Events

Announcements

Prospectus Workshop with Katya Lopatko - "Global Cinema in the Cold War: Exchanges between Eastern European and Third World Cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 1962 and 1964"
The GCLR is happy to announce that Katya Lopatko (Comparative Literature) will be participating in one of our prospectus/dissertation workshops! Her project is entitled "Global Cinema in the Cold War: Exchanges between Eastern European and Third World Cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 1962 and 1964" and an abstract can be found here. 
 

We expect that the event will be of great interest to scholars with interests in Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, Cold War and Postcolonial Studies especially, but we encourage professors and fellow graduate students from all backgrounds to attend and offer constructive feedback on Katya's intriguing work!

 

Time: Thursday, February 20th, 3-4:30pm 

 

Place: Phelps 6206C

 

 

Online Lecture with Prof. Dmitry Bresler: "'New Theatre': The Journal 'Mitin' and the Pragmatics of Self-Publishing in the Perestroika Era"

Please join us for an exciting upcoming virtual lecture by Prof. Dmitry Bresler (University of Macerata/Italy) which will explore how the journal Mitin navigated the complex landscape of samizdat during Perestroika, providing insight into its cultural role and its influence on Russian art and literature and beyond.

Time: Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 5PM - 6PM / Place: On Zoom

 
"Two Spatial Turns": Claudio Fogu and Eric Prieto in Dialogue
The GCLR invites you to join us for the next entry in the Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lunch Series wherein professors Claudio Fogu and Eric Prieto will be discussing the role of spatial representation, thinking, and constructs in their respective research. Please see the attached flyer for more details and RSVP at the following link for a provided free lunch option. 
 
Time: February 11th, 12:00-1:30pm
 
Place: Phelps 6206C
2025 Winter Roundtable

The GCLR is pleased to announce our upcoming 2025 Winter Roundtable! Preempting our annual international student conference of the same theme, this quarter's roundtable will focus on "Blue Humanities and Aquatic Media." We hope to see many of you there! Please see the attached poster for more details. 

Time: Thursday, February 7th from 5-6:30pm. 

Place: GCLR Conference Room (Phelps 6206C). 

"From Mussolini to Meloni": A Lecture by Prof. Ruth Ben Ghiat (NYU)

The GCLR is pleased to announce our co-sponsorship of the UCSB Italian Studies Program inaugural Charles R. Ross Distinguished Lecture in Italian Studies—“Race, Gender, and Population in Italy from Mussolini’s ‘Battle of Babies’ to Meloni’s ‘Ethnic Substitution’”—to be given by historian Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) on February 6, 2025 at 5pm in the Annenberg Room (4315 SSMS).

We anticipate that the lecture will be of great interest to faculty and students who are interested in race, gender, and politics, both past and present. An abstract for the lecture can be found here.

Talk/Discussion with Dean Sara Guyer (UC Berkeley) about the future of the Humanities [on Zoom]

Time: Friday, January 24, 12pm. Place: Zoom

We hope you'll join us for a timely discussion on the future of the Humanities with Dean Sara Guyer. Sara Guyer is the Irving and Jean Stone Dean of the Division of Arts & Humanities within the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley. She has been a champion of the value of a degree in the arts and humanities, and she is the Director of the World Humanities Report. Her priorities include a strategic focus on languages and writing, and several redesigned majors and minors. At UCB, she initiated the Task Force on Languages, Language-Based Disciplines and Global Citizenship, which remains one of her signature priorities, including a comprehensive report on language instruction. .