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SUMMARY:Odious Comparisons Across & Beyond the Early Global World
DESCRIPTION:Isabella Kelly-Ramirez\, Cosmic Provenance\, 2023 \nIn 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 the emergence of comparative cultural studies\, Mitchell’s essay points to both the risks of comparison and to how the oft-acknowledged ‘odiousness of comparison’ delimits the critical horizons of comparative and early global studies. Although comparative work in premodern studies typically focuses on historically verifiable instances of interconnection and translation\, scholars such as Adam Miyashiro [Kānaka Maoli]\, Zrinka Stahuljak\, and Rebecca de Souza have argued persuasively that asynchronous\, disconnected\, transcultural comparisons can provide methods for a truly global\, decolonized premodern studies. \nBy seeking dialogue between the fields of comparative literature and early global studies\, this two-day symposium\, sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, explores not just what makes comparison odious but also asks what is generative about odious comparisons. In experimenting with comparative approaches to the early global past which are unshackled from the necessity of linearity\, continuity\, or connectivity\, our fifteen speakers ask whether we can compare apples and oranges and how such comparisons might generate new\, destabilizing ways of knowing. \nOrganized by Basil Arnould Price (SUNY Oneonta) and Nancy Alicia Martínez (Comparative Literature) \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nEvent Schedule
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/odious-comparisons-across-beyond-the-early-global-world/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Molly Warsh
DESCRIPTION:“‘Breedlings’ and the ‘most sad Fenns’: Perceptions of Untameable Places and People in Samuel Pepys’s England” \nGuest Speaker: Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh) \nIn 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 interest in social mobility in mind\, she will pay particular attention to broad trends in early modern thinking about social and biological production and reproduction\, and the relationship between human and non-human nature. \nMolly A. Warsh is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the Editor of the Journal of Early Modern History. She is the author of American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire 1492-1700 (Omohundro Institute with the University of North Carolina Press\, 2018) as well as several articles and book chapters. \nRSVP to attend at the UCLA University Club\, Morrison Room\nRSVP to attend via ZOOM \nMore information about past William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys lectures is available here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/will-lois-matthews-samuel-pepys-lecture-by-molly-warsh/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Pepys
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SUMMARY:Post-Classical Libraries Conference
DESCRIPTION:Libraries occupied a central place in the organization and reproduction of pre-modern knowledge cultures.  \nTexts 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 as records of historical investigations or sacred revelations – did it become necessary to actively curate them. In a world before printing\, the risk that any given book – on papyrus or parchment\, clay tablets or wooden ones\, on rolls or in codices –would simply perish was a real one. Libraries became places where textual communities studied\, catalogued\, repaired\, and recopied works of this kind. Recent studies have investigated the libraries of the Bronze Age Near East and of the Classical Mediterranean. These were royal or civic\, private or public\, based in temples\, villas\, or educational establishments. A few\, like the Library of Alexandria\, have been mythologized. \nMost of these studies end in the third century CE\, yet libraries also played a crucial role in the passage from antiquity to the Middle Ages. This will be the subject of our conference.  \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nSpeaker Abstracts and Titles \n\n\n\nDay 1: Friday\, October 17\n\n\n\n\n10:15\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries (Royce\, 314)\n\n\n10:30\nWelcome Remarks with Oona Paredes (CMRS-CEGS Associate Director) and Greg Woolf (NYU)\n\n\n11:00\nThe “Library of Caesarea” between Gaza and Berytus – Jeremiah Coogan (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University)\n\n\n11:50\nBreak\n\n\n12:00\nThe Library on the Page: Booklists from Antiquity to the Latin West – Thomas Hendrickson (Stanford University)\n\n\n1:00\nLunch\n\n\n2:30\nNew Approaches to the Early Arabic Library – Michael Cooperson (UCLA)\n\n\n3:30\nReception\n\n\nDay 2: Saturday\, October 18\n\n\n10:00\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries\n\n\n10:30\nIrish Libraries in the Early Middle Ages: Home and Abroad – Viktoriia Krivoshchekova (School of Celtic Studies\, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)\n\n\n11:20\nStrategies of Preservation at Monastic Libraries and Archives in Medieval Italy – Maya Maskarinec (USC)\n\n\n12:10\nBreak\n\n\n12:20\nBooks and libraries in Byzantium (8th–10th centuries) – Daniele Bianconi (University of Rome\, La Sapienza)\n\n\n1:15\nLunch\n\n\n2:30\nClosing Round Table – Chaired by Jim O’Donnell (Arizona State University)\n\n\n\nOrganizers: Stefania Tutino (UCLA) and Greg Woolf (NYU) \nThe symposium is sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and co-sponsored by the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History and the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/post-classical-libraries/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Humanities
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T235959
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SUMMARY:On Land and Across the Sea: Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds. Junctions and Interweavings Conference
