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SUMMARY:The Edward W. Said Series Presents: A Brownbag Lunch Seminar with Roxanne Euben
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 10\, 2026\nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)\n12:30pm PST\nIn-person only. Please feel free to bring your lunch.\n\n\nAdvanced Registration\nAdvanced registration is required by Friday\, February 6th. \nPLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE. \n\n  \nThis talk is part of the Edward W. Said Series organized by Dr. Anjali Prabhu\, Professor and Edward W. Said Chair in Comparative Literature. \n\n\nAbout the Talk\nWhat does humiliation mean and how does it work in and on our political world? From Trump’s rhetoric to ISIS video propaganda to recent images of deportees in El Salvador’s CECOT prison\, humiliation pervades our politics\, speaking through images and bodies as well as words. Drawing from her new book\, Roxanne Euben provides an understanding of humiliation built up from the ground\, from how people actually invoke\, enact and resist it. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\n\nWhat does humiliation mean and how does it work in and on our political world? From Trump’s rhetoric to ISIS video propaganda to recent images of deportees in El Salvador’s CECOT prison\, humiliation pervades our politics\, speaking through images and bodies as well as words. Drawing from her new book\, Roxanne Euben provides an understanding of humiliation built up from the ground\, from how people actually invoke\, enact and resist it.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/the-edward-w-said-series-presents-a-brownbag-lunch-seminar-with-roxanne-euben/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Talk with Shazia Jagot: Chaucer’s “Ioveris maladye / Of Hereos\,” Avicenna’s Treatise on Love\, and an Arabic-Islamic Metaphysics of Love
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 23\, 2026 \n4:30-6:30pm \nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) \n  \nThe CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department\, and the Comparative Literature department are pleased to present a talk with Shazia Jagot (York University) titled Chaucer’s “Ioveris maladye / Of Hereos\,” Avicenna’s Treatise on Love\, and an Arabic-Islamic Metaphysics of Love. \n  \nThe talk will take place on Wednesday\, February 11\, 2026 from 4:30-6:30pm in Kaplan 348. \nPlease register to attend here.  \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/a-talk-with-shazia-jagot-chaucers-ioveris-maladye-of-hereos-avicennas-treatise-on-love-and-an-arabic-islamic-metaphysics-of-love/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Late Writings: Theories of revolutionary change and of alternatives to capitalism. A talk with Kevin Anderson\, in conversation with Aditya Bahl and Emeer Hassanpour | Program in Experimental Critical Theory
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Experimental Critical Theory presents\nMarx’s Late Writings: Theories of revolutionary change and of alternatives to capitalism \nA Talk with Kevin Anderson\, in Conversation with Aditya Bahl and Emeer Hassanpour\n\nFriday\, February 20\, 2026\n3:00-4:30pm\nKaplan Hall Room #348\nIn Person\n  \nAdvanced Registration\nAdvanced registration is required by Wednesday\, February 18\, 2026. \nREGISTER TO ATTEND HERE \n  \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Political Science. \n  \n\nAbout the Talk\nIn his last years (1869-83)\, Marx sketches three types of revolutionary change. (1) In 1869-70\, he speculates that a British workers uprising might be sparked by the peasant-based Fenian nationalist movement in Ireland. These writings build upon his 1860s work on race\, class\, and revolution during the US Civil War. (2) In the 1870s\, Marx clarifies and deepens his concept of communism\, as in the Civil War in France (1871)\, where he sketches non-statist forms of free and associated labor that go far beyond the more statist notions put forward in the Communist Manifesto. (3) In his 1877-82 writings on Russia\, Marx suggests that the directionality of revolution was moving from Eastern to Western Europe. The struggle of Russia’s communal villages could lead to a form of modern communism. He made similar links to struggles in Algeria\, India\, and Latin America\, sometimes with gender as an important element. \n  \nReadings to be discussed are listed below and are available on the ECT site: \n\n\n\nKevin Anderson\, “Marx on Communal Villages as Loci of Revolution” from New Politics 79\, vol. XX\, no 3 (summer 2025)\n\n\n\n  \nAbout the Speakers\nKevin B. Anderson (PhD Sociology\, City University of New York Graduate Center\, 1983) is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at University of