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SUMMARY:Commencement 2021
DESCRIPTION:Please click here for more details.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/commencement-2021/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Of Bridges: a Poetic and Philosophical Account by Thomas Harrison | Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Professors Marjorie Perloff of Standford and Christy Wampole of Princeton. \nA rich compendium of literary\, architectural\, and musical figurations\, Harrison’s Of Bridges gives a panoramic account of diverse meanings of bridges in seemingly unrelated times and places\, questioning why they are built and where they lead. It examines bridges of thought and art\, bridges as flash points in war\, the links forged by religion between transience and eternity\, the mega-bridges of our globalized world\, the real and symbolic crossings facing migrants each day\, and the affective connections that form and transform cultural communities.  \nZOOM Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93182086493\nMeeting Passcode: 896580
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/of-bridges-a-poetic-and-philosophical-account-by-thomas-harrison-book-launch/
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SUMMARY:Humanities Dialogues Spring Quarter 2021
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to participate in a series of meetings\, where you will discover how words/concepts essential to the human experience across cultures have acquired different meanings in different languages due to specific historical\, social\, political\, and cultural contexts. At each meeting\, you will have the opportunity to discuss one word/concept drawing upon your life experience\, background\, studies\, and knowledge of cultural phenomena that interest you\, including literature\, current events\, and pop culture. You can attend one\, several\, or all meetings. Student drop-ins are welcome and encouraged! \nThese dialogues will culminate in a final Symposium where participants – who have attended at least two discussions – are eligible to present a 10-minute research paper. Discussions and presentations will be in English and may include citations in the studied language. \nTo join\, please register here: https://humanities.ucla.edu/events/humanities-dialogues/\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation with the Zoom information. \nSpring Quarter 2021:\nfrom 4:00pm-5:00pm via Zoom \nWeek 2: Friday\, April 9 | FAMILY & CULTURE\nWeek 4: Friday\, April 23 | CREATIVITY\nWeek 6: Friday\, May 7 | RESPECT & FEAR\nWeek 8: Friday\, May 21 | SUCCESS & LEGACY \n  \nSponsored by the UCLA Division of Humanities\, Department of French & Francophone Studies\, Department of Germanic Languages\, and Department of Italian
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/humanities-dialogues-spring-quarter-2021/
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SUMMARY:Alienated Awareness: Mindfulness Paradigms of Modernist Aesthetics | a virtual lecture by Professor Michael Subialka
DESCRIPTION:Is modern alienation necessarily a source of dehumanized angst? In this presentation I examine a perhaps unexpected way in which mindfulness practices and theory can serve as a paradigm of modernist aesthetics. This different paradigm helps us reconceive the nature and function of alienation (and it cognate forms – estrangement\, distance\, etc.) in modernist literature and art. Forms of alienation\, from dehumanization and distance to grotesque distortion or critical estrangement\, have long been viewed as a hallmark of modernist production. My contention is that if we adopt a view of modernist aesthetics that understands it as a particular (aesthetic) instantiation of mindfulness practice\, it becomes possible to reconceive the function of these forms of alienation. Simultaneously\, that practice can be situated in relation to multiple and conflicting theorizations drawn from varied traditions spanning Buddhist meditation and Christian contemplation to occult mysticism and scientific naturalism. Looking at the practice and theory of mindful presence together\, I argue that some forms of modernist alienation may actually align spiritual traditions with critical efforts to shift modern conditions by seeing the world anew.\nTo register\, please click here.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/alienated-awareness-mindfulness-paradigms-of-modernist-aesthetics-a-virtual-lecture-by-professor-michael-subialka/
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SUMMARY:Photography on Tilt | a virtual lecture by Professor Kalani Michell
DESCRIPTION:In 1968\, Frank Walter returns to his native Antigua after years in Europe\, where he devoted time to speculative genealogical family trees\, and opens a portrait studio. Having heard tales of his German lineage\, he didn’t anticipate being seen in Europe as only Black\, rather than mixed\, and contemplates how to materialize this complex history. Upon his return\, the studio was key for the 1\,250+ miniature paintings he made before his death: He painted them on the back of unwanted photographs. The versos of Walter’s paintings\, often referencing the tradition of German Romanticism\, offer a speculative media history. It is here that the community of St. John’s materializes and remains adamantly untitled\, as if they were always destined to be written out of history\, even as they assume the common place of the painting’s title. But to see this\, one first has to take hold of them – tilt\, turn and flip them.  \nThis talk explores the overlooked role of speculation within the history of photography through Walter’s studio photographs/paintings as flip-objects. These works speculate that these different modes and histories of visual representation can only be seen through one another\, like a thaumatropic image\, therein repositioning photography’s association with the past to understand it as future-oriented. \nTo register\, please click here.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/photography-on-tilt-a-virtual-lecture-by-professor-kalani-michell/
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SUMMARY:Community Engagement and Social Justice: A Reorienting Framework for ELTS
DESCRIPTION:Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3566620213\nMeeting ID: 3566620213\nPassword: ELTS!
