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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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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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SUMMARY:“What’s in a Name? Understanding Status in the Early Modern World\,” co-sponsored conference organized by Sixiang Wang & Choon Hwee Koh
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231205T000000
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T130000
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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
DTSTAMP:20231104T003754Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20230215T185827Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20221123T010738Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20221202T234159Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T150000
DTSTAMP:20221123T010004Z
CREATED:20221123T010004Z
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SUMMARY:Black Sovereignty
DESCRIPTION:Miguel Valerio (Spanish/Performing Arts\, Washington University in Saint Louis) 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.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/black-sovereignty/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Program in Experimental Critical Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T170000
DTSTAMP:20230118T053258Z
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SUMMARY:From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.) - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:“From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.)\,” is a two-day conference focusing on the many cross-influences among Romance literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages through more recent times\, with special attention to the topic of translation. More than 25 international scholars will examine different aspects of the circulation of vernacular works via translations from one Romance language to another\, from the 13th to the 18th century\, in Europe and beyond. Employing an eclectic range of interests and approaches\, their talks will cover translations among the following Romance languages and variants: Aragonese\, Catalan\, Franco-Italian\, French\, Galician-Portuguese\, Italian\, Judeo-Spanish\, Ladino\, Navarrese\, Occitan\, Spanish and Tagalog. \nDay 2\, Tuesday\, January 24 in Royce 306 \n\n\n\n8:00 am\nContinental Breakfast\n\n\n8:15\nWelcome from the Dean of Humanities Alexandra Minna Stern\n\n\n8:30 am\nSESSION 5: Dante | Moderator: Géraldine Veysseyre\n\n\n\n“‘Au milieu du chemin de la vie présente’: The First French Translation of Dante’s Inferno”\nPaola Cifarelli\, Università di Torino\n\n\n\n“Praxis ecdótica y traducción: el caso del Infierno de Fernández de Villegas”\nCinthia María Hamlin\, CONICET\, Universidad de Buenos Aires\n\n\n\n“The First Complete Translation in Verse of Dante’s Commedia: The Catalan Translation by Andreu Febrer (1429)”\nMarta Marfany\, Universitat Pompeu Fabra\n\n\n10:00\nBreak\n\n\n10:15\nSESSION 6: Kings\, Queens & Courts | Moderator: Marta Albalá Pelegrín\n\n\n\n“Traducción y variación en los albores del siglo XIV: la versión gallega de la Crónica de Castilla”\nPatricia Rochwert-Zuili\, Université d’Artois\n\n\n\n“When is Translation Necessary? Translation\, Multilingualism\, and Patronage in a Courtly Context”\nNúria Silleras-Fernández\, University of Colorado Boulder\n\n\n\n“In the Trenches of Translation: Multilingual Propaganda in Circulation in the Late 16th Century”\nRhonda Sharrah\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“Traslación y reescritura del Roman de Brut en Castilla y en Navarra en el siglo XIII: el Libro de las generaciones y linajes de los reyes”\nHélène Thieulin-Pardo\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n12:15 pm\nLunch Break\n\n\n1:45\nSESSION 7: Models & Adaptations | Moderator: Tania Varela\n\n\n\n“Style in Translation from Italy to France and Back Again: A Reading of Novella II\, 24 of Bandello’s Novelle”\nRaphaëlle Burns\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“Romance Models and Vernacular Source Languages in the Translation-Adaptations of the Trojan Narrative in the Iberian Peninsula (12th-15th centuries): The Relevance of the Concept of ‘Linguistic Diasystem’ for the Examination of Horizontal Translations”\nCorinne Mencé-Caster\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n\n“Adapting Moral Excess: The Topos of Appetite in the Reynardian Cycle and Related Texts (12th – 14th centuries)”\nJodie Miller\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n3:15\nBreak\n\n\n3:30\nSESSION 8: