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SUMMARY:Spring Reception
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/spring-reception/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260515T130000
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SUMMARY:Jameson in California\, and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Jameson in California – and Beyond \nFriday\, May 15 at 1:00-7:00 pm \nKaplan Hall 193 \nThis day-long event will focus on Fredric Jameson’s intellectual\, educational\, and now archival legacy and engagement in California\, and beyond. The conference will feature scholarly papers\, personal reflections\, archival updates\, and multimedia works. \nRegister here to attend. An RSVP is required for catering purposes. \nConference Sponsors: Program in Experimental Critical Theory\, UCLA Departments of English\, Political Science\, European Languages and Transcultural Studies\, Spanish and Portuguese\, and Comparative Literature \nConference Organizer: Eleanor Kaufman \n1 pm: Aditya Bahl\, UCLA\, “Greimas avec Mao: Periodizing the Periphery”\nIntroduced and moderated by Mary Shannon\, UCLA \n2 pm: Jason E. Smith\, ArtCenter College of Design\, “Demographies of the Postmodern”\nIntroduced and moderated by Joseph Serrano\, UC Berkeley \n3 pm: Archives and Students\nAudra Eagle Yun\, UC Irvine\, University Archivist\nEleanor Kaufman\, UCLA\nSaree Makdisi\, UCLA\nAnjali Prabhu\, UCLA\nIntroduced and moderated by Davide Panagia\, UCLA \n4:30 pm: Eric Cazdyn\, University of Toronto\, “Jameson as Blindspot Machine”\nIntroduced and moderated by Nouri Gana\, UCLA \n5:30 pm: Kim Stanley Robinson\, UC San Diego PhD\, “Professor Jameson”\nIntroduced and moderated by Ursula Heise\, UCLA \nQuestions about the event?\nContact the event coordinators: Lisset Cadena\, Comparative Literature; Marta Wallien\, English
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/jameson-in-california-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Upward Bound by Woody Brown
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA Department of English to celebrate the publication of UCLA alum Woody Brown’s debut novel\, Upward Bound. \nRegister here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. \nThe reading will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Mona Simpson\, Professor of English at UCLA. \nUpward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles’s disabled community is\, for many of its clients and staff\, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos\, a young aide who lost his mother as a boy and now works there alongside his beloved sister\, Mariana; Jorge\, the gentle nonspeaking giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping); Tom\, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy who pines for Ann\, the summer lifeguard at the center’s pool who feels out of her depth. Then there’s Dave\, Upward Bound’s director\, who came to L.A. to pursue an acting career but now channels his passion into staging an overly ambitious holiday show starring the center’s irrepressible clients. Framing these intertwined narratives—and connecting them in surprising\, shattering ways—is the riveting and sometimes ironic testimony of Walter\, a recent community college graduate who\, after a family tragedy\, must return to the company of his disabled peers. \nIn Upward Bound\, Woody Brown has created an indelible\, authentic\, and profoundly moving group portrait of autism and other disabilities\, all illuminated by his empathy\, sly sense of humor\, and enormous gifts as a novelist. With remarkable sophistication\, insight\, and creativity\, Brown depicts a community too-often invisible in literature and society. Filled with characters you won’t soon forget\, Upward Bound will inspire and touch you\, teaching you as much about yourself as the tender\, miraculous world behind the center’s doors. \nWoody Brown is an author who has minimal speech and types to communicate. He is a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA\, where he received top writing honors. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in 2024. Upward Bound\, his debut novel\, is a Read With Jenna book club pick\, and was named a Most Anticipated title by The New York Times\, Time\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Good Housekeeping\, Alta Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, and Literary Hub. He was featured in The New York Times and The Guardian. He lives in Los Angeles and is working on a second novel. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/book-launch-upward-bound-by-woody-brown/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260512T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260512T160000
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SUMMARY:Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead\, Book Talk by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday (5/12) for a book talk by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Organized by the Department of American Indian Studies (DAIS) as part of its Special Speaker Series\, this event will highlight her recent Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead (2025). Book sales and signing to follow the talk. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the UCLA American Indian Studies Center for full details. \nLeanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician\, writer and academic. She is the author of eight books\, including As We Have Always Done (winner of the NAISA subsequent book prize) and the novel Noopiming which was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Dublin Literary Prize. Her collaboration with Robyn Maynard\, Rehearsals for Living is a National Best Seller and was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. Leanne’s new work\, Theory of Water is a national best seller and won the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston prize for non-fiction. Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada\, the United States\, Australia\, New Zealand and Europe and has over twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education. Leanne is also a musician. Her latest release Live Like the Sky is out now from You’ve Changed Records. Theory of Ice (2021) was named to the Polaris Prize short list\, and she was the 2021 winner of the Prism Prize’s Willie Dunn Award\, presented to a Canadian trailblazer who has demonstrated excellence within the music video production community. Leanne holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and is a member of Alderville First Nation.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/theory-of-water-nishnaabe-maps-to-the-times-ahead-book-talk-by-leanne-betasamosake-simpson/
