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SUMMARY:Destroyed\, Removed\, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World
DESCRIPTION:CMRS-CEGS Conference \n“Destroyed\, Removed\, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World\,” organized by Matthew Fisher (English\, UCLA) and Devin Fitzgerald (Library Special Collections\, UCLA). \n\n\n\nDay 1 – Friday\, February 3\, 2023\n\n\n9:15 – 9:45 am\nCoffee\, tea\, fruit\, pastries\n\n\n9:45 – 10:00\nWelcoming Remarks\nZrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\, CMRS-CEGS Director\nMatthew Fisher (UCLA) and\nDevin Fitzgerald (UCLA)\, organizers\n\n\n10:00 – 11:30\nCatherine Sutherland (Magdalene College\, Cambridge)\n“The Reassembly of Mary Astell’s Personal Library within the Old Library of Magdalene College\, Cambridge” – via Zoom\n\n\n\nMatthew Fisher (UCLA)\n“Making Books Old in the Cotton Library”\n\n\n11:30 am – 1:00 pm\nLunch Break\n\n\n1:00 – 2:30\nGwendolyn Collaço (MIT)\n“Mobile Images on a Malleable Market: 17th c. Ottoman Costume Albums Transformed and Altered” – via Zoom\n\n\n\nHienin Diakite and Paul Naylor (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library)\n“Destruction\, Creation\, Relocation: Archiving Timbuktu’s Written Heritage 1862-2022”\n\n\n2:30 – 2:45\nBreak\n\n\n2:45 – 4:15\nEyob Derillo (The British Library)\n“Introduction to the Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript Collections in the British Library”\n\n\n\n\nNur Sobers-Khan (Independent Scholar)\n“Provenance Research and South Asian manuscript collections: Reconstructing the Islamic Intellectual History of pre-1857 Delhi” – via Zoom\n\n\nDay 2 – Saturday\, February 4\, 2023\n\n\n9:30 am\nCoffee\, tea\, fruit\, pastries\n\n\n10:00 – 11:30\nBryan Keene (Riverside City College)\n“Fragmentary Views of Premodern Globality: Lessons from Museum Collecting and Display Practices”\n\n\n\nDevin Fitzgerald (UCLA)\n“Assembling and Reassembling Chinese Libraries in Seventeenth-Century Century Europe”\n\n\n11:30 – 11:45\nBreak\n\n\n11:45 am – 1:15 pm\nFred Shan (University of Texas\, Austin)\n“Bridging the Past and the Future: Book Collecting and Scholarly Innovations in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China”\n\n\n\nAlex Hidalgo (Texas Christian University)\n“Everyday Forms of Book Dispersal Prevention”\n\n\n1:15\nClose of Conference\n\n\n\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nRegister to attend in-person 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/destroyed-removed-and-reassembled-book-collections-in-the-premodern-world/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.) - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:“From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.)\,” is a two-day conference focusing on the many cross-influences among Romance literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages through more recent times\, with special attention to the topic of translation. More than 25 international scholars will examine different aspects of the circulation of vernacular works via translations from one Romance language to another\, from the 13th to the 18th century\, in Europe and beyond. Employing an eclectic range of interests and approaches\, their talks will cover translations among the following Romance languages and variants: Aragonese\, Catalan\, Franco-Italian\, French\, Galician-Portuguese\, Italian\, Judeo-Spanish\, Ladino\, Navarrese\, Occitan\, Spanish and Tagalog. \nDay 2\, Tuesday\, January 24 in Royce 306 \n\n\n\n8:00 am\nContinental Breakfast\n\n\n8:15\nWelcome from the Dean of Humanities Alexandra Minna Stern\n\n\n8:30 am\nSESSION 5: Dante | Moderator: Géraldine Veysseyre\n\n\n\n“‘Au milieu du chemin de la vie présente’: The First French Translation of Dante’s Inferno”\nPaola Cifarelli\, Università di Torino\n\n\n\n“Praxis ecdótica y traducción: el caso del Infierno de Fernández de Villegas”\nCinthia María Hamlin\, CONICET\, Universidad de Buenos Aires\n\n\n\n“The First Complete Translation in Verse of Dante’s Commedia: The Catalan Translation by Andreu Febrer (1429)”\nMarta Marfany\, Universitat Pompeu Fabra\n\n\n10:00\nBreak\n\n\n10:15\nSESSION 6: Kings\, Queens & Courts | Moderator: Marta Albalá Pelegrín\n\n\n\n“Traducción y variación en los albores del siglo XIV: la versión gallega de la Crónica de Castilla”\nPatricia Rochwert-Zuili\, Université d’Artois\n\n\n\n“When is Translation Necessary? Translation\, Multilingualism\, and Patronage in a Courtly Context”\nNúria Silleras-Fernández\, University of Colorado Boulder\n\n\n\n“In the Trenches of Translation: Multilingual Propaganda in Circulation in the Late 16th Century”\nRhonda Sharrah\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“Traslación y reescritura del Roman de Brut en Castilla y en Navarra en el siglo XIII: el Libro de las generaciones y linajes de los reyes”\nHélène Thieulin-Pardo\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n12:15 pm\nLunch Break\n\n\n1:45\nSESSION 7: Models & Adaptations | Moderator: Tania Varela\n\n\n\n“Style in Translation from Italy to France and Back Again: A Reading of Novella II\, 24 of Bandello’s Novelle”\nRaphaëlle Burns\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“Romance Models and Vernacular Source Languages in the Translation-Adaptations of the Trojan Narrative in the Iberian Peninsula (12th-15th centuries): The Relevance of the Concept of ‘Linguistic Diasystem’ for the Examination of Horizontal Translations”\nCorinne Mencé-Caster\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n\n“Adapting Moral Excess: The Topos of Appetite in the Reynardian Cycle and Related Texts (12th – 14th centuries)”\nJodie Miller\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n3:15\nBreak\n\n\n3:30\nSESSION 8: Troubadours/Lyric Poetry | Moderator: Raphaëlle Burns\n\n\n\n“From Troubadour/Trobairitz to Troubarello: Proto-Félibresses and Temporal Translation”\nAlexa Barger\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“The Translations of Medieval Occitan in the 18th century at the Académie des Inscriptions: Study of the Translations about the Poems of Troubadours and the Boeci made by Jean-Baptiste de la Curne de Sainte-Palaye and Jean Lebeuf”\nLaure-Anne Caraty\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n\n“Buenas trujamaneras: Renaissance go-betweens in the cancioneros“\nMichelle M. Hamilton\, University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\n\n\n5:00\nBreak\n\n\n5:15\nClosing Remarks\n\n\n5:45\nReception\n\n\n\nSee the schedule for Day 1\, Monday\, January 23 in Royce 314 \nRemote Attendance at ucla.zoom.us/j/93245427502\nFor inquiries\, please contact John Dagenais at dagenais@humnet.ucla.edu \nJointly organized by the University of California\, Los Angeles and Sorbonne Université by Roxanna Colón-Cosme (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA)\, John Dagenais (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA)\, and Tania Varela (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA) \n \nRomance to Romance Conference Program (PDF) \nImage: “Christine instructs four men” The Book of the Queen\, c. 1410–1414\, f. 259vHarley MS 4431\, British Library
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/from-romance-to-romance-2/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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SUMMARY:From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.) - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:“From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.)\,” is a two-day conference focusing on the many cross-influences among Romance literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages through more recent times\, with special attention to the topic of translation. More than 25 international scholars will examine different aspects of the circulation of vernacular works via translations from one Romance language to another\, from the 13th to the 18th century\, in Europe and beyond. Employing an eclectic range of interests and approaches\, their talks will cover translations among the following Romance languages and variants: Aragonese\, Catalan\, Franco-Italian\, French\, Galician-Portuguese\, Italian\, Judeo-Spanish\, Ladino\, Navarrese\, Occitan\, Spanish and Tagalog. \nDay 1\, Monday\, January 23 in Royce 314 \n\n\n\n8 am\nContinental Breakfast\n\n\n8:30\nWelcome\n\n\n8:45\nSESSION 1: Catalan | Moderator: John Dagenais\n\n\n\n“Translation and Textual Tradition: The Variation Process of the Libro de las donas (Eiximenis\, 15th century)”\nLaura Baldacchino\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n\n“Three Catalan Translations of the Memorial of Angela de Foligno”\nAina Soley Mateu\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“An Unusual Template for a Middle French Life of Christ: La Vida de Jesu de Francesc Eiximenis\, Anonymously Translated into the French De Vita Christi”\nGéraldine Veysseyre\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n10:15\nBreak\n\n\n10:30\nSESSION 2: Latin | Moderator: Hélène Thieulin-Pardo\n\n\n\n“Los avatares de una traducción: El libro de las propiedades de las cosas de Bartolomé Ánglico”\nFlor María Bango de la Campa\, Universidad de Oviedo\n\n\n\n“Hugo de Urriés: traducción e interpretación de los Hechos y dichos memorables de Valerio Máximo”\nSara Gil Sáiz\, Sorbonne Université\n\n\n\n“A Translator’s Persona and his Audience: Alonso Ordóñez’s Translation of Aristotle’s Poetics from Latin and Italian Intermediaries (1626)”\nJavier Patiño Loira\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n12 pm\nLunch Break\n\n\n1:30\nSESSION 3: Translation as Intervention | Moderator: Barbara Fuchs\n\n\n\n“Out of Franco-Italian: Marco Polo’s Mongol Wars in Historical Context”\nSharon