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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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SUMMARY:Graduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/graduate-committee-meeting/2025-12-05/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T140000
DTSTAMP:20260624T185732Z
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/2025-12-05/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T120000
DTSTAMP:20260629T194635Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2025-12-05/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T090000
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DTSTAMP:20260624T185308Z
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting/2025-12-05/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260717T230059Z
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SUMMARY:Authorship and/or Automation: Poetry\, AI\, and the Future of Expression
DESCRIPTION:Please join Text/Tech\, the English Media Lab of UCLA\, for a conversation at the edge of literature and code. \n\nAuthorship and/or Automation brings together four major digital artist-theorists to explore how emerging forms of technology are reshaping the acts of writing\, performing\, and publishing. Through short presentations and a roundtable discussion\, participants explore the consequences of composing with algorithms and large language models; how digital tools transform our conceptions of voice\, style\, and authorship; and where human imagination meets\, resists\, or exceeds machine computation. \nThis event will be online (Zoom). However\, if you would like to participate as part of the “live studio audience\,” please join us at the Text/Tech room in Kaplan Hall 211. Refreshments will be served. Organized and moderated by Brian Kim Stefans. \nRegister here to attend. \n\n\n\n\nParticipant Biographies: \nLillian-Yvonne Bertram is an African American writer\, poet\, artist\, and educator whose poetic practice includes the intersection of computation\, AI\, race\, and gender. They are the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press)\, a book of computational poetry longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. They are the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Their other poetry books include How Narrow My Escapes (DIAGRAM/New Michigan)\, Personal Science (Tupelo Press)\, a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press)\, and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press). Their most recent full-length poetry book\, Negative Money\, was published in 2023 by Soft Skull Press. Their chapbook\, written with AI\, is called A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content and won the 2023 Diagram/New Michigan chapbook contest. They direct the MFA in creative writing program at the University of Maryland and are a 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts poetry grant recipient and 2024 Deutsch Foundation Ruby’s Grant recipient. They are co-editor with Nick Montfort of the recently released anthology Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953-2023 published by MIT Press. \nKyle Booten is a scholar-practitioner whose work explores the algorithmic mediation of human thinking\, especially poetic thinking. His most recent book is Gyms (dispersed holdings)\, a book of poetry written with and against nine different algorithmic “word gyms” designed to make writing more strenuous. His current project\, Noöhacking\, reimagines the notion of care in a posthuman direction. With Katy Ilonka Gero\, Booten edits Ensemble Park: A Journal of Human+Computer Writing. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. \nNick Montfort is a poet\, artist\, professor of digital media at MIT\, principal investigator at the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative\, and director of lab/studio The Trope Tank. His projects include ten computer-generated books exploring language\, solo and collaborative work online\, and the book of poetry All the Way for the Win (Penteract Press)\, consisting entirely of three-letter words. He has six books on computational media from MIT Press including Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities (second edition\, 2021)\, Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (2005) and most recently Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953–2023 (co-published with Counterpath)\, which he co-edited with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram. \n\nDaniel Scott Snelson is a writer\, editor\, and archivist working as an Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA\, where he serves as faculty for the Digital Humanities\, the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies\, and the UCLA Game Lab. His online editorial work can be found at PennSound\, Eclipse\, UbuWeb\, Jacket2\, and the EPC. Published books include Elden Poem (Hysterically Real\, 2022)\, Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page (Sync\, 2019)\, Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984-2000 (Monoskop\, 2018)\, Radios (Make Now\, 2016)\, EXE TXT (Gauss PDF\, 2015)\, Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread\, 2014)\, and Inventory Arousal with James Hoff (Bedford Press/Architectural Association\, 2011). His recently published book\, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (University of Minnesota Press\, 2025)\, examines the networked afterlives of media-reflexive works of art and letters in search of contingent methods for reading ordinary digital collections.\n\nBrian Kim Stefans is a poet\, digital writer\, and scholar whose work spans print\, electronic literature\, and computational poetics. He is a Professor of English at UCLA and author of numerous books of poetry and scholarship including Word Toys: Poetry and Technics (University of Alabama Press) and For Trapped Things (poems\, Roof Books). His latest work is the AI-assisted chapbook “Beauty Face: A Poem\,” available for download at www.arras.net.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/authorship-and-or-automation-poetry-ai-and-the-future-of-expression/
LOCATION:Attend online (Zoom) or in person at Text/Tech: Kaplan Hall 211\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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SUMMARY:Personnel Committee Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/personnel-committee-meeting/2025-12-03/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251202T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251202T183000
DTSTAMP:20260716T181030Z
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SUMMARY:ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited and welcome to join the party Tuesday\, December 2 at 5pm in the ERR for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors. \nCome join us for a night of good food and drinks as students in the Creative Writing Program read from work written during the quarter. Everyone is welcome to attend and bring guests!
