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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]