Kinoshita\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\n\n\n\n“El papel de las traducciones intravernaculares en la apropiación hispana de modelos de representación extranjeros (siglos XIV-XV)”\nJulia Roumier\, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne\n\n\n\n“Le débat de l’homme et de l’argent: An Editorial Mystery and a Little-Known Early Translation from Italian”\nFrancesco Montorsi\, Université Lumière Lyon 2\n\n\n3:00\nBreak\n\n\n3:15 pm\nSESSION 4: Beyond Iberia | Moderator: Sara Gil Sáiz\n\n\n\n“‘Libriko de romansas importantes’: Transposed Spaces and Adaptation in 16th Century Iberian pliegos sueltos and 20th Century Sephardic librikos de romanzas”\nRoxanna Colón-Cosme\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“From Romance to Colony: Translating Nationalism in the Philippine Bernardo del Carpio”\nStefanie Matabang\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n\n“Between Empire and Diaspora: The Agents and Transformations of Jerónimo de Urrea’s Spanish Translation of Orlando Furioso and its Sephardic Adaptation (Oxford\, Bodleian Libraries\, MS Canon. Or. 6)”\nTania Varela\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n4:45\nBreak\n\n\n5:00\nBook Presentation | Moderator: John Dagenais\nIberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean with editors Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández and commentators Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Sharon Kinoshita\n\n\n6:00\nReception\n\n\n\nSee the schedule for Day 2\, Tuesday\, January 24. \nRemote Attendance at ucla.zoom.us/j/93245427502\nFor inquiries\, please contact John Dagenais at dagenais@humnet.ucla.edu \nJointly organized by the University of California\, Los Angeles and Sorbonne Université by Roxanna Colón-Cosme (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA)\, John Dagenais (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA)\, and Tania Varela (Spanish & Portuguese\, UCLA) \n \nRomance to Romance Conference Program (PDF) \nImage: “Christine instructs four men” The Book of the Queen\, c. 1410–1414\, f. 259vHarley MS 4431\, British Library
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/from-romance-to-romance-1/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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SUMMARY:Physiognomy at the Crossroad of Magic\, Science and the Arts
DESCRIPTION:A symposium organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella (ELTS and Comparative Literature\, UCLA)\, Professor Emerita Valeria Finucci (Romance Studies\, Duke University) and doctoral candidate Megan Tomlinson (ELTS\, UCLA). \nThe symposium will examine how the study of a person’s facial features or expressions as indicatives of character or ethnicity\, has evolved from the crossroad of magic\, religion\, and primitive medicine to present day cultural preoccupation with wellness and beauty. In this context\, the discoveries of regional (cranio-facial) neurophysiology and psychology and the practice of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery have a centuries old relationship with physiognomy. As the study of one’s outward appearance evolved from its classical roots and humanistic self-representations through 18th and 19th century adaptations in fiction and travelogues\, it gradually became a scientific discipline. Along the way\, however\, physiognomy came to be associated with the pseudo-sciences of phrenology and craniology and used to promote eugenic policies. Thus\, it became tainted with racial bigotry and biological determinism\, and trapped within questions of delinquency\, monstrosity and posthumanism. In short\, throughout its history\, physiognomy has played both positive and negative roles in the evolution of significant aspects of the socio-cultural order of the western world that merit contemporary update and in-depth study. \nThe presentations of the symposium will follow a chronological and intertwining sequence to encompass physiognomic expressions in art\, literature\, spirituality\, science\, philosophy\, and cultural studies. \nThis event is dedicated to the memory of Rinaldo Canalis\, Emeritus Professor of Otolaryngology in the UCLA Department of Head and Neck Surgery. \nCo-sponsored by CMRS-CEGS. \n9 am – 5 pm on January 20-21\, 2023 in Royce Hall 314. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/physiognomy-at-the-crossroad-of-magic-science-and-the-arts/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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SUMMARY:Western Ottomanists' Workshop (WOW) Fall 2022 - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:UCLA will be hosting the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) hybrid\, both in person and online. Organized by CMRS-CEGS faculty member Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA\, History) and hosted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. \nFriday\, November 18 – Day 1\n10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor) & Zoom\n \n1:30pm Registration\n2pm Opening Speech – James Gelvin (UCLA)\n2:30-3:30pm Panel 1: Nineteenth Century Ottoman Identities Beyond the Millet System \nPresenter Bedros Torosian (UCI)\, Discussant: Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA); Presenter: Hilal Tümer (UCB)\, Discussant: Isacar Bolaños (CSULB) \n3:30-3:45pm Break\n3:45-5:15pm Panel 2: Ottoman Legal and Administrative Structures \nPresenter: Ismail Noyan (Simon Fraser University)\, Discussant: Jun Akiba (University of Tokyo); Presenter: Madonna Aoun Ghazal (UCLA)\, Discussant: Samy Ayoub (UT Austin); Presenter: Daniel Ohanian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Christine Philliou (UCB) \n5:15-5:30pm Break\n5:30-6:45pm Workshop on Publishing and Professionalization – Heather Ferguson (Claremont McKenna\, JOTSA) \nSaturday\, November 19 – Day 2\nRoyce 314 & Zoom\n \n8-8:30am Registration\n8:30-10:10am Panel 3: Ottoman Language\, Literature\, and Carnivals \nPresenter: Jennifer Manoukian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Nir Shafir (UCSD); Presenter: İpek Şahinler (U Texas at Austin)\, Discussant: Selim Kuru (UW); Presenter: Nora Bairamian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Dzovinar Derderian (UCB); Presenter: Naz Vardar (Simon Fraser University)\, Discussant: Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University) \n10:10-10:30am Break\n10:30am-12:10pm Panel 4: Vampires\, Converts\, and Financiers in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire \nPresenter: Zehra Ilhan (UCD)\, Discussant: Adam Sabra (UCSB); Presenter: Christopher Whitehead (OSU)\, Discussant: Linda Darling (University of Arizona)\, Presenter: Elyakim Engelmann-Suissa (UW)\, Discussant: Jacob Max Daniels (Stanford University)\, Presenter: Hüseyin Göcen (UCD)\, Discussant: James Grehan (PSU) \n12:10-1:10pm Lunch Break\n1:15-2:15pmLunchtime Roundtable on Manuscripts in SoCal \nAli Anooshahr (UCD)\, Gwendolyn Collaço (LACMA)\, Sohaib Baig (UCLA Libraries)\, Luke Yarbrough (UCLA\, NELC) \n2:15-2:30pm Break\n2:30-4pm Panel 5: Race and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire: Sephardic Jews\, Afro-Turks\, Greek-Turkish Population Exchange \nPresenter: Rachel Smith (UCLA)\, Discussant: Reşat Kasaba (UW); Presenter: Oluwamayowa (Bam) Willoughby (Cornell)\, Discussant: Baki Tezcan (UCD); Presenter: Herman Adney (UCLA)\, Discussant: Nora Barakat (Stanford University) \n3:50-4:05pm Break\n4:05-5:30 Keynote Panel \nChristine Philliou (UCB)\, Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)\, Sarah Stein (UCLA)\, Moderator: Baki Tezcan (UCD) \n5:30-6pm Closing Speech – Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)\n6-7pm Ottoman Music Performance – Münir Beken (UCLA Ethnomusicology) \nRegister Here\nPlease direct all queries to wowuclawow@gmail.com \nWOW was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the period of the late thirteenth century up until the early decades of the twentieth century. Two years into this pandemic\, many of us have not had a chance to meet each other in person. WOW 2022 aims to provide a space for in-person meeting\, discussion\, feedback\, and conversation. Join us! \nSponsors: Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, African Studies Center\, Program on Central Asia\, Department of History\, Islamic Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies\, UCLA’s Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History\, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, Library Special Collections.