The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be […]
This lecture tackles the question of “authenticity” when writing crime novels set in the remote past. Agapitos’ three novels (published between 2003 and 2009 in Greece), which are set in the first half of ninth-century Byzantium during the rule of the last iconoclast emperor, Theophilos (r. 829–842), form the basis of a lively discussion about […]
A two-day symposium and workshop that brings together specialists of Persian literature, junior faculty, and graduate students to facilitate in-depth conversations on Nezāmi in a stimulating intellectual environment at UCLA. On the first day of the conference, “Rediscovering a Persian Treasury of Global Literature,” invited speakers will deliver lectures that offer insights on the most recent […]
Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas will present a hybrid lecture entitled “Earthen Architecture and Heritage Conservation: Case Studies from Spain.” Mileto and Vegas are Professors of Architecture and Historic Preservation at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, and directors of the research group Res-Arquitectura: Research, Conservation, and Dissemination of Architectural Heritage. They are also current Getty […]
The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be […]
Organizers: Stefania Tutino (UCLA), Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven), and Eva Del Soldato (UPenn) The question of how knowledge transfers has become central for understanding the culture of the premodern world in a global perspective. This workshop is interested in exploring the question of what happens when transfer fails: what happens when knowledge is not […]
Presentations 9:00-9:10 Introductory remarks Gail Lenhoff (UCLA) 9:10-9:40 Carol Stevens (Colgate University) “Sexual Assault and Petrine Law: A Few Surprises” 9:40-10:10 Ann Kleimola (University of Nebraska) “Thoughts and Prayers: Russian-Lithuanian Negotiations about Prisoners of War after Orsha (1514)” 10:10-10:20 Break 10:20-10:50 David Prestel (MSU) “The Rus’ Primary Chronicle: Chronos, Kairos and the Complexities of Divine Providence” 10:50-11:20 […]
What does a flying bull with a half moon on its belly in Filippino Lippi’s 1502 painting, the Adoration of the Golden Calf, have in common with Muhammad, as a character of Dante’s Comedy? This is the question that Roberta Morosini tries to answer by following the journey of a legend traveling in the Oriental […]
The theme of this conference explores travel as both an idea and a specific form of human experience, examined through various representations ranging from literature to visual arts to philosophy. The aim is to investigate how travelers’ minds are altered by their experiences along their respective paths. The conference is not focused on travel writing […]
For our Spring 2025 meeting, we will meet on May 16, 3:00 – 5:00 PM, in Kaplan 193, and we will read the short Middle English poem Wynnere and Wastoure. This peculiar mid-14th-century alliterative poem (in Middle English, but don’t be discouraged! do your best!) sets two allegorical figures, Winner and Waster, against each other in […]