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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group (Spring 2026)
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students\, graduate students\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. Once 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. \nEach discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No expertise or preparation beyond a brief skim of the text is required – only enthusiasm! \nFor our Spring meeting this year\, we will read Cædmon’s Hymn and some related texts. Discussion will be led by Professor Erica Weaver (English) \nView the readings \nSponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-spring-2026/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T120000
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SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress
DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Jiakai Zhang \nThe presentation will focus on the Xiqin Quyi 西琴曲意(Eight Songs for Western Keyboard) composed by Matteo Ricci 利瑪竇 (1552-1610) in classical Chinese. Ricci was a Jesuit missionary who came to the Ming court and dedicated this collection of songs to the Wanli Emperor (萬曆皇帝) to be sung along with a keyboard instrument. I will focus on the allusions and translations of lines of Horace’s poems in this work and examine how they are loaded with the teachings of “spiritual exercises” from the Jesuit order\, and at the same time\, invoke passages and doctrines in classical Chinese literature. I will argue that the Horatian allusions create a unique space to manifest the debates over what one should practice and cultivate in oneself for a good life between Christianity and the schools of Chinese thought. \nRegister to attend via Zoom \nJiakai Zhang is a third-year PhD student at the Department of Classics. He works on ancient Greek literature and philosophy (especially Plato) and the reception of Greco-Roman literature in early modern China in debates and conversations with Neo-Confucianism and Christianity.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/works-in-progress/
CATEGORIES:MEMSA,Works-in-Progress
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T120000
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SUMMARY:“Building Guanajuato: Architecture and Infrastructure in a Late Colonial Mining City
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Peláez is an architectural historian who studies the history of cultural production and built environment of the early modern transatlantic Hispanic world. Dr. Peláez will present a talk entitled “Building Guanajuato: Architecture and Infrastructure in a Late Colonial Mining City.” \nRegister to attend via Zoom \nSponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/building-guanajuato-architecture-and-infrastructure-in-a-late-colonial-mining-city/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260502T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260502T235959
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SUMMARY:"Translations: People\, Texts & Objects in Motion Across the Early Global World"– MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
DESCRIPTION:In his landmark 1611 dictionary\, the Tesoro de la le lengua castellana\, the Castilian linguist Sebastián de Covarrubias noted that the verbs “to translate” in Spanish\, traducir and trasladar\, possessed both the meaning of words moving between languages and of movement of objects across space. Translation involved people\, words\, objects\, images\, and ideas in motion across spaces\, boundaries\, languages\, and cultures in the medieval & early modern world. How do you understand translation? What was lost\, gained\, or hidden in translation? How did translation involve active processes of making and unmaking\, (re)interpretation\, and (mis)understandings? How did institutions\, states\, and empires attempt to control\, limit\, or censor translation? Who were the intermediary agents involved in rendering translations? How did translation function across material forms and the visual world\, beyond solely the textual? How did movement itself transform the ideas\, objects\, words\, or images that travelled? \nKeynote Speaker: Antonio M. Zaldívar (CSU San Marcos) \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nEvent Program \nOrganized by the Officers of MEMSA: Sofía Yazpik\, Miranda Heaner\, Hugo Peralta-Ramírez\, and Chase Smith. \nSponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/memsa/
CATEGORIES:MEMSA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T180000
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, “Turning Away"
DESCRIPTION:A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.  \n“This is a book that makes a difference\, not only in our grasp of human visuality but in all the mixed feelings of love and hate\, attraction and repulsion\, thought and feeling that make us the crazy animals we are.”—W. J. T. Mitchell\, author of What Do Pictures Want?  \n“This lavish and virtuosic book finds in the gesture of turning away an entire history of why we turn to art to understand what we cannot look at directly.”