Troubadours/Lyric Poetry | Moderator: Raphaëlle Burns\n\n\n\n“From Troubadour/Trobairitz to Troubarello: Proto-Félibresses and Temporal Translation”\nAlexa Barger\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“The Translations of Medieval Occitan in the 18th century at the Académie des Inscriptions: Study of the Translations about the Poems of Troubadours and the Boeci made by Jean-Baptiste de la Curne de Sainte-Palaye and Jean Lebeuf”\nLaure-Anne Caraty\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n\n“Buenas trujamaneras: Renaissance go-betweens in the cancioneros“\nMichelle M. Hamilton\, University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\n\n\n5:00\nBreak\n\n\n5:15\nClosing Remarks\n\n\n5:45\nReception\n\n\n\nSee the schedule for Day 1\, Monday\, January 23 in Royce 314 \nRemote Attendance at ucla.zoom.us/j/93245427502\nFor inquiries\, please contact John Dagenais at dagenais@humnet.ucla.edu \nJointly organized by the University of California\, Los Angeles and Sorbonne Université by Roxanna Colón-Cosme (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA)\, John Dagenais (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA)\, and Tania Varela (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA) \n \nRomance to Romance Conference Program (PDF) \nImage: “Christine instructs four men” The Book of the Queen\, c. 1410–1414\, f. 259vHarley MS 4431\, British Library
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/from-romance-to-romance-2/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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SUMMARY:From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.) - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:“From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.)\,” is a two-day conference focusing on the many cross-influences among Romance literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages through more recent times\, with special attention to the topic of translation. More than 25 international scholars will examine different aspects of the circulation of vernacular works via translations from one Romance language to another\, from the 13th to the 18th century\, in Europe and beyond. Employing an eclectic range of interests and approaches\, their talks will cover translations among the following Romance languages and variants: Aragonese\, Catalan\, Franco-Italian\, French\, Galician-Portuguese\, Italian\, Judeo-Spanish\, Ladino\, Navarrese\, Occitan\, Spanish and Tagalog. \nDay 1\, Monday\, January 23 in Royce 314 \n\n\n\n8 am\nContinental Breakfast\n\n\n8:30\nWelcome\n\n\n8:45\nSESSION 1: Catalan | Moderator: John Dagenais\n\n\n\n“Translation and Textual Tradition: The Variation Process of the Libro de las donas (Eiximenis\, 15th century)”\nLaura Baldacchino\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n\n“Three Catalan Translations of the Memorial of Angela de Foligno”\nAina Soley Mateu\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“An Unusual Template for a Middle French Life of Christ: La Vida de Jesu de Francesc Eiximenis\, Anonymously Translated into the French De Vita Christi”\nGéraldine Veysseyre\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n10:15\nBreak\n\n\n10:30\nSESSION 2: Latin | Moderator: Hélène Thieulin-Pardo\n\n\n\n“Los avatares de una traducción: El libro de las propiedades de las cosas de Bartolomé Ánglico”\nFlor María Bango de la Campa\, Universidad de Oviedo\n\n\n\n“Hugo de Urriés: traducción e interpretación de los Hechos y dichos memorables de Valerio Máximo”\nSara Gil Sáiz\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n\n“A Translator’s Persona and his Audience: Alonso Ordóñez’s Translation of Aristotle’s Poetics from Latin and Italian Intermediaries (1626)”\nJavier Patiño Loira\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n12 pm\nLunch Break\n\n\n1:30\nSESSION 3: Translation as Intervention | Moderator: Barbara Fuchs\n\n\n\n“Out of Franco-Italian: Marco Polo’s Mongol Wars in Historical Context”\nSharon Kinoshita\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\n\n\n\n“El papel de las traducciones intravernaculares en la apropiación hispana de modelos de representación extranjeros (siglos XIV-XV)”\nJulia Roumier\, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne\n\n\n\n“Le débat de l’homme et de l’argent: An Editorial Mystery and a Little-Known Early Translation from Italian”\nFrancesco Montorsi\, Université Lumière Lyon 2\n\n\n3:00\nBreak\n\n\n3:15 pm\nSESSION 4: Beyond Iberia | Moderator: Sara Gil Sáiz\n\n\n\n“‘Libriko de romansas importantes’: Transposed Spaces and Adaptation in 16th Century Iberian pliegos sueltos and 20th Century Sephardic librikos de