“Wandering Women” Book Talk with Laura Di Bianco
Laura Di Bianco is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her scholarly work lies at the intersection of Modern Italian Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and...
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“De-Integrate! German-Jewish Notes on the Present.” A lecture by Max Czollek
Royce Hall 236 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CAOne of the most influential young voices of contemporary Germany, author Max Czollek, will speak onthe occasion of the publication of De-Integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century...
Physiognomy at the Crossroads of Magic, Science, and the Arts
The symposium will examine how the study of a person’s facial features and expressions, as indicative of ethnicity or character, has evolved from the crossroads of magic, religion, and primitive...
“Autumn Beat” film screening with Antonio Dikele Distefano
Italian author-turned-director Antonio Dikele Distefano is working to increase representation in new Italian cinema. Distefano is developing films that bring Black performers onto the world stage so they're no longer...
AAFT SoCal Conference
Saturday, February 4th, 2023 Royce 236
Cercle Francophone Annual Immersion Day
Saturday, February 11th, 2023 Royce 314
“The Clinic of Silence” with Catherine Perret
Catherine Perret is a French scholar, philosopher, art critic, psychoanalyst, and author. Please join us for Catherine Perret's lecture on Fernand Deligny, an educator and activist who invented a radically...
Alice Hasters “Black Germans between Erasure and Tokenism”
Journalist and author Alice Hasters is a major contemporary Black German voice. Her bestselling 2019 book Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen, aber wissen sollten (What White People...
Archive Asylum: Archiving and Researching Endangered Literatures
War and flight endanger the literature of affected countries. Authors struggle to survive. They are unable to write. They lose their libraries, manuscripts, pictures and other valuable objects. In response...
A conversation with Marjorie Perloff and UCLA professors Laure Murat and Efrain Kristal
UCLA Professors Laure Murat and Efrain Kristal will host a talk and Q&A with Marjorie Perloff. Marjorie Perloff is Sadie D. Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She...
“Tombs. Writing one’s family history.” Annette Wieviorka
Is it possible to be the historian of one's own family, when one already serves as its archive? What resources exist to enable this undertaking? How might one craft a story...
Graduate Student Speaker Series – Featuring Franco Baldasso
Franco Baldasso is Assistant Professor of Italian and Director of the Italian Program at Bard College and co-Director of the Summer School “The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism” at Sapienza University...