March Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

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)

Call for Applications and Submissions

The Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group, co-directed by Professors Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, will provide an RA mentorship (full scholarship with fees, non-resident fees excluded) for an exceptional graduate student working on comparative minority discourse. UCLA graduate students who are engaged in the studies of minority cultural, literary, social, political or other formations across the globe are encouraged to apply. Projects using comparative perspectives and critical methodologies will be particularly welcome. All applications must be received by March 1, 2002.

Applicants should arrange 2 letters of recommendation sent directly to the program coordinator, and send 5 copies of the following materials: - Cover page with personal information: name, project title, affiliation, year in school, Faculty Mentor's name, and e-mail address - 1-page research project description or statement of research interest - A writing sample: 15-20 page research paper (double-spaced) - Transcript

II. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION

Papers on a topic related to the Transnational and Transcolonial Studies MRG research objectives are being solicited for submission (see below). Submissions deadline is March 1, 2002. Papers should be between 20 to 30 pages, and 5 copies of the paper should be submitted. The winning paper will receive a prize of $1,000; the runner-up paper $500. The winning papers will be presented at the graduate student conference in Spring 2003. Other students interested in participating in this year's conference (to be held April 5, 2002) should contact the conference organizer, Karina Eilerass at mrgucla@hotmail.com. Please send applications and submissions to:

Kathy Sanchez, Program Coordinator UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies 310 Royce Hall, Mailcode: 146102 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1461 Phone: (310) 825-9581 Email: ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu

The Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group is an interdisciplinary community of scholars in the humanities and the social sciences from throughout the University of California system. The group collaborates on the study of minority discourse across national boundaries (transnationalism) with attention to colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial processes (transcolonialism). The core group of about thirty members meets regularly to hold workshops and conferences, the results of which are published. Other activities include a lecture series that brings prominent speakers in minority discourse from outside the UC system to interact with group members, the mentoring of graduate students through a fellowship program, a writing competition, and graduate student conferences. The Group also engages in outreach efforts to bring pedagogical innovation to secondary schools and universities. These research, publication, mentoring and outreach activities are meant to promote new theoretical perspectives and innovative research, as well as to bring about curricular changes designed to reflect the demographic diversity of California.

For more information, please visit the website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/transnation/

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

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

Jest, Satire, Irony, and Deeper Meaning

A comedy by C. D. Grabbe, Music by C. M. Von Weber.

March 1 & 2 at 7:00 PM, and March 3 at 2:30 PM

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

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

Annual Shakespeare Symposium: "Hamlet"

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

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

Candidate for Director of CDH Presentations

Dr. Massimo Riva of Brown University will present a talk entitled:

"Incunabula for a Digital Humanism"

As scholars and students of the humanities, we are caught in an awkward moment. Only a decade ago, “digital humanities” sounded like a futuristic concept (or an oxymoron) to the great majority of our colleagues. Today, the same expression sounds almost redundant. As our whole culture appears on its way to becoming “digital,” we tend to project ourselves into a future when the digitalization of the humanities has already happened. In my talk, I’ll adopt a slightly different point of view, looking at the past not just as a prologue to our future but as a template for our present: the age of “digital incunabula.”

In my work as a scholar and teacher of literature and new media, I am both attracted to and concerned by the disembodiment of the written word. What becomes of the verbal arts, and the value of writing, when our digital power of animating text and imaging 3-D models promotes new forms of cognitive "immediacy" and "transparency"? In this situation, I argue, writing plays a new and crucial role, a role of intermediacy: in the process of becoming more marginal, text acquires new dynamic functions, as a "suture" holding together proliferating media.

It is in this context that I will discuss three current works in progress:

The Decameron Web, www.brown.edu/decameron, where the power of dynamic visualization is used to create a new learning environment in which milestones of our textual traditions can be preserved for new generations of readers, at the same time revealing their inner, virtual hypermediality;

The Pico Project,www.brown.edu/pico, which allows us to re-view (and re-think) in a new light apparently obsolete premodern humanist philosophies such as Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's praise of human dignity;

And finally, (N2K. Narratives for the Next Millennium), where I take Italo Calvino's musings on lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity (and consistency) as a point of departure toward a creative pedagogy for 21st century e-humanism.

