Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Updating the Past: Scores for Elizabethan Films

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

California Medieval History Seminar

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Opening Reception

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Onassis Foundation Seminar

Royce Hall 306 (Herbert Morris Seminar Room) - 4pm.

-- submitted by sarah morris (sarahm@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact sarahm@humnet.ucla.edu

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Are the Days of Aramaic Numbered? A Socio-Linguistic Study of the Christian and Jewish Aramaic Vestiges"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

LGBTS Fall Reception

All are invited to celebrate the beginning of the academic year by honoring three distinguished scholars who are joining the UCLA faculty this fall: Philip Brett, Musicology; Sue-Ellen Case, Theater; Christopher Looby, English

4:00-6:00, 306 Royce Hall. Thursday, Oct 18, 2001

Free & open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

-- submitted by Tammy Ho (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Launching Hernandez

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Pumpkins and Pigs: The Inner and Outer Fringes of Halloween"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Innocent III and Mary Magdalen's Confession: A Little-Known Sermon on the Saint

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

UCLA Sounds: "Doleful Dirge & Dress: Music for Mourning & Measured Merry-Making"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

California Medieval History Seminar, Fall 2001

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Italian Jews: Memory, Music, Celebration

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact luisadg@humnet.ucla.edu

UC Regents' Lecturer: Patrick Stewart, "Shylock: Shakespeare's Alien"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "The Theater of the World: A Renaissance Atlas"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Anatomizing London: The Rise and Fall of the Seventeenth-Century Character Sketch

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

The Earliest Breton Inscriptions

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Medieval Scandinavia in the Digital Age"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Exile: "Heroes Leave Their Shores" - Loss, and the Dynamics of Artistic Creation

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nancy.vandeusen@cgu.edu

Medieval Movie Night

Free double feature of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "Excalibur" presented by Melnitz Movies, the English Medieval Symposium and the Center for Student Programming.

Please come and join us for a 25th anniversary screening of arguably the "best" representation of the medieval period and the Arthurian legend on the screen followed by one of the most earnest attempts to translate the medieval, Arthurian world onto film.

Please pick up tickets at the box office at least 30 minutes before the beginning of the film. Seating and tickets are on a first come, first serve basis.

-- submitted by Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu

Witchcraft and the Law in Medieval Scandinavia

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

UCLA's Department of Art History/CMRS' Medieval Series Lecture by Robert Nelson

UCLA's Department of Art History & Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies present a lecture in their Medieval Series entitled "Byzantine & Western Medieval Art: An Asymmetrical Relationship" by Professor Robert Nelson, Distinguished Service Professor of Art History & Culture & Chair, Committee on the History of Culture University of Chicago

Professor Nelson received his Ph.D. at New York University. His areas of interest include the art of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages, especially that of Byzantine Empire; history; theory of art history; vision and visuality; and the functioning of holy objects in society. His current research focuses on the relation of Byzantine art to culture and society, the reception of Byzantine illuminated manuscripts in the Italian Renaissance, and the constitution of Byzantine art and history from 1750 to the present.

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humnet.ucla.edu)

UCLA's Department of Art History/CMRS' Medieval Series Lecture by Robert Nelson

UCLA's Department of Art History & Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies present a lecture in their Medieval Series entitled "Byzantine & Western Medieval Art: An Asymmetrical Relationship" by Professor Robert Nelson, Distinguished Service Professor of Art History & Culture & Chair, Committee on the History of Culture University of Chicago

Professor Nelson received his Ph.D. at New York University. His areas of interest include the art of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages, especially that of Byzantine Empire; history; theory of art history; vision and visuality; and the functioning of holy objects in society. His current research focuses on the relation of Byzantine art to culture and society, the reception of Byzantine illuminated manuscripts in the Italian Renaissance, and the constitution of Byzantine art and history from 1750 to the present.