DESCRIPTION: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 reference\, highlighting its role as a crossroads of commerce\, religion\, and cultural interaction. For instance\, Nathan’s house in Decameron X.3 is described as being situated at the crossroads “from the West eastward\, or from the East westward.” Similarly\, in Genealogy of the Pagan Gods\, Boccaccio extols the invention of the boat and maritime navigation\, celebrating their benefits for humanity. He reflects on the immense advantages of trade and cultural exchanges and how they foster trust and friendships. Boccaccio notes that such interactions enable mutual teaching and learning of languages\, bridging geographical distances and overcoming estrangement. \nInspired by Boccaccio’s fascination with other worlds and words\, the Conference encourages geocritical approaches to Boccaccio’s works and explores this “hybrid point of connectivity” across society\, politics\, gender\, religion\, and economics. It aims to further investigate labor conditions and slavery in the medieval Mediterranean\, with particular attention to the art and commerce of textiles and textual weaves. The focus extends from the silent labor of women weaving baskets across the Mediterranean basin to female textile workers in Florence\, highlighting references to women’s labor both within and beyond the sea. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nAbstracts \nSchedule \n  \n \n\n\nDay 1 – Friday\, October 3\n\n\n9:00 AM\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries\n\n\n9:15 AM\nWelcome Remarks\n– Oona Paredes (CMRS-CEGS Associate Director)\n– Todd Presner (ELTS Chair)\n– Massimo Ciavolella (Franklin D. Murphy Chair in Italian Renaissance Studies)\n– Roberta Morosini (University of California\, Los Angeles)\n\n\nPanel 1 – Women\, Words\, and the Sea: Gendered Crossings in the Decameron\n\n\n9:40 AM\nJohnny Bertolio (University of Torino\, Italy) – On Mary Magdalene’s Trail: Alatiel’s Intersectional Journey Through the Mediterranean\n\n\n10:00 AM\nOrf Jawaher (Université Jean Moulin III\, France) – Alatiel and Gostanza: a Non-Christian Woman in the West and a Christian Woman in the East\n– Presented via ZOOM\n\n\n10:20 AM\nTeresa Nocita (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila\, Italy) – The journey of Alatiel (Decameron II\, 7): the Mediterranean as an experience of the self\n\n\n10:40 AM\nReed O’Mara (Case Western Reserve University) – Crafting a History of Women: Introducing the Getty’s Des cleres et nobles femmes and Le livre de la Cité des Dames Manuscript\nPresented by Elizabeth Morrison (Getty Museum)\n\n\n11:00 AM\nBreak\n\n\n11:15 AM\nDiscussion Panel 1 – Chaired by Janet Smarr (University of California\, San Diego)\n\n\n12:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\nPanel 2 – Cross-Mediterranean Geographies: Trade\, Empire\, and Narrative Networks\n\n\n2:00 PM\nBrittany Asaro (University of San Diego) – Boccaccio in SoCal: The San Diego Decameron Project\n\n\n2:20 PM\nMatteo Leta (University College Dublin) – Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Representation of the “Other” in the Italian Renaissance Comedy\n\n\n2:40 PM\nAnna Dini (University of California\, Berkeley) – Saladin\, A Mediterranean Exemplar in Decameron 10.9\n\n\n3:00 PM\nRoberto Pesce (University of Oklahoma) – Boccaccio and the Islamic World: The Influence of Marino Sanudo Torsello\n\n\n3:20 PM\nBerenice Daniele (Trinity College Dublin\, Ireland) – Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Canaria: between humanism and colonialism\n\n\n3:40 PM\nBreak\n\n\n4:00 PM\nDiscussion Panel 2 – Chaired by Brenda Schildgen (University of California\, Davis)\n\n\n5:00 PM\nReception\n\n \n\nDay 2 – Saturday\, October 4\n\n\n9:00 AM\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries\n\n\nPanel 3 – Objects\, Texts\, and Intertextual Voyages\n\n\n9:30 AM\nDanilo Petrassi (University of Macerata\, Italy) – Landolfo Rufolo in the Age of Social Media: Sailing Different Seas Between Chaos and Compassion\n\n\n9:50 AM\nChiara Coppin (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) – «Di mare in terra». Reflections on the world of Teseida\n\n\n10:10 AM\nDeirdre Klena (Saint Louis University) – “Secondo che io intesi”: Merchants\, Convents\, and Information in Boccaccio’s Elegy of Lady Fiammetta\n\n\n10:30 AM\nAlexa Rojas (ABA Velli prize and Keck Fellow 2025\, University of California\, Los Angeles) – Do Clothes make the (Wo)man?”\n\n\n10:50 AM\nSarah Marie Leitenberger (University of Pennsylvania) – Courtesy of the Lady: Madonna Adalieta as a Cultural Ambassador in Decameron X.9\n\n\n11:10 AM\nBreak\n\n\n11:30 AM\nDiscussion Panel 3 – Chaired by Massimo Ciavolella (University of California\, Los Angeles)\n\n\n12:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\nPanel 4 – From Ship to Shore: Poetics\, Environment\, and Cross-Cultural Mediations\n\n\n2:00 PM\nJonathan Combs-Schilling (Ohio State University) – Boccaccio’s “Fragile Boat” and Pastoral’s Seaward Turn\n\n\n2:20 PM\nSharon Kinoshita (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – Trading Places: Boccaccio’s Decameron 2.9 in/and the Medieval Mediterranean\n– Presented via ZOOM\n\n\n2:40 PM\nSara Ronzoni (University of Padua) – Environment\, Humanity and Figure: a Journey through Petrarch\, Boccaccio and Opicino de Canistris’ Geographical Works\n\n\n3:00 PM\nVincenzo Dimaggio (University of Indiana) – Linguistic Alterity and Identity in the Decameron\n\n\n3:20 PM\nDiscussion Panel 4 – Chaired by Brian Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\n\n\n4:45 PM\nBreak\n\n\n5:00 PM\nConcluding Roundtable – Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds Today\nThis session brings together invited scholars for an open conversation on how Boccaccio’s Mediterranean crossings\, geographies of alterity\, and narrative experiments continue to speak to contemporary cultural and critical frameworks: migration\, translation\, gendered displacement\, and literary mobility.\nChair: Sebastiana Nobili (University of Bologna)\n– Janet Smarr (University of California\, San Diego)\n– Michael Papio (University of Massachusetts Amherst)\n– Rino Caputo (Tor Vergata University of Rome)\n– Brenda Schildgen (University of California\, Davis)\n– Brian Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\n– Akash Kumar (University of California\, Berkeley)\n– Marco Veglia (University of Bologna)\n– Sharon Kinoshita (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n\n\n6:00 PM\nClosing remarks\n\n\n\nThis conference is sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\nIn collaboration with:  \n \nUCLA Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History and UCLA Franklin D. Murphy Chair in Italian Renaissance Studies \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/on-land-and-across-the-sea-boccaccios-other-worlds-junctions-and-interweavings-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Humanities
