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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, "Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam. Visualizing the Qur’an from Byzantium to Filippino Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf"
DESCRIPTION:What does a flying bull with a half moon on its belly in Filippino Lippi’s 1502 painting\, the Adoration of the Golden Calf\, have in common with Muhammad\, as a character of Dante’s Comedy? This is the question that Roberta Morosini tries to answer by following the journey of a legend traveling in the Oriental Mediterranean. She argues that what Lippi’s painting and Dante’s Muhammad have in common is a legend of a celestial delivery of the “bull law\,” the Qur’an and Moses’s Tablets of the Law. Just as Moses received the Tablets of the Law from God on Mount Sinai\, the Qur’an\, written according to Thomas Aquinas by mixing fables and a rippled Bible\, is carried by the bull on its horns. Taking us from Medieval Christian Byzantium to the depictions of Muhammad and Averroës in the iconographic tradition\, to the Rome of Oliviero Carafa in the events following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 through Dante’s Comedy\, the real protagonists of Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam\, a story narrated through texts and images\, are the Book and the Mediterranean as spaces of transmission of knowledge. Morosini provides a groundbreaking reading of Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf as an ancient scene of anti-Islam propaganda while shedding new light on Dante’s construction of the cultural other\, on his spaces of otherness\, and on the importance the poet gives to books that bring unity and give form to what lacks it\, like his book\, the Comedy. \n \nRoberta Morosini (UCLA)\nMassimo Ciavolella (UCLA)\nMarino Forlino (Scripps College)\nAkash Kumar (UC Berkeley)\nM. Rahim Shayegan (UCLA) \nIn discussion with Roberto Tottoli (University of Naples “L’ Orientale”). \nRegister to attend in Royce 306
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-book-talk-by-roberta-morosini/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T170000
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SUMMARY:Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew\, "St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home\, c. 1660"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: At the end of the 1650s\, Melchiorre Cafà\, a Maltese sculptor\, was newly established in Rome. Rome was the most significant site for sculptural production in Europe at that time. It was also a Golden Age of sculpture as artists vied for papal commissions and pushed the limits of their medium. They transformed hard stone into weightless apparitions. But\, in his early days in the Caput Mundi\, Cafà returned home conceptually. He carved in the humble material of wood the patron saint of his island\, St. Paul\, to be sent back to Malta. Today the sculpture is at the center of local devotional practices\, still carried in processions celebrating the Apostle’s shipwreck in Malta. Our time is connected to Paul’s and to Cafà’s in this living tradition. A study of Cafà’s St. Paul is one of Mediterranean cultural continuities\, and a meditation on the ethnographic gaze of the art historian. \nShawon Kinew is an art historian of early modern Southern Europe at Harvard University and specializes in seventeenth-century Rome’s art and theory. Her research on Roman Baroque sculpture focuses on the Maltese artist Melchiorre Cafà\, who is the subject of a book manuscript in preparation\, Baroque Softness: Melchiorre Cafà and the Sculpture of Mysticism. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nMore information about past Hammer Art History Lectures can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/hammer-art-history-lecture-by-shawon-kinew/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Hammer Art History Annual Lecture,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T190000
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SUMMARY:William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Carla Pestana
DESCRIPTION:Striving for Expertise \nGuest Speaker: Carla Pestana (UCLA) \nScholars often refer to Samuel Pepys as an early example of a state bureaucrat\, his career as a civil servant in the burgeoning Restoration bureaucracy offering documentation of an important shift in governance. Of equal note—and perhaps greater interest—is the way Pepys himself aimed for expertise. Not content to serve as a cog in a larger bureaucratic machine\, Pepys sought to educate himself about the workings of the navy and of sailing ships\, going beyond the demands of his own office to achieve a deeper understanding. In doing so\, he once again revealed his insecurities\, while he also indulged in personal rivalries and resisted the limitations placed on him in his role as a civil servant. \nCarla Gardina Pestana is Distinguished Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World. Her research focuses on 17th and 18th century Atlantic worlds\, especially the English Atlantic\, the Caribbean\, and U.S. religious history. Professor Pestana has published books on religion and empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, most notably Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (2009). \nProfessor William Matthews\, a member of UCLA’s English Department faculty and the Center’s second Director (1970-1972)\, was an authority on the life and writings of the seventeenth-century British wit and diarist Samuel Pepys. With the assistance of his wife Lois\, Matthews and his co-editor Robert Latham produced the definitive edition (eleven volumes) of Pepys’s works\, which was published incrementally between 1971 and 1983. The Matthewses’ will\, which endows the Center’s annual lecture and also a festive dinner\, specifies that the event should be scheduled to coincide with Pepys’s own annual celebration commemorating the surgery he endured on March 26\, 1658. \nRegister to attend in Luskin Conference Center\, Laureate Classroom \nMore information about past William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys lectures can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/will-and-lois-matthews-samuel-pepys-lecture-guest-speaker-carla-pestana/
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T113000
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SUMMARY:24th Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Presentations\n\n\n\n9:00-9:10\nIntroductory remarks\nGail Lenhoff (UCLA)\n\n\n9:10-9:40\nCarol Stevens (Colgate University)\n“Sexual Assault and Petrine Law: A Few Surprises”\n\n\n9:40-10:10\nAnn Kleimola (University of Nebraska)\n“Thoughts and Prayers: Russian-Lithuanian Negotiations about Prisoners of War after Orsha (1514)”\n\n\n10:10-10:20\nBreak\n\n\n10:20-10:50\nDavid Prestel (MSU)\n“The Rus’ Primary Chronicle: Chronos\, Kairos and the Complexities of Divine Providence”\n\n\n10:50-11:20\nJanet Martin (University of Miami)\n“Pomeshchiki in Muscovite Armies: The Pivotal Role of Grand Prince Vasily III”\n\n\n\nCo-Sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/winter-workshop-in-medieval-and-early-modern-slavic-studies/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T160000
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2025)
