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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION: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 a debate about the proper use of things. They offer competing understandings of what it means to waste in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Join us for a discussion about over-using\, under-using\, not using\, prematurely using\, belatedly using\, and strange medieval food stuffs led by Prof. Matthew Fisher (English). \nHandouts of each reading will be available during the group meeting\, but are also linked HERE. \nThe UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate\, graduate\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term\, we meet to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and consider what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. \nNo preparation is necessary (other than a brief skim of the text) and no expertise or medieval knowledge is required – only enthusiasm! Suggestions for what to read (or what kinds of texts to read) are very welcome. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu). \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Literary Journeys from Metaphor to Plot: Travel\, Mind\, and Experience
DESCRIPTION: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 per se\, which has its own established venues\, but rather on the relationships\, discoveries\, escapes\, and new awarenesses that arise through travel—the cognitive and emotional dimensions of displacement in both familiar and unfamiliar places. Investigations also include treatises discussing travel as a prescribed action or manuals on the arts of travel. The range of possibilities is vast\, from Petrarch’s ascent of Mont Ventoux to Jack Wilton’s flight from Sixteenth-century Rome. Ultimately\, the goal is to uncover new understandings of travel and the mind\, even in unexpected contexts. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nCosponsored by UCLA CMRS-CEGS
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/literary-journeys-from-metaphor-to-plot-travel-mind-and-experience/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T183000
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, "Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam. Visualizing the Qur’an from Byzantium to Filippino Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf"
DESCRIPTION: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 Mediterranean. She argues that what Lippi’s painting and Dante’s Muhammad have in common is a legend of a celestial delivery of the “bull law\,” the Qur’an and Moses’s Tablets of the Law. Just as Moses received the Tablets of the Law from God on Mount Sinai\, the Qur’an\, written according to Thomas Aquinas by mixing fables and a rippled Bible\, is carried by the bull on its horns. Taking us from Medieval Christian Byzantium to the depictions of Muhammad and Averroës in the iconographic tradition\, to the Rome of Oliviero Carafa in the events following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 through Dante’s Comedy\, the real protagonists of Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam\, a story narrated through texts and images\, are the Book and the Mediterranean as spaces of transmission of knowledge. Morosini provides a groundbreaking reading of Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf as an ancient scene of anti-Islam propaganda while shedding new light on Dante’s construction of the cultural other\, on his spaces of otherness\, and on the importance the poet gives to books that bring unity and give form to what lacks it\, like his book\, the Comedy. \n \nRoberta Morosini (UCLA)\nMassimo Ciavolella (UCLA)\nMarino Forlino (Scripps College)\nAkash Kumar (UC Berkeley)\nM. Rahim Shayegan (UCLA) \nIn discussion with Roberto Tottoli (University of Naples “L’ Orientale”). \nRegister to attend in Royce 306
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-book-talk-by-roberta-morosini/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T090000
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SUMMARY:24th Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Presentations\n\n\n\n9:00-9:10\nIntroductory remarks\nGail Lenhoff (UCLA)\n\n\n9:10-9:40\nCarol Stevens (Colgate University)\n“Sexual Assault and Petrine Law: A Few Surprises”\n\n\n9:40-10:10\nAnn Kleimola (University of Nebraska)\n“Thoughts and Prayers: Russian-Lithuanian Negotiations about Prisoners of War after Orsha (1514)”\n\n\n10:10-10:20\nBreak\n\n\n10:20-10:50\nDavid Prestel (MSU)\n“The Rus’ Primary Chronicle: Chronos\, Kairos and the Complexities of Divine Providence”\n\n\n10:50-11:20\nJanet Martin (University of Miami)\n“Pomeshchiki in Muscovite Armies: The Pivotal Role of Grand Prince Vasily III”\n\n\n\nCo-Sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/winter-workshop-in-medieval-and-early-modern-slavic-studies/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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SUMMARY:"Lost in Transfer? Misunderstanding\, Miscommunication\, and the Production of Knowledge in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean"
DESCRIPTION:Organizers: Stefania Tutino (UCLA)\, Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven)\, and Eva Del Soldato (UPenn) \nThe 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 “translated” properly? What kind of knowledge is produced when the chain of transmission breaks down or malfunctions? We think that miscommunication is as important as communication\, and we propose to explore this theme both by examining specific case studies of miscommunication and by investigating what they tell us about the structure and modes by which knowledge is produced\, which in turn allows us to get to the question of the very category of “transfer” from a philosophical and theoretical perspective. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nPresenter Abstracts \nConference Schedule: \n\n\n\n9:30\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries\n\n\n10:00\nWelcoming Remarks (Zrinka Stahuljak\, Director CMRS-CEGS) \n\n\n10:15\nPaper 1: Lost in Translation: Early Modern Jesuits and the Creed (Emanuele Colombo\, Boston College)\n\n\n10:45\nPaper 2: Mistranslating Indigenous America in the ‘Age of Reason’: Epistemological Hybridity and Colonial Violence (Diego Pirillo\, University of California\, Berkeley)\n\n\n11:15\nPaper 3: Oikonomia Understood and Misunderstood: The Latin and English Reception of Byzantine Chemical Terminology (Alexandre M. Roberts\, University of Southern California)\n\n\n11:45\nBreak\n\n\n12:00\nDiscussion 1: (Paper 1\, 2\, 3) – Chaired by Matthew Acton (KU Leuven & University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’)\n\n\n12:45\nLunch Break (on Royce 306 loggia)\n\n\n2:00\nPaper 4: Rebellious\, but Effective Medieval Translations into Arabic (Cecilia Martini Bonadeo\, University of Padua)\n\n\n2:30\nPaper 5: Hang Time: Gambling on the Future in Late Medieval Italy (Karla Mallette\, University of Michigan)\n\n\n3:00\nPaper 6: Communicating in Manuscript\, Miscommunicating in Print: The Siege of Curzola (1571) and Its Media Aftermath (Ivan Lupić\, University of Rijeka)\n\n\n3:30\nBreak\n\n\n3:45\nDiscussion 2: (Paper 4\, 5\, 6) – Chaired by Sarah Marie Leitenberger (University of Pennsylvania)\n\n\n4:30\nClosing Remarks\n\n\n5:00\nReception