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humnet.ucla.edu)

Updating the Past: The Scores for "Young Bess" and "Elizabeth"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Annual History of the Book Lecture: "The Imaginary Library of Archbishop Theodore"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Musica Humana: UCLA Early Music Collective

Medieval and Renaissance vocal music is inextricably linked with its notation: from the transcendent abstractions of the rhythmic proportions isorhythmic motet to the moveable type of early music printing, early modern song has both been contained in and transcended the vehicle of writing. But notation is only on half of the music‹the spaces provided by early modern composers through unwritten performance practice, such as the singerly practice of "false music," invite a modern en-voicing of these signs and symbols.

Spanning from the late fifteenth century to the late sixteenth century, this concert explores the medieval and renaissance vocal music both as musical objects of cultural exchange and as windows into another world. Featuring works by Power, Dunstable, Ockeghem, Josquin, Obrecht, Willaert, Morales, and Victoria, as well as others, this concert will also include projected visuals to accompany the performance.

The performing group Music Humana was created three years ago by the graduate students of the UCLA Musicology Department, and the group has continued to perform together embracing undergraduate students from both the music and the musicology departments. Musica Humana¹s goal is provide an exciting environment for performers and audience alike to explore the rich and varied ways in which all musical activities shape and express people and their cultures. With a combination of music and readings, Musica Humana¹s previous concerts have explored the many sonic worlds of the Renaissance, including that of sixteenth-century dance with the Los Angeles-based dance group, Danzando.

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu

UCLA's Department of Art History/CMRS Medieval Series Lecture by Caroline Bruzelius

Monday, January 28, 2002, 3:00 PM, Royce Hall 314

Professor Bruzelius received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her field of research is Gothic architecture and sculpture in France and Italy. Her books include The Thirteenth Century Church at Saint Denis and The Architecture of the Cistercians in the Early Thirteenth Century. She was awarded the Duke Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985. From 1994 to 1998 she served as Director of the American Academy in Rome.

-- submitted by Heather gould (gould@humnet.ucla.edu)

***EVENT POSTPONED!!!***CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Philip Brett (Musicology), "Byrd's Soul Authority"

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The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies announces the first Winter 2002 CMRS Faculty Roundtable. Philip Brett (Musicology) will discuss "Byrd's Soul Authority." CMRS faculty, associates, Council members, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend.

The role of William Byrd (1540-1623) in Elizabethan musical culture is in some ways strikingly similar to that of his younger contemporary Edmund Spenser (1554-1599) in the literary sphere. Both had a sense of history, both cultivated (as Louis Montrose has argued in relation to Spenser) "a distinctive and culturally authoritative authorial persona" through appropriating print, both received royal appointments or favors. A great difference lies in their religious lives, for Byrd remained an ardent Roman Catholic, and courted danger in befriending Jesuit priests. Professor Brett argues that under pressure of religious conviction, Byrd's carefully constructed indigenous authorial voice was slowly undermined by an inward expressiveness upon which later generations have constructed his greatness but which his contemporary audience, outside the Roman enclave, virtually ignored.

-- submitted by Tram Tran (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Walter Benjamin's Friendships: A Biographical Exploration"

ALEX GELLEY (UCI)

Thursday, January 31, 2002 Royce Hall, Room 306, 4:00 PM

as part of the Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy

Cosponsors: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Department of Germanic Languages, Center for European and Russian Studies

-- submitted by spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

'"You Still Haven't Finished With Your Mother': Allen Ginsberg and the Gendered Poetics of 'Kaddish'"

MAEERA SCHREIBER (U. of Utah)

as part of our Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures UCLA Department of Germanic Languages UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies UCLA Center for European & Russian Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"The Suffering and Salvation of God in Ancient Rabbinic Midrash"

MICHAEL FISHBANE (University of Chicago, Divinity School)

as part of the Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsored by: Center for Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Department of Germanic Languages Center for European and Russian Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

The Ten Commandments, VIII: Do not steal.

VIII. DO NOT STEAL.

Speakers:

DAVID NIMMER, of counsel to Irell & Mandella LLP and author of the leading U.S. treatise on copyright law. He is currently Visiting Professor at the UCLA School of Law.

