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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/2026-04-10/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T100000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2026-04-10/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T090000
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DTSTAMP:20260624T185308Z
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting/2026-04-10/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T173000
DTSTAMP:20260717T230644Z
CREATED:20260717T230644Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260317T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260317T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T140000
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/2026-03-13/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T120000
DTSTAMP:20260629T194635Z
CREATED:20251125T202328Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2026-03-13/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T090000
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DTSTAMP:20260624T185308Z
CREATED:20251125T201931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T185308Z
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting/2026-03-13/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T210000
DTSTAMP:20260716T173645Z
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T190000
DTSTAMP:20260717T000333Z
CREATED:20260717T000333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T000333Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T140000
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/2026-03-06/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260716T002736Z
CREATED:20251205T211928Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T173000
DTSTAMP:20260716T235605Z
CREATED:20260716T235310Z
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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:20260220T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260220T183000
DTSTAMP:20260716T234513Z
CREATED:20260716T234513Z
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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:20260219T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260716T173526Z
CREATED:20251205T211123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T173526Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260715T233551Z
CREATED:20251205T193002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260715T233551Z
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T113000
DTSTAMP:20260716T232806Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T173000
DTSTAMP:20260716T230622Z
CREATED:20260716T230622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T230622Z
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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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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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Opera-Workshop-Feb-2026.png
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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/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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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/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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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/
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ARC-Web.png
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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
UID:10000181-1770217200-1770220800@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting/2026-02-04/
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
UID:10000124-1769785200-1769792400@temp.english.ucla.edu
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Medieval-Texts.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260629T210019Z
CREATED:20251126T171500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T210019Z
UID:10000185-1769778000-1769781600@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting/2026-01-30/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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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
UID:10000194-1769702400-1769706000@temp.english.ucla.edu
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Travel-Study-Florence.png
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