Comparative Literature Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Open House

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

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LECTURE SERIES, #1 - RANJI KHANNA AND NATALIE MELAS

First Lecture in the Series

Co-Sponsored by Dept. of French & Francophone Studies

RANJI KHANNA (Duke University) “Algeria Cuts”

and

NATALIE MELAS (Cornell University) “Equivalence”

The lecture takes place on 10/25/05 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

RANJANA KHANNA received her PhD in Women's Studies at the University of York, U.K., and is currently Associate Professor of English, the Literature Program, and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003). She has published on a variety of subjects ranging from feminism, film, autobiography, new configurations of Area Studies in the post-Cold War era, torture and terrorism, and psychoanalysis. Her talk is taken from her forthcoming book Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present (Stanford University Press, 2006). Her current work in progress is a book manuscript tentatively titled “Asylum: The Concept and the Practice.”

NATALIE MELAS received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (English, French, Ancient Greek) from UC Berkeley and is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her areas of interest include transcultural theory (between postcolonialism and globalism), the politics of disciplinary histories, cultural comparison, postcolonial neo-formalism, turn-of- the-century English literature, Anglophone and especially Francophone Caribbean literature and theory, modern reconfigurations of antiquity, Homer. She has published essays on the fate of the humanities in the contemporary university, on incommensurability, on Joseph Conrad, and on French Caribbean Literature. Her talk is taken from her forthcoming book, All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison (Stanford University Press, 2006).

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

"THINKING WITH LITERATURE", a lecture by Peggy Kamuf

“WHAT IS COMPARATIVE LITERATURE?”

Second Lecture in the Series

PEGGY KAMUF (Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature - University of Southern California)

“THINKING WITH LITERATURE”

This lecture takes place on Tuesday November 2, 2005 at 5:00 pm in the Morris Seminar Room 306 Royce Hall.

Peggy Kamuf's books have dealt with 17th and 18th-century French fiction (Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise, 1982), the theory of the signature in Derrida, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf (Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship, 1988) and the institutionalization of literary studies in France from the Revolution to 1914 (The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction, 1997). She has also published numerous essays in feminist anthologies (on Foucault, Derrida, Cixous) and on literary theory. Many of these essays are collected in her Book of Addresses (2004). She is the editor of two collections of essays by Derrida: A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (1991) and Without Alibi (2002), as well as a special journal issue on Jean-Luc Nancy. She is an active translator, principally of texts by Derrida, but also by Nancy and Serge Leclaire. In 1995, she received the Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award, in 1998 she was invited to teach at the Centre d'Études Féminines at the Université de Paris VIII, and in 2002 she was the invited senior fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell. Her research concerns deconstructive literary theory, which she also pursues through her interest in American literature.

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

Conference: "JEWISH LA--THEN AND NOW"

"JEWISH LA-- THEN AND NOW"

A three-day national conference on the history of Los Angeles Jews.

Day 1: LA JEWISH STORIES -- Saturday, November 12, 6-9PM at the Skirball Cultural Center

Day 2: JEWISH LA INSIDE AND OUT -- Sunday, November 13, 10AM-6PM at the Autry National Center

Day 3: WHAT'S WESTERN ABOUT THE LA JEWISH EXPERIENCE? -- Monday, November 14, 10AM-6PM at the UCLA Faculty Center

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

For more information, please visit www.lajh.org.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.lajh.org

Seminar: "DOV SADAN: A ZIONIST LITERARY THEORY"

Presents

“DOV SADAN: A ZIONIST LITERARY THEORY”

A Seminar on Jewish Culture

By: ARNOLD BAND (UCLA)

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 • 236 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"In the Fear of Mimesis is the Beginning of Theory. And Now?" - a lecture by Haun Saussy

the Third Lecture in their Lecture Series "What is Comparative Literature?"

HAUN SAUSSY (Yale University)

“In the Fear of Mimesis is the Beginning of Theory. And Now?”

The lecture will take place on January 19, 2006 at 4:00 pm in the Faculty Center Downstairs Lounge.

Haun Saussy is Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University. He is tthe author of "The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic" (Stanford UP, 1993) and "Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001). He has also edited the American Comparative Literature Association's 2004 report on the state of the discipline. His articles published in journals and collections address topics such as the imaginary universal languages of Athanasius Kircher, Chinese musicology, the great Qing-dynasty novel Honglou meng, the current situation and theoretical perplexities of comparative literature, the history of the idea of oral literature, Haitian literature, health care for the global poor, and contemporary art. He is currently working on a book about the concept of rhythm in psychology, linguistics, literature and folklore.

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

CJS SEMINAR: "Faithful Renderings: Jewish Difference and the Practice of Translation"

"Faithful Renderings: Jewish Difference and the Practice of Translation"

A Faculty/Student Workshop

By NAOMI SEIDMAN (Graduate Theological Union)

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: "Western Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Why They Failed"

“Western Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Why They Failed”

A Seminar on Jewish Culture

By ELEANOR KAUFMAN (UCLA)

Thursday, January 26, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

A UCLA Teach-In: Defending Academic Freedom

Defending Academic Freedom

Date: Tuesday, January 31

Time: 5 - 7 p.m

Place: Dodd Hall, Room 147, UCLA

Some 30 UCLA faculty have been targeted for their political ideas by a small alumni group that is linked to a national radical conservative movement. Dubbed “the dirty thirty” by the alumni group, the faculty have renamed themselves “In Good Company.” Several will appear in a forum to discuss:

• What is academic freedom? Why is it under attack?

