Kanner Forum with Jasbir K. Puar and Dima Srouji Join us for our Kanner Forum featuring a lecture performance by Jasbir K. Puar and Dima Srouji. Scenes of bodily humiliation and mutilation have been screaming from our screens for more than two years. Working through and against the grain of this obvious, ubiquitous archive, Puar […]
Día de los Muertos: Mourning and Remembering through Ecological Change will explore cross-cultural grief in the context of environmental and species loss. Join us on November 1 from 11am-1pm at the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden (707 Tiverton Drive) for ofrendas, art, and talks on topics such as deforestation, extinction, and environmental colonialism and imperialism. Come […]
Please join us for a screening of Faustus—an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, adapted by Devin Brain and produced by Red Bull Theater. This event is part of the Revelation Reading Series. Event Details Faustus Wednesday, November 5th 4:30 PM (performance runs approximately 2 hours 15 minutes) Kaplan Hall 193 See the attached flyer […]
Please join us online on November 7 at 9 a.m to 10.30 a.m. PST to celebrate H. A. Kelly’s new book, “Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Courts From the Middle Agesto the Reformation.” Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94091684491
We invite you to the relaunching of the Working Group in Memory Studies. Founded in fall 2018, the Working Group brings together faculty and graduate students from across the humanities and social sciences who are interested in the interdisciplinary field of cultural memory studies. Cultural memory studies focuses on the dynamic interplay between the past […]
Join UCLA English for a reading and reception to celebrate Claire McEachern’s new book, Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu. This unique collection of essays offers a gripping exploration of the precarious beauty and peril of California’s iconic coastline. Through essays blending personal narrative, cultural analysis, and history, author Claire McEachern takes us behind […]
Join us for a reading featuring Author in Residence Jean Chen Ho. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, named one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022; a “Best Book of the Year” (NPR, Vulture, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle); and longlisted for […]