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SUMMARY:"Performing Dragons" Conference
DESCRIPTION:This conference presents ongoing research findings of an international group of scholars studying the topic of dragons in performance. \nIn the past\, the cartographic legend “hic sunt dracones” (like “hic sunt leones”) indicated the extent of known territories (land and seas) and the boundaries of safety\, yet what laid beyond pervaded the consciousness of many artists\, travelers and scholars. Dragons\, which have occupied the human imagination since antiquity\, gained particular importance after 1400 CE\, and appear in many guises— St. George plays\, Karagöz\, Chinese shadow puppets\, etc.—and so mark the outlines of a Denkraum (or “thinking space”) between cosmology\, zoology\, superstition\, and spectacle\, with many offspring up to the present day. While theatre history is also a theatre of migration\, circulation\, miscegenation\, globalism\, and affect\, performance often indexes all these experiences within “marvels” such as dragons and mystics. \nWe began “sharing dragons” in 2022 and have met in Chicago\, Cologne\, Beijing\, Shanghai\, and now\, in Southern California. In our ongoing discussions over the course of the Southern California conference\, our current questions encompass the following: \n\nWhere and how do dragons emerge\, enchant\, and connect? What and how do they signify? How are they entangled within their own contexts\, and how do they provoke and inspire further entanglements with other bodies\, texts\, beings?\nHow do dragons arise in a media ecology across times\, places\, and diverse cultures? How do they destabilize or consolidate through/as performance?\nWhat do performing dragons ask of historiography? How does centering dragons in research sustain counter-histories? How does it reveal grounded performance theory?\nWhat are “dragons” in any given culture? How are their performances evidence of syncretism\, either from human migration and trade or technological exchange? What do such insights suggest for further research?\n\nInvestigating performing dragons allows for an in-depth reading of how form and content are inseparable\, providing a critical object with which to reflect on representations\, implied modes of perception\, and the historical (dis)continuities that make the dragon appear. In staging dragons\, certain conventions are always involved\, but a more inclusive investigation addressing multiple centuries and cultural vectors enables a better grasping of their complex histories. The dragon is very specific\, and at the same time exemplary for culturally bound cyphers that can manifest in many forms and shapes. We look forward to exploring these topics with our UCLA participants and audiences. \nSpeakers: \nErith Jaffe-Berg\, University of California Riverside\nLeo Cabranes-Grant\, University of California Santa Barbara\nTracy C. Davis\, Northwestern University\nPeter W. Marx\, University of Cologne\, Germany \nEvent Schedule \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 or via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/performing-dragons/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Fall 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. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 or via Zoom \nMore information can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-fall-2026/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar
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SUMMARY:California Centers for the Study of the Premodern
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URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-centers-for-the-study-of-the-premodern/
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2027)
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. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 or via Zoom \nMore information can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-winter-2027/
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SUMMARY:Hammer Art History Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Harmonia Rosales in Conversation with Denva Gallant and Tiffany E. Barber \nHarmonia Rosales joins medieval art historian Denva Gallant (Rice University) and scholar of Black diasporic art Tiffany E. Barber (UCLA) for a conversation on her reinterpretation of Christian iconography through the lens of West African cosmology and diasporic African philosophies. \nRosales’ lecture explores how art can reshape humanity’s relationship to the natural world through the lens of West African cosmology and diasporic African philosophies. Rosales views nature as a living\, conscious force with agency and memory. Her fine art practice engages with the visual traditions of medieval and early European art\, placing Yoruba narratives in conversation with European iconography\, and considers how images can both preserve and challenge inherited ideas around power. Building on the dialogue at the center of the Getty exhibition Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages\, Rosales will discuss how she draws upon historical forms to challenge inherited narratives that disconnect humanity from the earth. Across painting\, sculpture\, literature\, and public works\, her practice ponders what becomes possible when marginalized origin stories are given the same monumentality and sacred authority historically afforded to the European canon.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/hammer-art-history-lecture-2/
CATEGORIES:Hammer Art History Annual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Medieval Failure Conference
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URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-failure-conference/
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SUMMARY:William & Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture
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URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/william-lois-matthews-samuel-pepys-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Pepys
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Spring 2027)
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. \nMore information can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-spring-2027/
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SUMMARY:Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Orietta Da Rold
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URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/richard-and-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture-by-orietta-da-rold/
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SUMMARY:Performing the Early Modern Across the Americas Conference
DESCRIPTION:This conference presents ongoing research findings of an international group of scholars studying the topic of dragons in performance. \nIn the past\, the cartographic legend “hic sunt dracones” (like “hic sunt leones”) indicated the extent of known territories (land and seas) and the boundaries of safety\, yet what laid beyond pervaded the consciousness of many artists\, travelers and scholars. Dragons\, which have occupied the human imagination since antiquity\, gained particular importance after 1400 CE\, and appear in many guises— St. George plays\, Karagöz\, Chinese shadow puppets\, etc.—and so mark the outlines of a Denkraum (or “thinking space”) between cosmology\, zoology\, superstition\, and spectacle\, with many offspring up to the present day. While theatre history is also a theatre of migration\, circulation\, miscegenation\, globalism\, and affect\, performance often indexes all these experiences within “marvels” such as dragons and mystics. \nWe began “sharing dragons” in 2022 and have met in Chicago\, Cologne\, Beijing\, Shanghai\, and now\, in Southern California. In our ongoing discussions over the course of the Southern California conference\, our current questions encompass the following: \n\nWhere and how do dragons emerge\, enchant\, and connect? What and how do they signify? How are they entangled within their own contexts\, and how do they provoke and inspire further entanglements with other bodies\, texts\, beings?\nHow do dragons arise in a media ecology across times\, places\, and diverse cultures? How do they destabilize or consolidate through/as performance?\nWhat do performing dragons ask of historiography? How does centering dragons in research sustain counter-histories? How does it reveal grounded performance theory?\nWhat are “dragons” in any given culture? How are their performances evidence of syncretism\, either from human migration and trade or technological exchange? What do such insights suggest for further research?\n\nInvestigating performing dragons allows for an in-depth reading of how form and content are inseparable\, providing a critical object with which to reflect on representations\, implied modes of perception\, and the historical (dis)continuities that make the dragon appear. In staging dragons\, certain conventions are always involved\, but a more inclusive investigation addressing multiple centuries and cultural vectors enables a better grasping of their complex histories. The dragon is very specific\, and at the same time exemplary for culturally bound cyphers that can manifest in many forms and shapes. We look forward to exploring these topics with our UCLA participants and audiences. \nSpeakers: \nErith Jaffe-Berg\, University of California Riverside\nLeo Cabranes-Grant\, University of California Santa Barbara\nTracy C. Davis\, Northwestern University\nPeter W. Marx\, University of Cologne\, Germany \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 or via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/performing-the-early-modern-across-the-americas-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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