November Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Revelation Regained: Hermeneutics in the Temple Scroll

-- submitted by Michael Fishbein (fishbein@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact williams@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)

"The Legacy of the Ten Commandments: Ancient Text and Modern Contexts"

III. DO NOT TAKE THE NAME OF GOD IN VAIN.

Speakers:

BRADLEY ARTSON, Vice-President of the University of Judaism and Dean of its Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

LAURIE LEVENSON, Dean of Loyola Law School and William M. Rains Fellow. Director of the Loyola Law School Center for Ethical Advocacy.

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)

Lecture

"The First Encounter of the West: The Korean Exhibition at the World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893"

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

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

History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights, ca. 1640–1848, Session 1 - Diverse Subjects: Entities/Affects/Rights

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

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

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

Jewish Civilization and Its Discontents: Foundational Concepts, Critical Interventions

November 3-5, 2001 Royce 314 UCLA

A Conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies with the support of The "1939" Club Holocaust Memorial Fund; The UC Humanities Research Institute; The Susan and David Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies; The University of California Office of the President; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. as part of the ongoing UCLA Colloquium on Jewish Civilization.

Saturday Evening, Nov. 3rd, 7:00 - 9:00

Keynote Address: Robert Alter (Professor of Bible and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley), "Scripture, Commentary and the Challenge of Interpretation" Introduction by Janet Hadda (Department of English, UCLA) Followed by a Reception.

Sunday, Nov. 4th Morning Session: Jewish Civilization and Its Discontents: To Open the Question

9:00 - 11:00 1. Ken Reinhard (Director, Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA) 2. David Myers (Professor of History, UCLA) 3. Nomi Stolzenberg (Professor of Law, USC)

11:15 - 12:30 Keynote Paper: Arnold Eisen (Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford) "Jewish Civilization in America: The Discontents of Mordecai M. Kaplan"

Afternoon Session: The Jewish Political Tradition Moderator: Steven Spiegel (Professor of Political Science, UCLA) Sponsored by the Susan and David Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies

2:00 - 4:00 1. David Gordis (President, Hebrew College; Director,Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies) 2. Adam Seligman (Professor of Economic Culture, Boston U.) 3. Suzanne Last Stone (Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School)

4:30 - 6:00 Keynote Paper: Michael Walzer (Professor of Social Science, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), "Universalism and Jewish Values"

Monday, Nov. 5th

Morning Session: The Ten Commandments and Their Vicissitudes Moderator: William Schniedewind (Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA)

10:00 - 12:00 1. Bernard Levinson (Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, U. of Minnesota) 2. Julia Reinhard Lupton (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine) 3. Robert Gibbs (Professor of Philosophy, U. of Toronto)

12:15 - 1:30 Keynote Paper: Calum Carmichael (Professor of Comparative Literature and Law, Cornell U.) "The Staging of the Ten Commandments"

Afternoon Session: Creation, Revelation, Redemption Moderator: Chaim Seidler-Feller (Director of Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA)

2:30 - 4:00 1. Elliot Dorff (Rector and Professor of Philosophy, U. of Judaism) 2. Elliot Wolfson (Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU)

4:15 - 5:30 Keynote Paper: Paul Mendes-Flohr (Professor of Modern Jewish Thought, U. of Chicago and Hebrew University), Title to be announced.

Parking for the event will be in Lot 2. Please purchase permit ($6) at the kiosk at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues.

Registration: The conference is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Please call the Center for Jewish Studies at (310)825-5387 to register. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. There are no assigned seats.

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

"Revenge in the 17th Century; State Passions and Private Reasons" a lecture by Professor Eric Mechoulan

Eric Mechoulan Professor of French at the University of Montreal

entitled

"Revenge in the 17th Century; State Passions and Private Reasons"

Refreshments will be served.

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

Letters & Science Counseling--Covel Commons Workshops: “The B.A. in Psychology”

-- submitted by Gilberto Blasini (gblasini@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact gblasini@college.ucla.edu or www.college.ucla.edu/up/workshops

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

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

Music in the Countryside

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

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

Wellek Library Lectures for 2001

-- submitted by Lisa Ness (lness@uci.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/

Letters & Science Counseling--Covel Commons Workshops: “The Life Science Curriculum”

-- submitted by Gilberto Blasini (gblasini@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact gblasini@college.ucla.edu or www.college.ucla.edu/up/workshops

"Towards a Prosaics of Processual Literature"

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

For more information, contact lowenste@mail.law.ucla.edu

13th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

For detailed program information, see the web page of the UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies: http:// www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/home.html.

