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. The Welcome introduces the UCLA campus to the benefits of coursework and degrees in the Humanities. The program includes a word from the Dean of Humanities, current students...
Interested in learning more about the Department of Comparative Literature, its course offerings, and its major and minor programs? Join Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor David MacFadyen and the Department's staff in Kaplan Hall 348 for light refreshments and information about the exciting programs the the Department has to offer its undergraduate students! All students,...
Explore world language offered at UCLA, join language clubs, and learn about cultural activities on campus at the 2016 World Languages Day, hosted by the UCLA Language Alliance and the Division of Humanities. The event will feature informational tables, games, and activities to showcase the variety of languages/cultures taught at UCLA. 8 departments and 20 languages will be represented...
Kamal Aljafari’s filmography includes Recollection , Port of Memory and The Roof . He was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in New York, and in 2009/2010 was the Benjamin White Whitney Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Film Study Center. In 2010, he taught film at The New School...
What might it mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a problem, but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? Traversing literatures minor and major, Omnia El Shakry shows how postwar thinkers in Egypt translated and blended psychoanalytic theories with classical Islamic concepts. El Shakry explores how Freudian ideas of the unconscious...
In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making the region one of the original sites for the practice of...
The AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR LEVINASSIAN STUDIES* presents its third 2016-2017 lecture on “The Return of Ethics” Ethics and Otherness: Derrida, Levinas, and the Gaze of the Other in the Jewish American Wild West by Professor Eleanor Kaufman (Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies, UCLA) Presented in English Discussion moderated by Professor Lia Brozgal (UCLA) It is...
The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association (CLGSA) has just announced its forthcoming schedule. Sketched below, these events can investigated further by contacting the CLGSA directly. We hope to see you all––as often as possible!
You are invited to a workshop presentation of Prof. Dimitris Vardoulakis's new book: Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (Fordham University Press, 2017) This book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power...