What is the human fascination with voyage? How is it linked to creative endeavor? To aesthetic and cultural transformation? To political and economic gain? To shifts in knowledge systems? To periods and movements in literary and artistic history? From early relations de voyage to colonial novels and films, contemporary personal narratives, and musical performances, we...
What is the human fascination with voyage? How is it linked to creative endeavor? To aesthetic and cultural transformation? To political and economic gain? To shifts in knowledge systems? To periods and movements in literary and artistic history? From early relations de voyage to colonial novels and films, contemporary personal narratives, and musical performances, we...
Bonjour! Hallo! Ciao! Did you know that there are more than 40 different world languages taught at UCLA? World Languages Day offers an opportunity to explore some of these languages outside of the classroom. Stop by the event on October 2 to discover a variety of world language clubs available at UCLA and for...
Fiston Mwanza Mujila, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), took the literary scene by storm in 2014. His novel Tram 83, translated into English by Deep Vellum Publishing in 2015, takes place in an unnamed African city in secession, where profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities mix. They have only one desire:...
Department of Germanic Languages' First Annual Graduate Student Conference We are thrilled to invite you to the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages' First Annual Graduate Student Conference Conflicts of Interest: The Productive Power of Confrontation on Friday, April 29th in Royce 314. **If you plan to join us for the catered lunch that day, kindly RSVP...
Bonjour! Hallo! Ciao! Did you know that there are more than 40 different languages taught at UCLA? World Languages Day offers an opportunity to discover language programs offered on campus, as well as language clubs and other cultural activities you can get involved in. All undergraduate students are invited to attend. Those present will have...
Co-presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Center for European and Russian Studies EUROPE IN FOUR THEMES: ANIMALS UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Center for European and Russian studies have partnered this year to present a quarterly, interdisciplinary festival of film and music, in collaboration with the Getty Center, that explores...
Co-presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Center for European and Russian Studies EUROPE IN FOUR THEMES: ANIMALS UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Center for European and Russian studies have partnered this year to present a quarterly, interdisciplinary festival of film and music, in collaboration with the Getty Center, that explores...
How do artists and composers evoke, imitate, mock, or pay tribute to animals, which are both our best companions and, at the same time, radically different from us? This lecture-concert featuring a presentation by Laure Murat, professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA, and performances of works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Fauré, Rameau, Rossini, Cage, Gershwin,...
Co-presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Center for European and Russian Studies EUROPE IN FOUR THEMES: ANIMALS UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Center for European and Russian studies have partnered this year to present a quarterly, interdisciplinary festival of film and music, in collaboration with the Getty Center, that explores...
CMRS Roundtable In the aftermath of the assassination of Duke John of Burgundy (1419), a pivotal event in the Hundred Years’ War, the duke’s shattered skull became a famous bone of contention in disputes about the past. The controversial skull was kept by Carthusian monks and shown as a curiosity to visiting royalty until the...
This conference will bring together scholars of various literatures and cultures in the period between 1600-1850 in non-fictional (factual) sources which involve passions and/or emotions. The conference is funded in part by the FACE foundation through its Partner University Fund, as part of a three year long project of cooperation between UCLA and the University...
#masshysteria Trans*: Hystories, Bodies and the Unbuilding of Worlds Monday, November 5, 2018 2.30–3.30pm UCLA Bunche Hall (Room 10383) Free Admission. Please RSVP below. While transgender has mostly been discussed in the last decade in terms of making bodies and selves, Jack Halberstam will discuss the work of unmaking that is performed by the appellation...
#masshysteria Hysteria, Race, and Masculinity Sander L. Gilman (Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University) Friday, November 16, 2018 2–3pm UCLA Bunche Hall (Room 10383) Free Admission. Please RSVP below. Sander L. Gilman has extensively researched and published on the intersection of Hysteria, Race, Sexuality and Gender....
The UCLA Departments of French & Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, Italian, and Scandinavian Section presents Hanna Arendt Reads Kafka: A Case Study in the “Immediate Postwar” – A lecture by Amir Engel Dr. Amir Engel is a lecturer at the German department at the Hebrew University, where he first studied philosophy, literature and culture studies....
Is it ever appropriate to appropriate? To borrow or steal an identity not your own? In Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity, Christopher L. Miller reviews numerous acts of flagrant cultural appropriation: authors posing as people they are not in order to claim identities that aren’t theirs. He extends the conversation beyond famous examples from...
We are delighted to invite you to Porosity & Reciprocity, the 1st Annual European Languages and Transcultural Studies Graduate Student Conference, which will take place next Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25, in Royce 306. Please visit official website for more details including event registration and program.
We are delighted to invite you to Porosity & Reciprocity, the 1st Annual European Languages and Transcultural Studies Graduate Student Conference, which will take place next Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25, in Royce 306. Please visit official website for more details including event registration and program.
A lecture by Professor Kim Gallon (Purdue University) Registration is required. Please click here. Thursday, December 10, 2020 3:00pm-5:00pm (PST) Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. She is the author of many articles and essays as well as...