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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). \nThe following papers will be discussed at the seminar: \n\n“The Paranoid Style in Frankish Crusading”\nJay Rubenstein (University of Southern California)\n“Oath-Taking and the Performance of Urban Customary Law”\nEsther Liberman Cuenca (University of Houston-Victoria/Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton)\n“Rex Offret: The Visuality of Royal Power in the Early Medieval Mediterranean”\nElizabeth Wells (University of California-Irvine)\n“Ávila for the Queen: War and Fiscal Violence against Religious Minorities in Late Medieval Castile”\nTeo Ruiz (University of California-Los Angeles)\n\nRead details about attendance — registration required.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-history-seminar-may20/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T103000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Re-Staging the Judean 'Nation': The Rise of the Neighborhood in Roman Palestine - Research Seminar Public Lecture
DESCRIPTION: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). \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \nProfessor Fonrobert will focus on one particular ritual innovation that the rabbinic movement instituted in the context of the ancient norms circumscribing the Sabbath\, an innovation that turned the Sabbath into a ritual of neighborhood and a tool of the ritualization of neighborhood. Drawing on one of the most well-known Judean/Jewish practices in the late ancient world – i.e.\, the Sabbath – the rabbinic movement re-staged Jewish collectivity in the urban infra-structure of Roman Palestine\, and later of other diaspora contexts\, in courtyards\, streets\, and alleyways\, where Jews lived not only with each other\, but with others. By re-staging Jewish collectivity in the neighborhood\, the rabbis rethink the nature of territory and borders that allow a collectivity to persist\, defying Empire and nation-state. \n“Persecution and Defiance: Religious Minorities in the Roman World 200-700 CE” is a Spring 2023 graduate course designated as a CMRS Center for Early Global Studies Research Seminar which provides funding for guest scholars to lecture and work closely with students. Taught by Professor Greg Woolf (History)\, this Research Seminar looks at the treatment of Christians\, Jews\, Manichaeans\, heretic and pagan minorities in the later Roman empire\, roughly from the second century to the seventh CE\, the age when empires stretched across much of Eurasia. Most contained minority populations identifying themselves in religious terms\, subject alternately to episodes of persecution and periods of fruitful cohabitation.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/re-staging-the-judean-nation/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T170000
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, "Inventing the Alphabet"
DESCRIPTION:Johanna Drucker (School of Education & Information Studies\, UCLA) discusses her book Inventing the Alphabet (The University of Chicago Press\, 2022) with Helen Deutsch (English\, UCLA). \nRegister to attend in person Royce 306. \nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \n(Originally scheduled for April 25\, 2023)
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-inventing-the-alphabet/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T133000
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SUMMARY:Astronomers\, Theologians and Vagabonds - The Cultural Circle of Bishop John Vitez\, a 15th Century Central European Humanist
DESCRIPTION:In most of the older studies of the Renaissance\, Eastern Central Europe was a “dark area” about which very little was said. We have since come a long way in understanding 15th-century culture in Hungary\, Slavonia and Croatia. A thriving Renaissance movement was spreading\, and its focal point was Bishop John Vitez\, a generous patron of the arts and a scholar himself. This native of Slavonia and son of Croatian-speaking petty nobles brought together an international circle of artists and scholars\, who would meet at his court in Oradea in today’s Romania and\, later\, in Esztergom in today’s Hungary. His cultural network spread as far as Rome\, Florence\, Padua\, Ferrara\, Nuremberg\, and Cracow\, and many contemporary Italian\, Polish\, and German dignitaries were his friends who exchanged books with him. The keystone of Vitez’s efforts was Vienna with its advanced university\, where Vitez himself had studied. With the help of Viennese scholars\, Vitez founded a university in Bratislava\, which aimed to become one of the focal points of astronomic and theological studies east of the Danube. This lecture will discuss the development\, composition\, and achievements of Vitez’s cultural circle\, in order to present this exceptional individual and his efforts to spread the culture of the Renaissance\, but also to show that Eastern Central Europe was a participant in broader European cultural movements as early as the 15th century. \nTomislav Matić\, is a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow who obtained his Ph. D. in medieval history from the University of Zagreb in 2017. Since 2022\, he holds the position of research associate at the Croatian Institute for History. Previously he taught at the Catholic University of Croatia (2012-2022). His work has been supported by several institutions\, including the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Fulbright Program. He participated in several research projects\, including one at the University of Oxford. Among his works are two popular-scientific books\, a number of research papers and a series of popular-scientific articles. His newest monograph is Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central Europe – A Humanist Kingmaker. \nRegister to attend in person in Royce 236. \nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nCo-sponsored by: \n\nUCLA Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies\nUCLA Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures\nUCLA Center for European and Russian Studies\nUCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\n\n\nImage: Tribrachus codex\, Budapest\, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár [National Széchényi Library]\, Cod. Lat. 416\, fol. 2r.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/astronomers-theologians-and-vagabonds-the-cultural-circle-of-bishop-john-vitez-a-15th-century-central-european-humanist/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T090000
