English Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Brenda Hillman's new book of poems is Cascadia (Wesleyan University Press).

-- submitted by Jeanette (nettie@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

The Ten Commandments: Ancient Text and Modern Contexts

A public forum sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies with the generous assistance of the Jerry and Joy Monkarsh Family, this series costs $55 for all 11 evenings ($25 for UCLA students with SID) or $10 per person per evening ($5 for UCLA students with SID. For further information or to receive a brochure, contact CJS at (310)825-5387.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Chris Looby talk - Thurs, Oct 11

QScholars: Faculty Research from Southern California

CHRISTOPHER LOOBY, Professor of English, UCLA

"A TALENT FOR THE DISAGREEABLE": ELIZABETH STODDARD'S PERVERSITY

4:00 pm, 355 Kinsey Hall. Thursday, October 11, 2001

Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902) once warned a young literary friend that she (Stoddard) was hard to get along with because she was incapable of polite dissimulation and driven to tell unpleasant truths. "I have not many good qualities of disposition . . . My father said once he never saw any human being with such a talent for the disagreeable." Being disagreeable-and writing disagreeably- was indeed Stoddard's great talent. But what passed for disagreeable writing in mid-nineteenth-century America is uncommonly revealing for us today. For Stoddard carefully violated the rules for proper womanly fiction in order to write frankly and experimentally about female passion, incestuous desire, masochistic fantasy, intergenerational sex, childhood cross-dressing, maternal fury, sibling hatred, erotic jealousy, and a variety of other perversities. What is most striking, however, is that she wrote about what we call heterosexuality as if it were just another among many alarming perversities-not the boring norm it would become but an exciting and dangerous new phenomenon in the world of bodies and desires. This lecture will focus on her novel The Morgesons (1862) and her children's book Lolly Dinks's Doings (1874).

Free & open to the public. For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/ or contact us at 310.206.0516 or lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and the department of English

-- submitted by Tammy Ho (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/events.html

Judith Stacey - Gay Male Intimacy & Kinship in LA

"FELLOW FAMILIES: STUDYING GAY MALE INTIMACY & KINSHIP IN L.A."

Friday, October 12, 2001. 279 Haines Hall. Noon - 1:30 PM

Professor Stacey will also participate in an ethnography lunch workshop with graduate students immediately following the talk (1:30 PM, 215 Haines Hall). Please RSVP (adenisse@ucla.edu) for the workshop.

Co-sponsored by Ethnographies, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program, and the Graduate Student Association.

-- submitted by Tammy Ho (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Opening Reception

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Tribute to James Merrill: J.D. McClatchy, Stephen Yenser, and Others

At the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood Village, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard at the corner of Wilshire and Westwood Blvds.

Underground parking is available beneath the museum for $3.

For more information, please call 310/443-7000

-- submitted by Michael Cohen (mcohen@humnet.ucla.edu)

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Pumpkins and Pigs: The Inner and Outer Fringes of Halloween"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

UC Regents' Lecturer: Patrick Stewart, "Shylock: Shakespeare's Alien"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

MOLLY McGARRY - "Ghosts of Futures Past"

MOLLY MCGARRY
Assistant Professor of History, UC Riverside

"GHOSTS OF FUTURES PAST: SPECTRAL SEXUALITIES IN 19th- CENTURY AMERICA"

This talk conjures the uncanny, spectral sexualities that haunt our queer past. Tracking a 19th-century history of apparitional manifestations from the spirit world, Professor McGarry explores the ways in which these subjects are and are not legible given current theorization of same- sex/queer/trans history in all its entanglements. In seances and through trance speaking, male mediums channeled female spirits, and female Spiritualists reembodied themselves as men. How can we theorize and historicize these subjects? Other scholars have unearthed a nineteenth- century queer past by digging into the records of courts and prisons to find sodomites, delved into diaries and letters for traces of lost relationships and the communities built around them, and turned to the case r1ecords of sexologists to find the invert, the pervert, and the deviant. In this vein, this talk explores how Spiritualism may have been a marker for an incipient, not yet materialized sexuality, a sexual dissidence outside the medico-juridical matrix, but also beyond the expected spaces of subculture.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

This talk is free & open to the public.

