English Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Open House

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

Robert Coover Reads at Hammer Museum

Author and noted electronic literature critic Robert Coover will read from his recent work on Sunday, October 16 at 6:00 p.m. at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Amount Coover's works are _Pricksongs and Descants_, _The Public Burning_, and _The Origin of the Brunists_, which won the William Faulker Award in 1966. He currently teaches electronic and experimental writing at Brown University.

Also on the program is fiction writer and O. Henry Prize- winner Brian Evenson, author of _Altmann's Tongue_ and _Dark Property: An Affliction_. He is an associate professor in the literary arts program at Brown University.

This event is part of the UCLA Hammer Museum's New American Writing series, organized and hosted by Benjamin Weissman, and is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit Parking information and directions are available at -- submitted by (joeyb@humnet.ucla.edu)

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

W. S. Merwin's most recent books of poems are Present Company and Migration: New & Selected Poems.

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

For more information, contact nettie@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)

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Susan Wheeler is the author of a novel, Record Palace, and four books of poetry.

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

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

Jason Nelson @ EDA

Nelson, who teaches Digital Art and Text-Telling at Griffith University in Australia, promises to give a "combination of digital magic show, poetry reading, technical tutorial, and artist talk." Nelson's works have been shown in numerous galleries and journals, and are available for viewing and downloading at heliozoa.com and secrettechnology.com.

This event is jointly sponsored by the UCLA Department of English, the Design / Media Arts program, and the Electronic Literature Organization.

-- submitted by Carol Ann Wald (wald@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.eda.ucla.edu/main/index.php

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)

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Juliana Spahr is the author of Response, Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism.

Geoffrey G. O'Brien's most recent volume of poems is The Guns and Flags Project.

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

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

THIS WEEKEND: The 2005 Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference: QUEER SCAPES: Body Space Sexuality

QUEER SCAPES:

BODY SPACE SEXUALITY

Friday, November 18, 2005 at USC / the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Saturday, November 19, 2005 at UCLA

Keynote speakers: Jacqui Alexander, David Eng, Alma Lopez, Michael Lucey, Catherine Opie

Plenary session: New Directions in Queer Latino/a Studies, with Luz Calvo, Licia Fiol-Matta, Richard T. Rodriguez, and Sandra Soto.

Panel presentations by 50 graduate student and faculty scholars

For further information, please see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC.html

Organized by

the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program and the USC Center for Feminist Research

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

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

Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Heather McHugh is the author of Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968- 1993.

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Kay Ryan's sixth book of poems, The Niagara River, was released in the fall of 2005.

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

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

A Lecture by Professor Anne Lake Prescott

Professor Prescott is a specialist in the English Renaissance and in the Anglo-French relations, she is the author of French Poets and the English Renaissance and Imagining Rabelais in the English Renaissance (Yale UP, 1998); she has also published (with Hugh Maclean) a revised Norton Spenser; co-edited, with Patrick Cheney, Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry (MLA, 2000); and co-edited, with Betty Travitsky, Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England (Columbia 2000) and the Ashgate series of facsimile editions of early modern texts by modern women. She is currently working on David in the Renaissance and on Renaissance almanacs and calendars. Professor Prescott has taught at Barnard since 1961 and at Columbia since 1979.

Friday, January 13, 2006

236 Royce Hall French Seminar Room, 1pm

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

For more information, contact danielle@humnet.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)

Hammer Poetry Series

Susan Mitchell's books include Erotikon, Rapture, and The Water inside the Water.

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

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

"Tropics of Glory: Doxology and Invention in Premodern England"

Advance registration not required. No fee. Seating is limited; seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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

For more information, contact lesadieux@hotmail.com

The Haunted Tower - La Tour Enchantée

The English Department's Professor Fred Burwick directs UCLA students in this English-language version of the Marquis de Sade’s musical.

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in the Sunset Village Parking Structure for $8

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

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

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: “How 17th-century Dutch Painters Accidentally Invented Animal Rights”

CMRS faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.

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

Leslie S. Klinger: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

Reservations are required. Please respond to 310-206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu.

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in Lot 5 for $8

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

For more information, contact friends@english.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.