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

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

"Towards an Anthropological Humanism?" - a conference

Since the paroxysm of WWII, the most egregiously unequal institutions—colonialism, apartheid, de jure racial and sexual discrimination—have been sharply criticized, and in some cases successfully circumscribed. We now appear to be on the threshold of a “post-millennial” era where the moral imperative of human equality no longer dictates obvious solutions.

As citizens of the emerging global culture of this era, we need to account for both the phenomena of sacrifice and victimization that have dominated most of our history and the “categorical imperative” of moral reciprocity that defines us as human.

Our conference seeks to engage a dialogue between Generative Anthropology, which emphasizes the common humanity of our global culture, and Postcolonial Studies, which views this culture from the perspective of those whose place within it is the most problematic. The events of September 11 only make the necessity for this dialogue all the more apparent.

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

Candidate for Director of CDH Presentations

Dr. Thomas Martin of the College of the Holy Cross will present:

"Freedom in Ancient Greek and Modern Digital Sources"

One of my current research projects is to study the concept of freedom in ancient Greek sources by constructing a digital resource that will be useful to a variety of potential audiences. Trying to make my work broadly useful is part of my commitment to a researcher's freedom and his/her concomitant responsibility. I think this commitment extends more broadly to the ways in which and ends to which digital humanities technologies are employed. As part of a public institution with an international profile, the Center for Digital Humanities should, I believe, embody this commitment and serve as an example to others.

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

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

Applying to Law School

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Race and the Making of the Modern Nation-State in Latin America (postponed)

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

Race and the Making of the Modern Nation-State in Latin America (postponed)

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

Race and the Making of the Modern Nation-State in Latin America (postponed)

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

Transnational Linkages in Work and Gender: Vietnamese Workers in Electronics and Garmet Industries

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

Transnational Linkages in Work and Gender: Vietnamese Workers in Electronics and Garmet Industries

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

Wimba voice boards demonstration

Wimba voice boards are available for free use under a license negotiated by the UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching.

-- submitted by Annelie Chapman (annelie@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu (click on Wimba)

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

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

Transnational Linkages in Work and Gender: Vietnamese Workers in Electronics and Garment Industries

Professor Tran will discuss her findings from comparative interview research with Vietnamese American workers in the Silicon Valley electronics industry and Vietnamese workers in the garment industry. What are the transnational linkages in work and gender between these two seemingly different industries? How are production structures and gender divisions of labor the same or different across industries and national borders?

Co-sponsored by the program for Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia and the Asian American Studies Center

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

"Adorno Between Thought and Image"

GERHARD RICHTER, University of Wisconsin, entitled

“Adorno Between Thought and Image”

Thursday, March 7, 2002 306 Royce Hall 3:00 pm

An Associate Professor of German and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Richter's research focuses on modern German literature, thought, and culture, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, philosophical approaches to literature and culture, as well as issues of critical theory in relation to other media and discourses. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography (2000), and editor of the forthcoming volumes Literary Friendship, Literary Paternity and Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory.

Refreshments will be served

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

ALICIA ARRIZON - Queering Mestizaje 3/7/02

ALICIA ARRIZON Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside

QUEERING MESTIZAJE

Thursday, March 7, 2002 4:00 pm, 355 Kinsey Hall

In this presentation, Arrizón examines the queer female body in the staging of mestizaje as a form of transculturation. The significance of this approach lies in its ability to reinscribe the simulacrum of bodies and acts that raise questions of cultural hybridization, generating new political initiatives of the queer racialized body. In this engagement, Arrizón proposes to examine how the queering of mestizaje itself can be both described by the tropes for cross-cultural contact-the hybrid, the intercultural body, and by lesbian desire.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

This event is free and open to the public. Parking at UCLA is $6/day.