-- submitted by Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Studies Program (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/mcgarry.htm

"[North-] Westward Ho! Cultural Movement from the Antique World to Shakespeare's London"

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact reynoso@english.ucla.edu

Mona Simpson Talking About Her Work

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact reynoso@english.ucla.edu

The Earliest Breton Inscriptions

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu

Medieval Movie Night

Free double feature of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "Excalibur" presented by Melnitz Movies, the English Medieval Symposium and the Center for Student Programming.

Please come and join us for a 25th anniversary screening of arguably the "best" representation of the medieval period and the Arthurian legend on the screen followed by one of the most earnest attempts to translate the medieval, Arthurian world onto film.

Please pick up tickets at the box office at least 30 minutes before the beginning of the film. Seating and tickets are on a first come, first serve basis.

-- submitted by Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu

Lisa Duggan talk - THE NEW HOMONORMATIVTY - this Thursday

Andrew Sullivan and his cohort of "mainstream" gay writers (collected on the website of the Independent Gay Forum) do not constitute simply a single issue, assimilationist lobby at the conservative end of the spectrum of lgbt/q politics. These writers provide sexual equality rhetoric for the antiegalitarian, undemocratic project of neoliberalism. They are collectively producing a New Homonormativity that is seriously at odds with any and all progressive political agendas. This lecture examines the gender, economic, racial and nationalist arguments and antics of this cohort of influential writers.

This Thursday (Jan 10) 4pm in Kinsey 355 Free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/duggan.htm

Gina Nahai

Reception to follow. Please RSVP by January 11, 2002, 310-206-0961

Parking available in Lot 5, $6.

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact reynoso@english.ucla.edu

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Jennifer Clarvoe won the Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University for her first book of poems, Invisible Tender (2000).

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

One of this country's most celebrated poets, Anthony Hecht has published seven volumes of poems, the most recent of which is The Darkness and the Light (2001).

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

Annual History of the Book Lecture: "The Imaginary Library of Archbishop Theodore"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Green Thoughts, Green Shades: A Celebration of Renaissance and Contemporary Poetry

It has been arranged by Jonathan Post, English, UCLA

This year's Poetry Afternoon the Clark will feature some of our most distinguished contemporarty poets reading selections from the great lyricists of the English past as well as from their own work. The readers include Calvin Bedient, Eavan Boland, Anthony Hecht, Heather McHugh, and Stephen Yenser.

Reservations deadline: January 18

Admission: $5

-- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/

JENNIFER BRODY - Bodies, Boundaries & Frames

JENNIFER BRODY, Associate Professor of English & African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

BODIES,BOUNDARIES & FRAMES: "Queer" Readings in New Times

This lecture draws from Brody's current work-in-progress, The Style of Elements: Politically Performing Punctuation. She will discuss the ways in which different graphic/performance artists represent or "style" elements of punctuation such as the "dot." More specifically, the lecture will focus on selected texts by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, produced during her decade- long sojourn in 1960's New York. The lecture seeks to connect disparate artists (literary as well as visual) who work with concepts related to sexuality and punctuation.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

-- submitted by LGBTS Program (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/brody.htm

Richard Meyer Reading at LAGLC

A reception will follow the reading & proceeds from the night's book sales will benefit The Rainbow Floor, the first gay & lesbian residence hall at USC.

Thursday, Feb 7, 2002
7-9pm
Call for info/RSVP (323)860-7300

Advocate Gallery The Village at Ed Gould Plaza 1125 N. McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038 (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Blvd.)

