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SUMMARY:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar by Stefan Esders
DESCRIPTION:The series\, which hosts a visiting scholar of Late Antiquity or the early Middle Ages each quarter\, is designed to support graduate education\, make new connections across our community of scholars in southern California\, and explore exciting projects-in-progress in the field.\n\nStefan Esders (Freie Universität Berlin) will question forced baptism in Late Antiquity\n\nRegister to attend at the UCLA University Club\, Redwood Room\n\nAccess the readings\n\n 
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/late-antique-excursus-seminar-by-stefan-esders/
CATEGORIES:Late Antique eXcursus Seminar
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SUMMARY:Constructing Meaning: Anicia Juliana\, The Building-Loving Woman
DESCRIPTION:The Architecture Working Group will host their next event on Wednesday\, April 8\, 2026\, with guest speaker Dr. Diane Favro\, UCLA Professor Emerita.\n\n\n\nDr. Favro is a Distinguished Research Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and studies the Roman built environment\, including The Urban Image of Augustan Rome\, and was president and Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and Samuel H. Kress Professor at CASVA.\n\n\n\nDr. Favro will present a talk entitled “Constructing Meaning: Anicia Juliana\, The Building-Loving Woman.”\n\nPlease register in advance for the talk using this link: https://tinyurl.com/AWG-Diane-Favro \nThis event is cosponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/constructing-meaning-anicia-juliana-the-building-loving-woman/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship
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SUMMARY:California Medieval Seminar (Spring 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers\, typically drafts of articles\, book chapters\, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial\, and substantive\, feedback. Calls for presenters are circulated via e-mail from the Center approximately two months prior to each meeting and papers are accepted on a first-come basis. \nFaculty\, postdocs\, and grad students from across California are welcome to participate. \nThe papers will be discussed at the seminar in the following order: \n\n“Threats and Violence in Carolingian Disputing\,” Amos Bronner (The Catholic University of America)\n“Apostolic Legends and Visions of Christian Globality in the Twelfth Century: An Indian Cleric Visits Rome\,” John Eldevik (Hamilton College)\n“Were Married Clerics Tonsured?” Fiona Griffiths (Stanford)\n“Narrative Sequences of the Apocalypse in Romanesque Italy: Location\, Structure\, Function\, Meaning\,” Alison Perchuk (California State University Channel Islands)\n\nRegister to attend in Royce 306\nRegister to attend via ZOOM \nMore information can be found here.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/california-medieval-seminar-spring-2026/
CATEGORIES:California Medieval History Seminar,Humanities
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SUMMARY:Odious Comparisons Across & Beyond the Early Global World
DESCRIPTION:Isabella Kelly-Ramirez\, Cosmic Provenance\, 2023 \nIn his 1996 essay “Why Comparisons Are Odious\,” W.J.T. Mitchell observed that if “difference and identity are the potent and inevitable terms in a new comparativism grounded in culture\, it may be important to remind ourselves how insidious comparison can be\, how invidious and odious.” Although written in response to the emergence of comparative cultural studies\, Mitchell’s essay points to both the risks of comparison and to how the oft-acknowledged ‘odiousness of comparison’ delimits the critical horizons of comparative and early global studies. Although comparative work in premodern studies typically focuses on historically verifiable instances of interconnection and translation\, scholars such as Adam Miyashiro [Kānaka Maoli]\, Zrinka Stahuljak\, and Rebecca de Souza have argued persuasively that asynchronous\, disconnected\, transcultural comparisons can provide methods for a truly global\, decolonized premodern studies. \nBy seeking dialogue between the fields of comparative literature and early global studies\, this two-day symposium\, sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, explores not just what makes comparison odious but also asks what is generative about odious comparisons. In experimenting with comparative approaches to the early global past which are unshackled from the necessity of linearity\, continuity\, or connectivity\, our fifteen speakers ask whether we can compare apples and oranges and how such comparisons might generate new\, destabilizing ways of knowing. \nOrganized by Basil Arnould Price (SUNY Oneonta) and Nancy Alicia Martínez (Comparative Literature) \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nEvent Schedule
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/odious-comparisons-across-beyond-the-early-global-world/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon\, “Turning Away"
DESCRIPTION:A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.  \n“This is a book that makes a difference\, not only in our grasp of human visuality but in all the mixed feelings of love and hate\, attraction and repulsion\, thought and feeling that make us the crazy animals we are.”—W. J. T. Mitchell\, author of What Do Pictures Want?  \n“This lavish and virtuosic book finds in the gesture of turning away an entire history of why we turn to art to understand what we cannot look at directly.”—D. Vance Smith\, author of Atlas’s Bones \nWhy do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame or lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study\, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic appearance of these gestures in art\, poetry\, and philosophy has turned them into an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world. \nInto the horizon of contemporary discourse\, Turning Away sets out from five influential scenes in which figures avert their gaze: Timanthes’s Sacrifice of Iphigenia\, Plato’s Republic\, Augustine’s Confessions\, Christ’s Crucifixion\, and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The gestures of aversion in these scenes refract across visual media\, through philosophy and politics\, into modernity and the present day\, having been reimagined along the way by thinkers like Hannah Arendt\, artists like Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí\, poets like Langston Hughes\, and many others. Saltzman offers a timely critique of the privilege of turning away and of the too-easy condemnation of our tendencies to do so. \n\nBenjamin Saltzman (University of Chicago) will be in conversation with Bronwen Wilson (UCLA\, Art History) and David Russell (UCLA\, English). \nBenjamin Saltzman is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago\, where he coedits the journal Modern Philology. Saltzman is the author of Bonds of Secrecy: Law\, Spirituality\, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England. \nBronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th– and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. Wilson is the author of numerous books\, including the forthcoming book\, The Face of Uncertainty. She is also coeditor of Conversion Machines: Apparatus\, Artifice\, Body and The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art. \nDavid Russell is associate professor of English at UCLA and the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Marion Milner: On Creativity. \nCosponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Art History.
URL:https://cegs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-turning-away/
CATEGORIES:New Book Salon
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