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- Nan Hunter - "Gay Rights, Identity, and Ideology" - March 15

- Riki Wilchins & Patricia Ireland - It's All About Gender" - April 9

- Moira Kenney - "How Gay is LA?" - April 11

- Exclusion & Asylum: Sexuality, Immigration, and the Law - April 19

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

"Transferts culturels: Approches d'un champ de recherche interculturel en études françaises" (18e - 20e siècles)

cordially invites you to a lecture (in French) by

HANS-JÜRGEN LÜSEBRINK

entitled

Transferts culturels: Approches d'un champ de recherche interculturel en études françaises (18e-20e siècles)

Thursday, March 7, 2002 4:30 p.m. 236 Royce Hall

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Visiting Professor at the Department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA during this term, is Professor for French Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication at the University of Saarbrücken in Germany. He is director of the interdisciplinary Doctoral School on Intercultural Communication at the University of Saarbrücken funded by the German Research Council (DFG), Co- Director of the Integrated Franco-German Study Program “Etudes transfrontalières franco-allemandes” (Licence/Maitrise, DEA/Diplom) of the universities of Metz and Saarbrücken. In 2001 he received the Diefenbaker Award of the Canadian Research Council. He has a Ph.D in History (1984) from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and a Habilitation Thesis in Romance Philology (1987) from the University of Bayreuth (Germany). Fields of specialization: Francophone Literatures and Cultures outside of Europe (esp. Africa and Quebec); Literary and Cultural History of the 18th Century; Intermediality (theory and historical analysis); Cultural Theory and Intercultural Communication.

Recent books: Einführung in die Landeskunde Frankreichs (‘Introduction to French Cultural Studies’), Stuttgart 2000; (dir., with Papa Samba Diop): Littératures et Sociétés Africaines. Regards comparatistes et perspectives interculturelles. Mélanges offerts à János Riesz à l’occasion de son soixantième anniversaire. Tübingen 2001; La Conquête de l‘Espace Public Colonial. Prises de parole et formes de participation d‘écrivains et d‘intellectuels africains dans la presse coloniale (1884-1960). Frankfurt/M., 2002 (in print); Edmond de Nevers: Lettres de Berlin et d’autres villes d’Europe (1888-92). Édition critique, avec une préface. Québec 2002 (in print); (ed. with Robert Dion): Ecrire en langue étrangère. Interférences de langue et de culture dans le monde francophone. Québec, 2002 (in print).

Refreshments will be served

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

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

X: DO NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, WIFE, HIS MALE OR FEMALE SLAVE, HIS OX, HIS ASS, OR ANYTHING THAT IS YOUR NEIGHBOR'S.

Speakers:

ELIE SPITZ, Rabbi, Congregation B'nai Israel (Tustin).

RICHARD MOUW, President, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Professor of Christian Philosophy and Ethics.

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)

Race and the Making of the Modern Nation-State in Latin America (postponed)

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/consortium/events.htm

Race and the Making of the Modern Nation-State in Latin America

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Mara Loveman's seminar has been postponed until May 20.

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

New Findings and New Interpretations of the Role and Influence of Modern Scepticism

In the half century since Richard Popkin's original articles on the sceptical crisis and the rise of modern philosophy and his book on The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, there has been a growing interest in tracing how philosophical scepticism developed from the late fifteenth century onward, and a lot of controversy about how to interpret the views of various major sceptical figures, such as Montaigne, Pierre Bayle, and David Hume. A great deal of new research has appeared, and there are new evaluations of the relationship vetween philosophical scepticism and religious belief. This conference proposes to bring together figures who are in the forefront of new researches in the field.

Participant's papers will appear on this website about two weeks before the conference; hard copy will be predistributed to registrants by request.

This colloquium is being held in lieu of the current year's Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy. The event is made possible by the generous support of Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin.

