Conference Page Please visit the conference page for additional information. Call for Papers Please view the Call for Papers here on the conference page. For non-participants: The registration portal for non-participants will open soon (date TBD). For participants: All submissions are through the conference portal, which will open in mid-February. ♦ A tentative title and proposal are due by March 2nd. Please submit them here. ♦ The finalized paper title and short abstract are due by date TBD. ♦ Slideshow presentations are due by date TBD. We are only accepting Google Slides due to the hybrid nature of the…
Hilton Als delighted the audience in part one of the 2025-26 UCLA Art Council Distinguished Scholar Lectureship in Art History on Wednesday, March 5th. If you missed this talk on Diane Arbus, you can watch it on YouTube here. Hilton will be returning to the Billy Wilder Theater on Wednesday, April 15th at 7:30 PM for a conversation with Zoë Ryan, Director of the Hammer Museum. This discussion is sure to be insightful into the works of Diane Arbus and her influence on other artists, writers, and photographers. Please join us for Part Two of this lecture series. All…
The Program in Experimental Critical Theory presents Living on After Failure A Talk with Irving Goh Tuesday, April 14, 2026 5:00pm PDT Kaplan Hall Room #348 Advanced Registration Advanced registration is required by Friday, April 10, 2026. REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE About the Talk In this talk, Irving Goh will present on his latest book, Living On After Failure (Duke UP, 2025). He will share his thoughts on failure as failure, that is, failure without recuperation, failure as all negativity. Such a thinking of failure as a thorough impasse not only resists narratives of progress and ideologies…
Waiting on Forever by Franco The Creator Mbilizi. Image courtesy of Stephanie Bosch Santana. Friday, March 6, 2026 2:30pm Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) In person REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE About the Talk In this talk, Stephanie Bosch Santana discusses her first monograph, Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures, published by Northwestern University Press in 2025. Based on an unstudied archive of texts in English and Chichewa/Nyanja from Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, Forms of Mobility proposes alternate categories of fiction—migrant forms, township tales, weekend stories, pan African…
Meat is one of the most visible markers of Jewish distinctness and social separation. In his most recent book, John Efron argues that meat has played an especially important role in the formation of Jewish and Christian identities in Germany from the Middle Ages until today. To an extent not seen elsewhere in Europe, the importance of meat is reflected in many realms including the visual arts, literature, religion, politics, commerce, and home life. Studying the history of meat and its multiple meanings in Germany tells us much about the changing nature of German and German-Jewish identity, the links between…
The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust recovers a range of compelling voices that had been scarcely known or translated. Jewish authors from Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus, some writing in Yiddish and others in Russian, tell the stories of ordinary people living on after the massive devastation of the Holocaust on Soviet territory, depicting memories, conflicts, love, and loss. These are not stories only about how people died, but how they continued to live: an entire family legacy is reduced to a single tea cup, the now raspy voice of a telephone that once never…
In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, Black writers and visual artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works of memoir, poetry, fiction, painting and photomontage illuminate both the relationship between creativity and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory. Probing the boundaries of Holocaust memory and representation, this talk draws attention to a largely unrecognized artistic corpus…
Until recently, very few people knew about Rokhl Auerbach, a remarkable woman who survived the Holocaust and then dedicated her life to preserving the memories of its victims. Professor Samuel D. Kassow will discuss Auerbach’s memoir Warsaw Testament, which paints a vivid portrait of that city’s prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community atruction at the hands of the Nazis. This book received a National Jewish Book Award in the category of Holocaust Memoir. Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been been a visiting professor at many institutions…
Fostering public conversations about memory and justice, a reflection on Peru’s forced disappearances from 1980 to 2000. Documentary Screening: Este fue nuestro castigo, by Luis Cintora Wednesday March 11, 11:30 – 1:30 PM in Bunche Hall 10383 Guided Photo Exhibition: Percy Rojas (Ausencias Presentes) Thursday March 12, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM in Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Book Reading: Karina Pacheco’s Niños del pájaro azul, with Gisela Ortiz Thursday March 12, 4:00 PM in Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library