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/err-writers-series-a-reading-with-student-authors/
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:20251121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251121T140000
DTSTAMP:20260702T173628Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Workshop
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251121T100000
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DTSTAMP:20260629T194635Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2025-11-21/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251120T203000
DTSTAMP:20260716T180613Z
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SUMMARY:Can Comedia Help Us Understand California’s Past?
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Zócalo Public Square\, Playwrights’ Arena\, UCLA Diversifying the Classics\, and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes\, with generous support from Snap Foundation\, Karsh Family Foundation\, Broad Foundation\, and Olga Garay-English \nDuring the artistic and literary boom of Spain’s Golden Age\, theater known as comedia helped audiences on both sides of the Atlantic understand their past and present. Today\, contemporary playwrights have adapted these 17th-century classics to shed light on L.A.’s history\, touching on issues including power and sexuality\, gentrification\, and Black\, Korean\, and Latino identity. \nJoin us under the stars at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes for readings of three adaptations from the 2024 anthology Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles. Barbara Fuchs\, director of UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics initiative\, will introduce central themes of the plays. Playwrights Diana Burbano\, June Carryl\, and Luis Alfaro will offer brief pre-performance remarks and will sign copies of Golden Tongues\, available for purchase from Tía Chucha’s\, during a post-reading reception. \nAdmission is free\, but registration in advance is advised. Visit this page to reserve seats. \nAbout the plays: \nIn Diana Burbano’s Flickers\, a director in early 20th-century Los Angeles becomes embroiled in the perils of Hollywood: ambition and treachery\, prejudice and plagiarism. In her version of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s La cueva de Salamanca (The Cave of Salamanca)\, Burbano recreates the magic of the first days of film while exploring its racism. \nJune Carryl’s Florence and Normandie adapts Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Amar después de la muerte (To Love Beyond Death) and sets the action against the backdrop of the Rodney King uprising. As tensions boil\, two families entwined by location and love find themselves living the American racial nightmare. \nPainting in Red is Luis Alfaro‘s “whitewash” of Calderón de la Barca’s El pintor de su deshonra (The Painter of His Own Dishonor)\, exploring a Chicano painter’s relationship to a real and imagined Spain and an endlessly gentrifying Los Angeles. \nThis program is part of California 175 — What Connects California?\, a suite of free Zócalo events and essays\, bringing together leaders and thinkers from all walks of life to envision California’s next 175 years.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/can-comedia-help-us-understand-californias-past/
LOCATION:LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes\, 501 North Main St\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T163000
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SUMMARY:Screening of Lope de Vega’s The Travels of Teodor – Revelation Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of The Travels of Teodor—a translated adaptation of one of Lope de Vega’s Spanish Golden Age plays\, adapted by Melissa Crespo and produced by Red Bull Theater. This event is part of the Revelation Reading Series. \nEvent Details\nThe Travels of Teodor\nWednesday\, November 19\n4:30 PM (approx. 2 hours 15 minutes)\nKaplan Hall 193 \nPlease see the attached flyer for additional information. \nExperience this powerful adaptation and join in brief discussions\, with opportunities to connect with others during intermission and after the screening. \nHosted by: Mayra Cortes\, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, English Department
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-lope-de-vegas-the-travels-of-teodor-revelation-reading-series/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T183000
DTSTAMP:20260717T225912Z
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SUMMARY:Author in Residence Reading: Jean Chen Ho
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading featuring Author in Residence Jean Chen Ho. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. \nJean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane\, named one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022; a “Best Book of the Year” (NPR\, Vulture\, Vogue\, Oprah Daily\, Glamour\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Elle); and longlisted for the 2023 Story Prize. Her writing appears in New York Times Magazine\, Sewanee Review\, The Cut\, Electric Literature\, Los Angeles Times\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Chapman University. She was born in Taiwan and lives in Los Angeles. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/author-in-residence-reading-jean-chen-ho/
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:20251114T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T140000