romanzas”\nRoxanna Colón-Cosme\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“From Romance to Colony: Translating Nationalism in the Philippine Bernardo del Carpio”\nStefanie Matabang\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“Between Empire and Diaspora: The Agents and Transformations of Jerónimo de Urrea’s Spanish Translation of Orlando Furioso and its Sephardic Adaptation (Oxford\, Bodleian Libraries\, MS Canon. Or. 6)”\nTania Varela\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n4:45\nBreak\n\n\n5:00\nBook Presentation | Moderator: John Dagenais\nIberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean with editors Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández and commentators Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Sharon Kinoshita\n\n\n6:00\nReception\n\n\n\nSee the schedule for Day 2\, Tuesday\, January 24. \nRemote Attendance at ucla.zoom.us/j/93245427502\nFor inquiries\, please contact John Dagenais at dagenais@humnet.ucla.edu \nJointly organized by the University of California\, Los Angeles and Sorbonne Université by Roxanna Colón-Cosme (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA)\, John Dagenais (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA)\, and Tania Varela (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA) \n \nRomance to Romance Conference Program (PDF) \nImage: “Christine instructs four men” The Book of the Queen\, c. 1410–1414\, f. 259vHarley MS 4431\, British Library
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/from-romance-to-romance-1/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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SUMMARY:Physiognomy at the Crossroad of Magic\, Science and the Arts
DESCRIPTION:A symposium organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella (ELTS and Comparative Literature\, UCLA)\, Professor Emerita Valeria Finucci (Romance Studies\, Duke University) and doctoral candidate Megan Tomlinson (ELTS\, UCLA). \nThe symposium will examine how the study of a person’s facial features or expressions as indicatives of character or ethnicity\, has evolved from the crossroad of magic\, religion\, and primitive medicine to present day cultural preoccupation with wellness and beauty. In this context\, the discoveries of regional (cranio-facial) neurophysiology and psychology and the practice of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery have a centuries old relationship with physiognomy. As the study of one’s outward appearance evolved from its classical roots and humanistic self-representations through 18th and 19th century adaptations in fiction and travelogues\, it gradually became a scientific discipline. Along the way\, however\, physiognomy came to be associated with the pseudo-sciences of phrenology and craniology and used to promote eugenic policies. Thus\, it became tainted with racial bigotry and biological determinism\, and trapped within questions of delinquency\, monstrosity and posthumanism. In short\, throughout its history\, physiognomy has played both positive and negative roles in the evolution of significant aspects of the socio-cultural order of the western world that merit contemporary update and in-depth study. \nThe presentations of the symposium will follow a chronological and intertwining sequence to encompass physiognomic expressions in art\, literature\, spirituality\, science\, philosophy\, and cultural studies. \nThis event is dedicated to the memory of Rinaldo Canalis\, Emeritus Professor of Otolaryngology in the UCLA Department of Head and Neck Surgery. \nCo-sponsored by CMRS-CEGS. \n9 am – 5 pm on January 20-21\, 2023 in Royce Hall 314. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/physiognomy-at-the-crossroad-of-magic-science-and-the-arts/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T080000
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SUMMARY:Western Ottomanists' Workshop (WOW) Fall 2022 - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:UCLA will be hosting the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) hybrid\, both in person and online. Organized by CMRS-CEGS faculty member Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA\, History) and hosted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. \nFriday\, November 18 – Day 1\n10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor) & Zoom\n \n1:30pm Registration\n2pm Opening Speech – James Gelvin (UCLA)\n2:30-3:30pm Panel 1: Nineteenth Century Ottoman Identities Beyond the Millet System \nPresenter Bedros Torosian (UCI)\, Discussant: Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA); Presenter: Hilal Tümer (UCB)\, Discussant: Isacar Bolaños (CSULB) \n3:30-3:45pm Break\n3:45-5:15pm Panel 2: Ottoman Legal and Administrative Structures \nPresenter: Ismail Noyan (Simon Fraser University)\, Discussant: Jun Akiba (University of Tokyo); Presenter: Madonna Aoun Ghazal (UCLA)\, Discussant: Samy Ayoub (UT Austin); Presenter: Daniel Ohanian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Christine Philliou (UCB) \n5:15-5:30pm Break\n5:30-6:45pm Workshop on Publishing and Professionalization – Heather Ferguson (Claremont McKenna\, JOTSA) \nSaturday\, November 19 – Day 2\nRoyce 314 & Zoom\n \n8-8:30am Registration\n8:30-10:10am Panel 3: Ottoman Language\, Literature\, and Carnivals \nPresenter: Jennifer Manoukian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Nir Shafir (UCSD); Presenter: İpek Şahinler (U Texas at Austin)\, Discussant: Selim Kuru (UW); Presenter: Nora Bairamian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Dzovinar Derderian (UCB); Presenter: Naz Vardar (Simon Fraser University)\, Discussant: Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University) \n10:10-10:30am Break\n10:30am-12:10pm Panel 4: Vampires\, Converts\, and Financiers in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire \nPresenter: Zehra Ilhan (UCD)\, Discussant: Adam Sabra (UCSB); Presenter: Christopher Whitehead (OSU)\, Discussant: Linda Darling (University of Arizona)\, Presenter: Elyakim Engelmann-Suissa (UW)\, Discussant: Jacob Max Daniels (Stanford University)\, Presenter: Hüseyin Göcen (UCD)\, Discussant: James Grehan (PSU) \n12:10-1:10pm Lunch Break\n1:15-2:15pmLunchtime Roundtable on Manuscripts in SoCal \nAli Anooshahr (UCD)\, Gwendolyn Collaço (LACMA)\, Sohaib Baig (UCLA Libraries)\, Luke Yarbrough (UCLA\, NELC) \n2:15-2:30pm Break\n2:30-4pm Panel 5: Race and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire: Sephardic Jews\, Afro-Turks\, Greek-Turkish Population Exchange \nPresenter: Rachel Smith (UCLA)\, Discussant: Reşat Kasaba (UW); Presenter: Oluwamayowa (Bam) Willoughby (Cornell)\, Discussant: Baki Tezcan (UCD); Presenter: Herman Adney (UCLA)\, Discussant: Nora Barakat (Stanford University) \n3:50-4:05pm Break\n4:05-5:30 Keynote Panel \nChristine Philliou (UCB)\, Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)\, Sarah Stein (UCLA)\, Moderator: Baki Tezcan (UCD) \n5:30-6pm Closing Speech – Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)\n6-7pm Ottoman Music Performance – Münir Beken (UCLA Ethnomusicology) \nRegister Here\nPlease direct all queries to wowuclawow@gmail.com \nWOW was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the period of the late thirteenth century up until the early decades of the twentieth century. Two years into this pandemic\, many of us have not had a chance to meet each other in person. WOW 2022 aims to provide a space for in-person meeting\, discussion\, feedback\, and conversation. Join us! \nSponsors: Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, African Studies Center\, Program on Central Asia\, Department of History\, Islamic Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies\, UCLA’s Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History\, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, Library Special Collections.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/western-ottomanists-workshop-fall-2022-day2/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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SUMMARY:Western Ottomanists' Workshop (WOW) Fall 2022 - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:UCLA will be hosting the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) hybrid\, both in person and online. Organized by CMRS-CEGS faculty member Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA\, History) and hosted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. \nFriday\, November 18 – Day 1 \n10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor) & Zoom\n \nAlternate plans for strike \n1:30pm Registration\n2pm Opening Speech – James Gelvin (UCLA)\n2:30-3:30pm Panel 1: Nineteenth Century Ottoman Identities Beyond the Millet System \nPresenter Bedros Torosian (UCI)\, Discussant: Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA); Presenter: Hilal Tümer (UCB)\, Discussant: Isacar Bolaños (CSULB) \n3:30-3:45pm Break\n3:45-5:15pm Panel 2: Ottoman Legal and Administrative Structures \nPresenter: Ismail Noyan (Simon Fraser University)\, Discussant: Jun Akiba (University of Tokyo); Presenter: Madonna Aoun Ghazal (UCLA)\, Discussant: Samy Ayoub (UT Austin); Presenter: Daniel Ohanian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Christine Philliou (UCB) \n5:15-5:30pm Break\n5:30-6:45pm Workshop on Publishing and Professionalization – Heather