DESCRIPTION: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 emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nMore information can be found here. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nRegister to attend via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-winter-2025/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T170000
DTSTAMP:20241028T020958Z
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SUMMARY:"Lost in Transfer? Misunderstanding\, Miscommunication\, and the Production of Knowledge in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean"
DESCRIPTION:Organizers: Stefania Tutino (UCLA)\, Andrea Aldo Robiglio (KU Leuven)\, and Eva Del Soldato (UPenn) \nThe question of how knowledge transfers has become central for understanding the culture of the premodern world in a global perspective. This workshop is interested in exploring the question of what happens when transfer fails: what happens when knowledge is not “translated” properly? What kind of knowledge is produced when the chain of transmission breaks down or malfunctions? We think that miscommunication is as important as communication\, and we propose to explore this theme both by examining specific case studies of miscommunication and by investigating what they tell us about the structure and modes by which knowledge is produced\, which in turn allows us to get to the question of the very category of “transfer” from a philosophical and theoretical perspective. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nPresenter Abstracts \nConference Schedule: \n\n\n\n9:30\nCoffee\, fresh fruit\, pastries\n\n\n10:00\nWelcoming Remarks (Zrinka Stahuljak\, Director CMRS-CEGS) \n\n\n10:15\nPaper 1: Lost in Translation: Early Modern Jesuits and the Creed (Emanuele Colombo\, Boston College)\n\n\n10:45\nPaper 2: Mistranslating Indigenous America in the ‘Age of Reason’: Epistemological Hybridity and Colonial Violence (Diego Pirillo\, University of California\, Berkeley)\n\n\n11:15\nPaper 3: Oikonomia Understood and Misunderstood: The Latin and English Reception of Byzantine Chemical Terminology (Alexandre M. Roberts\, University of Southern California)\n\n\n11:45\nBreak\n\n\n12:00\nDiscussion 1: (Paper 1\, 2\, 3) – Chaired by Matthew Acton (KU Leuven & University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’)\n\n\n12:45\nLunch Break (on Royce 306 loggia)\n\n\n2:00\nPaper 4: Rebellious\, but Effective Medieval Translations into Arabic (Cecilia Martini Bonadeo\, University of Padua)\n\n\n2:30\nPaper 5: Hang Time: Gambling on the Future in Late Medieval Italy (Karla Mallette\, University of Michigan)\n\n\n3:00\nPaper 6: Communicating in Manuscript\, Miscommunicating in Print: The Siege of Curzola (1571) and Its Media Aftermath (Ivan Lupić\, University of Rijeka)\n\n\n3:30\nBreak\n\n\n3:45\nDiscussion 2: (Paper 4\, 5\, 6) – Chaired by Sarah Marie Leitenberger (University of Pennsylvania)\n\n\n4:30\nClosing Remarks\n\n\n5:00\nReception
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/lost-in-transfer-misunderstanding-miscommunication-and-the-production-of-knowledge-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250203T170000
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SUMMARY:Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Kristina Richardson
DESCRIPTION:“Between Two Worlds: The Roma and Early Global Print Cultures” \nGuest Speaker: Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia) \nRichardson will show that Roma and other traveling people not only utilized block printing between 800 and 1450 in North Africa and West Asia but also introduced print technology in their new homes when they migrated to Central Europe in the 1410s. Traveling people were the links bridging the early print cultures of North Africa\, West Asia\, and Central Europe. \nKristina Richardson is the John L. Nau Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on premodern non-elite Arab history\, particularly the history of people with disabilities\, users of sign language\, Romani groups (ghurabā’)\, craftspeople\, and enslaved laborers and entertainers. Her current book project is Black Basra: Race\, Labor\, and Piety in Early Islamic History. \nThe History of the Book Lecture series\, established in 1993 through the efforts of Richard and Mary Rouse\, provides an annual venue for internationally recognized authorities on medieval and Renaissance books to present their expertise at UCLA. The lecture’s focus alternates each year between medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books. The topics explored in past lectures were book and manuscript illustration\, the development of printing\, early book printers and sellers\, the book trade\, and medieval and Renaissance book and manuscript collections. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nRegister to attend via ZOOM \nMore information about past Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book lectures can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/richard-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture-guest-speaker-kristina-richardson/
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T170000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group Winter 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students\, graduate students\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term\, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages\, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No preparation or expertise is required – only enthusiasm! \nFor our Winter 2025 meeting \, we will meet on Jan 24\, 3:00 – 5:00PM\, in Kaplan 193 \, and we will read a selection from Gregory of Tours’ Libri historiarum X (Ten Books of History) (in English and in Latin). Join us for a discussion of scandals\, revolutions\, and unruly nuns\, led by Jamie Kreiner (Professor and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History). A calendar of planned meetings is HERE. Handouts of each reading will be available during the group\, but are also linked in the calendar below and can also be found HERE. \nFor readings and calendars\, see HERE or scan the QR code on the attached flyer. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu) \nCo-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-winter-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T150000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Iberian Architecture Lecture by Fernando Vegas and Camilla Mileto\, "Earthen Architecture and Heritage Conservation: Case Studies from Spain"
DESCRIPTION:Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas will present a hybrid lecture entitled “Earthen Architecture and Heritage Conservation: Case Studies from Spain.” Mileto and Vegas are Professors of Architecture and Historic Preservation at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia\, and directors of the research group Res-Arquitectura: Research\, Conservation\, and Dissemination of Architectural Heritage. They are also current Getty Scholars\, housed in the Getty Conservation Institute. Focusing on earthen materials in the built environment\, like the use of rammed earth or tile vaulting\, Mileto and Vegas take an innovative approach to architecture and its restoration that begins with in-depth research through multidisciplinary methods. They will discuss various fascinating case studies from their practice\, including medieval and modern examples from Spain that exemplify the art of using earthen materials\, an area of Spanish architectural history which is often overlooked. \nThis year\, the Architecture Working Group\, which is directed by Dr. Stella Nair\, professor of Art History\, and co-organized by Sarah Ortiz-Monasterio\, MA-PhD Student in Art History at UCLA\, and Rachel Schloss\, PhD candidate in the Archaeology Interdepartmental Program at the Cotsen Institute\, UCLA. \nThe hybrid event will take place in the Fowler Museum Basement (Cotsen Institute) room A222\, and via Zoom. \nTo register for both in-person and online\, please use this link: http://tinyurl.com/MiletoVegas