STEWART VOGEL, rabbi (Temple Aliyah, Woodland Hills) and co- author of "The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life." He is currently Vice President of the Southern California Board of Rabbis.

PAMELA BRUBAKER, Associate Professor of Religion at California Lutheran University. She is also Program Coordinator of the Women's Studies Department.

The Ten Commandments: Universal ethics that all righteous people should uphold or the "Moral Majority's" attempt to impose its religious beliefs on the secular world? Come discover with us, on selected Thursday evenings during Fall and Winter quarters, the remarkable textual and historical complexity of these Commandments and their legacies in the modern world.

A public forum sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies with the generous assistance of the Jerry and Joy Monkarsh Family, this series costs $55 for all 11 evenings ($25 for UCLA students with SID) or $10 per person per evening ($5 for UCLA students with SID).

For further information or to receive a brochure, contact CJS at (310) 825-5387.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

California Medieval History Seminar, Winter 2002

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Torah in the Mouth: Oral and Written Transmission in Jewish Culture

TORAH IN THE MOUTH: ORAL AND WRITTEN TRANSMISSION IN JEWISH CULTURE

A conference convened by

JOSEPH NAGY (UCLA)

Conference Speakers:

SUSAN NIDITCH (Amherst College) "Preparing a Commentary on the Biblical Book of Judges: Confessions of a Student of Early and Oral Literatures"

MARTIN JAFFEE (U. of Washington) "Torah in the Mouth as a Rhetoric of Monotheism: Ideology, Oral Tradition, and the Social Exclusions of Rabbinic Disciple Communities"

YONA SABAR (UCLA) "Torah in the Mouth and Torah in the Heart: How Judaism Was Transmitted in a Minimally-literate Near Eastern Jewish Community"

DAN BEN-AMOS (U. of Pennsylvania) "Literacy and Orality: A Medieval Epic and a Modern Oral Tale"

Moderators:

William Schniedewind (UCLA)

Herbert Davidson (UCLA)

Arnold Band (UCLA)

Peter Tokofsky (UCLA)

Organized in conjunction with

The UCLA Faculty for the Study of Oral Tradition

National Endowment for the Humanities

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Lecture by Professor Sharon E.J. Gerstel, "Painting, Piety and the Peasantry in Late Medieval Byzantium"

present a lecture by

Professor Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Department of Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park

"Painting, Piety and the Peasantry in Late Medieval Byzantium"

Monday, February 11, 2002, 4:00 PM, Dodd Hall 167

Professor Gerstel received her Ph.D. at New York University and specializes in Byzantine art and archaeology. As an art historian, her research focuses on the complex relationship between liturgical and extra-liturgical ceremony and monumental painting of medieval Byzantium. She is currently at work on a book entitled Painting the Sacred House, a study of art and family ritual in village churches of rural Byzantium. As an archaeologist, Gerstel has worked at numerous Early Christian and Byzantine sites in Greece, including Dion and Corinth. She has published on the history of medieval Messenia and has written on Byzantine and Turkish pottery recovered from an intensive surface survey in that region. She serves as Co-Director of fieldwork for excavations at Panakton, Boeotia, an ancient site covered by a medieval village of the fourteenth and early fifteenth century.

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Donka Minkova (English), "Alliteration Rules! From Old to Middle English"

Not long ago, CMRS sponsored a program entitled "Doleful Dirge and Dress: Music for Mourning and Measured Merry- Making," reminding us that alliteration rules even today. Turning back to early English, Professor Minkova's talk will examine the evolution of the rules of alliterative verse composition from the 8th to the 14th century. She will argue that "alliteration" in early English verse was based on sound and not on letter; the term is, strictly speaking, a misnomer. An examination of the patterns of sound identity allows us to date sound changes with greater precision. The persistence of alliteration is an important component in the debate about orality and literacy in medieval English culture.

-- submitted by Tram Tran (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Who Owns the Bible?: Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls"

DAVID NIMMER

David Nimmer, currently Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA, is of counsel to Irell & Manella LLP. The following is excerpted from Irell & Manella's website (http://www.irell.com/attorneys/ShowLawyer.asp?AID=118):

He is also a Distinguished Scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. In 2000, he was elected to the American Law Institute.

