February Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

California Medieval History Seminar

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

Furnishing the 18th Century

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

Digital Utopia / Digital Dystopia: Rendering the Art Object

This graduate conference examines the variety of effects caused by the conversion of art, architecture and narrative form from analog to digital media. The two-day conference will take place in UCLA's Royce Hall and is free and open to the public. Please reserve space by emailing your name, affiliation and the day or days you will be attending to: gradconf@humnet.ucla.edu. Parking is available ($6.00/vehicle/day) in Structure 2. For further information: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ah_conference/. See full announcement for complete program.

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

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

"Viking Age Iceland: Sagas, History and Archeology"

The lecture will take place at the Jean Delacour Auditorium of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007. (213) 763- DINO www.nhm.org.

To make a reservation or for further information, please call the Education Division at (213) 763-3534.

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

Tuition Fellowship - SCT Summer Session

The session runs from June 16 to July 25, 2002. UCLA is part of a "preferred participant" fellowship program of the SCT, in which UCLA will provide the tuition for any graduate student or faculty member designated as a "preferred participant" by the university. In turn, that person will be guaranteed admission to the SCT session. Specific information regarding seminar themes and dates can be obtained from Kathy Sanchez (see address below), or the SCT's website: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/sct/index.html

To Apply: Please submit a CV and one-page description of your current scholarly interests and plans, including their relevance to this year's session. Please note which seminar(s) you would like to attend. Applications should be sent to:

Kathy Sanchez UCLA Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies 310 Royce Hall, Box 951461 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1461

The application deadline is February 4, 2002. Interviews of candidates will take place between February 11-15, 2002. Further inquiries can be directed to Kathy Sanchez at the Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies, at ext. 59581 or email ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu.

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

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

JENNIFER BRODY - Bodies, Boundaries & Frames

JENNIFER BRODY, Associate Professor of English & African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

BODIES,BOUNDARIES & FRAMES: "Queer" Readings in New Times

This lecture draws from Brody's current work-in-progress, The Style of Elements: Politically Performing Punctuation. She will discuss the ways in which different graphic/performance artists represent or "style" elements of punctuation such as the "dot." More specifically, the lecture will focus on selected texts by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, produced during her decade- long sojourn in 1960's New York. The lecture seeks to connect disparate artists (literary as well as visual) who work with concepts related to sexuality and punctuation.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

-- submitted by LGBTS Program (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

Seminar with David Bell -- Was France a Nation in 1789? Nation-Building and the Paradox of Nationalism

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DAVID BELL

Was France a Nation in 1789? Nation-Building and the Paradox of Nationalism

This presentation will explore a fundamental paradox of nationalism, using material drawn from Professor Bell's recent book on the origins of nationalism in eighteenth-century France. On the one hand, nationalist projects are generally premised on the claim that the nation in question is in some fundamental sense incomplete or even non-existent, and requires as remedy a concerted program of nation-building, of consolidating territory, of dealing with ethnic minorities, and so forth. On the other hand, the same nationalist projects generally make political claims which take the full-blown existence and self-consciousness of the nation for granted. Professor Bell will show how the idea of the French nation as a political construction emerged in the eighteenth century, and explore some of the implications of the paradox of nationalism for the subsequent history of France and other European states.

DAVID BELL is a Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1991, where he worked with Robert Darnton. He has also taught at Yale University. He is the author of Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France (Oxford University Press, 1994), which won the Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies, and of The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800 (Harvard University Press, 2001). He is the co-editor, with Stéphane Pujol and Ludmila Pimenova, of Raison universelle et culture nationale au siècle des lumières (Honoré Champion, 1998), and of around thirty articles, including, most recently, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being French: Law, Republicanism and National Identity at the End of the Old Regime" (American Historical Review, vol. 106, no. 4, October, 2001). He is also a frequent contributor to The New Republic and to The London Review of Books.

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)

'"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)

What is the TESL Major All about?

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

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

"Permanent Immigration": The Remaking of Levantine Culture

"PERMANENT IMMIGRATION": THE REMAKING OF LEVANTINE CULTURE

a lecture by GIL ZEHEVA HOCHBERG, University of California, Berkeley.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 6, 2002 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall. Reception to follow.