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SUMMARY:Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew\, "St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home\, c. 1660"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: At the end of the 1650s\, Melchiorre Cafà\, a Maltese sculptor\, was newly established in Rome. Rome was the most significant site for sculptural production in Europe at that time. It was also a Golden Age of sculpture as artists vied for papal commissions and pushed the limits of their medium. They transformed hard stone into weightless apparitions. But\, in his early days in the Caput Mundi\, Cafà returned home conceptually. He carved in the humble material of wood the patron saint of his island\, St. Paul\, to be sent back to Malta. Today the sculpture is at the center of local devotional practices\, still carried in processions celebrating the Apostle’s shipwreck in Malta. Our time is connected to Paul’s and to Cafà’s in this living tradition. A study of Cafà’s St. Paul is one of Mediterranean cultural continuities\, and a meditation on the ethnographic gaze of the art historian. \nShawon Kinew is an art historian of early modern Southern Europe at Harvard University and specializes in seventeenth-century Rome’s art and theory. Her research on Roman Baroque sculpture focuses on the Maltese artist Melchiorre Cafà\, who is the subject of a book manuscript in preparation\, Baroque Softness: Melchiorre Cafà and the Sculpture of Mysticism. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nMore information about past Hammer Art History Lectures can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/hammer-art-history-lecture-by-shawon-kinew/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Hammer Art History Annual Lecture,Humanities
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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:20240530T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T235959
DTSTAMP:20241025T194943Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240210T235959
DTSTAMP:20230927T221359Z
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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:The Western Mediterranean and the Global Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:CMRS-CEGS/AARHMS Symposium \nAs 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 Global Middle Ages. \nThis symposium explores the possibilities and complexities of conceptualizing the early history of the Western Mediterranean in a global framework\, an endeavor that resonates deeply with the mission and research axes of CMRS CEGS and is fundamental to the research\, teaching\, and mentorship conducted by a wide array of departments and programs at UCLA and further afield. \nOur participants will consider how the Global Middle Ages paradigm might inspire new inroads for exploring the interrelationship of variegated societies and cultures within the Mediterranean context. Pushing beyond geographical boundaries in this way and eschewing Eurocentrism implicitly destabilizes ingrained periodizations\, such as medieval/early modern and premodernity/modernity. \nWhat sorts of alternative spatial and temporal frameworks can enhance scholarly assessment of the intertwined histories of the individuals\, groups\, institutions\, and political entities active within the Western Mediterranean and beyond? How can global\, decentered approaches help scholars contend with or resist the deep-seated\, largely Euro- or Christo-centric and often anachronistic and teleological historiographic legacies that have long influenced work on the Iberian Peninsula\, Maghreb\, and broader Mediterranean environment? \nFeaturing an assortment of emerging\, mid-career\, and senior scholars from the United States\, Canada\, Spain\, Portugal\, and the UK\, this gathering will be an impactful\, enriching experience for UCLA faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduates as well as members of the general public. \n\n\n\nSponsored by\nUC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI)\nUCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\nUCLA Department of History\nUCLA Division of Humanities\nUCLA Division of Social Sciences\nUCLA Islamic Studies Program\nCenter for Near Eastern Studies\n\n\n\nFollow the link for more details >> \nRegister to attend in person Royce 314. \nRegister to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-western-mediterranean-and-the-global-middle-ages/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Frontiers\, Borders\, & Borderlands in the Early Modern World - MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
DESCRIPTION:08:00–08:15 PST\nIntroduction & Welcome\nPatrick Morgan\, Hannah Thomson\, and Chase Caldwell Smith\n\n\nPANEL 1: CULTURAL CIRCULATION IN PRE-MODERN ASIA\n\n\n08:15–08:30 PST\n“Nonnational Affinities and Shared Scape of Romances: Persianate World in Circulation”\nYoonus Kozhisseri\, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay\n\n\n08.30–08:45 PST\n“Monsters\, Deities\, and Humanity in the Early Modern Philippines”\nZhiyu Chen\, University of Cambridge\n\n\n08:45–09:00 PST\n“Rethinking the Yuan ‘Chinese’ Imperial City: Building Ordo Spatial Logic into the Mongol Great Capital”\nAndrea Valedón Trapote\, University of Michigan\n\n\n09:00–09:15 PST\nDiscussion & Questions\nYoonus Kozhisseri\, Zhiyu Chen\, & Andrea Valedón Trapote\n\n\n09:15–09:30 PST\nBreak\n\n\nPANEL 2: COMMUNICATING ACROSS DIVIDES\n\n\n09:30–09:45 PST\n“Speaking Beyond the Divide: A Lusophone Interpreter in the Gulf of Benin\, 1516”\nJoseph Jackson-Eade\, University of Bologna\n\n\n09:45–10:00 PST\n“The People’s Diplomacy: Reinier Nooms’ Dutch Landscaping of Barbary Ports”\nAnnie Correll\, New York University\n\n\n10:00–10.15 am PST\n“Portable Paleography: Commodifying Latin Script across Premodern Borders”\nJessica Cochran\, University of New Mexico\n\n\n10:15–10.30 PST\nDiscussion & Questions\nJoseph Jackson-Eade\, Annie Correll\, & Jessica Cochran\n\n\n10:30–10:45 PST\nBreak\n\n\nPANEL 3: FRONTIERS & BORDERLANDS IN THE AMERICAS\, PART I\n\n\n10:45–11:00 PST\n“By the Cross and Sword: Inconvenient Alliances on the French-Spanish Frontiers in North America (18th Century)”\nThomas Croisez\, European University Institute\n\n\n11:00–11:15 PST\n“The Multilateral Borderlands of Colonial Competition: Dividing the Circum-Caribbean between Spanish\, French\, Indigenous\, and Maroon Spheres\, ca. 1560–1700”\nFlorian Wieser\, University of Edinburgh\n\n\n11:15–11.30 PST\n“Iberian Global Empires and the Insights of Outsiders: Accounts of Borderlands\, Governance and Lawlessness along the First American Frontiers”\nDaniel O’Driscoll\, University of Oxford\n\n\n11:30–11:45 PST\nDiscussion & Questions\nThomas Croisez\, Florian Wieser\, & Daniel O’Drischoll\n\n\n11:45–12.45 PST\nLunch Break\n\n\n12:45–13:30 PST\nKeynote Lecture & Discussion:\n“Conceptualizing the ‘Fringe’ in the History of Early Modern Southeast Asia”\nProfessor Oona Paredes\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n13:30–13:45 PST\nBreak\n\n\nPANEL 4: MARITIME BORDERS\, FRONTIERS\, & BORDERLANDS\n\n\n13:45–14:00 PST\n“A New Political Landscape: The Florentine-Lebanese Mediterranean of the Early Seventeenth Century”\nGeorgina