CMRS-CEGS Conference “Destroyed, Removed, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World,” organized by Matthew Fisher (English, UCLA) and Devin Fitzgerald (Library Special Collections, UCLA). Day 1 – Friday, February 3, 2023 9:15 – 9:45 am Coffee, tea, fruit, pastries 9:45 – 10:00 Welcoming Remarks Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA), CMRS-CEGS Director Matthew Fisher (UCLA) and Devin […]
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. Co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
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 […]
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. Beginning in the seventeenth-century, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient […]
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. Attend […]
Complete details including registration, schedule, speakers, and abstracts are on the conference webpages. An 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 […]
Complete details including registration, schedule, speakers, and abstracts are on the conference webpages. An 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 […]
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 […]
Postponed — to be re-scheduled. Ilse Sturkenboom (Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Patrick Boucheron (History, Collège de France) is the speaker at this seminar which is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory. Co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the French Embassy Center of Excellence at UCLA.