Fees: UC 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

"Translating the Nation in East Asia", a conference

As the nations of East Asia enter the new millennium, there has come an increased scholarly sensitivity to the limitations that ideas originally designed to discuss other peoples' histories have imposed on self-awareness. Long established Western paradigms have, in other words, begun to reveal the parochial interests obscured beneath their claims to universality. One result of this has been the emergence of a number of conferences and new journals devoted to intra-Asian historical, theoretical and cultural issues. Another consequence has been a new focus on the origins and histories of key ideas, along with close attention to the ways in which these ideas have circulated and achieved their positions of influence. Among the concepts that have come in for renewed scrutiny few have been more attended to than the constellation of notions that have underwritten the idea of the modern nation state.

This conference will examine a number of the ideas that grew out of the ongoing process of the development of the nation state, as well as try to work out a critical sense of the cost these ideas exacted on the study of the actual historical process in China, Japan and Korea, the three entities that have been tied together within the modern rubric of "East Asian Studies."

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 2 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Westholme 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

Mark Seltzer

Reception to follow in Royce 306. Please RSVP by Thursday, March 7, 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

Candidate for Director of CDH Presentations

Dr. Massimo Riva of Brown University will present a talk entitled:

"Incunabula for a Digital Humanism"

As scholars and students of the humanities, we are caught in an awkward moment. Only a decade ago, “digital humanities” sounded like a futuristic concept (or an oxymoron) to the great majority of our colleagues. Today, the same expression sounds almost redundant. As our whole culture appears on its way to becoming “digital,” we tend to project ourselves into a future when the digitalization of the humanities has already happened. In my talk, I’ll adopt a slightly different point of view, looking at the past not just as a prologue to our future but as a template for our present: the age of “digital incunabula.”

In my work as a scholar and teacher of literature and new media, I am both attracted to and concerned by the disembodiment of the written word. What becomes of the verbal arts, and the value of writing, when our digital power of animating text and imaging 3-D models promotes new forms of cognitive "immediacy" and "transparency"? In this situation, I argue, writing plays a new and crucial role, a role of intermediacy: in the process of becoming more marginal, text acquires new dynamic functions, as a "suture" holding together proliferating media.

It is in this context that I will discuss three current works in progress:

The Decameron Web, www.brown.edu/decameron, where the power of dynamic visualization is used to create a new learning environment in which milestones of our textual traditions can be preserved for new generations of readers, at the same time revealing their inner, virtual hypermediality;

The Pico Project,www.brown.edu/pico, which allows us to re-view (and re-think) in a new light apparently obsolete premodern humanist philosophies such as Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's praise of human dignity;

And finally, (N2K. Narratives for the Next Millennium), where I take Italo Calvino's musings on lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity (and consistency) as a point of departure toward a creative pedagogy for 21st century e-humanism.

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

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

"On the Edge: Envisioning the Libro de buen amor in the Cancionero de Palacio"

"On the Edge: Envisioning the Libro de buen amor in the Cancionero de Palacio"

A lecture by E. Michael Gerli, University of Virginia, Commonwealth Professor of Hispanic Studies, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese.

Monday, March 11th 2002 3:00 p.m. Lydeen Reading Room, 4302 Rolfe Hall

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

"The Children's Odyssey: Exile, Nurses, and the Fantasy of Return"

KATIE TRUMPENER University of Chicago

entitled

“THE CHILDREN’S ODYSSEY: EXILE, NURSES, AND THE FANTASY OF RETURN”

Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 2:30 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

Refreshments will be served.