Watson\, The University of Manchester\n\n\n14:00–14:15 PST\n“The Arabian Tribal Frontier of the Portuguese Thalassocracy in the Pre-Ottoman Persian Gulf (1515-1550)”\nGabriel Soares\, University of São Paulo\n\n\n14:15–14:30 PST\n“St. Malo and Maritime Borderlands”\nCaroline Foster\, Columbia University\n\n\n14:30–14:45 PST\nDiscussion & Questions\nGeorgina Watson\, Gabriel Soares\, & Caroline Foster\n\n\n14:45–15:00 PST\nBreak\n\n\nPANEL 5: FRONTIERS & BORDERLANDS IN THE AMERICAS\, PART II\n\n\n15:00–15:15 PST\n“Illicit Commerce and Eastern Cuban Society in the 17th-Century Spanish Caribbean Borderlands”\nKeith Richards\, Tulane University\n\n\n15:15–15:30 PST\n“The Archive as Portrait: Constructing a Documentary Likeness in Spanish California”\nLouisa Raitt\, New York University\n\n\n15:30-15:45 PST\n“Weather and the Jesuits in the Spanish Borderlands”\nPiper Milton\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\n\n\n15:45–16:00 PST\nDiscussion & Questions\nKeith Richards\, Louisa Raitt\, & Piper Milton\n\n\n16:00–16:30 PST\n“Chinoiserie: Musical Selections from Chinese and European Cultural Exchange”\nBenjamin Fleischacker and Friends\n\n\n16:30 PST\nClosing Remarks\nPatrick Morgan\, Hannah Thomson\, and Chase Caldwell Smith\n\n\n\nZoom Registration Link \n \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/memsa-graduate-student-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference,MEMSA
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SUMMARY:The Intermingling of Cartography and Literature in the Early Modern Period
DESCRIPTION:CMRS-CEGS Conference \nOrganized by Chet Van Duzer (Lazarus Project\, University of Rochester) and Stephen P. McCormick (Romance Languages\, Washington & Lee University). \nSee the complete schedule at the conference website. \nRegister to attend in person in Royce 314. \nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nImage: Naples BN MS IVE9\, f. 24r Virgil Georgics zonal mappamundi
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-intermingling-of-cartography-and-literature-in-the-early-modern-period/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230401T153000
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SUMMARY:Reinventing Woman's Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots - Day 3
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nChallenges to inferiorizing conceptions of women’s nature that grew in prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries should be seen not just as applications of changing philosophical conceptions of nature under the rise of mechanical philosophy\, but as helping to shape those reconceptualizations. Through their polemical writings in defence of women\, their rejection of histories written by men that excluded or skewed the contributions of women\, in their own philosophical treatises and correspondence with male philosophers\, feminists\, including some feminist men\, helped to shape a conception of human nature and virtue that exalted both women and men equally. These texts contain not just critiques of misogynistic theorising about the natures and vices of women aimed at raising the consciousness of women and challenging the authority of men\, but deliberate proposals for rethinking social structures—the structure of communities\, the family\, and women’s political status and role in the State. Of note is the way in which feminists of the period recognised\, therefore\, that theorising about human nature could not succeed in isolation from a reimagining of the kind of social structures in which it was possible for all humans\, men and women included\, to flourish. An examination of what makes a thing human could not\, in other words\, be separated from the question of what it would take to make men and women equal. \nThis conference is interested in exploring these connections between theorising about women’s nature and theorising about the kind of society that promotes sexual equality. It covers the contributions of feminists from English\, French\, and Italian traditions\, as well as the philosophical transitions that inspired them—Humanism\, Cartesianism\, and shifts in virtue theory\, including challenges to masculinist assumptions about heroic virtues and dignity. The conference will in this way shed light on the extent to which feminist theorising in the period contained an agenda for social change\, and thus to its place in the history of feminism as a social movement. \nOrganized by Professors Calvin Normore (UCLA)\, Deborah Brown (Univ. Queensland)\, Jacqueline Broad (Monash University)\, and Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University). \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023 – DAY 1\n\n\n3:30 PM – 5:00 PM\nMartina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä)\n“Complex Relations: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Olympe de Gouges on the Sexes” (Keynote)\n\n\n5:00 PM – 6:30 PM\nReception\n\n\nFriday\, March 31\, 2023 – DAY 2\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nAllauren Forbes (McMaster University)\n“Speech\, Silence\, and Gendered Space: Women’s Epistemic Nature in Cavendish’s Plays”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nMarcy Lascano (University of Kansas)\n“The Feminist Ontologies of Cavendish and Conway”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nEmanuele Costa (Vanderbilt University)\n“Anne Conway and the Feminine: Between Receptacle and Embodied Thought”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nJacqueline Broad (Monash University)\n“A Weapon in their Hands: Bathsua Makin’s Arguments for Women’s Education”\n\n\n3:15 PM – 3:45 PM\nBreak\n\n\n3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMarguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)\n“Whose Worth? All Women\, or Some Women?”