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

Getting an MA in Public Health

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

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

What is the BA in Geography and Environmental Studies all about?

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

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

"Before the Boxcar: Technologies of Mobility, Anxieties of Globalization, and Fantasies of German and Jewish Nationality"

"Before the Boxcar: Technologies of Mobilty, Anxieties of Globalization, and Fantasies of German and Jewish Nationality"

to take place on Thursday February 7, 2002, at 5:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

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

Richard Meyer Reading at LAGLC

A reception will follow the reading & proceeds from the night's book sales will benefit The Rainbow Floor, the first gay & lesbian residence hall at USC.

Thursday, Feb 7, 2002
7-9pm
Call for info/RSVP (323)860-7300

Advocate Gallery The Village at Ed Gould Plaza 1125 N. McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038 (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Blvd.)

-- submitted by LGBTS Program (lgbs@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)

Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom and Beyond

RSVP requested to lrp@humnet.ucla.edu for all events.

Location: Anderson A202 (except for the Wimba demo in the CDH PC Lab, Kinsey 88).

-- submitted by Kathryn Paul (lrp@humnet.ucla.edu)

The Fin-de-Siecle Poem

The CLARK LIBRARY is located at:

2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles,

one block east of Arlington Avenue,

two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway.

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

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

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)

Professor Martha Nussbaum, "Shame, Stigma, and the Law"

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School. She is an Associate in the Classics Department, an Affiliate of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a Board member of the Center for Gender Studies. Her most recent books are Women and Human Development (2000) and Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001). She is the winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Education for 2002.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

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

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

Remapping Rabbinic Judaism: Legal Hermeneutics in Rabbi Ishmael and Clement of Alexandria

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

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

What are the Psychology and Psychobiology majors all about?

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

"Paul Celan's Other: Poetics and Ethics"

"PAUL CELAN'S OTHER: POETICS AND ETHICS"

to take place on Tuesday, February 12 at 5:00 in Royce 236.

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

East Asia Bound Up, Tied Up, and Buried: How Country Studies Balkanized an Intellectual Field

Professor Bruce Cumings, Univ. of Chicago Friday, February 15th 306 Royce Hall

The locus and placement of academic boundaries in the field of East Asian studies grew out of a complex history shaped by language barriers, Sinological tradition, imperialism and colonialism, the divisions of the Cold War, the demands of the U.S. Government, the rise of particular ways of doing social science and history, the interests of multinational corporations, and the inclinations of particular universities and scholars. As a result the field carries all the liabilities of "area studies," but reduces the "area" (namely East Asia) to country studies (and even half-country studies, as in Korea). Nonetheless the strengths of this field are many and the skills of its scholars formidable, yet all too few of them are recognized today by the major academic disciplines. The consequences for the field are many and in our contemporary world, dire; he will argue that for studies of modern East Asia, even though the scholarship has become much better, in the academy we are worse off than we were a generation ago--and there is blame enough to distribute nearly everywhere.

Bruce Cumings is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy at the University of Chicago. An American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow, Professor Cumings in the author of 13 published and forthcoming books, including the two-volume magnum opus, The Origins of the Korean War.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Studies.

For more information, please contact: Mani A. Jad mjad@isop.ucla.edu 310.206.4928

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@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)

Professor Traise Yamamoto, "An Apology to Althea Connor: Private Memory, Public Racialization and Making a Language"

Traise Yamamoto is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calfornia, Riverside. She is the author of Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body (University of California Press, 1999). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including The New Republic, Poetry Northwest, Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, and Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry. She is one of the subjects in a forthcoming documentary on Asian American women poets, "Between the Lines." She is currently working on a manuscript of short fiction, as well as a scholarly study on pleasure and the problematic subject in Asian American literature.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women.

