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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260923T140000
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SUMMARY:ELTS Open House
DESCRIPTION:Calling all current and prospective students!We are pleased to invite you to the ELTS Open House on Wednesday\, September 23rd\, from 2-3 PM in 236 Royce Hall.Come mingle with incoming/continuing undergraduate students\, connect with faculty\, meet your academic counselor\, and learn about the exciting Travel Study programs we’re offering!We look forward to welcoming you to the ELTS community! \nRSVP here. 
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/elts-open-house/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T230531Z
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SUMMARY:Rencontres Professionnelles
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 20th from 6-8 pm for an evening of networking and learning! Practice your French skills while meeting French professionals from a range of different fields. Make sure to RSVP and fill out the Eventbrite below. Also\, follow the Instagram\, @uclarencontresprofessionnelles\, for all event updates. We hope to see you there! \nEventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rencontres-professionnelles-tickets-1987692708398?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/rencontres-professionnelles-2/
LOCATION:Royce North Balcony\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260515T180000
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UID:15265-1778850000-1778868000@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jameson in California - and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:This day-long event will focus on Fredric Jameson’s intellectual\, educational\, and now archival legacy and engagement in California\, and beyond. The conference will feature scholarly papers\, personal reflections\, archival updates\, and multimedia works. 
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/jameson-in-california-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Kaplan 193\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T180000
DTSTAMP:20260512T154016Z
CREATED:20260512T154016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260512T154016Z
UID:15316-1778774400-1778781600@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"The Politics of Stone in Fascist Italy"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening and discussion with the filmmaker\, Adrian Duncan\, on Latina\, Latina\, a hybrid documentary on fascist-era architecture in Italy.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/the-politics-of-stone-in-fascist-italy/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260512T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T204803Z
CREATED:20260421T204803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T204803Z
UID:15296-1778601600-1778608800@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Work-in-Progress Forum
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/work-in-progress-forum/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260505T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260505T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T214159Z
CREATED:20260410T214159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T214159Z
UID:15262-1778000400-1778011200@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Multispecies Futures Lab Spring Social
DESCRIPTION:The Multispecies Futures Lab Spring Social will featured food\, interactive performances\, and a multispecies trivia contest with prizes. This is an opportunity for anyone curious about the new lab and to mingle with other ecoculturally fascinating humanimals from different parts of the campus community.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/multispecies-futures-lab-spring-social/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260429T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260429T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T183554Z
CREATED:20260421T183554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T183554Z
UID:15299-1777474800-1777485600@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Ecocultures of the Scala Dei Turchi
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/ecocultures-of-the-scala-dei-turchi/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260423T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260423T141500
DTSTAMP:20260410T212455Z
CREATED:20260410T212455Z
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UID:15259-1776949200-1776953700@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"The Art of Collective Creation: Hermeneutic Democracy from Vattimo to Rancière"
DESCRIPTION:There exists a near universal consensus on the word democracy\, which is often seen as an absolute good and virtually untouchable taboo. But to avoid its possible idealizations\, distortions\, and even imposition on others\, Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo proposes not strengthening but weakening democracy. Just as his pensiero debole consists in a liberation from the strong (that is\, violent) structures of Western Metaphysics\, so weak democracy provides an ability to liberate and develop the polyphonic coexistence of divergent voices\, worlds\, interpretations\, and forms of life. This coexistence takes on pluralistic\, participative\, and creative features. How\, then\, does such liberation take place? And\, more specifically\, what would a weak democracy consist of? \nSilvia Mazzini is director of the IDSVA (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts\, Portland)\, where she teaches Philosophy and Art Theory. Her publications have focused on art and politics in Pier Paolo Pasolini\, Ernst Bloch\, and Gianni Vattimo\, as well as on comic thought and community theatre. She is currently completing a book-length study of Philosophy of Poverty. Before joining IDSVA\, she worked at Humboldt University Berlin (where she also earned her PhD)\, the Berlin University of the Arts\, and the University of Groningen (NL)\, and was a visiting fellow at ICI Berlin. As a theatre author\, she collaborated with various theatre companies and has experimented with narrative essays\, performative lectures\, and hybrid artistic forms.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/the-art-of-collective-creation-hermeneutic-democracy-from-vattimo-to-ranciere/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T130000