Since 1985, Mr. Nimmer has updated and revised Nimmer on Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the field, first published in 1963 by his late father, Prof. Melville B. Nimmer. Besides also contributing to other treatises, Mr. Nimmer has authored numerous law review articles on domestic and international copyright issues. A selection includes the following:

A Riff on Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 673 (2000)

Puzzles of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 46 J. Copyright Soc’y USA 401 (1999)

The Metamorphosis of Contract Into Expand, 87 Cal. L. Rev. 17 (1999)

Aus Der Neuen Welt, 93 Nw. U. L. Rev. 195 (1998)

Time and Space, 38 IDEA 501 (1998)

Adams and Bits: Of Jewish Kings and Copyrights, 71 S. Cal. L. Rev. 219 (1998)

An Odyssey Through Copyright’s Vicarious Defenses, 73 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 162 (1998)

A Tale of Two Treaties, 22 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 1 (1997)

Are We Running Through the Jungle Now or Is the Old Man Still Stuck Down the Road? 39 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 65 (1997)

Brains and Other Paraphernalia of the Digital Age, 10 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 1 (1996)

The End of Copyright, 48 Vand. L. Rev. 1385 (1995)

A Structured Approach to Analyzing the Substantial Similarity of Computer Software in Copyright Infringement Cases, 20 Ariz. St. L.J. 625 (1988)

"Nimmer on Copyright" is routinely cited by U.S. and foreign courts at all levels in copyright litigation. In addition, the courts have relied on many of the foregoing articles. For instance, the Eleventh Circuit in 1999 evaluated the constitutionality of GATT-inspired amendments to the Copyright Act by relying on The End of Copyright. In 1992, the Second Circuit adopted wholesale the test for copyright infringement of computer software proposed in A Structured Approach. In subsequent years, other courts have followed the Second Circuit’s lead, until today a plurality of circuits follow that test.

Mr. Nimmer lectures widely in the copyright arena. Besides in-house seminars (such as for the legal staffs of Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta and Times Mirror in New York and Los Angeles), he has lectured around the world — at MILIA in Cannes, ALAI in Tel Aviv, LUISS in Rome, IMPRIMATUR in London, the Copyright Society of Japan in Tokyo, and regularly to bar organizations in California and throughout the U.S.

In addition to writing and lecturing, Mr. Nimmer represents clients in the entertainment, publishing, and high- technology fields. He gave congressional testimony on behalf of the United States Telephone Association in 1997 and the National Association of Broadcasters in 1992, and Parliamentary testimony on behalf of the Combined Newspaper and Magazine Copyright Committee of Australia in Sydney in 1993.

Mr. Nimmer received an A.B. with distinction and honors in 1977 from Stanford University and his J.D. in 1980 from Yale Law School, where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

FEMINISM CONFRONTS DISABILITY

Registration is required. For conference schedule and to register, please go to http://www.women.ucla.edu/csw/disability/

-- submitted by Peggy Lo (pplo@ucla.edu)

For more information, contact women@women.ucla.edu

LECTURE POSTPONED! The Arabic 'Maqama' and the Rise of the Modern Novel

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

History in Lightning: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Historical Film (with some references to Medieval History)

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

6th Annual E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop: "Truth" (Part 1)

All sessions are in Dodd 399. Advance registration not required. No fee.

Program: Fri., Feb. 22, 3:30 PM: Olaf Pluta, "Persecution and the Art of Writing"

Sat., Feb. 23, 2002: 10:30 AM "Anselm and Truth," Introduced by T. Ekenberg 12:30 PM Lunch break 2:30 PM "Some Problems with Truth in the Twelfth Century," Introduced by Christopher J. Martin

Sun., Feb. 24, 2002: 10:30 AM "Ockham and Truth," Introduced by M. Yrjonsuuri 12:30 PM Lunch break 2:30 PM "Buridan and Truth," Introduced G. Klima

This workshop is coordinated by Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA), and co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Department of Philosophy, and the College of Letters and Science.