Some Favorite Writers: Colm Tóibín

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in the Museum for $3

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

For more information, contact hammerinfo@arts.ucla.edu

Stephen Yenser poetry reading: Blue Guide

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Ms. Alexander's collections of poetry include Body of Life and The Venus Hottentot.

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series: Elizabeth Alexander

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in the Museum for $3

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

For more information, contact hammerinfo@arts.ucla.edu

Graduate Student Salon: Sam See

Reservations are required. Please respond to 310-206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu.

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in Lot 5 for $8

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

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

Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Simulation and Concert

Reservations are required. Please respond to 310-206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu.

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in Lot 9 for $8

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Mr. Hollander's books of poetry include Picture Window, Powers of Thirteen, and A Crackling of Thorns.

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

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

Annual Shakespeare Symposium: "Shakespeare Interrupted: Revisiting 'Problem' Scenes in the Canon"

This year's symposium, brings together a constellation of Shakespeare scholars, including Harry Berger, Jr. (Prof. Emeritus of Literature and Art History, UC Santa Cruz, and Feloow, Cowell College), who will share critical insights into famous problem scenes from an array of plays. Complete program to be announced.

Advance Registration is required. Fee may apply. Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the "Annual Shakespeare Symposium" in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

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

“Churches and their Patrons in Romanesque Ireland”

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

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

Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star

Reservations are required. Please respond to 310-206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu.

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in Lot 5, $8

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

For more information, contact friends@english.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)

2006 Fiction Awards for Undergraduate Student Writers

Aaron Fai - 2006 winner of The Ruth Brill Scholarship Award

Mark Burnham and Erika Herman - 2006 co-winners of The Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Award

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series

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

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

Reading with 2006 Prize-Winning Student Poets

Diana Khoi Nguyen - The Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets

Layla Barker Carroll - The May Merrill Miller Award

Karin Lightstone - The May Merrill Miller Award

Athena Nilssen - The May Merrill Miller Award

Kelly Rohrer - The May Merrill Miller Award

Aya Winston - The May Merrill Miller Award

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

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

Lawrence Grobel reads from "Al Pacino"

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

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

Some Favorite Writers - Robert Cohen

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

For more information, contact susan@english.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

Hammer Poetry Series

Jay Wright's most recent volume of poems is Transfigurations: Collected Poems.

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series - Jay Wright

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

For more information, contact susan@english.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

Lynn Batten discusses Waiting for Godot

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Stephen Burt has published two books of poetry, Popular Music and the recently published Parallel Play.

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Joshua Clover is the author of Madonna anno domini (1997) and most recently The Totality for Kids.

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Rachel Wetzsteon's new volume of poems is Sakura Park. Her first book, The Other Stars, was chosen for the National Poetry Series.

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

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

CMRS Disitinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Sons and Fathers: the Expression of Patronymy in Celtic Onomastics"

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Sarah Manguso is the author of two books of poems, The Captain Lands in Paradise and Siste Viator.

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

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

"Lady Mary Wroth's Interrogations of Nationalism"

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Jane Hirshfield has published six volumes of poems including After (2006).

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

For more information, contact nettie@english.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

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Poets in Two Worlds"

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

Dr. Rita Charon Discusses the Narrative of Henry James

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

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

Meg Lamont Discusses "Brut", a Popular History of England

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

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

CANCELED: Hammer Poetry Series - Terrance Hayes

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

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

Annual Shakespeare Symposium

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

Award Winners Announced for Humanities' Essay Contest

This year's recipient of the $1,000 Teague-Melville-Elliott Prize is Manoa W. Hui for "Structural Role of the Dedication in Wallace Stevens' ‘Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.’ ” The essay, written for English 182C, was nominated by Professor Stephen Yenser.