Ferguson (Claremont McKenna\, JOTSA) \nSaturday\, November 19 – Day 2\nRoyce 314 & Zoom\n \n8-8:30am Registration\n8:30-10:10am Panel 3: Ottoman Language\, Literature\, and Carnivals \nPresenter: Jennifer Manoukian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Nir Shafir (UCSD); Presenter: İpek Şahinler (U Texas at Austin)\, Discussant: Selim Kuru (UW); Presenter: Nora Bairamian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Dzovinar Derderian (UCB); Presenter: Naz Vardar (Simon Fraser University)\, Discussant: Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University) \n10:10-10:30am Break\n10:30am-12:10pm Panel 4: Vampires\, Converts\, and Financiers in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire \nPresenter: Zehra Ilhan (UCD)\, Discussant: Adam Sabra (UCSB); Presenter: Christopher Whitehead (OSU)\, Discussant: Linda Darling (University of Arizona)\, Presenter: Elyakim Engelmann-Suissa (UW)\, Discussant: Jacob Max Daniels (Stanford University)\, Presenter: Hüseyin Göcen (UCD)\, Discussant: James Grehan (PSU) \n12:10-1:10pm Lunch Break\n1:15-2:15pmLunchtime Roundtable on Manuscripts in SoCal \nAli Anooshahr (UCD)\, Gwendolyn Collaço (LACMA)\, Sohaib Baig (UCLA Libraries)\, Luke Yarbrough (UCLA\, NELC) \n2:15-2:30pm Break\n2:30-4pm Panel 5: Race and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire: Sephardic Jews\, Afro-Turks\, Greek-Turkish Population Exchange \nPresenter: Rachel Smith (UCLA)\, Discussant: Reşat Kasaba (UW); Presenter: Oluwamayowa (Bam) Willoughby (Cornell)\, Discussant: Baki Tezcan (UCD); Presenter: Herman Adney (UCLA)\, Discussant: Nora Barakat (Stanford University) \n3:50-4:05pm Break\n4:05-5:30 Keynote Panel \nChristine Philliou (UCB)\, Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)\, Sarah Stein (UCLA)\, Moderator: Baki Tezcan (UCD) \n5:30-6pm Closing Speech – Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)\n6-7pm Ottoman Music Performance – Münir Beken (UCLA Ethnomusicology) \nRegister Here\nPlease direct all queries to wowuclawow@gmail.com \nWOW was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the period of the late thirteenth century up until the early decades of the twentieth century. Two years into this pandemic\, many of us have not had a chance to meet each other in person. WOW 2022 aims to provide a space for in-person meeting\, discussion\, feedback\, and conversation. Join us! \nSponsors: Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, African Studies Center\, Program on Central Asia\, Department of History\, Islamic Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies\, UCLA’s Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History\, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, Library Special Collections.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/western-ottomanists-workshop-fall-2022-day1/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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SUMMARY:Unexceptional Blackness and Blind Matter
DESCRIPTION:Kanner Forum Featuring Matthew Vernon \nJoin UCLA English for “Unexceptional Blackness and Blind Matter\,” a talk by Matthew Vernon\, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California\, Davis. Professor Vernon will discuss Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s adaptation of Everyman as it relates to invisibilization of race. Professor Vernon will focus on the problems and possibilities this play raises in relation to politics and race through the Middle Ages. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by UCLA English Professor Matthew Fisher. This event is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Department of Comparative Literature and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nMatthew Vernon is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California\, Davis. His first book\, The Black Middle Ages\, explores the understudied relationship between medievalism and Blackness in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. He has also written articles on a set of his interests around issues of race and genre. This has led to articles on the post-truth phenomenon in nineteenth-century novels\, Black speculative fiction\, and comic books about displacement and vulnerability. He is currently working on an article on the adaptation of the medieval play\, Everyman. \nKaplan Hall 193 and on Zoom \nRSVP \nKanner Forum: Matthew Vernon \n \n  \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/unexceptional-blackness-and-blind-matter/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T153000
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual European Languages & Transcultural Studies Graduate Student Conference – Day 2