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Art History/CMRS lecture by Professor Charles Barber: "In the Blink of an Eye,or the Opening of Byzantine Art"

Monday, February 25, 2002, 3:00 PM, Royce Hall 314

Professor Barber received his Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. His research interests include Early Christian and Byzantine Art. He has written extensively on theories of the image in Byzantium. Immediate projects include the influence of Aristotelian thinking on eleventh-century habits of viewing; publishing (with students) the Snite Museum¹s collection of Greek and Russian icons; examining the poetics of post-Byzantine painting; and the Apocalypse in the Greek tradition. Professor Barber teaches undergraduate lecture courses on all aspects of Early Christian, Byzantine and Medieval Art. His seminars focus on Byzantine art; recent topics include iconoclasm; the icon; art and worship; the book.

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Kevin Terraciano (History), "Native Responses to the 'One God from Castile' in Early Colonial Mexico"

From 1544 to 1546, the Inquisition investigated accusations that native nobles from two communities in Oaxaca had reverted to ancient religious practices, including human sacrifice. This discussion examines testimony from the two trials and sketches drawn by Mixtec artists as evidence of indigenous responses to Christianity in the early colonial period. The discussion will focus on the confused and ambivalent words and actions of a generation of nobles in Oaxaca who experienced an assault on their sacred beliefs and practices by followers of, as one Mixtec noble called Him, "the one God from Castile."

-- submitted by Tram Tran (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

One Royal Body or Two? The Problem of Sacred Monarchy in Early Modern Western Europe

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Annual Shakespeare Symposium: "Hamlet"

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact kennel@humnet.ucla.edu

"'Remember Lot's Wife' [Luke 17:32]: Scenes from a Failed Encounter in Post-Biblical Cultures"

"'Remember Lot's Wife' [Luke 17:32]: Scenes from a Failed Encounter in Post-Biblical Cultures"

as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsors: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures; Department of Germanic Languages; Center for European and Russian Studies; Department of English; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

The New Sorrows of Young Aristaeus: Mythological Creativity in Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Differing Conceptions of Memory in the Book of Numbers"

PROFESSOR ADRIANE LEVEEN (Hebrew Union College) on:

"Differing Conceptions of Memory in the Book of Numbers"

as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsors: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures; Department of Germanic Languages; Center for European and Russian Studies; Department of English; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Celtic Movie Night

-- submitted by Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Michael Morony (History), "The Bacillus and the Basileus"

The first pandemic of bubonic plague, 541 to 767 CE, is often called the "Plague of Justinian," but it recurred for over two hundred years and embraced all of Eurasia from Britain to China. Compared to the Black Death, there has been almost no scholarship on this pandemic. The first international conference devoted to this subject, held in Rome in December, 2001, brought scholars of Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Syriac together with biomolecular archeologists to discuss whether or not the pandemic really was bubonic plague, whether there is archaeological evidence for it or not, and what the social, economic, psychological, or religious consequences may have been.

-- submitted by Tram Tran (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Celtic Movie Night

-- submitted by Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu)

24th Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Art History and CMRS Lecture: “Crossroads. Place and Visual Culture in Twelfth-Century Sicily”

Professor William Tronzo Department of Art History, Tulane University, New Orleans

“Crossroads. Place and Visual Culture in Twelfth-Century Sicily”

Monday, April 15, 2002 3:00 PM Dodd Hall 275

Professor Tronzo received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His areas of interest include Medieval art, early Christian and Byzantine art and trecento Italy. Selected publications include The Cultures of his Kingdom. Roger II and the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Princeton, 1997; ed. (with Irving Lavin); "The Medieval Object-Enigma, and the Problem of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo", Word &: Image, 9, 1993, 197-228; "Mimesis in Byzantium: Notes Towards a History of the Function of the Image," RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, 25, 1994.