—D. Vance Smith\, author of Atlas’s Bones \nWhy do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame or lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study\, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic appearance of these gestures in art\, poetry\, and philosophy has turned them into an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world. \nInto the horizon of contemporary discourse\, Turning Away sets out from five influential scenes in which figures avert their gaze: Timanthes’s Sacrifice of Iphigenia\, Plato’s Republic\, Augustine’s Confessions\, Christ’s Crucifixion\, and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The gestures of aversion in these scenes refract across visual media\, through philosophy and politics\, into modernity and the present day\, having been reimagined along the way by thinkers like Hannah Arendt\, artists like Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí\, poets like Langston Hughes\, and many others. Saltzman offers a timely critique of the privilege of turning away and of the too-easy condemnation of our tendencies to do so. \n\nBenjamin Saltzman (University of Chicago) will be in conversation with Bronwen Wilson (UCLA\, Art History) and David Russell (UCLA\, English). \nBenjamin Saltzman is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago\, where he coedits the journal Modern Philology. Saltzman is the author of Bonds of Secrecy: Law\, Spirituality\, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England. \nBronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th– and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. Wilson is the author of numerous books\, including the forthcoming book\, The Face of Uncertainty. She is also coeditor of Conversion Machines: Apparatus\, Artifice\, Body and The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art. \nDavid Russell is associate professor of English at UCLA and the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Marion Milner: On Creativity. \nCosponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Art History.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-turning-away/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T235959
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260411T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260411T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T190000
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SUMMARY:Constructing Meaning: Anicia Juliana\, The Building-Loving Woman
DESCRIPTION:The Architecture Working Group will host their next event on Wednesday\, April 8\, 2026\, with guest speaker Dr. Diane Favro\, UCLA Professor Emerita.\n\n\n\nDr. Favro is a Distinguished Research Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and studies the Roman built environment\, including The Urban Image of Augustan Rome\, and was president and Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and Samuel H. Kress Professor at CASVA.\n\n\n\nDr. Favro will present a talk entitled “Constructing Meaning: Anicia Juliana\, The Building-Loving Woman.”\n\nPlease register in advance for the talk using this link: https://tinyurl.com/AWG-Diane-Favro \nThis event is cosponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/constructing-meaning-anicia-juliana-the-building-loving-woman/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260403T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260403T120000
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SUMMARY:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar by Stefan Esders
DESCRIPTION:The series\, which hosts a visiting scholar of Late Antiquity or the early Middle Ages each quarter\, is designed to support graduate education\, make new connections across our community of scholars in southern California\, and explore exciting projects-in-progress in the field.\n\nStefan Esders (Freie Universität Berlin) will question forced baptism in Late Antiquity\n\nRegister to attend at the UCLA University Club\, Redwood Room\n\nAccess the readings\n\n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/late-antique-excursus-seminar-by-stefan-esders/
CATEGORIES:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T150000
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress with Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles
DESCRIPTION:“Ilícita Amistad: Women’s Plural Relationships in Bigamy Cases of Colonial Mexico” \nGuest Speaker: Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles (History) \nThis paper examines ilícita amistad—illicit or informal romantic relationships—as a central feature of women’s lives in colonial Mexico\, particularly as revealed through bigamy cases prosecuted by the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico City and regional tribunals\, the paper argues that women were not passive actors who moved neatly from one marriage to another. Instead\, many engaged in plural romantic and sexual relationships during periods of abandonment\, coercion\, or marital breakdown\, using ilícita amistad as a strategy of survival\, resistance\, and autonomy. \nThrough close readings of Inquisition trials involving women of Spanish\, mestiza\, Indigenous\, and African descent\, this study demonstrates that ilícita amistad functioned differently across racial and social hierarchies. While Spanish women were often afforded discretion or leniency despite engaging in multiple relationships\, women of African descent faced disproportionately harsh punishments\, revealing the racialized logic underpinning colonial sexual regulation. These cases complicate existing historiography on female honor by showing that inquisitors frequently prioritized violations of the sacrament of marriage over women’s prior sexual conduct\, allowing evidence of plural relationships to surface without formal prosecution. \n\nRebeca Martínez-Tibbles is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, specializing in colonial Mexico\, gender and sexuality\, race\, religion\, and legal culture. Her dissertation\, Women and Bigamy in Colonial Mexico\, examines female marital transgression through cases prosecuted by the Inquisition from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She has conducted extensive archival research in Mexico City\, Seville\, and U.S. repositories with support from fellowships including the Fulbright-Hays DDRA and the CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship. Her work has been presented at national and international conferences\, including the American Historical Association and the Western Association of Women Historians\, and has appeared in public-facing and scholarly venues. At UCLA\, she teaches courses on women and gender in the Americas and has served as an editorial assistant for the Hispanic American Historical Review. \nThis event is organized by the UCLA Medieval & Early Modern Student Association and sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/ilicita-amistad-womens-plural-relationships-in-bigamy-cases-of-colonial-mexico-rebeca-martinez-tibbles/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,MEMSA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260302T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260220T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260220T120000