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SUMMARY:The Acts of the Christian Martyrs and Court Protocols - Research Seminar Public Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, “The Acts of the Christian Martyrs and Court Protocols\,” is by Professor Éric Rebillard (Cornell)\, 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). \nIt has long been assumed that acts of martyrs derived from court protocols of their trials. Not only no such official document has ever been discovered but a good case can be made that the adoption of the protocol format by acts of martyrs is a development that is posterior to the Great Persecution. Instead of assessing the authenticity of the acts upon their use of court protocols\, we need to consider the use of the protocol format as an authenticating device that attest that martyr acts producers partake in the universal belief in what Cliff Ando calls “the truth value of imperial documents.” \n“Persecution and Defiance: Religious Minorities in the Roman World 200-700 CE” is a Spring 2023 graduate course designated as a CMRS Center for Early Global Studies Research Seminar which provides funding for guest scholars to lecture and work closely with students. Taught by Professor Greg Woolf (History)\, this Research Seminar looks at the treatment of Christians\, Jews\, Manichaeans\, heretic and pagan minorities in the later Roman empire\, roughly from the second century to the seventh CE\, the age when empires stretched across much of Eurasia. Most contained minority populations identifying themselves in religious terms\, subject alternately to episodes of persecution and periods of fruitful cohabitation.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/acts-of-the-christian-martyrs-and-court-protocols/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230508T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230508T180000
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SUMMARY:Hammer Art History Lecture by Nancy Um\, “Silver: Mutability and Materiality across Seventeenth-Century Networks of Trade and Plunder in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans”
DESCRIPTION:“Silver: Mutability and Materiality across Seventeenth-Century Networks of Trade and Plunder in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans” \nNancy Um (Associate Director\, Research and Knowledge Creation\, Getty Research Institute) \nThis talk delves into the circulation of silver in the late seventeenth century\, a time when the silver streams of Potosi fueled the global maritime trade. It explores farflung oceanic networks of value\, by tracing material connections between distant yet intertwined monetary systems on the Arabian Peninsula and colonial North America and by highlighting dispersed legacies of metalwork and numismatics. \nRegister to attend in person in Royce 314. \nRegister to attend online with Zoom.. \nFeatured image:  Detail\, Tankard\, Gerrit Onckelbag American\, 1700–1710\nhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/8213
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/annual-hammer-art-history-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Hammer Art History Annual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T180000
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SUMMARY:The Intermingling of Cartography and Literature in the Early Modern Period
DESCRIPTION:CMRS-CEGS Conference \nOrganized by Chet Van Duzer (Lazarus Project\, University of Rochester) and Stephen P. McCormick (Romance Languages\, Washington & Lee University). \nSee the complete schedule at the conference website. \nRegister to attend in person in Royce 314. \nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nImage: Naples BN MS IVE9\, f. 24r Virgil Georgics zonal mappamundi
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-intermingling-of-cartography-and-literature-in-the-early-modern-period/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T150000
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SUMMARY:Aristotle: Forever After?
DESCRIPTION:A roundtable organized by Giulia Sissa (Classics\, Political Science\, UCLA). \n\nIacopo Costa (CNRS and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)\n“Can We Bypass the Middle Ages When We Read Aristotle?”\nDimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University)\n“Aristotle’s Phronesis: a Hidden Presence in Political Philosophy?”\nGuillaume Navaud (Lycée Henri IV)\n“Correcting/Cancelling Evil in Literature: a Resurgence of an Anti-Aristotelian Platonism?”\nDavide Panagia (Political Science\, UCLA)\n“Aristotle’s Political Theory of Media”\nGiulia Sissa (Political Science\, Comparative Literature and Classics\, UCLA)\n“Aristotle’s Error. And Why It Is Still Bad for Women”\nAnthony Pagden (Political Science\, UCLA)\n“Natural Slavery\, yet Another Paradigmatic Error”\nZiyaad Bhorat\, Discussant (USC Dornsife Center for Science\, Technology\, & Public Life; Berggruen Institute; Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights Policy)\n\nCo-sponsored by UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory and UCLA Department of Political Science. \nRegister to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/aristotle-forever-after/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Roundtable
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T170000
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SUMMARY:How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple | Co-Sponsored Lecture
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Center for the Study of Religion is sponsoring a talk with Azzan Yadin-Israel (Jewish Studies\, Rutgers University). \nWith the exception of the cross\, the apple—as the forbidden fruit—may be the most widely-recognized biblical image. Yet the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew original does not name the species of fruit that caused the Fall of Man\, nor do any of its many translations. While early Christian and rabbinic commentators identify various species as the forbidden fruit—the fig\, the grape\, the citron—they never include the apple. How\, then\, did the forbidden fruit come to be identified as the apple? Examining the history of biblical translation and of the artistic representation of the Fall of Man\, the presentation offers a new explanation for the emergence of the apple as a symbol of temptation and forbidden knowledge. \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Department of Art History and UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nAttend in Kaplan 365 or on Zoom – register at https://religion.ucla.edu/event/how-the-forbidden-fruit-became-an-apple/
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/how-the-forbidden-fruit-became-an-apple-co-sponsored-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T180000
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SUMMARY:Liminality and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern World - Day 3
DESCRIPTION:CMRS-CEGS Workshop\n“Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Spanish Atlantic in the 16th Century\,”  a lecture by Chloe Ireton (History\, University College London). \nOrganized by Barbara Fuchs (English\, Spanish\, UCLA) and Andrew Devereux (History\, UCSD). \nRegister to attend IN PERSON (only option): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNPbpXliFnZcDsMWffTPVmezNm7Cagdk9iVAtKBdDWyXasvg/viewform \nClick for readings.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/liminality-and-cosmopolitanism-day-3/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T160000
DTSTAMP:20230327T225013Z