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CREATED:20260403T202204Z
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UID:15248-1776690000-1776693600@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ECA Partners: Exclusive Graduate Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dedicated session with ECA Partners\, a leading executive search and talent solutions firm specializing in private equity and high-impact industry roles. This is a unique opportunity to explore career pathways beyond academia and gain insight into how advanced degree holders — including PhDs — transition into consulting\, recruiting\, and private equity-adjacent careers.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/eca-partners-exclusive-graduate-event/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260414T130000
DTSTAMP:20260318T165803Z
CREATED:20260318T165803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T165803Z
UID:15238-1776168000-1776171600@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Immersive Futures: AI\, VR\, and the Classroom of Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an interactive session with Wonda VR founder and CEO Arnaud Dressen\, exploring how immersive technologies are reshaping education\, storytelling\, and cultural engagement. From virtual cities and historical environments to AI-assisted learning experiences\, immersive tools are transforming the way we explore languages\, cultures\, and knowledge. In this session\, we will discuss how universities and creators are using virtual reality\, augmented reality\, and AI to design new kinds of learning experiences. \nThe event will include a look behind the scenes at how immersive environments are created\, insights into the future of AI\, AR\, and VR in education\, and a conversation on digital storytelling and cultural exploration. The session will conclude with an open discussion and audience Q&A. The talk will also highlight UCLA’s ARC Hub (Augmented Reality & Culture Hub)\, an initiative exploring how immersive technologies can transform language learning and cultural discovery. 
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/immersive-futures-ai-vr-and-the-classroom-of-tomorrow/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T163000
DTSTAMP:20260203T184756Z
CREATED:20251106T222219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T184756Z
UID:14779-1776070800-1776097800@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ELTS Job Fair
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/elts-job-fair-2/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314 and 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T190000
DTSTAMP:20260326T152732Z
CREATED:20260318T164250Z
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UID:15232-1775754000-1775761200@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:In Conversation with Annick Cojean
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) for an exclusive evening with Annick Cojean\, a world-renowned senior reporter for Le Monde. In dialogue with Professor Lia Brozgal\, Cojean will explore her distinguished career in journalism and the innovative adaptation of her investigative reporting into new artistic forms—including graphic novels and theater.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/in-conversation-with-annick-cojean/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T160000
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CREATED:20260330T171224Z
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UID:15243-1775750400-1775757600@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Maka: Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Maka is a documentary about Geneviève Makaping — an anthropologist\, journalist\, and the first Black woman to serve as editor-in-chief of an Italian newspaper. Tracing her migration from Cameroon across the desert and the Mediterranean Sea to her arrival and life in Italy\, the film capture both her personal resilience and her reflections on race\, migration\, and representation. Through an engaging blend of interviews\, archival images\, and reflective storytelling\, the documentary crafts a powerful meditation on visibility\, identity and belonging.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/maka-film-screening/
LOCATION:Darren Star Theater\, 235 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T190000
DTSTAMP:20260220T000438Z
CREATED:20260220T000109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T000438Z
UID:15064-1773244800-1773255600@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Toni\, Mio Padre (Toni\, My Father): Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Anna Negri
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies\, in collaboration with the UCLA School of Theater\, Film & Television\, presents a special screening of Toni\, Mio Padre\, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Anna Negri. This intimate documentary explores memory\, political trauma\, and the complex father–daughter relationship between Negri and her father\, philosopher Toni Negri.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/toni-mio-padre-toni-my-father-screening-and-conversation-with-filmmaker-anna-negri/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T190000
