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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:20260403T090000
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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:20260408T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T190000
DTSTAMP:20260319T211744Z
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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: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: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: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: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:20260514T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T130000
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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: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:20260522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T130000
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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:20261008T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261008T235959
DTSTAMP:20260825T004846Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T160000
DTSTAMP:20260902T163525Z
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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. \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“A King and a Bishop: Images of Bad Rule as a Political Argument\,” Piotr Gorecki (UCR)\n“The Many Lives of Pelegrina de Saladino. Mother\, Businesswoman\, Tutor\, and Patroness\,” Giulia Giamboni (UCLA)\n“Making Fairies in 14th-century Ireland\,” Lisa Bitel (USC)\n“’Either all of them\, or the older ones’: Henry VIII\, Authenticity\, and Medieval Manuscripts\,” Matthew Fisher (UCLA)\n\n\nRegister to attend in Royce 306 or via Zoom\n\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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270130T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270130T160000
DTSTAMP:20260902T163718Z
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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. \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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270205T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270205T235959
DTSTAMP:20260901T213637Z
CREATED:20260706T221404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T213637Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Failure Conference
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-failure-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270217T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270217T235959
DTSTAMP:20260825T193154Z
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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:William & Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Michael Laffan (Princeton University
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/william-lois-matthews-samuel-pepys-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Pepys
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270403T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270403T160000
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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. \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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270406T000000
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SUMMARY:Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Orietta Da Rold
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/richard-and-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture-by-orietta-da-rold/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270430T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270430T235959
DTSTAMP:20260811T232950Z
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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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