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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Spring 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers\, typically drafts of articles\, book chapters\, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nFaculty\, postdocs\, and grad students from across California are welcome to participate. \nThe papers will be discussed at the seminar in the following order: \n\n“Threats and Violence in Carolingian Disputing\,” Amos Bronner (The Catholic University of America)\n“Apostolic Legends and Visions of Christian Globality in the Twelfth Century: An Indian Cleric Visits Rome\,” John Eldevik (Hamilton College)\n“Were Married Clerics Tonsured?” Fiona Griffiths (Stanford)\n“Narrative Sequences of the Apocalypse in Romanesque Italy: Location\, Structure\, Function\, Meaning\,” Alison Perchuk (California State University Channel Islands)\n\nRegister to attend in Royce 306\nRegister to attend via ZOOM \nMore information can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-spring-2026/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers\, typically drafts of articles\, book chapters\, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nFaculty\, postdocs\, and grad students from across California are welcome to participate. Register to attend in person or on Zoom by January 20 to receive the papers. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306\nRegister to attend via ZOOM \nEmail Events Manager Thi Nguyen (tnguyen@humnet.ucla.edu) if you are registering after January 20. \nThe papers will be discussed at the seminar in the following order: \n\n“When is a Document Lost? Interrogating Archival Silence in Early Medieval Italy\,” Maya Maskarinec (University of Southern California)\n“Homo legum: The Making and Classification of Legal Experts in Montpellier\, 1200-1380\,” Shahrouz Khalifian (Mount Saint Mary’s University)\n“How Medieval Judaism Became a System: Dogma and Principles of Faith in Fifteenth-Century Sepharad\,” Bénédicte Sère (Institut Universitaire de France / University of Paris-Nanterre / EHESS-Paris)\n“The Politics of Failure in late medieval Iceland\,” Basil Arnould Price (State University of New York\, Oneonta)\n\nMore information can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-winter-2026/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Fall 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers\, typically drafts of articles\, book chapters\, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306\nRegister to attend via ZOOM \nMore information can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-fall-2025/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T235959
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250511T235959
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SUMMARY:Literary Journeys from Metaphor to Plot: Travel\, Mind\, and Experience
DESCRIPTION:The theme of this conference explores travel as both an idea and a specific form of human experience\, examined through various representations ranging from literature to visual arts to philosophy. The aim is to investigate how travelers’ minds are altered by their experiences along their respective paths. The conference is not focused on travel writing per se\, which has its own established venues\, but rather on the relationships\, discoveries\, escapes\, and new awarenesses that arise through travel—the cognitive and emotional dimensions of displacement in both familiar and unfamiliar places. Investigations also include treatises discussing travel as a prescribed action or manuals on the arts of travel. The range of possibilities is vast\, from Petrarch’s ascent of Mont Ventoux to Jack Wilton’s flight from Sixteenth-century Rome. Ultimately\, the goal is to uncover new understandings of travel and the mind\, even in unexpected contexts. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nCosponsored by UCLA CMRS-CEGS
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/literary-journeys-from-metaphor-to-plot-travel-mind-and-experience/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T160000
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Spring 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers\, typically drafts of articles\, book chapters\, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nMore information can be found here. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nRegister to attend via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-spring-2025/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250426T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250426T173000
DTSTAMP:20250213T190414Z
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SUMMARY:“Hybridity”: In-Between People\, Texts & Objects Across the Early Global World - MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Annual Conference of the UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association seeks to highlight the innovative work of graduate students on the manifold ways people\, texts\, and objects “in-between” shaped the early global world\, from the early medieval to the late early modern periods. Presentations will engage with the concept of the so-called “hybrid\,” asking: what does it mean to label something as in-between\, mixed\, syncretic\, blended\, amalgamated\, or composite? To what end might something be constituted as “hybrid”? Does “hybridity” as a term still carry meaning when encompassing so much? Does the contact and exchange of people\, things\, and ideas inevitably result in “hybridity”? The event seeks to problematize the term and its synonyms\, thinking about “hybridity” as a threshold of negotiation\, contestation\, in(ter)vention\, interpretation\, translation\, and debate. \nEvent Schedule \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nOrganized by the Officers of MEMSA: Chase Caldwell Smith\, Sofía Yazpik\, Miranda Heaner\, and Stanley Wu \nSponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/hybridity-in-between-people-texts-objects-across-the-early-global-world-memsa-graduate-student-conference/