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/lost-in-transfer-misunderstanding-miscommunication-and-the-production-of-knowledge-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T150000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group Winter 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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 led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No preparation or expertise is required – only enthusiasm! \nFor our Winter 2025 meeting \, we will meet on Jan 24\, 3:00 – 5:00PM\, in Kaplan 193 \, and we will read a selection from Gregory of Tours’ Libri historiarum X (Ten Books of History) (in English and in Latin). Join us for a discussion of scandals\, revolutions\, and unruly nuns\, led by Jamie Kreiner (Professor and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History). A calendar of planned meetings is HERE. Handouts of each reading will be available during the group\, but are also linked in the calendar below and can also be found HERE. \nFor readings and calendars\, see HERE or scan the QR code on the attached flyer. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu) \nCo-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-winter-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T150000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Iberian Architecture Lecture by Fernando Vegas and Camilla Mileto\, "Earthen Architecture and Heritage Conservation: Case Studies from Spain"
DESCRIPTION: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 Scholars\, housed in the Getty Conservation Institute. Focusing on earthen materials in the built environment\, like the use of rammed earth or tile vaulting\, Mileto and Vegas take an innovative approach to architecture and its restoration that begins with in-depth research through multidisciplinary methods. They will discuss various fascinating case studies from their practice\, including medieval and modern examples from Spain that exemplify the art of using earthen materials\, an area of Spanish architectural history which is often overlooked. \nThis year\, the Architecture Working Group\, which is directed by Dr. Stella Nair\, professor of Art History\, and co-organized by Sarah Ortiz-Monasterio\, MA-PhD Student in Art History at UCLA\, and Rachel Schloss\, PhD candidate in the Archaeology Interdepartmental Program at the Cotsen Institute\, UCLA. \nThe hybrid event will take place in the Fowler Museum Basement (Cotsen Institute) room A222\, and via Zoom. \nTo register for both in-person and online\, please use this link: http://tinyurl.com/MiletoVegas
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-iberian-architecture-lecture-by-fernando-vegas-and-camilla-mileto/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241122T235959
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SUMMARY:Conference by Domenico Ingenito\, "Nezāmi and the Iranian World"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOn 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 developments in current approaches to the study of Nezāmi’s poetry. On the second day\, a workshop\, entitled “Recrafting Nezāmi Studies between the Real and the Imaginary\,” will offer UCLA graduate students the opportunity to discuss new trajectories in the field of Persian literary studies in unison with Nezāmi specialists. \nThe two-day conference “Nezāmi and the Iranian World” is organized under the auspices of the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions and the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies\, in partnership with the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World\, and convened by Domenico Ingenito. This event is also co-sponsorsed by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nFor more information and to register\, click here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsored-conderence-by-domenico-ingenito-medieval-persian-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Panagiotis Agapitos\, "Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction"
DESCRIPTION: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 the challenges of producing a satisfactory narrative. The fairly clear generic conventions of a traditional British-style mystery are not applicable to a medieval culture such as Byzantium\, starting with the basic issue of the absence of detection and the relevant detective. Contemporary fans of crime fiction have broad expectations about what a detective novel should be\, but they also want a feeling of “real” history in the narrative. In his novels\, the speaker tackles this problem by employing various techniques derived from Byzantine rhetoric and narrative\, while\, at the same time using archaeological\, historical and textual studies to offer a medieval yet contemporary crime story that feels medieval but is\, in fact\, postmodern. \nPanagiotis Agapitos is the Gutenberg Distinguished Research Fellow in Byzantine Literature at the University of Mainz. Previously\, he taught for 25 years at the University of Cyprus as Professor of Byzantine Literature and Culture in the Depart – ment of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He studied at the University of Munich and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. In his free time\, he writes “mystery stories” set in ninth-century Byzantium. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Classics\, the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, and the UCLA Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World \nWebsite link: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/panagiotis-agapitos/ \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nEvent is free but RSVPs are requested \nReception to follow
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/lecture-by-panagiotis-agapitos-byzantine-crime-novels-in-the-twenty-first-century-from-history-to-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T160000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group Fall 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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 led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No preparation or expertise is required – only enthusiasm! \nOur first meeting this year will be on Friday\, Nov. 1\, 2:00-4:00pm\, where we will read the Old Norse-Icelandic Jökuls þáttr Buásonar (The Tale of Jökull Búason). Join us in Kaplan 193 for a discussion of trolls\, princesses\, and wrestling contests\, led by Dr. Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow\, CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies). \nFor readings and calendars\, see HERE or scan the QR code on the attached flyer. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu) \nCo-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-fall-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T190000