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/western-ottomanists-workshop-fall-2022-day2/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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SUMMARY:Western Ottomanists' Workshop (WOW) Fall 2022 - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:UCLA will be hosting the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) hybrid\, both in person and online. Organized by CMRS-CEGS faculty member Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA\, History) and hosted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. \nFriday\, November 18 – Day 1 \n10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor) & Zoom\n \nAlternate plans for strike \n1:30pm Registration\n2pm Opening Speech – James Gelvin (UCLA)\n2:30-3:30pm Panel 1: Nineteenth Century Ottoman Identities Beyond the Millet System \nPresenter Bedros Torosian (UCI)\, Discussant: Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA); Presenter: Hilal Tümer (UCB)\, Discussant: Isacar Bolaños (CSULB) \n3:30-3:45pm Break\n3:45-5:15pm Panel 2: Ottoman Legal and Administrative Structures \nPresenter: Ismail Noyan (Simon Fraser University)\, Discussant: Jun Akiba (University of Tokyo); Presenter: Madonna Aoun Ghazal (UCLA)\, Discussant: Samy Ayoub (UT Austin); Presenter: Daniel Ohanian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Christine Philliou (UCB) \n5:15-5:30pm Break\n5:30-6:45pm Workshop on Publishing and Professionalization – Heather Ferguson (Claremont McKenna\, JOTSA) \nSaturday\, November 19 – Day 2\nRoyce 314 & Zoom\n \n8-8:30am Registration\n8:30-10:10am Panel 3: Ottoman Language\, Literature\, and Carnivals \nPresenter: Jennifer Manoukian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Nir Shafir (UCSD); Presenter: İpek Şahinler (U Texas at Austin)\, Discussant: Selim Kuru (UW); Presenter: Nora Bairamian (UCLA)\, Discussant: Dzovinar Derderian (UCB); Presenter: Naz Vardar (Simon Fraser University)\, Discussant: Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University) \n10:10-10:30am Break\n10:30am-12:10pm Panel 4: Vampires\, Converts\, and Financiers in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire \nPresenter: Zehra Ilhan (UCD)\, Discussant: Adam Sabra (UCSB); Presenter: Christopher Whitehead (OSU)\, Discussant: Linda Darling (University of Arizona)\, Presenter: Elyakim Engelmann-Suissa (UW)\, Discussant: Jacob Max Daniels (Stanford University)\, Presenter: Hüseyin Göcen (UCD)\, Discussant: James Grehan (PSU) \n12:10-1:10pm Lunch Break\n1:15-2:15pmLunchtime Roundtable on Manuscripts in SoCal \nAli Anooshahr (UCD)\, Gwendolyn Collaço (LACMA)\, Sohaib Baig (UCLA Libraries)\, Luke Yarbrough (UCLA\, NELC) \n2:15-2:30pm Break\n2:30-4pm Panel 5: Race and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire: Sephardic Jews\, Afro-Turks\, Greek-Turkish Population Exchange \nPresenter: Rachel Smith (UCLA)\, Discussant: Reşat Kasaba (UW); Presenter: Oluwamayowa (Bam) Willoughby (Cornell)\, Discussant: Baki Tezcan (UCD); Presenter: Herman Adney (UCLA)\, Discussant: Nora Barakat (Stanford University) \n3:50-4:05pm Break\n4:05-5:30 Keynote Panel \nChristine Philliou (UCB)\, Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)\, Sarah Stein (UCLA)\, Moderator: Baki Tezcan (UCD) \n5:30-6pm Closing Speech – Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)\n6-7pm Ottoman Music Performance – Münir Beken (UCLA Ethnomusicology) \nRegister Here\nPlease direct all queries to wowuclawow@gmail.com \nWOW was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the period of the late thirteenth century up until the early decades of the twentieth century. Two years into this pandemic\, many of us have not had a chance to meet each other in person. WOW 2022 aims to provide a space for in-person meeting\, discussion\, feedback\, and conversation. Join us! \nSponsors: Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, African Studies Center\, Program on Central Asia\, Department of History\, Islamic Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies\, UCLA’s Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History\, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, Library Special Collections.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/western-ottomanists-workshop-fall-2022-day1/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T140000
DTSTAMP:20220921T180654Z
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SUMMARY:Global Humanisms Digital Humanities Forum
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Chris Johanson (Classics and Digital Humanities\, UCLA) and Zrinka Stahuljak (CMRS-CEGS\, UCLA). \nThis workshop will serve as a forum on Digital Humanities research in Cultural Heritage sites. The focus will be on the Eastern Adriatic sites over a long period of time (300-1600). The Eastern Adriatic\, with its rich ancient\, late antique\, medieval and Renaissance cultural heritage presents exceptional opportunities – hitherto little explored compared to the rest of the Mediterranean – for new research. Members of the GLOHUM (Global Humanisms) Project\, financed by a joint grant from the European Commission (European Union) and the Croatian National Science Foundation (co-PIs\, Miljenko Jurković and Zrinka Stahuljak)\, will present their DH research in conversation with members of the UCLA Digital Humanities Program. \n\nGlobal Humanisms (GLOHUM) – New Perspectives on the Middle Ages (300-1600) – Redefining Periodizations – Prof. Miljenko Jurković (University of Zagreb)\nGLOHUM Project in the Context of Digital Humanities – Jelena Behaim\, PhD\nTransformations of the Historical Territory of Eastern Adriatic: Approaches and Potentials\nSocial and Economic Aspects of Spatial Transformations – Palmira Krleža\nMany Faces of Landscape Transformation: Two Case Studies from Eastern Adriatic – Ivor Kranjec and Filip Lovrić\nHumanism and Renaissance in a Local Community: The Case Study of Rab from a Historical Perspective – Neven Budak (University of Zagreb)\n\nJoin the live stream on Zoom or attend in person in Royce 306. Lunch will be served for registered in-person participants at 11:30. \nRegister on Zoom to attend remotely.\nRegister on Google Docs to attend in-person.\n \n \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/global-humanisms-digital-humanities-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T180000
DTSTAMP:20220926T000205Z
CREATED:20220926T000205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T000205Z
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SUMMARY:CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar Public Lecture: Ingrid Rowland
DESCRIPTION:“Curzio Inghirami (1614-1655)\, Forger and Playwright of Volterra” by guest scholar Ingrid Rowland (Architecture\, University of Notre Dame). \nOnline with Zoom and in person in Royce 314. \nRegister to attend in person here.\nRegister to attend on Zoom here.\nThe Fall 2022 CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar is “Picturing Knowledge in Historical Perspective” (Philosophy 206) taught by Professors Calvin Normore (Philosophy) and Brian Copenhaver (Philosophy\, History). This interdisciplinary seminar traces some of the ways\, from late antiquity into the seventeenth century\, in which pictures were and are used as tools to create and express knowledge claims and some of the theoretical issues surrounding those uses. Topics include the structure and limits of pictorial representation\, the use of diagrams in late antiquity\, the role of icons in Byzantine thought\, picturing in Latin Medieval traditions\, changes in the nature and use of pictorial representation from the fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries\, and a discussion of Descartes’ use of pictures and diagrams. The instructors of record will begin and end the series of classes but most instruction will be by experts in the particular topic under discussion.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-lecture-ingrid-rowland/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221106T235959
DTSTAMP:20220613T182235Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220613T182235Z
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SUMMARY:Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) Annual Conference. \nDetailed information regarding the schedule and registration is at the conference site — click here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/bsana-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T140000
DTSTAMP:20220926T000019Z
CREATED:20220926T000019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T000019Z
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SUMMARY:CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar Public Lecture: Brian Baigrie
DESCRIPTION:“Making Things Visible: Galileo and the Spottiness of the Moon” by guest scholar Brian Baigrie (IHPST Toronto). \nRegister to attend here.\nThe Fall 2022 CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar is “Picturing Knowledge in Historical Perspective” (Philosophy 206) taught by Professors Calvin Normore (Philosophy) and Brian Copenhaver (Philosophy\, History). This interdisciplinary seminar traces some of the ways\, from late antiquity into the seventeenth century\, in which pictures were and are used as tools to create and express knowledge claims and some of the theoretical issues surrounding those uses. Topics include the structure and limits of pictorial representation\, the use of diagrams in late antiquity\, the role of icons in Byzantine thought\, picturing in Latin Medieval traditions\, changes in the nature and use of pictorial representation from the fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries\, and a discussion of Descartes’ use of pictures and diagrams. The instructors of record will begin and end the series of classes but most instruction will be by experts in the particular topic under discussion.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-lecture-brian-baigrie/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221029T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221029T160000
DTSTAMP:20220930T223313Z
CREATED:20220930T223313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T223313Z