-- submitted by Brent Vine (vine@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/home.html

Gallery Talk by Shahid Nadeem

Sunday, November 11, 2001, 3 pm

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

"La rêverie anthropologique sur les origines de Marivaux à Rousseau"

cordially invites you to a lecture by

René Démoris Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

entitled

"La rêverie anthropologique sur les origines de Marivaux à Rousseau"

René Démoris is a specialist of the Enlightenment (with special emphasis on the novel) and the visual arts. His publications include Le silence de Manon (1995); Folies romanesques au Siècle des Lumières (editor with Henri Lafon, 1998); Les fausses confidences de Marivaux : l'être et le paraître (1991); Le Roman à la première personne: du classicisme aux Lumières (1975). His books on the visual arts include La Peinture en procès: L’invention de la critique d’art au Siècle des Lumières (with Florence Ferran, 2001); and Chardin, la chair et l'objet (1991, 1999).

Refreshments will be served

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

"La rêverie anthropologique sur les origines de Marivaux à Rousseau" a lecture by René Démoris

cordially invites you to a lecture by

René Démoris Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

entitled

"La rêverie anthropologique sur les origines de Marivaux à Rousseau"

René Démoris is a specialist of the Enlightenment (with special emphasis on the novel) and the visual arts. His publications include Le silence de Manon (1995); Folies romanesques au Siècle des Lumières (editor with Henri Lafon, 1998); Les fausses confidences de Marivaux : l'être et le paraître (1991); Le Roman à la première personne: du classicisme aux Lumières (1975). His books on the visual arts include La Peinture en procès: L’invention de la critique d’art au Siècle des Lumières (with Florence Ferran, 2001); and Chardin, la chair et l'objet (1991, 1999).

Refreshments will be served

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

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

We hope you can join us.

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

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

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

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

Fall Speaker Series

Camilo Vergara, who is one of the most distinguished documentary photographers in the United States, will be talking about his forthcoming book "Twin Towers Remembered," to be published by Princeton Architectural Press. The book deals with the "lives" of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and the lower Manhattan Skyline as they connect to the rest of the city from 1970 until the present. Using his traditional tools of time-lapse photography and placing the buildings in a varying urban context, Camilo tells a visual history of these buildings in the region that they dominated. Camilo's earlier books include The New American Ghetto (Rutgers University Press, 1995). The talk will take place at the LeRoy Neiman Center, room 111 Haines Hall, on Wednesday, November 14th at 12:15 PM.

-- submitted by LeRoy Neiman Center (lncenter@ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lncenter@ucla.edu

Letters & Science Counseling--Covel Commons Workshops: “Field Research in the Life Sciences”

-- submitted by Gilberto Blasini (gblasini@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact gblasini@college.ucla.edu or www.college.ucla.edu/up/workshops

A CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS FOR A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE: Digital Utopia? Digital Dystopia: Rendering the Art Object

UCLA Department of Art History Graduate Digital Cultures Group announces:

A CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS FOR A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE

Digital Utopia?Digital Dystopia: Rendering the Art Object

02.01.02 and 02.02.02 Los Angeles, CA Deadline: November 15, 2001

This conference aims to examine a variety of aesthetic, political, and pragmatic effects of digital technology on the status of the artistic object. We are considering proposals by graduate students for 20-minute workshop presentations expanding on any of the following areas:

Production: Impact of digital technologies on questions of medium. Reception: Theorizing notions of interactivity and audience. Politics: Questions of communities, access, and the rhetoric of revolution. Language: Developing a language of aesthetics specific to digital media.

Sessions are scheduled in 2-hour slots, with a suggested maximum of four presentations from varied disciplines per session. Each workshop will be facilitated by a plenary speaker from the first day, {Scott McCloud, Steve Kurtz (Carnegie Mellon), and Lev Manovich (UCSD)}.

For more information and a preliminary schedule of events, please go to http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/AH_confere nce/

Interdisciplinary and unorthodox approaches and proposals are welcomed and encouraged. Submit a one-page proposal or abstract and a current resumé by November 15, 2001. Email submissions are encouraged.

Digital Cultures Group Department of Art History UCLA Box. 951417 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 gradconf@humnet.ucla.edu

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

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

Letters & Science Counseling--Covel Commons Workshops: “The B.A. in Political Science”

-- submitted by Gilberto Blasini (gblasini@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact gblasini@college.ucla.edu or www.college.ucla.edu/up/workshops

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

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

Performance Reading by Pakistani playwright Shahid Nadeem, A Granny for All Seasons

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

Using the Classical Sources in the Study of the Ancient Near East

-- submitted by Michael Fishbein (fishbein@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

Orpheus Quartet concert

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

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

Letters & Science Counseling--Covel Commons Workshops: “Opportunities in Education”

-- submitted by Gilberto Blasini (gblasini@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact gblasini@college.ucla.edu or www.college.ucla.edu/up/workshops

Candidate for CDH Manager of Academic Services Presentation

TACT (Text-Analysis Computing Tools), Gender & Old Norse/Icelandic Giants

Encounters with gruesome giantesses are a frequent feature of the popular literature recorded in Iceland during the 14th and 15th centuries. Heroes battle with these supernaturally endowed foes-both female AND male. The question is: are female giants treated differently than their male counterparts?