LOCATION:Founders’ Room\, James West Alumni Center\, 325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260508T130000
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SUMMARY:2026 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! \nACES 14th Annual Conference\nFriday\, May 8 at 1 pm – 6 pm\nKaplan Hall 193 \nZoom livestream link here. \nThe full conference schedule is now available: ACES 2026 Conference Program. \nThe Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The event is held annually during UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Week.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/2026-academic-conference-for-english-students-aces/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260508T130000
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/2026-05-08/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2026-05-08/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260508T090000
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting/2026-05-08/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260506T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260506T173000
DTSTAMP:20260720T175054Z
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SUMMARY:20/21 Working Group with Michael Meagher
DESCRIPTION:UCLA English and The 20/21 Working Group Present: \nSpring Paper Workshop Feat. Michael Meagher \nWednesday\, May 6 at 4:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 \nAll are welcome for an informal discussion of Michael’s dissertation chapter on Edward Said’s memoir Out of Place\, modernism\, and postcolonial life writing. \nSnacks will be provided! \nRSVP: bit.ly/4sLiwxc
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/20-21-working-group-with-michael-meagher/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T173000
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SUMMARY:Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Department of English presents a talk by Dr. Jonathan Howard\, “Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness.” \nRegister here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Uri McMillan\, Professor of English at UCLA. \nDr. Jonathan Howard is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies and English at Yale University. His research and teaching broadly interrogate western ideas about race and nature while also exploring black expressive culture as an alternative site of ecological thought and practice. His first book\, Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness\, undertakes a black ecocritical study of the “deep” as the diffuse subtext of African American literature. It argues that blackness dawns in Middle Passage as an ongoing inhabitation of the deep\, which is most fully apprehended not as social death but ecological life. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/inhabitants-of-the-deep-the-blueness-of-blackness/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260430T140000
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: A Poetry Reading by Eugene Ostashevsky and Aditya Bahl
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA Department of English for a poetry reading by Eugene Ostashevsky and Aditya Bahl\, followed by a discussion with Danny Snelson about poetics\, experiment\, and politics. Light refreshments will be served. \nEugene Ostashvesky is a Russian-American poet\, translator\, and critic who teaches at New York University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and translations\, including The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (2017) and The Feeling Sonnets (2022)\, both published in the NYRB Poets series. He is also the translator of Mayakovsky\, Kharms\, Belorusets\, Dragomoshchenko\, etc. \nAditya Bahl is a poet and critic who teaches at UCLA. He is the author of four chapbooks of poetry\, including Mukt (Organism for Poetic Research\, 2022). He has written for The Nation\, New Left Review\, and London Review of Books\, among others. \nDanny Snelson is a poet and critic who teaches at UCLA. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism\, including RADIOS (Make Now Press\,2016) and The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (MIT Press\, 2025). \nThe event is sponsored by the Department of English\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, and the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/lunch-poems-a-poetry-reading-by-eugene-ostashevsky-and-aditya-bahl/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T170000
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SUMMARY:“Because of slavery”: The Irreverent Art of Kara Walker and Harryette Mullen