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SUMMARY:California Medieval History Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The California Medieval History Seminar fosters intercampus networking and intellectual exchange by  acquainting participants with historical research in medieval studies currently underway in California.  The seminar meets quarterly to discuss pre-distributed research papers (two by faculty members\, two by graduate students). During AY 2022-23\, the seminar will meet on October 29\, February 11\, and May 20. Presentations are organized by the seminar’s director\, Professor Piotr Górecki (History\, UC Riverside). \n\nFabrizio Conti (John Cabot University) “Paganism\, ‘Superstition’\, and Christianization in Late Antique Northern Italy Through the Sermons of Maximus of Turin”\nArmando Torres Fauaz (Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica) “Boni homines/ boni viri : un modèle d’idonéité et d’habileté dans l’Occident médiéval”\nJordan Claridge (London School of Economics) “(Real) Wages in the Middle Ages: The Economic Implications of In-Kind Payment on Medieval English Demesnes\, 1200-1400″\nMarta Albalá Pelegrín (Cal Poly Pomona) “Iberian Theater of Conquest in Rome: The Image of Islam and the Ottoman Turks (1456-1493)”\n\nRead details about attendance — registration required. \nIn-person Registration: Click here to register. \nZoom Registration: Click here to register.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-history-seminar-oct29/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T170000
DTSTAMP:20221006T183047Z
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SUMMARY:Unexceptional Blackness and Blind Matter
DESCRIPTION:Kanner Forum Featuring Matthew Vernon \nJoin UCLA English for “Unexceptional Blackness and Blind Matter\,” a talk by Matthew Vernon\, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California\, Davis. Professor Vernon will discuss Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s adaptation of Everyman as it relates to invisibilization of race. Professor Vernon will focus on the problems and possibilities this play raises in relation to politics and race through the Middle Ages. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by UCLA English Professor Matthew Fisher. This event is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Department of Comparative Literature and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nMatthew Vernon is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California\, Davis. His first book\, The Black Middle Ages\, explores the understudied relationship between medievalism and Blackness in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. He has also written articles on a set of his interests around issues of race and genre. This has led to articles on the post-truth phenomenon in nineteenth-century novels\, Black speculative fiction\, and comic books about displacement and vulnerability. He is currently working on an article on the adaptation of the medieval play\, Everyman. \nKaplan Hall 193 and on Zoom \nRSVP \nKanner Forum: Matthew Vernon \n \n  \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/unexceptional-blackness-and-blind-matter/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221017T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221017T190000
DTSTAMP:20220616T230134Z
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SUMMARY:Open House and New Book Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Open House and New Book Salon with ELIZABETH MORRISON\, Senior Curator of Manuscripts at The J. Paul Getty Museum\, and writer BOYD MORRISON\, for a discussion of their new book\, The Lawless Land (Tales of the Lawless Land Book 1). \nNew Book Salon\n4:30 – 5:30 pm Pacific Time\nOnsite in Royce 306 and online with Zoom \nOpen House Reception\n5:30 – 7:00 pm\nRoyce 306 Balcony \nRSVP to attend on Zoom \nRSVP to attend in person
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/fall2022-open-house-book-salon/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon,Open House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T235959
DTSTAMP:20220613T181847Z
CREATED:20220613T181847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220613T181847Z
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SUMMARY:Ethno-Religious Interaction in Premodern Iberia: Mechanisms and Trajectories
DESCRIPTION:A conference organized by Professor Thomas Barton (History\, University of San Diego). \nThe complete schedule and full details are available at the conference website.\n\nSponsored by:\nUCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\nUCLA Department of History\nUCLA Division of Humanities\nUCLA Division of Social Sciences\nUCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\nUCLA Islamic Studies \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/ethno-religious-interaction-in-premodern-iberia/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221003T140000
DTSTAMP:20220925T235557Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220925T235557Z
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SUMMARY:CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar Lecture: Gabriel Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:Online public lecture\, “Pictorial Systems and the Visual Engine\,” Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA/Stanford). \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-lecture-gabriel-greenberg/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T120000
DTSTAMP:20220325T040031Z
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SUMMARY:*CANCELLED* CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar: Iranian 250
DESCRIPTION:This session has been cancelled.\nCamilla Miglio (La Sapienza\, Rome)\n“From Medieval Persian Literature to Modernist German Poetry” \nIranian 250\, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives\,”  taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC)\, offers a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation. The seminar fosters interdisciplinary conversations among graduate students from a plurality of departments and programs\, including Islamic Studies\, Gender Studies\, History\, Art History\, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, English\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and students with no prior knowledge of Persian are welcome to enroll. Twice a month\, international scholars will deliver lectures focusing on their current research trajectories. Key topics: epics and ethnic identity\, philosophical poetics and occasion\, mysticism and performative queerness\, Judeo-Islamic literary intersections\, ideals of beauty and lyric performance\, literary modernity from Ottoman Turkey to Moghul India\, German romantic and modernist appropriations of the Persian poetic canon\, etc. In collaboration with the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies. \nTuesday\, June 1 at  10:30 am Pacific Time \nImage: Painting from Baysunghur’s manuscript of Sa’di’s Gulistan\, Herat. Chester Beatty Library\, Dublin.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-iranian-250-june1/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220531T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220531T123000
DTSTAMP:20220429T203612Z
CREATED:20220429T203612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T203612Z
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SUMMARY:Roundtable: Neoclassic or New Classics? Challenges\, Debates\, Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Organized and moderated by Professor Giulia Sissa (Departments of Political Science\, Comparative Literature and Classics\, UCLA). \n“Decolonizing Classics” is a novel challenge for scholars in the Humanities and\, even more pointedly\, for those who study the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. The stake is not merely relevance\, usefulness or epistemic legitimacy\, but also political credentials. The “Classics” in education and in academia are being asked to give account of their role in shaping not just cultures\, but cultural identities; not just representations\, but self-representations. Multiple responses are possible\, from indifference to indignation\, from defensiveness to solidarity\, from haughty erudition to chirpy vulgarization. But this challenge is thought-provoking rather than threatening. These historical circumstances should prompt an experimental\, critical\, creative meditation on our practices of learning and teaching. What can be done\, what should be done and how can we act in our double life\, as experts of those early global worlds and as citizens of this present\, planetary world? \nAt the end of a long seminar on the resources of “comparative thinking”\, in the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory\, this round table will start a discussion on the future of Greece and Rome in our own cultural horizon. We will begin to showcase old and new heuristic approaches\, which can help us reorient our research and refresh our language in a non-ethnocentric\, non-linear\, non-idealizing – non neoclassical – perspective. \nSCHEDULE (Pacific Time) \n9:00 am – Giulia Sissa\, UCLA\n9:15 – Zrinka Stahuljak\, UCLA\n9:30 – Manuele Gragnolati\, Sorbonne Université\n9:45 – Ute Heidmann\, Université de Lausanne\n10:00 – Discussion\n10:15 – Marco Formisano\, Ghent University\n10:30 – Phiroze Vasunia\, University College London\n11:00 – Cléo Carastro\, EHESS\, Paris\n11:15 – Renaud Gagné\, University of Cambridge\n11:30 – Tristan Bradshaw\, University of Wollongong and Ben Brown\, University of Sydney\n11:45 – Discussion\n12:30 pm – Conclusion \nFollow this link to register to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/roundtable-neoclassic-or-new-classics-challenges-debates-perspectives/
CATEGORIES:Roundtable
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T103000
DTSTAMP:20220325T035236Z
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SUMMARY:CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar: Iranian 250
