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  • Form, Style, ‘Critique’: The Review in Postwar France, Seminar with Visiting Researcher Dr. Jessica Marian

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Please join us in Kaplan 193 or online on Monday, December 8 at 5pm PST to hear about Visiting Researcher Jessica Marian’s book project, “Form, Style, ‘Critique’: The Review in Postwar France.” Abstract: Several now-iconic works in the tradition of postwar French theory began as book reviews: Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology, Giles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense, and Luce Irigaray’s Speculum of the […]

  • Working Group in Memory Studies

    Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Please join us for the next in-person meeting of the Working Group in Memory Studies on Wednesday, December 10, from 2:00-3:30 pm in 348 Kaplan Hall. This session will be dedicated to a discussion of gaming and memory. Visiting graduate researcher Sara Morini (Sapienza University, Rome) will help lead the discussion. Our readings will be: Emil Lundedal […]

  • Why Narrative Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Please join us for a conversation and live recording of a new episode of the LENS podcast with writer and storyteller Sammy Roth on Friday, January 9 from 10 to 11:30am. “Why Narrative Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change“ A conversation and live LENS podcast recording with Sammy Roth Friday, January 9 at 10am Kaplan Hall at UCLA Room 193 […]

  • Snelson's book cover, 'The Little Database' along with Lee's 'A Little Spoiled' book cover.

    “A Little Spoiled” Featuring Summer Kim Lee and Danny Snelson

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    All are welcome to join us for a co-book launch and roundtable to celebrate the release of Summer Kim Lee’s Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair and Danny Snelson’s The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats. The event will feature roundtable presentations by special guests (TBA), author responses, and a range of open conversations […]

  • Swirled sketch in white of a cup and book against a blue background.

    Tea and Conversation: Jean Strouse

    Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, Kaplan Hall 235 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Jean Strouse Jean Strouse will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Jean Strouse at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to […]

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    Some Favorite Writers: Jean Strouse

    Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

    In her newest publication Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, award-winning author Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent’s portraits of the Wertheimer family. Family Romance looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all these […]