• What forces lie behind the anti-academic freedom movement?

• What is at stake for the university community — students, faculty, and staff?

• What is the role of the academic/intellectual in American society?

• How can students and faculty defend civil liberties?

Speakers include: Dr. Ellen DuBois, History Department

Dr. Saree Makdisi, English Department

Dr. Vinay Lal, History Department

Dr. Sondra Hale, Anthropology Department and Women’s Studies Program

Sponsors: In Good Company, University Council-AFT, Student Alliance for Freedom in Education, UCLA Departments of History, Women’s Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and Comparative Literature

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

Department of French and Francophone Studies presents the third Modernist Search Candidate Job Talk

-- submitted by Danielle (danielle@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Looking Back on "Literary Theory"

RICHARD RORTY (Stanford University)

LOOKING BACK ON "LITERARY THEORY"

This lecture will take place on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

Richard Rorty is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of a vast body of work and his books include "Consequences of Pragmatism, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity", "Truth, Politics, and ‘Post-Modernism’", and his most recent book "Philosophy and Social Hope".

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

An American Homer for the Twentieth Century: “The Iliad and Odyssey in Great Books Courses”, a lecture by Seth Schein

SETH SCHEIN Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics (University of California, Davis)

An American Homer for the Twentieth Century: “The Iliad and Odyssey in Great Books Courses”

This lecture will take place on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 1:00 pm in 236 Royce Hall. Light refreshements will be provided.

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

Lecture by Professor Katerina Zacharia, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles entitled 'Reel' Greek Nationalism

Katerina Zacharia Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

'REEL' GREEK NATIONALISM: Perceptions of Greece in New Greek Cinema (1975-2005)

Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 5:00pm Dodd Hall 146

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humanities.ucla.edu)

"The Loved and the Left: Fanon, Roance and the Novel in Senegal", a lecture by SUSAN ANDRADE

SUSAN ANDRADE (University of Pittsburgh)

"THE LOVED AND THE LEFT: FANON, ROMANCE AND THE NOVEL IN SENEGAL"

This lecture will take place on Wednesday March 8, 2006 at 12:00 noon in 236 Royce Hall (French Seminar Room).

Susan Z. Andrade is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work focuses on African and Caribbean literature and culture in English and French, feminist theory, postcolonial theory and Marxism. She is coeditor of Atlantic Cross-Currents/ Transatlantiques (Africa World Press, 2001) and author of The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988, forthcoming from Duke UP.

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

"Comparative Literature Between Theory and Language", a lecture by Jonathan Arac

JONATHAN ARAC (Columbia University)

“Comparative Literature Between Theory and Language”

This lecture will take place on March 9, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

Jonathan Arac is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His work focuses on problems in the historical and comparative study of culture, literature, and criticism—emphasizing 19th-century England, the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, and 20th-century theory. He has edited or co-edited five books, including "Postmodernism and Politics" (1986), "After Foucault" (1988), and "Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature" (1991). He is author of "Commissioned Spirits"(1979); "Critical Genealogies" (1987); "'Huckleberry Finn' As Idol and Target" (1997); and "The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820- 1860" (2005).

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

28th Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference/Annual CSANA Conference

28th Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference and Annual Meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

1:00 Opening Remarks

1:15 PM Session 1, SARAH WHITTEN, CHAIR MATTHIEU BOYD (Harvard University), “What’s New in the City of Is?” AMY C. EICHHORN-MULLIGAN (University of Memphis), “Moses and the Celts - Chosen Peoples from Taliesin to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill” LIZABETH JOHNSON (University of Washington), “Family Feuds and Dynastic Stability in Medieval Wales”

2:45 PM ANGELA GLEASON (Union, ME), “The Mentally and Physically Disabled in Early Irish Society”

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM Session 2, REBECCA BLUSTEIN, CHAIR PHILLIP A. BERNHARDT-HOUSE (University College Cork), “Israelites, Lawyers and Cath Maige Tuired” JUDITH BISHOP (Mills College), “Transgendered Abbesses, Cross-Dressing Nuns: Gender-Bending Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography with Reference to Greek and Latin Source Materials” TIMOTHY BRIDGMAN (Binghamton University), “Celtic Names of Peoples and Naming Conventions in the Writings of the Ancient Greco-Roman Authors” LESLIE E. JONES (Los Angeles), “Who Are You? Reincarnations and Doppelgangers in Celtic Mythology”

6:00 PM Dinner Break

7:00-9:00 PM Session 3, MALCOLM HARRIS, CHAIR CHARLES DOHERTY (University College Dublin), “Village and Town in Early Medieval Ireland” SARA ELIN ROBERTS (University of Wales, Swansea), “The Virtual Dafydd ap Gwilym”

FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM Session 4, KAREN BURGESS, CHAIR BENJAMIN BRUCH (Harvard University), “Word and Music in Medieval Cornish Drama” MICHAEL HONCHOCK (Virginia Tech), “Early Welsh Gnomic Poetry: Issues of Form and Function” KATJA RITARI (University of Helsinki), “The Question of Holiness in the Lives of St Brigit” MARINA SMYTH (University of Notre Dame), “The Nature of the Human Body according to an Early Medieval Irish Scholar”

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM JACQUELINE BORSJE (University of Utrecht), “Miraculous Magic in Medieval Ireland: The Epaid ‘Spell’”

12:15-1:15 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM Session 5, KELLY RANDELL, CHAIR SARAH MCKIBBEN (University of Notre Dame), “The Spectator’s Imperative and the Hybrid Muse: Palestinian-Irish Poetry” CHARLENE M. SHIPMAN (Harvard University), “The Letters ‘S.D.’ and Patterns of Ascription in the Corpus Iuris Hibernici” LENORA TIMM (UC Davis), “Chanter la patrie: Constructing Breton Nationalism in 19th-c. Lyric Poetry”

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM Session 6, SHERRYLYN BRANCHAW, CHAIR BRONAGH NÍ CHONAILL (University of Glasgow), “Pregnant Women, Criminal Intentions and the Odd Craving in Medieval Irish Law” JOSEPH F. ESKA (Virginia Tech), “A Leak in Hispano-Celtic Morphology” KRISTEN OVER (Northeastern Illinois University), “Is Survival Heroic? Gwynedd and Literary Kingship in Historia Gruffudd ap Cynan”

4:45 Break

5:00 PM NIALL Ó CIOSÁIN (NUI Galway), “The Celtic Languages in Print 1700-1900: Contrasting Fortunes” (hosted by the University of Southern California)

6:00-7:00 PM “USC at UCLA” Reception

7:00-7:30 PM DOROTHY BRAY (McGill University), “Apostles to the Irish”

7:30-8:30 PM EDEL BHREATHNACH (UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute), “Tara: The Enigma Uncovered/Revealed”

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM Session 7, HEATHER LARSON, CHAIR LEE FOLLETT (University of Georgia), “The Earliest Evidence for Female Religious Life in Ireland” PATRICK K. FORD (Harvard University), “The Ruin at Morfudd Arms” EDGAR SLOTKIN (University of Cincinnati), “Can We Critique Folktales? The Case of Éamon A Búrc’s Eochair mac Rí in Éirinn” DAN M. WILEY (Hastings College), “A Medieval Irish Ghost Story”

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM ANN PARRY OWEN (Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd), “Bring with you a faithful war-band from the Dauphin's land!: Gruffudd ap Maredudd’s Plea to Owain Lawgoch”

12:15-1:30 PM Lunchtime Symposium “Teaching the Modern and Medieval Pronunciation of Celtic Languages,” Charles MacQuarrie (CSU Bakersfield), moderator (sponsored by CSU Bakersfield)

1:30 PM Seminar “Medieval Celtic Literature in the High School Curriculum,” PATRICK P. LYNCH (Marymount High School), moderator

2:30 PM Break

2:45 PM MÍCHEÁL Ó FLAITHEARTA (University of Uppsala), “Pre- Celtic Indo-European Ireland?”

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM Session 8, EMILY RUNDE, CHAIR KATHRYN KLAR (UC Berkeley), “Arglwydd and Arglwyddes: Branwen's Lordly Counterpart” CATHERINE MCKENNA (Harvard University), “The Crow that Clings to the Cliffs: Aspects of Spatial Organization in Branwen ferch Llyr” GERALDINE PARSONS (University of Cambridge), “Acallam na Senórach and Pre-Acallam Fianaigecht”

5:30 PM CSANA Business Meeting

8:00 PM Banquet (by reservation only)

SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

9:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

10:00 AM Session 9, VICTORIA SIMMONS, CHAIR LAWRENCE ESON (Denver), “A Voice from the Grave: Poetic Knowledge from the Dead in the Myrddin Poems and ‘The Finding of the Táin’” BARBARA HILLERS (Harvard University), “Cuckolds and Faithful Wives: The Genesis of the Gaelic Ballad of ‘Peadar and Peigín’” ANTONE MINARD (Design Institute of San Diego), “Meeting Medb's Mother-in-Law: Aquatic Monsters in Celtic Mythology and Hagiography” JOHN PATRICK MONTAÑO (University of Delaware), “Civilize This: Irish Responses to the Tudor Plantations”

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM Session 10, ANTONE MINARD, CHAIR MORGAN DAVIES (Colgate University), “Dindshenchas, Invention, and Memory” SARA ELIN ROBERTS (Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd), “‘You Son-of-a-bitch’: The Poetic Debate between Dafydd ap Gwilym and Gruffydd Gryg” VICTORIA SIMMONS (Los Angeles), “The Tricks of the Trade: Tricksterism, Exchange, and Identity in the Tochmarc Étaíne” THOMAS CLANCY (University of Glasgow), “A Fond Farewell to Last Night's Literary Criticism: Reading Niall Mór Mac Mhuirich”

GENERAL INFORMATION: Advance registration is not required, and there is no registration fee for the conference. Campus parking permits may be purchased ($8) from a UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the Celtic Studies Conference in Royce Hall.