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Crossroads. Place and Visual Culture in Twelfth-Century Sicily"

Prof. Tronzo received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His areas of interest include Medieval art, early Christian and Byzantine art and trecento Italy. Selected publications include The Cultures of his Kingdom. Roger II and the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Princeton,1997; ed. (with Irving Lavin); "The Medieval Object-Enigma, and the Problem of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo", Word &: Image, 9, 1993, 197-228; "Mimesis in Byzantium: Notes Towards a History of the Function of the Image," RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, 25, 1994.

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs)

"THE PIT AND THE ROPE: JUDAH DISCOVERS JOSEPH"

AVIVAH ZORNBERG (Pardes Institute of Torah Studies)

on "The Pit and the Rope: Judah Discovers Joseph"

as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsors: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures; Department of Germanic Languages; Center for European and Russian Studies; Department of English; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies Program

-- submitted by (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"FROM BAPTISM TO INQUISITION, OR HOW THE CONVERSOS BECAME JEWISH"

"FROM BAPTISM TO INQUISITION, OR HOW THE CONVERSOS BECAME JEWISH"

by PROFESSOR DAVID NIRENBERG (Johns Hopkins University).

Please join us on Monday, April 22 at 3 PM in Royce 314. Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Martha Hollander (Art History), "Space as Allegory: The Medieval Heritage of 17th-century Dutch Painting"

Martha Hollander will discuss the origins of 17th-century Dutch spatial composition in medieval and Renaissance pictorial forms. Dutch painters ingeniously used devices such as archways, open doors, corridor views, niches, and pictures-within-pictures to organize and enrich their images of social life. These devices, dividing the picture into primary and secondary spaces, in fact come from a long tradition, beginning with medieval narrative cycles and continuing in the 16th century with the format of emblems and stage design. The explanatory or ironic use of secondary pictures and scenes in 17th-century Dutch painting, particularly interiors, is essentially a modernized version of the multi-picture format so prevalent in European visual culture.

-- submitted by Tram Tran (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Kabbalah: From Secrets to Mysteries and Back"

PROFESSOR MOSHE IDEL

Visiting Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, UCLA

“KABBALAH: FROM SECRETS TO MYSTERIES AND BACK"

April 25, 2002 Royce 314, 4 pm

Refreshments will be served. No advance registration required.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Memory and History in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Renaissance Culture in 17th-Century China: Some Methodological Questions

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

A Symposium on The Virtual Romanesque Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

Presenters will include:

John Williams (Distinguished Service Professor of History of Art and Architecture Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh) “History as Myth: Myth as History: The Tomb of the Apostle at Santiago de Compostela”

and

José Suárez Otero (Archeologist and Conservator, Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela) “From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The Tomb of the Apostle St. James at Compostela.”

Viewings of the model will be in UCLA’s Visualization Portal on the day of the symposium at 1:30pm & 2:30pm. Pre-registration REQUIRED for viewings, contact Tram Tran at 310-206-9933 or tramtran@humnet.ucla.edu.

The Symposium will be at 4:00 PM in Royce Hall 314. Pre- registration NOT required for the symposium. No registration fee.

www.ats.ucla.edu/portal/location.htm for Visualization Portal directions and location. www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/cathdedicprog.htm for more information on the symposium and model.

This event is cosponsored by: The UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, UCLA Cultural VR Lab, Academic Technical Services, the Dean of Humanities & the Dean of Social Sciences of the College of Letters & Sciences, the Council for European Studies, and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese

-- submitted by Tram Tran (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact tramtran@humnet.ucla.edu

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Luigi Ballerini (Italian Dept.), "Maestro Martino at the Court of his Gastronomic Eminence, Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan"

An embarrassingly large number of recipes included in Platina’s De Honesta Voluptate (second half of the Quattrocento) were “lifted” from the Libro de Arte coquinaria by Maestro Martino who cooked for Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan and possibly for the Condottiere Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. Of the four extant manuscripts of Martino’s work, one ended up in the Medieval Collection of the Library of Congress. The first English translation of this exceptionally modern cook-book will be released by UC Press in the Spring of 2003. Not only is the Libro the first culinary guide to specify ingredients, cooking times, utensils and dosages, it is also an essential document to understand the forms of conviviality developing in Central Italy. Despite the northern origin of both employers, as well as of the employee, it is Rome – brought back to life by Pope Martin V and his successors – that serves as principal background against which to gauge Martino’s culinary achievements.