To answer this question, Dr. Zoe Borovsky will present her research on these texts using TACT and TACTweb—text analysis and retrieval programs developed initially at the University of Toronto. TACT builds and queries textual databases; TACTweb makes these databases accessible online. Available as shareware since 1989, TACT has been one of the cornerstones of humanities computing.

Borovsky's research demonstrates how text-centered humanities computing goes beyond producing concordances and counting motifs to addressing deeper questions in humanities research. Using her work with TACT as an example, she will discuss ways of leveraging technology in workshop environments and database-driven research projects.

Dr. Borovsky is a candidate for the position of Manager of Academic Services at the Center for Digital Humanities. Copies of her CV will be available at the presentation or at CDH Reception in B71 Kinsey Hall.

Interested members of the staff and faculty of the Humanitites are invited to attend. A light lunch will be served. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by 4PM,11/ 19/01 at evalyn@humnet.ucla.edu or x47833.

-- submitted by Evalyn Williams (evalyn@humnet.ucla.edu)

Fall Speaker Series

As part of the LNC series of talks and symposia on the implications of the 2000 Census data for the Los Angeles and New York CMSAs, on Tuesday November 27 from 12:30-2:30 there will be a symposium on the topic of residential racial segregation in Los Angeles and New York. Speakers will include Philip Ethington (USC) and Andy Beveridge (Queens College, CUNY). They will be drawing on the 2000 data on Race (general categories) and Latino origin, which, for the Los Angeles and New York CMSAs, are also available in user friendly form on the LNC web site (www.leroyneiman.ucla.edu). The talk will take place at the LeRoy Neiman Center, room 111 Haines Hall, on Tuesday, November 27th at 12:30 PM.

-- submitted by LeRoy Neiman Center (lncenter@ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lncenter@ucla.edu

"Irony and Deconstruction" a lecture by Professor Marian Hobson (University of London, Getty Center)

invites you to a lecture by

Professor Marian Hobson (University of London, Getty Center)

entitled

"Irony and Deconstruction"

Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:00 p.m.

236 Royce Hall

A Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Hobson is a specialist of European Enlightenment and contemporary literary theory and criticism. She has published on literature, painting, architecture, aesthetics, neo- colonialism, violence, and gender studies, as well as on a number of authors such as Diderot, Rousseau, Goldoni, Oscar Becker, Jabes, Barthes, Lacan and Derrida, among others. She is currently translating Derrida's Le Problème de genèse dans la philosophie de Husserl for the University of Chicago Press. Her most recent publication is Jacques Derrida, Opening Lines (London, Routledge, 1998).

This lecture is free and open to the public

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

Art History Lecture by Jonathan Harris

"The New Art History 1970-2000: A Socialist & Marxist Perspective"

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

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

Letters & Science Counseling--Covel Commons Workshops: “What to do with an English Major”

-- submitted by Gilberto Blasini (gblasini@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact gblasini@college.ucla.edu or www.college.ucla.edu/up/workshops

Art History Lecture by Jonathan Harris

"Hybridity, Contemporary Art & Cultural Politics are in the Post"

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

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

The Global Rise of Religious Terrorism

presents

MARK JUERGENSMEYER

The Global Rise of Religious Terrorism: A Discussion of the September 11 Attacks in the Context of a Global Rise of Religious Rebellion Against Secular Authority and Global Social Change

Based on Juergensmeyer's book, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence.

(This seminar has been rescheduled from its original date)

MARK JUERGENSMEYER is director of Global and International Studies and professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author or editor of ten books including the recently-published Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (2000), listed by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post among the best nonfiction books of the year. His previous book, The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (1993) was named by the New York Times as a notable book of the year. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and is currently completing a book on global religion.

This seminar is the second of an eight-part series made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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)

Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture

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

The Dinner Game

proudly presents the second movie of the 2001-2002 series

"The Dinner Game"

In French with English subtitles

Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 7:30pm

UCLA James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall

Starring: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Francis Huster, Alexandra Vandernoot, Daniel Prevost, Catherine Frot

Free and Open to the Public

Synopsis: Every Wednesday night a few guys have a meal together. There is a game coupled with the meal: each one of them has to bring an "idiot". The game consists of making the idiots talk about their ideas and passions so that the hosts can have a good laugh. At the end they choose the "idiot of the evening". One of the hosts invites his idiot home so they can go to the dinner together, but unfortunately, he gets a severe pain in his back due to an accident that day and can't go to the "meal of idiots". Even worse, the idiot tries to help him all the time. Naturally he does everything wrong and aggravates every situation.