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

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

What If She Puts a Basket Over Her Head? Contexts, Subtexts, and Pretexts of an Early Rabbinic Tradition

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

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

Research in the Life Sciences

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

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

"Venus Beauté"

"Venus Beauté"

In French with English subtitles

Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 7:30pm

UCLA James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall Free and Open to the Public

Synopsis: The film is set in and around a contemporary Parisian beauty spa and gives us an intimate look into the lives and ephemeral truths of a quartet of strong, smart women. Angèle, a ravishing, sexy woman in her early 40s whose guilt and anguish over having caused permanent harm to a loved one is offset by a hedonistic and reckless series of one night stands; Marie, an exceptionally beautiful woman whose guileless innocence brings happiness to an enigmatic widower; Samantha, a cherubic, defiant young flirt who substitutes sexuality for companionship; and the spa's confident matriarch Nadine who, at some earlier time in her life, might have been just like Angèle, lonely but ambitious, talented but without the self- confidence to be successful. Starring the renowned actress Nathalie Baye "Venus Beauty Institute" is also a major breakthrough for the luminous young actress Audrey Tautou.

please check our website: www.humnet.ucla.edu/french/cinema

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@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

careers in education

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

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

TINE RUYSSCHAERT

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

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

Was There 'Science' in Ancient Judaism? Creation, Cosmology, and the Limits of Exegesis in Late Antiquity

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

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

Israel Versus American Jewry: The Struggle over Soviet Jews

FRED LAZIN (Ben-Gurion University)

Cosponsored with:

The Center for American Politics & Public Policy

UCLA-BGU Program of Academic Cooperation, ISOP

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

Choosing a major - Film/TV/Digital Media/ Communication Studies

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

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

Opportunities in Marine Biology

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

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

A Poetry Reading by Jeredith Merrin

Reception to follow. Please RSVP by Friday, February 15, 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

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

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

On Runic Origins

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

"Language, Performativity and Desire in the Works of Bernard-Marie Koltès" a lecture by Doris Kolesch

The Department of French and Francophone Studies

Cordially invites you to attend a lecture by

Doris Kolesch Institut fuer Theaterwissenschaft der FU Berlin

Entitled

"Language, Performativity and Desire in the Works of Bernard-Marie Koltès"

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

4:30pm

236 Royce

Dr. Doris Kolesch is an Associate professor at the department of theater and performance studies at the Free University of Berlin. She studied Romance Literatures, Comparative Literature and Philosophy in Mainz, Germany and Paris, France (where she studied in the classes of Jacques Derrida at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Julia Kristeva, Université Paris VIII). She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Arts & Sciences and has received various prizes for her outstanding research, p.ex. the Heinz-Maier-Leibniz-Price from the German Foundation for the Arts & Sciences for outstanding young researchers and the essay-prize of the federation of theater research. She has published widely on topics concerning the theory and aesthetics of literature and theater. One of her current research projects focuses on performativity, voice, gender and media.

Refreshments will be served.

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@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)

REVISED ANNOUNCEMENT - TODAY - "Lyric Matters: The Question of Reference in César Vallejo's Trilce

LYRIC MATTERS: THE QUESTION OF REFERENCE IN CÉSAR VALLEJO'S TRILCE

to take place TODAY, FEBRUARY 21 at 12:30pm in 4302 Rolfe Hall. Light refershment will be provided.

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

History and Exegesis in the Study of Midrash: The Case of Rabbinic Portrayals of Ishmael

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

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

Internship Opportunities for English Majors

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

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

Le jour où j'ai découvert Victor Hugo (The Day I Discovered Victor Hugo)

Le jour où j'ai découvert Victor Hugo (The Day I Discovered Victor Hugo)

Martine Lancelot, Video, 52 min., 1997, subtitled

at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History

Thursday, February 21, 2002

at 5pm - video screening

at 6pm - roundtable discussion

at 7pm - courtyard reception with African food

Dominic Thomas, Moderator

Laurent Devèze, Dultural Attache Allen Roberts, Professor Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Professor Ghislaine Lydon, Professor

Admission is free and open to the public

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

"The Legacy of the Ten Commandments, IX: Do not Testify as a False Witness Against Your Neighbor"

Speakers:

DANIEL SMITH-CHRISTOPHER, Professor of Theological Studies (Old Testament)and Director of Peace Studies at Loyola Marymount University .

MORDECAI FINLEY,Rabbi, Ohr HaTorah (West L.A.)