CATEGORIES:Humanities,MEMSA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T183000
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, "Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam. Visualizing the Qur’an from Byzantium to Filippino Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf"
DESCRIPTION:What does a flying bull with a half moon on its belly in Filippino Lippi’s 1502 painting\, the Adoration of the Golden Calf\, have in common with Muhammad\, as a character of Dante’s Comedy? This is the question that Roberta Morosini tries to answer by following the journey of a legend traveling in the Oriental Mediterranean. She argues that what Lippi’s painting and Dante’s Muhammad have in common is a legend of a celestial delivery of the “bull law\,” the Qur’an and Moses’s Tablets of the Law. Just as Moses received the Tablets of the Law from God on Mount Sinai\, the Qur’an\, written according to Thomas Aquinas by mixing fables and a rippled Bible\, is carried by the bull on its horns. Taking us from Medieval Christian Byzantium to the depictions of Muhammad and Averroës in the iconographic tradition\, to the Rome of Oliviero Carafa in the events following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 through Dante’s Comedy\, the real protagonists of Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam\, a story narrated through texts and images\, are the Book and the Mediterranean as spaces of transmission of knowledge. Morosini provides a groundbreaking reading of Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf as an ancient scene of anti-Islam propaganda while shedding new light on Dante’s construction of the cultural other\, on his spaces of otherness\, and on the importance the poet gives to books that bring unity and give form to what lacks it\, like his book\, the Comedy. \n \nRoberta Morosini (UCLA)\nMassimo Ciavolella (UCLA)\nMarino Forlino (Scripps College)\nAkash Kumar (UC Berkeley)\nM. Rahim Shayegan (UCLA) \nIn discussion with Roberto Tottoli (University of Naples “L’ Orientale”). \nRegister to attend in Royce 306
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-book-talk-by-roberta-morosini/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T190000
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SUMMARY:William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Carla Pestana
DESCRIPTION:Striving for Expertise \nGuest Speaker: Carla Pestana (UCLA) \nScholars often refer to Samuel Pepys as an early example of a state bureaucrat\, his career as a civil servant in the burgeoning Restoration bureaucracy offering documentation of an important shift in governance. Of equal note—and perhaps greater interest—is the way Pepys himself aimed for expertise. Not content to serve as a cog in a larger bureaucratic machine\, Pepys sought to educate himself about the workings of the navy and of sailing ships\, going beyond the demands of his own office to achieve a deeper understanding. In doing so\, he once again revealed his insecurities\, while he also indulged in personal rivalries and resisted the limitations placed on him in his role as a civil servant. \nCarla Gardina Pestana is Distinguished Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World. Her research focuses on 17th and 18th century Atlantic worlds\, especially the English Atlantic\, the Caribbean\, and U.S. religious history. Professor Pestana has published books on religion and empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, most notably Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (2009). \nProfessor William Matthews\, a member of UCLA’s English Department faculty and the Center’s second Director (1970-1972)\, was an authority on the life and writings of the seventeenth-century British wit and diarist Samuel Pepys. With the assistance of his wife Lois\, Matthews and his co-editor Robert Latham produced the definitive edition (eleven volumes) of Pepys’s works\, which was published incrementally between 1971 and 1983. The Matthewses’ will\, which endows the Center’s annual lecture and also a festive dinner\, specifies that the event should be scheduled to coincide with Pepys’s own annual celebration commemorating the surgery he endured on March 26\, 1658. \nRegister to attend in Luskin Conference Center\, Laureate Classroom \nMore information about past William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys lectures can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/will-and-lois-matthews-samuel-pepys-lecture-guest-speaker-carla-pestana/
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T160000
DTSTAMP:20240730T174016Z
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers\, typically drafts of articles\, book chapters\, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nMore information can be found here. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nRegister to attend via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-winter-2025/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T170000
DTSTAMP:20241028T020958Z
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SUMMARY:"Lost in Transfer? Misunderstanding\, Miscommunication\, and the Production of Knowledge in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean"
