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    Prospective Graduate Students Welcome Week Reception

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    UCLA English faculty, graduate students, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students.

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    Tea and Conversation: Kiran Desai

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

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

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    Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai

    Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

    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, […]

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    Creative Writing Prose Reading

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    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. Students from the Creative Writing Program will read from their work. Bring your friends, grab some pizza and drinks, and enjoy the party. […]

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    An Afternoon of Poetry with Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    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. Register here to attend. Drinks and light refreshments will be […]

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    Lacan’s Veil: Ekphrasis between Access and Occlusion

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    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 […]