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)

Sexual States: A Colloquium and Graduate Workshop on German Sexuality Studies

Organized By: The Department Of Germanic Languages and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Studies Program

Co-Sponsored By: The Dean Of Humanities, The Center For The Study Of Women, The Department Of History, The Center For 17th And 18th Century Studies, The Center For European And Russian Studies, The Center For Modern And Contemporary Studies, and The Graduate Division

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2002

MORNING SESSION

9:00-10:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Alice Kuzniar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Testcase Treut: Reevaluating the 90s Sexuality Debates

Annette Jael Lehmann, Freie Universität Berlin “So wie diese deutschen Schwuchteln können wir nicht zusammenleben”: Examples of Queer Sexuality and Masculinity in Recent German Film and Novels

10:45-12:15 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jennifer M. Kapczynski, University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: The German Patient: Metaphors of National Illness in Postwar Literature and Film Chapter: Guns, Germs, and Sex: Fascism and the Sexual Predator in Der Verlorene

Mary Beth Wetli, University of Pennsylvania We Ain’t Broke -– So Stop Trying to Fix Us

LUNCH 12:15—1:45

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:45-3:15 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Yvonne Ivory, San Diego State University The Urning and His Own: Self-Fashioning and the Fin-de- Siècle Invert

Robert Tobin, Whitman College Pederasty in Palestine: Arnold Zweig on Sexuality and Nationality

AFTERNOON BREAK 3:15—3:30 306 Royce Hall

3:30-5:00 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jared Poley, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Ant People and Voodoo Queens: Hanns Heinz Ewers, the Occupied Rhineland, and German Decolonization Chapter: Whipping

Nancy Thuleen, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dissertation: Stefan George: Homoeroticism as Catalyst and Synthesis Chapter: Homoeroticism in the Conflict Between Stefan George and Hugo von Hofmannsthal

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2002

MORNING SESSION

10:00-11:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley Cultures of Arousal and the Control of the Imagination

Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania Poetry of the Breast

LUNCH 11:30—1:00

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:00-2:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall James Steakley, University of Wisconsin, Madison Homo Hitler Redux

Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University Holocaust Historiography and Lesbian Biography: Reading Aimee and Jaguar

AFTERNOON BREAK 2:30—2:45 306 Royce Hall

2:45-4:15 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jill Suzanne Smith, Indiana University Dissertation: Reading the Red Light: The Literary and Historical “Zoning” of the Prostitute in Berlin, 1880-1933 Chapter: Dynamic Woman or Frozen Image? The Prostitute in Berlin

Britta McEwen, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Model City, Moral Choices: Sexuality in Red Vienna, 1919-1934 Chapter: Creating More Perfect Unions: Clinic Culture in Interwar Vienna

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

For more information, see http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/load.cfm?sexualstates.

History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights, ca. 1640-1848: Inside/Outside Constitutionalisms: Rights/Revolutions/Empires

Papers for this conference will be posted on the Center's website (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm#core) as they are received, from mid-February. Registrants who indicate that they do not have access to the Internet will receive hard copies.

Registration Deadline: February 15, 2002

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached.

Fees:

UCLA Faculty and Staff - $15

Students with ID - No charge

All others - $25

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

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

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)

"The Struma"

THE STRUMA

a new film by Simcha Jacobovici.

Exactly 60 years ago, on February 24, 1942, almost 800 men, women and children, Jewish refugees from Romania, perished in the frigid waters of the Black Sea. Only one survived. "The Struma" tells the story of 779 Jewish refugees who fled Romania in 1941, aboard a dilapidated vessel called the Struma. Bound for Palestine, the over- crowded ship suffered engine failure and barely made it to Istanbul. Under pressure from Great Britain, Turkey refused the passengers sanctuary. For 71 days the Struma's fate was deliberated at the highest levels. Then, as desperate cries echoed from its hull, the Struma was towed out to sea and left to drift aimlessly. 24 hours later, it went down under suspicious circumstances.

The film screening will be followed by Q&A with Simcha Jacobovici and David Stoliar (the sole survivor of this tragedy).

