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Captivity: Assembling Nature’s Histories

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

Conference organized by Anna Chen, Rebecca Fenning Marschall, and Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles The early modern period was a hothouse for the study of physical things in the natural world, and for the collection and assembly of them in human-made physical spaces. In other periods, botanical samples were preserved by diarists in their journals, such as the Clark Library’s Pressed specimens of butterflies and moths (1905), compiled by Yasushi Nawa (1857–1926). Nawa’s lepidochromic book showcases the technique of “printing butterflies,” or fixing the scales of their wings onto paper. Specimens of all sorts were admired for their variegated colors,...

Bookish Biomes: Assembling Nature’s Histories at the Clark Library

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

The Clark Library preserves and provides access to over 130,000 books, manuscripts, and artworks dating from the 15th century to the present. But there is a library of living things on the five acres of green space outside the library's building, too. This event will bring together both our indoor and outdoor collections, as we explore nature’s histories – and its present! All ages are welcome to attend. Participants will learn about bees and beekeeping, go on bird walks, make their own field notebooks, plant seeds to take home from our heirloom seed library, learn how people in the past...

Hammer Poetry Series: V. Penelope Pelizzon

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

Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, award-winning poet V. Penelope Pelizzon’s latest collection, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject. Playful and wrenching by turns, with lines inflected by the spoken music of their Arabic, Oshiwambo, Xhosa, and Italian contexts, these profound poems explore a life where displacement is the norm. Organized and hosted by poet, literary critic, and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of English and UCLA Recreation.

Book talk: Signs of Faith Against Fascism

Kaplan Hall 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

In this book talk, Eric Martin will explore how people of faith can connect their religious traditions with the rise of overtly fascist violence in the United States. With first-hand accounts from the largest white supremacist gathering in modern American history at Unite the Right in Charlottesville, Virginia, Martin will share how the clergy resisting Nazis and the KKK point a way forward for Christians in particular. His book expands outward to ask what churches can learn from antifascists, Black Lives Matter, and those working on the ground to combat the continuing coalition of far-right militias and gangs that promise...

An Evening with Dan Taulapapa McMullin

Royce 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Join us for an evening with Dan Taulapapa McMullin, author of The Healer’s Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia, the poetry collections Coconut Milk  and A Drag Queen Named Pippi, as well as films such as Sinalela and 100 Tikis. Co-sponsored by UCLA Asian American Studies and UCLA American Indian Studies.

Tea and Conversation: Fae Myenne Ng

Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, 235 Kaplan Hall 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Fae Myenne Ng Fae Myenne Ng will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Fae Myenne Ng at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to the public. Fae Myenne Ng is the author of bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone and American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Rome Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan...

Some Favorite Writers: Fae Myenne Ng

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

Best-selling author Fae Myenne Ng’s new memoir, Orphan Bachelors, offers a personal, timely portrait of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. Hua Hsu called Orphan Bachelors, “so many treasures at once: an enthralling memoir, an act of reckoning, a history of American exclusion and Chinatown resilience, an attempt to conjure the vast horizons that her forebears were never allowed to imagine.” Organized and hosted by author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson. Copresented by the UCLA Department of English. Fae Myenne Ng is the author of bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction...

CANCELED – Lecture by Prof. Herman Bennett (CUNY)

James West Alumni Center, The Founders’ Room

Herman L. Bennett is a Professor at the Graduate Center (CUNY) and Director of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). He has held faculty positions at UNC-Chapel Hill, The Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, and the Free University of Berlin.   This lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality, Decoloniality, and Interpretation”, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). The Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of...

What the World’s Silence Says: A Reading With Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour

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

Join UCLA English for a poetry reading and conversation with Gazan poet Yahya Ashour. Yahya Ashour, born in Gaza City on April 22nd, 1998, is a touring poet and awarded author. He’s a 2022 honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. His recent poetry e-book, titled “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide,” was published by Mizna in March 2024. Ashour has also authored a poetry collection and a children’s book in Arabic, along with contributing to numerous printed anthologies and online journals worldwide. His works have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Japanese,...

Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State

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

Conference organized by Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male homosexuality. The conference takes the occasion of Wilde’s courtroom ordeal as a starting-point for understanding not only the growing awareness of queer subcultures during the 1880s and 1890s but also the long shadow...

The Clark is Burning: A Workshop on Queer Performance & the Archive

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

The Ballroom scene (at times synonymized with the performance art form of “vogue”) began in the Black and Brown queer club scene of late 1970s New York, and has since flourished as an increasingly globalized space for building personal identity and community. Please join us for this workshop on the vogue dance form, produced by writer and Ballroom historian Sydney Baloue and the House of FUBU, which will consider performance as both a contemporary art form and a historical practice. Attendees will serve as an audience to a roll call that presents different voguing styles and competitive categories commonly walked...