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  • CANCELLED: Re-Staging the Judean ‘Nation’: The Rise of the Neighborhood in Roman Palestine – Research Seminar Public Lecture

    This lecture, “Re-Staging the Judean ‘Nation’: The Rise of the Neighborhood in Roman Palestine,” is by Professor Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford), part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Spring 2023, Persecution and Defiance: Religious Minorities in the Roman World 200-700 CE (History201B). Co-sponsored by UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. Professor Fonrobert […]

  • California Medieval History Seminar

    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 […]

  • Kublai Khan’s Body: Marco Polo and the Making of History

    Marco Polo and his father and uncle spent seventeen years in China, and because of his personal history there, Sinologists have long scrutinized and debated his connection to the larger history of China and his status as a historical writer of China. In response to biographical discussions about Polo in Sinology, this talk investigates the […]

  • Korea, Mongols and Ming: Integrative Histories of Early Modern Eastern Eurasia

    This symposium will focus on Korea and Eurasia from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries and highlight thematic approaches that resonate with other places and periods. The symposium features scholars interested in integrating early modern Korea into regional and global narratives. Their projects weave together Mongolian, Ming, Koryŏ, and Chosŏn histories or provide interdisciplinary perspectives on […]

  • Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Modern World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference

    08:00–08:15 PST Introduction & Welcome Patrick Morgan, Hannah Thomson, and Chase Caldwell Smith PANEL 1: CULTURAL CIRCULATION IN PRE-MODERN ASIA 08:15–08:30 PST “Nonnational Affinities and Shared Scape of Romances: Persianate World in Circulation” Yoonus Kozhisseri, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 08.30–08:45 PST “Monsters, Deities, and Humanity in the Early Modern Philippines” Zhiyu Chen, University of […]

  • Of Marginal Importance? The Role of Marginalia in Studying Late Medieval Manuscripts

    This lecture, “Of Marginal Importance? The Role of Marginalia in Studying Late Medieval Manuscripts,” is by Tomislav Matić (Croatian Institute of History), Visiting Scholar, UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, a public event conducted at the Huntington Library. Reading a text, at least to a Medieval reader, was not a one-way process. In the Middle […]

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  • Fall 2023 Research Seminar Public Lecture – Professor Wolfgang Mueller (Fordham University)

    As part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Fall 2023, Money Matters: Between Antiquity and the Enlightenment (ca. 600-1600), guest lecturer, Wolfgang Mueller (Fordham University) will share about his research that focuses on written norms and laws of the European West between 500 and 1500 CE.  He is author of several scholarly monographs, […]

  • Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: David Reubeni’s How-To Manual of Messianic Redemption

    In the 16th century, a Hebrew-speaking, battle-scarred, Black-skinned Jew named David Reubeni appeared suddenly in Venice with a desperate plan to restore Jewish pride and political independence. Why did kings, bishops, rabbis, bankers, and even a pope, open their homes and wallets for him? Some answers from one of the weirdest documents of Jewish history, […]

  • The Western Mediterranean and the Global Middle Ages

    CMRS-CEGS/AARHMS Symposium As part of its thematic series of co-sponsored sessions this academic year on “Iberian History as Global History” at major international conferences, the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) has partnered with UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CEGS) to host this symposium on The Western Mediterranean and the […]

  • Sama Dilaut (2023) Film Screening

    Friday, November 3, 2023 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (Pacific Time) Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum REGISTER HERE A journey to find extraordinary people leads to the discovery of a community living on the shores of Sabah, Malaysia and the Philippines. An ethnolinguistic group that dwelled on houseboats for hundreds of years moving across the […]