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SUMMARY:Cappella Romana: In the Footsteps of St. Demetrios
DESCRIPTION:Cappella Romana brings to life the vibrant soundscape of medieval Thessaloniki\, Byzantium’s second largest city. Hear ancient hymns honoring the city’s patron\, the ever-popular St. Demetrios\, sung on the weekend of his annual feast day. Experience ecstatic Byzantine chants for the saint adorning the Cathedral Rite of Constantinople\, sung by the women and men of Cappella Romana. \nThis program\, held under the auspices of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco and the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)\, and the Mary Calfas Janos Program Fund. This program is co-sponsored by Gefyra (Bridge)\, the UCLA College Humanities Division\, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion\, and the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nTickets: $25 General Admission (including service fees)\nFree for children under 18\nAll students age 18+ with valid ID:\nUCLA students can reserve free tickets online with UCLA Logon ID\nNon-UCLA students: Free tickets can be obtained at UCLA Central Ticket Office in advance\, or at event). \nFor parking and other details\, visit: Event Details.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cappella-romana-in-the-footsteps-of-st-demetrios/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240913T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240913T235959
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SUMMARY:Thinking With Materiality in the Early Global World - MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nMORNING SESSION\n\n\n08:00–08:15 PDT\nOpening Words\nChase Caldwell Smith\, Patrick Morgan\, and Sofía Yazpik\n\n\n8:15–8:20 PDT\nWelcome\nZrinka Stahuljak\, Director\, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, UCLA\n\n\nPANEL 1: Making South Asian and Indian Ocean Materialities\nModerator: Chase Caldwell Smith\n\n\n8:20–8:40 PDT\nTraded Silks for the Gods in Kerala: Patola\, its Connections\, Contributions and Shared Identities\nPrerana Nair\, University of Edinburgh\n\n\n8.40–9:00 PDT\nThe Thar Desert – A Material Conception of an Arid Landscape\nParo Tomar\, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence\, Delhi\n\n\n9:00–9:20 PDT\nCross-Imperial Trade\, Family Ties\, and the Domestic Interior in British and French Colonial India\, c. 1700-1748\nRosalind Rothwell\, Duke University\n\n\n9:20–9:40 PDT\nDiscussion & Questions\nPrerana Nair\, Paro Tomar\, and Rosalind Rothwell\n\n\n9:40–10:00 PDT\nFirst Morning Break\n\n\nPANEL 2: Material Archives\nModerator: Patrick Morgan\n\n\n10:00–10:20 PDT\nStitching Stones: Untangling Gender and Craft Performativity at Uxmal\nCassidy Canon\, University of Florida\n\n\n10:20–10:40 PDT\n1 Object\, 100 Faces: Decoding and Recoding Ottoman Material Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe (1700-1800)\nSophia Abplanalp\, University of Vienna\n\n\n10:40–11:00 PDT\n Animal blood in Natural History: investigating violence in scientific illustrations of Portuguese America’s fauna (XVIII century)\nMaria Góes\, Universidade Federal do Pará\n\n\n11:00–11:20 PDT\n Discussion & Questions\nCassidy Canon\, Sophia Abplanalp\, and Maria Góes\n\n\n11:20–11:40 PDT\nSecond Morning Break\n\n\nAFTERNOON SESSION\n\n\nPanel 3: Mobile Materialities\nModerator: Sofía Yazpik\n\n\n11:40 –12:00 PDT\n\nExploring Materiality and Meaning in the Sinking of the Vasa (1626-1628)\nRoman Cain\, The Ohio State University \n\n\n\n12:00–12:20 PDT\nHunting for Clusters: Reconstructing Archival Networks and Document Mobility in Pre-Ottoman Jerusalem\nAnna Steffen\, Universität Hamburg\n\n\n12:20–12:40 PDT\n\nCirculating Civilisation – Venetian Glass Beads as Agents of Global (Ex)Change\nSandrine Welte\, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice \n\n\n\n12:40–1:00 PDT\nDiscussion & Questions\nRoman Cain\, Anna Steffen\, and Sandrine Welte\n\n\n1:00–1:20 PDT\nAfternoon Break\n\n\n1:20–1:50 PDT\nGroup Discussion on Thinking with Materiality\nAll participants \n\n\n1:50–2:00 PDT\nClosing Remarks\nChase Caldwell Smith\, Patrick Morgan\, and Sofía Yazpik\n\n\n\nZoom Registration Link \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/conference-thinking-with-materiality-in-the-early-global-world-memsa-graduate-student-conference/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,MEMSA
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - Lecture by Prof. Herman Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Herman L. Bennett is a Professor at the Graduate Center (CUNY) and Director of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). He has held faculty positions at UNC-Chapel Hill\, The Johns Hopkins University\, Rutgers University\, and the Free University of Berlin. \n  \n  \nCANCELED – This lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \n\n\n\nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).\nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in the James West Alumni Center\, Founder’s Room
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-lecture-seminar-with-herman-bennett/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T235959
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SUMMARY:“What’s in a Name? Understanding Status in the Early Modern World\,” co-sponsored conference organized by Sixiang Wang & Choon Hwee Koh
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/whats-in-a-name-understanding-status-in-the-early-modern-world-conference-organized-by-sixiang-wang-choon-hwee-koh/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Hannah Barker\, "In Distant Places Among Alien People: Slavery\, Friendship\, and Tatar-Venetian Relations in the 15th Century"
DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Hannah Barker (Arizona State University) \nIn 1455\, the Venetian patrician Giosafat Barbaro encountered an old friend in surprising circumstances. As a young merchant in the Black Sea port of Tana\, Barbaro had met and befriended a local Tatar notable named Chebechzi. At the end of his time in Tana\, Barbaro returned home expecting never to see Chebechzi again. He certainly did not expect to find him enslaved in a Venetian wine shop ten years later. At the moment\, Barbaro acted immediately to assert Chebechzi’s freedom and help him return home. Later in life\, Barbaro also wrote a memoir in which he reflected on this incident and the meaning of his friendship with Chebechzi and other Tatars. \nBarker’s talk will situate Barbaro’s reflections in the broader contexts of slavery and freedom\, friendship and reciprocity\, and the complex web of medieval Venetian-Tatar power relations. \nHannah Barker is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. Her research centers on connections between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the late medieval period\, especially the trade in slaves which flourished during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries. \n  \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by CNES and the Islamic Studies Program\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in Dodd Hall 275