DESCRIPTION:Organizers: Stefania Tutino (UCLA)\, Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven)\, and Eva Del Soldato (UPenn) \nThe question of how knowledge transfers has become central for understanding the culture of the premodern world in a global perspective. This workshop is interested in exploring the question of what happens when transfer fails: what happens when knowledge is not “translated” properly? What kind of knowledge is produced when the chain of transmission breaks down or malfunctions? We think that miscommunication is as important as communication\, and we propose to explore this theme both by examining specific case studies of miscommunication and by investigating what they tell us about the structure and modes by which knowledge is produced\, which in turn allows us to get to the question of the very category of “transfer” from a philosophical and theoretical perspective. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nPresenter Abstracts \nConference Schedule: \n\n\n\n9:30\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries\n\n\n10:00\nWelcoming Remarks (Zrinka Stahuljak\, Director CMRS-CEGS) \n\n\n10:15\nPaper 1: Lost in Translation: Early Modern Jesuits and the Creed (Emanuele Colombo\, Boston College)\n\n\n10:45\nPaper 2: Mistranslating Indigenous America in the ‘Age of Reason’: Epistemological Hybridity and Colonial Violence (Diego Pirillo\, University of California\, Berkeley)\n\n\n11:15\nPaper 3: Oikonomia Understood and Misunderstood: The Latin and English Reception of Byzantine Chemical Terminology (Alexandre M. Roberts\, University of Southern California)\n\n\n11:45\nBreak\n\n\n12:00\nDiscussion 1: (Paper 1\, 2\, 3) – Chaired by Matthew Acton (KU Leuven & University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’)\n\n\n12:45\nLunch Break (on Royce 306 loggia)\n\n\n2:00\nPaper 4: Rebellious\, but Effective Medieval Translations into Arabic (Cecilia Martini Bonadeo\, University of Padua)\n\n\n2:30\nPaper 5: Hang Time: Gambling on the Future in Late Medieval Italy (Karla Mallette\, University of Michigan)\n\n\n3:00\nPaper 6: Communicating in Manuscript\, Miscommunicating in Print: The Siege of Curzola (1571) and Its Media Aftermath (Ivan Lupić\, University of Rijeka)\n\n\n3:30\nBreak\n\n\n3:45\nDiscussion 2: (Paper 4\, 5\, 6) – Chaired by Sarah Marie Leitenberger (University of Pennsylvania)\n\n\n4:30\nClosing Remarks\n\n\n5:00\nReception
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/lost-in-transfer-misunderstanding-miscommunication-and-the-production-of-knowledge-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250203T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250203T180000
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SUMMARY:Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Kristina Richardson
DESCRIPTION:“Between Two Worlds: The Roma and Early Global Print Cultures” \nGuest Speaker: Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia) \nRichardson will show that Roma and other traveling people not only utilized block printing between 800 and 1450 in North Africa and West Asia but also introduced print technology in their new homes when they migrated to Central Europe in the 1410s. Traveling people were the links bridging the early print cultures of North Africa\, West Asia\, and Central Europe. \nKristina Richardson is the John L. Nau Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on premodern non-elite Arab history\, particularly the history of people with disabilities\, users of sign language\, Romani groups (ghurabā’)\, craftspeople\, and enslaved laborers and entertainers. Her current book project is Black Basra: Race\, Labor\, and Piety in Early Islamic History. \nThe History of the Book Lecture series\, established in 1993 through the efforts of Richard and Mary Rouse\, provides an annual venue for internationally recognized authorities on medieval and Renaissance books to present their expertise at UCLA. The lecture’s focus alternates each year between medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books. The topics explored in past lectures were book and manuscript illustration\, the development of printing\, early book printers and sellers\, the book trade\, and medieval and Renaissance book and manuscript collections. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nRegister to attend via ZOOM \nMore information about past Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book lectures can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/richard-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture-guest-speaker-kristina-richardson/
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T170000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group Winter 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students\, graduate students\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term\, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages\, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No preparation or expertise is required – only enthusiasm! \nFor our Winter 2025 meeting \, we will meet on Jan 24\, 3:00 – 5:00PM\, in Kaplan 193 \, and we will read a selection from Gregory of Tours’ Libri historiarum X (Ten Books of History) (in English and in Latin). Join us for a discussion of scandals\, revolutions\, and unruly nuns\, led by Jamie Kreiner (Professor and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History). A calendar of planned meetings is HERE. Handouts of each reading will be available during the group\, but are also linked in the calendar below and can also be found HERE. \nFor readings and calendars\, see HERE or scan the QR code on the attached flyer. