Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium
Within queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that often mire the field in the US), especially in...
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Humanities Conference Room, Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Welcome Week Open House
Please join the Department of Comparative Literature for its annual Welcome Week Open House! Students from all majors are welcome to come learn about UCLA's exciting Comparative Literature undergraduate program! The Department offers:...
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Job Placement Workshop #1: Curriculum Vitae and Letters Workshop
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States -
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Job Placement Workshop #2: Supplementary Materials Workshop
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Comparative Literature-Edinburgh: Summer Travel Study Information Session
Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCome learn about the Comparative Literature-Edinburgh program, new for 2019. Each August, Edinburgh is home to the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), founded in 1947 and now the biggest arts celebration...
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The Human Chameleon: Hybrid Jews in Cinema
The lecture will explore representations of “chameleon” or hybrid Jewish figures in cinema: Jewish characters that change their appearance, transform their identity, infiltrate other cultures and express their Jewishness by...
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1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: The Matter of the Neighbor: Budd Schulberg, James Baldwin, and the Watts Writers Workshop
This talk explores the Watts Writers Workshop, founded in the heart of Watts by Jewish American writer Budd Schulberg immediately after the Watts Rebellion of 1965, and argues that...
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The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Hannah Arendt’s Message of Ill-Tidings
'It was not only their own misfortunes that the refugees carried with them from land to land, from continent to continent,' Hannah Arendt wrote, 'but the great misfortune of the...
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Paul Bové: “Language, Criticism, and the Intellectual Virtues”
Kaplan Hall 193Paul A. Bové (Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh) is the Editor of boundary 2, an international journal of literature and culture, published by Duke University Press. The journal has published...
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50th Anniversary Celebration!
Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar Room, Royce Hall 306 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAs part of UCLA’s Centennial Celebration, the Department of Comparative Literature is celebrating its 50th birthday on June 1 & 2, 2019. We will have two events. The first is a...