Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, is on hand to expound on his latest works and their relationships with contemporary political processes in a conversation with fellow political theorist Martín Plot | Click here

The fifth annual CalArts conference on experimental writing opens an extended conversation among writers whose work exceeds the conventional printed page and artists who engage language or writing in their practices | Click here

Noted media, cultural, and political sociologist Jeffrey Goldfarb visits REDCAT for a post-election conversation with CalArts' Martín Plot. The Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research, Goldfarb weighs in on the transition between the Bush administration and the newly elected president, and the cultural and political meanings it may hold | Click here

Three of today's most provocative and uncompromising fiction writers convene to read from their most recent work in an intimate literary evening | Click here

Pulitzer Prize winner and distinguished New York Review of Books contributor Thomas Powers elaborates on the current state of the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations in a special event presented in conjunction with the exhibition 9 Scripts from a Nation at War | Click here

In celebration of the publication of X-TRA 11.2, more than 30 artists, curators, and historians present, and respond to, one personally significant image for one minute. The result is a fast-paced series of live presentations, short stories and anecdotes related to unexpected photographic images | Click here

CalArts President Steven D. Lavine welcomes Reynold Levy, president of Lincoln Center, for a presentation based on the latter's recently published Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management. | Click here

Three genre-busting, multitalented writers come together for a night of bracing performance and lively conversation. | Click here

Influential artist and muckraker Hans Haacke has fought for honesty in the political representation of the arts for some 45 years. Now his attention is focused on the widening economic crisis and the slackening of the death-grip of neoliberalism. | Click here

In an age of digitally networked cities, regions, nations, and international hubs, is there still value--economic, social, political, cultural--in central downtown districts? CalArts President Steven D. Lavine invites three of L.A.'s most influential urban thinkers to ponder this question in the first of a series of roundtable discussions on the evolving shape of urbanism in the City of Angels. | Click here

The singular, idiosyncratic, even mysterious literary journal celebrates its five-year anniversary and the publication of its 10th issue with a reading and reception. | Click here

Engaging the public in a vigorous dialogue on new and emerging collective art practices, the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) convenes a panel of artists and organizers whose work is marked by dynamic action out in the world and by a commitment to embodying the change they strive to realize. | Click here

This stimulating program draws together three of the most versatile and dynamic writers working in the field of nonfiction today. | Click here

The School of Critical Studies holds a reading of the best new fiction and poetry by MFA candidates in its Writing Program. | Click here

One of America's foremost literary and media critics gives a wide-ranging disquisition that touches on subjects in aesthetic criticism, critical theory and contemporary politics--including a discussion of his landmark study of Walter Benjamin. | Click here