January Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

A conference arranged by Kathryn Norberg, UCLA, and Dena Goodman, University of Michigan

Cosponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum

-LOCATIONS- Thursday's session will be held at the Getty Center. Friday's and Saturday's sessions will be held at the Clark.

-- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm

Andrew Sullivan and his cohort of "mainstream" gay writers (collected on the website of the Independent Gay Forum) do not constitute simply a single issue, assimilationist lobby at the conservative end of the spectrum of lgbt/q politics. These writers provide sexual equality rhetoric for the antiegalitarian, undemocratic project of neoliberalism. They are collectively producing a New Homonormativity that is seriously at odds with any and all progressive political agendas. This lecture examines the gender, economic, racial and nationalist arguments and antics of this cohort of influential writers.

This Thursday (Jan 10) 4pm in Kinsey 355 Free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/duggan.htm

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

VI. DO NOT MURDER.

Speakers:

ROBERT WEXLER, President of the University of Judaism and Louis Colen Distinguished Lecturer in Bible.

KHALED ABOU EL FADL, The Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Fellow in Islamic Law at UCLA.

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 Winter quarter, 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 $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)

The conference "The Socio-Political Geography of Buddhism in Contemporary Societies" to be held Saturday, January 12th, 2002. The conference will begin with three lectures on contemporary Buddhism in Asia, and will end with a documentary on Buddhism in the People's Republic of China. All are welcome to attend the entire event, but are particularly encouraged to view the unique film from 3:00- 4:30 in Royce 314.

Please see: www.isop.ucla.edu/buddhist/conferences.htm

-- submitted by Melissa E. Birchard (birchard@ucla.edu)

Michael Hardt is Associate Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University. He is the co-author with Antonio Negri of "Empire" (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), and author of "Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy" (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993) This lecture is a sequel to concerns addressed in "Empire".

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

Reception to follow. Please RSVP by January 11, 2002, 310-206-0961

Parking available in Lot 5, $6.

-- submitted by Gail Fuhrman (gail@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact reynoso@english.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

This discussion will feature the expertise of Sebastian Edwards, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and will be moderated by Prof. Jose de la Torre, former CIBER director and an expert in Latin American business.

Date: Wed. Jan. 16th, 4-6 pm in The Anderson School rm A201

Free Event. Open to public.

There will be a light reception following the discussion. For more information, contact ciber.area@anderson.ucla.edu or 310-206-5317

-- submitted by kathryn paul (kathryn@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact ciber.area@anderson.ucla.edu

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

Thursday, January 17, 2002

Reception on Museum Terrace at 6:00 PM

followed by Museum walk-through starting promptly at 6:45 PM

Fowler Museum closes at 8:00 PM!

Parking is available in Structure 4 (Sunset/Westwood Plaza entrance)

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

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

Jennifer Clarvoe won the Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University for her first book of poems, Invisible Tender (2000).

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

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 & 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)

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/transnation

-- submitted by Kristina Louie (klouie@college.ucla.edu)

TUESDAY, JAN 22, 7 PM ORGAN STUDIO, SCHOENBERG MUSIC BUILDING, UCLA FREE

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

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

by Dr. JACK MILES

Dr. Miles is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "God: A Biography". He has just published its sequel: "Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God".

respondant: Prof. S. Scott Bartchy, Director, UCLA-Center for the Study of Religion

-- submitted by Cigdem Atakuman Eissenstat (eissenst@ucla.edu)

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

-- submitted by Kristina Louie (klouie@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact wgordon@college.ucla.edu

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

proudly presents the third movie of the 2001-2002 series

"Criminal Lovers"

In French with English subtitles

Wednesday, January 23, 2002, 7:30pm

UCLA James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall

Free and Open to the Public

Synopsis: Once upon a time in a Paris suburb there lived a teenage girl named Alice. A pretty girl who like to play games. Games of seduction. Games of violence. One day Alice decided to kill Said, a handsome and cocky classmate. But she couldn't possibly do it alone. So Alice manipulated her naive friend Luc into committing the cold-blooded crime as proof of his true love for her. It wasn't as easy as Alice had expected. Murder can be messy and so tiresome. Alice thought she had carefully planned everything. But a life of true crime can be filled with so many difficulties.

