The GCLR is very proud to announce the upcoming arrival of our annual graduate student conference! This year's title, "Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World" reflects our collective desire to interrogate the depths of our current historical conjuncture— marked by the pressing...
The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism. In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological...
Different institutional arrangements have historically been devised to house and support what is described as interdisciplinary work, including in the form of entire universities, specific schools and departments, standalone institutes and centers, and survey courses firmly lodged within disciplinary curricula, to name just a few....
Join us for a conversation between professors Ilya Kliger (NYU) and Sven Spieker (UCSB) on Kliger's new book, "Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism" The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and...
This seminar will focus on the concepts, pedagogical designs, and possible experiential outcomes for urban studies courses. We will draw on a summer course titled “Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies,” which Prof. Quayson has taught in Accra for Stanford students for the past three...
On behalf of the Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lunch series, the Graduate Center for Literary Research invites you to join us for a discussion with Prof. Melody Jue centered on her latest book, Coralations: "a philosophical exploration of the media that come into focus when we...
Computation and the Humanities is a series of events at the GCLR investigating the impact of computation on literary and visual research. Guests include researchers, artists, and practitioners working within and beyond the digital humanities. On March 20th, we welcome Dr. Leonardo Impett, who is a...
Please join us for this year's second GCLR Dissertation and Prospectus Writing Workshop for graduate students from any department in the Humanities at UCSB. Our presenter will be Linshan Jiang 蒋林珊, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies,...
THIS CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE. EMAIL CHRISTENE D'ANCA FOR MORE INFORMATION (christene_danca@ucsb.edu) As climate change has become a central topic of discussion, laced with the uncertainty of tomorrow, the UCSB Graduate Center for Literary Research has invited scholars from...
The Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR), in collaboration with UCSB’s Memory Studies Reading Group, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference examining the interplay between memory and movement through a wide range of perspectives and disciplines. Michael Rothberg will deliver the keynote address on "The Implicated Subject:...
Professor Diagne will be the guest speaker at a screening of two landmark Senegalese films: Ousmane Sembène's Borom Sarret (1963) and Djibril Diop Mambéty's La Petite Vendeuse de soleil (1999), followed by a Q&A with Professor Eric Prieto. Borom Sarret The first film directed by Senegal’s greatest...
In the colonial space, one imperial language presents itself as the Logos incarnate, in contrast to the local indigenous vernaculars which are then deemed lacking and incomplete. How the act of translation, of “putting in touch” languages (Antoine Berman, The Experience of the Foreign), creates...
In the present refugee crisis, millions of people are being driven from their homes by war, religious conflict, racial ostracism, famine, and poverty. Can literature help? Stripped of material possessions, refugees, migrants, and ‘arrivants’ still own their minds, which are filled with memories, stories, and...