DTSTAMP:20260218T234107Z
CREATED:20260218T233953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T234107Z
UID:15022-1771434000-1771441200@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Screening of "La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano"
DESCRIPTION:The Italian Club invites you to a special screening of La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano on February 18 from 5–7 PM in Royce 314. Directed by Academy Award–winning Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore and based on Alessandro Baricco’s monologue Novecento\, the film tells the story of a legendary pianist born aboard an ocean liner who spends his entire life at sea\, never setting foot on land. Expansive yet intimate\, the film explores themes of migration\, identity\, belonging\, and the quiet terror of limitless possibility. \n 
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-la-leggenda-del-pianista-sulloceano/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260121T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260121T140000
DTSTAMP:20251106T224056Z
CREATED:20251106T221144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251106T224056Z
UID:14777-1768953600-1769004000@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:World Languages Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/world-languages-day/
LOCATION:Wilson Plaza\, 221 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://elts.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WLD-2026-Flyer-Final-2.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T200000
DTSTAMP:20251002T171851Z
CREATED:20251002T171851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T171851Z
UID:14710-1761307200-1761422400@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Attend a performance at CAP UCLA
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/attend-a-performance-at-cap-ucla/
LOCATION:CA
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://elts.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CAP-UCLA-Tiago.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T133000
DTSTAMP:20251210T164932Z
CREATED:20251210T164908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251210T164932Z
UID:14816-1760097600-1760103000@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"Raising the Bar: The French chef\, Housewives\, and 'Real Cooks'"
DESCRIPTION:In its 2005 Super Bowl commercial\, McDonald’s presented the Quarter Pounder with Cheese as an “hors d’oeuvre\,” a tongue-in-cheek appropriation of French exquisiteness in food culture. It built on the democratization of gourmet cuisine in the U.S.\, which had its breakthrough more than forty years earlier in a cooking show on a local public television station in Boston. The French Chef and its host and creator\, Julia Child\, had sought to elevate food culture by appealing to an interest in participating in the distinguished esteem of French food. To raise awareness of technique and ingredients\, Child invested even more in an engaging and encouraging pedagogy that became famous for its humor and entertainment\, attracting a huge crowd of viewers with or without an interest in cooking. Child’s elevation of home cooking standards was criticized in feminist discussions as an additional burden on housewives. At the same time\, The French Chef brought new attention to home cooking\, presented the kitchen as a place of serious work\, and finally opened up access to professional cooking to women who had rarely been admitted to culinary academies before. \nThis talk will consider the roles of feminist critique\, unacknowledged labor\, transnational exchange\, and media technology in The French Chef\, illustrating that the success of The French Chef was due in no small part to the conceptual and technical innovations of its media production which supported Child’s communicative and performative talents. Acting as a bar\, the kitchen counter supported Child’s engaging style of addressing the audience not only collectively but also individually. Equipped with an invisible mirror that improved audience participation\, the kitchen counter became part of the new cooking show apparatus.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/raising-the-bar-the-french-chef-housewives-and-real-cooks/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 236\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251006T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251006T193000
DTSTAMP:20251002T171522Z
CREATED:20251002T171522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T171522Z
UID:14704-1759773600-1759779000@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Navigating The Labyrinths of Identity
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/navigating-the-labyrinths-of-identity/
LOCATION:CA
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://elts.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Éric-Fottorino-English.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T180000
DTSTAMP:20251002T172043Z
CREATED:20251002T171747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T172043Z
UID:14707-1759482000-1759514400@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:On Land and Across the Sea: Boccaccio's Other Wor(l)ds. Junctions and Interweavings
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/on-land-and-across-the-sea-boccaccios-other-worlds-junctions-and-interweavings/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250924T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250924T140000
DTSTAMP:20250724T174701Z
CREATED:20250724T174701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T174701Z
