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 […]
UCLA Department of English presents a talk by Justin L. Mann, “Getting Lost in the Dark: Three Speculations on Black Insecurity.” Register here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Uri McMillan, Professor of English at UCLA. Justin L. Mann (he/him) is […]
Register for Thinking Gender — April 17 Feminist and Queer Ecologies Date: Friday, April 17, 2026 Location: James West Alumni Center Cost: Free to attend Join us for a day of graduate student presentations highlighting innovative research at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the environment. The conference will feature keynote speaker Cutcha Risling Baldy (California Polytechnic State University, […]
A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. “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 […]
Join the UCLA Americanist Research Colloquium (ARC) for a discussion of Maia Gil’Adí’s essay, “Wood, Cloth, Plaster: Marisol’s Surface Work.” Please email clooby@humnet.ucla.edu for a copy of the paper. In 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 […]
“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 […]
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. Eugene Ostashvesky is a Russian-American poet, translator, and critic who teaches at New York University. He is the author of numerous books of […]