DESCRIPTION:“Because of slavery” is the correct answer to the question: Why did the slaveholding states go to war against the free states of the Union? MONUMENTS reckons with deceptive narratives implicit in the presentation of a defeated Confederacy—not as traitors and losers\, but as objects of hero worship. The Old South lost the Civil War but won the nation’s post-war reconciliation with monuments\, movies\, and textbooks that upheld white supremacy and perpetuated black subordination. Kara Walker’s art and Harryette Mullen’s poetry have in common an irreverent attitude toward oppressive systems and institutions\, from the Lost Cause glorified in the proliferation of Confederate monuments to the ghosts of slavery still haunting American life. Walker and Mullen employ exacting craft to disarm the ugly isms with parody\, satire\, humor\, and surprising remixes of historical and cultural artifacts. \nIn view of Walker’s Unmanned Drone\, Mullen will read from her latest poetry collection\, Regaining Unconsciousness. \nHarryette Mullen’s latest poetry collection\, Regaining Unconsciousness (Graywolf\, 2025) is one of Publishers Weekly’s and California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s Best Books of the Year. Recyclopedia (Graywolf\, 2006) won a PEN Beyond Margins Award. Sleeping with the Dictionary (U of California\, 2002) was a finalist for a National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and LA Times Book Award. The Cracks Between (U of Alabama\, 2012)\, essays and interviews\, received an Elizabeth Agee Award. Other books include Her Silver-Tongued Companion (Edinburgh U\, 2024)\, Open Leaves (Black Sunflowers\, 2023)\, and Urban Tumbleweed (Graywolf\, 2013). She teaches literature and creative writing at UCLA. \nThis program is co-presented by The Brick and the Humanities Division at UCLA in conjunction with MONUMENTS\, an exhibition co-organized and co-presented by The Brick and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA). \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the The Brick for full details.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/because-of-slavery-the-irreverent-art-of-kara-walker-and-harryette-mullen/
LOCATION:The Brick\, 518 N. Western Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90004
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260423T180000
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SUMMARY:ARC with Maia Gil’Adí (Johns Hopkins University)
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCLA Americanist Research Colloquium (ARC) for a discussion of Maia Gil’Adí’s essay\, “Wood\, Cloth\, Plaster: Marisol’s Surface Work.” \nPlease email clooby@humnet.ucla.edu for a copy of the paper. \nIn this essay\, Maia Gil’Adí examines the work of Venezuelan artist Marisol to reconsider the relationship between material form\, diaspora\, and hemispheric politics. Gil’Adí argues that the unfinished surfaces and fragmented bodies of Marisol’s sculptures produce encounters structured by opacity and estrangement\, challenging expectations of interpretive depth. These aesthetic strategies\, she suggests\, register the affective consequences of displacement while reframing how the political appears in visual art. She situates Marisol within a broader Venezuelan cultural tradition that mobilizes incompletion as both an aesthetic form and a political condition. \nMaia Gil’Adí is a Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. Her first book\, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence (Duke University Press\, 2025)\, examines how portrayals of destruction paradoxically foreground pleasure while revealing the ongoing nature of imperial\, racial\, and ethno-national violence. Her work has appeared in MELUS\, Latino Studies\, ASAP/Journal\, and American Quarterly. She is also the President of the Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-maia-giladi-johns-hopkins-university/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T173000
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, “Turning Away”
DESCRIPTION:A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. \n“This is a book that makes a difference\, not only in our grasp of human visuality but in all the mixed feelings of love and hate\, attraction and repulsion\, thought and feeling that make us the crazy animals we are.”—W. J. T. Mitchell\, author of What Do Pictures Want?  \n“This lavish and virtuosic book finds in the gesture of turning away an entire history of why we turn to art to understand what we cannot look at directly.”—D. Vance Smith\, author of Atlas’s Bones \nWhy do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame or lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study\, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic appearance of these gestures in art\, poetry\, and philosophy has turned them into an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world. \nInto the horizon of contemporary discourse\, Turning Away sets out from five influential scenes in which figures avert their gaze: Timanthes’s Sacrifice of Iphigenia\, Plato’s Republic\, Augustine’s Confessions\, Christ’s Crucifixion\, and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The gestures of aversion in these scenes refract across visual media\, through philosophy and politics\, into modernity and the present day\, having been reimagined along the way by thinkers like Hannah Arendt\, artists like Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí\, poets like Langston Hughes\, and many others. Saltzman offers a timely critique of the privilege of turning away and of the too-easy condemnation of our tendencies to do so. \n\nBenjamin Saltzman (University of Chicago) will be in conversation with Bronwen Wilson (UCLA\, Art History) and David Russell (UCLA\, English). \nBenjamin Saltzman is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago\, where he coedits the journal Modern Philology. Saltzman is the author of Bonds of Secrecy: Law\, Spirituality\, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England. \nBronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th– and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. Wilson is the author of numerous books\, including the forthcoming book\, The Face of Uncertainty. She is also coeditor of Conversion Machines: Apparatus\, Artifice\, Body and The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art. \nDavid Russell is associate professor of English at UCLA and the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Marion Milner: On Creativity. \nCosponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Art History.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-turning-away/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T235959
