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SUMMARY:Roundtable on Banu Bargu's Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal | Program in Experimental Critical Theory
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Experimental Critical Theory Program and UC Berkeley Labor\, Philosophy\, and Change Working Group Present:\n  \n\n  \nRoundtable on Banu Bargu’s Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal \n  \n  \nFriday\, May 22\, 2026 \n2:00 – 5:00 pm \nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) \n415 Portola Plaza \nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nIn person only \n  \nAdvanced registration is required by Wednesday\, May 20\, 2026. \nREGISTER HERE \n  \nDisembodiment examines self-destruction\, self-injury\, and radical self-endangerment as unconventional performances of refusal that are erased\, marginalized\, and distorted by metanarratives of history as progress and agency as freedom. From the death-acts of enslaved Africans\, hunger strikes of woman suffragists\, and Gandhian fasting practices to the self-incineration of Bouazizi\, hunger and thirst strikes in the Maze and Guantánamo\, and lip-sewing practices of migrants and asylum seekers at the borders of the Global North today\, Bargu traces a bleak repertoire of contention performed by the oppressed. As a work in global critical theory whose normative compass is the suffering body\, Disembodiment brings together corporeal enactments of defiance from the Global South with major thinkers of Western modernity and prominent critical-theoretical traditions of the twentieth century. \n  \nPANELISTS \n\nDylan Fagan (Tracing Patterns Foundation)\nEleanor Kaufman (UCLA)\nNejat Kedir (UC Berkeley)\nWarren Montag (Occidental College)\nDavide Panagia (UCLA)\nJoseph Serrano (UC Berkeley)\n\n  \nRESPONSE \n\nBanu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz)\n\nBanu Bargu is professor in History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she is also affiliated graduate faculty in Politics and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Bargu is a political theorist\, whose transdisciplinary research draws upon continental philosophy\, anthropology\, global history\, and Middle East studies around questions of the body\, resistance practices\, exceptional regimes\, violence\, and carcerality. She is the author of two books: Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford UP\, 2024)\, which is the co-winner of the 2025 David Easton Award\, and Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP\, 2014)\, which was the recipient of the 2015 First Book Award\, both given by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association. Banu Bargu currently serves as the editor of Political Theory. \n  \nAbout the Program in Experimental Critical Theory \nThe focus of the 2025-2026 Experimental Critical Theory seminar (COM LIT250)\, taught by Professor Eleanor Kaufman\, is “Structure.” \n  \nParking for Campus Visitors \nThe closest parking structures to Kaplan Hall are Structure 2\, Structure 3 North\, Structure 4 and Structure 5. Parking rates vary by structure\, so please refer to the rates here. Guest parking is available on a first come\, first served basis. Please plan on arriving early to the event if you are not familiar with the campus or parking structures. \n  \nThe UCLA Comparative Literature department is not responsible for any tickets or citations received by event attendees. For further assistance\, please contact the UCLA Transportation department directly. \n  \nVISITOR PARKING AREAS: \n♦ Structure 2: Structure 2 has pay stations for visitors on the first and second floors. These floors are the only floors with visitor parking; there are also signs indicating which parking stalls are for visitors. The Google Maps link for the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”) is here. \n♦ Structure 3 North: Parking Structure 3 North\, Visitor’s Section is located at 215 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA 90024. The parking structure has visitor parking in levels 1\, 2 and 3. The Google Maps link to the visitor’s section (“Pay Station Parking”) is here. \n♦ Structure 4: Parking Structure 4\, Visitor’s Section is located at 221 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. The parking structure has visitor parking in level 1\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. The Google Maps link to the visitor’s section is here . \n♦ Structure 5: Parking Structure 5\, Visitor’s Section is located at 405 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. The parking structure has visitor parking in both levels 4 and 6\, and the entrance will state “Visitor’s Section” that guests enter through. The link to the visitor’s section is here . \n  \nHOW TO PAY FOR PARKING:\nSelf-service pay stations are located in all visitor parking areas. Visitors must pay for parking BEFORE they leave their vehicles. Visitor parking permits are not valid in parking stalls outside of the visitor parking section of the structure and stalls posted for Blue and X permits or otherwise reserved.  \n\nAll self-service pay stations use pay-by-plate technology.\n2.Once parked\, go to the nearest parking pay station\n3. Enter your license plate number. If you do not have a license plate number\, please enter the last 6 (six) digits of your Vehicle ID Number (VIN). Your VIN can be found on the driver’s side door or the lower driver’s side of the windshield.\n4. Choose the amount of time that you would like to spend on campus.\n5. Pay using the exact cash amount or with a credit card. For those using their VIN\, please place your receipt on your dashboard\, otherwise nothing else is required. Pay stations do not provide change. There are no refunds for pay station purchases.\n\n  \nAdditional visitor parking information can be found on the UCLA Transportation website.
