A workshop with Christian David Alvarado KAPLAN HALL ROOM #348 1:00-2:30pm Workshop 2:30-3:00pm Reception This workshop is open to UCLA Comparative Literature graduate students, UCLA English graduate students, and UCLA African Studies Center students. Related Document: Workshop Chapter The chapter we will be discussing in this workshop examines a key episode in the...
Friday, April 18, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #193 (first floor) 4:00pm Light refreshments will be provided This talk is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory, and the California Forum of the Lacanian Field. About the Talk When the subject’s encounter with something impossible to bear...
A Talk with Anna Kornbluh Tuesday, May 6, 2025 bUNCHE HALL ROOM #4357 (FOURTH floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of...
A Talk with Hosam Aboul-Ela Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Political Science, the Department of European Languages...
A Conversation with Alexis Tadié THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY 12PM PST ON 5/19/25 Wednesday, May 21, 2025 3:00-5:00pm PST Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) This talk is part of the Edward W. Said Series organized by Dr. Anjali Prabhu, Professor and Edward W. Said Chair in Comparative Literature....
A Talk with Michael Hardt Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Kaplan Hall Room #193 (First floor) 4:00-6:00pm Talk 6:00pm Reception This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Political Science, the Department of European Languages...
October 17, 2025: 4:00-7:00 pm PST October 18, 2025: 10:30 am-6:30 pm PST Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) In person and Zoom hybrid REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE In person attendance is encouraged but Zoom attendance also available. Your advance registration will help determine the event catering order. The Zoom meeting link will be...
Founded in fall 2018, the Working Group in Memory Studies brings together faculty and graduate students from across the humanities and social sciences who are interested in the interdisciplinary field of cultural memory studies. Cultural memory studies focuses on the dynamic interplay between the past and the present in local, national, and transnational...
The UCLA Comparative Literature department invites faculty and students to the annual Holiday Celebration on Friday, December 5th from 2-4pm in Kaplan 348. Join fellow faculty and students as we mark the end of the year with hot chocolate & cookies, and an optional book swap. Interested in participating in the optional book swap? Please bring...