For directions to UCLA and Royce Hall, please see http://www.ucla.edu/map/.

All of this information and updates to the program are available at http://www.csub.edu/~cmacquarrie/csana/.

For any other questions, please contact Professor Joseph Nagy of UCLA at jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu or call the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 310.825.1880.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

CJS Lecture "ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

A Lecture by Bernard-Henri Levy

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY" by BHL

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

A Lecture by BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS Lecture by BHL "Anti-Semitism in Europe Today"

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY”

a lecture by Bernard-Henri Lévy

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Towards A Literary Geography"

PETER HULME (University of Essex)

"TOWARDS A LITERARY GEOGRAPHY"

This lecture will take place on Thursday April 20, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 236 Royce Hall (French Seminar Room)

Peter Hulme is a Professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. His research interests center on the relationships between literature, travel-writing, anthropology and colonialism, especially in the Caribbean, and on postcolonial studies in its widest sense.

He is the author of "Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797" (1986, paperback 1992) and "Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998: (2000), and joint editor of "Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day" (1992), "Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory" (1994), "Cannibalism and the Colonial World" (1998), "The Tempest’ and Its Travels" (2000), and "The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing" (2002).

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

Comparative Literature Lecture Series - "What Is Comparative Literature?"

This series will explore the role and place of theory in the field of Comparative Literature. As a discipline whose academic identity in recent years has been closely associated with the intellectual currents and movements thought of as “high theory,” recent pronouncements of the end of theory invite a critical reflection on the future of the field. Of particular interest in this series will be the question of the way globalization has transformed academic conversations about both theory and world literature.

RANJI KHANNA (Duke University) AND NATALIE MELAS (Cornell University) 10/25/05 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

PEGGY KAMUF (University of Southern California) 11/2/05 5:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

HAUN SAUSSY (Yale University) 1/19/06 4:00 pm Faculty Center Downstairs Lounge

RICHARD RORTY (Stanford University) 2/16/06 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

JONATHAN ARAC (Columbia University) 3/09/06 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

PETER HULME (University of Essex) 4/20/06 4:00 pm Faculty Center Hacienda Room

REY CHOW (Brown University) 4/27/06 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

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

"European Theory in America"

REY CHOW (Brown University)

"EUROPEAN THEORY IN AMERICA"

Ths lecture takes place on Thursday April 27, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University and the author of numerous works on literature, film, and cultural politics. In 2005-06 she is a research fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Her latest book, "The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work" will be published by Duke University Press in Spring 2006.

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

Lecture by Professor Aristides Baltas

Aristides Baltas

University of Pittsburgh and National Polytechnic, Athens Greece

"Wittgenstein, Spinoza, and the Problem of God"

Aristides Baltas is the premier Greek philosopher today. Trained as a physicist, he has written extensively in matters of philosophy of science, epistemology, political theory, and psychoanalysis. His book Objects and Facets of Self was awarded the National Book Award in 2002.

-- submitted by Danielle (danielle@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture | "A Little Touch of Harry: The Perverse Henrification of George Bush"

Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first- come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the lecture in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Website Presentations of New Media Colloquium

-- submitted by Jonathan Jones (jonjones@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Art History Symposium/Discussion

UCLA Hammer Museum Wednesday, May 24, 7 PM

“Incorporated, Inc.: A Museum of Modern Art Before the Museum of Modern Art”

In conjunction with the current Hammer exhibition, “The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America,” a small symposium and panel discussion on the importance of the Société Anonyme as the first “experimental museum” for contemporary art in the United States.

Organized and moderated by George Baker, with Miwon Kwon, Richard Meyer, and Nancy J. Troy.

George Baker is assistant professor of art history at UCLA, an editor of OCTOBER magazine, a critic for ARTFORUM, and is currently preparing the book The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris.

Miwon Kwon is associate professor of contemporary art history at UCLA and the author of One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity.

Richard Meyer is associate professor of art history at the University of Southern California (USC); his book Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth- Century Art received the Charles C. Eldredge Prize.

Nancy J. Troy is professor of modern art at USC, president of the National Committee for the History of Art, and is currently working on a book about Piet Mondrian.

-- submitted by (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

Judith Butler lecture

"Sexual Politics, Torture, and the Question of the Secular”

October 4, 2006 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. She is the author of Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (Columbia University Press, 1987), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Routledge, 1993), The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (Stanford University Press, 1997), Excitable Speech (Routledge, 1997), Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia University Press, 2000), Hegemony, Contingency, Universality, with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek, (Verso Press, 2000). In 2004, she published a collection of writings on war's impact on language and thought entitled Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning with Verso Press. Her most recent book, Giving an Account of Oneself, appeared with Fordham University Press (2005) and considers the partial opacity of the subject, and the relation between critique and ethical reflection.