The following students are winners of the $500 Peter Rotter Prize:

Katie Boyden, nominated by Professor Calvin Bedient for her English 165 essay “Poetry, Truth, and the Feminine Voice: A look at ‘Triptych’ by Seamus Heaney”

Roanne Sharp, nominated by Professor Kathleen L. Komar for her Comparative Literature 163 essay “It happens I’m tired of being a man: The uncanny experience as a point of crisis”

Audrey Kuo, nominated by Professor Michael North for her English 10C essay “Akin Do What I Want: The struggle for individuality and freedom within familial relationships in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre”

Melissa Townley, nominated by Professor Gina Shaffer for her English 3 essay “The Criminalization of Media Violence”

The Teague-Melville-Elliott and Peter Rotter Essay Competition is sponsored annually by UCLA Writing Programs in recognition of outstanding student essays produced for lower- and upper-division humanities courses.

-- submitted by Candace (candace@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Hammer Poetry Series - James Longenbach

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

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Prize-Winning Student Poetry

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

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Festival of California Poets

Harryette Mullen on Bob Kaufman: Kaufman (1925-1986) attended The New School in New York where he met Ginsberg and others. There he became a founding figure of the Beat movement.

Carol Muske-Dukes on Ann Stanford: Stanford (1916-1987) authored six volumes of poems and won many awards for her beautifully crafted work, including the DiCastagnola and Shelley Memorial Awards from the Poetry Society of America. She was also a Professor of English at California State University in Northridge.

Stephen Yenser on Robinson Jeffers: Jeffers (1887-1962) is known for his long narrative poems, drama, and lyrics. A harbinger of ecology and a participant in the philosophical tradition that propounds the divinity of the non-human, he was an anti-Modern Modernist.

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

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Hammer Poetry Series - John Kinsella

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

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Some Favorite Writers - Amy Hempel

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

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The Upstart Crow

Diane Mercer and Peter Dennis are award-winning English actors who have appeared in numerous television series and major repertory theatres throughout the United Kingdom. Peter Dennis has also starred in numerous American television series, including “Friends,” “Seinfeld,” and “Alias.” He has also toured throughout North America in his one-man theatre show, “Bother! The Brain of Pooh.”

Vincent Dowling is Lifetime Associate Director for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. He is the founder and President of The Miniature Theatre of Chester, now in its 15th season.

Non-members please call 310-206-0961 to inquire about this event.

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

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Mark Z. Danielewski reading: Only Revolutions

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

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Hammer Poetry Series - Cathy Park Hong

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

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David Rodes, PhD: King Lear and the Magnificence of Nothing

David Rodes will discuss the unrelenting ways in which Shakespeare dramatizes and examines King Lear’s angry warning to Cordelia that “Nothing will come of nothing.” In this greatest of all his tragedies, Shakespeare explores at philosophical, medical, and linguistic levels the radical obligations that bind parents and children and kings and subjects. The results create a “musical score” that touches the depths of being and nothingness.

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

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A Tribute to the Life and Poetry of Gene Frumkin

Mel Weisburd, as co-founder with Gene of Coastlines Literary Magazine, will host the program.

Joy Harjo, the celebrated poet and musician, will discuss Gene’s career as the head of the University of New Mexico’s Creative Writing Program as both his student and colleague.

Martin Brower, who was a fellow UCLA student and Daily Bruin editor with Gene in the 1950s when the student paper was being unjustly attacked by The Los Angeles Times and The Saturday Evening Post as being infiltrated with Communists and politically biased.

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

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CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "Biblical Roots: Talmud, Disputation and the Torah"

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

CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "Gilbert Crispin: The Disputation of a Jew with a Christian"

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

Hammer Poetry Series - Terrance Hayes

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

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Peter Hallward Lecture -- "Haiti 2004: Coup d'etat or coup de grace?"

Peter Hallward

(Middlesex University)

"Haiti 2004: Coup d'etat or coup de grace?"

Monday, November 19, 2007

Faculty Center Hacienda Room

4:00 pm

Co-sponsored by the UCLA English Department

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

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

"Archipelagic Macbeth"

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

Lecture: The Making of Songs of Innocence and of Experience

The Department of English invites you to mark this special occasion with a lecture by

Michael Phillips

on

The Making of Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Wednesday 28 November at 4:00 PM in Royce 154

Michael Phillips is the author, most recently, of a new facsimile edition of Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven & Hell; he is also the author of William Blake: The Creation of the Songs, from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing, and was the guest curator of the major Blake exhibition that launched Tate Britain in London in 2000 (and later moved to the Metropolitan Museum in New York). He is currently completing Blake and the Terror, a biography of Blake in Lambeth.