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SUMMARY:Liminality and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern World - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:CMRS-CEGS Seminar\nOrganized by Barbara Fuchs (English\, Spanish\, UCLA) and Andrew Devereux (History\, UCSD). \nWith  Chloe Ireton (History\, University College London) and Jennifer Palmer (History\, University of Georgia). \nRegister to attend IN PERSON: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemJHpVpq0pLc-TmRvDLGA8HAsge07N3yYwIlh7GnziEFyCHQ/viewform \nRegister to attend on ZOOM: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdOivrz8tH9CcxbiZNPQBDWUruZXm-P08 \nClick for readings.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/liminality-and-cosmopolitanism-day-2/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230417T180000
DTSTAMP:20230327T223835Z
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SUMMARY:Liminality and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern World - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:CMRS-CEGS Workshop\n“Possession: Race\, Gender\, and Ownership in the French Atlantic\,” a lecture by Jennifer Palmer (History\, University of Georgia). \nOrganized by Barbara Fuchs (English\, Spanish\, UCLA) and Andrew Devereux (History\, UCSD). \nClick for readings.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/liminality-and-cosmopolitanism-day-1/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T103000
DTSTAMP:20230330T212213Z
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SUMMARY:Religious Dissent and Violence in Late Antiquity - Research Seminar Public Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, “Religious dissent and violence in Late Antiquity\,” is by Professor Maijastina Kahlos (Helsinki/Lisbon)\, 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). \nViolence was part of the late antique life. How considerable role did violent conflicts play in Late Antiquity? At least on the level of imagery\, religious violence had a considerable role. Violence occupies a great deal of space in the Christian narratives on the demise of “paganism” and in the polemics against Jews and “heretics”. I will discuss violence in words and in deeds against religious dissenters in the fourth and fifth centuries. By religious dissenters\, I mean “pagans”\, “heretics”\, Jews\, and some other groups that were more or less marginalized by mainstream Christians in late antique society. The term “pagans” is only shorthand for non-Christians or polytheists\, and the term “heretics” likewise for Christians branded as deviants. I will offer some examples of 1) extreme violence; 2) peaceful living and readiness to compromises; 3) “everyday nuisances”\, that is\, everyday life pressures and coercion. \n“Persecution and Defiance: Religious Minorities in the Roman World 200-700 CE” is a Spring 2023 graduate course designated as a CMRS Center for Early Global Studies Research Seminar which provides funding for guest scholars to lecture and work closely with students. Taught by Professor Greg Woolf (History)\, this Research Seminar looks at the treatment of Christians\, Jews\, Manichaeans\, heretic and pagan minorities in the later Roman empire\, roughly from the second century to the seventh CE\, the age when empires stretched across much of Eurasia. Most contained minority populations identifying themselves in religious terms\, subject alternately to episodes of persecution and periods of fruitful cohabitation.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/religious-dissent-and-violence-in-late-antiquity/
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230402T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230402T170000
DTSTAMP:20230315T212931Z
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SUMMARY:Michael J. B. Allen Memorial
DESCRIPTION:Michael J.B. Allen passed away on Saturday\, February 25\, 2023. Professor Allen was Director of the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies from 1988-1993. Prior to that\, he had served as Assistant Director\, then Associate Director of CMRS for many years. Indeed\, he was actively involved in the Center and its activities since he joined the UCLA English Department’s faculty in 1970. He organized conferences\, served on committees\, mentored students\, and inspired the Center’s publications both as an author and editor. The Center’s faculty\, students\, associates\, staff and friends have greatly benefited from the wisdom and expertise that Professor Allen so generously shared with all. His love of knowledge\, enthusiasm\, and joie de vivre were inspiring and contagious. \nMore information about Professor Allen’s life and career can be found at michaeljballen.com. \nRSVP to attend in person. \nRegister to attend online by Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/michael-j-b-allen-memorial/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230401T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230401T153000
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SUMMARY:Reinventing Woman's Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots - Day 3
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nChallenges to inferiorizing conceptions of women’s nature that grew in prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries should be seen not just as applications of changing philosophical conceptions of nature under the rise of mechanical philosophy\, but as helping to shape those reconceptualizations. Through their polemical writings in defence of women\, their rejection of histories written by men that excluded or skewed the contributions of women\, in their own philosophical treatises and correspondence with male philosophers\, feminists\, including some feminist men\, helped to shape a conception of human nature and virtue that exalted both women and men equally. These texts contain not just critiques of misogynistic theorising about the natures and vices of women aimed at raising the consciousness of women and challenging the authority of men\, but deliberate proposals for rethinking social structures—the structure of communities\, the family\, and women’s political status and role in the State. Of note is the way in which feminists of the period recognised\, therefore\, that theorising about human nature could not succeed in isolation from a reimagining of the kind of social structures in which it was possible for all humans\, men and women included\, to flourish. An examination of what makes a thing human could not\, in other words\, be separated from the question of what it would take to make men and women equal. \nThis conference is interested in exploring these connections between theorising about women’s nature and theorising about the kind of society that promotes sexual equality. It covers the contributions of feminists from English\, French\, and Italian traditions\, as well as the philosophical transitions that inspired them—Humanism\, Cartesianism\, and shifts in virtue theory\, including challenges to masculinist assumptions about heroic virtues and dignity. The conference will in this way shed light on the extent to which feminist theorising in the period contained an agenda for social change\, and thus to