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 […]
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Works-in-Progress
Guest Speaker: Jiakai Zhang The 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 […]
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Medieval Texts Reading Group (Spring 2026)
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 […]
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“Performing Dragons” Conference
This conference presents ongoing research findings of an international group of scholars studying the topic of dragons in performance. In the past, the cartographic legend “hic sunt dracones” (like “hic […]