Events

"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...

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 new book, entitled Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future. UCLA Professors Rachel Lee and Saree Makdisi will respond. RSVP HERE    

On Thursday, February 8 from 10:00-11:30 am in 348 Kaplan, the Department of Comparative Literature will host Prof. Russ Castronovo (Wisconsin-Madison) for a discussion of his new book American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability (Princeton UP, 2023). Two chapters from the book, which will serve as the basis of the discussion, are available here.