its place in the history of feminism as a social movement. \nOrganized by Professors Calvin Normore (UCLA)\, Deborah Brown (Univ. Queensland)\, Jacqueline Broad (Monash University)\, and Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University). \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023 – DAY 1\n\n\n3:30 PM – 5:00 PM\nMartina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä)\n“Complex Relations: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Olympe de Gouges on the Sexes” (Keynote)\n\n\n5:00 PM – 6:30 PM\nReception\n\n\nFriday\, March 31\, 2023 – DAY 2\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nAllauren Forbes (McMaster University)\n“Speech\, Silence\, and Gendered Space: Women’s Epistemic Nature in Cavendish’s Plays”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nMarcy Lascano (University of Kansas)\n“The Feminist Ontologies of Cavendish and Conway”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nEmanuele Costa (Vanderbilt University)\n“Anne Conway and the Feminine: Between Receptacle and Embodied Thought”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nJacqueline Broad (Monash University)\n“A Weapon in their Hands: Bathsua Makin’s Arguments for Women’s Education”\n\n\n3:15 PM – 3:45 PM\nBreak\n\n\n3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMarguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)\n“Whose Worth? All Women\, or Some Women?”\n\n\nSaturday\, April 1\, 2023 – DAY 3\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nDiane Zetlin (University of Queensland)\n“Equality and Inequality: Glory and Honour”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nCharlotte Sabourin (Douglas College)\n“Germaine de Staël’s Second Thoughts on Rousseau”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nLisa Shapiro (McGill University)\n“Gabrielle Suchon on ‘persons of the sex'”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nDeborah Brown (University of Queensland)\n“Anxiety and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth”\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/early-modern-feminism-and-its-roots-day3/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230331T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230331T170000
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SUMMARY:Reinventing Woman's Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nChallenges to inferiorizing conceptions of women’s nature that grew in prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries should be seen not just as applications of changing philosophical conceptions of nature under the rise of mechanical philosophy\, but as helping to shape those reconceptualizations. Through their polemical writings in defence of women\, their rejection of histories written by men that excluded or skewed the contributions of women\, in their own philosophical treatises and correspondence with male philosophers\, feminists\, including some feminist men\, helped to shape a conception of human nature and virtue that exalted both women and men equally. These texts contain not just critiques of misogynistic theorising about the natures and vices of women aimed at raising the consciousness of women and challenging the authority of men\, but deliberate proposals for rethinking social structures—the structure of communities\, the family\, and women’s political status and role in the State. Of note is the way in which feminists of the period recognised\, therefore\, that theorising about human nature could not succeed in isolation from a reimagining of the kind of social structures in which it was possible for all humans\, men and women included\, to flourish. An examination of what makes a thing human could not\, in other words\, be separated from the question of what it would take to make men and women equal. \nThis conference is interested in exploring these connections between theorising about women’s nature and theorising about the kind of society that promotes sexual equality. It covers the contributions of feminists from English\, French\, and Italian traditions\, as well as the philosophical transitions that inspired them—Humanism\, Cartesianism\, and shifts in virtue theory\, including challenges to masculinist assumptions about heroic virtues and dignity. The conference will in this way shed light on the extent to which feminist theorising in the period contained an agenda for social change\, and thus to its place in the history of feminism as a social movement. \nOrganized by Professors Calvin Normore (UCLA)\, Deborah Brown (University of Queensland)\, Jacqueline Broad (Monash University)\, and Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University). \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023 – DAY 1\n\n\n3:30 PM – 5:00 PM\nMartina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä)\n“Complex Relations: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Olympe de Gouges on the Sexes” (Keynote)\n\n\n5:00 PM – 6:30 PM\nReception\n\n\nFriday\, March 31\, 2023 – DAY 2\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nAllauren Forbes (McMaster University)\n“Speech\, Silence\, and Gendered Space: Women’s Epistemic Nature in Cavendish’s Plays”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nMarcy Lascano (University of Kansas)\n“The Feminist Ontologies of Cavendish and Conway”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nEmanuele Costa (Vanderbilt University)\n“Anne Conway and the Feminine: Between Receptacle and Embodied Thought”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nJacqueline Broad (Monash University)\n“A Weapon in their Hands: Bathsua Makin’s Arguments for Women’s Education”\n\n\n3:15 PM – 3:45 PM\nBreak\n\n\n3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMarguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)\n“Whose Worth? All Women\, or Some Women?”\n\n\nSaturday\, April 1\, 2023 – DAY 3\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nDiane Zetlin (University of Queensland)\n“Equality and Inequality: Glory and Honour”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nCharlotte Sabourin (Douglas College)\n“Germaine de Staël’s Second Thoughts on Rousseau”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nLisa Shapiro (McGill University)\n“Gabrielle Suchon on ‘persons of the sex'”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nDeborah Brown (University of Queensland)\n“Anxiety and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth”\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/early-modern-feminism-and-its-roots-day2/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230330T170000