DESCRIPTION:Shahzad Bashir (Brown University)\n“The Market in Poetry in the Persian World” \nThe discussion will focus on Professor Bashir’s book The Market in Poetry in the Persian World (Cambridge UP\, 2021)\, which treats poetic utterances as objects of material value sought by those with power and resources. The book provides a sense for the texture of the Persian world by discussing what made poetry precious and a carrier of social relations\, political and religious authority\, economic exchange\, and the articulation of gender. At the broadest level\, this work substantiates the interdependency between cultural and material reproduction of society. \nShahzad Bashir is Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities and Professor of History and Religious Studies at Brown University in Providence\, Rhode Island. He has published extensively on various topics\, including\, most recently\, the digital book A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT Press\, 2022). He is an Associate Editor of the journal History and Theory\, edits the book series Islamic Humanities (University of California Press)\, and co-edits the book series Islamicate Intellectual History (Brill). \nIranian 250\, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives\,”  taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC)\, offers a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation. The seminar fosters interdisciplinary conversations among graduate students from a plurality of departments and programs\, including Islamic Studies\, Gender Studies\, History\, Art History\, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, English\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and students with no prior knowledge of Persian are welcome to enroll. Twice a month\, international scholars will deliver lectures focusing on their current research trajectories. Key topics: epics and ethnic identity\, philosophical poetics and occasion\, mysticism and performative queerness\, Judeo-Islamic literary intersections\, ideals of beauty and lyric performance\, literary modernity from Ottoman Turkey to Moghul India\, German romantic and modernist appropriations of the Persian poetic canon\, etc. In collaboration with the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies. \nThursday\, May 26 at 9:00 am Pacific Time \nRegister here for online attendance on Zoom.\nImage: Painting from Baysunghur’s manuscript of Sa’di’s Gulistan\, Herat. Chester Beatty Library\, Dublin.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-iranian-250-may26/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T153000
DTSTAMP:20220422T231401Z
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual European Languages & Transcultural Studies Graduate Student Conference – Day 2
DESCRIPTION:“Permanence & Decay”\nKeynote Speakers: Melody Jue (UCSB) and Amir R\, Mufti (UCLA) \nPlease see the flyer or visit the website for more details. \nRSVP here by Friday\, May 6\, 2022 at 5pm PST. \nReview the COVID-19 protocol provided on the flyer prior to attending the event. \nQuestions? Contact the Organizing Committee at ucla.elts.conference@gmail.com. \nUCLA ELTS Graduate Conference 2022 Organizing Committee: Anna Bonazzi\, Amber Sackett\, Kendell Clarke\, and Megan Tomlinson. \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/2nd-annual-european-languages-transcultural-studies-graduate-student-conference-day-2/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T153000
DTSTAMP:20220422T230714Z
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual European Languages & Transcultural Studies Graduate Student Conference - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:“Permanence & Decay”\nKeynote Speakers: Melody Jue (UCSB) and Amir R\, Mufti (UCLA) \nPlease see the flyer or visit the website for more details. \nRSVP here by Friday\, May 6\, 2022 at 5pm PST. \nReview the COVID-19 protocol provided on the flyer prior to attending the event. \nQuestions? Contact the Organizing Committee at ucla.elts.conference@gmail.com. \nUCLA ELTS Graduate Conference 2022 Organizing Committee: Anna Bonazzi\, Amber Sackett\, Kendell Clarke\, and Megan Tomlinson. \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/2nd-annual-european-languages-transcultural-studies-graduate-student-conference-permanence-decay/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220521T235959
DTSTAMP:20220325T034629Z
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SUMMARY:Intersectionality in the Early Global World
DESCRIPTION:A conference organized by the officers of UCLA MEMSA: Chase Caldwell Smith (History)\, Richard Ibarra (History)\, and Stefanie Matabang (Comparative Literature); sponsored and hosted by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nKeynote Speakers: Roland Betancourt (UC Irvine) and Nicholas R. Jones (UC Davis) \nResearch on the premodern intersection of race\, gender\, and sexuality has steadily increased as a result of the efforts of a diverse group of scholars working across traditional periodization and geographic limits. Nevertheless\, a great deal of work remains to be done to understand the many varieties of ways such aspects of identities intersected and were mobilized or challenged in the marking of difference. This two-day conference that will highlight the new and exciting work being undertaken with regard to these questions. \nRegister to attend the conference on Zoom. \n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, MAY 20\, 2022\n\n\n9:00 am\nOpening Remarks\n\n\nSession I: Bending Gender\, Interchanging Sexuality\n\n\n9:10\nIzzy Howard (University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill)\n“‘I kan nat glose’: Queering Illegible Signification in Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale“\n\n\n9:30\nSachini Seneviratne (Open University of Sri Lanka)\n“Race\, gender and female sexuality in Webster’s The White Devil“\n\n\n9:50\nQuestions and Discussion\n\n\n10:20\nBreak\n\n\nSession II: Keynote Lecture\n\n\n10:45\nRoland Betancourt (University of California\, Irvine)\n“The Case of Manuel I Komnenos: Gender\, Sexuality\, and Racialization in Byzantium”\n\n\nSession III:Text-turizing Constructions of Alterity and Power\n\n\n11:30\nPatricia Martins Marcos (University 0f California\, San Diego)\n“‘The Detestable Stain of the Other’: Imbecillitas\, Race\,and the Pathologies of Difference”\n\n\n11:50\nChris Halsted (Washington & Lee University)\n“Waldrada the She-Wolf: Gendering the Steppe in Tenth-Century Europe”\n\n\n12:10 pm\nKathryn Smith (Auburn University)\n“From ‘The Great Whore’ to ‘The Virgin Queen’: An Analysis of Letters\, Speeches\, and Poems Within the Political Trials and Scandals of Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Elizabeth I”\n\n\n12:30\nQuestions and Discussion\n\n\n1:00\nLunch Break\n\n\nSession IV: Art Articulating Blackness\n\n\n2:00\nTony Yanzhang Cui (University of Maryland\, College Park)\n“So Many Things at Once\, Yet No One at All: Black Eunuchs\, Kunlun Slaves\, and the Allure of Others”\n\n\n2:20\nCait DiMartino (Northwestern University)\n“The Materiality of Race and the Black Madonna of Le Puy-en-Velay”\n\n\n2:40\nDana Hogan (Duke University)\n“Artemisia Gentileschi and Bathsheba’s Black Maid: Intersectionality in Italian Baroque Art”\n\n\n3:00\nQuestions and Discussion\n\n\n3:30\nEnd of Day One\n\n\nSATURDAY\, MAY 21\, 2022\n\n\n9:00 am\nMorning Welcome\n\n\nSession V: African Intersectionalities in the Iberian World\n\n\n9:10\nEduardo Dawson (Notre Dame University)\n“African Experiences with the ‘slave of the slaves’ Pedro Claver: Black Religious Speaking in Early 17th-Century Cartagena de Indias”\n\n\n9:30\nMarina Schneider (University of Texas at Austin)\n“Staging Brotherhood: Confraternities and Processions in Early Modern Iberian Cities”\n\n\n9:50\nZainab Cheema (Florida Gulf Coast University)\n“Performing African Intersectionalities from Lope de Vega’s Comedias“\n\n\n10:10\nQuestions and Discussion\n\n\n10:30\nBreak\n\n\nSession VI: Keynote Lecture\n\n\n10:45\nNicholas Jones (University of California\, Davis)\n“Cervantine Blackness”\n\n\nSession VII: Female Agency and (Defying) Political Authority\n\n\n11:30\nElla Schalski (George Washington University)\n“The Racial Politics of Gender and the Construction of White Women’s Englishness in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam“\n\n\n11:50\nMuhammed Salem (American University in Cairo)\n“Whiteness as a Standard of Colonial Patriarchy inThe Masque of Blackness and The Tragedy of Mariam“\n\n\n12:10 pm\nHilde Neus (Instituut voor Maatschappijwetenschappelijk Onderzoek)\n“Intersectionality in 18th-Century Suriname”\n\n\n12:30\nAmanda Leong (University of California\, Merced)\n“Re-thinking Medieval Race\, Female Javānmardī and Class in Haft Paykar: An ‘Interracial’ Love Story Between a Persian King and His Chinese Musician Slave Girl”\n\n\n12:50\nQuestions and Discussion\n\n\n1:20\nClosing Remarks\n\n\n1:30\nEnd of Conference\n\n\n\nImages – Top Left: Andrés Sánchez Galque\, Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas\, 1599\, Museo del Prado. Top Right: Mural in the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves near Turpan\, Xinjiang\, China\, 9th c. AD. Bottom Left: Farewells of Abu Zayd and al-Harith before the Return to Mecca\, 1237 (Paris\, Bibliothèque Nationale\, MS. arab. 5847\, fo. 22). Bottom Right: Hieronymus Bosch\, The Garden of Earthly Delights\, 1490-1500\, Museo del Prado.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/intersectionality-in-the-early-global-world/
CATEGORIES:MEMSA
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SUMMARY:CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar: Iranian 250
