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  • Liminality and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern World – Day 2

    CMRS-CEGS Seminar Organized by Barbara Fuchs (English, Spanish, UCLA) and Andrew Devereux (History, UCSD). With  Chloe Ireton (History, University College London) and Jennifer Palmer (History, University of Georgia). Register to attend IN PERSON: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemJHpVpq0pLc-TmRvDLGA8HAsge07N3yYwIlh7GnziEFyCHQ/viewform Register to attend on ZOOM: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdOivrz8tH9CcxbiZNPQBDWUruZXm-P08 Click for readings.

  • Liminality and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern World – Day 3

    CMRS-CEGS Workshop “Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Spanish Atlantic in the 16th Century,”  a lecture by Chloe Ireton (History, University College London). Organized by Barbara Fuchs (English, Spanish, UCLA) and Andrew Devereux (History, UCSD). Register to attend IN PERSON (only option): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNPbpXliFnZcDsMWffTPVmezNm7Cagdk9iVAtKBdDWyXasvg/viewform Click for readings.

  • How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple | Co-Sponsored Lecture

    UCLA Center for the Study of Religion is sponsoring a talk with Azzan Yadin-Israel (Jewish Studies, Rutgers University). With 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 […]

  • Aristotle: Forever After?

    A roundtable organized by Giulia Sissa (Classics, Political Science, UCLA). Iacopo Costa (CNRS and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) “Can We Bypass the Middle Ages When We Read Aristotle?” Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) “Aristotle’s Phronesis: a Hidden Presence in Political Philosophy?” Guillaume Navaud (Lycée Henri IV) “Correcting/Cancelling Evil in Literature: a Resurgence of an Anti-Aristotelian Platonism?” […]

  • The Intermingling of Cartography and Literature in the Early Modern Period

    CMRS-CEGS Conference Organized by Chet Van Duzer (Lazarus Project, University of Rochester) and Stephen P. McCormick (Romance Languages, Washington & Lee University). See the complete schedule at the conference website. Register to attend in person in Royce 314. Register to attend online with Zoom. Image: Naples BN MS IVE9, f. 24r Virgil Georgics zonal mappamundi

  • 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”

    “Silver: Mutability and Materiality across Seventeenth-Century Networks of Trade and Plunder in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans” Nancy Um (Associate Director, Research and Knowledge Creation, Getty Research Institute) This 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 […]

  • The Acts of the Christian Martyrs and Court Protocols – Research Seminar Public Lecture

    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). It has long been assumed that acts of martyrs derived from court protocols of their […]

  • Astronomers, Theologians and Vagabonds – The Cultural Circle of Bishop John Vitez, a 15th Century Central European Humanist

    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 […]

  • New Book Salon, “Inventing the Alphabet”

    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). Register to attend in person Royce 306. Register to attend online with Zoom. (Originally scheduled for April 25, 2023)

  • 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 […]