Contact Saree Makdisi (makdisi @ ucla.edu) with any questions.

-- submitted by Saree Makdisi (makdisi@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact makdisi@humnet.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)

Paul Auster film screening: The Inner Life of Martin Frost

PAUL AUSTER

THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST

Monday, January 14, 2008 at 7:30 P.M.

in the James Bridges Theatre (1409 Melnitz Hall)

Parking Available in Lot 3, $8

Following Paul Auster’s now legendary collaborations with Wayne Wang on Smoke (for which Auster won the Independent Spirit Award for best first screenplay) and Blue in the Face, as well as his solo debut as writer and director of Lulu on the Bridge, THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST represents Auster’s most original and captivating work in the movies to date.

Film synopsis: Novelist Martin Frost has just published his latest book. He decides to rest his mind alone in a country house. The dawn of his first day, he discovers with amazement a mysterious and astonishing woman lying next to him. Fascinated by her beauty and intelligence Martin falls deeply in love with her. He has found the muse that helplessly drives him to write his most perfect piece. But is Claire really the person she claims to be? A philosophical mystery that asks us to question the manner in which we define reality and the way we choose to see the world around us, THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST is at once tender, moving, and devilishly funny.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED

This Event is Free and Open to the Public - RSVP to friends@english.ucla.edu

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

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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)

Hammer Poetry Series - Clayton Eshleman

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

Some Favorite Writers - Amy Hempel

Mona Simpson, organizer of the Some Favorite Writers series, is the author of "Anywhere But Here," "The Lost Father," and "Off Keck Road."

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

"The Shakespeare Moot Court"

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

Ryan Knighton, Author of acclaimed memoir, "Cockeyed"

People magazine named Cockeyed one of the hottest reads of the summer of 2006 and The Boston Globe described it as "an unexpectedly wry view of a life that twisted into the extraordinary." Known for his wit and peculiar perspective, Ryan Knighton is a National Magazine Award- nominated journalist. He has written about popular culture, politics, education and disability for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and Saturday Night.

A frequent contributor to CSC radio, Knighton is also a faculty member in the English Department at Capilano College, where he teaches literature and writing, both creative and destructive. He also collects tattoos and hopes they resemble what he imagines.

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

For more information, contact egremse@support.ucla.edu

Professor Christopher Looby discusses "Sheppard Lee"

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

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Thirtieth Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference

Time: 2-8 pm on Thursday; 9 am - 6 pm on Friday and Saturday; 10 am - 6 pm on Sunday.

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

Professor Edward Condren: Chaucer and Numerical Design—A Case of Increasing Commitment

Professor Condren’s publications include the forthcoming Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde (June 2008), The Numerical Universe of the Gawain-Pearl Poet: Beyond Phi (2002), and Chaucer and the Energy of Creation: The Design and Organization of the Canterbury Tales (1999).

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

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Perspectives on Periodization and British Literature, 1660-1900

Perspectives on Periodization and British Literature, 1660-1900

193 Humanities Building, UCLA

Friday, April 11th, 2008 - 4:00pm

Participants from UCLA Department of English: Jonathan Grossman Saree Makdisi Anne Mellor Felicity Nussbaum

Moderator: Noah Comet

Join us for a discussion of the practical and theoretical concerns surrounding periodization and the study of British literature 1660-1900. Participants will address questions such as: What is the utility of a long, wide, or deep century? What kinds of projects, arguments, or theoretical approaches flourish or diminish within such frameworks, as compared to designations like Romanticism, Victorianism, Regency or Restoration? How do current practices in researching, publishing, hiring, and teaching reflect and/or influence the ongoing reconceptualization of literary historical boundaries from 1660 to 1900? Reception to follow.