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/in-distant-places-among-alien-people-slavery-friendship-and-tatar-venetian-relations-in-the-15th-century/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Etienne Anheim\, “The Role of the Renaissance in the Transformation of the Western Political Imaginary: Petrarch’s Africa and Death for the ‘Fatherland’”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The ideal of “death for the fatherland” (Pro patria mori) may seem to be an invariable reality of human society\, from Sparta and Athens to today’s wars. In fact\, it is a political imaginary whose periodization can be traced. Ernst Kantorowicz\, in a famous article published in 1951\, proposed an analysis of this problem. In this lecture\, I will propose a new interpretation\, both historical and historiographical\, based on Francesco Petrarca’s (1304-1374) epic poem Africa. In particular\, I will highlight the role of the Renaissance in the construction of a new imaginary of war in the West\, quite different from the ancient and medieval tradition\, which has served as the foundation for the national and colonial wars of the contemporary era. \nEtienne Anheim‘s research is oriented towards the economic\, social\, and material history of painting as well as the history of written practices between the 13th and the 15th century\, from scholars like Petrarch to library inventories or accounting entries\, at the same time\, addressing questions of historiography and epistemology of history. He also collaborates on the editorial boards of the Revue de Synthese\, Médiévales\, and Annales. \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \n\n\n\nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in Royce 236 \nRegister to attend via ZOOM
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsored-lecture-by-etienne-anheim-history-ehess-paris/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Irene Papadaki\, “Love’s Labour and the Angelic Beloved: Voices from Cypriot Renaissance Poetry”
DESCRIPTION:Description of Lecture: The reception of Italian lyrical poetry in Cyprus during the time of Venetian rule (1489-1571) yielded rich fruits. The precious collection of Cypriot love poems\, preserved in a unique manuscript at the Marciana Library in Venice\, is a mature expression of Renaissance reflections and artistic sensitivity. Simultaneously\, it reveals a convergence of the island’s intellectual milieu with the vibrant life of the Italian peninsula. Themes such as the superiority of the beloved and her parallelism with the sun\, the lover’s attraction to the sublime\, his obsession with her idealized image\, communication through the gaze\, conflicting feelings\, melancholy\, and the tendency for isolation\, the experience of a endless death\, the loss of self\, or the exchange of souls if love is reciprocal—all reflect not only in poetry but also in the philosophy of the Italian Renaissance. The identity of the lyricist or lyricists who composed this high-quality poetry remains a mystery to this day\, despite scholars’ interest since the late 19th century in the authorship of the collection. The recent discovery of a musical score of one of the Cypriot love poems and its Italian prototype\, has opened new research horizons. The score is the work of the Calabrian composer Giandomenico Martoretta\, who visited Cyprus in the mid-16th century and dedicated his works to members of noble families on the island. This event attests to the existence of a circle with literary and artistic interests\, within which we could place\, if not the composition itself\, at least an aspect of the reception of Cypriot Renaissance love poems. \nLecture by Irene Papadaki University of Cyprus on the occasion of National Poetry Month with exclusive poetry readings by singer-songwriter\, Alkinoos Ioannidis. \nOpening remarks by Her Excellency\, Ekaterini Nassika\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States & His Excellency\, Evangelos Savva\, Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States \nIrene Papadaki studied Greek Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Crete. She was a fellow researcher at the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice. In 2005 she submitted her doctoral dissertation at the Department of Philology at the University of Crete. She has taught courses in Modern Greek Literature at the University of Crete and at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus\, where she has been working since 2014. She has also taught at the Hellenic Open University. She participated in various research projects of the Hellenic Institute in Venice\, the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation\, the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation\, the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the University of Cyprus. \nThis event is held under the auspices of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus\, the Embassy of Greece in the USA\, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus to the USA\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, and the Honorary Consul General of Cyprus in Los Angeles. It is organized by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and it is cosponsored the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies\, and Thesaurus Linguae Graecae®. This program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nRegister to attend via ZOOM
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/lecture-by-irene-papadaki-loves-labour-and-the-angelic-beloved-voices-from-cypriot-renaissance-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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SUMMARY:The Mediterranean Seminar Winter Workshop 2024\, Intermediaries\, Middle Grounds\, Middle Sea
