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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, “Turning Away"
DESCRIPTION:A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.  \n“This is a book that makes a difference\, not only in our grasp of human visuality but in all the mixed feelings of love and hate\, attraction and repulsion\, thought and feeling that make us the crazy animals we are.”—W. J. T. Mitchell\, author of What Do Pictures Want?  \n“This lavish and virtuosic book finds in the gesture of turning away an entire history of why we turn to art to understand what we cannot look at directly.”—D. Vance Smith\, author of Atlas’s Bones \nWhy do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame or lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study\, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic appearance of these gestures in art\, poetry\, and philosophy has turned them into an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world. \nInto the horizon of contemporary discourse\, Turning Away sets out from five influential scenes in which figures avert their gaze: Timanthes’s Sacrifice of Iphigenia\, Plato’s Republic\, Augustine’s Confessions\, Christ’s Crucifixion\, and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The gestures of aversion in these scenes refract across visual media\, through philosophy and politics\, into modernity and the present day\, having been reimagined along the way by thinkers like Hannah Arendt\, artists like Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí\, poets like Langston Hughes\, and many others. Saltzman offers a timely critique of the privilege of turning away and of the too-easy condemnation of our tendencies to do so. \n\nBenjamin Saltzman (University of Chicago) will be in conversation with Bronwen Wilson (UCLA\, Art History) and David Russell (UCLA\, English). \nBenjamin Saltzman is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago\, where he coedits the journal Modern Philology. Saltzman is the author of Bonds of Secrecy: Law\, Spirituality\, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England. \nBronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th– and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. Wilson is the author of numerous books\, including the forthcoming book\, The Face of Uncertainty. She is also coeditor of Conversion Machines: Apparatus\, Artifice\, Body and The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art. \nDavid Russell is associate professor of English at UCLA and the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Marion Milner: On Creativity. \nCosponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Art History.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-turning-away/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, "Inventing the Alphabet"
DESCRIPTION:Johanna Drucker (School of Education & Information Studies\, UCLA) discusses her book Inventing the Alphabet (The University of Chicago Press\, 2022) with Helen Deutsch (English\, UCLA). \nRegister to attend in person Royce 306. \nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \n(Originally scheduled for April 25\, 2023)
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-inventing-the-alphabet/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230218T090000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - "The Book of Faith: A Modern English Translation"
DESCRIPTION:Pepperdine University Professor Jennifer A. T. Smith’s The Book of Faith: A Modern English Translation\, offers a critical introduction to\, and translation of\, Reginald Pecock’s The Book of Faith. Organized by Arvind Thomas (UCLA)\, moderated by Wendy Scase (Birmingham)\, with Steven Justice (UC Berkeley)\, Ian Forest (Oxford University) and Michael Calabrese (CSULA) as respondents. \nAttend online at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94335688131. \nQuestions? Please contact Professor Thomas at arvindthomas@g.ucla.edu. \n \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/book-launch-the-book-of-faith-a-modern-english-translation/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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SUMMARY:Open House and New Book Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Open House and New Book Salon with ELIZABETH MORRISON\, Senior Curator of Manuscripts at The J. Paul Getty Museum\, and writer BOYD MORRISON\, for a discussion of their new book\, The Lawless Land (Tales of the Lawless Land Book 1). \nNew Book Salon\n4:30 – 5:30 pm Pacific Time\nOnsite in Royce 306 and online with Zoom \nOpen House Reception\n5:30 – 7:00 pm\nRoyce 306 Balcony \nRSVP to attend on Zoom \nRSVP to attend in person
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/fall2022-open-house-book-salon/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon,Open House
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, "Throne of Blood"