DESCRIPTION:“Permanence & Decay”\nKeynote Speakers: Melody Jue (UCSB) and Amir R\, Mufti (UCLA) \nPlease see the flyer or visit the website for more details. \nRSVP here by Friday\, May 6\, 2022 at 5pm PST. \nReview the COVID-19 protocol provided on the flyer prior to attending the event. \nQuestions? Contact the Organizing Committee at ucla.elts.conference@gmail.com. \nUCLA ELTS Graduate Conference 2022 Organizing Committee: Anna Bonazzi\, Amber Sackett\, Kendell Clarke\, and Megan Tomlinson. \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/2nd-annual-european-languages-transcultural-studies-graduate-student-conference-day-2/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T153000
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual European Languages & Transcultural Studies Graduate Student Conference - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:“Permanence & Decay”\nKeynote Speakers: Melody Jue (UCSB) and Amir R\, Mufti (UCLA) \nPlease see the flyer or visit the website for more details. \nRSVP here by Friday\, May 6\, 2022 at 5pm PST. \nReview the COVID-19 protocol provided on the flyer prior to attending the event. \nQuestions? Contact the Organizing Committee at ucla.elts.conference@gmail.com. \nUCLA ELTS Graduate Conference 2022 Organizing Committee: Anna Bonazzi\, Amber Sackett\, Kendell Clarke\, and Megan Tomlinson. \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/2nd-annual-european-languages-transcultural-studies-graduate-student-conference-permanence-decay/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T130000
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SUMMARY:'Aqām al-ḥajj Fulān': The Leaders of Abbasid Pilgrimage in the Early Islamic Annalistic Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (d. 193/809) allegedly led the ḥajj nine times over the course of his twenty-three-year reign\, in 188/804 he was also the last ʿAbbāsid caliph to lead the pilgrimage rites. The pilgrimage served as a means of legitimation as well as a place of succession and nomination\, with Hārūn and his wife Zubayda bt. Jaʿfar (from whence the Darb Zubayda) in particular undergoing extensive infrastructural works on the pilgrimage route. The leaders of the ḥajj – and of the summer expeditions (ṣawāʾif) – are the most consistently provided information in the early Islamic annalistic tradition (tawārīkh)\, being found at the end of each year\, reflecting the place of the event in the Islamic calendar. For the early ʿAbbāsid period\, the pilgrimage akhbār are tremendously consistent\, demonstrating few discrepancies across late ninth/early tenth century sources (ten disagreements across one hundred and one notices). The agreement between the early Baṣran traditionist Khalı̄fa b. Khayyāṭ (d. 240/854) and al-Ṭabarī (d.310/923) demonstrates that this information was circulating in a complete form by the mid-ninth century. This contrasts with the leaders of the Umayyads pilgrimage season\, which is reported with significant variation in the same sources. The near unanimity epitomises the consistency of the sources for the Abbasid period\, further evidencing their centralising narratives. The most well-known leaders are undoubtedly the caliphs and their sons\, leading it twenty-five times\, when they were not present it was nearly always a member of the ʿAbbāsid family. This talk collates the ʿAbbāsid leadership reports (from 132/750 – 232/847) across our early annalistic sources and aims to answer the major questions that a detailed overview of the material raises: who was leading the ḥajj for the early ʿAbbāsids\, where does this material derive from and what is the connection between pilgrimage ceremonial and caliphal nomination? \nLeone Pecorini Goodall is a third year PhD student in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh/St. Andrews (supervisors: Marie Legendre\, Yannis Stouraitis and Tim Greenwood). His thesis explores the patterns and means of succession of the late Umayyad and early Abbasids\, focusing on over-looked aspects of succession such as the matrilineal line\, age\, eligibility and ‘failed’ heirs. His research makes use of Arabic\, Armenian\, and Greek language sources\, adopting a source-critical and comparative approach. \nPlease register to attend by Friday\, April 22\, 2022 at 12pm. \nOrganized and sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures; co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and UCLA Islamic Studies Program.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/aqam-al-%e1%b8%a5ajj-fulan-the-leaders-of-abbasid-pilgrimage-in-the-early-islamic-annalistic-tradition/
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