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/community-engagement-and-social-justice-a-reorienting-framework-for-elts/
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SUMMARY:Symposium in Homage to Michel Jeanneret (1940-2019)
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Jean-Claude Carron (Research Professor\, UCLA) \nPlease register here for the symposium on Zoom\n \nThis symposium convened to honor Michel Jeanneret (1940-March 2019) will memorialize the critical and creative achievements of one of the pillars of early modern studies today. We will bear witness to his pioneering contributions to the current critical discourse on French and European studies\, covering both the ancient and nouveau régimes\, from the Sixteenth century\, with\, among others\, Vinci\, Erasmus\, Rabelais\, Ronsard\, Montaigne\, to Versailles\, Nerval\, and contemporary French cultural politics (« Cinquante-huit réponses à Nicolas Sarkozy »\, Critique 2009). Participants will attest to how\, as a  literary scholar focusing on hermeneutic and textual interpretation\, the Genevan critic was also interested in culture\, philosophy\, visual arts\, architecture\, food\, society\, and\, recently\, digital humanities (Bodmer Foundation). Everything being said\, together we will assess how Michel Jeanneret\, the scholar\, the teacher\, and the humanist\, bears witness to what being human means. \nProfessor of French Literature at the University of Geneva\, Michel Jeanneret was one of the pillars of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Centuries French literature\, as well as humanist and Renaissance cultures of our generation. Well known in the US\, where he gave numerous lectures\, he served as Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and has held posts as Visiting Professor in Harvard\, Princeton\, Seattle\, Irvine\, as well as the College de France\, the Sorbonne\, and the Universities of Lausanne\, Nothingham\, Bristol\, Beijing and Kyoto. Frequent visitor to California\, Los Angeles\, and UCLA\, he was a guest lecturer at the CMRS and a visiting scholar in the French and Francophone Department. Among his works translated into English: A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance (Chicago\, 1991) and Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne (Johns Hopkins\, 2001). Colleagues and friends from the US and Europe will participate in this international homage. \nProgram: \n9:00am\nWelcome: Marian Hobson Jeanneret and Jean-Claude Carron\n \n9:15am-10:15am\nSession I – Papers: ‘L’élégance d’un style’\nModerator: Walter Stephens (Johns Hopkins University) \n9:15am\nMax Engammare (Librairie Droz\, University of Geneva)\, Les premiers pas d’un grand critique \n9:35am\nFrédéric Tinguely (University of Geneva)\, L’écriture comme présence \n9:55am\nFlorian Preisig (Eastern Washington University)\, La générosité dans l’œuvre critique de Michel Jeanneret \n10:15am\nBreak \nModerator: Cynthia Skenazi (University of California\, Santa Barbara) \n10:30am\nMary McKinley (University of Virginia)\nMichel Jeanneret / Michel de Montaigne: Joy\, Movement\, Liberty \n10:50am\nFrank Lestringant (Paris 4 Sorbonne)\nUn XVIIe siècle décapé. À propos de ‘J’aime ta joie parce qu’elle est folle’. Écrivains en fête (Genève\, Droz\, 2018) \n11:10am\nYves Citton (Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis)\nLes grâces drôlatiques d’un professeur de littérature \n11:30am\nDiscussion \n12:00pm\nBreak \n12:15pm\nRound Table: ‘L’Élan créateur’\nModerator: Jean-Claude Carron\nDiscussants: Cécile Alduy (Stanford University)\, Dominique Brancher (Universität Basel)\, Terence Cave (Oxford University)\, Tom Conley (Harvard University)\, Jérôme David (University of Geneva)\, Ullrich Langer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)\, Mary McKinley (University of Virginia)\, Jan Miernowski (University of Wisconsin – Madison)\, Frédéric Tinguely (University of Geneva) \n\nThe organizer wishes to thank the following institutions for their help: \n\nDepartment of Modern Languages and Literatures\, Johns Hopkins University\, Wilda Wilson\, Interim Chair\nCentre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies\, University of Toronto\, Matt Kavaler\, Director\nArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Arizona State University\, Ayanna Thompson\, Director\nDepartment of European Languages and Transcultural Studies\, UCLA\, Dominic Thomas\, Chair\nUCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and its Director\, Zrinka Stahuljak\, for their generous sponsorship\n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/symposium-in-homage-to-michel-jeanneret-1940-2019/
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SUMMARY:A conversation with Diane Ratican\, author of Why LA? Pourquoi Paris?