\n\n\nSaturday\, April 1\, 2023 – DAY 3\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nDiane Zetlin (University of Queensland)\n“Equality and Inequality: Glory and Honour”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nCharlotte Sabourin (Douglas College)\n“Germaine de Staël’s Second Thoughts on Rousseau”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nLisa Shapiro (McGill University)\n“Gabrielle Suchon on ‘persons of the sex'”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nDeborah Brown (University of Queensland)\n“Anxiety and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth”\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/early-modern-feminism-and-its-roots-day3/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Reinventing Woman's Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nChallenges to inferiorizing conceptions of women’s nature that grew in prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries should be seen not just as applications of changing philosophical conceptions of nature under the rise of mechanical philosophy\, but as helping to shape those reconceptualizations. Through their polemical writings in defence of women\, their rejection of histories written by men that excluded or skewed the contributions of women\, in their own philosophical treatises and correspondence with male philosophers\, feminists\, including some feminist men\, helped to shape a conception of human nature and virtue that exalted both women and men equally. These texts contain not just critiques of misogynistic theorising about the natures and vices of women aimed at raising the consciousness of women and challenging the authority of men\, but deliberate proposals for rethinking social structures—the structure of communities\, the family\, and women’s political status and role in the State. Of note is the way in which feminists of the period recognised\, therefore\, that theorising about human nature could not succeed in isolation from a reimagining of the kind of social structures in which it was possible for all humans\, men and women included\, to flourish. An examination of what makes a thing human could not\, in other words\, be separated from the question of what it would take to make men and women equal. \nThis conference is interested in exploring these connections between theorising about women’s nature and theorising about the kind of society that promotes sexual equality. It covers the contributions of feminists from English\, French\, and Italian traditions\, as well as the philosophical transitions that inspired them—Humanism\, Cartesianism\, and shifts in virtue theory\, including challenges to masculinist assumptions about heroic virtues and dignity. The conference will in this way shed light on the extent to which feminist theorising in the period contained an agenda for social change\, and thus to its place in the history of feminism as a social movement. \nOrganized by Professors Calvin Normore (UCLA)\, Deborah Brown (University of Queensland)\, Jacqueline Broad (Monash University)\, and Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University). \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023 – DAY 1\n\n\n3:30 PM – 5:00 PM\nMartina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä)\n“Complex Relations: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Olympe de Gouges on the Sexes” (Keynote)\n\n\n5:00 PM – 6:30 PM\nReception\n\n\nFriday\, March 31\, 2023 – DAY 2\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nAllauren Forbes (McMaster University)\n“Speech\, Silence\, and Gendered Space: Women’s Epistemic Nature in Cavendish’s Plays”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nMarcy Lascano (University of Kansas)\n“The Feminist Ontologies of Cavendish and Conway”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nEmanuele Costa (Vanderbilt University)\n“Anne Conway and the Feminine: Between Receptacle and Embodied Thought”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nJacqueline Broad (Monash University)\n“A Weapon in their Hands: Bathsua Makin’s Arguments for Women’s Education”\n\n\n3:15 PM – 3:45 PM\nBreak\n\n\n3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMarguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)\n“Whose Worth? All Women\, or Some Women?”\n\n\nSaturday\, April 1\, 2023 – DAY 3\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nDiane Zetlin (University of Queensland)\n“Equality and Inequality: Glory and Honour”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nCharlotte Sabourin (Douglas College)\n“Germaine de Staël’s Second Thoughts on Rousseau”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nLisa Shapiro (McGill University)\n“Gabrielle Suchon on ‘persons of the sex'”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nDeborah Brown (University of Queensland)\n“Anxiety and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth”\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/early-modern-feminism-and-its-roots-day2/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Reinventing Woman's Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nChallenges to inferiorizing conceptions of women’s nature that grew in prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries should be seen not just as applications of changing philosophical conceptions of nature under the rise of mechanical philosophy\, but as helping to shape those reconceptualizations. Through their polemical writings in defence of women\, their rejection of histories written by men that excluded or skewed the contributions of women\, in their own philosophical treatises and correspondence with male philosophers\, feminists\, including some feminist men\, helped to shape a conception of human nature and virtue that exalted both women and men equally. These texts contain not just critiques of misogynistic theorising about the natures and vices of women aimed at raising the consciousness of women and challenging the authority of men\, but deliberate proposals for rethinking social structures—the structure of communities\, the family\, and women’s political status and role in the State. Of note is the way in which feminists of the period recognised\, therefore\, that theorising about human nature could not succeed in isolation from a reimagining of the kind of social structures in which it was possible for all humans\, men and women included\, to flourish. An examination of what makes a thing human could not\, in other words\, be separated from the question of what it would take to make men and women equal. \nThis conference is interested in exploring these connections between theorising about women’s nature and theorising about the kind of society that promotes sexual equality. It covers the contributions of feminists from English\, French\, and Italian traditions\, as well as the philosophical transitions that inspired them—Humanism\, Cartesianism\, and shifts in virtue theory\, including challenges to masculinist assumptions about heroic virtues and dignity. The conference will in this way shed light on the extent to which feminist theorising in the period contained an agenda for social change\, and thus to its place in the history of feminism as a social movement. \nOrganized by Professors Calvin Normore (UCLA)\, Deborah Brown (University of Queensland)\, Jacqueline Broad (Monash University)\, and Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University). \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023 – DAY 1\n\n\n3:30 PM – 5:00 PM\nMartina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä)\n“Complex Relations: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Olympe de Gouges on the Sexes” (Keynote)\n\n\n5:00 PM – 6:30 PM\nReception\n\n\nFriday\, March 31\, 2023 – DAY 2\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nAllauren Forbes (McMaster University)\n“Speech\, Silence\, and Gendered Space: Women’s Epistemic Nature in Cavendish’s Plays”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nMarcy Lascano (University of Kansas)\n“The Feminist Ontologies of Cavendish and Conway”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nEmanuele Costa (Vanderbilt University)\n“Anne Conway and the Feminine: Between Receptacle and Embodied Thought”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nJacqueline Broad (Monash University)\n“A Weapon in their Hands: Bathsua Makin’s Arguments for Women’s Education”\n\n\n3:15 PM – 3:45 PM\nBreak\n\n\n3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMarguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)\n“Whose Worth? All Women\, or Some Women?”