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

-- submitted by Kristina Louie (klouie@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jsprute@college.ucla.edu

"Rabbis and Women, Authors and Translators, Mentors and Friends: The Gender Politics of Jewish Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany".

This lecture will take place on Thursday January 24 at 5:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

One of this country's most celebrated poets, Anthony Hecht has published seven volumes of poems, the most recent of which is The Darkness and the Light (2001).

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (nettie@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

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

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

It has been arranged by Jonathan Post, English, UCLA

This year's Poetry Afternoon the Clark will feature some of our most distinguished contemporarty poets reading selections from the great lyricists of the English past as well as from their own work. The readers include Calvin Bedient, Eavan Boland, Anthony Hecht, Heather McHugh, and Stephen Yenser.

Reservations deadline: January 18

Admission: $5

-- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/

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)

"MOMMIE QUEEREST: JOAN CRAWFORD AND GAY MALE SUBJECTIVITY".

The lecture will take place on Monday, January 28 at 4:00 pm in 236 Royce Hall. There will be a reception to follow.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

Gary Gerstle is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of "American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century" (2001) and "Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960" (1989). His many articles include "Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism," Journal of American History, 1999; "Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans," Journal of American History, 1997; and "The Protean Character of American History," American Historical Review, 1994.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

presents

KRISHAN KUMAR

Empire and Identities: British and Other Empires in Comparative Perspective

Imperial peoples, such as the English and the Russians, have always faced certain problems about their national identity. The empires are too large and diverse to be conceived in national terms, and their missionary enterprises inhibit the usual expressions of national feeling. Nevertheless there come certain points in the history of these empires when the core imperial people are forced to consider pressing questions of national identity. How do they deal with these questions? What are the resources, of culture and tradition, that they can draw upon? Professor Kumar uses the examples of the English and the Russians to raise some general issues about the identity of peoples who have had to balance the competing claims of ethnicity and empire.

KRISHAN KUMAR studied history at the University of Cambridge and sociololgy at the London School of Economics. He was also for a short time a Talks Producer at the BBC. Most of his teaching in England was at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he was Professor of Social and Political Thought. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Prague, the University of Bergen, Norway, and the University of Bristol, England. In 1996 he moved to the University of Virginia as Professor of Sociology.

His interests have largely been in social theory and in political and historical sociology. Major publications are: Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society (1978); Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times (1987); The Rise of Modern Society (1988); From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society (1995); 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (2001). He is currently working on a book on English national identity.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. For further information, please contact Mark Pokorski: mpok@humnet.ucla.edu or 310.206.0559.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humnet.ucla.edu)

presents

KRISHAN KUMAR

Empire and Identities: British and Other Empires in Comparative Perspective

Imperial peoples, such as the English and the Russians, have always faced certain problems about their national identity. The empires are too large and diverse to be conceived in national terms, and their missionary enterprises inhibit the usual expressions of national feeling. Nevertheless there come certain points in the history of these empires when the core imperial people are forced to consider pressing questions of national identity. How do they deal with these questions? What are the resources, of culture and tradition, that they can draw upon? Professor Kumar uses the examples of the English and the Russians to raise some general issues about the identity of peoples who have had to balance the competing claims of ethnicity and empire.

KRISHAN KUMAR studied history at the University of Cambridge and sociololgy at the London School of Economics. He was also for a short time a Talks Producer at the BBC. Most of his teaching in England was at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he was Professor of Social and Political Thought. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Prague, the University of Bergen, Norway, and the University of Bristol, England. In 1996 he moved to the University of Virginia as Professor of Sociology.

