Late Antique eXcursus Seminar with Jordan Pickett
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 […]
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William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Molly Warsh
“‘Breedlings’ and the ‘most sad Fenns’: Perceptions of Untameable Places and People in Samuel Pepys’s England” Guest Speaker: Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh) In this talk, Warsh will consider Pepys’s […]
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Works in Progress with Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles
“Ilícita Amistad: Women’s Plural Relationships in Bigamy Cases of Colonial Mexico” Guest Speaker: Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles (History) This paper examines ilícita amistad—illicit or informal romantic relationships—as a central feature of women’s lives […]
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Late Antique eXcursus Seminar by Stefan Esders
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 […]
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Constructing Meaning: Anicia Juliana, The Building-Loving Woman
The Architecture Working Group will host their next event on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, with guest speaker Dr. Diane Favro, UCLA Professor Emerita. Dr. Favro is a Distinguished Research Professor […]
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California Medieval Seminar (Spring 2026)
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 […]
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Odious Comparisons Across & Beyond the Early Global World
Isabella Kelly-Ramirez, Cosmic Provenance, 2023 In 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 […]
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New Book Salon, “Turning Away”
A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. “This is a book that makes a difference, not […]
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“Translations: People, Texts & Objects in Motion Across the Early Global World”– MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
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 […]
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“Building Guanajuato: Architecture and Infrastructure in a Late Colonial Mining City
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 […]