DESCRIPTION:As the theater of engagement and integration of communities originating on the shores or from the hinterlands of Africa\, Asia\, and Europe\, the Mediterranean region served as a dynamic center of interaction and exchange from Antiquity through early modernity. Even as it began to lose political and economic centrality\, it has remained a zone of engagement of diverse peoples and cultures into the Modern era. This engagement is both the product and the catalyst of continuous dialectical processes of translation\, transculturation\, colonization\, and syncretism across the gamut of human experience and expression: in art\, literature\, language\, music\, religion\, media\, material culture\, and folk practices\, as well as in social\, economic\, political\, and institutional dynamics. \nThe Winter 2024 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop focuses on the agents (the “go-betweens”) and the currents (the “in-betweens”) of such dialectics. Typically invisible or\, at best\, marginalized in traditional historiographies and disciplines\, intermediaries and middle grounds (synthetic texts\, translations\, objects\, institutions and strategies\, and the individuals and communities who were their agents and products) are crucial to the understanding of the history and culture of the Mediterranean\, and of the historical processes which gave rise to many aspects of the modern world. \nKeynote presentations:\nRustam Shukurov (University of St Andrews)\, Friday\nClaire Gilbert (Saint Louis University)\, Saturday \nWorkshop Program  \n\n\n\nDay 1 – Friday 9\, February 2024\n\n\n9:15 – 10:10\nCoffee and Registration\n\n\n10:10—10:30\nOpening Remarks\nBrian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\nSharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\nZrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\n\n\n10:30–11:40\nWorkshop Paper #1\n“Theater of Conquest: Sovereignty and Territorial Expansion into Africa (1492-1530)”\nMarta Albalá-Pelegrín (Cal Poly Pomona)\nModerator: Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\nRespondent: Toby Yuen-Gen Liang (Academia Sinica\, Taiwan)\n\n\n11:40–12:00\nIntroductions\n\n\n12:00–1:00\nLunch\n\n\n1:00-2:10\nWorkshop Paper #2\n“Treasonous Translations: Resisting Roman Hegemony in Medieval Armenia”\nSergio LaPorta (CSU Fresno)\nModerator: Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\nRespondent: Christine Chism (UCLA)\n\n\n2:30–3:40\nWorkshop Paper #3\n“Antiquity and Embassies in Late-Ottoman Arabic”\nSamuel England (University of Wisconsin\, Madison)\nModerator: Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\nRespondent: Nina Zhiri (UC San Diego)\n\n\n4:00–5:15\nKeynote Presentation:\n“Middle Grounds of Cultural Interaction in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Byzantium and Muslim Anatolia”\nRustam Shukurov (University of St Andrews)\nModerator: Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder\n\n\n5:15-6:00\nReception\n\n\nDay 2 – Saturday 10\, February 2024\n\n\n9:30–10:00\nCoffee and Registration\n\n\n10:00–11:15\n“The Fiduciary Mediterranean: Navigating Dynamics of Trust and Power across Language Communities”\nClaire Gilbert (Saint Louis University)\nModerator: Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\n\n\n11:30–12:45\nRound Table 1\nTo what extent did the individual character of intermediaries (go-betweens\, diplomats\, translators\, fixers\, exiles\, refugees\, enslaved people) shape cultural\, political and/or economic developments in the Mediterranean? To what extent does this differ or resemble dynamics and apparatuses outside the region?\nModerator: Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\n– Nicole Archambeau (Colorado State Fort Collins)\, “A Mediterranean Understanding of Nature in a Fourteenth-Century Agricultural Manual”\n– John Curry (University of Nevada\, Las Vegas)\n– Matthew Harpster (Koç University)\, “Studying the Muted Maritime Community of the Ancient Mediterranean”\n– Richard Ibarra (University of Southern California)\, “Identity Claims from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic”\n– Fabien Montcher (Saint Louis University)\, “Toward a History of Mediterranean Rhizomatic Cooperators”\n– Hossein Nakhaei (Pittsburgh University)\, “A Political Stage for Personal Interests: Antoine Kitabgi Khan and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900”\n– Nina Zhiri (UC San Diego)\, “The Malian and the Morisco”\n\n\n12:45–1:45\nLunch\n\n\n1:45–3:00\nRound Table 2\nWhat do transmitted\, borrowed\, gifted\, or re-configured objects\, styles\, cultural forms\, or texts reveal about processes of cultural dialectic in the Mediterranean? To what extent are these dynamics particularly Mediterranean?\nModerator: Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\n– Omar Artal (Eötvös Lorand University\, Budapest)\, “Uncovering Mediterranean Cultural Dialectics: An Exploration of Transmitted Artefacts and Texts from Morocco to Sicily”\n– Thomas Barton (University of San Diego)\, “Western-Mediterranean Musicians as Cultural Intermediaries”\n– Patrick Morgan (UCLA)\, “The Legal Kaleidoscope”\n– Joëlle Rollo-Koster (University of Rhode Island)\, “Smelling authority and the sacred\, musk at the medieval papal court”\n– Irina Variash (University of St Andrews)\, “The Mediterranean Legal Culture: Islamic and Christian Strategies in the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century”\n– David Wacks (Oregon)\, “Christian/Jewish entanglement in Converso spirituality”\n– David Williams (University of Saint Katherine)\, “The Monastery of Saint Catherine and its Latin Cult”\n\n\n3:15—4:30\nRound Table 3\nHow did the geographical character and/or institutional infrastructure that developed in the Mediterranean contribute to particular outcomes in terms of regional engagement and/or cultural\, political\, and/or social evolution?\nModerator: Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\n– Christine Chism (UCLA)\, “Corruption at the Crossing Places: Let’s Do It!”\n– Anne Le (Notre Dame University)\, “The Cost of Selling Culture: Smeg\, Dolce & Gabbana\, and Sicilian Folk Art”\n– Toby Yuen-Gen Liang\, (Academia Sinica\, Taiwan)\n– Roberta Morosini (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale)\, “En/compassing islands: Maps\, Connectivity and mobile Borders”\n– Aaron Stamper (Princeton University)\, “Connectivity and Continuity in Mediterranean Mountains”\n– Marcus Ziemann (Princeton University)\, “Contact Without Contact”\n\n\n4:30–5:00\nConcluding Remarks\nBrian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\,\nSharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\,\nand Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\n\n\n\nRegistration closed as of February 2nd\, 2024 \n\n\n\nOrganizers – Brian A. Catlos\, Sharon Kinoshita\, and Zrinka Stahuljak \nHosted and Sponsored by CMRS Center for Early Global Studies at the University of California Los Angeles \nCo-Sponsors\nCenter for Near Eastern Studies\nDepartment of Art History\nDepartment of European Languages & Transcultural Studies\nDepartment of History (Wellman Chair in Medieval History)\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\nDepartment of Spanish & Portuguese\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cfp-intermediaries-middle-grounds-middle-sea-the-mediterranean-seminar-winter-workshop-2024-ucla-9-10-february/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference,Lecture,Roundtable,Seminar,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Reed\, Brush\, Chisel: Script\, Literacy\, and Writing Across Central and East Asia (400–1800)