UID:14664-1758718800-1758722400@elts.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ELTS 2025 Fall Open House
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nJoin us to explore all that ELTS has to offer—connect with faculty\, your academic counselor\, and fellow students\, and discover meaningful ways to engage with our vibrant community. \n  \nWednesday\, September 24th | 1pm – 2pm | Royce Hall 236
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/elts-2025-fall-open-house/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T170000
DTSTAMP:20250501T180030Z
CREATED:20250501T180030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T180030Z
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SUMMARY:Arendt's Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 13\, 2025\n4:00 PM – 6:00 PM\nBunche Hall\, Rm 10383 \nRegister here \n  \nThe Center for European and Russian Studies and Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies invite you to a book talk for Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World (Stanford University Press 2024). Author David D. Kim\, Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and Associate Vice Provost of the International Institute\, will discuss his new publication in conversation with Samuel Moyn (Yale)\, Yogita Goyal (UCLA) and moderator Laurie Hart (UCLA). This event will take place in Bunche Hall\, Room 10383 on May 13\, 2025 at 4PM PST. Registration is required. \nAbout the Talk\nHannah Arendt’s work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism\, racial or gender-based violence\, climate change\, and right-wing populism. But what if a careful analysis of her oeuvre reveals a darker side to this intellectual legacy? What if solidarity\, as she conceives of it\, is not oriented toward equality\, freedom\, or justice for all\, but creates a barrier to intersectional coalition building? \nIn Arendt’s Solidarity\, David D. Kim illuminates Arendt’s lifelong struggle with this deceptively straightforward yet divisive concept. Drawing upon her publications\, unpublished documents\, private letters\, radio and television interviews\, newspaper clippings\, and archival marginalia\, Kim examines how Arendt refutes solidarity as an effective political force against anti-Semitism\, racial injustice\, or social inequality. As Kim reveals\, this conceptual conundrum follows the arc of Arendt’s forced migration across the Atlantic and is directly related to every major concern of hers: Christian neighborly love\, friendship\, Jewish assimilation\, Zionism\, National Socialism\, the American republic\, Black Power\, revolution\, violence\, and the human world. Kim places these thoughts in dialogue with dissenting voices\, such as Thomas Mann\, Gershom Scholem\, Jean-Paul Sartre\, James Baldwin\, Frantz Fanon\, James Forman\, and Ralph Ellison. The result is a full-scale reinterpretation of Arendt’s oeuvre. \nAbout the Speakers\nDavid D. Kim is Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and Associate Vice Provost of the International Institute at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Parables: Trauma and Responsibility in Contemporary Germany (2017). \nSamuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University\, where he also serves as head of Grace Hopper College. Trained in modern European intellectual history\, he works on political and legal thought in modern times and on constitutional and international law in historical and current perspective. His most recent book is Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (Yale University Press\, 2023)\, based on the Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought at the University of Oxford. \nYogita Goyal is Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA and the author of two monographs: Romance\, Diaspora\, and Black Atlantic Literature (2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (2019)\, winner of the René Wellek Prize from ACLA\, the Perkins prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Honorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize from MLA.  \nLaurie Hart is Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Center for European and Russian Studies at UCLA.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/arendts-solidarity-anti-semitism-and-racism-in-the-atlantic-world/
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SUMMARY:Literary Journeys from Metaphor to Plot: Travel\, Mind\, and Experience
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 10th –  Sunday\, May 11th | Royce Hall 314
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/literary-journeys-from-metaphor-to-plot-travel-mind-and-experience/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250505T150000
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SUMMARY:Renaissance Refugees: Negotiating Displacement in the Early Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 5\, 2025 \n3:00 PM | Royce Hall 23 \nAbout the Lecture\nDuring the early modern period\, campaigns of ethnic cleansing forced entire populations to flee\, creating diasporic networks across the Mediterranean and beyond. Ferdinand of Aragon’s “pious cruelty” as Machiavelli famously put it in the Prince\, set an example that was repeatedly imitated by European rulers to consolidate sovereignty and enforce religious uniformity. How did refugees cope with mass expulsions? Far from being voiceless victims\, they wrote eloquently about displacement in dozens of texts\, contributing to the creation of ‘refugee literature.’ As this talk argues\, writing provided refugees not only with a new home that filled the void of their lost homeland but also with a forum through which asylum policies were negotiated \nAbout the Presenter\nDiego Pirillo is the UCLA 2025 Charles Speroni Endowed Chair in Medieval Renaissance Literature and Culture. He is a Professor and Chair of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley\, where he also serves as the Director of the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS) graduate program and as an Affiliate Faculty member in the History department. His work explores how mobility\, displacement\, and colonialism shaped the intellectual and cultural life of early modern Europe and the Atlantic world. His forthcoming book\, The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin (University of Pennsylvania Press)\, examines the intellectual history of colonialism in early America\, showing how Enlightenment scholars served as agents of empire\, silencing their ties to chattel slavery and coordinating the dispossession of Indigenous people. \n 