DESCRIPTION:Paul Losensky (Indiana University)\n“A Common Thread: Three Literary Careers in Early Modern Persia\, England\, and Spain” \nThe emergence of the concept of the Global Renaissance has brought new attention to the political\, diplomatic\, economic\, and artistic connections between major civilizational centers in the early modern period. For the most part\, however\, literature has remained on the sidelines of this discussion. The talk will consider the stakes and challenges of bringing the vast Persophone literary sphere into conversation with contemporary literatures of Europe. It examines the lives and works of three poets who rose to the heights of literary fame from mercantile and craft families that were involved\, in one way or another\, with cloth and clothing: the Persian poet Mohtasham Kashani (1528-1588)\, the English poet Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)\, and the Spanish poet Lope de Vega (1562-1635). Following this “common thread\,” I will examine the economic and social circumstances in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries that allowed for this kind of social mobility in both Iran and Europe and how they effected literary institutions in three nations separated by religion and language\, resulting in broadly commensurate poetic cultures that can be profitably woven together in comparative dialogue. \nPaul Losensky (Ph.D. University of Chicago\, 1993) is Professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University\, Bloomington\, where he teaches Persian language and literature\, comparative studies of Western and Middle Eastern literatures\, and translation studies. His research focusses on Persian literary historiography\, biographical writing\, and the Fresh-Style poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His publications include Welcoming Fighāni: Imitation and Poetic Individuality in the Safavid-Mughal Ghazal (1998)\, Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God’s Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis (2009)\, and In the Bazaar of Love: Selected Poems of Amir Khusrau (2013\, with Sunil Sharma). He has authored numerous articles on Persian literature for journals such as Iranian Studies and contributed to Encyclopedia of Islam and Encyclopaedia Iranica. He is a former fellow at the National Humanities Center. \nIranian 250\, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives\,”  taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC)\, offers a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation. The seminar fosters interdisciplinary conversations among graduate students from a plurality of departments and programs\, including Islamic Studies\, Gender Studies\, History\, Art History\, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, English\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and students with no prior knowledge of Persian are welcome to enroll. Twice a month\, international scholars will deliver lectures focusing on their current research trajectories. Key topics: epics and ethnic identity\, philosophical poetics and occasion\, mysticism and performative queerness\, Judeo-Islamic literary intersections\, ideals of beauty and lyric performance\, literary modernity from Ottoman Turkey to Moghul India\, German romantic and modernist appropriations of the Persian poetic canon\, etc. In collaboration with the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies. \nThursday\, May 19 at 9:00 am Pacific Time \nRegister here for online attendance on Zoom.\nImage: Painting from Baysunghur’s manuscript of Sa’di’s Gulistan\, Herat. Chester Beatty Library\, Dublin.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-iranian-250-may19/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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SUMMARY:CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar: Iranian 250
DESCRIPTION:Julia Rubanovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents an online lecture titled “The Tale of Yūsuf and Zulaykhā through the Eyes of a Jewish Poet”. \nThis talk will examine a string of episodes from the tale of Yūsuf and Zulaykhā embedded into the “Book of Genesis” (Bereshit-nāma)\, a biblical poem composed by the fourteenth-century Judeo-Persian poet Shāhīn. Shāhīn’s work is situated at a convenient juncture for comparative analysis: it is preceded by the poem Yūsif-u Zulaykhā erroneously ascribed to Firdausī (composed at the end of the eleventh century) and followed by Jāmī’s famous mathnavī. While juxtaposing several key episodes of the tale in the three poems\, Dr. Rubanovich will attempt to highlight the peculiar interpretation that the Jewish poet lends to the patently Islamic subject-matter\, maneuvering between his commitment to the biblical source on the one hand\, and the desire to gratify his addressees on the other. \nJulia Rubanovich (PhD 2005) is Senior Lecturer in Persian Language and Literature and Chair of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests center on medieval Persian literature\, including Judeo-Persian; the Alexander-Romance in the Islamic domain; the mechanisms of literary reception\, specifically in connection with Firdausī’s Shāh-nāma; the evolution of literary canon; folk literature\, notably prose dāstāns\, and the problem of medieval orality; the concepts of authorship and the emergence of authorial self-consciousness in medieval Persian literature. She is presently working on the scholarly edition and annotated translation of the Tale of Joseph/Yūsuf and Zulaykhā in a fourteenth-century Judeo-Persian epic poem Bereshīt-nāma (Book of Genesis) by Shāhīn. \nIranian 250\, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives\,”  taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC)\, offers a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation. The seminar fosters interdisciplinary conversations among graduate students from a plurality of departments and programs\, including Islamic Studies\, Gender Studies\, History\, Art History\, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, English\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and students with no prior knowledge of Persian are welcome to enroll. Twice a month\, international scholars will deliver lectures focusing on their current research trajectories. Key topics: epics and ethnic identity\, philosophical poetics and occasion\, mysticism and performative queerness\, Judeo-Islamic literary intersections\, ideals of beauty and lyric performance\, literary modernity from Ottoman Turkey to Moghul India\, German romantic and modernist appropriations of the Persian poetic canon\, etc. In collaboration with the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies. \nWednesday\, May 11 at 9:00 am Pacific Time \nRegister here for online attendance on Zoom.\nImage: Painting from Baysunghur’s manuscript of Sa’di’s Gulistan\, Herat. Chester Beatty Library\, Dublin.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-iranian-250-may11/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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SUMMARY:California Medieval History Seminar\, Spring 2022
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2022 session of the California Medieval History Seminar will take place at its original venue\, the Huntington Library. The seminar meets to discuss four pre-distributed research papers  Participants are scholars in the field at various stages of their careers. All attendees at the seminar are expected to read the papers in advance and discuss the research. Speakers and paper topics are announced by e-mail. Click here for additional information about the seminar. \nThe authors and papers under discussion at this session of the seminar are: \n\nJennifer Jahner (Caltech)\n“Apocalypse Unfurled: Origins and End Times in the Genealogical Roll”\nFranziska Kleybolte (Stanford University)\n“‘Thrown to the Ground’: The Christian Appropriation of Synagogues on the Iberian Peninsula in the 14th and 15th Centuries—Introductory Words”\nThomas Barton (University of San Diego)\n“Muslims on the Public Stage: Non-Christian Municipal Service\, Christian Hegemony\, and Hybridity in Late-Medieval Iberia”\nPiotr Górecki (UC\, Riverside)\n“Irreducible Ambiguity? The Line Between Custom and Statute in the Lawmaking of Thirteenth-Century Poland.”\n\nAdvance registration is required. Participants must be graduate students or faculty to attend unless pre-approved by the organizers. \nTo be added to the announcement list or\, if you wish to attend but are uncertain if you qualify\, please write to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu. \nSeating is limited and by advance registration only. A fee may apply. More information about the seminar is at cegs.ucla.edu/seminars. \nOrganized by Professor Piotr Górecki\, Department of History\, University of California\, Riverside. \n9:30 am – 4:00 pm Pacific Time
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-history-seminar-spring-2022/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar
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SUMMARY:CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar: Iranian 250