DTSTAMP:20260720T170203Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Gender 2026 Graduate Student Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:Register for Thinking Gender — April 17\nFeminist and Queer Ecologies\nDate: Friday\, April 17\, 2026\nLocation: James West Alumni Center\nCost: Free to attend \nJoin us for a day of graduate student presentations highlighting innovative research at the intersections of gender\, sexuality\, and the environment. \nThe conference will feature keynote speaker Cutcha Risling Baldy (California Polytechnic State University\, Humboldt; NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute)\, whose work centers Indigenous feminisms\, land relations\, and food sovereignty. \nRegister Online:\nhttps://thinking–gender–2026.eventbrite.com\nThinking Gender 2026 Keynote Spotlight: Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy \nDr. Risling Baldy’s keynote talk\, “Indigenous Women Know How to Save the World: Framing a California Indigenous Ecofeminist Ethic\,” builds a California Indigenous ecofeminist ethic grounded in place\, fugitivity\, resistance\, and humor. The talk asks what it means to rethink how we talk about climate change and to recognize how land\, water\, and more-than-human relatives model resilience\, refusal\, and justice. \nMore info:\nhttps://csw.ucla.edu/tg26\n\nEvent contact:\nwww.csw.ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/thinking-gender-2026-graduate-student-research-conference/
LOCATION:Founders’ Room\, James West Alumni Center\, 325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T173000
DTSTAMP:20260720T165158Z
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SUMMARY:Getting Lost in the Dark: Three Speculations on Black Insecurity
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Department of English presents a talk by Justin L. Mann\, “Getting Lost in the Dark: Three Speculations on Black Insecurity.” \nRegister here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Uri McMillan\, Professor of English at UCLA. \nJustin L. Mann (he/him) is an Assistant Professor and scholar of Black feminist literary and cultural studies at Northwestern University. His book Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction (Duke University Press\, March 2026) argues that Black speculative fictions are an essential but overlooked archive for understanding the United States’ security ambitions since the Reagan administration. His work has appeared in MELUS\, GLQ\, Feminist Theory\, ASAP\, and American Quarterly. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/getting-lost-in-the-dark-three-speculations-on-black-insecurity/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T140000
DTSTAMP:20260624T185732Z
CREATED:20251125T235329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T185732Z
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/2026-04-10/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T120000
DTSTAMP:20260629T194635Z
CREATED:20251125T202328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T194635Z
UID:10000013-1775815200-1775822400@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2026-04-10/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T100000
DTSTAMP:20260624T185308Z
CREATED:20251125T201931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T185308Z
UID:10000028-1775811600-1775815200@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting/2026-04-10/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T173000
DTSTAMP:20260720T164805Z
CREATED:20260720T164805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260720T164805Z
UID:10000204-1775750400-1775755800@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Lacan’s Veil: Ekphrasis between Access and Occlusion
DESCRIPTION:Lacan’s veil\, as discussed in his fourth seminar on object relations about absence and desire\, represents an interesting model through which to understand description in general and especially the elevated kind (often about works of art) known as ekphrasis. Professor Jaś Elsner will focus in particular on issues of love and especially Enobarbus’ famous speech (‘the barge she sat in’) in Antony and Cleopatra as well as the very rich range of responses to it in English literature and art\, from Shakespeare’s own Cymbeline\, via Alma-Tadema and T.S. Eliot’s A Game of Chess in The Wasteland to the late Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. \nRegister here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. \nPictured above: Detail from “Woman Reading a Letter” by Gabriël Metsu. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/lacans-veil-ekphrasis-between-access-and-occlusion/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T173000
DTSTAMP:20260717T230644Z
CREATED:20260717T230644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T230644Z
UID:10000203-1775664000-1775669400@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:An Afternoon of Poetry with Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of poetry featuring Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans. Perelman will share recent poems in addition to selections from his latest book\, Chatty Fossils. Stefans will also share new poems\, as well as read his recent AI-assisted work\, Beauty Face. \nRegister here to attend. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. \nBob Perelman has published numerous books of poems\, including: Chatty Fossils (Roof Books\, 2026)\, Jack and Jill in Troy (Roof\, 2019); Iflife (Roof\, 2006); Playing Bodies\, in collaboration with painter Francie Shaw (Granary Books\, 2004); and Ten to One: Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press\, 1999). His critical books are The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (California\, 1994); The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound\, Joyce\, Stein\, and Zukofsky (Princeton\, 1996); Modernism the Morning After (Alabama\, 2017). His work can be heard on Penn Sound\, and a feature on his work appears in Jacket 39. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania. \nBrian Kim Stefans is a poet\, translator\, and digital artist who teaches at UCLA. His recent books include For Trapped Things (Roof Books\, 2023) and the translations Festivals of Patience: The Verse Poems of Rimbaud (Kenning Editions\, 2021). His critical book Word Toys: Poetry and Technics was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2017. His digital work “The Dreamlife of Letters” (2000) is widely anthologized in electronic literature scholarship and curricula. Poems have appeared in Poetry (Chicago)\, Lana Turner and other venues including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (2013). \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/an-afternoon-of-poetry-with-bob-perelman-and-brian-kim-stefans/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260317T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260317T183000
DTSTAMP:20260717T224434Z
CREATED:20260717T224434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T224434Z
UID:10000202-1773766800-1773772200@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Creative Writing Prose Reading
DESCRIPTION:Looking for a fun way to celebrate the end of winter quarter? Come hang out with us at the Creative Writing Prose Reading Tuesday\, March 17 at 5 PM in Kaplan 193. \nStudents from the Creative Writing Program will read from their work. Bring your friends\, grab some pizza and drinks\, and enjoy the party. Everyone is welcome and invited! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/creative-writing-prose-reading/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T140000
DTSTAMP:20260624T185732Z
CREATED:20251125T235329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T185732Z
UID:10000071-1773406800-1773410400@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/2026-03-13/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T120000
DTSTAMP:20260629T194635Z
CREATED:20251125T202328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T194635Z
UID:10000012-1773396000-1773403200@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2026-03-13/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T100000
DTSTAMP:20260624T185308Z
CREATED:20251125T201931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T185308Z
UID:10000026-1773392400-1773396000@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting/2026-03-13/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T210000
DTSTAMP:20260716T173645Z
CREATED:20251205T211559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T173645Z
UID:10000119-1773343800-1773349200@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai
DESCRIPTION:Kiran Desai’s newest novel\, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny\, is a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family\, India and America\, tradition and modernity. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025\, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a love story\, a family saga\, and a rich novel of ideas\, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists. \nDesai is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard\, which was published to unanimous acclaim in over 22 countries\, and The Inheritance of Loss\, which won the Booker Prize in 2006\, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. \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-kiran-desai/
LOCATION:Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
CATEGORIES:Some Favorite Writers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T170000
DTSTAMP:20260715T235039Z
CREATED:20251205T211350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260715T235039Z
UID:10000118-1773334800-1773334800@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation: Kiran Desai
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: \nTea and Conversation with Kiran Desai \nKiran Desai will discuss her writing. \nThis event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. \nBoth events are free and open to the public. \nKiran Desai’s newest novel\, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny\, is a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family\, India and America\, tradition and modernity. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025\, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a love story\, a family saga\, and a rich novel of ideas\, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists. \nDesai is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard\, which was published to unanimous acclaim in over 22 countries\, and The Inheritance of Loss\, which won the Booker Prize in 2006\, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/tea-and-conversation-kiran-desai/
LOCATION:Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room\, Kaplan Hall 235\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T190000
DTSTAMP:20260717T000333Z
CREATED:20260717T000333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T000333Z
UID:10000201-1773075600-1773082800@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Prospective Graduate Students Welcome Week Reception
DESCRIPTION:UCLA English faculty\, graduate students\, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception\, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/prospective-graduate-students-welcome-week-reception/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T140000
DTSTAMP:20260629T210019Z
CREATED:20251126T171500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T210019Z
UID:10000186-1772802000-1772805600@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting/2026-03-06/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260716T002736Z
CREATED:20251205T211928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T002736Z
UID:10000120-1772726400-1772733600@temp.english.ucla.edu
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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