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/renaissance-refugees-negotiating-displacement-in-the-early-modern-mediterranean/
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SUMMARY:UCLA/Digital Humanities Distinguished Annual Lecture: T.J Demos
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Prof. T.J. Demos\, an award-winning writer whose work focuses on the intersection of contemporary art\, global politics\, and ecology\, will be asking the question: when the violent repression of community activism at the nexus of abolition\, decolonization\, and environmentalism is compounded by forces of contemporary counterinsurgency that are operating to prevent any political transformation beyond the status quo\, how might a prehensive climate-justice-directed art history\, and an insurgent arts of the possible\, meaningfully respond? Books include The Migrant Image Art and Politics of Documentary During the Global Crisis (2013)\, Decolonizing Nature Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (2016)\, Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (2017)\, Beyond the World’s End: Arts of living at the Crossing (2020) and Radical Futurisms Ecologies of Collapse\, Chronopolitics\, and Justice-to-Come (2023).
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/ucla-digital-humanities-distinguished-annual-lecture-t-j-demos/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T170000
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SUMMARY:Michelle Bumatay: Black Bandes Dessinées in Context
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the UCLA Center for the Global Study of France\, we invite you to attend a talk with Michelle Bumatay (Florida State University) on April 28th\, from 5pm-6:30pm in Royce Hall 236. \nIn this talk\, Prof. Bumatay\, who holds a Ph.D. from our own program in French and Francophone Studies\, will be disentangling what “African” and “comics” might mean and focusing on artists’ practices throughout francophone Africa and the diaspora. \nRoyce Hall 236 | April 28\, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 6: 30 PM
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/black-bandes-dessinees-in-context/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T173000
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SUMMARY:Amandine Aftalion: LA 2028: How to Be a Champion Using Science
DESCRIPTION:The Center of Excellence welcomes Amandine Aftalion on April 17th at 5:30PM in Royce Hall 236. Amandine is a French mathematician\, who currently serves as the Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – University Paris Saclay. She specializes in applying her knowledge to the fields of sports and science\, known for her research on Bose–Einstein condensates and on the mathematics of footracing\, among many other research initiatives.\n \nRoyce Hall 236 | April 17\, 2025 | 5:30 PM – 6: 30 PM
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/amandine-aftalion-la-2028-how-to-be-a-champion-using-science/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250416T190000
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SUMMARY:Exclusive Film Screening of "The Goat"
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to present an exclusive screening of The Goat\, followed by a dynamic conversation with Professor Thomas Harrison (ELTS)\, Professor Kara Cooney (NELC)\, acclaimed director Ilaria Borrelli\, and special guests. Do not miss this exciting opportunity to dive deep into the film and hear from the brilliant minds behind it. Please join us this Wednesday\, April 16th at 4 PM in Royce 314. See you there! \nRoyce Hall 314 | Wednesday\, April 16\, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. 
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/exclusive-film-screening-of-the-goat/
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SUMMARY:Roberto Tottoli Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) and Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS) at UCLA invite you to a guest lecture\, featuring Professor Roberto Tottoli.   \nThe Qur’an in Europe\, a European Qur’an:  \nReading\, translating and printing the Muslim holy text from the Middle Ages to modern times \nBunche Hall 10383 |Tuesday\, April 14\, 2025 | 3:00 p.m.  \nPlease RSVP here.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/roberto-tottoli-lecture/
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SUMMARY:Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:The Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies at UCLA invite you to a New Book Salon\, featuring Professor Morosini.  \nDante\, Moses and the Book of Islam. Visualizing the Qur’an from Byzantium to Filippino Lippi’s Adoration \nRoyce Hall 306 | Monday\, April 14\, 2025 | 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. \nRefreshments will be served. \nPlease RSVP here.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/dante-moses-and-the-book-of-islam-book-talk/
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