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SUMMARY:Southernmost Sonnets: A Poetry Reading with Leo Boix
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a poetry reading with visiting poet\, Leo Boix on October 6\, 2026. \nKaplan Hall 193\, 4pm-5pm\, followed by a reception. Open to all. \n  \nStudents interested in participating in a poetry workshop\, “The Sonnet\, the Polyglot Poem and the Borderland: Writing Between Forms\, Languages and Places\,” with Leo Boix should fill out this form to participate. \n  \nLeo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet\, born in Argentina and based in London\, whose work spans continents\, languages\, and identities. His second collection\, Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus\, 2025)\, was shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and praised by The Guardian\, The Telegraph\, and The Morning Star for its lyrical power and fearless engagement with queer\, diasporic experience. Boix’s debut English collection\, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto & Windus\, 2021)\, was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice and named one of The Guardian’s top five poetry books of the year. Boix is the editor and lead translator of the groundbreaking Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Poetry(Fourteen Publishing)\, and has introduced English-speaking audiences to major Latin American voices including Diana Bellessi\, Jorge Eduardo Eielson\, and José Watanabe. His poems appear in POETRY\, The Poetry Review\, Poetry London\, PN Review\, World Literature Today\, and in many anthologies such as 100 Queer Poems (Vintage) and The Forward Book of Poetry. A fellow of The Complete Works program\, he co-directs Un Nuevo Sol\, nurturing Latinx writers in the UK. His work has been commissioned by Tate Modern\, Kew Gardens\, Projekt Europa and the National Poetry Library\, earning prizes including the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize\, the Keats-Shelley Prize\, and a PEN Award. \n  \nFor any questions or concerns\, please email Rebecca Foote (rfoote@english.ucla.edu) \nWe hope to see you there! \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the Departments of English\, CCAS\, and Comparative Literature\, as well as the UCI Latinx Humanities Research Cluster. 
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SUMMARY:The Battle of Algiers – 60th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive\n\n\n\n  \nFree admission. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. \nSee additional event information. \n  \nIn person: Q&A with UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and UCLA Comparative Literature Professor Nouri Gana. \n60 years after its first screening in Algiers\, The Battle of Algiers has lost none of its political punch. Premiering internationally at the 1966 Venice Film Festival\, where it won the Golden Lion\, the film was celebrated for the audacity with which it confronted the still-raw history of French colonialism and the Algerian struggle for independence. In France\, however\, it remained effectively banned for years. Its extraordinary political afterlife has been equally paradoxical: a film embraced by anticolonial and revolutionary movements around the world has also been studied by military and counterinsurgency strategists\, including at the Pentagon during the Iraq War. \nStarring almost exclusively nonprofessional actors and shot entirely on location in Algiers in a strikingly realist\, quasi-documentary style\, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film reconstructs the pivotal 1957 Battle of Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). Beginning with French paratroopers closing in on FLN militant Ali La Pointe\, the film moves backward to trace his politicization and the escalating confrontation between the National Liberation Front and the French colonial state. Yet The Battle of Algiers is less the story of an individual revolutionary than of a people becoming a political subject. \nMade shortly before the manifestos that would theorize “Third Cinema\,” the film became one of its enduring touchstones: cinema conceived not simply as representation but as intervention. Its unsettling treatment of colonialism\, revolutionary violence\, torture and collective resistance continues to raise urgent questions about political violence\, national liberation and the unfinished work of decolonization. \nNote written by UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and UCLA Comparative Literature Professor Nouri Gana. \nHER WEDDING NIGHT\nYear: 1966 Country: Italy / Algeria Language: Arabic\, English and French with English subtitles Runtime: 122 min. Digital. B&W. \nDirector: Gillo Pontecorvo. Screenwriters: Gillo Pontecorvo\, Franco Solinas. With: Brahim Hadjadj\, Mohamed Ben Kassen\, Yacef Saâdi.
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LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Trouble with Ghosts | Book talk with Martine Beugnet and Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli | Program in Experimental Critical Theory
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