\n\n\nSaturday\, April 1\, 2023 – DAY 3\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nDiane Zetlin (University of Queensland)\n“Equality and Inequality: Glory and Honour”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nCharlotte Sabourin (Douglas College)\n“Germaine de Staël’s Second Thoughts on Rousseau”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nLisa Shapiro (McGill University)\n“Gabrielle Suchon on ‘persons of the sex'”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nDeborah Brown (University of Queensland)\n“Anxiety and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth”\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/early-modern-feminism-and-its-roots-day1/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230225T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230225T161500
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SUMMARY:The Future of Medieval France - Concert
DESCRIPTION:The sounds of the medieval past are conjured in Paris-based Ensemble Dialogos’s presentation of the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat\, a concert to be held in conjunction with the conference on Saturday\, February 25\, from 3-4:15 pm at the Getty Center. Wildly popular in medieval Europe\, the tale of Prince Josaphat and his hermit-teacher Barlaam originated in 3rd-4th century India and tells a surreal\, Christianized version of the life of Buddha. In this concert\, Ensemble Dialogo explores the legend through several musical repertoires of the Middle Ages\, reflecting the beloved story’s translation into Greek\, Latin\, Old-Russian\, Old-Croatian\, Old-French\, medieval Occitan\, and Italian manuscripts. \nProgram includes supertitles. More information and reservations on the Getty Center’s website — concert seats must be reserved separately from conference registration — advance tickets required. \nEnsemble Dialogos\nFounded in 1997\, the ensemble brings together singers and instrumentalists from different backgrounds and countries to revive European oral and written traditions\, from the Middle Ages to the present day. \nConcert-related links:\nTrailer 1:  https://youtu.be/uH-QYO5Xskk (introduction)\nTrailer 2:  https://youtu.be/rRManNdwYCM (story)\nSong 1: https://youtu.be/uhGzxJaHxSc (Era in qual tempo)\nSong 2: https://youtu.be/zBffKHNM0IQ (Poyde Baarlam)
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-future-of-medieval-france-concert/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T153000
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SUMMARY:The Future of Medieval France - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Complete details including registration\, schedule\, speakers\, and abstracts are on the conference webpages.\nAn international conference on the past\, present\, and future of medieval studies in Europe organized by Professor Meredith Cohen (Art History\, UCLA) and Professor Zrinka Stahuljak (CMRS-CEGS Director). Bringing together scholars of medieval France from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds\, the conference will honor the legacy of John W. Baldwin who bridged the two and look into the future of medieval France in the global context. What does it mean to study medieval France today\, when academic research and funding trends increasingly seem to decenter France? While this conference focuses on France\, the reflection is relevant for all of Europe. Why and how\, then\, should we study medieval France and Europe? How can we reform or decolonize the medieval European fields from within while remaining true to the time period\, its geographies\, mentalities\, and connectivities? \nThe conference will be held on the UCLA Campus \, third floor Royce Hall Humanities conference rooms on February 23-24. \n“Barlaam and Josaphat\,” a concert in conjunction with the conference by the Dialogos Ensemble\, led by Katarina Livljanić\, will be held at the Getty Center on February 25 from 3-4:15 pm. \nSponsored by UCLA CMRS-CEGS\n\nCo-sponsored by UCLA ELTS\, UCLA Comparative Literature\, and the UCLA Wellman Chair in Medieval History. \n\n\n \n\nImage credit: The Royal Couple with Astrologists\, 1469\nFollower of Hans Schilling (German\, active 1459 – 1467)\, illuminator and from the Workshop of Diebold Lauber (German\, active 1427 – 1467)\, illuminator\nInk\, colored washes\, and tempera colors\, Leaf: 28.6 × 20.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 in.)\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles\, Ms. Ludwig XV 9\, fol. 22v\, 83.MR.179.22v \nInk\, colored washes\, and tempera colors\, Leaf: 28.6 × 20.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 in.)\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles\, Ms. Ludwig XV 9\, fol. 22v\, 83.MR.179.22v\nhttps://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/105WY9
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-future-of-medieval-france-day-2/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T180000