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SUMMARY:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar with Jordan Pickett
DESCRIPTION:Late Antique eXcursus (LAX) is a new seminar series at UCLA sponsored by the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History and by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.\n\n\nThe series\, which hosts a visiting scholar of Late Antiquity or the early Middle Ages each quarter\, is designed to support graduate education\, make new connections across our community of scholars in southern California\, and explore exciting projects-in-progress in the field. Jordan Pickett (University of Georgia) will discuss archaeology\, architecture\, and history.\n\nAccess the readings here\n\n\nRegister to attend at the University Club\, Redwood Room \n\n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/late-antique-excursus-seminar-by-jordan-pickett/
CATEGORIES:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T190000
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SUMMARY: “The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication”
DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Hannah Weaver (Columbia University) \nOn the basis of manuscript evidence and a textual tradition that includes Ovid\, Chrétien de Troyes\, and Chaucer\, this paper traces the uneven capacity of cloth to communicate. \nHannah Weaver is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of articles on Latin vernacularity\, genre\, manuscript revisions\, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\, as well as the monograph Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell 2024). She is currently working on a new book about textiles and the medieval literary archive. \nThis event is sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-talk-with-hannah-weaver/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T180000
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SUMMARY:Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Daniel Hobbins
DESCRIPTION:“The Origins of the Authorial Colophon in the Latin West” \nGuest Speaker: Daniel Hobbins (University of Notre Dame) \nIn the early twelfth century\, a group of translators working in Iberia began supplying their works with colophons as though they were scribes. They simply replaced the date of copy with the date of composition. Modern scholarship has studied these colophons for their value to the chronology of the translation movement\, without realizing that they represent the beginning of a new authorial practice: the colophon had moved from scribes to authors. The authorial colophon might stand as one of the most important authorial innovations of the high middle ages. Yet scholars have never paused to consider its novelty. This paper proposes a chronology for its first appearance. We find the earliest authorial colophons in the Iberian translators\, Plato of Tivoli and John of Seville\, who imitated the colophons in the Arabic works that they were translating. As we move later in time\, we encounter a different world of writing. By the twelfth century\, more authors were acting as their own scribes. As authors wrote their own works by hand\, they unconsciously absorbed the colophon into their own written practice. In so doing\, they repeated the patterns they found in scribal colophons. The case of Frère Angier may illustrate this development. By taking time to record the facts of publication\, such authors were emphasizing their own historically specific contribution. Yet they did so without any intent to innovate or any awareness of doing so. Authors found a way to make ambitious claims in the most conservative way possible. \n \nDaniel Hobbins is a historian of high and late medieval Europe\, with a particular interest in the cultural\, religious\, and intellectual history of the period from 1200 to 1500. Under this broad heading\, his research has focused on authorship\, manuscript culture\, textual transmission\, the Carthusian order\, and fifteenth-century France. \nHis book Authorship and Publicity before Print (2009) received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society. He is currently completing a book on the history and meaning of the authorial colophon. \nRSVP to attend in Royce 314\nRSVP to attend via ZOOM \n\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. \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-by-daniel-hobbins/
CATEGORIES:Rouse History of the Book Annual Lecture
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SUMMARY:"Chaucer’s ‘loveris maladye / Of Heroes\,’ Avicenna’s Treatise on Love\, and an Arabic-Islamic Metaphysics of Love"