DESCRIPTION:Event Date: Monday\, March 1\, 2021\, 3pm PST\nEvent Location: Zoom event\nPlease RSVP below \nAbstract\nFor the first time\, the cities of Los Angeles and Paris are illustrated in parallel. A one-of-a-kind collectible art book\, travel guide and personal journey that compares and contrasts the history\, culture\, architecture\, fashion\, cuisine and daily life of two of the most iconic cities on the planet. For more details\, please visit the website https://whylapourquoiparis.com/. \nAbout the speaker\nDiane Ratican\, educated at University of California Berkeley in History and Sociology\, then at UCLA with a Masters in Sociology and Education\, started her career educating gifted children\, and then moved on to become a risk-taking entrepreneur. This background uniquely prepared her to engage in this latest endeavor\, as writer\, conjuror of images\, and artistic director. Sharing her enchantment with\, and knowledge of\, both Los Angeles and Paris has become a complex project with all the depth and nuances of a richly textured tapestry. As an entrepreneur\, Ratican built a highly successful business importing children’s clothing from France for upscale retailers across the U.S. Ratican’s excitement and infatuation with Paris\, her second home\, plus her enthusiasm for her resident city\, Los Angeles\, uniquely positions her to engage readers to develop their own love affair of both these dynamic destinations. Ratican is a devoted wife\, mother\, and grandmother living in Pasadena\, California. \n 
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-diane-ratican-author-of-why-la-pourquoi-paris/
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SUMMARY:Connecting the Dots: Data Narratives of Migration\, a virtual talk Roopika Risam
DESCRIPTION:Roopika Risam; Digital Humanities Speaker\n \nEvent location: Zoom event\n \nPlease register here.\n \n \nAbstract\nWith the prodigious amount of data about contemporary migration currently available through sources like the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees\, migration has been subject of numerous data visualizations. Rhetorical and technical choices made in these visualizations have positioned refugees and forced migrants as instigators of a “crisis.” In doing so\, these forms of data storytelling displace the geo-political\, colonial\, and neo-colonial causes of migration onto refugees themselves\, positioning them as “problems.” In this talk Risam explores the narrative dimensions of migrant data. What does it mean to tell migrant narratives through data? What kinds of migrant narratives do data-driven approaches facilitate and what narratives are obscured through data-driven approaches? And what kinds of data storytelling approaches foster the agency of migrants?\n \nAbout the speaker\nRoopika Risam is Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education and English at Salem State University. Her research interests lie at the intersections of postcolonial and African diaspora studies\, humanities knowledge infrastructures\, and digital humanities. Risam is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory\, Praxis\, and Pedagogy (2018)\, and co-editor of Intersectionality in Digital Humanities (2019) and The Digital Black Atlantic for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (2021).\n \nPresented by the UCLA Department of Digital Humanities and the UCLA Department of Information Studies.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/connecting-the-dots-data-narratives-of-migration-a-virtual-talk-roopika-risam/
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SUMMARY:Homegoing: The Technology of Living Data and Black Public Mourning in the Age of COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Professor Kim Gallon (Purdue University) \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \nThursday\, December 10\, 2020\n3:00pm-5:00pm (PST) \nKim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. She is the author of many articles and essays as well as the book\, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press\, 2020). She currently serves as the inaugural editor for the Black Press in America book series at Johns Hopkins University Press. Gallon is also the author of the field defining article\, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” and the founder and director of two black digital humanities projects: The Black Press Research Collective and COVID Black: A Taskforce on Black Health and Data. She also serves on a number of digital advisory boards for digital humanities projects and grants. To learn more about her research and teaching follow her on Twitter\, @BlackDigitalHum \nPresented by UCLA’s Digital Humanities program\, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (c2i2)\, and the Department of Information Studies’ Graduate Student Colloquium. \n 
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/virtual-talk-homegoing-the-technology-of-living-data-and-black-public-mourning-in-the-age-of-covid-19/
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SUMMARY:Black Italians and Digital Culture in Contemporary Italy - a virtual lecture by Fred Kudjo Kuwornu
DESCRIPTION:Fred Kudjo Kuwornu is a filmmaker activist-producer-educator\, born and raised in Italy and based in Brooklyn. His mother is an Italian Jew\, and his father is a Ghanaian surgeon who lived in Italy since the early 60’s. Fred Kuwornu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Mass Media from the University of Bologna. \nKuwornu produced and directed the Award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo (“Best Documentary” at the Black Berlin International Cinema Festival). Inside Buffalo had viewings at the Pentagon\, the Library of Congress and it received a letter of congratulations by President Barack Obama. In 2016\, he released Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Black in Italian Cinema\, a diasporic\, hybrid\, historical\, critical\, dimensional and cosmopolitan documentary about actors of African descent in Italian cinema. He is developing the project Blaq IT (the Black Italians Timeline). \nIn 2020\, he was the voice over for the Italian version of the Netflix educational show Bookmarks-Celebrating Black Voices. Kuwornu believes using film and other art forms are essential tools for building a more inclusive society. For more details on Fred Kuwornu’s biography\, please visit https://www.dotherightfilms.nyc/bio-fred-kuwornu. \nPlease register here.\nAfter registering\, you will receive an e-mail confirmation to join the Zoom meeting and a passcode.
URL:https://elts.ucla.edu/event/black-italians-and-digital-culture-in-contemporary-italy-a-virtual-lecture-by-fred-kudjo-kuwornu/
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