DESCRIPTION:Justine Landau (Sorbonne)\n“An Epic Tribute to the Lyric Poem” \nPoetry does things with words. In the premodern world\, this fact is perhaps nowhere acknowledged more unanimously than in the Persianate sources. Chief among the arts of language\, lyric poetry is associated with “licit magic\,” after the Arabic saying\, since its mastery is said to conduce to “the accomplishment of great things in the order of the world” (Nezâmi ‘Aruzi\, Chahâr maqâle\, II). The philosophers of the classical period discussed the powers of the poetic art and its unique effect on the imagination. In Arabic and in Persian\, the successors of Fârâbi developed the doctrine of the “poetic syllogism” to account for its workings. Writing in the mid-thirteenth century\, Nasir al-Din Tusi provides a striking account of why “good poems are more effective than sermons” in impressing the minds of the listeners. Yet\, from Beyhaqi and Ghazâli to Jâmi and Mollâ Sadrâ\, poets\, critics\, historians\, theologians and prose writers all pay homage to the art of the poet in some way. Unsurprisingly\, the Shâhnâmeh itself honors the lyric poets. In several instances in his great epic\, Ferdowsi stages episodes of lyric performance\, and their consequences on the narrative. Whether depicting the craft of minstrels at court\, the boasting of heroes or the lament of warriors after a defeat\, these scenes sound a distinctive note within the epic verse in which they are embedded. How can a song inform\, or deflect\, the destiny of kings? And how does Ferdowsi pay tribute to lyric poetry? The philosophers’ perspective might help us elucidate the far-reaching consequences of some remarkable poems in the Book of Kings. \nJustine Landau is Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) of Persian Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and a member of the Centre de Recherche sur le Monde iranien (CeRMI) in Paris. Her research focuses on classical Persian literature\, in particular early Persian court poetry\, poetics and literary theory\, and comparative literature. Before joining the Sorbonne Nouvelle\, she taught at Harvard University and at the University of California in Los Angeles\, and was a researcher at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her publications include various articles\, book chapters\, translations\, and a monograph\, De rythme & de raison. Lecture croisée de deux traités de poétique persans du XIIIe siècle (Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle\, 2013). Her next book project explores the aesthetics of occasion and circumstance in early Persian court poetry. \nIranian 250\, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives\,”  taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC)\, offers a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation. The seminar fosters interdisciplinary conversations among graduate students from a plurality of departments and programs\, including Islamic Studies\, Gender Studies\, History\, Art History\, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, English\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and students with no prior knowledge of Persian are welcome to enroll. Twice a month\, international scholars will deliver lectures focusing on their current research trajectories. Key topics: epics and ethnic identity\, philosophical poetics and occasion\, mysticism and performative queerness\, Judeo-Islamic literary intersections\, ideals of beauty and lyric performance\, literary modernity from Ottoman Turkey to Moghul India\, German romantic and modernist appropriations of the Persian poetic canon\, etc. In collaboration with the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies. \nTuesday\, May 3 at 9:00 am Pacific Time \nRegister here for online attendance on Zoom.\nImage: Kay Kavus and the minstrel\, Patna\, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library\, MS H.L. 3787-3788\, 1440\, 067v.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-iranian-250-may3/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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SUMMARY:'Aqām al-ḥajj Fulān': The Leaders of Abbasid Pilgrimage in the Early Islamic Annalistic Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (d. 193/809) allegedly led the ḥajj nine times over the course of his twenty-three-year reign\, in 188/804 he was also the last ʿAbbāsid caliph to lead the pilgrimage rites. The pilgrimage served as a means of legitimation as well as a place of succession and nomination\, with Hārūn and his wife Zubayda bt. Jaʿfar (from whence the Darb Zubayda) in particular undergoing extensive infrastructural works on the pilgrimage route. The leaders of the ḥajj – and of the summer expeditions (ṣawāʾif) – are the most consistently provided information in the early Islamic annalistic tradition (tawārīkh)\, being found at the end of each year\, reflecting the place of the event in the Islamic calendar. For the early ʿAbbāsid period\, the pilgrimage akhbār are tremendously consistent\, demonstrating few discrepancies across late ninth/early tenth century sources (ten disagreements across one hundred and one notices). The agreement between the early Baṣran traditionist Khalı̄fa b. Khayyāṭ (d. 240/854) and al-Ṭabarī (d.310/923) demonstrates that this information was circulating in a complete form by the mid-ninth century. This contrasts with the leaders of the Umayyads pilgrimage season\, which is reported with significant variation in the same sources. The near unanimity epitomises the consistency of the sources for the Abbasid period\, further evidencing their centralising narratives. The most well-known leaders are undoubtedly the caliphs and their sons\, leading it twenty-five times\, when they were not present it was nearly always a member of the ʿAbbāsid family. This talk collates the ʿAbbāsid leadership reports (from 132/750 – 232/847) across our early annalistic sources and aims to answer the major questions that a detailed overview of the material raises: who was leading the ḥajj for the early ʿAbbāsids\, where does this material derive from and what is the connection between pilgrimage ceremonial and caliphal nomination? \nLeone Pecorini Goodall is a third year PhD student in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh/St. Andrews (supervisors: Marie Legendre\, Yannis Stouraitis and Tim Greenwood). His thesis explores the patterns and means of succession of the late Umayyad and early Abbasids\, focusing on over-looked aspects of succession such as the matrilineal line\, age\, eligibility and ‘failed’ heirs. His research makes use of Arabic\, Armenian\, and Greek language sources\, adopting a source-critical and comparative approach. \nPlease register to attend by Friday\, April 22\, 2022 at 12pm. \nOrganized and sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures; co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and UCLA Islamic Studies Program.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/aqam-al-%e1%b8%a5ajj-fulan-the-leaders-of-abbasid-pilgrimage-in-the-early-islamic-annalistic-tradition/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, "Throne of Blood"
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare’s Macbeth seems to come across best in black-and-white. The recent release of a stunning new version of this blood-soaked tragedy\, directed by Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand\, has spurred renewed interest in the play and its history in film. Throne of Blood\, Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 Japanese reworking of Macbeth (also in black and white) has often been called the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made\, with rave reviews from T.S. Eliot\, Harold Bloom\, and a range of renowned international directors of stage and screen. \nProfessor Robert N. Watson (English\, UCLA)\, winner of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and author of a recent book on Throne of Blood will analyze some filmed versions of Macbeth in discussion with Senior Lecturer Stephen Dickey (English\, UCLA)\, also a winner of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and teacher of courses on adaptations of Shakespeare. \nRobert N. Watson received his degrees from Yale and Stanford\, and was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Harvard before coming to UCLA in 1986\, where he has served as Chair of the Department of English\, Chair of the Faculty of the UCLA College of Letters and Science\, Associate Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation\, and Associate Dean of Humanities. He has won national senior research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities\, as well as a UC President’s Fellowship. He recently spent a year as a visiting Senior Fellow at Trinity College\, Cambridge University\, and a term as the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Oxford’s University’s Christ Church College. \nProfessor Watson teaches mostly Shakespeare\, English Renaissance poetry\, and historical ecocriticism.  He has been awarded the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Prize\, and the Gold Shield prize\, given annually to one faculty member at the university for outstanding contributions in research\, teaching\, and public service. He was also the first holder of the Neikirk Chair for Innovative Undergraduate Education. \nHis environmental book Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance\, won the Dietz Memorial Prize\, “awarded annually for the best book published in early modern studies\,” as well as the ASLE Prize for the best book of ecocriticism of 2005-07; and he has continued to work and publish on environmental and animal-protection issues. His other books have studied Shakespeare\, Ben Jonson\, the fear of death in the Renaissance\, and the malfunctions of cultural evolution. He has edited volumes of Jonson’s plays and (with his departmental colleague Professor Braunmuller) the new Arden edition of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, and others in dozens of other literary journals here and overseas. \nStephen J. Dickey is Senior Lecturer in the English Department where he has received numerous teaching prizes\, including the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.  He offers various courses in Shakespeare\, the English Renaissance\, and the Beat Generation\, as well as introductory courses in poetry and drama. \nFrom 2002-16\, Dickey served on the faculty of the Folger Teaching Shakespeare Institute\, an NEH-supported program for high school teachers from across the country\, held biennially at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington\, D.C. \nRecent publications include studies of Shakespeare’s second tetralogy of history plays\, the Elizabethans’ favorite sport of bearbaiting\, and Shakespeare allusions in American political writing and oratory during the Civil War era. In 2016 he curated “The Bard Goes West” at the Central Library in Los Angeles – an exhibition growing out of the Folger’s “America’s Shakespeare” show commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. His latest publication\, “Beats Visiting Hell\,” surveys the epic motif of the katabasis\, or journey to the underworld\, in Beat works like Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl\,” Jack Kerouac’s “Big Sur\,” and William Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch.” \nApril 25 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time.\nRegister here for onsite attendance in Royce 306 or online attendance on Zoom.\nPlease note that all in-person attendees are asked to wear face masks.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-throne-of-blood-by-robert-n-watson/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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SUMMARY:Comparatism and Slavery: Methods\, Definitions\, Issues