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Huns vs. Corned Beef: Representations of the Other in American and German Literature and Film on WWI

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

"THE SATIRICAL WORLD OF SHIMEN DZIGAN"

Presents

"THE SATIRICAL WORLD OF SHIMEN DZIGAN"

Seminar in Yiddish Studies

By: John Efron (UC Berkeley)

Thursday, October 19, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM

Pre-registration is required. Please email cjs@humnet.ucla.edu to RSVP.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference 2006

October 20-21, 2006

Royce Hall

Free to the public!

The conference has been organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. The conference is cosponsored by the following UCLA divisions, centers, institutes, and departments: the Graduate Division, the Division of Humanities, the Division of Social Sciences, the Center for Performance Studies, the Center for the Study of Women, the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, and the departments of Anthropology, Art History, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film, TV, and Digital Media, French and Francophone Studies, Musicology, Spanish and Portuguese, and Theater.

-- submitted by Courtney D. Johnson (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC06.html

Simon Gikandi Lecture

November 2, 2006 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Simon Gikandi is Professor of English at Princeton University. He graduated with a first class degree in literature from the University of Nairobi, was a British Council Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, and received his Ph.D in English from Northwestern University. His major Fields of Research and Teaching are the Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Postcolonial Britain, the “Black” Atlantic and the African Diaspora. He also has a special interest in the relation between literature and the production of knowledge and the history of English as a field of study.

He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. His many books include Reading the African Novel, Reading Chinua Achebe, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. He is the general editor of The Encyclope­dia of African Literature and co-editor of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He is currently completing a book on the relation between slavery and the culture of taste.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Francophone Studies

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

Roland Greene Lecture

"Rethinkings of Comparative Literature: From Perspectivism to Teleiopoesis and Beyond"

January 11, 2007 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Roland Greene is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Head of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University.  He graduated with an A.B. from Brown University, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton.  His research and teaching are chiefly concerned with the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world. His most recent book is Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (Chicago, 1999), which follows the love poetry of the Renaissance into fresh political and colonial contexts in the New World. He is also the author of Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (Princeton, 1991), and the editor with Elizabeth Fowler of The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World (Cambridge, 1997). His recent essays deal with topics such as the colonial baroque, Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Puritan poet Ann Lock, and Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is now at work on a book about the early modern cultural semantics of five words: blood, invention, language, resistance, and world.

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

Jörg Friedrich -- Targeting Civilians: The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War II

“Friedrich’s book is not a lament but it is, in parts, an indictment.” — London Review of Books

Targeting Civilians: The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War II

During the Second World War Allied forces mounted a bombing campaign against German cities in order to convince civilians to withdraw their support for the German war machine. 600,000 civilians, including 70,000 children, were killed during the total air war campaign which lasted five years. Jörg Friedrich discusses his controversial book, The Fire, which is available for the first time in English. His lecture addresses the ramifications of the Allied bombing of Germany, touching on the debate over German victimhood, the morality of war, the accusations of Allied war crimes, and the implications for the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Alain Badiou lecture

“The contemporary figure of the soldier in poetry and politics”

January 30, 2007 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Alain Badiou was born in Rabat, Morocco. He is Professor (and formerly Chair) of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He also teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie, and the European Graduate School, and has taught at University of Paris VIII. He is co-founder and President of the Centre International d'Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine. He was trained as a mathematician, and was one of the founding members of the Unified Socialist Party in France, a group particularly active in the struggle for the decolonization of Algeria. In addition to several novels, plays, and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. He is the author most recently of Logiques des mondes. Several of his books have recently appeared in English, including, Being and Event (Continuum 2006), as well as Handbook of Inaesthetics (Stanford 2005), Metapolitics (Verso, 2005), Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Verso, 2001), Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Stanford 2003), Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy (Continuum 2005). Badiou is rapidly emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time, a peer of Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan. Badiou opposes the contemporary reduction of philosophy to nothing but a matter of language and premature announcements of the end of philosophy and thus sets himself against both analytic and continental modes of philosophy. Setting the traditional Platonic concerns of philosophy, truth, and being against the modern sophists of postmodernism, Badiou has articulated a powerful systematic philosophy with profound ethical and political consequences. Badiou's enormously original work has made major contributions not only to philosophy and political theory, but also to psychoanalysis, film theory, and aesthetics. For additional information visit: www.soundandsignifier.com

This Event is Co-Sponsored by The Mellon Fellows Program

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Making Sense of the Chinese Rites Debate: Rome 1735, Los Angeles 2007"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Jeff Sacks Lecture - "Idioms of Mourning: Mahmoud Darwish and Edmond Amran El-Maleh"

Jeff Sacks

Columbia University

"Idioms of Mourning: Mahmoud Darwish and Edmond Amran El-Maleh"

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

5 pm

Royce Hall 306

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Maya Boutaghou Lecture - "Between History and Memory: Emergent Voices of Femininity in Zaynab (1914) by Muhammad Husayn al Haykal and Les Alouettes naives (1967) by Assia Djebar"

Maya Boutaghou

University of Gabes

"Between History and Memory: Emergent Voices of Femininity in Zaynab (1914) by Muhammad Husayn al Haykal and Les Alouettes naives (1967) by Assia Djebar"

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Symposium on César Vallejo

A Celebration of César Vallejo

Featuring his Translator, Award-Winning Poet and 2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer

Clayton Eshleman

Thursday, February 22nd, 4pm, 314 Royce

Clayton Eshleman will read from his translation, The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo (University of California Press, 2006).