-- submitted by Tram Tran (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Haunts of Assimilation: The Work of New York Artist David Deutsch"

LAWRENCE RICKELS (UC Santa Barbara)

on "HAUNTS OF ASSIMILATION: THE WORK OF NEW YORK ARTIST DAVID DEUTSCH" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Professor Rickels, author of numerous books, including Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume I: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War; Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume II:Crypto-Fetishism; Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume III: Psy Fi; The Vampire Lectures; The Case of California; and Acting Out in Groups, will discuss David Deutsch's surveillance photographs and explore them in the context of contest between Old Testament and New Testament media, with special attention awarded the Golem legend.

Co-sponsored by:

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center for European and Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Women and Renaissance Theater: Playwrights and Performers"

Advance registration is strongly recommended. No charge for students, UCLA faculty and staff, and members of the CMRS Council. All others, $10. Lunch available for an additional charge. To register, or for more information, contact the CMRS 310-825-1880 or cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Jesus, Gentiles and the Synagogue: The Real Origins of Christianity"

PAULA FREDRIKSEN (Boston University)

on "JESUS, GENTILES, AND THE SYNAGOGUE: THE REAL ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsors: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for European & Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Illuminated Folklorist Conference

The Illuminated Folklorist:

Recovering the Folklore of the Past

Royce Hall, Room 314

May 17-19, 2002

Friday, May 17

1:30 Registration

2:00-2:10 Welcome

Andrea Fitzgerald Jones, Conference Co-Chair

2:10-2:30 Opening Remarks

Timothy Tangherlini, UCLA

Session 1 (Robert Alan Gurval, Moderator)

2:30-3:30 Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University, "The Making of a Märchen from Medieval Matter"

3:30-3:45 Break

Session 2 (H.A. Kelly, Moderator)

3:45-4:15 Carol Branch, Los Angeles, "Searching Through My Mother’s Medicine Cabinet: Lore and Lacunae in African- American Tradition."

4:15-5:15 Juliette Wood, University of Cardiff, "Witches and Warlocks: Early Images of Witchcraft and Magic Working and Modern Welsh Folktales"

5:30 Reception

Saturday, May 18

Session 3 (Muriel C. McClendon, Moderator)

9:00-10:00 Peter Tokofsky, UCLA, "Re-Constructing a Pre- Modern Carnival"

10:00-10:30 Martin Walsh, University of Michigan, "Horned Beasts, Angry Saints, Dead Revelers: Festival Fatalities in Twelfth-Century Scotland"

10:30-10:45 Break

Session 4 (Christine Goldberg, Moderator)

10:45-11:15 Nicole Archambeau, UCLA, "The Influence of Pragmatic Literacy on Early Troubadour Lyric"

11:15-11:45 Maria Teresa Agozzino, University of California- Berkeley, "Winlogee a Wanton Woman?: A Trans-Disciplinary Interpretation of the Modena Archivolt"

11:45-1:00 Lunch

Session 5 (Peter Nabokov, Moderator)

1:00-2:00 Barre Toelken, Utah State University, "Reflections on a Stone Mouse (and Other Icons of Folk Tradition)"

2:00-2:15 Break

Session 6 (Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, Moderator)

2:15-2:45 Laura Wilhelm, West Hollywood, CA, "The Fable as Folklore: Is It or Isn’t It?"

2:45-3:15 Jesse Byock, UCLA, "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Saga of the Volsungs: Modern Bard or Author?"