Arranged by UCLA 18th-Century & Romantic Graduate Student Working Group Co-Sponsored by UCLA Department of English and UCLA Graduate Students Association

-- submitted by CDH Service Desk (hcf@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Processing Gender in Law and Other Literatures"

Friday, May 2, 2008, in Royce Hall 314 12:30 Registration, coffee 1:00 Welcoming Remarks Brian P. Copenhaver, Director,UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Lowell Gallagher (UCLA) and Karen Cunningham (UCLA) Symposium Co-conveners 1:15 “Rape and Helen of Troy in the 1590s” Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford University) Moderator: Karen Cunningham (UCLA) 2:15 “Incapable Subjects in the Scene of Contract” Elizabeth Fowler (University of Virginia) Moderator: Rebeca Helfer (UC Irvine) 3:15 Break 3:30 “When Women Ruled the World: the Republican Response” Maureen Quilligan (Duke University) Moderator: Lowell Gallagher (UCLA)

Saturday, May 3, 2008 in Royce Hall 314

8:30 Coffee, pastries 9:00 “ ‘Unlawful Company’ / ‘Good Fellows’: Sodomitical Crimes and Urban Communities in 1607” Mario DiGangi (Lehman College, and Graduate Center, CUNY) Moderator: Arthur Little (UCLA) 10:00 “The Witchcraft Trials, Performance, and the Law” Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University) Moderator: Mark Rose (UC Santa Barbara) 11:00 Break 11:15 “Foreign Laws and English Women” Cyndia Clegg (Pepperdine University) Moderator: Joseph Jenkins (UC Irvine) 12:30 Lunch 2:00 “Gender, Legal Discourse, and Political Writing in England, 1642-1689” Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami) Moderator: Kirstie McClure (UCLA) 3:00 “After Political Theology: Constituting Power and the Problem of the Subject.” Graham Hammill (University of Notre Dame) Moderator: Constance Jordan (Claremont Graduate University) 4:00 Concluding Remarks Lowell Gallagher (UCLA) and Karen Cunningham (UCLA) Symposium Co-conveners

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

"Processing Gender in Law and Other Literatures"

Friday, May 2, 2008, in Royce Hall 314

12:30 Registration, coffee

1:00 Welcoming Remarks, Brian P. Copenhaver, Director,UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Lowell Gallagher (UCLA) and Karen Cunningham (UCLA) Symposium Co-conveners.

1:15 “Rape and Helen of Troy in the 1590s”, Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford University), Moderator: Karen Cunningham (UCLA).

2:15 “Incapable Subjects in the Scene of Contract”, Elizabeth Fowler (University of Virginia), Mderator: Rebeca Helfer (UC Irvine).

3:15 Break

3:30 “When Women Ruled the World: the Republican Response”, Mureen Quilligan (Duke University), Moderator: Lowell Gallagher (UCLA).

Saturday, May 3, 2008 in Royce Hall 314

8:30 Coffee, pastries

9:00 “ ‘Unlawful Company’ / ‘Good Fellows’: Sodomitical Crimes and Urban Communities in 1607”, Mario DiGangi (Lehman College, and Graduate Center, CUNY), Moderator: Arthur Little (UCLA).

10:00 “The Witchcraft Trials, Performance, and the Law”, Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University), Moderator: Mark Rose (UC Santa Barbara).

11:00 Break

11:15 “Foreign Laws and English Women”, Cyndia Clegg (Pepperdine University), Moderator: Joseph Jenkins (UC Irvine).

12:30 Lunch

2:00 “Gender, Legal Discourse, and Political Writing in England, 1642-1689”, Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami), Moderator: Kirstie McClure (UCLA).

3:00 “After Political Theology: Constituting Power and the Problem of the Subject”, Graham Hammill (University of Notre Dame), Moderator: Constance Jordan (Claremont Graduate University).

4:00 Concluding Remarks, Lowell Gallagher (UCLA) and Karen Cunningham (UCLA) Symposium Co-conveners.