Reception to follow.

Copies of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman, will be available for purchase on both days.

César Vallejo (Peru, 1892-1938) is one of the foremost Latin American poets of the twentieth century; his four densely lyrical and demanding volumes of poetry map the passage from modernismo through the avant-garde to politically-engaged writing.

Clayton Eshleman's translation of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo was recently published by the University of California Press. Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & the Center for World Languages.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Symposium on César Vallejo

A Celebration of César Vallejo

Featuring his Translator, Award-Winning Poet and 2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer

Clayton Eshleman

Friday, February 23rd, 10am-4:30pm, Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge

A Symposium on the Poetry of César Vallejo

10am: Roundtable on Poetry and Translation, featuring Clayton Eshleman, Kelly Austin (University of Chicago), and Michael Heim (UCLA), moderated by Efrain Kristal (UCLA).

12-1:30pm: Break for lunch.

1:30pm: Screening of Traspié entre 46 estrellas, a short biographical film on César Vallejo, by Stephen Hart (University College London).

2pm: New critical readings by Efraín Kristal (UCLA), Michelle Clayton (UCLA), Stephen Hart (University College of London) and Chrystian Zegarra (UCLA) followed by Q&A session. 4:30pm: Reception.

Copies of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman, will be available for purchase on both days.

César Vallejo (Peru, 1892-1938) is one of the foremost Latin American poets of the twentieth century; his four densely lyrical and demanding volumes of poetry map the passage from modernismo through the avant-garde to politically-engaged writing.

Clayton Eshleman's translation of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo was recently published by the University of California Press. Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & the Center for World Languages.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Nouri Gana Lecture -- "Melancholy Acts: Reclaiming Arabness in Contemporary Arab Literature and Culture"

Present

NOURI GANA University of Michigan, Dearborn

“Melancholy Acts: Reclaiming Arabness in Contemporary Arab Literature and Culture”

Monday, February 26, 2007

5:00 pm

314 Royce Hall

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

2007 UC Regent's Lecturer Clayton Eshleman

2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer Clayton Eshleman In a Series of Events on Poetry and Translation

Thursday, March 1st, 3:00 PM, 4302 Rolfe Hall “The Translator’s Ego,” followed by “Translation Problems in a Sonnet by Vallejo.”

Q&A to follow. Hosted by the Center for World Languages.

Clayton Eshleman is an award-winning poet and translator. Over the course of half a century he has published more than forty books of poetry and prose, as well as ground-breaking translations of César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Aimé Césaire, and Antonin Artaud. His work in both poetry and translation has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1978 his National Book Award-winning translation, with José Rubia Barcia, of the Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo introduced the Peruvian poet to a North American audience; his 1992 translation of Vallejo’s avant-garde collection Trilce garnered the Academy of American Poets’ Landon Translation Award. In late 2006 the University of California Press published a revised and completed edition of his Vallejo translations, The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. Eshleman’s most recent volume of poetry, which appeared at the same time, is An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire.

Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public.

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & Tthe Center for World Languages

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer Clayton Eshleman In a Series of Events on Poetry and Translation

Hosted by the Babel Group for Translation Studies.

Clayton Eshleman is an award-winning poet and translator. Over the course of half a century he has published more than forty books of poetry and prose, as well as ground-breaking translations of César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Aimé Césaire, and Antonin Artaud. His work in both poetry and translation has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1978 his National Book Award-winning translation, with José Rubia Barcia, of the Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo introduced the Peruvian poet to a North American audience; his 1992 translation of Vallejo’s avant-garde collection Trilce garnered the Academy of American Poets’ Landon Translation Award. In late 2006 the University of California Press published a revised and completed edition of his Vallejo translations, The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. Eshleman’s most recent volume of poetry, which appeared at the same time, is An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire.

Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & the Center for World Languages

-- submitted by Dacia (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humanities.ucla.edu

Conference: HISTORY AS REFLECTED IN ISRAELI LITERATURE

“HISTORY AS REFLECTED IN ISRAELI LITERATURE" An International Conference March 11-13, 2007

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. TO REGISTER, PLEASE EMAIL CJSRSVP@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: One of the signal achievements of Israeli culture since its very beginning has been the production of a rich and varied literature. This conference is dedicated to the examination of Israeli literature in its intersection with Israeli history. That is, we are interested in the way in which literature integrates, confronts, or ignores historical events of significance to the formation of Israeli (and Jewish) culture. Accordingly, we have invited to UCLA a distinguished and diverse group of writers, literary scholars, historians to reflect on the intersection of literature and history. At the heart of our deliberations stand a set of overlapping question: Can one write Israeli history today without paying careful attention to Israel's rich literary tradition? And can one write literature in Israel without feeling the heavy weight of history? Ultimately, we seek to explore in this conference the subtle relationships among literary creations, historical memory, and the society they reflect or mold.