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

Art History Lecture by Jonathan Harris

"Complexity, Modes of Meaning Value in Modernist Art & Criticism since the Late Nineteenth Century"

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

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

Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Trial of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

In 1952, the Kremlin organized a secret trial of 15 Jewish figures associated with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. The committee had been organized during World War II to help nurture support for the war-time alliance between the USSR and the Western democracies. But after the war, the work of the committee was held against its members. Thirteen of the 15 defendants, including five well-known Yiddish writers and poets, were executed on August 12, 1952, a date commemorated as the "Night of the Murdered Poets."

JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN is the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian Studies. He is the co-editor of "Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee" and the author of "Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg."

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

MOLLY McGARRY - "Ghosts of Futures Past"

MOLLY MCGARRY
Assistant Professor of History, UC Riverside

"GHOSTS OF FUTURES PAST: SPECTRAL SEXUALITIES IN 19th- CENTURY AMERICA"

This talk conjures the uncanny, spectral sexualities that haunt our queer past. Tracking a 19th-century history of apparitional manifestations from the spirit world, Professor McGarry explores the ways in which these subjects are and are not legible given current theorization of same- sex/queer/trans history in all its entanglements. In seances and through trance speaking, male mediums channeled female spirits, and female Spiritualists reembodied themselves as men. How can we theorize and historicize these subjects? Other scholars have unearthed a nineteenth- century queer past by digging into the records of courts and prisons to find sodomites, delved into diaries and letters for traces of lost relationships and the communities built around them, and turned to the case r1ecords of sexologists to find the invert, the pervert, and the deviant. In this vein, this talk explores how Spiritualism may have been a marker for an incipient, not yet materialized sexuality, a sexual dissidence outside the medico-juridical matrix, but also beyond the expected spaces of subculture.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

This talk is free & open to the public.

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

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

Myung Mi Kim, "Provisional Languages and Times"

Myung Mi Kim is an award-winning poet and the author of four books of poetry, Under Flag (1991), The Bounty (1996), DURA (1998) and Commons (forthcoming in 2002 from the University of California Press). She has published in major poetry journals and her work has been anthologized widely. She is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative North American Poetry and several awards from the Fund for Poetry, among others. She is currently a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.

Shu-mei Shih holds a joint appointment in Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China (2001), and a forthcoming book entitled Visuality and Identity.

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the seminar.

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

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

"[North-] Westward Ho! Cultural Movement from the Antique World to Shakespeare's London"

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

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

The Legacy of the Ten Commandments: Ancient Text & Modern Contexts

IV. REMEMBER THE SABBATH, TO KEEP IT HOLY.

Speakers:

RABBI CHAIM SEIDLER-FELLER, Director of the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.

JOSEPH EVERSON, Chair of the Religion Department at California Lutheran University.

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)

Daniel Maximin, le poète (Table ronde)

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

Daniel Maximin, le poète (Table ronde)

Né à la Guadeloupe, Daniel Maximin fait des études de lettres et de sciences humaines à la Sorbonne. Il a enseigné à l'Institut d'Etudes Sociales à Paris et a été professeur de lettres à Orly. De 1980 à 1989, il est directeur littéraire aux Éditions Présence Africaine et produit l'émission "Antipodes" sur France-Culture. En 1989, il est nommé Directeur régional des affaires culturelles en Guadeloupe. En 1997, il est chargé de la mission interministérielle pour le 150ème anniversaire de l'abolition de l'esclavage. Il travaille aujourd’hui au ministère de l’Education. Parmi ses romans: L'Isolé soleil (Seuil, 1981, traduit en anglais), Soufrières (Seuil, 1987), L'Ile et une nuit (Seuil, 1995) et en poésie: L'Invention des Désirades (Présence Africaine, 2000).

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

Art History Lecture by Professor Jung-hee Han

"Paintings After Ancient Masters in Three Countries, China, Korea, and Japan"

Friday, November 30, 2001, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

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

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

Lecture by Richard De Puma, University of Iowa

"Aesthetic Seductions: 19th Century Forgeries of Etruscan Art"

Dodd 146

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

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

"The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi"

This symposium will review his scientific contributions and teaching legacy, and at the same time look at how Fermi and other scientists responded to the extraordinary political and social upheaval in which they found themselves.

This program is free and open to the public. Please see our website for a complete program schedule:

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

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

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