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Fall 2023 Research Seminar Public Lecture – Professor Wolfgang Mueller (Fordham University)

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

As part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Fall 2023, Money Matters: Between Antiquity and the Enlightenment (ca. 600-1600), guest lecturer, Wolfgang Mueller (Fordham University) will share about his research that focuses on written norms and laws of the European West between 500 and 1500 CE.  He is author of several scholarly monographs,...

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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...

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The Western Mediterranean and the Global Middle Ages

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

CMRS-CEGS/AARHMS Symposium As part of its thematic series of co-sponsored sessions this academic year on “Iberian History as Global History” at major international conferences, the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) has partnered with UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CEGS) to host this symposium on The Western Mediterranean and the...

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Jillian + Mariko Tamaki Book Talk: Roaming

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

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

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French Job Fair

Royce 314 and 236

Join us to our first French job fair on campus. You will meet some representatives of companies such as LVMH and TV5 Monde, learn about internship opportunities in local consulates, discover how you can work or study after your bachelor in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Québec, attend a roundtable on the importance of the francophone...

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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...

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Fall 2023 Research Seminar Public Lecture – Professor Craig Muldrew (Cambridge, UK)

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

As part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Fall 2023, Money Matters: Between Antiquity and the Enlightenment (ca. 600-1600), guest lecturer, Professor Craig Muldrew (Cambridge, UK) will share about his expertise in British Social and Economic History from 1500 to 1800. Craig Muldrew's research mainly focuses on the investigation of the economic and...

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Spotlight Talk: Citing Race and Seeing Death in Shakespeare

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

Talk by Professor Arthur L. Little, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles This talk, which begins with Ben Jonson’s reading of Shakespeare in the First Folio and ends with the promotion of the iconic image of Lawrence Olivier as Hamlet in that play’s graveyard scene, focuses in between on the citation of a racialized Blackness circulating...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

“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...

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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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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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