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Conversation and Book Signing with Daisy Hernandez, Author of The Kissing Bug

Young Research Library Presentation Room (11348) 280 Charles E Young Dr N., Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us for a conversation and lunch with Daisy Hernández, who will discuss The Kissing Bug and health humanities. A limited number of free copies of The Kissing Bug will be available at the event. Author Bio: Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Tin House, 2021), which won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. The book was named a top 10 nonfiction book of 2021 by...

‘Rather Than Her Biography’: Listening to Nina Simone’s Diary

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, United States

“If we can draw out the emphasis on the female vocalist’s art, rather than her biographies,” critic Hortense Spillers once wrote. “Then we gather from the singer that power and control maintain an ontological edge. Whatever luck or misfortune the Player has dealt her, she is, in the moment of performance, the primary subject of her own invention.” Considering Spillers’s provocative claim, Professor Salamishah Tillet will look at Civil Rights musician Nina Simone’s diary (and her friendship with the writer Lorraine Hansberry) and discuss the tensions and possibilities that arise as she writes about Simone's inner life, while also exploring...

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 for you. Breakfast and lunch will be provided in the beautiful setting of Hershey Hall Salon The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have...

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 and ¡OYE! Group for discussion of Mercedes and how we can celebrate and support the resilience of Latinx seniors, caregivers, and the broader public. Featuring: Modesto “Flako” Jimenez, grandson of Mercedes, Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, ¡OYE! Group Founder and Artistic Director Marlené Nancy Lopez,...

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 (Los Angeles Review of Books, Founding Editor) will be joined by Josh Kun (USC Vice Provost for the Arts), Leigh-Michil George and Summer Kim Lee to talk about their experiences as editors and authors. A reception with the panelists follows the panel. This event is...

Postponed: Inaugural Dean of Humanities’ Lecture in Critical Humanistic Inquiry: “Visualizing Mestizaje through Zapotec Remappings of the Americas”

Hershey Hall Salon and Zoom

This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon. Read more here. Tens of thousands of Indigenous peoples have migrated to the United States since 1994, the vast majority from Mexico and Mesoamerica. As a consequence, the U.S. Native American population increased by 86% between 2010 and 2020. Zapotec is now second only to Navajo as the most-spoken Indigenous language in the U.S., while bilingual immersion in Mixtec and English is part of NYC public school curriculum. This is challenging how we define Indigeneity in the United States, but it is also challenging how Latinx Studies will...

Workshop on How to Pitch and Write for Non-Academic Outlets

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

In the Pitch Workshop The Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief, Medaya Ocher, will offer general guidance as well as direct feedback on pitches.   You can participate in two different ways: (1) Apply with a pitch for the possibility to be selected to receive feedback as part of the workshop and with the possibility to sign up for short follow up “office hours,” or, (2) RSVP to sit in on the workshop without a pitch.   Schedule, Monday, May 6  Workshop: 10-12 noon Lunch: 1-2pm Office hours: 2-4pm   Application Eligibility: The program is available for UCLA ladder faculty,...