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

"Processing Gender in Law and Other Literatures"

Friday, May 2, 2008, in Royce Hall 314

12:30 Registration, coffee

1:00 Welcoming Remarks

Brian P. Copenhaver, Director,UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Lowell Gallagher (UCLA) and Karen Cunningham (UCLA) Symposium Co-conveners

1:15 “Rape and Helen of Troy in the 1590s”

Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford

University)

Moderator: Karen Cunningham (UCLA)

2:15 “Incapable Subjects in the Scene of Contract”

Elizabeth Fowler (University of Virginia)

Moderator: Rebeca Helfer (UC Irvine)

3:15 Break

3:30 “When Women Ruled the World: the Republican Response”

Maureen Quilligan (Duke University)

Moderator: Lowell Gallagher (UCLA)

Saturday, May 3, 2008 in Royce Hall 314

8:30 Coffee, pastries

9:00 “ ‘Unlawful Company’ / ‘Good Fellows’: Sodomitical Crimes and Urban Communities in 1607”

Mario DiGangi (Lehman College, and Graduate Center, CUNY)

Moderator: Arthur Little (UCLA)

10:00 “The Witchcraft Trials, Performance, and the Law”

Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University)

Moderator: Mark Rose (UC Santa Barbara)

11:00 Break

11:15 “Foreign Laws and English Women”

Cyndia Clegg (Pepperdine University)

Moderator: Joseph Jenkins (UC Irvine)

12:30 Lunch

2:00 “Gender, Legal Discourse, and Political Writing in England, 1642-1689”

Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)

Moderator: Kirstie McClure (UCLA)

3:00 “After Political Theology: Constituting Power and the Problem of the Subject.”

Graham Hammill (University of Notre Dame)

Moderator: Constance Jordan (Claremont Graduate University)

4:00 Concluding Remarks

Lowell Gallagher (UCLA) and Karen Cunningham (UCLA) Symposium Co-conveners

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

"Processing Gender in Law and Other Literatures"

Friday, May 2, 2008, in Royce Hall 314

12:30 Registration, coffee

1:00 Welcoming Remarks

Brian P. Copenhaver, Director,UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Lowell Gallagher (UCLA) and Karen Cunningham (UCLA) Symposium Co-conveners

1:15 “Rape and Helen of Troy in the 1590s”

Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford

University)

Moderator: Karen Cunningham (UCLA)

2:15 “Incapable Subjects in the Scene of Contract”

Elizabeth Fowler (University of Virginia)

Moderator: Rebeca Helfer (UC Irvine)

3:15 Break

3:30 “When Women Ruled the World: the Republican Response”

Maureen Quilligan (Duke University)

Moderator: Lowell Gallagher (UCLA)

Saturday, May 3, 2008 in Royce Hall 314

8:30 Coffee, pastries

9:00 “ ‘Unlawful Company’ / ‘Good Fellows’: Sodomitical Crimes and Urban Communities in 1607”

Mario DiGangi (Lehman College, and Graduate Center, CUNY)

Moderator: Arthur Little (UCLA)

10:00 “The Witchcraft Trials, Performance, and the Law”

Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University)

Moderator: Mark Rose (UC Santa Barbara)

11:00 Break

11:15 “Foreign Laws and English Women”

Cyndia Clegg (Pepperdine University)

Moderator: Joseph Jenkins (UC Irvine)

12:30 Lunch

2:00 “Gender, Legal Discourse, and Political Writing in England, 1642-1689”

Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)

Moderator: Kirstie McClure (UCLA)

3:00 “After Political Theology: Constituting Power and the Problem of the Subject.”

Graham Hammill (University of Notre Dame)

Moderator: Constance Jordan (Claremont Graduate University)

4:00 Concluding Remarks

Lowell Gallagher (UCLA) and Karen Cunningham (UCLA) Symposium Co-conveners

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

Hammer Poetry Series - Heather McHugh

Her honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and a United States Artists Award. From 1999 to 2006 she served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and in 2000 was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and is the Milliman Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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

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Professor Richard Yarborough discusses The Street by Ann Petry

Professor Yarborough teaches African American literature and 19th- and 20-century American fiction. He is also a Faculty Research Associate with UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, which he directed for six years. The recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987, he has been recognized as an Outstanding Faculty Member by the African Student Union in 1997 and he has received commendations from the City of Los Angeles (1990) and the County of Los Angeles (1991). He has published extensively on African American literature, and he is the Associate General Editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature (5th ed., 2006). Since 1988 he has been the editor of The Library of Black Literature reprint series published by the University Press of New England.

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

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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

Annual Shakespeare Symposium

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