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-iberian-architecture-lecture-by-fernando-vegas-and-camilla-mileto/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241122T235959
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SUMMARY:Conference by Domenico Ingenito\, "Nezāmi and the Iranian World"
DESCRIPTION:A two-day symposium and workshop that brings together specialists of Persian literature\, junior faculty\, and graduate students to facilitate in-depth conversations on Nezāmi in a stimulating intellectual environment at UCLA. \nOn the first day of the conference\, “Rediscovering a Persian Treasury of Global Literature\,” invited speakers will deliver lectures that offer insights on the most recent developments in current approaches to the study of Nezāmi’s poetry. On the second day\, a workshop\, entitled “Recrafting Nezāmi Studies between the Real and the Imaginary\,” will offer UCLA graduate students the opportunity to discuss new trajectories in the field of Persian literary studies in unison with Nezāmi specialists. \nThe two-day conference “Nezāmi and the Iranian World” is organized under the auspices of the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions and the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies\, in partnership with the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World\, and convened by Domenico Ingenito. This event is also co-sponsorsed by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nFor more information and to register\, click here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsored-conderence-by-domenico-ingenito-medieval-persian-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Panagiotis Agapitos\, "Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture tackles the question of “authenticity” when writing crime novels set in the remote past. Agapitos’ three novels (published between 2003 and 2009 in Greece)\, which are set in the first half of ninth-century Byzantium during the rule of the last iconoclast emperor\, Theophilos (r. 829–842)\, form the basis of a lively discussion about the challenges of producing a satisfactory narrative. The fairly clear generic conventions of a traditional British-style mystery are not applicable to a medieval culture such as Byzantium\, starting with the basic issue of the absence of detection and the relevant detective. Contemporary fans of crime fiction have broad expectations about what a detective novel should be\, but they also want a feeling of “real” history in the narrative. In his novels\, the speaker tackles this problem by employing various techniques derived from Byzantine rhetoric and narrative\, while\, at the same time using archaeological\, historical and textual studies to offer a medieval yet contemporary crime story that feels medieval but is\, in fact\, postmodern. \nPanagiotis Agapitos is the Gutenberg Distinguished Research Fellow in Byzantine Literature at the University of Mainz. Previously\, he taught for 25 years at the University of Cyprus as Professor of Byzantine Literature and Culture in the Depart – ment of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He studied at the University of Munich and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. In his free time\, he writes “mystery stories” set in ninth-century Byzantium. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Classics\, the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, and the UCLA Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World \nWebsite link: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/panagiotis-agapitos/ \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nEvent is free but RSVPs are requested \nReception to follow
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/lecture-by-panagiotis-agapitos-byzantine-crime-novels-in-the-twenty-first-century-from-history-to-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T200609Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group Fall 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students\, graduate students\, staff\, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term\, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages\, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No preparation or expertise is required – only enthusiasm! \nOur first meeting this year will be on Friday\, Nov. 1\, 2:00-4:00pm\, where we will read the Old Norse-Icelandic Jökuls þáttr Buásonar (The Tale of Jökull Búason). Join us in Kaplan 193 for a discussion of trolls\, princesses\, and wrestling contests\, led by Dr. Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow\, CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies). \nFor readings and calendars\, see HERE or scan the QR code on the attached flyer. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu) \nCo-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-fall-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241027T190000
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SUMMARY:Cappella Romana: In the Footsteps of St. Demetrios
DESCRIPTION:Cappella Romana brings to life the vibrant soundscape of medieval Thessaloniki\, Byzantium’s second largest city. Hear ancient hymns honoring the city’s patron\, the ever-popular St. Demetrios\, sung on the weekend of his annual feast day. Experience ecstatic Byzantine chants for the saint adorning the Cathedral Rite of Constantinople\, sung by the women and men of Cappella Romana. \nThis program\, held under the auspices of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco and the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)\, and the Mary Calfas Janos Program Fund. This program is co-sponsored by Gefyra (Bridge)\, the UCLA College Humanities Division\, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion\, and the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nTickets: $25 General Admission (including service fees)\nFree for children under 18\nAll students age 18+ with valid ID:\nUCLA students can reserve free tickets online with UCLA Logon ID\nNon-UCLA students: Free tickets can be obtained at UCLA Central Ticket Office in advance\, or at event). \nFor parking and other details\, visit: Event Details.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cappella-romana-in-the-footsteps-of-st-demetrios/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241005T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241005T160000
DTSTAMP:20240729T205405Z
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Fall 2024)