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores Chaucer’s depictions of love alongside Avicenna’s Treatise on Love and related Arabic medical and philosophical texts that circulated in Latin. It explores how an Arabic-Islamic metaphysics of love shaped by Aristotelian\, Neoplatonic\, and Sufi thought can reshape our understanding of fin’amors in Middle English poetry. Rather than simply tracing “influence\,” I ask how we might recognize the presence of Arabic-Islamic ideas of love in Chaucer\, in ways that attend to and are critical of colonial models of ‘sources’\, ‘origins’\, and ‘influence’. This occurs in conjunction with Prof. Allison Kanner-Botan’s graduate research seminar “Psychoanalysis and Erotics: Rethinking Desire.” \nShazia Jagot (University of York) is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Global Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She holds degrees from Soas\, University of London\, and the University of Leicester\, and has worked in universities and research centres in Jordan\, Denmark\, and the UK. Her research explores literary\, historical\, and cultural interactions between the Islamic world and Europe/England in the Middle Ages. She is currently working on two book projects: a monograph on Chaucer’s Arabic ‘sources’ and a book on Medieval England and the Islamic World. From 2021-2024 she served as an Editor in Chief for the journal\, postmedieval\, currently\, she is a Book Series Editor for Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture. \nRegister to attend in Kaplan 348 \nThis talk is sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and co-sponsored by the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures & Comparative Literature.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/psychoanalysis-and-erotics-rethinking-desire-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260131T093000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T170000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group (Winter 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Previously scheduled for January 23\, 2026. \nThe 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 meet to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and consider what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. \nNo preparation is necessary (other than a brief skim of the text)\, and no expertise or medieval knowledge is required – only enthusiasm! Suggestions for what to read (or what kinds of texts to read) are very welcome. \nFor our Winter meeting this year\, we will read indulgences and the foundation narratives of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. Discussion will be led by Professor Meredith Cohen (Art History). \nView the readings here \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-winter-2026/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T160000
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SUMMARY:Manuscripts in Arabic Script at UCLA: Where Did They Come From?
DESCRIPTION:UCLA holds one of the largest groupings of Arabic\, Persian\, and Turkish manuscripts in the Americas\, yet little is known about their provenance. This event will shed light on the sources of some of UCLA’s twenty collections of manuscripts in Arabic script. \nThis event will draw attention to manuscript provenance by hosting five talks from scholars working in this field\, most of whom will speak directly about the UCLA collections. The event will begin with an invitation-only research session in the morning\, during which a group of scholars from UCLA and beyond will spend a few hours together examining one of the less well-known collections in an effort to shed light on its background and provenance. \nRegister to attend in Young Research Library Special Collections \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\,  Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Islamic Studies Program\, the UCLA Library Special Collections\, and the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/symposium-on-the-provenance-of-medieval-and-early-modern-arabic-script-manuscripts-by-luke-yarbrough/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T180000
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, "Writing Borderless Histories of Art: Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis"
DESCRIPTION:This aspirational\, historical\, and critical book offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature — a vital perspective in a moment defined by environmental crisis\, increasing authoritarianism\, social justice movements\, and global calls for systemic change. Drawing upon writings from a wide range of fields\, Claire Farago combines a deep knowledge of European ancient to early modern thought with an expansive view of contemporary global society\, tracing the origins of human exceptionalism in European thought to the present.  \nSpanning four centuries of art discourse\, Writing Borderless Histories of Art examines how global capitalism\, coloniality\, and disciplinary formations have shaped the way art and its histories are understood. Farago argues for a transcultural\, relational approach that abandons entrenched structures of domination and embraces ontologies that collapse the binary of nature and culture\, recognizing the sentience and interconnection of all living beings. To develop a more-than-human framework that sustains life on our shared planet\, Farago shows through a close reading of primary texts that it is necessary to consider how the discourse on art was involved in debates on the humanity of Indigenous peoples that began with the European conquest/invasion of the Americas in the early sixteenth century\, two centuries before Enlightenment thinkers authorized the European understanding of art as the index of humanness.  \nTaking counterexamples from Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies\, and drawing upon contemporary artistic practices\, she advocates ontologies that do not distinguish between the sentience of humans and other animals and go beyond the dualistic metaphysics of the nature/culture divide. \n\nClaire Farago (University of Colorado Boulder) \nIn discussion with Amelia Jones (USC) \nRegister to attend via ZOOM \nClaire Farago is Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder\, currently living in Los Angeles. She has written extensively on processes of transculturation\, the epistemological foundations of art history\, art theory\, and museums. Her anthology\, Reframing the Renaissance (1995)\, was a groundbreaking contribution to transcultural studies in art history.  \nAmelia Jones\, Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design\, USC\, is a widely published writer and curator on feminist art history\, performance studies\, queer studies\, and visual culture. 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-by-claire-farago/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251108T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251108T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T130000
