Events

Announcements

CFP: Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World

The GCLR is currently accepting submissions for our 2025 graduate student conference! This year's title and theme reflect our desire to interrogate the depths of our current historical conjuncture— shaped by the pressing socioecological crisis— and to find ways to flow between borders, disciplinary and otherwise. Our keynote speaker for the event will be the esteemed Prof. Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA). Please see the attached CFP for more details about submissions. Abstracts are due by Wednesday April 30th, 2025 to complit-gclr@ucsb.edu.

The conference will be held on Saturday, May 31st in the Wallis Annenberg Conference Room from 9am-3pm.

4/11 "Coralations": A Talk by Prof. Melody Jue (English, UCSB)

Please join us for the next entry in the GCLR co-sponsored Interdiscplinary Brown Bag Lunch Series, this time featuring prof. Melody Jue who will be presenting on her newest book Coralations. A description of the talk can be found here. 

Remember to RSVP for a provided free lunch!

Time: Friday April 11th, 12-2pm

Place: Phelps 6206C and on Zoom

GCLR Spring 2025 Writing Group
The GCLR weekly writing group is back this Spring Quarter! By popular demand, we will resume meeting weekly every Thursday from 10am-1pm in the Comp. Lit. Graduate Student Lounge (Phelps 6th floor). Please drop in for coffee, snacks, and a comradely writing environment— and feel free to bring a friend! 
 
Comparative Literature Alumni Career Panel

Please join us for the return of Drs. Arpi Movsesian, Christene D'Anca, and Dustin Lovett (not pictured), all recent graduates from the UCSB Comparative Literature Program, as they share insights from their time on the academic job market and their careers beyond. Be sure to stay for the following reception!

Time: Friday, March 14th. Talk 3-5pm, Reception 5-6pm

Place: GCLR Seminar Room, Phelps 6206C

"From Digital Humanities to AI Humanities" Todd Presner's _Ethics of the Algorithm_
Dear friends of the GCLR,
 
Please, join us for our 4th Brownbag Series event on Monday March 3rd, 12:00-1:30, Phelps 6206C.
 
Prof. Todd Presner (UCLA, European Languages and Transcultural Studies) will present on the digital humanities in the age of A.I. in relation to his new book Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory (Princeton UP, 2025).
 
RSVP HERE for FREE LUNCH!
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