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SUMMARY:Reinventing Woman's Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom. \nChallenges to inferiorizing conceptions of women’s nature that grew in prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries should be seen not just as applications of changing philosophical conceptions of nature under the rise of mechanical philosophy\, but as helping to shape those reconceptualizations. Through their polemical writings in defence of women\, their rejection of histories written by men that excluded or skewed the contributions of women\, in their own philosophical treatises and correspondence with male philosophers\, feminists\, including some feminist men\, helped to shape a conception of human nature and virtue that exalted both women and men equally. These texts contain not just critiques of misogynistic theorising about the natures and vices of women aimed at raising the consciousness of women and challenging the authority of men\, but deliberate proposals for rethinking social structures—the structure of communities\, the family\, and women’s political status and role in the State. Of note is the way in which feminists of the period recognised\, therefore\, that theorising about human nature could not succeed in isolation from a reimagining of the kind of social structures in which it was possible for all humans\, men and women included\, to flourish. An examination of what makes a thing human could not\, in other words\, be separated from the question of what it would take to make men and women equal. \nThis conference is interested in exploring these connections between theorising about women’s nature and theorising about the kind of society that promotes sexual equality. It covers the contributions of feminists from English\, French\, and Italian traditions\, as well as the philosophical transitions that inspired them—Humanism\, Cartesianism\, and shifts in virtue theory\, including challenges to masculinist assumptions about heroic virtues and dignity. The conference will in this way shed light on the extent to which feminist theorising in the period contained an agenda for social change\, and thus to its place in the history of feminism as a social movement. \nOrganized by Professors Calvin Normore (UCLA)\, Deborah Brown (University of Queensland)\, Jacqueline Broad (Monash University)\, and Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University). \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023 – DAY 1\n\n\n3:30 PM – 5:00 PM\nMartina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä)\n“Complex Relations: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Olympe de Gouges on the Sexes” (Keynote)\n\n\n5:00 PM – 6:30 PM\nReception\n\n\nFriday\, March 31\, 2023 – DAY 2\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nAllauren Forbes (McMaster University)\n“Speech\, Silence\, and Gendered Space: Women’s Epistemic Nature in Cavendish’s Plays”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nMarcy Lascano (University of Kansas)\n“The Feminist Ontologies of Cavendish and Conway”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nEmanuele Costa (Vanderbilt University)\n“Anne Conway and the Feminine: Between Receptacle and Embodied Thought”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nJacqueline Broad (Monash University)\n“A Weapon in their Hands: Bathsua Makin’s Arguments for Women’s Education”\n\n\n3:15 PM – 3:45 PM\nBreak\n\n\n3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMarguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)\n“Whose Worth? All Women\, or Some Women?”\n\n\nSaturday\, April 1\, 2023 – DAY 3\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:15 AM\nDiane Zetlin (University of Queensland)\n“Equality and Inequality: Glory and Honour”\n\n\n10:15 AM – 10:45 AM\nBreak\n\n\n10:45 AM – 12:00 PM\nCharlotte Sabourin (Douglas College)\n“Germaine de Staël’s Second Thoughts on Rousseau”\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nLisa Shapiro (McGill University)\n“Gabrielle Suchon on ‘persons of the sex'”\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:15 PM\nDeborah Brown (University of Queensland)\n“Anxiety and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth”\n\n\n\nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306.\nRegister to attend online with Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/early-modern-feminism-and-its-roots-day1/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T123000
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SUMMARY:Use of Birth: Biopolitics\, Biotechnics\, and Natal Alienation
DESCRIPTION:Professor Sara Brill (Philosophy\, Fairfield University) gives a public lecture\, part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar for Winter 2023\, “Historicity. Re-reading Michel Foucault\,” taught by UCLA Professor Giulia Sissa. \nIn Foucault’s later engagement with Greek antiquity\, the concept of bios finds revolutionary force less in its usefulness to a notion of biopolitics (in bio-) than in an art of living (tekhnē tou biou)\, i.e. in its value for an ethical/political project of living otherwise\, and thus in an alignment with alterity\, novelty\, and the new. In the political theories of Plato and Aristotle\, bios finds its practical force as an adherence to type\, and serves as a regulative ideal\, marking out an ethical-political project that involves formal legislation\, conventional codes of behavior\, bodily regulation\, spiritual supervision\, surveillance\, and tropes of naturalization and denaturalization\, all for the sake of realizing a cosmological ideal. To follow this understanding of bios is to observe a whole host of forms of training in thought\, action\, and desire\, not only in how to live a life of a certain kind\, but in how to think of oneself as alive\, as born. \nAs circumscribing a form of natality\, bios opens to scrutiny the processes by which one’s approach to one’s status as born may take more or less alienated form\, deepening our ability to assess the political valence of life. The need for such insight has been starkly demonstrated in the dramatic erosion of protection for the exercise of reproductive autonomy in the US and the punitive theology that resides at its heart\, of which the Dobbs decision is the most extreme expression thus far. The ground had been laid for these moves in a sustained effort to cultivate ignorance about the material conditions of human coming-to-be\, from the performed falsehoods about women’s reproductive capacities from the mouths of elected officials; to the particular cruelty of laws that underwrite punitive impulses by deputizing them\, feeding a fantasy of the vigilante for the ‘unborn;’ to the indoctrination in debasing imagery that forms abstinence curriculum in what passes for sex education in many American schools. Exacerbated by the paucity of ethical frameworks to navigate the capacities and possibilities opened by reproductive technology\, which vastly outstrip any developed protocols and habits\, these cultivated forms of unknowing lay the ideological groundwork for the forced birth movement; for the criminalization of miscarriage\, abortion\, and\, increasingly\, birth control; and for the push toward fetal personhood. Indeed\, at the heart of these efforts\, we find fetishized representations of fetal ‘life’ and the destructive power of the fiction of the ‘unborn.’ Taken together\, these forces confront the exercise of reproductive agency with a crisis long in the making. There is continued and pressing need for conceptual frameworks that describe the forms of oppression at work here\, track their sources\, and imagine liberatory practices\, concepts\, and policies that would bring about their abolition. \nThe analytic tools provided by bios offer rich conceptual ground for better understanding the processes and effects of natal alienation and the fantasies that support it. As part of a larger project to track the use of birth as an oppressive force\, I am interested in the relationship between the bios of Plato and Aristotle and Foucault’s understanding of way of life. More specifically\, Foucault’s alignment of tekhnē tou biou with new modes of living draws him into the sphere of another thinker of the political valence of novelty\, Hannah Arendt\, whose alignment of natality with action hinges on an explicit turn away from ancient Greek thinking in order to focus on ‘second’ birth\, on the association of birth with beginning anew marked in Augustin’s formulation initium ut esset homo creates est. Recent anticolonial and feminist thought suggest that neither Foucauldian bios nor Arendtian natality are able to adequately assess the forms of oppression that emerge from the spectre of the unborn; both appear to leave untouched the fantasies of birth that prove decisive in shaping how one takes up one’s status as born. Must we say of Foucault’s bios what has also been said of Arendt’s natality\, namely\, that it is undertheorized? Professor Brill will explore this and related questions in an effort to track the role of bios in Foucault’s later work\, and its relevance for tracing the forms of natal alienation that make the oppressive use of birth possible. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Political Science. \nJoin on Zoom at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95860364810?pwd=VTJJY2oyS1YyLy9KNTB5TFZXRWhKQT09\nPassword: Plato
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/use-of-birth-biopolitics-biotechnics-and-natal-alienation/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T170000
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SUMMARY:Ireland: An Island and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:A symposium organized by Joseph F. Nagy (Celtic Languages and Literatures\, Harvard University). \n1:00 pm-1:15 pm\nWelcome \n1:15-3:00\nSESSION I – Kersti Francis (UCLA)\, Moderator \n“Early Irish Law and Indo-European Studies – A Review of the Case”\nFangzhe Qiu (University College Dublin) – Via Zoom \n“‘Woe\, ah alas!’ – The Piercing Poetry of Urard mac Coisse”\nTruc Ha Nguyen (Maynooth University) \n3:00-3:15\nBreak \n3:15-5:00\nSESSION II \n“A Fifteenth-Century Irish Romance of Saintly and Royal Diaspora”\nJoseph F. Nagy (Harvard University) \n“Reimagining/Decolonizing Early Modern Ireland: The MACMORRIS Project and the Mapping of Cultural Complexity”\nPatricia Palmer (Maynooth University) \nRegister to attend in person in Royce 306. \nRegister to attend online via Zoom.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/ireland-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T133000
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SUMMARY:Simulating Korea in Early Modern Diplomacy: On Eurocentrism\, Agency\, and Early Modern World History in Europa Universalis IV
DESCRIPTION:This is the first of the Games and Korean History webinar series in Winter 2023\, presented by Chosŏn History Society and hosted by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. This series brings together game creators\, history teachers and scholars\, and the gaming community through discussions over Korean history and its simulation. \nDr. Álvaro Sanz from Paradox Tinto Studios\, joined by Professor Sixiang Wang (UCLA)\, will discuss how the award-winning computer game\, Europa Universalis IV (2013-present)\, has approached the simulation of Korean history and East Asian diplomatic institutions during the game’s development. They will discuss a range of topics including: how Paradox Studios conducts historical research\, how the game tries to model historical agency through player choices in the game\, how the game addresses the challenge of representing diplomatic institutions that fall outside of modern “nation-state” conventions. They will also address the ethics of simulation: what does it mean when a player can be a king\, colonizer\, or empire builder; the theoretical implication of “what if” histories; and how the game developers have managed the problem of Eurocentrism\, especially in its representation of Korea and East Asia. The discussion between the panelists will be followed by an open Q&A period. \nTo join the talk\, please click here. For details about this talk and the Chosŏn History Society and its webinar series\, please visit its website. \nDr. Álvaro Sanz has been Content Design Coordinator at Paradox Tinto since 2022\, a video game studio that he joined as Content Designer in 2021. Since then he has been part of the team that manages the historical grand strategy game Europa Universalis IV\, having been part of the development the content packs Origins (focussed on Sub-Saharan Africa\, as Content Designer)\, and Lions of the North (focussed on Scandinavia and the Baltic region\, as Content Design Coordinator). Previously\, he had developed an academic career as a scholar specializing in the Iberian Middle Ages. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Valladolid\, Spain\, in 2020\, his research topic being ‘The royal towns and the territorial administration in Castile and Leon. Power and society in the reign of Alfonso X (1252-1284)’. During his Ph.D. he published 8 papers\, read more than 20 presentations at different conferences in Spain\, Portugal\, and the United Kingdom\, visited the University of Cambridge\, UK\, as a doctoral student\, and taught different courses and seminars at the University of Valladolid. \nDr. Sixiang Wang is an Assistant Professor  of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He is a historian of Chosŏn Korea and early modern East Asia. His research interests also include comparative perspectives on early modern empires\, the history of science and knowledge\, and issues of language and writing in Korea’s cultural and political history. He teaches courses in Korea’s pre-nineteenth-century history as well as the history of cultural and intellectual interactions in early modern East Asia. His book\, Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China reconstructs the cultural strategies of Korean diplomacy with Ming empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It underscores how Korean ritual and literary practices inserted Chos n into the Mong empires legitimating strategies and established Korea as a stakeholder in a shared imperial tradition. He is also helping curate the UCLA Korean History and Cultural Digital Museum with his students. (https://koreanhistory.humspace.ucla.edu/) \nThis series is sponsored by UCLA’s Center for Korean Studies\, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/simulating-korea-in-early-modern-diplomacy/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T123000
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SUMMARY:Foucault reading Plato: does the Symposium provide evidence for a history of sexuality?