California\, Santa Barbara\, with courtesy appointments in Feminist Studies and Political Science. His main areas of specialization include Marxism\, Critical Theory\, and History of Social Thought. He is the author of several books\, including Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism (1995); Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (with Janet Afary\, 2005); Marx at the Margins (2010); and The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads (2025). He is also an editor of the forthcoming English edition of the late Marx’s notebooks on non-Western and precapitalist societies. \n  \nAditya Bahl is Assistant Professor in English at UCLA. His writings on culture and politics have appeared in The Nation\, New Left Review\, and London Review of Books. \n  \nEmeer Hassanpour is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at UCLA. His research examines anger and violence in the Global South\, with a focus on the Mesopotamian region.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/marxs-late-writings-theories-of-revolutionary-change-and-of-alternatives-to-capitalism-a-talk-with-kevin-anderson-in-conversation-with-aditya-bahl-and-emeer-hassanpour-program-in-experim/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and Structure. A Talk with A. Kiarina Kordela | Program in Experimental Critical Theory
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Experimental Critical Theory presents\nPsychoanalysis and Structure \nA Talk with A. Kiarina Kordela\n\nMonday\, February 23\, 2026\n3:00-4:30pm PST\nVia Zoom\n\n  \nAdvanced Registration\nAdvanced registration is required by Friday\, February 20\, 2026. The Zoom meeting link will be sent end of day on February 20. \nREGISTER TO ATTEND HERE \n  \nAbout the Talk\nBased on the introduction to Epistemontology\, its third chapter\, “Psychoanalysis and Structuralism\,” shows the necessary interconnection between capitalist economy and psychoanalytic thought. It does so by reading together (a) Spinozian monism—as the first philosophical system that conceived of being (substance) in structural terms; (b) Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism—as the groundwork for a secular epistemontological theory; (c) Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis—as instrumental in the formulation of properly structuralist thought; and (d) Deleuze’s account of structuralism—as presented in his “How Do We Recognize Structuralism?” (1967/1973). While Laplanche and Pontalis serve as background for teasing out the structuralist epistemology of psychoanalysis\, I set Deleuze in dialogue with Alexandre Kojève in order to reveal Deleuze’s theoretical trajectory as an attempt to preempt possible objections (of Hegelian origin) to all three: Spinoza\, structuralism\, and psychoanalysis. \n  \nReadings to be discussed are listed below and are available on the ECT site: \n\nA. Kiarina Kordela\, “Psychoanalysis and Structuralism” from Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan: The (Bio)Power of Structure (Routledge\, 2018)\nJean Laplanche and J. B. Pontalis\, “Fantasy and the Origins of Sexuality” (1964)\n\n\n\n  \nAbout the Speaker\nA. Kiarina Kordela is Professor of German Studies and founding Director of the Crit­ical Theory Program at Macalester College\, St. Paul\, Minnesota\, USA. She has pub­lished in fields that range from intellectual history\, philosophy\, critical and political theory to literary\, film\, and cultural analysis. She is the author of numerous articles\, as well as of Epistemontology in Spinoza\, Freud\, Marx\, Lacan (Routledge\, 2018)\, Being\, Time\, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology (SUNY Press\, 2013)\, and Surplus (SUNY Press\, 2007)\, and the co-editor of two volumes on Spinoza’s Authority (Bloomsbury\, 2018) and one on Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages (Palgrave-Macmillan\, 2011). \n  \n\nAbout the Program in Experimental Critical Theory\nThe focus of the 2025-2026 Experimental Critical Theory seminar (COM LIT250)\, taught by Professor Eleanor Kaufman\, is “Structure.”
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/ect-kiarina-kordela-zoom-talk/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Undergraduate Research Resources
DESCRIPTION:  \nTHIS EVENT IS CANCELLED\n  \nWednesday\, February 25\, 2026\n1:30-2:30 pm\nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)  \n\n  \n\nJoin us for an event highlighting undergraduate research resources and opportunities\, featuring guest speaker Dr. Jacquelyn Ardam\, Director of the Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences.
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-research-event/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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