DESCRIPTION: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 emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nMore information can be found here. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nRegister to attend via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-fall-2024/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240913T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240913T235959
DTSTAMP:20240411T174941Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking With Materiality in the Early Global World - MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nMORNING SESSION\n\n\n08:00–08:15 PDT\nOpening Words\nChase Caldwell Smith\, Patrick Morgan\, and Sofía Yazpik\n\n\n8:15–8:20 PDT\nWelcome\nZrinka Stahuljak\, Director\, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, UCLA\n\n\nPANEL 1: Making South Asian and Indian Ocean Materialities\nModerator: Chase Caldwell Smith\n\n\n8:20–8:40 PDT\nTraded Silks for the Gods in Kerala: Patola\, its Connections\, Contributions and Shared Identities\nPrerana Nair\, University of Edinburgh\n\n\n8.40–9:00 PDT\nThe Thar Desert – A Material Conception of an Arid Landscape\nParo Tomar\, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence\, Delhi\n\n\n9:00–9:20 PDT\nCross-Imperial Trade\, Family Ties\, and the Domestic Interior in British and French Colonial India\, c. 1700-1748\nRosalind Rothwell\, Duke University\n\n\n9:20–9:40 PDT\nDiscussion & Questions\nPrerana Nair\, Paro Tomar\, and Rosalind Rothwell\n\n\n9:40–10:00 PDT\nFirst Morning Break\n\n\nPANEL 2: Material Archives\nModerator: Patrick Morgan\n\n\n10:00–10:20 PDT\nStitching Stones: Untangling Gender and Craft Performativity at Uxmal\nCassidy Canon\, University of Florida\n\n\n10:20–10:40 PDT\n1 Object\, 100 Faces: Decoding and Recoding Ottoman Material Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe (1700-1800)\nSophia Abplanalp\, University of Vienna\n\n\n10:40–11:00 PDT\n Animal blood in Natural History: investigating violence in scientific illustrations of Portuguese America’s fauna (XVIII century)\nMaria Góes\, Universidade Federal do Pará\n\n\n11:00–11:20 PDT\n Discussion & Questions\nCassidy Canon\, Sophia Abplanalp\, and Maria Góes\n\n\n11:20–11:40 PDT\nSecond Morning Break\n\n\nAFTERNOON SESSION\n\n\nPanel 3: Mobile Materialities\nModerator: Sofía Yazpik\n\n\n11:40 –12:00 PDT\n\nExploring Materiality and Meaning in the Sinking of the Vasa (1626-1628)\nRoman Cain\, The Ohio State University \n\n\n\n12:00–12:20 PDT\nHunting for Clusters: Reconstructing Archival Networks and Document Mobility in Pre-Ottoman Jerusalem\nAnna Steffen\, Universität Hamburg\n\n\n12:20–12:40 PDT\n\nCirculating Civilisation – Venetian Glass Beads as Agents of Global (Ex)Change\nSandrine Welte\, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice \n\n\n\n12:40–1:00 PDT\nDiscussion & Questions\nRoman Cain\, Anna Steffen\, and Sandrine Welte\n\n\n1:00–1:20 PDT\nAfternoon Break\n\n\n1:20–1:50 PDT\nGroup Discussion on Thinking with Materiality\nAll participants \n\n\n1:50–2:00 PDT\nClosing Remarks\nChase Caldwell Smith\, Patrick Morgan\, and Sofía Yazpik\n\n\n\nZoom Registration Link \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/conference-thinking-with-materiality-in-the-early-global-world-memsa-graduate-student-conference/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,MEMSA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240603T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240603T150000
DTSTAMP:20231214T212859Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - Lecture by Prof. Herman Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Herman L. Bennett is a Professor at the Graduate Center (CUNY) and Director of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). He has held faculty positions at UNC-Chapel Hill\, The Johns Hopkins University\, Rutgers University\, and the Free University of Berlin. \n  \n  \nCANCELED – This lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \n\n\n\nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).\nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in the James West Alumni Center\, Founder’s Room
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/experimental-critical-theory-lecture-seminar-with-herman-bennett/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240530T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T235959
DTSTAMP:20241025T194943Z
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SUMMARY:“What’s in a Name? Understanding Status in the Early Modern World\,” co-sponsored conference organized by Sixiang Wang & Choon Hwee Koh
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/whats-in-a-name-understanding-status-in-the-early-modern-world-conference-organized-by-sixiang-wang-choon-hwee-koh/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240518T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240518T160000
DTSTAMP:20231214T192922Z
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Spring 2024)
DESCRIPTION: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 emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nMore information can be found here. \nRegister to attend via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T180000
DTSTAMP:20231106T190708Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Hannah Barker\, "In Distant Places Among Alien People: Slavery\, Friendship\, and Tatar-Venetian Relations in the 15th Century"
DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Hannah Barker (Arizona State University) \nIn 1455\, the Venetian patrician Giosafat Barbaro encountered an old friend in surprising circumstances. As a young merchant in the Black Sea port of Tana\, Barbaro had met and befriended a local Tatar notable named Chebechzi. At the end of his time in Tana\, Barbaro returned home expecting never to see Chebechzi again. He certainly did not expect to find him enslaved in a Venetian wine shop ten years later. At the moment\, Barbaro acted immediately to assert Chebechzi’s freedom and help him return home. Later in life\, Barbaro also wrote a memoir in which he reflected on this incident and the meaning of his friendship with Chebechzi and other Tatars. \nBarker’s talk will situate Barbaro’s reflections in the broader contexts of slavery and freedom\, friendship and reciprocity\, and the complex web of medieval Venetian-Tatar power relations. \nHannah Barker is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. Her research centers on connections between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the late medieval period\, especially the trade in slaves which flourished during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries. \n  \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by CNES and the Islamic Studies Program\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in Dodd Hall 275
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/in-distant-places-among-alien-people-slavery-friendship-and-tatar-venetian-relations-in-the-15th-century/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T130000