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress with Jodie Miller
DESCRIPTION:Renart li rous: The Physiognomy of a Traitor \nThe Roman de Renart\, an Old French literary cycle composed between the late-twelfth and mid-thirteenth centuries\, tells the tale of the fox\, Renart\, who wreaks havoc on his society through renardie\, or foxish and deceitful misbehavior. The first branch\, or section\, of the cycle recounts how Renart is brought to trial and accused of treason and a tendency towards excessive behavior. As proof of his guilt\, the court consistently refers to his red fur. This talk interrogates the connection between renardie and the medieval reception of the rous\, the red-headed individual\, as a figure connected to treachery and immorality. \nRegister to attend via ZOOM \n \nJodie Miller is a Ph.D. Candidate in the French and Francophone Studies section\, specializing in medieval French literature. She is interested in the intersections between literature and society\, specifically in understanding social and intellectual developments by looking to literature. Her research focuses on French literature within the European context\, as well as its broader relationship to other global regions during the medieval period.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/works-in-progress-by-jodie-miller/
CATEGORIES:Works-in-Progress
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T180000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group (Fall 2025)
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 meet to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and consider what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. \nNo preparation is necessary (other than a brief skim of the text)\, and no expertise or medieval knowledge is required – only enthusiasm! Suggestions for what to read (or what kinds of texts to read) are very welcome. \nFor our Fall meeting this year\, we will read the Proemium to Boccaccio’s Decameron\, and for added context\, Canto 5 of Dante’s Inferno. Discussion will be led by Professor Roberta Morosini (ELTS). \nReadings are available here \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-fall-2025/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T000000
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T120000
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SUMMARY:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar by Leslie Dossey
DESCRIPTION:Late Antique eXcursus (LAX) is a new seminar series at UCLA sponsored by the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History and by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.\n\nThe series\, which hosts a visiting scholar of Late Antiquity or the early Middle Ages each quarter\, is designed to support graduate education\, make new connections across our community of scholars in southern California\, and explore exciting projects-in-progress in the field.\n\nReadings for the seminar will be circulated to participants who register below.\n\n\n\nRSVP here \n\n\n\n\nLeslie Dossey is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago\, where she teaches courses on the social and cultural history of late antiquity\, medieval archaeology\, and the Roman Empire. Dossey’s research focuses extensively on antiquity in North Africa\, constructions of gender in late antiquity\, and popular religion. She is the author of Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press\, 2010). Her work has appeared in the leading scholarly publications in European history\, including Past & Present and the Journal of Theological Studies.  Dossey is currently engaged in a book project investigating the social and cultural history of sleep in late antiquity.  She was the recipient of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies (2000-01)\, which enabled her to work at the American Academy in Rome\, and a Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship (1996/97). \nIf you’d like to be added to the LAX listserv\, contact Jamie Kreiner at jkreiner@ucla.edu.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/late-antique-excursus-seminar-by-leslie-dossey/
CATEGORIES:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T000000
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:2025 Summer Tangut Workshop
DESCRIPTION:CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is hosting a summer language workshop on Lesser Taught Research Languages. This year it is featuring Tangut. It will take place over five sessions and will be led by Dr. Nikita Kuzmin. \nDr. Kuzmin is an independent scholar specializing in Tangut and Silk Road studies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023\, with a dissertation focused on pilgrimages to Dunhuang during the Tangut rule. Since 2021\, Nikita has collaborated with Charles University in Prague\, where he has developed and taught several Tangut reading courses. Currently\, he is involved in Mandarin Chinese education while continuing his research on the social and religious history of the Tangut. \nSynopsis of Workshop \nThe Tangut language\, an extinct Sino-Tibetan language\, was once spoken in the Western Xia kingdom (1038-1227). The discovery of Tangut and Chinese texts in Khara-khoto\, Inner Mongolia\, led to the development of the field of Tangut studies. However\, due to the complexity of the Tangut script\, research on the Western Xia remains relatively underrepresented in contemporary East Asian studies.This 12-hour Tangut reading workshop is designed to introduce participants to the foundational skills needed for reading