Events

Shannon Speed (Director of American Indian Studies Center; Anthropology/Gender Studies/American Indian Studies, UCLA) This lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality, Decoloniality, and Interpretation”, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). The Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of...

Gisèle Sapiro (Sociology, EHESS/CNRS, Paris) Register to attend via Zoom This event will only be held virtually via Zoom.  In this public seminar, Professor Sapiro will explore the role of intermediaries and mediators in the process of how literary works cross borders (or not). Based on Bourdieu's analysis of the social conditions of international circulation...

Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (Department of Social & Cultural Analysis (SCA), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), New York University) Inaugural Dean of Humanities’ Lecture in Critical Humanistic Inquiry Thursday, May 2, 2024 5 pm – 6 pm Hershey Hall Salon RSVP to attend in person RSVP to attend via Zoom Followed by a Reception...

Kathrin Thiele (Director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG); Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University) RSVP to attend in person RSVP to attend via Zoom In this talk I want to approach relationality as “ternary structure,” and explicate what kind of conceptual and practical shifts such onto-epistemological proposition enables. The...

Please join us on September 25th from 11-12pm in Kaplan 348! Light refreshments will be served. RSVP HERE  

  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...