-- submitted by LGBTS Program (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Torah in the Mouth: Oral and Written Transmission in Jewish Culture

TORAH IN THE MOUTH: ORAL AND WRITTEN TRANSMISSION IN JEWISH CULTURE

A conference convened by

JOSEPH NAGY (UCLA)

Conference Speakers:

SUSAN NIDITCH (Amherst College) "Preparing a Commentary on the Biblical Book of Judges: Confessions of a Student of Early and Oral Literatures"

MARTIN JAFFEE (U. of Washington) "Torah in the Mouth as a Rhetoric of Monotheism: Ideology, Oral Tradition, and the Social Exclusions of Rabbinic Disciple Communities"

YONA SABAR (UCLA) "Torah in the Mouth and Torah in the Heart: How Judaism Was Transmitted in a Minimally-literate Near Eastern Jewish Community"

DAN BEN-AMOS (U. of Pennsylvania) "Literacy and Orality: A Medieval Epic and a Modern Oral Tale"

Moderators:

William Schniedewind (UCLA)

Herbert Davidson (UCLA)

Arnold Band (UCLA)

Peter Tokofsky (UCLA)

Organized in conjunction with

The UCLA Faculty for the Study of Oral Tradition

National Endowment for the Humanities

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Donka Minkova (English), "Alliteration Rules! From Old to Middle English"

Not long ago, CMRS sponsored a program entitled "Doleful Dirge and Dress: Music for Mourning and Measured Merry- Making," reminding us that alliteration rules even today. Turning back to early English, Professor Minkova's talk will examine the evolution of the rules of alliterative verse composition from the 8th to the 14th century. She will argue that "alliteration" in early English verse was based on sound and not on letter; the term is, strictly speaking, a misnomer. An examination of the patterns of sound identity allows us to date sound changes with greater precision. The persistence of alliteration is an important component in the debate about orality and literacy in medieval English culture.

-- submitted by Tram Tran (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

A Poetry Reading by Jeredith Merrin

Reception to follow. Please RSVP by Friday, February 15, 2002, 310-206-0961.

Parking available in Lot 5, $6.

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact reynoso@english.ucla.edu

Internship Opportunities for English Majors

-- submitted by Kristina Louie (klouie@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact mquigley@college.ucla.edu

JOSE MUNOZ - QUEER POTENTIALITIES

JOSE MUNOZ Associate Professor, Performance Studies, New York University Author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999)

QUEER POTENTIALITIES: WARHOL, O'HARA & FUTURITY

Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:00 pm, 355 Kinsey Hall

This lecture examines the reception of the New York School of poetry and the Pop Art movement and argues that both movements' reception have been "degayed" and pitted against each other in a "good gay" v.s. "bad gay" binary. Focusing on Andy Warhol and Frank O'Hara as representatives of both movements, Muñoz identifies a queer utopian impulse in the work of both cultural workers. The writings of Frankfurt school scholar Ernst Bloch informs Muñoz's critical methodology and helps describe a notion of queer futurity that characterizes this work.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/munoz.html

Jest, Satire, Irony, and Deeper Meaning

A comedy by C. D. Grabbe, Music by C. M. Von Weber.

March 1 & 2 at 7:00 PM, and March 3 at 2:30 PM

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact fburwick@humnet.ucla.edu

Annual Shakespeare Symposium: "Hamlet"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact kennel@humnet.ucla.edu

Mark Seltzer

Reception to follow in Royce 306. Please RSVP by Thursday, March 7, 2002, 310-206-0961.

Parking available in Lot 5, $6.

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact reynoso@english.ucla.edu

"Who is Toni Negri and Why Are They Saying All Those Terrible Things About Him? Elements of a Pre-History of Empire"

a LECTURE by TIM MURPHY (University of Oklahoma) entitled

"Who is Toni Negri and Why Are They Saying All Those Terrible Things About Him? Elements of a Pre-History of Empire"

to be given on Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 4:00 pm in 1301 Rolfe Hall. Please join us. Refreshments will be provided.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

24th Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Sandra Alcosser is the author of Except by Nature, which won the James Laughlin Award from Academy of American Poets and was chosen by Eamon Grennan for the National Poetry Series in 1997.