DESCRIPTION:  \nDecember 8th\, 2023 \nSpecial Collections Roundtable \nUCLA Luskin Conference Center\n425 Westwood Plaza\nLos Angeles CA\, 90095 \nLaureate Classroom\nRefreshments Served \n3:00–5:00 PM\nRoundtable and Discussion \nFollowed by Reception\nSouth Courtyard\, Luskin Center\n5:15 PM (Los Angeles Time) \nDecember 9th\, 2023\nSymposium\n8:30 – 5:00 PM (PST)\nUCLA Luskin Conference Center\n425 Westwood Plaza\nLos Angeles CA\, 90095 \nEvent Overview\nThe symposium brings together leading scholars across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences in order to discuss Central and East Asia’s diverse\, multiethnic\, multiscriptal experience with the aim of challenging conventional ideas on writing and its relationship to culture. \nThe symposium will begin on the afternoon of Friday\, December 8th. The first day will feature a showing of rare books and manuscripts in various scripts and languages held by UCLA Library Special Collections. This will be followed by a roundtable and discussion regarding the history of the collections\, in particular its Middle East and East Asian holdings. It will be followed by a reception. \nThe next day\, December 9th\, will feature roundtable panels discussing script and literacy cultures along the land corridor stretching from Central to East Asia. The event will be open to members of the UCLA academic community as well as scholars\, students\, and the interested public in the Los Angeles area. \nPlease note\, due to unforeseen circumstances\, the keynote speech originally scheduled for December 8th has been cancelled. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nRead more about Reed\, Brush and Chisel \nRegistration REQUIRED RSVP HERE \nEVENT SCHEDULE
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/reed-brush-chisel-script-literacy-and-writing-across-central-and-east-asia-400-1800/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Symposium
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T235959
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SUMMARY:(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds
DESCRIPTION:A Workshop Hosted by Global Antiquity for Colleagues in California\nDecember 5–6\, 2023 | Royce Hall 306 \nGlobal Antiquity is thrilled to announce its inaugural workshop titled “(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds.” This event\, held at UCLA in Royce 306 over two days (December 5 and 6\, 2023)\, will include invited speakers from across the University of California and the greater Los Angeles area whose research employs comparative methodologies to work beyond and in between the boundaries of existing fields. The workshop provides a forum in which to explore equitable comparisons of cultures\, the equivalencies of past human experiences\, and a common humanism rooted in ancient worlds. The resulting discourse may then encourage reflection on the role these worlds still play in shaping our contemporary identities and how this humanism may benefit the present. \nThe workshop will feature speakers and topics covering a diverse array of ancient worlds\, from West Asia\, North Africa\, and the Mediterranean to East Asia and the Americas. Themes explored over these two days include: the interconnectivity of ancient states and communities; diversity within established areas of inquiry; reception; pedagogy; and working across disciplines. \nEvent Registration \n(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds is generously co-sponsored by the following departments\, centers\, and programs at UCLA: Asian Languages and Cultures\, Art History\, Classics\, the CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies\, the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, the Program in Indo-European Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World\, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, and the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/13543/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T173000
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SUMMARY:Whole\, Holy\, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten\nWhen: Tuesday\, November 28\, 2023 4:00 pm\nWhere: Kaplan Hall 193\n \n\nWhat does it mean\, culturally speaking\, to get sick? What makes a body healthy? This talk explores depictions of disease in medical remedies and healing charms from the medieval North Atlantic\, a multilingual zone of intensive cultural interaction and exchange. These vivid texts allow us to better understand how medieval people thought about their own bodies and about the place of humanity in a hostile world – deconstructing cultural anxieties and fantasies around the idea of an individuated\, embodied self. \nRegister here to attend. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Erica Weaver\, assistant professor in UCLA’s English Department. \nThis event is co-sponsored by UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies. \nCaroline (Caz) Batten is an Assistant Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of Old English and Old Norse language and literature\, they have published widely on gender and sexuality\, sickness and health\, the history of medicine\, and somatic emotion in medieval texts. Their short book Health and the Body in Early Medieval England is forthcoming as a Cambridge Element in 2024. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-style-of-the-old-english-metrical-charms/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Junior Faculty Series
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SUMMARY:The Style of the Old English Metrical Charms
DESCRIPTION:Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten\nWhen: Tuesday\, November 28\, 2023 10:30 am\nWhere: Kaplan Hall 193\n \n\nThis seminar is centered around a work-in-progress book chapter exploring the Old English metrical charms\, a set of twelve vivid and enigmatic magic spells written down in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The seminar will be a chance to explore (and give feedback on) the chapter’s central argument\, which is that the metrical charms were composed in a previously unidentified early medieval English poetic style\, close to but distinct from that of classical Old English verse texts like Beowulf – defined by a limited\, specific set of five permissible deviations from ‘traditional’ meter that accommodate lush ornamentation and prescribed magical language. \nRegister here to attend. \nProfessor Batten will also deliver an afternoon lecture at 4:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193. See event details here: Whole\, Holy\, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic. \nBoth events are co-sponsored by UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies. \nCaroline (Caz) Batten is an Assistant Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of Old English and Old Norse language and literature\, they have published widely on gender and sexuality\, sickness and health\, the history of medicine\, and somatic emotion in medieval texts. Their short book Health and the Body in Early Medieval England is forthcoming as a Cambridge Element in 2024. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-style-of-the-old-english-metrical-charms-2/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Junior Faculty Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T203000