DTSTAMP:20231215T170524Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Etienne Anheim\, “The Role of the Renaissance in the Transformation of the Western Political Imaginary: Petrarch’s Africa and Death for the ‘Fatherland’”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The ideal of “death for the fatherland” (Pro patria mori) may seem to be an invariable reality of human society\, from Sparta and Athens to today’s wars. In fact\, it is a political imaginary whose periodization can be traced. Ernst Kantorowicz\, in a famous article published in 1951\, proposed an analysis of this problem. In this lecture\, I will propose a new interpretation\, both historical and historiographical\, based on Francesco Petrarca’s (1304-1374) epic poem Africa. In particular\, I will highlight the role of the Renaissance in the construction of a new imaginary of war in the West\, quite different from the ancient and medieval tradition\, which has served as the foundation for the national and colonial wars of the contemporary era. \nEtienne Anheim‘s research is oriented towards the economic\, social\, and material history of painting as well as the history of written practices between the 13th and the 15th century\, from scholars like Petrarch to library inventories or accounting entries\, at the same time\, addressing questions of historiography and epistemology of history. He also collaborates on the editorial boards of the Revue de Synthese\, Médiévales\, and Annales. \nThis lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality\, Decoloniality\, and Interpretation”\, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). \n\n\n\nThe Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Department of Comparative Literature and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in Royce 236 \nRegister to attend via ZOOM
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsored-lecture-by-etienne-anheim-history-ehess-paris/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240413T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240413T120000
DTSTAMP:20240402T211640Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Irene Papadaki\, “Love’s Labour and the Angelic Beloved: Voices from Cypriot Renaissance Poetry”
DESCRIPTION:Description of Lecture: The reception of Italian lyrical poetry in Cyprus during the time of Venetian rule (1489-1571) yielded rich fruits. The precious collection of Cypriot love poems\, preserved in a unique manuscript at the Marciana Library in Venice\, is a mature expression of Renaissance reflections and artistic sensitivity. Simultaneously\, it reveals a convergence of the island’s intellectual milieu with the vibrant life of the Italian peninsula. Themes such as the superiority of the beloved and her parallelism with the sun\, the lover’s attraction to the sublime\, his obsession with her idealized image\, communication through the gaze\, conflicting feelings\, melancholy\, and the tendency for isolation\, the experience of a endless death\, the loss of self\, or the exchange of souls if love is reciprocal—all reflect not only in poetry but also in the philosophy of the Italian Renaissance. The identity of the lyricist or lyricists who composed this high-quality poetry remains a mystery to this day\, despite scholars’ interest since the late 19th century in the authorship of the collection. The recent discovery of a musical score of one of the Cypriot love poems and its Italian prototype\, has opened new research horizons. The score is the work of the Calabrian composer Giandomenico Martoretta\, who visited Cyprus in the mid-16th century and dedicated his works to members of noble families on the island. This event attests to the existence of a circle with literary and artistic interests\, within which we could place\, if not the composition itself\, at least an aspect of the reception of Cypriot Renaissance love poems. \nLecture by Irene Papadaki University of Cyprus on the occasion of National Poetry Month with exclusive poetry readings by singer-songwriter\, Alkinoos Ioannidis. \nOpening remarks by Her Excellency\, Ekaterini Nassika\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States & His Excellency\, Evangelos Savva\, Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States \nIrene Papadaki studied Greek Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Crete. She was a fellow researcher at the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice. In 2005 she submitted her doctoral dissertation at the Department of Philology at the University of Crete. She has taught courses in Modern Greek Literature at the University of Crete and at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus\, where she has been working since 2014. She has also taught at the Hellenic Open University. She participated in various research projects of the Hellenic Institute in Venice\, the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation\, the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation\, the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the University of Cyprus. \nThis event is held under the auspices of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus\, the Embassy of Greece in the USA\, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus to the USA\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, and the Honorary Consul General of Cyprus in Los Angeles. It is organized by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and it is cosponsored the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies\, and Thesaurus Linguae Graecae®. This program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nRegister to attend via ZOOM
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/lecture-by-irene-papadaki-loves-labour-and-the-angelic-beloved-voices-from-cypriot-renaissance-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240402T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240402T180000
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SUMMARY:Hammer Art History Lecture by Suzanne Blier\, “Patterns of Anomaly in African Ivories”
DESCRIPTION:This lecture takes up questions in African Medieval to Early Modern ivory imagery and sources framed in part around a set of seemingly anomalous motifs that address how power and ivory have mutually shaped each other both in Africa (particularly Nigeria) and in European contexts. Among the works taken up are images of elephants in Nigerian Nok and Ife art\, the prominence of sirens on Benin and Owo Yoruba ivories\, the cultural primacy of ivory spoons\, the “missing” Durer saltcellar (now possibly found?)\, and the legacies of colonial era impact of pianos and ivory keys. \nSuzanne Blier (Allen W. Clowes Professor\, Harvard University) is a historian of African art and architecture in both the History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Departments. She also is a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and a Faculty Associate at the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. \n  \nMore information about past Hammer Art History Lectures can be found here. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nRegister to attend via Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/hammer-art-history-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Hammer Art History Annual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240229T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240229T190000
DTSTAMP:20231214T191810Z
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SUMMARY:William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture\, Guest Speaker: S.E. Kile