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting/2025-11-14/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T120000
DTSTAMP:20260629T194635Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2025-11-14/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T100000
DTSTAMP:20260624T185308Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T185308Z
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
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URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/executive-committee-meeting/2025-11-14/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T183000
DTSTAMP:20260716T173351Z
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SUMMARY:Claire McEachern – Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a reading and reception to celebrate Claire McEachern’s new book\, Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu. This unique collection of essays offers a gripping exploration of the precarious beauty and peril of California’s iconic coastline. Through essays blending personal narrative\, cultural analysis\, and history\, author Claire McEachern takes us behind the scenes of surf and celebrities to paint a vivid portrait of life on the edge —both literally and metaphorically. From the rugged Santa Monica Mountains to the shimmering Pacific\, this work captures the paradoxes of Old Malibu: a place of luxury and risk\, natural splendor and ecological vulnerability. \nRegister here to attend. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate Claire and her new work!
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/claire-mceachern-coyotes-and-culture-essays-from-old-malibu/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T170000
DTSTAMP:20260702T175519Z
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SUMMARY:Working Group in Memory Studies
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to the relaunching of the Working Group in Memory Studies. Founded in fall 2018\, the Working Group brings together faculty and graduate students from across the humanities and social sciences who are interested in the interdisciplinary field of cultural memory studies. \nCultural memory studies focuses on the dynamic interplay between the past and the present in local\, national\, and transnational contexts and can involve the study of works of art and literature; memorials and monuments; processes of reparation\, reconciliation\, and transitional justice; activist movements; media; and more. In recent years the field has grown rapidly and there is now an international Memory Studies Association. \nThe Working Group plans to hold regular reading group meetings this academic year where we will discuss important work in the field. In the past we have also met with visiting speakers; hosted works-in-progress sessions; and organized conferences. \nOur first reading group meeting of the quarter will take place on Thursday\, November 13 from 3:30-5:00 pm in 348 Kaplan. Light refreshments will be provided. \nWe’ll be discussing Astrid Erll’s “The Hidden Power of Implicit Collective Memory” (2022) and Ben Ratskoff’s “Prosthetic Trauma at the Nova Exhibition: Holocaust Memory\, Reenactment\, and the Affective Reproduction of Genocidal Nightmares” (2025). The essays are available in our group’s Box folder and should be read in advance. \nAll are welcome to attend regardless of whether you are already familiar with the field or are interested in discovering a new theoretical and methodological approach. \nIf you would like to be added to our mailing list so that you are aware of future events or have any questions about the group\, please contact Michael Rothberg (mrothberg@humnet.ucla.edu). Feel free to share this announcement with any graduate students or faculty you think might be interested.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/working-group-in-memory-studies/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251107T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251107T223000
DTSTAMP:20260716T175735Z
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SUMMARY:Professor H.A. Kelly’s Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join us online on November 7 at 9 a.m to 10.30 a.m. PST to celebrate H. A. Kelly’s new book\, “Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Courts From the Middle Agesto the Reformation.” \nZoom Link:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94091684491
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/professor-h-a-kellys-book-launch/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T183000
DTSTAMP:20260716T175431Z
CREATED:20251126T181414Z
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SUMMARY:Screening of Faustus – Revelation Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening of Faustus—an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus\, adapted by Devin Brain and produced by Red Bull Theater. This event is part of the Revelation Reading Series. \nEvent Details\nFaustus\nWednesday\, November 5th\n4:30 PM (performance runs approximately 2 hours 15 minutes)\nKaplan Hall 193 \nSee the attached flyer for more details! \nEnjoy this powerful adaptation and take part in brief discussions and opportunities to connect with others during intermission and after the screening. \nHosted by: Mayra Cortes\, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, English Department
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-faustus-revelation-reading-series/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251101T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251101T130000