His interests have largely been in social theory and in political and historical sociology. Major publications are: Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society (1978); Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times (1987); The Rise of Modern Society (1988); From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society (1995); 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (2001). He is currently working on a book on English national identity.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. For further information, please contact Mark Pokorski: mpok@humnet.ucla.edu or 310.206.0559.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humnet.ucla.edu)

-- submitted by Kristina Louie (klouie@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact klouie@college.ucla.edu

GERSHOM GORENBERG

a senior editor at the Jerusalem Report and author of "The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount."

Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4 PM in Royce Hall 306.

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

-- submitted by Kristina Louie (klouie@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact chollis@college.ucla.edu

"THE PARADOXES OF GERMAN-JEWISH MODERNISM AND THE ACTUALITY OF KARL KRAUS"

to take place on Tuesday, January 29 at 5:00 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

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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)

Please join us for this lunch-time lecture. Light refreshments will be provided.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

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)

A conference arranged by Kathryn Norberg, UCLA, and Dena Goodman, University of Michigan

Cosponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum

-LOCATIONS- Thursday's session will be held at the Getty Center. Friday's and Saturday's sessions will be held at the Clark.

Historians, literary scholars, art historians and curators interested in furniture and furnishing of France, England and their colonies during the eighteenth century will gather at this two-and-a-half day conference to critique old approaches and develop new interpretations while exploring how material culture - in this case furnishing - shaped cultural production and mirrored social patterns. A special session of the conference will be hosted by Gillian Wilson, curator of the Department of Decorative Arts at the Getty Museum, and will be held at the Getty.

Abstracts of participants' papers will appear on this website during the month of January. Hard copy will be sent to registrants by request.

Registration deadline- January 18

Registration fees- UC faculty and staff: $15 - Students with ID: No charge

- Others: $25

Fees include the cost of advance copies of abstracts ( if requested) as well as lunches and refreshments at the Clark on Friday and Saturday. Thursday's session at the Getty will begin at 5 P.M.

-- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia (CIRA) at the International Studies and Overseas Programs invites research proposals from faculty and graduate students at UCLA to form research clusters to conduct innovative, collaborative, and publication- oriented research on Asia.

CIRA promotes publication-oriented research on Asia that bridges different areas, disciplines, and methodologies. Research projects that gather together scholars and/or students who work on different areas in Asia (comparative) or work on the same region from different disciplinary perspectives (interdisciplinary) will be considered for one of two grants, each lasting two years. During the first year, the project investigator(s) will organize reading group/research cluster meetings and/or small workshops with the aim to develop papers for the second year‚s conference and subsequent publication. During the second year, a formal conference will be held and papers will be readied for publication. For the first year of the grant period, a maximum of $4,000 will be available for reading sessions, workshops, or meetings. For the second year of the grant period, a maximum of $10,000 will be available for the conference. It is expected that by the close of the grant period, a solid set of papers will be available for publication either in the form of an edited volume published by the Asian Pacific Monograph Series at ISOP or another university press, or a special issue of an academic journal. The CIRA grant does not fund individual research or field trips, and is to be used primarily for on-campus activities to enhance research and exchange here.

Successful projects funded by the program will have the following characteristics: (1) Innovative conception of a comparative or interdisciplinary research project that extends or challenges existing scholarship; (2) Clearly articulated publication plan; (3) Collaboration with other scholars and/or graduate students; (4) Clear timeline of project activities that will lead to publication; (5) A reasonable budget.

Application packets should include the following: (1) Title sheet with name(s) of project investigators, title of project, and contact information; (2) 5-page description of the project; (3) List of participants and their affiliations; (4) Timeline of activities and plans for publication; (5) Budget; (6) Other supporting documents, if available (such as letters of commitment from participants, initial contact with presses, sources of supplementary funding, etc.).

Deadline: March 1, 2002

Funds will be available July 1st, 2002. The grant period for the current competition is July 1st 2002 to June 30th, 2004.

Please send 7 copies of the application packet to: Shu- mei Shih, Director, Bunche 11387, ISOP, Campus mail 148703. For questions, please write to Mani Jad, mjad@isop.ucla.edu and/or Shu-mei Shih, shih@humnet.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu@humnet.ucla.edu)