DESCRIPTION:Copy of Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖 (Complete map of the world)\, 1674\, Ferdinand Verbiest\, S.J. held at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Image stitched together from individual images of each frame of the map screen. \nGuest Speaker: S.E. Kile (University of Michigan) \n“Was the World Early Modern?: Telescopes\, Surgery\, and Print Media in China\, ca. 1658” \nIn the middle of the seventeenth century\, the transition from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing quickly made news around the globe\, and its drama played out on stages from Japan to the Netherlands. Just a few decades earlier\, Matteo Ricci had produced a series of world maps making a case for the sphericity of the earth in Chinese\, and other Jesuit missionaries had carried telescopes to China\, where they were instrumental in transforming astronomy at the Ming and Qing courts. These cross-cultural encounters have been well studied\, but the majority of people living in the Ming and Qing barely felt their influence. How\, then\, might we consider the globality of this relatively disconnected early modern world? \nIn this lecture\, S.E. Kile will propose a comparative method for theorizing the global early modern that uses our modern subject positions to triangulate between groups of cultural producers only dimly aware of one another. As this lecture series commemorates Samuel Pepys’s literary innovation and is timed around his harrowing surgical procedure\, Kile will offer three examples of literary experimentation at the intersection of print and the physical world from Li Yu’s (1611-1680) work on the other side of the globe: the literary incorporation of the telescope as a narrative technique\, the idea that the human body could be remodeled (gaizao) like a building\, and the idea that the lived environment could be revised like a piece of writing. Historical simultaneity on a rapidly coalescing shared earth is connection enough to merit comparative consideration\, and it is perhaps the only method that allows for the theorization of a global early modern world. \nS.E. Kile is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. A scholar of early modern Chinese literature and cultural history\, his work brings together a broad range of cultural texts. His first monograph\, Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media (Columbia\, 2023)\, theorizes early modern mediation and entrepreneurship through Li Yu’s cultural production across playwriting\, fiction writing\, garden and architectural design\, and body modification. Kile’s current book project\, tentatively titled “The Ends of the Early Modern World: Worldmaking in China\, 1592-1843\,” argues for the relevance of the “early modern” to the study of China\, exploring how novelists synthesized scientific\, religious\, and vernacular knowledge about the world. Recent work has been published in How to Read Chinese Drama (Columbia University Press\, 2022)\, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies\, and Late Imperial China. \nProfessor William Matthews\, a member of UCLA’s English Department faculty and the Center’s second Director (1970-1972)\, was an authority on the life and writings of the seventeenth-century British wit and diarist Samuel Pepys. With the assistance of his wife\, Lois\, Matthews and his co-editor\, Robert Latham\, produced the definitive edition (eleven volumes) of Pepys’s works\, which was published incrementally between 1971 and 1983. The Matthewses’ will\, which endows the Center’s annual lecture and also a festive dinner\, specifies that the event should be scheduled to coincide with Pepys’s own annual celebration commemorating the surgery he endured on March 26\, 1658. \nMore information about past William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys lectures is available here. \nRegister to attend in person\nLaureate Classroom\, Luskin Conference Center \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/will-and-lois-matthews-samuel-pepys-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240224T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240224T160000
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2024)
DESCRIPTION: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 emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. We encourage prospective presenters to attend the seminar prior to proposing a paper for discussion.  Funding may be available to reimburse some travel expenses for in-person participation by California-based faculty and graduate student (MA\, PhD) attendees from outside of greater Los Angeles. \nMore information can be found here. \nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306 \nRegister to attend online with Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/californiamedievalseminar2024/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T235959
DTSTAMP:20241024T213350Z
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SUMMARY:Jr Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop by Lamia Balafrej (Art History)
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URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/jr-faculty-book-manuscript-workshop-by-lamia-balafrej-art-history/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T190000
DTSTAMP:20231214T191057Z
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SUMMARY:Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture\, Guest Speaker: Ilse Sturkenboom
DESCRIPTION:“On the Introduction of Chinese Decorated Paper to Iran and How it Revolutionized Manuscript Production in the Islamic World” \nGuest speaker: Ilse Sturkenboom (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) \nThe fifteenth-century introduction of long sheets of brightly colored and gold-embellished paper from Ming China to Iran provided book artists with a range of new possibilities in the production of luxurious and often royally commissioned manuscripts. Colored on both sides and boasting extensive gold decoration in the form of flecks\, sprinkles and whole compositions of landscape designs\, various plants and flower-and-bird motives\, these papers allowed for texts to be written on a completely decorated carrier rather than being embellished only selectively and usually after the writing process. The option of combining sheets of different colors and gold designs furthermore offered almost unlimited possibilities for a polychromous reading experience\, for example through the alternation of colors within manuscripts’ quires or by writing on top of the colored paper in contrasting tones. \nThis lecture will offer insights into the circumstances under which Chinese paper was introduced and used in Persianate manuscripts and propose possible reasons for its employment. It will also consider possible disadvantages of Chinese paper that may have led to the discontinuation of its use around 1500 such as its rarity or even unavailability\, heavy weight and unsuitability for writing upon with (Persian) inks. \nA further aim of this lecture is to investigate instances of the adaptation of Chinese paper’s aesthetics in manuscripts produced in the Islamic world. Examples derive from manuscripts analyzed as part of the recently started ERC-project GLOBAL DECO PAPER (Decorated Paper in the Early-Modern Islamicate World: Aesthetics\, Techniques and Meaning in Global Contexts). They shed light onto the local appropriation and techniques of gold sprinkling and flecking\, paper coloring\, and embellishment with (Chinese-inspired) floral and figurative designs behind and around texts. These specimens also demonstrate how