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 […]
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California Medieval Seminar (Fall 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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California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2027)
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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Hammer Art History Lecture
Harmonia Rosales in Conversation with Denva Gallant and Tiffany E. Barber Harmonia Rosales joins medieval art historian Denva Gallant (Rice University) and scholar of Black diasporic art Tiffany E. Barber […]