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  • Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Modern World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference

    08:00–08:15 PST Introduction & Welcome Patrick Morgan, Hannah Thomson, and Chase Caldwell Smith PANEL 1: CULTURAL CIRCULATION IN PRE-MODERN ASIA 08:15–08:30 PST “Nonnational Affinities and Shared Scape of Romances: Persianate World in Circulation” Yoonus Kozhisseri, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 08.30–08:45 PST “Monsters, Deities, and Humanity in the Early Modern Philippines” Zhiyu Chen, University of […]

  • The Western Mediterranean and the Global Middle Ages

    CMRS-CEGS/AARHMS Symposium As part of its thematic series of co-sponsored sessions this academic year on “Iberian History as Global History” at major international conferences, the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) has partnered with UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CEGS) to host this symposium on The Western Mediterranean and the […]

  • The Mediterranean Seminar Winter Workshop 2024, Intermediaries, Middle Grounds, Middle Sea

    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 […]

  • Conference by Domenico Ingenito, “Nezāmi and the Iranian World”

    A two-day symposium and workshop that brings together specialists of Persian literature, junior faculty, and graduate students to facilitate in-depth conversations on Nezāmi in a stimulating intellectual environment at UCLA. On the first day of the conference, “Rediscovering a Persian Treasury of Global Literature,” invited speakers will deliver lectures that offer insights on the most recent […]

  • On Land and Across the Sea: Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds. Junctions and Interweavings Conference

    To mark 650 years since Boccaccio’s death, a conference on Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds invites exploration of Boccaccio’s “Other Words” and “Other Worlds.” Boccaccio’s narratives—not limited to the Decameron—vividly depict cultural and intellectual exchanges, emphasizing human behavior, morality, and societal complexities across the Mediterranean and beyond, including Cathay. In the Decameron, the Levant serves as a crucial geographical and cultural […]

  • Post-Classical Libraries Conference

    Libraries occupied a central place in the organization and reproduction of pre-modern knowledge cultures.  Texts had been assembled in archives of various kinds from the Bronze Age, but most were of only ephemeral interest. Only when writing was deployed to create works intended to have lasting value – as literature, as contributions to science, or […]

  • William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Molly Warsh

    “‘Breedlings’ and the ‘most sad Fenns’: Perceptions of Untameable Places and People in Samuel Pepys’s England” Guest Speaker: Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh) In this talk, Warsh will consider Pepys’s observations about the English fens and their inhabitants in the context of shifting seventeenth century ideas about what made certain places and people wild.  With Pepys’s […]

  • Odious Comparisons Across & Beyond the Early Global World

    Isabella Kelly-Ramirez, Cosmic Provenance, 2023 In his 1996 essay “Why Comparisons Are Odious,” W.J.T. Mitchell observed that if “difference and identity are the potent and inevitable terms in a new comparativism grounded in culture, it may be important to remind ourselves how insidious comparison can be, how invidious and odious.” Although written in response to […]