existing techniques such as stenciling were revived and (presumably) new techniques such as paper marbling and paper cutting were developed in another step in the appropriation of Chinese paper’s aesthetics and towards local manifestations of paper decoration. \nIlse Sturkenboom specializes in the Persianate arts of the books. Her current project on Chinese decorated paper in Persianate manuscripts investigates exchange between China and the Islamic world\, the materiality of so-called ‘Chinese paper’ and the impact of Chinese decorated paper on the aesthetics and layout of manuscripts produced in the Islamic world. She welcomes graduate students interested in Islamic art\, the arts of the books and visual cultures in particular. \nThe History of the Book Lecture series\, established in 1993 through the efforts of Richard and Mary Rouse\, provides an annual venue for internationally recognized authorities on medieval and Renaissance books to present their expertise at UCLA. The lecture’s focus alternates each year between medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books. Among the topics explored in past lectures were: book and manuscript illustration\, the development of printing\, early book printers and sellers\, the book trade\, and medieval and Renaissance book and manuscript collections. \nMore information about past Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book lectures can be found here. \nRegister to attend in person in Royce 314 \nRegister to attend online with Zoom
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/richard-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Mediterranean Seminar Winter Workshop 2024\, Intermediaries\, Middle Grounds\, Middle Sea
DESCRIPTION:As the theater of engagement and integration of communities originating on the shores or from the hinterlands of Africa\, Asia\, and Europe\, the Mediterranean region served as a dynamic center of interaction and exchange from Antiquity through early modernity. Even as it began to lose political and economic centrality\, it has remained a zone of engagement of diverse peoples and cultures into the Modern era. This engagement is both the product and the catalyst of continuous dialectical processes of translation\, transculturation\, colonization\, and syncretism across the gamut of human experience and expression: in art\, literature\, language\, music\, religion\, media\, material culture\, and folk practices\, as well as in social\, economic\, political\, and institutional dynamics. \nThe Winter 2024 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop focuses on the agents (the “go-betweens”) and the currents (the “in-betweens”) of such dialectics. Typically invisible or\, at best\, marginalized in traditional historiographies and disciplines\, intermediaries and middle grounds (synthetic texts\, translations\, objects\, institutions and strategies\, and the individuals and communities who were their agents and products) are crucial to the understanding of the history and culture of the Mediterranean\, and of the historical processes which gave rise to many aspects of the modern world. \nKeynote presentations:\nRustam Shukurov (University of St Andrews)\, Friday\nClaire Gilbert (Saint Louis University)\, Saturday \nWorkshop Program  \n\n\n\nDay 1 – Friday 9\, February 2024\n\n\n9:15 – 10:10\nCoffee and Registration\n\n\n10:10—10:30\nOpening Remarks\nBrian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\nSharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\nZrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\n\n\n10:30–11:40\nWorkshop Paper #1\n“Theater of Conquest: Sovereignty and Territorial Expansion into Africa (1492-1530)”\nMarta Albalá-Pelegrín (Cal Poly Pomona)\nModerator: Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\nRespondent: Toby Yuen-Gen Liang (Academia Sinica\, Taiwan)\n\n\n11:40–12:00\nIntroductions\n\n\n12:00–1:00\nLunch\n\n\n1:00-2:10\nWorkshop Paper #2\n“Treasonous Translations: Resisting Roman Hegemony in Medieval Armenia”\nSergio LaPorta (CSU Fresno)\nModerator: Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\nRespondent: Christine Chism (UCLA)\n\n\n2:30–3:40\nWorkshop Paper #3\n“Antiquity and Embassies in Late-Ottoman Arabic”\nSamuel England (University of Wisconsin\, Madison)\nModerator: Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\nRespondent: Nina Zhiri (UC San Diego)\n\n\n4:00–5:15\nKeynote Presentation:\n“Middle Grounds of Cultural Interaction in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Byzantium and Muslim Anatolia”\nRustam Shukurov (University of St Andrews)\nModerator: Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder\n\n\n5:15-6:00\nReception\n\n\nDay 2 – Saturday 10\, February 2024\n\n\n9:30–10:00\nCoffee and Registration\n\n\n10:00–11:15\n“The Fiduciary Mediterranean: Navigating Dynamics of Trust and Power across Language Communities”\nClaire Gilbert (Saint Louis University)\nModerator: Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\n\n\n11:30–12:45\nRound Table 1\nTo what extent did the individual character of intermediaries (go-betweens\, diplomats\, translators\, fixers\, exiles\, refugees\, enslaved people) shape cultural\, political and/or economic developments in the Mediterranean? To what extent does this differ or resemble dynamics and apparatuses outside the region?\nModerator: Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\n– Nicole Archambeau (Colorado State Fort Collins)\, “A Mediterranean Understanding of Nature in a Fourteenth-Century Agricultural Manual”\n– John Curry (University of Nevada\, Las Vegas)\n– Matthew Harpster (Koç University)\, “Studying the Muted Maritime Community of the Ancient Mediterranean”\n– Richard Ibarra (University of Southern California)\, “Identity Claims from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic”\n– Fabien Montcher (Saint Louis University)\, “Toward a History of Mediterranean Rhizomatic Cooperators”\n– Hossein Nakhaei (Pittsburgh University)\, “A Political Stage for Personal Interests: Antoine Kitabgi Khan and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900”\n– Nina Zhiri (UC San Diego)\, “The Malian and the Morisco”\n\n\n12:45–1:45\nLunch\n\n\n1:45–3:00\nRound Table 2\nWhat do transmitted\, borrowed\, gifted\, or re-configured objects\, styles\, cultural forms\, or texts reveal about processes of cultural dialectic in the Mediterranean? To what extent are these dynamics particularly Mediterranean?\nModerator: Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\n– Omar Artal (Eötvös Lorand University\, Budapest)\, “Uncovering Mediterranean Cultural Dialectics: An Exploration of Transmitted Artefacts and Texts from Morocco to Sicily”\n– Thomas Barton (University of San Diego)\, “Western-Mediterranean Musicians as Cultural Intermediaries”\n– Patrick Morgan (UCLA)\, “The Legal Kaleidoscope”\n– Joëlle Rollo-Koster (University of Rhode Island)\, “Smelling authority and the sacred\, musk at the medieval papal court”\n– Irina Variash (University of St Andrews)\, “The Mediterranean Legal Culture: Islamic and Christian Strategies in the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century”\n– David Wacks (Oregon)\, “Christian/Jewish entanglement in Converso spirituality”\n– David Williams (University of Saint Katherine)\, “The Monastery of Saint Catherine and its Latin Cult”\n\n\n3:15—4:30\nRound Table 3\nHow did the geographical character and/or institutional infrastructure that developed in the Mediterranean contribute to particular outcomes in terms of regional engagement and/or cultural\, political\, and/or social evolution?