DTSTAMP:20260716T174826Z
CREATED:20251126T181106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T174826Z
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SUMMARY:Día de los Muertos: Mourning and Remembering through Ecological Change
DESCRIPTION:Día de los Muertos: Mourning and Remembering through Ecological Change will explore cross-cultural grief in the context of environmental and species loss. Join us on November 1 from 11am-1pm at the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden (707 Tiverton Drive) for ofrendas\, art\, and talks on topics such as deforestation\, extinction\, and environmental colonialism and imperialism. Come early for a guided Garden tour at 10am (provided by the Botanical Garden). We’ll have snacks and drinks including champurrado and a variety of pan dulces. \nThis event is free and open to the public; it is hosted by the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)\, Environmental Humanities Reading Group (EHRG)\, and Radical Imagination Coalition (RIC)\, and is co-sponsored by the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden and Center for Developing Leadership in Science (CDLS). \nIf you are interested in contributing an ofrenda\, art\, or your time to this event\, please email Elijah Catalan (elijahcatalan@g.ucla.edu) and Olivia Simon (oliviameyers@g.ucla.edu) with a short description of how you would like to be involved and “Día de los Muertos: Request to Participate” in the subject line.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/dia-de-los-muertos-mourning-and-remembering-through-ecological-change/
LOCATION:UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden\, 707 Tiverton Dr\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T173000
DTSTAMP:20260716T174345Z
CREATED:20251126T180520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T174345Z
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SUMMARY:Rememberment: Palestine in Real Time
DESCRIPTION:Kanner Forum with Jasbir K. Puar and Dima Srouji \n\nJoin us for our Kanner Forum featuring a lecture performance by Jasbir K. Puar and Dima Srouji. \nScenes of bodily humiliation and mutilation have been screaming from our screens for more than two years. Working through and against the grain of this obvious\, ubiquitous archive\, Puar and Srouji excavate the longue durée of debilitation in Gaza and conversely\, also foreground the praxis of “re-member-ment” that highlight Palestinian determination to become differently whole. \nRegister here to attend. \nJasbir K. Puar is Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia\, Extraordinary Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town\, South Africa\, and Professor Emerita at Rutgers University where she was faculty in the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Department for 23 years. Puar is the author of the award-winning books: The Right to Maim: Debility\, Capacity\, Disability (2017)\, which has been translated into Spanish and is forthcoming in Portuguese\, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)\, available in French\, Spanish\, and Portuguese\, and re-issued as an expanded version for its 10th anniversary (2017). Her articles have been published in journals such as Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly\, mainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian\, and translated into more than 20 languages. \nDr. Puar is also co-author of exhibitions for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019) and the Sharjah Art Biennial (2023). In 2019 she received the Kessler Award from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY\, which recognizes lifetime achievement in and impact on queer research and organizing. \nDima Srouji is a Palestinian architect and visual artist exploring the ground as a deep space of rich cultural weight and a space for potential collective repair. She was the Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2022-2023 and currently leading MA City Design studio Underground Palestine at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam\, Institut du Monde Arabe\, Corning Museum of Glass\, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary\, and The Sharjah Art Foundation. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu \nPhoto of Puar courtesy of Coco Van Oppens. Photo of Srouji courtesy of Rolex.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/rememberment-palestine-in-real-time/
LOCATION:Lani Hall – Herb Alpert School of Music\, 445 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Kanner Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T120000
DTSTAMP:20260629T194635Z
CREATED:20251125T202328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T194635Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-2/2025-10-24/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T100000
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/2025-10-24/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251023T180000
DTSTAMP:20260716T002350Z
CREATED:20251126T175958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T002350Z
UID:10000100-1761235200-1761242400@temp.english.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ARC with Salem Martinez (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:Salem Martinez\, “Let’s Start at The End of the World\, Shall We?: Sacred Rage as Resistance in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy.”