3:15-3:30 Break

Session 7 (James Massengale, Moderator)

3:30-4:00 Thomas DuBois, University of Wisconsin- Madison, "Ludic or Laudatory? The Role of Illuminations in the Program of Flatyjarbók"

Session 8 (Timothy Tangherlini, Moderator)

4:00-5:00 Recovering Medieval Folklore: Creating an Encyclopedia of Folklore of the Past—A Panel Discussion with John McNamara and John Lindow

Sunday, May 19

Session 9 (Zoe Borovsky, Moderator)

10:30-11:30 John Lindow, University of California- Berkeley, "Giants and Trolls in Myth and in Life"

11:30-11:45 Break

Session 10 (Christopher C. Baswell, Moderator)

11:45-12:15 John McNamara, University of Houston, "Legends of William Wallace, Medieval and Modern"

12:15-12:45 Elena Ivanova, Boston College, "Materializing the Marvelous in Wonder Tales and Miracle Tales: Two Tale Collections from Medieval Spain"

12:45-1:45 Catered Lunch, Royce 306

Session 11 (Hossein Ziai, Moderator)

1:45-2:15 Yona Sabar, UCLA, "The Multiple Faces of Eve: The Characterization of Women in the Folk Literature of a Near Eastern Jewish Community"

2:15-2:30 Break

Session 12 (Joseph F. Nagy, Moderator)

2:30-3:30 Recovering the Folklore of the Past: A Roundtable Retrospective. This panel discussion will include all speakers in a discussion of the conference proceedings.

3:30-3:45 Closing Remarks

Victoria Simmons, Conference Co-Chair

-- submitted by Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Philip Brett (Musicology), "Byrd's Soul Authority"

The role of William Byrd (1540-1623) in Elizabethan musical culture is in some ways strikingly similar to that of his younger contemporary Edmund Spenser (1554-1599) in the literary sphere. Both had a sense of history, both cultivated (as Louis Montrose has argued in relation to Spenser) "a distinctive and culturally authoritative authorial persona" through appropriating print, both received royal appointments or favors. A great difference lies in their religious lives, for Byrd remained an ardent Roman Catholic, and courted danger in befriending Jesuit priests. Professor Brett argues that under pressure of religious conviction, Byrd's carefully constructed indigenous authorial voice was slowly undermined by an inward expressiveness upon which later generations have constructed his greatness but which his contemporary audience, outside the Roman enclave, virtually ignored.

-- submitted by Tram Tran (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Wagner, Kafka, Rosenzweig on Soil, Blood, Language"

ELISABETH WEBER (UC Santa Barbara)

on "Wagner, Kafka, Rosenzweig on Soil, Blood, Language" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsored by:

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center for European and Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: Biblical Texts in Historical Contexts"

MARY ANN TOLBERT (Graduate Theological Union)

on

"HOMOEROTICISM IN THE BIBLICAL WORLD: BIBLICAL TEXTS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTS"

as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Department of Germanic Languages

Department of English

UCLA Hillel

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Center for European & Russian Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

-- submitted by spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"New Reflections of Spinoza's Excommunication"

RICHARD POPKIN (UCLA, Emeritus)

on

"NEW REFLECTIONS OF SPINOZA'S EXCOMMUNICATION"

as part of our ongoing series on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsors:

UCLA Department of English

UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

UCLA Department of Germanic Languages

UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

UCLA Hillel

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

California Medieval History Seminar, Spring 2002

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Byte-sized Middle Ages: Medievalism, Film, and the Digital Imagination," a lecture by Dr. Courtney M. Booker (History, UCLA)

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference

We welcome papers or panels on all aspects of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period, nationality, discipline, or medium. We encourage literary subjects (including poetry, pre-modern narrative, and film), as well as cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics (including folklore, history, law, philosophy, and science).

Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Conference participants must join the Society for the Study of Narrative.

-- submitted by Nancy Giganti (nancyg@humnet.ucla.edu)

University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference

We welcome papers or panels on all aspects of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period, nationality, discipline, or medium. We encourage literary subjects (including poetry, pre-modern narrative, and film), as well as cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics (including folklore, history, law, philosophy, and science).

Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Conference participants must join the Society for the Study of Narrative.

For more information visit www.vanderbilt.edu/narrative

-- submitted by Nancy Giganti (nancyg@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact narcon03@socrates.berkeley.edu