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu) \nCo-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-winter-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Panagiotis Agapitos\, "Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture tackles the question of “authenticity” when writing crime novels set in the remote past. Agapitos’ three novels (published between 2003 and 2009 in Greece)\, which are set in the first half of ninth-century Byzantium during the rule of the last iconoclast emperor\, Theophilos (r. 829–842)\, form the basis of a lively discussion about the challenges of producing a satisfactory narrative. The fairly clear generic conventions of a traditional British-style mystery are not applicable to a medieval culture such as Byzantium\, starting with the basic issue of the absence of detection and the relevant detective. Contemporary fans of crime fiction have broad expectations about what a detective novel should be\, but they also want a feeling of “real” history in the narrative. In his novels\, the speaker tackles this problem by employing various techniques derived from Byzantine rhetoric and narrative\, while\, at the same time using archaeological\, historical and textual studies to offer a medieval yet contemporary crime story that feels medieval but is\, in fact\, postmodern. \nPanagiotis Agapitos is the Gutenberg Distinguished Research Fellow in Byzantine Literature at the University of Mainz. Previously\, he taught for 25 years at the University of Cyprus as Professor of Byzantine Literature and Culture in the Depart – ment of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He studied at the University of Munich and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. In his free time\, he writes “mystery stories” set in ninth-century Byzantium. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Classics\, the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, and the UCLA Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World \nWebsite link: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/panagiotis-agapitos/ \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nEvent is free but RSVPs are requested \nReception to follow
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/lecture-by-panagiotis-agapitos-byzantine-crime-novels-in-the-twenty-first-century-from-history-to-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T200609Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group Fall 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students\, graduate students\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term\, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages\, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No preparation or expertise is required – only enthusiasm! \nOur first meeting this year will be on Friday\, Nov. 1\, 2:00-4:00pm\, where we will read the Old Norse-Icelandic Jökuls þáttr Buásonar (The Tale of Jökull Búason). Join us in Kaplan 193 for a discussion of trolls\, princesses\, and wrestling contests\, led by Dr. Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow\, CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies). \nFor readings and calendars\, see HERE or scan the QR code on the attached flyer. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu) \nCo-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-fall-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T200519Z
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SUMMARY:Cappella Romana: In the Footsteps of St. Demetrios
DESCRIPTION:Cappella Romana brings to life the vibrant soundscape of medieval Thessaloniki\, Byzantium’s second largest city. Hear ancient hymns honoring the city’s patron\, the ever-popular St. Demetrios\, sung on the weekend of his annual feast day. Experience ecstatic Byzantine chants for the saint adorning the Cathedral Rite of Constantinople\, sung by the women and men of Cappella Romana. \nThis program\, held under the auspices of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco and the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)\, and the Mary Calfas Janos Program Fund. This program is co-sponsored by Gefyra (Bridge)\, the UCLA College Humanities Division\, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion\, and the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nTickets: $25 General Admission (including service fees)\nFree for children under 18\nAll students age 18+ with valid ID:\nUCLA students can reserve free tickets online with UCLA Logon ID\nNon-UCLA students: Free tickets can be obtained at UCLA Central Ticket Office in advance\, or at event). \nFor parking and other details\, visit: Event Details.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cappella-romana-in-the-footsteps-of-st-demetrios/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241005T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241005T160000
DTSTAMP:20240729T205405Z
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Fall 2024)
DESCRIPTION:Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers\, typically drafts of articles\, book chapters\, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nMore information can be found here. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nRegister to attend via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-fall-2024/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240913T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240913T235959
DTSTAMP:20240411T174941Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200403T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200403T235959
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SUMMARY:Podcasts Now Streaming
DESCRIPTION:Click here to go our PODCASTS page. Stay tuned for new media as we comb through our archives and subscribe to our YouTube channel for notifications!
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/podcasts-now-streaming/
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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