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SUMMARY:EHRG February Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Attention English Department graduate students: You’re invited to join The Environmental Humanities Research Group’s (EHRG) February meeting at SIPP Coffee House on Westwood Blvd. The meeting will take place on February 19 at 10:30am. The group will discuss the introduction of “Pollution is Colonialism” by Max Liboiron. The group can share a PDF of the book with any interested students. \nContact Kat & Liv if interested in joining the meeting.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/ehrg-february-meeting/
LOCATION:SIPP Coffee House\, 1427 Westwood Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
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SUMMARY:Jina B. Kim\, Care at the End of the World
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in Hershey Salon on Thursday February 19th at 4 PM for Dr. Jina B. Kim’s talk on her new book\, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing. This is one of the most highly anticipated books in disability studies this year! \nIn Care at the End of the World\, Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique\, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. She examines literature by contemporary feminist\, queer\, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward\, Octavia Butler\, Karen Tei Yamashita\, Samuel Delany\, and Aurora Levins Morales\, who each bring disability and dependency to the forefront of their literary freedom dreaming. Kim shows that in their writing\, liberation does not take the shape of the unfettered individual or hinge on achieving independence. Instead\, liberation emerges by recuperating dependency\, cultivating radical interdependency\, and recognizing the numerous support systems upon which survival depends. At the same time\, Kim demonstrates how theories and narratives of disability can intervene into state-authored myths of resource parasitism\, such as the welfare queen. In so doing\, she highlights the alternate structures of care these writers envision and their dreams of life organized around reciprocity and mutual support. \nJina B. Kim is an Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies at Smith College\, studying feminist disability studies\, queer-of-color critique\, and contemporary multi-ethnic U.S. literature. Her talks and publications address topics such as self-care\, care and racial capitalism\, queer kinship networks\, anti-work disability politics\, disability justice politics and writing\, and contemporary feminist-of-color literature and culture. \nThis event is hosted by the Asian American Reading Group and sponsored by UCLA Department of English\, the UCLA  Asian American Studies Center\, and the UC Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice grant. For more information about this event\, please contact Katarina Yuan (kyuan3@g.ucla.edu) or Brenda Wang (wangbr@g.ucla.edu).
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/jina-b-kim-care-at-the-end-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Hershey Salon 158\, 801 Hilgard Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation: Katie Kitamura
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: \nTea and Conversation with Katie Kitamura \nKatie Kitamura will discuss her writing. \nThis event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Katie Kitamura at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. \nBoth events are free and open to the public. \nShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025\, Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel Audition asks who we are to the people we love. In this compulsively readable\, brilliantly constructed novel\, two competing narratives unspool\, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner\, parent\, creator\, muse – and the truths every performance masks\, especially from those who think they know us most intimately. \nCalled “…one of America’s best contemporary writers\,” by the BBC\, Kitamura has work translated into 21 languages and in adaptations for film and television. Her novel Intimacies was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021\, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award\, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/tea-and-conversation-katie-kitamura/
LOCATION:Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room\, Kaplan Hall 235\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Katie Kitamura
DESCRIPTION:Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025\, Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel Audition asks who we are to the people we love. In this compulsively readable\, brilliantly constructed novel\, two competing narratives unspool\, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner\, parent\, creator\, muse – and the truths every performance masks\, especially from those who think they know us most intimately. \nCalled “…one of America’s best contemporary writers\,” by the BBC\, Kitamura has work translated into 21 languages and in adaptations for film and television. Her novel Intimacies was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021\, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award\, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021. \nReadings are followed by discussion with the author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson\, who organizes this series. \nCopresented by the UCLA Department of English. Limited books will be available for purchase. \nQuestions about the event? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-katie-kitamura/
LOCATION:Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Some Favorite Writers
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