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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/2025-12-05/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting/2025-12-05/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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SUMMARY:Form\, Style\, ‘Critique’: The Review in Postwar France\, Seminar with Visiting Researcher Dr. Jessica Marian
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nAbstract: \n\n\nSeveral 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 Other Woman\, to name only a few. Review writing is usually considered a minor form of intellectual activity. In fact\, it was a ubiquitous and vibrant practice in the postwar French intellectual scene\, one of the primary forms of philosophical commentary and experimentation. Focusing on the journal Critique\, I combine intellectual history\, book history\, and close reading to show how an apparently negligible form\, the book review\, animated some of the great works of the period. \nSpeaker bio: \nJessica Marian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. She is currently contributing to the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Journals in Theory: Practices of Academic Judgement alongside Justin Clemens\, Claire Colebrook\, Joe Hughes\, and Tom Ford. Her interdisciplinary research investigates how institutions and infrastructures shape modern and contemporary knowledge production. She mainly specialises in literary theory\, twentieth-century French philosophy\, periodical studies\, and intellectual history. From September-December 2025\, she is a Visiting Researcher at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Angelaki (forthcoming 2026)\, New Literary History (2024)\, Australian Humanities Review (2024)\, and Australian Literary Studies (2023). She is currently developing two monographs. The first is a sole-authored book on the journal Critique\, the genre of the review essay\, and the problem of style in post-war French thought. The second is a co-authored project titled What is an Expert?\, in development with the Journals in Theory group for Nebraska University Press. She is co-convenor of the Critical Research Association Melbourne (CRAM) and co-editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/form-style-critique-the-review-in-postwar-france-seminar-with-visiting-researcher-dr-jessica-marian/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251210T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251210T153000
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SUMMARY:Working Group in Memory Studies
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis session will be dedicated to a discussion of gaming and memory. Visiting graduate researcher Sara Morini (Sapienza University\, Rome) will help lead the discussion. \nOur readings will be: Emil Lundedal Hammar\, “Playing Virtual Jim Crow in Mafia III: Prosthetic Memory via Historical Digital Games and the Limits of Mass Culture” and T. Smethurst and S. Craps\, “Playing with Trauma: Interactivity\, Empathy\, and Complicity in The Walking Dead Video Game.” Both essays are available in our usual Box folder. The Hammar essay can also be read online. \nWe look forward to seeing you! \nMichael\, Alona\, Hannah\, Janel\, and Sara
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/working-group-in-memory-studies-3/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260109T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260109T113000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162926Z
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SUMMARY:Why Narrative Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change
DESCRIPTION: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. \n“Why Narrative Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change“\nA conversation and live LENS podcast recording with Sammy Roth \nFriday\, January 9 at 10am\nKaplan Hall at UCLA\nRoom 193 \nRSVP to reserve your spot. Space is limited. \nPresented by LENS\, the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\, and the Liberty Hill Environment + Justice Donor Circle.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/why-narrative-matters-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260114T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260629T194559Z
CREATED:20251126T171102Z
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SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting/2026-01-14/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260116T090000
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DTSTAMP:20260624T185308Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T185308Z
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting/2026-01-16/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTAMP:20260629T194635Z
CREATED:20251125T202328Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2026-01-16/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260116T140000
DTSTAMP:20260624T185732Z
CREATED:20251125T235329Z
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/2026-01-16/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260116T173000
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SUMMARY:“A Little Spoiled” Featuring Summer Kim Lee and Danny Snelson
DESCRIPTION: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 between the two books. \nRegister here to attend. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate Summer’s and Danny’s new works!
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/a-little-spoiled-featuring-summer-kim-lee-and-danny-snelson/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T180000
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SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation: Jean Strouse
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: \nTea and Conversation with Jean Strouse \nJean Strouse will discuss her writing. \nThis event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Jean Strouse at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. \nBoth events are free and open to the public. \nIn 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 lives with the sparkle and strife of the Edwardian age. \nStrouse is the winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy and her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times\, Architectural Digest\, and Newsweek. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/tea-and-conversation-jean-strouse/
LOCATION:Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room\, Kaplan Hall 235\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T210000
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SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Jean Strouse
DESCRIPTION: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 lives with the sparkle and strife of the Edwardian age. \nStrouse is the winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy and her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times\, Architectural Digest\, and Newsweek. \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?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-jean-strouse/
LOCATION:Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Some Favorite Writers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T170000
DTSTAMP:20260715T234242Z
CREATED:20260702T180823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260715T234242Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar with Summer Kim Lee: On Spoiled
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Asian American Reading Group’s winter seminar featuring Summer Kim Lee. Summer Kim Lee will discuss her new book\, Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair (Duke University Press\, 2025). \nThe seminar will take place on Thursday\, January 29 from 3:30-5:00 pm in Kaplan Hall\, room 250. \nEmail Katarina (kyuan3@g.ucla.edu) if you would like to participate in order to receive the reading materials.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/seminar-with-summer-kim-lee-on-spoiled/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 250\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T170000
DTSTAMP:20260716T000416Z
CREATED:20260702T184953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T000416Z
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SUMMARY:Info Session: Summer Travel Study in Florence
DESCRIPTION:Led by Professor Christopher Looby \nSummer Travel Study: Florence \n\nFocuses on American Writers and artists abroad.\nFulfills two required courses for English and American Lit majors.\nOpen to students in all other majors for upper-div credit.\n\nSeats still available for summer 2026! \nUpcoming Info Session: \n1/29 at 4pm in Kaplan 193 or via Zoom \n 
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/info-session-summer-travel-study-in-florence/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260629T210019Z
CREATED:20251126T171500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T210019Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting/2026-01-30/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260702T174805Z
CREATED:20260106T194248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260702T174805Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students\, graduate students\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term\, we meet to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and consider what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. \nNo preparation is necessary (other than a brief skim of the text)\, and no expertise or medieval knowledge is required – only enthusiasm! Suggestions for what to read (or what kinds of texts to read) are very welcome. \nThe winter meeting will take place Friday\, January 30 at 3:00pm to 5:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193. We will read indulgences and the foundation narratives of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. Discussion will be led by Professor Meredith Cohen (Art History). \nView the readings here \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-2/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260204T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260204T160000
DTSTAMP:20260629T194559Z
CREATED:20251126T171102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T194559Z
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SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting/2026-02-04/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260716T002551Z
CREATED:20251126T191809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T002551Z
UID:10000109-1770307200-1770314400@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ARC with Chris Looby (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:Chris Looby\, “Revisiting Jonathan Edwards and the ‘bad books’ controversy.”
