The Humanities Welcome is an annual event held at the beginning of the academic year that invites faculty, staff and students to come together to showcase the Humanities at UCLA. At the event, we introduce the UCLA campus to the benefits of coursework and degrees in the Humanities. The program includes an introduction from the Dean of...
Efraín Kristal, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature requests the presence of your company to the Michael Henry Heim Annual Memorial Lecture In Translation and Translation Studies with a special lecture, "Transnational vs. National Literature " by novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić. In her lecture, "Transnational vs. National Literature" Dubravka Ugrešić will address what it means...
The Department of Comparative Literature invites you to a special lecture by Professor Yvonne Lindqvist of The Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies (Tolk- och översättarinstitutet), Department of Swedish and Multilingualism, Stockholm University. More than 71% of all translated literature in Sweden today uses English as the source language. In her talk "Bibliomigrancy on the Global Translation Field: Contemporary French Caribbean Literature Translated...
Last year Professor Cohen hosted a major international conference at the National Library in Paris on Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, which appeared on its author’s instructions 50 years after his death. Given its contents, this publication warrants a reconsideration of the role Judaism played in Heidegger’s philosophical views. Professor Cohen is ideally suited to address...