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Some Favorite Writers: Justin Torres

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Justin Torres’ latest book Blackouts received the 2023 National Book Award for fiction and was called a “shimmering, fable-like novel” by The Washington Post. Filled with tales-within-tales, redacted pages, illustrations and photographs, Torres excavates the devastating history of the 1941 report Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, imaginatively exposing stories that had previously been...

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Faculty Writing Retreat

Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)

Are you a UCLA faculty member who needs a productive writing space?  Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay...

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Join us: Crear Para Sanar / Create for Healing (Mon. 1/22, 3:30pm)

Kaplan 193

Crear Para Sanar / Create for Healing A look into Mercedes, a multidisciplinary arts, humanities, and healing program Mon. 1/22, 3:30-5:00PM 193 Kaplan and Zoom RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/mercedes24Based on the life of a Dominican immigrant and Brooklyn matriarch, Mercedesaddresses aging, mental health, and intergenerational trauma through community-based workshops, VR, film, theater, and visual art. Join UCLA Humanities...

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Poetry: Monica Youn

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Monica Youn’s most recent volume is FROM FROM, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. Among her many honors are the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. An associate professor of English at UC Irvine, she is a former...

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Some Favorite Writers: Joan Silber

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Novelist Joan Silber has written nine books of fiction including Improvement (2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The New York Times calls her most recent novel, Secrets of Happiness (2021), “humane, elegant and wise.” Readings are followed by discussion with the author and UCLA professor Mona...

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The Mediterranean Seminar Winter Workshop 2024, Intermediaries, Middle Grounds, Middle Sea

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

As the theater of engagement and integration of communities originating on the shores or from the hinterlands of Africa, Asia, and Europe, the Mediterranean region served as a dynamic center of interaction and exchange from Antiquity through early modernity. Even as it began to lose political and economic centrality, it has remained a zone of...

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Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture, Guest Speaker: Ilse Sturkenboom

"On the Introduction of Chinese Decorated Paper to Iran and How it Revolutionized Manuscript Production in the Islamic World" Guest speaker: Ilse Sturkenboom (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) The fifteenth-century introduction of long sheets of brightly colored and gold-embellished paper from Ming China to Iran provided book artists with a range of new possibilities in the production of...

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Co-sponsored Lecture by Etienne Anheim (History, EHESS, Paris)

236 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Etienne Anheim‘s research is oriented towards the economic, social and material history of painting as well as the history of written practices between the 13th and the 15th century, from scholars like Petrarch to library inventories or accounting entries, at the same time, addressing questions of historiography and epistemology of history. He also collaborates on...

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Instruments for Digital Storytelling Featuring Erik Loyer

Text/Tech Lab, Kaplan Hall 211 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Artist and technologist Erik Loyer shares his practice of digital instrument-making, and the ways in which he draws from comics, games, music, and film to make art, tell stories, and build creative tools. Loyer will explore how approaching each interaction as an invitation extended by the user — whether on the web, mobile, or in...

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Hammer Poetry Series: Boris Dralyuk

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Poet Boris Dralyuk reads from his most recent volume, My Hollywood and Other Poems, a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los Angeles. The Poetry Foundation proclaimed that “the ache of exile reverberates against the irretrievability of the past” in the Odessa-born poet’s work. Organized and hosted by poet, literary critic,...

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California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2024)

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers, typically drafts of articles, book chapters, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial, and...

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Join us: How to Translate Your Work for a General Audience_ February 28, 2024 at 3pm Lani Hall, UCLA

Lani Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA

How to Translate Your Work for a General Audience Editor in Residence- Public Scholarship Wednesday, February 28, 3pm, 2024 Lani Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/LARBW24 Please join us for a panel on public scholarship, specifically on how to write for non-academic audiences. The 2023-24 UCLA Editor in Residence, Public Scholarship Fellow, Tom Lutz...

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Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture

Copy of Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖 (Complete map of the world), 1674, Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. held at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Image stitched together from individual images of each frame of the map screen. Guest Speaker: S.E. Kile (University of Michigan) "Was the World Early Modern?: Telescopes, Surgery, and Print Media in China,...

One Million Experiments

Royce Hall room 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Join us for a screening of the short documentary One Million Experiments, followed by a conversation with Damon A. Williams, Daniel Kisslinger, and Los Angeles-based organizers. Check back soon for more information about the organizers who will be joining us! Register here to attend. One Million Experiments is a multimodal project that explores how we...

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Imaging Diplomacy: The Meridian Gate and the Making of European Perspectives on China (1655–1795)

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Lecture by Sylvia Tongyan Qiu, Ph.D. Student in Art History, UCLA, and recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship In 1692, Evert Ysbrants Ides, a Danish merchant living in the German quarters of Moscow, was sent to the Kangxi Emperor by Peter the Great as his ambassador. An account of his journey,...

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Hammer Poetry Series: Maureen McLane

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Maureen McLane, poet, literary critic, and connoisseur of both the canon and the experimental tradition, epitomizes Wallace Steven’s dictum that “poetry is the scholar’s art.” Her six distinguished volumes of poems include World Enough, chosen Best Poetry Book of the Year by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker, and her genre-breaking book of criticism and...

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Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Dover Quartet

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet is one of the world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. The Dover Quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music and holds additional residencies at the Bienen School of...

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