FOR A COMPLETE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE, PLEASE VISIT: http://www.cjs.ucla.edu/Events/Flyers/IsraelConf.pdf

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. TO REGISTER, PLEASE EMAIL CJSRSVP@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (cjs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.cjs.ucla.edu/Events/Flyers/IsraelConf.pdf

Slavoj Žižek lecture

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

Brian Edwards lecture

“After the American Century”

April 5, 2007 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall Brian T. Edwards (Ph.D. Yale University) is an Associate Professor of English and Contemporary Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He teaches and writes about twentieth-century American literature and culture in its international context; fields of interest include American studies, cultural and diaspora studies, colonial and postcolonial discourse, film, and globalization.  He has taught courses on comparative orientalisms, cold war culture, representations of World War II, (dis)locations of American national identity, globalization, circulation, and diaspora. A former Fulbright Fellow to Morocco, he also specializes in Maghrebi literature and culture, especially in its intersections with United States culture and politics. He has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad, including in Egypt, India, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. Edwards has published essays on Edith Wharton, Paul Bowles, Frantz Fanon, Mohammed Mrabet, the encounter of American Studies and postcolonial studies, and 1950s Hollywood Orientalism. His first book, Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express, was published by Duke UP in October 2005.  He directs the Globalizing American Studies Project, a multi- year initiative with the Center for Global Culture and Communication and Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern, which features a series of conferences and symposiums and occasional speakers.  With Dilip Gaonkar, he is co-editing a collection of essays emerging from this project (forthcoming in 2008).  Edwards's new book project is entitled "After the American Century," which looks at the circulation of the figure of "America" in North Africa and the Middle East since 1991, focusing on media coverage of American society and culture, cyberculture, material culture, and higher education (including the teaching of courses in American Studies in the region).  He was named a 2005 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for this project.

This event is co-sponsored by the Global Fellows Program

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Obverse Urbanization in the Americas: from Brasilia to Los Angeles"

“Obverse Urbanization in the Americas: From Brasilia to Los Angeles”

Presented by

Justin Read (SUNY at Buffalo)

Justin Read is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Romance Languages at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His research focuses on aesthetic modernism and political-economic modernization in the American hemisphere, with particular attention to Brazil. His work has appeared in Luso-Brazilian Review, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and Modernism/Modernity, among others. His first book, Inter:America (Modern Poetry and Cultural Aesthetics of the Americas), is currently under review for publication.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

4:30 PM

Rolfe Hall 4302 (Lydeen Library)

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LUSO-HISPANIC STUDIES Lecture Series 2006-2007

Neil Larsen (UC Davis)

Lecture: “Towards a Theory of ‘Theory’” Wednesday, April 11 Lecture — 4 p.m. Royce Hall 306

Please write to Dacia Serrano (dacia@humnet.ucla.edu) to register for the seminar and receive a pre-circulated paper

Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Latin American Center, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Education Office, Consulate General of Spain, in Los Angeles.

This event is free and open to the public.

Parking is available in Lot 4 for $8.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Gabriella Ghermandi Lecture - "All'ombra dei rami sfacciati, carichi di fioro rossi vermiglio"

present

Gabriella Ghermandi

"All'ombra dei rami sfacciati, carichi di fiori rossi vermiglio"

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Royce Hall 306

5 pm

Lecture/performance in Italian followed by a Q&A in English and Italian

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

CANCELLED - Nancy Armstrong lecture

April 25th, 2007 430pm

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

Gayatri Spivak lecture

“Other Asias: A Foreword”

May 8, 2007 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.  B.A. English (Honors), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1959.  Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1967. D. Litt, University of Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, Univeristy of London, 2003. Fields: feminism, marxism, deconstruction, globalization.  Books: Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1974), Of Grammatology (translation with critical introduction of Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie, 1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Selected Subaltern Studies (ed., 1988), The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), Imaginary Maps (translation with critical introduction of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1994), The Spivak Reader (1995), Breast Stories (translation with critical introduction of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1997), Old Women (translation with critical introduction of two stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1999), Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet / Imperative zur Neuerfindung des Planeten (ed. Willi Goetschel, 1999), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Song for Kali: A Cycle (translation with introduction of Ramproshad Sen, 2000), Chotti Munda and His Arrow (translation with critical introduction of a novel by Mahasweta Devi, 2002), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2005), Red Thread (forthcoming).  Significant articles: "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography" (1985), "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (1985), "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988), "The Politics of Translation" (1992), "Moving Devi" (1999), "Righting Wrongs" (2003), "Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching" (2004), "Translating into English" (2005).