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SUMMARY:Sama Dilaut (2023) Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 3\, 2023\n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (Pacific Time)\nLenart Auditorium\, UCLA Fowler Museum \nREGISTER HERE \nA journey to find extraordinary people leads to the discovery of a community living on the shores of Sabah\, Malaysia and the Philippines. An ethnolinguistic group that dwelled on houseboats for hundreds of years moving across the Sulu Sea. They are nomads\, sea gypsies and their life blood is the sea. \nForced to surrender their sea dwelling life due to armed conflict\, environmental degradation\, and the rise of commercial fishing\, the Sama Dilaut\, also known as the Sama-Badjau\, dispersed and migrated into the shorelines of the nearby islands. As the Sama hold tightly on their traditions and livelihood\, they are left displaced and alienated from other communities with no certainty of their survival. The Sama Dilaut live day by day to survive\, focusing on one problem alone – to have one meal for the day. \nBut the real danger that threatens their very existence is unfamiliar to them. It’s climate change. \nPanelists: \n\nStephen Acabado (UCLA)\nJustin Dunnavant (UCLA)\nChristine Ramos (7IVY Films)\nLiza Florida (8 Billion Project)\n\nDoors open at 5:30PM. \nFilm screening starts at 6PM. \nPanel discussion and Q&A to follow. \nSponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies\, Philippine Consulate General Los Angeles\, 7IVY Films\, and 8 Billion Project\, UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/sama-dilaut-2023-film-screening/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230526T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230526T170000
DTSTAMP:20230515T042614Z
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SUMMARY:Korea\, Mongols and Ming: Integrative Histories of Early Modern Eastern Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:This symposium will focus on Korea and Eurasia from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries and highlight thematic approaches that resonate with other places and periods. The symposium features scholars interested in integrating early modern Korea into regional and global narratives. Their projects weave together Mongolian\, Ming\, Koryŏ\, and Chosŏn histories or provide interdisciplinary perspectives on comparative issues related to statecraft\, diplomacy\, and culture. \nThe morning session is a roundtable featuring the authors of three new books on Korea’s interactions with the Eurasian continent. The afternoon sessions feature presentations on current research by scholars based in the Los Angeles area. \nThis event is an effort to build a field and a community around histories of early modern Korea that are engaging and exciting to more than fellow specialists. It will be an opportunity to exchange ideas\, explore new perspectives\, and foster collaborative research efforts. We invite all interested scholars and researchers to participate in this event and contribute to the growth of the field of early modern Korean history. \nSchedule\, speakers\, registration and more at https://emas.humspace.ucla.edu/korea-mongols-and-ming-integrative-histories2023/ \nOnsite in Royce Hall 306 and online with Zoom — all sessions are hybrid. \nCo-sponsored by Asian Languages and Cultures\, Center for Korean Studies\, and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies \nSupported by Geiss Hsu Foundation
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/korea-mongols-and-ming-integrative-histories-of-early-modern-eastern-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230522T130000
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SUMMARY:Kublai Khan’s Body: Marco Polo and the Making of History
DESCRIPTION:Marco Polo and his father and uncle spent seventeen years in China\, and because of his personal history there\, Sinologists have long scrutinized and debated his connection to the larger history of China and his status as a historical writer of China. In response to biographical discussions about Polo in Sinology\, this talk investigates the way history informs the study of Le Devisement du monde. Professor Kim compares Polo’s work to Chinese historiography\, a genre centered on the theorization of political authority and the body politic. While Medievalists locate Polo in the European Middle Ages as a Christian European who made observations about the other\, she suggests that Polo identifies with the Mongol empire and his narrative ambition is to project the magnificence of the Great Khan. Polo’s connections to the material history of the lands of Asia are significant for understanding the conditions of the authorship of the Devisement. Moreover\, the portrayal of Kublai Khan as the embodiment of imperium in the Devisement\, Kim’s analysis shows\, centers Polo’s vision of history and its forward drive. While Marco Polo as a famous figure of travel and adventure straddles the continents and crosses national boundaries\, scholarly conversations on the man and his work reflect disciplinary divides and assumptions about national and cultural identity behind such divides. This talk engages the divides on the study of Marco Polo as a way to imagine history that is at once personal and global in the Devisement. \nProfessor MARGARET KIM (National Tsing Hua University) received her PhD in English and American Literature from Harvard University in 2000\, and has held positions at St. John’s University\, Rutgers University\, and most recently National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu\, Taiwan. Her research is primarily situated in Medieval and Early Modern world literature\, some of her recent publications including “’Make or Mar’: History and Fiction in Wolf Hall” in the Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture\, “The Material Culture of Princely Power and the Art of the Exotic East: The Miniatures of MS Français 2810 of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France” in the Sun Yat-Sen Journal of Humanities\, and “Globalizing Imperium: Thirteenth-Century Perspectives on the Mongols” in Literature Compass. \nOnsite in Kaplan 348 – RSVP to zs@humnet.ucla.edu \nOnline with Zoom RSVP HERE \nThe UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory is generously supported by the Deans of the Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, the Department of Political Science\, and the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/kublai-khans-body-marco-polo-and-the-making-of-history/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Program in Experimental Critical Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T150000
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SUMMARY:Aristotle: Forever After?