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

Art History Lecture by Professor Terry Smith, "What is Contemporary Art? Contemporaneity and Art to Come"

Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 4:00 PM, Dodd Hall 275

For many years, Professor Smith was Power Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of the Power Institute, Foundation for Art and Visual Culture, University of Sydney, where he also holds a Personal Chair in Modern Art History and Theory in the Department of Art History and Theory in the Faculty of Arts. He recently edited In Visible Touch: Modernism and Masculinity (Power Publications and the University of Chicago Press, 1997), First People, Second Chance: The Humanities and Aboriginal Australia (Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1999), Impossible Presence: Surface and Screen in the Photogenic Era (Power Publications and the University of Chicago Press, 2001) and (with Paul Patton) Jacques Derrida, Engaging Deconstruction: The Sydney Seminars (Power Publications: Sydney, 2001). Among his forthcoming books are Figuring the Ground: Landscape, Colony and Nation in Nineteenth Century Australian Art and Transformations: Modernism and Aboriginality in Twentieth Century Australian Art (both Craftsman House, Sydney 2002). He is currently working on a book on Contemporary art and another entitled Target Architecture: Architectural iconotypes between cultures after 9-11.

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

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

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

Professor Lipsitz researches the racialization of opportunities and life chances in 20th century U.S. society, the racialization of space, urban culture, collective memory, and movements for social change. His most recent book is American Studies in a Moment of Danger (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

This lecture will be held in Room 1439 of the Schoenberg Music Building at UCLA.

For more information, contact eleidal@ucla.edu

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

For more information, contact eleidal@ucla.edu

"Differing Conceptions of Memory in the Book of Numbers"

PROFESSOR ADRIANE LEVEEN (Hebrew Union College) on:

"Differing Conceptions of Memory in the Book of Numbers"

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

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

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

Celtic Movie Night

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

A Symposium on the New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago Schools

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

For more information, contact lncenter@ucla.edu

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

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

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

"The Dialogue with Judaism: Its Challenge for Christian Self-Understanding"

JOHN T. PAWLIKOWSKI, O.S.M., Ph.D. (Catholic Theological Union, University of Chicago)

speaking on "The Dialogue with Judaism: Its Challenge for Christian Self-Understanding."

John Pawlikowski, a priest of the Servite Order, serves on the Executive Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and chairs its Church Relations Committee. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Catholic-Jewish Relations, National Conference of Catholic Bishops. A 1986 recipient of "The Righteous Among Nations" Award from the Detroit Holocaust Museum, he is also the 1989 recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award for Distinguished Contributions to Religion. He is the author and editor of 11 books, including "The Challenge of the Holocaust for Christian Theology," "Christ in the Light of the Christian- Jewish Dialogue," and "Jesus and the Theology of Israel."

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

"Who is Toni Negri and Why Are They Saying All Those Terrible Things About Him? Elements of a Pre-History of Empire"

a LECTURE by TIM MURPHY (University of Oklahoma) entitled

"Who is Toni Negri and Why Are They Saying All Those Terrible Things About Him? Elements of a Pre-History of Empire"

to be given on Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 4:00 pm in 1301 Rolfe Hall. Please join us. Refreshments will be provided.

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

"Forty Years Later: The Algerian Diaspora in France, 1962-2002"

AZOUZ BEGAG (French-Algerian novelist and Researcher at the CNRS)

entitled "Forty Years Later: The Algerian Diaspora in France, 1962-2002"

to take place Thursday March 14, 2002 at 4:00 pm in 236 Royce Hall.

Refreshment will be provided.

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

Virginity in Ancient Babylonia

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

Celtic Movie Night

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

Opposition, Dissent, & Revolutionary Sympathies: Origin of the British Left, ca. 1770-1800

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

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

24th Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference

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

Lizabeth Cohen, "Segmenting the Mass in Markets and Politics in Postwar America"

This seminar is free and open to the public, and is being presented by the Department of History and the Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies. Professor Cohen's paper is available upon request for those planning to attend the seminar. Please contact the Center by email at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu, or call our office at 310-825-9581 to request a copy.

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

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

CIRA CALL FOR PROPOSALS - DEADLINE EXTENDED

A New Call for Research Proposals For Grant Period July 2002 - June 2004

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: April 10, 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 11387 Bunche Hall 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)

University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference

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

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

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

University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference

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

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

For more information visit www.vanderbilt.edu/narrative

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

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