Events

Announcements

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. . 

Time: Thursday, January 23, 5pm. Place: (Phelps Hall #6320)

Eva Geulen is Director of the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin and she teaches at Humboldt University. She has held teaching positions at Stanford University, the University of Rochester, and New York University, and she has been a professor of German Literature at the Universities of Bonn and Frankfurt. Her research focuses on literature and philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present, pedagogical discourses around 1800 and 1900, and Goethe’s interest in morphology and its reception in the twentieth century. Her publications include Aus dem Leben der Form. Goethes Morphologie und die Nager (2016), The End of Art: Readings of a Rumor after Hegel (2006); Giorgio Agamben zur Einführung (2005), Worthörig wider Willen. Darstellungsproblematik und Sprachreflexion in der Prosa Adalbert Stifters (1992), as well as essays on Nietzsche, Benjamin, Raabe, Thomas Mann and others. 

The GCLR is pleased to announce the return of our weekly writing group which will be held bi-weekly this quarter (Winter 2025) on the following Mondays (1/20, 2/3, 2/17, 3/3) from 10am-1pm inside the Comp. Lit Graduate Student Lounge (Phelps 6th floor). We hope you'll stop by for coffee, snacks, and a relaxing writing environment. 

The GCLR invites you to join us in inaugurating the launch of the UCSB Center for Humanities and Machine Learning on Friday, January 24th, from 3:00-5:00pm in the Henley Board Room, Mosher Alumni House. The event will feature a keynote address by Dr. Hannes Bajohr (UC Berkeley) titled "Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles" followed by a reception and light refreshments. For more information, please visit https://huml.ucsb.edu/events.

The Harvard Institute for World Literature is now accepting applications for its 2025 Summer Program through the GCLR!

The 2025 program will take place in July at Harvard University and is slated to feature esteemed scholars such as David Damrosch, Jennifer Wenzel, and our very own Dominique Jullien!

Two of the successful UCSB student applicants are automatically accepted into the HIWL and will receive a 50% reduction of their fees. Applications will be processed on a rolling basis from November 15th to December 15th. For more information visit our How to Apply Page

 

The tendency to treat reified cultural or ethnic features as the key for explaining social conflicts is a cornerstone of bourgeois ideology and useful weapon of imperialism. Yet, such an approach characterizes many Western academic discourses that purport to combat ‘coloniality’ and racism, including decolonial theory. This talk addresses important differences between culturalist approaches to analyzing imperialism, racism, and ideology, and the historical materialist and dialectical orientation of Marxism, particularly in the forms it has taken in the Global South.

This event will take place November 14th on Zoom (https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83259571366from 12-1:15pm as part of the GCLR's new Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lunch series, co-sponsored by the departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, and German and Slavic Studies.