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-salem-martinez-ucla/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T163000
DTSTAMP:20260716T174236Z
CREATED:20251126T175745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T174236Z
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SUMMARY:Invierno Screening & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special screening of Invierno\, a recent staged reading of José Cruz González’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. \nKaplan Hall 193\nWednesday\, October 22nd\n3:00 PM\nHalloween snacks provided! \nTo help you engage more fully with the performance\, you’re welcome to explore the following resources ahead of time: \nIntroduction to José Cruz González’s Invierno \nInvierno – Red Bull Theater \nThe screening will include a 10-minute intermission\, followed by an optional space to share initial impressions. After the performance\, I’ll also facilitate a brief (~15-minute) discussion for those who’d like to offer comments or connect further. \nHosted by Mayra Cortes\, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/invierno-screening-discussion/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T180000
DTSTAMP:20260717T225657Z
CREATED:20251126T173916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T225657Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to attend the Medieval Texts Reading Group on Friday\, October 17 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193. \n\nProfessor Roberta Morosini (ELTS) will be leadings our discussion on the Proemium to Boccaccio’s Decameron (paired\, like a fine wine\, with Canto V from Dante’s Inferno). \nReadings are available here.
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T160000
DTSTAMP:20260717T225532Z
CREATED:20251126T172244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T225532Z
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SUMMARY:About Looking: John Ruskin and John Berger
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join us for a seminar titled\, “About Looking: John Ruskin and John Berger\,” on Friday\, October 17 from 11am – 4pm in Kaplan 193. \nThis seminar will explore the strange affinities between two major\, and yet also marginal\, critics of society and art. It will consider the relations in their work between the natural world and art\, between politics and aesthetics\, and between literature and art history. Speakers will include Jeremy Melius (University of York) Nicholas Robbins (University College London)\, as well as Louise Hornby\, David Russell\, and George Baker from UCLA. \nThe day will provide room for extensive discussion between all who wish to attend the seminar. \nSchedule\n11.00 – Welcome\, Louise Hornby and David Russell\, (UCLA)\n11.15 – Jeremy Melius (University of York)\, “Fauna”\n12.00 – Louise Hornby (UCLA)\, “Fields” \n1.30 – Nicholas Robbins (University College London)\, “Frames”\n2.15 – David Russell (UCLA)\, “Force”\n3.00 – George Baker\, A Response – and closing discussions\nReception to follow
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/about-looking-john-ruskin-and-john-berger/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T190000
DTSTAMP:20260717T225508Z
CREATED:20251126T003140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T225508Z
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SUMMARY:Edible Entanglements: Race\, Environment and Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Edible Entanglements: Race\, Environment and Ethics\nOctober 14\, 2025 (Tuesday)\n9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.\, UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 314 \nFull schedule is available here. Free healthy lunch is provided for all attendees. Event is sponsored by UCHRI. \nCome and hear international leaders in Food Justice including \nKathy Freston (New York Times Best Selling Author)\nGwenna Hunter (Founder of Planetary Unity)\nLisa Bloom (Civil Rights Attorney)\nJulieanna Hever (Dietitian)\nJennifer Jay (Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering\, UCLA)\nDavid Cleveland (Professor of Sustainable Food and Agriculture\, UCSB) \nQuestions about the event?\nContact: Arvind Thomas\, arvindthomas@ucla.edu
URL:https://temp.english.ucla.edu/event/edible-entanglements-race-environment-and-ethics/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T140000
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/2025-10-10/
CATEGORIES:Administrative
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