[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] 7th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies
Kaplan Hall 193 CAPlease 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...
Fall 2020 Welcome Week Open House!
ZoomPlease 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...
Annual Edward W. Said Lecture – Dr. Angela Davis
"International Solidarity in the Era of Black Lives Matter and Justice for Palestine" CLICK HERE to view a recording of this lecture CLICK HERE to download the flyer for this lecture This lecture was held virtually via Zoom Webinar at 12:00 PM PST on Thursday, April 14, 2022. For more information about...
Heim Memorial Lecture: “Translating Erased Histories” with Dr. Maureen Freely
Fethiye Çetin with her grandmother CLICK HERE TO VIEW LECTURE RECORDING About the Lecture 20 years ago, a loose-knit collective of Turkish journalists, lawyers, writers, publishers, and social justice advocates banded together to tell the truth about the Armenian genocide to the Turkish people, who had by then been subjected to denialist lies for...
Public Talk: Andreas Mayer
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAIntangible and Recalcitrant Objects: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations and the Predicament of the Human Sciences In 1833, Honoré de Balzac published a short essay entitled La théorie de démarche. In this highly original text, he defines for the first time his historical-anthropological approach to the society of his epoch that would lead to the vast...
What is this thing called Mau Mau? The “Storm in Kenya” in Global Perspectives
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA Talk by Christian David Alvarado Kaplan Hall Room #348 5:00-8:00 PM In the opening pages of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s 1967 novel A Grain of Wheat, a European district officer asks a version of the question at the core of discourse about the anticolonial movement that gripped Kenya in the 1950s: “What is this thing...
“The Same Frame of Mind, but a Different Villain”: Conspiracist Narratology and the Decolonization of Africa
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA workshop with Christian David Alvarado KAPLAN HALL ROOM #348 1:00-2:30pm Workshop 2:30-3:00pm Reception This workshop is open to UCLA Comparative Literature graduate students, UCLA English graduate students, and UCLA African Studies Center students. Related Document: Workshop Chapter The chapter we will be discussing in this workshop examines a key episode in the...
Peasants in Space: Faulkner, Guha, and South to North Criticism. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA Talk with Hosam Aboul-Ela Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Political Science, the Department of European Languages...
CANCELLED Writing History in a Time of Revolutions: The Arab Novel in English and the Quest for a Narrative
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAA Conversation with Alexis Tadié THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY 12PM PST ON 5/19/25 Wednesday, May 21, 2025 3:00-5:00pm PST Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) This talk is part of the Edward W. Said Series organized by Dr. Anjali Prabhu, Professor and Edward W. Said Chair in Comparative Literature....
Abolition and Constitution. Program in Experimental Critical Theory Public Talk
Kaplan Hall 193A Talk with Michael Hardt Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #193 (First floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Political Science, the Department of European Languages...