DESCRIPTION:Professor Christian Keime (Classics\, University of Cambridge) gives a public lecture\, part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar for Winter 2023\, “Historicity. Re-reading Michel Foucault\,” taught by UCLA Professor Giulia Sissa. \nJoin on Zoom at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95860364810?pwd=VTJJY2oyS1YyLy9KNTB5TFZXRWhKQT09\nPassword: Plato
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/foucault-reading-plato-keime/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T150000
DTSTAMP:20221123T010738Z
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SUMMARY:Political Fictions
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Boucheron (History\, Collège de France) is the speaker at this seminar which is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory. \nCo-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the French Embassy Center of Excellence at UCLA.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/political-fictions-boucheron/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Program in Experimental Critical Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T235959
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SUMMARY:Annual Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture - POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Postponed — to be re-scheduled. \nIlse Sturkenboom (Art History\, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/annual-richard-mary-rouse-history-of-the-book-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Rouse History of the Book Annual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230225T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230225T161500
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SUMMARY:The Future of Medieval France - Concert
DESCRIPTION:The sounds of the medieval past are conjured in Paris-based Ensemble Dialogos’s presentation of the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat\, a concert to be held in conjunction with the conference on Saturday\, February 25\, from 3-4:15 pm at the Getty Center. Wildly popular in medieval Europe\, the tale of Prince Josaphat and his hermit-teacher Barlaam originated in 3rd-4th century India and tells a surreal\, Christianized version of the life of Buddha. In this concert\, Ensemble Dialogo explores the legend through several musical repertoires of the Middle Ages\, reflecting the beloved story’s translation into Greek\, Latin\, Old-Russian\, Old-Croatian\, Old-French\, medieval Occitan\, and Italian manuscripts. \nProgram includes supertitles. More information and reservations on the Getty Center’s website — concert seats must be reserved separately from conference registration — advance tickets required. \nEnsemble Dialogos\nFounded in 1997\, the ensemble brings together singers and instrumentalists from different backgrounds and countries to revive European oral and written traditions\, from the Middle Ages to the present day. \nConcert-related links:\nTrailer 1:  https://youtu.be/uH-QYO5Xskk (introduction)\nTrailer 2:  https://youtu.be/rRManNdwYCM (story)\nSong 1: https://youtu.be/uhGzxJaHxSc (Era in qual tempo)\nSong 2: https://youtu.be/zBffKHNM0IQ (Poyde Baarlam)
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-future-of-medieval-france-concert/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T153000
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SUMMARY:The Future of Medieval France - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Complete details including registration\, schedule\, speakers\, and abstracts are on the conference webpages.\nAn international conference on the past\, present\, and future of medieval studies in Europe organized by Professor Meredith Cohen (Art History\, UCLA) and Professor Zrinka Stahuljak (CMRS-CEGS Director). Bringing together scholars of medieval France from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds\, the conference will honor the legacy of John W. Baldwin who bridged the two and look into the future of medieval France in the global context. What does it mean to study medieval France today\, when academic research and funding trends increasingly seem to decenter France? While this conference focuses on France\, the reflection is relevant for all of Europe. Why and how\, then\, should we study medieval France and Europe? How can we reform or decolonize the medieval European fields from within while remaining true to the time period\, its geographies\, mentalities\, and connectivities? \nThe conference will be held on the UCLA Campus \, third floor Royce Hall Humanities conference rooms on February 23-24. \n“Barlaam and Josaphat\,” a concert in conjunction with the conference by the Dialogos Ensemble\, led by Katarina Livljanić\, will be held at the Getty Center on February 25 from 3-4:15 pm. \nSponsored by UCLA CMRS-CEGS\n\nCo-sponsored by UCLA ELTS\, UCLA Comparative Literature\, and the UCLA Wellman Chair in Medieval History. \n\n\n \n\nImage credit: The Royal Couple with Astrologists\, 1469\nFollower of Hans Schilling (German\, active 1459 – 1467)\, illuminator and from the Workshop of Diebold Lauber (German\, active 1427 – 1467)\, illuminator\nInk\, colored washes\, and tempera colors\, Leaf: 28.6 × 20.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 in.)\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles\, Ms. Ludwig XV 9\, fol. 22v\, 83.MR.179.22v \nInk\, colored washes\, and tempera colors\, Leaf: 28.6 × 20.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 in.)\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles\, Ms. Ludwig XV 9\, fol. 22v\, 83.MR.179.22v\nhttps://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/105WY9
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-future-of-medieval-france-day-2/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T180000