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Adam Zagajewski is the author of many books of poems and essays, and he publishes regularly in the Time Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Partisan Review and The New Yorker.

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@english.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

ELO's State of the Arts Symposium

Many of the leading writers, critics, publishers and readers in the field of electronic literature will unite for three nights and two days of readings, demonstratons, and presentations. Keynote speakers include novelist Robert Coover, critic Katherine Hayles, and author and publisher Jason Epstein.

Information and registration is available on our website at http://www.eliterature.org/state. Early -bird registration discount is available through March 15.

-- submitted by Jessica Pressman (jesspres@ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jesspres@ucla.edu

On The Divide

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact reynoso@english.ucla.edu

This Thursday! KAREN OCAMB - Gay Big Bucks & Fat Cat Dykes

The first of the QUEER LOS ANGELES lectures...

KAREN OCAMB

"GAY BIG BUCKS & FAT CAT DYKES: How L.A.'s Checkbook Activism Changed the LGBT Movement"

Former Associate Producer at CBS Network News in New York, and an award-winning journalist who has written for the LGBT and mainstream press and helped pioneer multimedia gay news online. Ocamb is also on the Board of the Los Angeles Press Club and is a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association.

(Moira Kenney's talk has been rescheduled for May 30.)

Thursday, April 11, 2002. 4:00 pm, Public Policy 2270

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Charles Simic is the author of fourteen books. His poetry has appeared in translation all over the world. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The World Doesn't End and many other awards.

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@english.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

"THE PIT AND THE ROPE: JUDAH DISCOVERS JOSEPH"

AVIVAH ZORNBERG (Pardes Institute of Torah Studies)

on "The Pit and the Rope: Judah Discovers Joseph"

as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsors: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures; Department of Germanic Languages; Center for European and Russian Studies; Department of English; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies Program

-- submitted by (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

PHILL WILSON - "Until There's a Cure..."

PHILL WILSON, Executive Founder of the African American AIDS Policy and Training Institute

"UNTIL THERE'S A CURE..."

THURSDAY, April 25, 2002. 4:00 pm, Public Policy Bldg 2270.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Alice Fulton has published five volumes of poetry, most recently Sensual Math and Felt, and a book of essays, Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry.

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@english.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

RICHARD MEYER - Outlaws: Queer Art & Visual Culture in LA

RICHARD MEYER

"OUTLAWS: QUEER ART & VISUAL CULTURE IN LOS ANGELES"

Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Southern California, and the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth- Century American Art (2002)

Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 4pm. Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270.

All are welcome; open to the public.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html

Seventh Annual Marathon Reading

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@humnet.ucla.edu)

DENNIS ALTMAN - Queer LA in the Global Imaginary

DENNIS ALTMAN

"QUEER LA IN THE GLOBAL IMAGINARY"

Altman is a Professor of Politics, La Trobe University, Australia, and the author of The Homosexualization of America (1983), AIDS in the Mind of America(1986) , and Global Sex (2001).

Thursday, May 9, 2002 at 4pm. Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270.

All are welcome; open to the public.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html

Defoe's Footprints: A Conference in Honor of Maximillian E. Novak

—— Cosponsored by the Department of English, UCLA ——

Robinson Crusoe, startled by the sight of a human footprint, embodied a new homo economicus—overcoming his fear in order to instill fear, threatened by God, nature, and other human beings yet shaping, even in disaster, what seems to be the whole universe to his ends. Defoe's stories may be about a man surviving on an island or a woman surviving in the city; they may bristle with whole populations fleeing disease or accumulating fortunes; they may turn upon common human pettiness or grand imperial ideas. But whatever his topics, Defoe puts into brilliant imaginative form an extraordinary number of what we know are still our social contradictions. Whether we consider his portrayals of the commodification of the imagination, the isolated self, sexual power, the knotting together of religion and capitalism, the family, science, economics, technology, or racial ideas—these and many other topics make talking about Defoe interesting at any time and any place.

