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
This year’s lecture will be presented by Professor David Schneller, Assistant Professor of Art History, on Monday, March 9, 2026. All are welcome but kindly RSVP in advance by emailing: ycastellanos@support.ucla.edu or call (310) 825-0913 by March 2.
This lecture will be held virtually in Dr. Nina Horisaki-Christens’ AH C170A course. All are welcome to attend! Recolonizing the Museum and the GLAM-work of AI This talk addresses the partnerships forged between the GLAM sector and the tech industry, which have been an essential component of AI’s development, particularly in the field of computer vision. It argues that this partnership reprises the colonialist origins of the Euro-American museum for the modern global economy.