DTSTAMP:20220613T184934Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of Medieval France - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Complete details including registration\, schedule\, speakers\, and abstracts are on the conference webpages.\nAn international conference on the past\, present\, and future of medieval studies in Europe organized by Professor Meredith Cohen (Art History\, UCLA) and Professor Zrinka Stahuljak (CMRS-CEGS Director). Bringing together scholars of medieval France from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds\, the conference will honor the legacy of John W. Baldwin who bridged the two and look into the future of medieval France in the global context. What does it mean to study medieval France today\, when academic research and funding trends increasingly seem to decenter France? While this conference focuses on France\, the reflection is relevant for all of Europe. Why and how\, then\, should we study medieval France and Europe? How can we reform or decolonize the medieval European fields from within while remaining true to the time period\, its geographies\, mentalities\, and connectivities? \nThe conference will be held on the UCLA Campus \, third floor Royce Hall Humanities conference rooms on February 23-24. \n“Barlaam and Josaphat\,” a concert in conjunction with the conference by the Dialogos Ensemble\, led by Katarina Livljanić\, will be held at the Getty Center on February 25 from 3-4:15 pm. \nSponsored by UCLA CMRS-CEGS\n\nCo-sponsored by UCLA ELTS\, UCLA Comparative Literature\, and the UCLA Wellman Chair in Medieval History. \n\n\n \n\nImage credit: The Royal Couple with Astrologists\, 1469\nFollower of Hans Schilling (German\, active 1459 – 1467)\, illuminator and from the Workshop of Diebold Lauber (German\, active 1427 – 1467)\, illuminator\nInk\, colored washes\, and tempera colors\, Leaf: 28.6 × 20.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 in.)\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles\, Ms. Ludwig XV 9\, fol. 22v\, 83.MR.179.22v \nInk\, colored washes\, and tempera colors\, Leaf: 28.6 × 20.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 in.)\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles\, Ms. Ludwig XV 9\, fol. 22v\, 83.MR.179.22v\nhttps://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/105WY9
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-future-of-medieval-france-2/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230203T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230204T235959
DTSTAMP:20220925T220653Z
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SUMMARY:Destroyed\, Removed\, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World
DESCRIPTION:CMRS-CEGS Conference \n“Destroyed\, Removed\, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World\,” organized by Matthew Fisher (English\, UCLA) and Devin Fitzgerald (Library Special Collections\, UCLA). \n\n\n\nDay 1 – Friday\, February 3\, 2023\n\n\n9:15 – 9:45 am\nCoffee\, tea\, fruit\, pastries\n\n\n9:45 – 10:00\nWelcoming Remarks\nZrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\, CMRS-CEGS Director\nMatthew Fisher (UCLA) and\nDevin Fitzgerald (UCLA)\, organizers\n\n\n10:00 – 11:30\nCatherine Sutherland (Magdalene College\, Cambridge)\n“The Reassembly of Mary Astell’s Personal Library within the Old Library of Magdalene College\, Cambridge” – via Zoom\n\n\n\nMatthew Fisher (UCLA)\n“Making Books Old in the Cotton Library”\n\n\n11:30 am – 1:00 pm\nLunch Break\n\n\n1:00 – 2:30\nGwendolyn Collaço (MIT)\n“Mobile Images on a Malleable Market: 17th c. Ottoman Costume Albums Transformed and Altered” – via Zoom\n\n\n\nHienin Diakite and Paul Naylor (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library)\n“Destruction\, Creation\, Relocation: Archiving Timbuktu’s Written Heritage 1862-2022”\n\n\n2:30 – 2:45\nBreak\n\n\n2:45 – 4:15\nEyob Derillo (The British Library)\n“Introduction to the Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript Collections in the British Library”\n\n\n\n\nNur Sobers-Khan (Independent Scholar)\n“Provenance Research and South Asian manuscript collections: Reconstructing the Islamic Intellectual History of pre-1857 Delhi” – via Zoom\n\n\nDay 2 – Saturday\, February 4\, 2023\n\n\n9:30 am\nCoffee\, tea\, fruit\, pastries\n\n\n10:00 – 11:30\nBryan Keene (Riverside City College)\n“Fragmentary Views of Premodern Globality: Lessons from Museum Collecting and Display Practices”\n\n\n\nDevin Fitzgerald (UCLA)\n“Assembling and Reassembling Chinese Libraries in Seventeenth-Century Century Europe”\n\n\n11:30 – 11:45\nBreak\n\n\n11:45 am – 1:15 pm\nFred Shan (University of Texas\, Austin)\n“Bridging the Past and the Future: Book Collecting and Scholarly Innovations in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China”\n\n\n\nAlex Hidalgo (Texas Christian University)\n“Everyday Forms of Book Dispersal Prevention”\n\n\n1:15\nClose of Conference\n\n\n\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nRegister to attend in-person 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/destroyed-removed-and-reassembled-book-collections-in-the-premodern-world/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230123T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230121T235959
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221106T235959
DTSTAMP:20220613T182235Z
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SUMMARY:Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) Annual Conference. \nDetailed information regarding the schedule and registration is at the conference site — click here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/bsana-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T235959
DTSTAMP:20220613T181847Z
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SUMMARY:Ethno-Religious Interaction in Premodern Iberia: Mechanisms and Trajectories
DESCRIPTION:A conference organized by Professor Thomas Barton (History\, University of San Diego). \nThe complete schedule and full details are available at the conference website.\n\nSponsored by:\nUCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\nUCLA Department of History\nUCLA Division of Humanities\nUCLA Division of Social Sciences\nUCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\nUCLA Islamic Studies \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/ethno-religious-interaction-in-premodern-iberia/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T170000
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SUMMARY:Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts: Transcultural Interpretation and Transmission