But on this occasion to discuss Defoe we shall at the same time celebrate the career of Professor Maximillian E. Novak. The new homo economicus in Defoe's works found one of its most important contemporary interpreters in Max Novak. From his first monographs on Defoe to his recent biography, Professor Novak has continually shaped and enlivened our understanding of one of the greatest of European novelists.

This conference will also coincide with the publication of Teaching Robinson Crusoe, a volume edited by Maximillian Novak and Carl Fisher. One conference session will be devoted to that novel: talks on Robinson Crusoe will be followed by a panel in which several contributors to the Novak and Fisher volume will join to consider issues involved in teaching the work.

Registration deadline—May 24.

Registration fees—

UC faculty and staff: $15

Students with ID: no charge

Others: $25

Fees include the cost of lunches and other refreshments.

-- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/

"Women and Renaissance Theater: Playwrights and Performers"

Advance registration is strongly recommended. No charge for students, UCLA faculty and staff, and members of the CMRS Council. All others, $10. Lunch available for an additional charge. To register, or for more information, contact the CMRS 310-825-1880 or cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Jesus, Gentiles and the Synagogue: The Real Origins of Christianity"

PAULA FREDRIKSEN (Boston University)

on "JESUS, GENTILES, AND THE SYNAGOGUE: THE REAL ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsors: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for European & Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@english.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

TERRY WOLVERTON - Queer Writing from the Streets of LA

TERRY WOLVERTON

"QUEER WRITING FROM THE STREETS OF L.A."

Wolverton is the author of the novel Bailey's Beads, a finalist in the American Library Association's Gay and Lesbian Book Awards for 1997, and about which Kirkus Reviews said, "her ambitious debut features a stark but melodious prose style -- confident style and affecting characters." She has also published two collections of poetry: Black Slip, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 1993, and Mystery Bruise. Her fiction, poetry, essays and drama have been published in periodicals internationally, and widely anthologized. A memoir, Insurgent Muse, will be published by City Lights Books in 2002, and a novel in poems, Embers, will be published by Red Hen Press in 2003.

Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 4pm.

Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270.

All are welcome; open to the public.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html

A Distant Chorus: Women's Voices in Welsh Folklore

Dr. Wood will also be speaking at the "Illuminated Folklorist" conference to be held this weekend (May 17-19) in Royce 314, where some of the talks will touch on Celtic topics. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/cmrs/folklorist/.

-- submitted by Michael Cohen (mcohen@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/opm/news.html

The Theatre of Chay Yew

THE THEATRE OF CHAY YEW: A Conversation with the Playwright and Director Chay Yew and Guests, moderated by David Roman.

Yew's plays include Porcelain, A Language of Their Own, A Beautiful Country, and Wonderland. Among the numerous awards Yew has received are the GLAAD Media Award, APGF's Community Visibility Award, and the Robert Chesley Award. His plays have also been nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Drama; a new volume of plays, Hyphenated American Plays, will be published by Grove this fall. A member of the New Dramatists, Yew is also the Director of the Taper's Asian Theatre Workshop, and the Artistic Director of the Northwest Asian American Theatre in Seattle.

Roman is an associate professor of English and American Studies, University of Southern California, author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, & AIDS (1998), and co-editor of O Solo Homo (1998).

Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 4pm.

Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270.

All are welcome; open to the public.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html

"Wagner, Kafka, Rosenzweig on Soil, Blood, Language"

ELISABETH WEBER (UC Santa Barbara)

on "Wagner, Kafka, Rosenzweig on Soil, Blood, Language" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsored by:

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center for European and Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: Biblical Texts in Historical Contexts"

MARY ANN TOLBERT (Graduate Theological Union)

on

"HOMOEROTICISM IN THE BIBLICAL WORLD: BIBLICAL TEXTS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTS"

as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Department of Germanic Languages

Department of English

UCLA Hillel

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Center for European & Russian Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

-- submitted by spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

MOIRA KENNEY - How Gay Is LA?

