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...
A Talk with Shazia Jagot: Chaucer’s “Ioveris maladye / Of Hereos,” Avicenna’s Treatise on Love, and an Arabic-Islamic Metaphysics of Love
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAWednesday, February 23, 2026 4:30-6:30pm Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) The 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...
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
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe Program in Experimental Critical Theory presents 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 Friday, February 20, 2026 3:00-4:30pm Kaplan Hall Room #348 In Person Advanced Registration Advanced registration is required by Wednesday, February 18, 2026....
Psychoanalysis and Structure. A Talk with A. Kiarina Kordela | Program in Experimental Critical Theory
The Program in Experimental Critical Theory presents Psychoanalysis and Structure A Talk with A. Kiarina Kordela Monday, February 23, 2026 3:00-4:30pm PST Via Zoom Advanced Registration Advanced registration is required by Friday, February 20, 2026. The Zoom meeting link will be sent end of day on February 20. REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE About...
Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language and Media in African Literary Cultures
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAWaiting on Forever by Franco The Creator Mbilizi. Image courtesy of Stephanie Bosch Santana. Friday, March 6, 2026 2:30pm Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) In person REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE About the Talk In this talk, Stephanie Bosch Santana discusses her first monograph, Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and...
Living on After Failure. A Talk with Irving Goh | Program in Experimental Critical Theory
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe Program in Experimental Critical Theory presents Living on After Failure A Talk with Irving Goh Tuesday, April 14, 2026 5:00pm PDT Kaplan Hall Room #348 In person Advanced Registration Advanced registration is required by Friday, April 10, 2026. REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE About the Talk In this talk, Irving Goh will...