DTSTAMP:20220613T184934Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of Medieval France - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Complete details including registration\, schedule\, speakers\, and abstracts are on the conference webpages.\nAn international conference on the past\, present\, and future of medieval studies in Europe organized by Professor Meredith Cohen (Art History\, UCLA) and Professor Zrinka Stahuljak (CMRS-CEGS Director). Bringing together scholars of medieval France from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds\, the conference will honor the legacy of John W. Baldwin who bridged the two and look into the future of medieval France in the global context. What does it mean to study medieval France today\, when academic research and funding trends increasingly seem to decenter France? While this conference focuses on France\, the reflection is relevant for all of Europe. Why and how\, then\, should we study medieval France and Europe? How can we reform or decolonize the medieval European fields from within while remaining true to the time period\, its geographies\, mentalities\, and connectivities? \nThe conference will be held on the UCLA Campus \, third floor Royce Hall Humanities conference rooms on February 23-24. \n“Barlaam and Josaphat\,” a concert in conjunction with the conference by the Dialogos Ensemble\, led by Katarina Livljanić\, will be held at the Getty Center on February 25 from 3-4:15 pm. \nSponsored by UCLA CMRS-CEGS\n\nCo-sponsored by UCLA ELTS\, UCLA Comparative Literature\, and the UCLA Wellman Chair in Medieval History. \n\n\n \n\nImage credit: The Royal Couple with Astrologists\, 1469\nFollower of Hans Schilling (German\, active 1459 – 1467)\, illuminator and from the Workshop of Diebold Lauber (German\, active 1427 – 1467)\, illuminator\nInk\, colored washes\, and tempera colors\, Leaf: 28.6 × 20.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 in.)\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles\, Ms. Ludwig XV 9\, fol. 22v\, 83.MR.179.22v \nInk\, colored washes\, and tempera colors\, Leaf: 28.6 × 20.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 in.)\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles\, Ms. Ludwig XV 9\, fol. 22v\, 83.MR.179.22v\nhttps://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/105WY9
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/the-future-of-medieval-france-2/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230218T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230218T100000
DTSTAMP:20230208T214636Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - "The Book of Faith: A Modern English Translation"
DESCRIPTION:Pepperdine University Professor Jennifer A. T. Smith’s The Book of Faith: A Modern English Translation\, offers a critical introduction to\, and translation of\, Reginald Pecock’s The Book of Faith. Organized by Arvind Thomas (UCLA)\, moderated by Wendy Scase (Birmingham)\, with Steven Justice (UC Berkeley)\, Ian Forest (Oxford University) and Michael Calabrese (CSULA) as respondents. \nAttend online at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94335688131. \nQuestions? Please contact Professor Thomas at arvindthomas@g.ucla.edu. \n \n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/book-launch-the-book-of-faith-a-modern-english-translation/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T153000
DTSTAMP:20221202T234159Z
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SUMMARY:The Black Saints of the Carmelite Order: Ancient Ethiopia in the Early Modern European Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Erin Kathleen Rowe (Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education\, Professor of History\, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences\, Johns Hopkins University) will give a talk about African and Black saints in early modern Iberia. \nBeginning in the seventeenth-century\, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints\, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient saints was tied to the order’s longstanding efforts to prove the antiquity of their order dating back to the Prophet Elijah\, the inclusion of Ancient Ethiopia in these efforts tell a more complex story about how early modern Spaniards thought with and about Ancient Ethiopia. The inclusion of Ethiopia in early modern ideas about the Biblical Near East clashed with the treatment of enslaved people from West and Central Africa being brought to the peninsula in vast numbers\, while devotion to Ethiopian saints by White and Black Spaniards transformed the spiritual and historical landscape. \nRegister to attend on Zoom at https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcOqrpjMpE9Q01fN6D0UQmwV1S7AmCC2a \nCo-sponsored by Department of History\, CMRS-CEGS\, The Atlantic History Colloquium\, Peter H. Reill Chair in European Studies\, and The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsored-erin-rowe/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T160000
DTSTAMP:20220930T223411Z
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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\n20. Presentations are organized by the seminar’s director\, Professor Piotr Górecki (History\, UC Riverside). \nRead details about attendance — registration required.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-history-seminar-feb11/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T150000
DTSTAMP:20221123T010004Z
CREATED:20221123T010004Z
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SUMMARY:Black Sovereignty
DESCRIPTION:Miguel Valerio (Spanish/Performing Arts\, Washington University in Saint Louis) is the speaker at this seminar which is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory. \nCo-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/black-sovereignty/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Program in Experimental Critical Theory
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