Fall 2020 Welcome Week Open House!
Please join the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature for our Fall 2020 Welcome Week Open House! This event will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, September 30th at 3:00 p.m....
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UC Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA | Alex Ross: Wagner & Hollywood
FeaturedTHURSDAY DEC 3, 2020 | 5 PM PST Co-presented with the UCLA Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology and the Hammer Museum UC Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA in the...
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Book Talk: Domenico Ingenito’s “Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry”
Book Launch: Domenico Ingenito's Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry (Brill, 2020) A conversation with Paul Losensky (Indiana University) and Jane Mikkelson (University...
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Hebrew Poetry of Life & Love: Rachel Bluwstein, Leah Goldberg and Naomi Shemer
Israeli poetesses Leah Goldberg (left), Rachel Bluwstein, and Naomi Shemer. (Courtesy: Grubner/Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Wikimedia.org; and Wikipedia, respectively; cropped). Used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Nili Alon Amit, a Visiting...
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Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua’s Retrospective Imagination
Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua's Retrospective Imagination Thursday, April 22 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Pacific Time RSVP Here Yael Halevi-Wise will talk about her recent book, The Retrospective...
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The Art of Leaving: A Conversation with Ayelet Tsabari
Acclaimed Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her memoir, "The Art of Leaving" and its themes of longing and belonging, growing up Mizrahi in Israel, and reclaiming her Yemeni identity....
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Annual Edward W. Said Lecture – Alexander Weheliye: “Schwarz-Sein: Black Life Beyond the Human”
FeaturedDate and Time: Friday, May 14, 2021 from 12:00-1:30 PM PST Speaker: Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern University Moderator: Shu-mei Shih, Inaugural edward w. said professor of comparative literature, UCLA Opening Remarks:...
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Lecture Series – UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Adrián I. P-Flores
"Traversing Suicide: The Unthought of Blackness in the Suicidological Imagination" Co-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Program in Experimental Critical Theory RSVP HERE About the Lecture This talk...
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Lecture Series – Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University
Featured"Petrarch’s African Canzoniere: Lyric Anthropology and the Question of Race" with Ayesha Ramachandran (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University) Il PetrarcaFrontispiece.Lyons: per Gioanni de Tournes, 1550 (The...
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Working Group in Memory Studies: Discussion with Gil Hochberg on New Book “Becoming Palestine”
On Monday, February 7th from 1:00-2:00 PM PST, the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies will host a discussion over Zoom with Professor Gil Hochberg of Columbia University on her...