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Professor Paulin Ismard (History\, Université Aix-Marseille). Organized by the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory and co-sponsored by CMRS-CEGS. \nAbout the Lecture: Professor Ismard will question the benefit that specialists of Greco-Roman slavery can gain from dialogue with the historians of slavery from other periods. Considering the question of the relationship between debt\, servitude and slavery in archaic Greece\, he will first show how recent approaches in the field of the global history of labour and slavery are successful in renewing our understanding of the alleged birth of chattel-slavery in Greece. But such a research perspective cannot grasp in all its complexity the functioning of societies of classical antiquity\, which placed the institution of slavery at the center of their functioning and collective imaginary. A “morphological” comparative approach\, redefined both in its scales of observation and in its methods and goals\, is then necessary. Professor Ismard will try to show this in the main part of the presentation\, by focusing on the methodological questions raised in a recent collective publication he edited\, Les mondes de l’esclavage. Une histoire comparée (Paris\, Seuil\, 2021). \nAbout the Speaker: Paulin Ismard (born in 1978)\, is Professor in Ancient History at the Aix Marseille University. His work focuses mainly on the history of slavery in ancient Greece of classical and hellenistic periods\, in its political dimension (Democracy’s slaves. A Political history of ancient Greece\, Harvard\, 2017\, on public slavery) and its legal aspects (La cité et ses esclaves. Institution\, fictions\, experiences\, Paris\, Seuil\, 2019). He has recently edited a collective publication on the comparative history of slavery : Les mondes de l’esclavage. Une histoire comparée (Paris\, Seuil\, 2021). He also works on politics in ancient Greece (La cité des réseaux. Athènes et ses associations\, VIe-Ier s. avt. J.-C\, Paris\, Publ. de la Sorbonne\, 2010 ; L’événement Socrate\, Paris\, Flammarion\, 2013). He has been member of the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton (2015-2016) and the Center for Hellenic Studies of Washington. \nAdditional information at https://ect.humspace.ucla.edu/event/paulin-ismard-lecture/ \nRegister here for online attendance on Zoom.\nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory co-directed by Giulia Sissa (Political Science/Classics) and Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). Generously sponsored by the Dean of Humanities and the Dean of Social Sciences and co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/comparatism-and-slavery-methods-definitions-issues/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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SUMMARY:CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar: Iranian 250
DESCRIPTION:Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University) \n“Reading Niẓāmi Ganjavī’s Leylī u Majnūn as a Novel” \nNeither the Byzantines nor the Persians had any generic name for the Greek and Persian novels that were composed in the 12th century. Beholden to older (Attic Greek and Abbasid Arabic) models\, the taxonomies of literary forms in both geographically adjacent literary cultures lagged behind the innovations of literary practice. Neither did Constantinopolitan literary culture\, centered in the courts of the Komnenian dynasty\, produce any theoretical reflection on Theodore Prodromos’s sudden revival of the ancient Greek novel in the 1130s\, nor did Persian-Arabic rhetoric (balāghat) register Niẓāmi of Ganja’s novelistic retelling of an ancient Arab tale in 1188. \nAnd yet\, scholarship on Niẓāmi’s poem has failed to read it as novelistic because it has failed to recognize its parodies and ironizations of multiple genres. This paper sets up a comparison of Theodore Prodromos’s Rhodanthe and Dosikles and Niẓāmī’s Leylī u Majnūn\, arguing that both belong to what Mikhail Bakhtin called “the prehistory of novelistic discourse”. Prodromos ironized the ancient Greek novel to induce laughter at rhetorical artifice\, his ekphrastic episodes working as reflections on the nature of craft. Niẓāmi turned Majnūn\, an Abbasid-Buyid pastoral ideal\, into a barbarian locus of authenticity to induce reflection on the commodification of the qaṣīda or panegyric in Seljuq courts. The paper concludes by remarking on the stakes of reading Niẓāmi’s Leylī u Majnūn as a novel and on divergences and convergences in the subsequent careers of the Greek and Persian novel. \nPrashant Keshavmurthy is Associate Professor of Persian-Iranian Studies in the Institute of Islamic Studies\, McGill University. He is the author of Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark (Routledge\, 2016) and co-translator of Sohrab Sepehri\, The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation (Brill\, 2022). He is currently at work on a book on the relations between desire and artisanship in the quintet of Nizami of Ganja (d.1209)\, inaugurator of reflection on this relationship in the Persianate world. \nIranian 250\, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives\,”  taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC)\, offers a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation. The seminar fosters interdisciplinary conversations among graduate students from a plurality of departments and programs\, including Islamic Studies\, Gender Studies\, History\, Art History\, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, English\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and students with no prior knowledge of Persian are welcome to enroll. Twice a month\, international scholars will deliver lectures focusing on their current research trajectories. Key topics: epics and ethnic identity\, philosophical poetics and occasion\, mysticism and performative queerness\, Judeo-Islamic literary intersections\, ideals of beauty and lyric performance\, literary modernity from Ottoman Turkey to Moghul India\, German romantic and modernist appropriations of the Persian poetic canon\, etc. In collaboration with the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies. \nMonday\, April 18 at 9:00 am Pacific Time \nRegister here for online attendance on Zoom.\n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-iranian-250-apr18/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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SUMMARY:CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar: Iranian 250
DESCRIPTION:Leili Anvar (Sorbonne\, Paris)\n“From the Desert of Arabia to the Gardens of Herat: Wanderings of Majnûn\, the Poet-Lover” \nIn this presentation\, we will follow Majnûn in his journeys from the Arabic poems to the great Persian masnavis (composed by Nezâmi\, Amir Khosrow Dehlavi and Jâmi). We shall see how -with the development of sufism and its influence upon Persian literature- the character of Majnûn has been turned into a hero of mystic love and also how Leylâ became Leyli and a real character\, a lover herself and a theophany. The presentation will include the projection and commentary of a number of miniatures illustrating the manuscripts of the masnavis. \nIranian 250\, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives\,”  taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC)\, offers a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation. The seminar fosters interdisciplinary conversations among graduate students from a plurality of departments and programs\, including Islamic Studies\, Gender Studies\, History\, Art History\, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, English\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and students with no prior knowledge of Persian are welcome to enroll. Twice a month\, international scholars will deliver lectures focusing on their current research trajectories. Key topics: epics and ethnic identity\, philosophical poetics and occasion\, mysticism and performative queerness\, Judeo-Islamic literary intersections\, ideals of beauty and lyric performance\, literary modernity from Ottoman Turkey to Moghul India\, German romantic and modernist appropriations of the Persian poetic canon\, etc. In collaboration with the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies. \nWednesday\, April 13 at 9:00 am Pacific Time \nRegister here for online attendance on Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-cegs-research-seminar-iranian-250-april13/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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