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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: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: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
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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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