DESCRIPTION:A roundtable organized by Giulia Sissa (Classics\, Political Science\, UCLA). \n\nIacopo Costa (CNRS and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)\n“Can We Bypass the Middle Ages When We Read Aristotle?”\nDimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University)\n“Aristotle’s Phronesis: a Hidden Presence in Political Philosophy?”\nGuillaume Navaud (Lycée Henri IV)\n“Correcting/Cancelling Evil in Literature: a Resurgence of an Anti-Aristotelian Platonism?”\nDavide Panagia (Political Science\, UCLA)\n“Aristotle’s Political Theory of Media”\nGiulia Sissa (Political Science\, Comparative Literature and Classics\, UCLA)\n“Aristotle’s Error. And Why It Is Still Bad for Women”\nAnthony Pagden (Political Science\, UCLA)\n“Natural Slavery\, yet Another Paradigmatic Error”\nZiyaad Bhorat\, Discussant (USC Dornsife Center for Science\, Technology\, & Public Life; Berggruen Institute; Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights Policy)\n\nCo-sponsored by UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory and UCLA Department of Political Science. \nRegister to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/aristotle-forever-after/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Roundtable
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T170000
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SUMMARY:How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple | Co-Sponsored Lecture
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Center for the Study of Religion is sponsoring a talk with Azzan Yadin-Israel (Jewish Studies\, Rutgers University). \nWith the exception of the cross\, the apple—as the forbidden fruit—may be the most widely-recognized biblical image. Yet the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew original does not name the species of fruit that caused the Fall of Man\, nor do any of its many translations. While early Christian and rabbinic commentators identify various species as the forbidden fruit—the fig\, the grape\, the citron—they never include the apple. How\, then\, did the forbidden fruit come to be identified as the apple? Examining the history of biblical translation and of the artistic representation of the Fall of Man\, the presentation offers a new explanation for the emergence of the apple as a symbol of temptation and forbidden knowledge. \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Department of Art History and UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nAttend in Kaplan 365 or on Zoom – register at https://religion.ucla.edu/event/how-the-forbidden-fruit-became-an-apple/
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/how-the-forbidden-fruit-became-an-apple-co-sponsored-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T133000
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SUMMARY:Simulating Korea in Early Modern Diplomacy: On Eurocentrism\, Agency\, and Early Modern World History in Europa Universalis IV
DESCRIPTION:This is the first of the Games and Korean History webinar series in Winter 2023\, presented by Chosŏn History Society and hosted by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. This series brings together game creators\, history teachers and scholars\, and the gaming community through discussions over Korean history and its simulation. \nDr. Álvaro Sanz from Paradox Tinto Studios\, joined by Professor Sixiang Wang (UCLA)\, will discuss how the award-winning computer game\, Europa Universalis IV (2013-present)\, has approached the simulation of Korean history and East Asian diplomatic institutions during the game’s development. They will discuss a range of topics including: how Paradox Studios conducts historical research\, how the game tries to model historical agency through player choices in the game\, how the game addresses the challenge of representing diplomatic institutions that fall outside of modern “nation-state” conventions. They will also address the ethics of simulation: what does it mean when a player can be a king\, colonizer\, or empire builder; the theoretical implication of “what if” histories; and how the game developers have managed the problem of Eurocentrism\, especially in its representation of Korea and East Asia. The discussion between the panelists will be followed by an open Q&A period. \nTo join the talk\, please click here. For details about this talk and the Chosŏn History Society and its webinar series\, please visit its website. \nDr. Álvaro Sanz has been Content Design Coordinator at Paradox Tinto since 2022\, a video game studio that he joined as Content Designer in 2021. Since then he has been part of the team that manages the historical grand strategy game Europa Universalis IV\, having been part of the development the content packs Origins (focussed on Sub-Saharan Africa\, as Content Designer)\, and Lions of the North (focussed on Scandinavia and the Baltic region\, as Content Design Coordinator). Previously\, he had developed an academic career as a scholar specializing in the Iberian Middle Ages. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Valladolid\, Spain\, in 2020\, his research topic being ‘The royal towns and the territorial administration in Castile and Leon. Power and society in the reign of Alfonso X (1252-1284)’. During his Ph.D. he published 8 papers\, read more than 20 presentations at different conferences in Spain\, Portugal\, and the United Kingdom\, visited the University of Cambridge\, UK\, as a doctoral student\, and taught different courses and seminars at the University of Valladolid. \nDr. Sixiang Wang is an Assistant Professor  of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He is a historian of Chosŏn Korea and early modern East Asia. His research interests also include comparative perspectives on early modern empires\, the history of science and knowledge\, and issues of language and writing in Korea’s cultural and political history. He teaches courses in Korea’s pre-nineteenth-century history as well as the history of cultural and intellectual interactions in early modern East Asia. His book\, Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China reconstructs the cultural strategies of Korean diplomacy with Ming empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It underscores how Korean ritual and literary practices inserted Chos n into the Mong empires legitimating strategies and established Korea as a stakeholder in a shared imperial tradition. He is also helping curate the UCLA Korean History and Cultural Digital Museum with his students. (https://koreanhistory.humspace.ucla.edu/) \nThis series is sponsored by UCLA’s Center for Korean Studies\, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/simulating-korea-in-early-modern-diplomacy/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T150000
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SUMMARY:Political Fictions
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Boucheron (History\, Collège de France) is the speaker at this seminar which is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory. \nCo-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the French Embassy Center of Excellence at UCLA.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/political-fictions-boucheron/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Program in Experimental Critical Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T153000
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SUMMARY:The Black Saints of the Carmelite Order: Ancient Ethiopia in the Early Modern European Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Erin Kathleen Rowe (Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education\, Professor of History\, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences\, Johns Hopkins University) will give a talk about African and Black saints in early modern Iberia. \nBeginning in the seventeenth-century\, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints\, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient saints was tied to the order’s longstanding efforts to prove the antiquity of their order dating back to the Prophet Elijah\, the inclusion of Ancient Ethiopia in these efforts tell a more complex story about how early modern Spaniards thought with and about Ancient Ethiopia. The inclusion of Ethiopia in early modern ideas about the Biblical Near East clashed with the treatment of enslaved people from West and Central Africa being brought to the peninsula in vast numbers\, while devotion to Ethiopian saints by White and Black Spaniards transformed the spiritual and historical landscape. \nRegister to attend on Zoom at https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcOqrpjMpE9Q01fN6D0UQmwV1S7AmCC2a \nCo-sponsored by Department of History\, CMRS-CEGS\, The Atlantic History Colloquium\, Peter H. Reill Chair in European Studies\, and The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsored-erin-rowe/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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