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare’s Macbeth seems to come across best in black-and-white. The recent release of a stunning new version of this blood-soaked tragedy\, directed by Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand\, has spurred renewed interest in the play and its history in film. Throne of Blood\, Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 Japanese reworking of Macbeth (also in black and white) has often been called the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made\, with rave reviews from T.S. Eliot\, Harold Bloom\, and a range of renowned international directors of stage and screen. \nProfessor Robert N. Watson (English\, UCLA)\, winner of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and author of a recent book on Throne of Blood will analyze some filmed versions of Macbeth in discussion with Senior Lecturer Stephen Dickey (English\, UCLA)\, also a winner of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and teacher of courses on adaptations of Shakespeare. \nRobert N. Watson received his degrees from Yale and Stanford\, and was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Harvard before coming to UCLA in 1986\, where he has served as Chair of the Department of English\, Chair of the Faculty of the UCLA College of Letters and Science\, Associate Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation\, and Associate Dean of Humanities. He has won national senior research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities\, as well as a UC President’s Fellowship. He recently spent a year as a visiting Senior Fellow at Trinity College\, Cambridge University\, and a term as the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Oxford’s University’s Christ Church College. \nProfessor Watson teaches mostly Shakespeare\, English Renaissance poetry\, and historical ecocriticism.  He has been awarded the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Prize\, and the Gold Shield prize\, given annually to one faculty member at the university for outstanding contributions in research\, teaching\, and public service. He was also the first holder of the Neikirk Chair for Innovative Undergraduate Education. \nHis environmental book Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance\, won the Dietz Memorial Prize\, “awarded annually for the best book published in early modern studies\,” as well as the ASLE Prize for the best book of ecocriticism of 2005-07; and he has continued to work and publish on environmental and animal-protection issues. His other books have studied Shakespeare\, Ben Jonson\, the fear of death in the Renaissance\, and the malfunctions of cultural evolution. He has edited volumes of Jonson’s plays and (with his departmental colleague Professor Braunmuller) the new Arden edition of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, and others in dozens of other literary journals here and overseas. \nStephen J. Dickey is Senior Lecturer in the English Department where he has received numerous teaching prizes\, including the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.  He offers various courses in Shakespeare\, the English Renaissance\, and the Beat Generation\, as well as introductory courses in poetry and drama. \nFrom 2002-16\, Dickey served on the faculty of the Folger Teaching Shakespeare Institute\, an NEH-supported program for high school teachers from across the country\, held biennially at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington\, D.C. \nRecent publications include studies of Shakespeare’s second tetralogy of history plays\, the Elizabethans’ favorite sport of bearbaiting\, and Shakespeare allusions in American political writing and oratory during the Civil War era. In 2016 he curated “The Bard Goes West” at the Central Library in Los Angeles – an exhibition growing out of the Folger’s “America’s Shakespeare” show commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. His latest publication\, “Beats Visiting Hell\,” surveys the epic motif of the katabasis\, or journey to the underworld\, in Beat works like Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl\,” Jack Kerouac’s “Big Sur\,” and William Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch.” \nApril 25 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time.\nRegister here for onsite attendance in Royce 306 or online attendance on Zoom.\nPlease note that all in-person attendees are asked to wear face masks.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-throne-of-blood-by-robert-n-watson/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, “Les Fixeurs au Moyen âge - Histoire et littérature connectées"
DESCRIPTION:A book panel on “Invisible Persons\, Invisible Texts: Translation and Translators in Medieval and Modern Afghanistan and the West” with Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\, Jawanshir Rasikh (Independent Scholar)\, and Arezou Azad (Oxford). Discussant: Domenico Ingenito (UCLA). \nRegister to attend on Zoom.\n9:30 am – 11 am Pacific Time \nOrganized by the UCLA Program on Central Asia. \nAfghanistan through Afghan Voices is a series of virtual workshops that highlights and critically engages with recent scholarship on one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world. It aims to open an inclusive and multidisciplinary space where Afghan scholars and artists come together in conversation with broad audiences to publicly reflect on their research endeavors and creative trajectories. Monthly programs include Afghan artists from around the globe in dialogue with scholars of literature\, art\, and history; panels featuring conversations on visual culture and media; and poetry readings in Persian/Dari\, Pashto\, and English. \nThe series is hosted via Zoom by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and co-sponsored by the University of Washington’s Persian and Iranian Studies Program\, Stanford University’s Center for South Asia and Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies\, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, as well as the Center for India and South Asia.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-stahuljak-les-fixeurs-au-moyen-age/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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