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Pacific Islander Eco-Poetics

UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Join UCLA English for our Kanner Forum featuring Dr. Craig Santos Perez. In this presentation, Dr. Craig Santos Perez will discuss his in-progress monograph, Pacific Islander Eco-Poetics: Indigenous Knowledge, Environmental Justice, and Literary Activism, as well as his creative, editorial, and pedagogical work related to the Environmental Humanities in the Pacific. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by UCLA English Professor Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne. Register here to attend. This event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow the event. Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamoru from Guam. He holds an...

Jillian + Mariko Tamaki Book Talk: Roaming

Young Research Library (YRL) Room 11360 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki from Drawn & Quarterly will discuss their new graphic novel, Roaming. Books will be available for purchase following the event.

Book Discussion & Celebration: Justin Torres – Blackouts

UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Professor Justin Torres and his new novel, Blackouts. Blackouts is a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, and has been named A Most Anticipated Read by The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric Literature, The Stacks, Them, and Publishers Weekly. Register here to attend the event. Creative writing colleagues Fred D’Aguiar, Mona Simpson and Xuan Juliana Wang will lead the discussion. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate Justin and his new work! Synopsis:...

Lighght Reading: Thinking through Concrete Poetry

UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

This talk joins in the recent resurgence of critical interest in the mid-century international movement known as Concrete Poetry. Using research in cognitive science, Jessica Luck shows how many concrete poems work to expose and confound the brain’s letterbox and other tools that lie at the foundation of our ability to read. The talk is derived from chapter four of Jessica Luck’s new book Poetics of Cognition: Thinking through Experimental Poems (Iowa Press, 2023). Register here to attend. Jessica Luck is department chair and professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino.

Impairment and Disability in Early Medieval England

UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

This seminar is centered around a work-in-progress book chapter exploring impairment and disability in early medieval England, as well as an accompanying case study on the Lives of St Guthlac of Crowland. The seminar will be a chance to offer feedback on the piece and to discuss the insights the field of disability studies has to offer scholars of the early Middle Ages. Register here to attend. Professor Batten will also deliver an afternoon lecture at 4:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193. See event details here: Whole, Holy, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic. Both events are co-sponsored...

Whole, Holy, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic

UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

What does it mean, culturally speaking, to get sick? What makes a body healthy? This talk explores depictions of disease in medical remedies and healing charms from the medieval North Atlantic, a multilingual zone of intensive cultural interaction and exchange. These vivid texts allow us to better understand how medieval people thought about their own bodies and about the place of humanity in a hostile world – deconstructing cultural anxieties and fantasies around the idea of an individuated, embodied self. Register here to attend. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Erica Weaver, assistant professor...

Poetry: Monica Youn

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

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 constitutional lawyer, a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, and a foremost interrogator of what Cathy Park Hong calls “the hidden biases built into the way we speak” and more specifically “the abjection of racial containment.” Organized and hosted by poet, literary critic, and UCLA...

Some Favorite Writers: Joan Silber

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

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 Simpson, who organizes this series. Copresented by the UCLA Department of English. Limited books will be available for purchase. Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction. The most recent is Secrets of Happiness (May 2021). Her novel, Improvement, won the National Book...

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 virtual reality — can help to shake up how we think about digital storytelling. Register here to attend. Erik Loyer (he/him) makes digital artworks and creative tools that combine elements of comics and video games with musical performance. Through his studio Opertoon, Loyer has released...

Hammer Poetry Series: Boris Dralyuk

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

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, and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by UCLA English and UCLA Recreation. Limited books available for purchase.

Hammer Poetry Series: Maureen McLane

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

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 biography My Poets was lauded as “the survey course of my dreams” by Loren Stein. As Christine Smallwood described her manifold talent in Harper’s, McLane’s “mix of the humorous and the cerebral is at once exuberant and rinsed with melancholy.” Organized and hosted by poet,...

On Solidarity: Reflect and Restore

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

Join us for a screening of Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi’s film, “R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity,” followed by a panel discussion featuring UCLA Professors Saree Makdisi, Robin Kelley, and Shannon Speed. The film centers on the growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980, which was supported by left-wing movements worldwide, including Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films by militant filmmakers from various countries, dubbed and screened in Japan. Our discussion engages with the promise, challenges, and limits to solidarity commitments with Palestine, while touching on the seminal role solidarity has played in the shaping of...