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

Aamir Mufti "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture"

Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture

By Aamir Mufti (UCLA)

Free event, open to the public. If interested, please RSVP to (310)267-5327

-- submitted by David Wu (davidwu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series "Humanism in the Humanities" 2007-2008

-- submitted by Tara Contreras (tara@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Mark Poster Lecture -- "McLuhan and Cultural Theory of the Media"

Lecture Series 2007-08 “Genealogies of Media History”

Presents a lecture by

Mark Poster

(UC Irvine)

“McLuhan and Cultural Theory of the Media”

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

5:30 pm

Faculty Center Sequoia Room

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary, the Department of Germanic Languages, and the Department of Comparative Literature

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

CJS SEMINAR: Fighting for the Honor of Israel: Jews and Professional Wrestling in Warsaw before WWII

Presents

Fighting for the Honor of Israel: Jews and Professional Wrestling in Warsaw before WWII, a Seminar in Yiddish Studies.

By Edward Portnoy (Jewish Theoloigcal Seminary)

Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:00PM

Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP at (310) 267- 5327 or at cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu

For more information about the event or the speaker, please visit our website.

-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

Mark Poster Lecture -- "McLuhan and Cultural Theory of the Media"

Mark Poster

(UC Irvine)

"McLuhan and Cultural Theory of Media"

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Royce Hall 306

5:00 pm

Co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary, the Department of Germanic Languages, and the Department of Comparative Literature

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

CJS SEMINAR: Benjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments: The Text and its Controversy

Presents

'Benjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments: The Text and Its Controversy'

A Faculty/Student Seminar

By Susan Derwin (UC Santa Barbara)

Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:00PM

Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP at (310) 267- 5327 or at cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu

For more information about the event or the speaker, please visit our website.

-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: Remapping German-Jewish Intellectual History

Presents

'Remapping German-Jewish Intellectual History'

A Book Discussion

By Todd Presner (UCLA)

Monday, December 3, 2007 12:00PM

Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP at (310) 267- 5327 or at cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu

For more information about the event or the speaker, please visit our website.

-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

Wendy Brown Lecture

“Porous Sovereignty, Walled Democracy”

January 29, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Professor Brown received her Ph.D in Political Philosophy from Princeton University in 1983. Prior to coming to Berkeley in 1999, she taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz and at Williams College. Brown's books include Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988), States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, 1995), Politics Out of History (Princeton, 2001), Left Legalism/Left Critique, co-edited with Janet Halley (Duke, 2002), Edgework: Critical Essays in Knowledge and Politics (Princeton, 2005), and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton, 2006). She has lectured widely in Europe and North America, has held a number of distinguished visiting lectureships, and has recently been a Senior Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a UC Berkeley Humanities Fellow.

This event is co-sponsored by the Mellon Fellows Program

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

Bernhard Siegert -- "(Im)possibilities of Writing Media History"

presents

Bernhard Siegert

(Bauhaus Universitat Weimar and UC Santa Barbara)

"(Im)possibilities of Writing Media History"

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Royce Hall 314

5:30 pm

Co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary, the Department of Germanic Languages, and the Department of Comparative Literature

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Porous Sovereignty, Walled Democracy--

January 29, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

-- submitted by (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Porous Sovereignty, Walled Democracy--

January 29, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

-- submitted by (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: Lyric Testimony: Anthropomorphism and Survival in Post-Holocaust Writing

Presents

"Lyric Testimony: Anthropomorphism and Survival in Post- Holocaust Writing"

A Faculty/Student Seminar

By Sara Guyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Monday, February 11, 2008 12:00PM

Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP at (310) 267- 5327 or at cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

Taking Up Space

Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial studies. He is the author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (NYU, 1999), The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (Columbia, 1986; Duke pb 1993) and Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (Verso, 1993). He has edited Intellectuals: Aesthetics, Politics, Academics (Minnesota, 1990) and The Phantom Public Sphere (Minnesota, 1993) and co-edited Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation (Minnesota, 1998). He was co- editor of the journal Social Text from 1991 to 2000.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Taking Up Space

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

4:30pm

314 Royce Hall

Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial studies.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Race from Humanism

“Race from Humanism”

Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

-- submitted by (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Elizabeth Povinelli Lecture

“Beyond Autonomy and Genealogy: Economies of Abandonment”

Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Elizabeth Povinelli is professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law & Culture. Her writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism, grounded in theories of the translation, transfiguration and the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms. She looks at how the distinction between individual freedom and social bondage subtends and animates most theories and practices of sexuality in postcolonial liberalisms. Her publications include: The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism; The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality; and Labor's Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Michael Warner Lecture

"Antisecularism and 'Secular Humanism'"

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Michael Warner is Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. One of his interests is the way social worlds are built up out of circulating media and ways of reading or hearing.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Michael Warner Lecture

"Antisecularism and 'Secular Humanism'"

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Michael Warner is Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. One of his interests is the way social worlds are built up out of circulating media and ways of reading or hearing.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

UCLA 19th Annual Southland Graduate Student Conference: Genre Matters

Presentations will address various dimensions of the relationship between genre and materiality. UCLA Department of English Professors Lowell Gallagher and Yogita Goyal will be the keynote speakers.

-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact genrematters@gmail.com