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

Rethinking Buddhism in Chinese History

John McRae is an associate professor of Buddhist Studies at Indiana University. As a student of East Asian Buddhism, McRae is especially interested in ideologies of spiritual cultivation and how they interact with their intellectual and cultural environments. Several years ago he became involved in a multi-year cooperative study of esoteric Buddhism and popular religion among the Bai people of Yunnan in southwest China, based on previously unpublished handwritten manuscripts, art historical materials, and ethnographic data. His colloquium presentation will use data gathered from this project to illustrate a new metaphor for understanding the role of Buddhism in Chinese Buddhist history.

-- submitted by Mark Nathan (mnathan@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact mnathan@ucla.edu

Writing a History Paper

-- submitted by kristina (klouie@college.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact chollis@college.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)

Studying Geography abroad

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

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

Professor Werner Sollors, "The Rise of Ethnic Modernism in the US, 1910-1950"

The lecture explores this dramatic change and how ethnic artists participated in the development of an American literary modernism that would carry the day only after World War II.

Werner Sollors (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/faculty/sollors.shtml) teaches Afro-American Studies and English at Harvard University and is the author of Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Literature and Culture (1986) and Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (pb. 1999). Recently, he edited Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of America (1998), Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law (2000), The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans (expanded edition 2000), The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature (co-ed. 2000), The Norton Critical Edition of Olaudah Equiano (2000), and Charles Chesnutt’s Novels, Short Stories, Essays for the Library of America (2002).

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

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

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

"Are We All 'Ethnic' Now? Thoughts on Comparative Literature in the Late Twentieth Century"

"Are We All 'Ethnic' Now? Thoughts on Comparative Literature in the Late Twentieth Century"

to take place Tuesday February 26, 2002 at 5:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

David Palumbo-Liu is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of "Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier" (Stanford University Press, 1999) and "The Poetics of Appropriation: Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian (1045-1105" (Stanford University Press, 1993). He is also the co- editor (with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht) of "Streams of Cultural Capital: Transnational Cultural Studies" (Stanford University Press, 1997).

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@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)

Tony Gleaton, Photographer: "(Re)Constructing Mestizaje: Africa's Legacy in Mexico, Central & South America"

The images I produce, most often, are ones in which people directly and openly look into the camera, yet the most important aspect of these portraits is that they give a narrative voice by visual means to people deemed invisible by the greater part of society ... and deliberately craft an 'alternative iconography' of what beauty and family and love and goodness might stand for — one that is inclusive, not exclusive." - Tony Gleaton

For more than 28 years, Tony Gleaton has pursued photography throughout North and South America. He began his career as a photographic assistant in New York, and eventually made his way to the American West, where he formed the core of his project "COWBOYS: Reconstructing an American Myth", a series of photographs and portraits of African-, Native-, Euro-, Mexican and Mexican-American Cowboys. For the next several years, he made extensive travels throughout Mexico, where he developed his most well known project, "Africa’s Legacy in Mexico", photographs of present day descendants of the black African slaves brought to New Spain from 1500 through the 1700s. This lecture is taken from Gleaton's project, "Tengo Casi 500 Años: Africa's Legacy in Mexico, Central & South America", which is an expansion of the above work to include Central and South America. For more information, go to: http://www.artepublico.com.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

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

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

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

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

JOSE MUNOZ - QUEER POTENTIALITIES

JOSE MUNOZ Associate Professor, Performance Studies, New York University Author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999)

QUEER POTENTIALITIES: WARHOL, O'HARA & FUTURITY

Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:00 pm, 355 Kinsey Hall

This lecture examines the reception of the New York School of poetry and the Pop Art movement and argues that both movements' reception have been "degayed" and pitted against each other in a "good gay" v.s. "bad gay" binary. Focusing on Andy Warhol and Frank O'Hara as representatives of both movements, Muñoz identifies a queer utopian impulse in the work of both cultural workers. The writings of Frankfurt school scholar Ernst Bloch informs Muñoz's critical methodology and helps describe a notion of queer futurity that characterizes this work.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/munoz.html

Careers in Education

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

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

CIRA Call for Grant Proposals

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)