Name: Lecture Series – UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Adrián I. P-Flores
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January 2020
“‘Ten Tongues and Ten Mouths’: Reading the Iliad in post-9/11 Pakistan” – “UCLA Comparative Literature in the World” Lecture by Alumnae Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan

January 14, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Kaplan Hall 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Please join the Department of Comparative Literature on Tuesday, January 14th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. for a lecture from Professor Maryam Wasif Khan of the Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences entitled, “‘Ten Tongues and Ten Mouths’: Reading the Iliad in post-9/11 Pakistan.” This event is...
May 2020
[Event Canceled Due to Campus Closure] 7th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies

May 11, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Kaplan Hall 193 CA, United States

Please join the Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures on Monday, May 11th at 5:00 p.m. for a lecture from Professor Maureen Freely, University of Warwick, entitled, "DRAGOMAN: Translators in the World." This event is part of the 7th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation...
September 2020
Fall 2020 Welcome Week Open House!

September 30, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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. (right after the Humanities Welcome). The Open House will be a great opportunity to meet both new and continuing students, ask questions of our department...
December 2020
UC Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA | Alex Ross: Wagner & Hollywood

Featured December 3, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

THURSDAY 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 Department of Comparative Literature Alex Ross, the longtime music critic of The New Yorker, discusses his recently released third book, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow...
January 2021
Book Talk: Domenico Ingenito’s “Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry”

January 27, 2021 @ 10:00 am

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 of Virginia) Wednesday, January 27, 2021 10:00 AM (Pacific Time) Click Here to RSVP Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in...
February 2021
Hebrew Poetry of Life & Love: Rachel Bluwstein, Leah Goldberg and Naomi Shemer

February 10, 2021 @ 11:00 am

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 Scholar at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, will discuss the works of several important Israeli poetesses Rachel Bluwstein and Leah Goldberg, and...
April 2021
Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua’s Retrospective Imagination

April 22, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

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 Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua(2020), which examines the work and ethos of one of Israel's foremost contemporary authors. An internationally-recognized novelist, the New York Times has...
The Art of Leaving: A Conversation with Ayelet Tsabari

April 29, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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. She will be joined by discussant Rabbi Miriyam Glazer, Emerita Professor of Literature at American Jewish University. RSVP HERE Presented by the Y&S...
May 2021
Annual Edward W. Said Lecture – Alexander Weheliye: “Schwarz-Sein: Black Life Beyond the Human”

Featured May 14, 2021 @ 12:00 pm

Date 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: David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA Co-sponsored by the Edward W. Said Professorship in Comparative Literature and “Comparative Thinking in the Age of Black...
Lecture Series – UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Adrián I. P-Flores

May 18, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

"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 poses a fundamental question: “Is Black suicide possible?” This question aims to excavate, within the contemporary field of suicidology, the systematic riveting of blackness to...

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