• Foucault reading Plato: does the Symposium provide evidence for a history of sexuality?

    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. Join on Zoom at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95860364810?pwd=VTJJY2oyS1YyLy9KNTB5TFZXRWhKQT09 Password: Plato

  • Simulating Korea in Early Modern Diplomacy: On Eurocentrism, Agency, and Early Modern World History in Europa Universalis IV

    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. Dr. Álvaro Sanz from Paradox […]

  • Ireland: An Island and Beyond

    A symposium organized by Joseph F. Nagy (Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University). 1:00 pm-1:15 pm Welcome 1:15-3:00 SESSION I – Kersti Francis (UCLA), Moderator “Early Irish Law and Indo-European Studies – A Review of the Case” Fangzhe Qiu (University College Dublin) – Via Zoom “‘Woe, ah alas!’ – The Piercing Poetry of Urard mac […]

  • Use of Birth: Biopolitics, Biotechnics, and Natal Alienation

    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. In 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 […]

  • Reinventing Woman’s Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots – Day 1

    Register to attend in person in Royce 306. Register to attend online with Zoom. Challenges 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 […]

  • Reinventing Woman’s Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots – Day 2

    Register to attend in person in Royce 306. Register to attend online with Zoom. Challenges 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 […]

  • Reinventing Woman’s Nature: Early Modern Feminism and Its Roots – Day 3

    Register to attend in person in Royce 306. Register to attend online with Zoom. Challenges 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 […]

  • Michael J. B. Allen Memorial

    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 […]

  • Religious Dissent and Violence in Late Antiquity – Research Seminar Public Lecture

    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). Violence was part of the late antique life. How considerable role did violent conflicts play in Late […]

  • Liminality and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern World – Day 1

    CMRS-CEGS Workshop “Possession: Race, Gender, and Ownership in the French Atlantic,” a lecture by Jennifer Palmer (History, University of Georgia). Organized by Barbara Fuchs (English, Spanish, UCLA) and Andrew Devereux (History, UCSD). Click for readings.