DESCRIPTION:This conference (online and onsite) brings together scholars to consider different manuscript communities in Europe\, their textual and iconographic traditions\, and more globally\, an exploration of communities that produced “families” of Hebrew manuscripts and enabled transmissions across languages and societies. \nMotivation to organize this conference stems from The J. Paul Getty Museum’s recent acquisition of the Rothschild Pentateuch. This manuscript serves as a case study on how a single object crosses geographical and religious boundaries and provides the impetus for wider discussion on Hebrew manuscript culture as a touchstone of interaction and contact. \n\n\n\n10:00 am – 5:00 pm\nPacific Time\nSchedule for Monday April 4\, 2022\n\n\n10:00-10:30\nWelcoming Remarks\n\n\nZrinka Stahuljak\, Director of CMRS-CEGS (UCLA)\nDavid Schaberg\, Dean of Humanities (UCLA)\nElizabeth Morrison\, Senior Curator of Manuscripts (The J. Paul Getty Museum)\n\n\n\n\n10:30-12:00 \nPanel 1 \nChair: Luke Yarbrough\nNELC (UCLA)\n\n\nKatrin Kogman-Appel (University of Münster)\n“Hebrew Book Art in Shared Spaces: Tudela and Perpignan\, c. 1300”\nAdam Cohen (University of Toronto)\n“Hide and Seek in the Margins of Hebrew Manuscripts”\n\n\n\n\n12:00-1:30\nLunch Break\n\n\n1:30-3:00 \nPanel 2 \nChair: Yonatan Binyam\nInstitute for Society and Genetics (UCLA)\n\n\nEvelyn Cohen (Independent Scholar)\n“A Fifteenth-Century Illustration in the Rothschild Pentateuch of 1296”\nMarc Michael Epstein (Vassar College)\n“Detectives in the Archives: A Mysterious Absence in the Rothschild Pentateuch in Transcultural Context”\n\n\n\n\n3:00-3:30\nBreak\n\n\n3:30-5:00 \nPanel 3 \nChair: Matthew Fisher\nEnglish (UCLA)\n\n\nDavid Shyovitz (Northwestern University)\n“Zoocephalism Reconsidered: Humanity and Hybridity in Medieval Ashkenazic Visual Culture”\nSusan Einbinder (University of Connecticut)\n“City Mouse and Country Mouse: Jews\, Rodents\, and Plague”\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganized by Elizabeth Morrison\, Senior Curator of Manuscripts\, The J. Paul Getty Museum\, and Zrinka Stahuljak\, Professor of French and Comparative Literature and CMRS-CEGS Director. \nHosted by UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, and The J. Paul Getty Museum. \nCOVID-19 Attendance Policy for event entry:\nFor UCLA students\, staff\, and faculty: completion of campus symptom monitoring survey; present clearance certificate.\nFor the public: Valid ID and proof of vaccination or\, Valid ID\, verbal attestation to an exception\, and a negative COVID test within 72 hours.\nPlease note that all attendees must wear face masks. \nRegister here for onsite attendance in Royce 314 or online attendance on Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/hebrew-illuminated-manuscripts-transcultural-interpretation-and-transmission/
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SUMMARY:Iberia\, the Mediterranean\, and the World in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
DESCRIPTION:This conference focuses on different historical themes (culture\, religiosity\, languages\, politics\, encounters) and addresses the “connectivity” between Iberia\, North Africa and other Mediterranean lands as well as the nature of the global Mediterranean. Organized by Thomas Barton (USD)\, Marie Kelleher (CSULB)\, Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\, and Antonio Zaldivar (CSUSM) \nPlease click here for the schedule\, registration\, and additional details.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/iberia-the-mediterranean-and-the-world-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-periods/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:First Do No Harm: On the Interplay of Folklore\, Myth\, and Medicine from the Ancient World to the Renaissance and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:CMRS Medical Humanities Conference –\nThis conference\, organized by CMRS Affiliate Dr. Sara Burdorff (Lecturer\, English\, UCLA)\, Professor Stephanie Jamison (Asian Languages and Cultures\, UCLA) and Professor Olga Yokoyama (Applied Linguistics\, UCLA)\, examines the intersections between mythology\, folklore\, and medicine in literature from the classical through early modern periods. Inspired by the UCLA Freshman Mythology Cluster course (GE30) and drawing on sources including hagiography and Celtic folklore\, medieval romance and early modern drama\, this conference engages the critical interplay between medical and literary ideations of the trans-historical human experience. \nAdvance registration is requested. Please click here to complete the short registration form. \nNo fee. Limited seating. Guests wishing to park on campus to attend this event should visit a parking kiosk each morning of the event to purchase a parking permit. Guests should inform the attendant they are there for the “First Do No Harm” event (confirmation 547644). On Saturday ONLY\, pay station parking is also available in structure DD. Parking information at https://main.transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors \n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, JUNE 1\, 2018 | UCLA DENEVE PLAZA B\n\n\n9:00 AM\nRefreshments\n\n\n9:45\nWelcoming Remarks: Stephanie Jamison (UCLA)\n\n\n10:00\nRebecca Laroche (University of Colorado\, Colorado Springs)\n“‘For the safegarde of our souls\, and . . . our bodies’: The Story of Angelica in Early Modern England”\n\n\n11:00\nBreak\n\n\n11:15\nValeria Zubieta Lupo (Independent Scholar)\n“About the Diseased in the Hittite Kings’ Manly Deeds”\n\n\n11:45\nJoseph F. Nagy (Harvard University)\n“Recovering (or not) from Wounds in Medieval Irish Heroic Saga”\n\n\nSATURDAY\, JUNE 2\, 2018 | UCLA DENEVE PLAZA B\n\n\n9:00 am\nRefreshments\n\n\n9:30\nAnahita Hoose (UCLA)\n“Eros Shook My Mind: Disease\, Decline and Divinity in the Sapphic Corpus”\n\n\n10:00\nAlain Touwaide (UCLA\, The Huntington\, and the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions)\n“Medical Mythology Across the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean”\n\n\n11:00\nBreak\n\n\n11:15\nHanna Young (UCLA)\n“‘I Grant You Life’: On the Psychological Significance of Punishment and Reinforcement Techniques in the Parent Child Relationship\, as seen in Pallas et Arachne“\n\n\n11:30\nPerry Tran (UCLA)\n“Peasants\, Priests\, and Popular Faith: Healing Through Sacrifice in Accordance with Saints’ Tales”\n\n\n11:45\nDavide Ermacora (University of Venice)\n“Embedded Pins and Migratory Needles: An Historical Folklore Perspective”\n\n\n12:45 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n1:45\nSarah Alison Miller (Duquesne University)\n“Cuts\, Illness\, Pain\, and Joy in the Legenda Aurea“\n\n\n2:45\nScottie Hale Buehler (UCLA)\n“Killed by Ignorance? Legends of Midwifery Infanticide in Eighteenth-Century France”\n\n\n3:15\nBreak\n\n\n3:30\nDenise L. Despres (University of Puget Sound)\n“The Barber Surgeons and the York Cycle”\n\n\n4:30\nStefanie Matabang (UCLA)\n“Fainting Spells\, Wailing and Lamentation: Curing Colonial Fatalism in the Philippine Metrical Romance\, Florante at Laura”\n\n\n5:00\nBreak\n\n\n5:15\nDoris Valeria Voronca (UCLA)\n“Blue Devil Fever: Possession\, Depression\, and Scottish Demonology”\n\n\n5:45\nClosing Remarks: Sara Frances Burdorff (UCLA)\n\n\n\nFunding for this symposium is provided by the Armand Hammer Endowment for the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. \nClick here for a PDF of the printed program brochure.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/first-no-harm-interplay-folklore-myth-medicine-ancient-world-renaissance-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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