Tangut\, equipping them to apply these techniques in their own research. In the first two sessions\, students will be introduced to the field of Tangut studies and learn the basics of the Tangut script and grammar. Beginning in the third session\, students will engage in reading both religious and secular Tangut texts under the guidance of the instructor. By the end of the course\, students will be able to independently read and translate simple Tangut texts with the aid of reference materials and online resources.The course combines practical translation exercises with insights into Tangut history and culture. No prior knowledge is required\, though a solid understanding of Classical Chinese and Tibetan will be advantageous. \n\nSign-up is free and open to the public\nThe workshop size will be capped if there is overwhelming interest that exceeds capacity. In such cases\, priority will be given to UCLA affiliates (faculty\, graduate students\, and students)\, CMRS-CEGS associates and affiliates\, as well as graduate students and faculty in the field\, in that order of priority.\nWe expect attendees to attend the majority (at least 3/5) of the sessions\n\nTime: 10 AM – 12:00 Noon PST Time (Los Angeles Time)\nSession 1: Monday\, July 21\, 2025\nSession 2: Wednesday\, July 23\, 2025\nSession 3: Friday\, July 25\, 2025\nSession 4: Monday\, July 28\, 2025\nSession 5: Wednesday\, July 30\, 2025\nRegister to attend \nFor questions\, please contact Prof. Sixiang Wang (Asian Languages & Cultures\, UCLA); six@ucla.edu \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/2025-summer-tangut-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T235959
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SUMMARY:"Status: Developing a Category of Analysis for the Early Global World"\, Conference by Sixiang Wang & Choon Hwee Koh
DESCRIPTION:This workshop invites participants to develop status as a category of analysis for the pre- and early modern world by investigating categories of social practice that were current in the past. Interested participants should be prepared to share a specific\, concrete case study from their area of research between the 3rd and 19th centuries (roughly 200 C.E. – 1800 C.E.) that sheds light on how societies ordered individuals and communities in different contexts. Examples include\, but are not limited to\, knowledge and inscriptional practices\, ceremonial or ritual protocols\, salary lists\, and status categories in premodern diplomacy\, bureaucracy\, or law. Works that connect the cultural\, social\, diplomatic\, economic\, and political are welcome and we especially encourage those working on regions outside of western Europe and the US to participate. \n\n\nWhat are the stakes of understanding status in the early modern world? We argue that understanding status is key to understanding how pre- and early modern societies organized collective interdependence and coexistence. In turn\, understanding premodern social orders may provide a generative foil to understanding the inequalities and injustices in our world today–all the while historicizing both concepts and bearing in mind that our expectations of what constitutes inequality and what constitutes an injustice did not always hold in the past. This project is the chronological converse of attempts to investigate the “birth of the modern world\,” the “great” and “long” divergences\, the “worldmaking” projects of internationalisms and anticolonial nationalisms\, the “carbon democracies” and the origins and histories of capitalism. (Pomeranz 2000; Bayly 2004; Kuran 2010; Sewell 2010; Mitchell 2011; Hilt 2017; Getachew 2019 etc.) We turn our analytical gaze backward instead\, in the opposite chronological direction. We believe our findings can be brought to bear on these rich historiographies of the nineteenth\, twentieth\, and twenty-first centuries\, which have inspired our growth as scholars but also left us wondering about the older world these centuries had left behind. \nThe symposium will begin on Friday\, May 30th\, and conclude on Saturday\, May 31st \nDay 1: May 30th\, 3:00–6:00 PM\nDay 2: May 31st\, 9:30–5:30 PM \n\nStatus: Developing a Category of Analysis for the Early Global World \n \nRegister to attend in Royce 306
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/status-developing-a-category-of-analysis-for-the-early-global-world/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T170000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:For our Spring 2025 meeting\, we will meet on May 16\,  3:00 – 5:00 PM\, in Kaplan 193\, and we will read the short Middle English poem Wynnere and Wastoure. This peculiar mid-14th-century alliterative poem (in Middle English\, but don’t be discouraged! do your best!) sets two allegorical figures\, Winner and Waster\, against each other in a debate about the proper use of things. They offer competing understandings of what it means to waste in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Join us for a discussion about over-using\, under-using\, not using\, prematurely using\, belatedly using\, and strange medieval food stuffs led by Prof. Matthew Fisher (English). \nHandouts of each reading will be available during the group meeting\, but are also linked HERE. \nThe UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate\, graduate\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term\, we meet to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and consider what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. \nNo preparation is necessary (other than a brief skim of the text) and no expertise or medieval knowledge is required – only enthusiasm! Suggestions for what to read (or what kinds of texts to read) are very welcome. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu). \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250510T000000
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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