A Graduate of UCLA, Kenney is a Senior Planner and Policy Analyst for the San Francisco Children and Families Commission, and the author of Mapping Gay L.A. (2001)

Thursday, May 30, 2002 4:00 pm, Public Policy 2270

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html

"New Reflections of Spinoza's Excommunication"

RICHARD POPKIN (UCLA, Emeritus)

on

"NEW REFLECTIONS OF SPINOZA'S EXCOMMUNICATION"

as part of our ongoing series on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsors:

UCLA Department of English

UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

UCLA Department of Germanic Languages

UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

UCLA Hillel

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@english.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

Defoe's Footprints: A Conference in Honor of Maximillian E. Novak

Cosponsored by the Department of English, UCLA

Robinson Crusoe, startled by the sight of a human footprint, embodied a new homo economicus - overcoming his fear in order to instill fear, threatened by God, nature, and other human beings yet shaping, even in disaster, what seems to be the whole universe to his ends. Defoe's stories may be about a man surviving on an island or a woman surviving in the city; they may bristle with whole populations fleeing disease or accumulating fortunes; they may turn upon common human pettiness or grand imperial ideas. But whatever his topics, Defoe puts into brilliant imaginative form an extraordinary number of what we know are still our social contradictions. Whether we consider his portrayals of the commodification of the imagination, the isolated self, sexual power, the knotting together of religion and capitalism, the family, science, economics, technology, or racial ideas - these and many other topics make talking about Defoe interesting at any time and any place.

But on this occasion to discuss Defoe we shall at the same time celebrate the career of Professor Maximillian E. Novak. The new homo economicus in Defoe's works found one of its most important contemporary interpreters in Max Novak. From his first monographs on Defoe to his recent biography, Professor Novak has continually shaped and enlivened our understanding of one of the greatest of European novelists.

This conference will also coincide with the publication of Teaching Robinson Crusoe, a volume edited by Maximillian Novak and Carl Fisher. One conference session will be devoted to that novel: talks on Robinson Crusoe will be followed b a panel in which several contributors to the Novak and Fisher volume will join to consider issues involved in teaching the work.

Registration deadline: May 24

Registration Fees:

UC Faculty and Staff: $15

Students with ID: No Charge

All Others: $25

Fees include the cost of lunches and other refreshments.

-- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/

"Documenting Human Insignificance: the Idea of the Copernican Revolution in Popular Science Writing"

"Documenting Human Insignificance: the Idea of the Copernican Revolution in Popular Science Writing"

Co-sponsored by: The UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies, Department of English, Department of History, The Oral Tradition Studies Program

Professor Schrempp, a folklorist and anthropologist at the Folklore Institute of Indiana University, is the author of "Magical Arrows: The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe" (Univ. Wisc. P, 1992), a systematic study of the supposed difference between "scientific" thinking and "mythopoeic" thinking, as well as various articles on mythology, philosophy, and science. A collection of essays entitled "Myth: A New Symposium" co-edited by William Hansen and our speaker is about to appear from Indiana University Press, and Professor Schrempp is currently completing a new monograph entitled "Mythic Visions: A Study of Popular Science Writing", which his talk will preview.

This event is free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu

University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference

We welcome papers or panels on all aspects of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period, nationality, discipline, or medium. We encourage literary subjects (including poetry, pre-modern narrative, and film), as well as cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics (including folklore, history, law, philosophy, and science).

Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Conference participants must join the Society for the Study of Narrative.

-- submitted by Nancy Giganti (nancyg@humnet.ucla.edu)

University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference

We welcome papers or panels on all aspects of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period, nationality, discipline, or medium. We encourage literary subjects (including poetry, pre-modern narrative, and film), as well as cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics (including folklore, history, law, philosophy, and science).

Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Conference participants must join the Society for the Study of Narrative.

For more information visit www.vanderbilt.edu/narrative

-- submitted by Nancy Giganti (nancyg@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact narcon03@socrates.berkeley.edu