\nModerator: Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\n– Christine Chism (UCLA)\, “Corruption at the Crossing Places: Let’s Do It!”\n– Anne Le (Notre Dame University)\, “The Cost of Selling Culture: Smeg\, Dolce & Gabbana\, and Sicilian Folk Art”\n– Toby Yuen-Gen Liang\, (Academia Sinica\, Taiwan)\n– Roberta Morosini (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale)\, “En/compassing islands: Maps\, Connectivity and mobile Borders”\n– Aaron Stamper (Princeton University)\, “Connectivity and Continuity in Mediterranean Mountains”\n– Marcus Ziemann (Princeton University)\, “Contact Without Contact”\n\n\n4:30–5:00\nConcluding Remarks\nBrian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder)\,\nSharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)\,\nand Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)\n\n\n\nRegistration closed as of February 2nd\, 2024 \n\n\n\nOrganizers – Brian A. Catlos\, Sharon Kinoshita\, and Zrinka Stahuljak \nHosted and Sponsored by CMRS Center for Early Global Studies at the University of California Los Angeles \nCo-Sponsors\nCenter for Near Eastern Studies\nDepartment of Art History\nDepartment of European Languages & Transcultural Studies\nDepartment of History (Wellman Chair in Medieval History)\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\nDepartment of Spanish & Portuguese\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/cfp-intermediaries-middle-grounds-middle-sea-the-mediterranean-seminar-winter-workshop-2024-ucla-9-10-february/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Conference,Lecture,Roundtable,Seminar,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Reed\, Brush\, Chisel: Script\, Literacy\, and Writing Across Central and East Asia (400–1800)
DESCRIPTION:  \nDecember 8th\, 2023 \nSpecial Collections Roundtable \nUCLA Luskin Conference Center\n425 Westwood Plaza\nLos Angeles CA\, 90095 \nLaureate Classroom\nRefreshments Served \n3:00–5:00 PM\nRoundtable and Discussion \nFollowed by Reception\nSouth Courtyard\, Luskin Center\n5:15 PM (Los Angeles Time) \nDecember 9th\, 2023\nSymposium\n8:30 – 5:00 PM (PST)\nUCLA Luskin Conference Center\n425 Westwood Plaza\nLos Angeles CA\, 90095 \nEvent Overview\nThe symposium brings together leading scholars across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences in order to discuss Central and East Asia’s diverse\, multiethnic\, multiscriptal experience with the aim of challenging conventional ideas on writing and its relationship to culture. \nThe symposium will begin on the afternoon of Friday\, December 8th. The first day will feature a showing of rare books and manuscripts in various scripts and languages held by UCLA Library Special Collections. This will be followed by a roundtable and discussion regarding the history of the collections\, in particular its Middle East and East Asian holdings. It will be followed by a reception. \nThe next day\, December 9th\, will feature roundtable panels discussing script and literacy cultures along the land corridor stretching from Central to East Asia. The event will be open to members of the UCLA academic community as well as scholars\, students\, and the interested public in the Los Angeles area. \nPlease note\, due to unforeseen circumstances\, the keynote speech originally scheduled for December 8th has been cancelled. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nRead more about Reed\, Brush and Chisel \nRegistration REQUIRED RSVP HERE \nEVENT SCHEDULE
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/reed-brush-chisel-script-literacy-and-writing-across-central-and-east-asia-400-1800/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Symposium
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SUMMARY:(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds
DESCRIPTION:A Workshop Hosted by Global Antiquity for Colleagues in California\nDecember 5–6\, 2023 | Royce Hall 306 \nGlobal Antiquity is thrilled to announce its inaugural workshop titled “(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds.” This event\, held at UCLA in Royce 306 over two days (December 5 and 6\, 2023)\, will include invited speakers from across the University of California and the greater Los Angeles area whose research employs comparative methodologies to work beyond and in between the boundaries of existing fields. The workshop provides a forum in which to explore equitable comparisons of cultures\, the equivalencies of past human experiences\, and a common humanism rooted in ancient worlds. The resulting discourse may then encourage reflection on the role these worlds still play in shaping our contemporary identities and how this humanism may benefit the present. \nThe workshop will feature speakers and topics covering a diverse array of ancient worlds\, from West Asia\, North Africa\, and the Mediterranean to East Asia and the Americas. Themes explored over these two days include: the interconnectivity of ancient states and communities; diversity within established areas of inquiry; reception; pedagogy; and working across disciplines. \nEvent Registration \n(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds is generously co-sponsored by the following departments\, centers\, and programs at UCLA: Asian Languages and Cultures\, Art History\, Classics\, the CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies\, the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, the Program in Indo-European Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World\, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, and the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/13543/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Whole\, Holy\, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten\nWhen: Tuesday\, November 28\, 2023 4:00 pm\nWhere: Kaplan Hall 193\n \n\nWhat does it mean\, culturally speaking\, to get sick? What makes a body healthy? This talk explores depictions of disease in medical remedies and healing charms from the medieval North Atlantic\, a multilingual zone of intensive cultural interaction and exchange. These vivid texts allow us to better understand how medieval people thought about their own bodies and about the place of humanity in a hostile world – deconstructing cultural anxieties and fantasies around the idea of an individuated\, embodied self. \nRegister here to attend. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Erica Weaver\, assistant professor in UCLA’s English Department. \nThis event is co-sponsored by UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies. \nCaroline (Caz) Batten is an Assistant Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of Old English and Old Norse language and literature\, they have published widely on gender and sexuality\, sickness and health\, the history of medicine\, and somatic emotion in medieval texts. Their short book Health and the Body in Early Medieval England is forthcoming as a Cambridge Element in 2024. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-style-of-the-old-english-metrical-charms/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Junior Faculty Series
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