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-chris-looby-ucla/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T100000
DTSTAMP:20260624T185308Z
CREATED:20251125T201931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T185308Z
UID:10000024-1770973200-1770976800@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting/2026-02-13/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T120000
DTSTAMP:20260629T194635Z
CREATED:20251125T202328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T194635Z
UID:10000011-1770976800-1770984000@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2026-02-13/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T140000
DTSTAMP:20260624T185732Z
CREATED:20251125T235329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T185732Z
UID:10000070-1770987600-1770991200@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/2026-02-13/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260716T190608Z
CREATED:20260716T190608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T190608Z
UID:10000195-1770998400-1771016400@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Cantonese Opera Workshop
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with Professor King-Kok Cheung’s English 19.1 Fiat Lux seminar\nAll are welcome to attend a Cantonese Opera workshop (in conjunction with Professor King-Kok Cheung’s English 19.1 Fiat Lux seminar) on Friday\, February 13 at 4-9pm in Kaplan A51. This event is scheduled to coincide with the visit of Professor Selina Lai-Henderson and MFA Seth Henderson from Duke-Kunshan. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail King-Kok Cheung: cheung@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/cantonese-opera-workshop/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall A51\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T173000
DTSTAMP:20260716T230622Z
CREATED:20260716T230622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T230622Z
UID:10000196-1771344000-1771349400@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Hannah Weaver (English\, Columbia)\, “The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in Royce 306 on Tuesday\, February 17 at 4:00pm for Hannah Weaver’s talk\, “The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication.” \nOn the basis of manuscript evidence and a textual tradition that includes Ovid\, Chrétien de Troyes\, and Chaucer\, this paper traces the uneven capacity of cloth to communicate. \nThis event is sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nHannah Weaver is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of articles on Latin vernacularity\, genre\, manuscript revisions\, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\, as well as the monograph Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell 2024). She is currently working on a new book about textiles and the medieval literary archive.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/hannah-weaver-english-columbia-the-medieval-philomela-and-fabricated-communication/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T113000
DTSTAMP:20260716T232806Z
CREATED:20260716T232806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T232806Z
UID:10000197-1771497000-1771500600@temp.english.ucla.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T173000
DTSTAMP:20260716T234127Z
CREATED:20260716T233938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T234127Z
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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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SUMMARY:Screening of Corneille’s The Illusion
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this event has been canceled.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-corneilles-the-illusion/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T173000
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SUMMARY:The Academy in a State of Siege: Pictures of an Institution
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Department of English presents a talk by W. J. T. Mitchell\, “The Academy in a State of Siege: Pictures of an Institution.” \nRegister here to attend. \nSince there is no doubt that the academy is in a state of siege at the present time\, it seems like a good moment to reflect on the persons\, places\, and things we call “academies” and their long struggle with the forces that both threaten and define their existence. This will be a slide lecture on images and narratives of academia from the myth of Akademos\, to Plato’s Academy\, to the Florentine Academy of Drawing\, to the British Royal Academy\, to Pierre Bourdieu’s Homo Academicus. Mitchell will focus on the role of the visual arts in the academy (including his own)\, and conclude with contemporary attempts to re-imagine the academy as itself a work of art. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Saree Makdisi\, Professor of English & Comparative Literature at UCLA. \nW. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature\, Art History\, and the College at the University of Chicago. He was the longtime editor of the interdisciplinary journal\, Critical Inquiry\, a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences. A scholar and theorist of media\, visual art\, and literature\, Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Morey Prize in art history given by the College Art Association of America. Mitchell has published many volumes including\, The Language of Images (1980)\, On Narrative (1981)\, The Politics of Interpretation (1983)\, Against Theory (1985)\, Art and the Public Sphere (1993)\, What Do Pictures Want? (2005)\, Seeing Through Race (2012)\, among many other works. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/the-academy-in-a-state-of-siege-pictures-of-an-institution/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T160000
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SUMMARY:ARC with Günter Leypoldt (Univ. of Heidelberg)
DESCRIPTION:“Literary Value from a Socio-Institutional Perspective.”
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-gunter-leypoldt-univ-of-heidelberg/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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