All are welcome to attend the Medieval Texts Reading Group on Friday, October 17 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193. Professor Roberta Morosini (ELTS) will be leadings our discussion on the Proemium to Boccaccio’s Decameron (paired, like a fine wine, with Canto V from Dante’s Inferno). Readings are available here.
Join us for a special screening of Invierno, a recent staged reading of José Cruz González’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Kaplan Hall 193 Wednesday, October 22nd 3:00 PM Halloween snacks provided! To help you engage more fully with the performance, you’re welcome to explore the following resources ahead of time: Introduction to José Cruz González’s […]
Salem Martinez, “Let’s Start at The End of the World, Shall We?: Sacred Rage as Resistance in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy.”
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 […]