunications sectors. He is most excited about awakening people’s creative confidence towards the pursuit of collective goals \nHe is the founder of onesuchdesign\, whose mission is to “…reframe complex problems to deepen our insights and free our creativity so we can take action & then tell our story.” \nMarc has a Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Duke University. He has published scholarly articles\, literary translations\, and original poems\, and he was awarded a Digital Humanities grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities for his project on creative telecollaboration in the university classroom. He has taught at University of Miami\, State University of New York\, Cornell University\, and Cornell Weill School of Medicine. \nThis event is supported by the Dean’s Discretionary fund and the Edward W. Said Chair. \nPizza and refreshments will be provided so please register for the event by 5pm on 4/4/24.  \n[gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
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LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Melancholy Acts
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk \nMelancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World \nABOUT THE BOOK \nHow do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously the agent of its critique? Melancholy Acts offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions through a series of wide-ranging engagements with Arab thought\, literature\, and film in the aftermath of the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians and the 1967 military defeat of Arab armies. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNouri Gana is Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). In addition to Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World (Fordham University Press\, 2023)\, he is the author of Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Bucknell UP\, 2011/paperback 2015)\, and the editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts\, Architects\, Prospects & The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (Edinburgh UP\, 2013/paperback 2015). \nRESPONDENTS \n\nSaree Makdisi (Chair and Professor\, English\, UCLA)\nJeffrey Sacks (Associate Professor and Chair\, Comparative Literature & Arabic\, UC Riverside)\n\n[gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-melancholy-acts/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “The Role of the Renaissance in the Transformation of the Western Political Imaginary: Petrarch’s Africa and Death for the ‘Fatherland’”
DESCRIPTION:Etienne Anheim (History\, EHESS\, Paris)  \n \nThe ideal of “death for the fatherland” (Pro patria mori) may seem to be an invariable reality of the human society\, from Sparta and Athens to today’s wars. In fact\, it is a political imaginary whose periodization can be traced. Ernst Kantorowicz\, in a famous article published in 1951\, proposed an analysis of this problem. In this lecture\, Etienne Anheim will propose a new interpretation\, both historical and historiographical\, based on Francesco Petrarca’s (1304-1374) epic poem Africa. In particular\, Anheim will highlight the role of the Renaissance in the construction of a new imaginary of war in the West\, quite different from the ancient and medieval tradition\, which has served as the foundation for the national and colonial wars of the contemporary era. \nEtienne Anheim‘s research is oriented towards the economic\, social\, and material history of painting as well as the history of written practices between the 13th and the 15th century\, from scholars like Petrarch to library inventories or accounting entries\, at the same time\, addressing questions of historiography and epistemology of history. He also collaborates on the editorial boards of the Revue de Synthese\, Médiévales\, and Annales. \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).\nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies \nRegister to attend in Royce 236 or online via ZOOM
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-etienne-anheim-history-ehess-paris/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Rethinking Sovereignty with Care and Relationality”
DESCRIPTION:Shannon Speed (Director of American Indian Studies Center; Anthropology/Gender Studies/American Indian Studies\, UCLA) \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). \nRegister to attend via Zoom \nRegister to attend in Royce Hall 306 below: \n[gravityform id=”20″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
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LOCATION:Royce Hall 306
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SUMMARY:On Solidarity: Reflect and Restore Film Screening & Discussion
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URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/on-solidarity-reflect-and-restore/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) Seminar: “Intermediaries\, Translators and Mediators: The Making of World Authorship”
DESCRIPTION:Gisèle Sapiro (Sociology\, EHESS/CNRS\, Paris)\n\n\nRegister to attend via Zoom\nThis event will only be held virtually via Zoom.  \nIn this public seminar\, Professor Sapiro will explore the role of intermediaries and mediators in the process of how literary works cross borders (or not). Based on Bourdieu’s analysis of the social conditions of international circulation of ideas\, she will elaborate on the political\, economic\, and cultural factors weighing on circulation and social inequalities in access to transnational recognition (gender and ethnicity).  \nGisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)\, member of Academia Europeae\, and recipient of the Silver Medal of the CNRS (2021) and Humboldt Research Award (2023). Her areas of interest are the sociology of culture\, literature\, intellectuals\, translation\, publishing\, law\, and the epistemology and history of the social and human sciences. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books that have been translated into many languages. Her most recent monographs include Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur? (2020) and Des mots qui tuent. La responsabilité de l’intellectuel en temps de crise\, 1944-1953 (2020). She is the editor of Dictionnaire international Bourdieu (2020) and of The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas (2024). \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-ect-seminar-gisele-sapiro-sociology-ehess-cnrs-paris/
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