April Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Sandra Alcosser is the author of Except by Nature, which won the James Laughlin Award from Academy of American Poets and was chosen by Eamon Grennan for the National Poetry Series in 1997.

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

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

Nations Online: Virtual Tourism and Political Transition

Dr. Stephanie Donald is a Senior Lecturer in the Media and Communications Programme

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

Nations Online: Virtual Tourism and Political Transition

Dr. Stephanie Donald is a Senior Lecturer in the Media and Communications Programme

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

20th Century Armenian Art: the Central Trends

Dr. Khachatryan received his tertiary education at the Pedagogical Institute of Erevan, going on to graduate school at the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts. In 1959 he was appointed scientific research worker in the State Gallery of Armenia. He was promoted to his current post as director of the Saryan Museum in 1967 and has held the joint post of director of the National Gallery of Armenia since 1991. In addition, he teaches History of Art at the Fine Arts Academy of Erevan.

He has lectured widely in Europe and the Middle East on Armenian Art. The author of more than 200 articles, he has written several monographs on the 19th century seascape artist Yovhannes Aivazovsky and on one of the most important 20th century Armenian painters, Martiros Saryan.

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

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Adam Zagajewski is the author of many books of poems and essays, and he publishes regularly in the Time Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Partisan Review and The New Yorker.

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

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

Book Collection Competition Deadline

The deadline for entries is Wednesday, April 3, 2002. Entry forms will be available at the reference desks in the Arts, Biomedical, College, Science & Engineering/Engineering & Mathematical Science, and Research libraries and can also be printed from the World Wide Web at the URL listed below. The awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday, April 17, 2002.

Further information is available on the Campbell Web site at http://www.library.ucla.edu/committees/campbell/index.htm.

-- submitted by Library (cschmitt@ucla.edu)

For more information, contact cschmitt@library.ucla.edu

Ethnic Identity in the Roman Near East: the Evidence of Aramaic Inscriptions

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

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

Martiros Saryan's Contribution to Modern Armenian Art

Dr. Khachatryan received his tertiary education at the Pedagogical Institute of Erevan, going on to graduate school at the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts. In 1959 he was appointed scientific research worker in the State Gallery of Armenia. He was promoted to his current post as director of the Saryan Museum in 1967 and has held the joint post of director of the National Gallery of Armenia since 1991. In addition, he teaches History of Art at the Fine Arts Academy of Erevan.

He has lectured widely in Europe and the Middle East on Armenian Art. The author of more than 200 articles, he has written several monographs on the 19th century seascape artist Yovhannes Aivazovsky and on one of the most important 20th century Armenian painters, Martiros Saryan.

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

Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater

presents

Jose R. Cartagena-Calderon

"Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater"

This presentation will look at the construction of imperial masculinities in the discourses of ?discovery? and conquest of America produced in Spain during the formative period of European nation and empire. Paying particular attention to a little-known play, El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon, probably written between 1598 and 1603 by Lope de Vega, founder of Spain?s national theater, Dr. Cartagena-Calderon will examine the literary, cultural and historical inter-relationships between masculinity, ethnicity and the imperial imaginary of early modern Spain.

JOSE R. CARTAGENA-CALDERON is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Humanities Consortium. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in the year 2000 with a specialty in early modern Spanish theater. His research and publications have focused on the construction of masculinities in early modern Spanish literature and culture. He is particularly interested in the gendered aspects of alterity, specifically how hegemonic masculinities were defined in the period in relation to, and in tension with, cultural antagonists such as Moors, Jews and Indians, as well as marginal groups such as women and sodomites. He has published on Cervantes and the subject of masculinities as well as on various discourses of effeminacy in pre- and early modern Spanish literature and culture.

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)

Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater

presents

Jose R. Cartagena-Calderon

?Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater?

This presentation will look at the construction of imperial masculinities in the discourses of ?discovery? and conquest of America produced in Spain during the formative period of European nation and empire. Paying particular attention to a little-known play, ?El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon,? probably written between 1598 and 1603 by Lope de Vega, founder of Spain?s national theater, Dr. Cartagena-Calderon will examine the literary, cultural and historical inter-relationships between masculinity, ethnicity and the imperial imaginary of early modern Spain.

JOSE R. CARTAGENA-CALDERON is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Humanities Consortium. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in the year 2000 with a specialty in early modern Spanish theater. His research and publications have focused on the construction of masculinities in early modern Spanish literature and culture. He is particularly interested in the gendered aspects of alterity, specifically how hegemonic masculinities were defined in the period in relation to, and in tension with, cultural antagonists such as Moors, Jews and Indians, as well as marginal groups such as women and sodomites. He has published on Cervantes and the subject of masculinities as well as on various discourses of effeminacy in pre- and early modern Spanish literature and culture.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok)

Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater

presents

Jose R. Cartagena-Calderon

Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater

This presentation will look at the construction of imperial masculinities in the discourses of discovery and conquest of America produced in Spain during the formative period of European nation and empire. Paying particular attention to a little-known play, El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon, probably written between 1598 and 1603 by Lope de Vega, founder of Spain?s national theater, Dr. Cartagena-Calderon will examine the literary, cultural and historical inter-relationships between masculinity, ethnicity and the imperial imaginary of early modern Spain.

JOSE R. CARTAGENA-CALDERON is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Humanities Consortium. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in the year 2000 with a specialty in early modern Spanish theater. His research and publications have focused on the construction of masculinities in early modern Spanish literature and culture. He is particularly interested in the gendered aspects of alterity, specifically how hegemonic masculinities were defined in the period in relation to, and in tension with, cultural antagonists such as Moors, Jews and Indians, as well as marginal groups such as women and sodomites. He has published on Cervantes and the subject of masculinities as well as on various discourses of effeminacy in pre- and early modern Spanish literature and culture.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok)

Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater

presents

Jose R. Cartagena-Calderon

Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater

This presentation will look at the construction of imperial masculinities in the discourses of discovery and conquest of America produced in Spain during the formative period of European nation and empire. Paying particular attention to a little-known play, El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon, probably written between 1598 and 1603 by Lope de Vega, founder of Spain's national theater, Dr. Cartagena-Calderon will examine the literary, cultural and historical inter-relationships between masculinity, ethnicity and the imperial imaginary of early modern Spain.

JOSE R. CARTAGENA-CALDERON is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Humanities Consortium. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in the year 2000 with a specialty in early modern Spanish theater. His research and publications have focused on the construction of masculinities in early modern Spanish literature and culture. He is particularly interested in the gendered aspects of alterity, specifically how hegemonic masculinities were defined in the period in relation to, and in tension with, cultural antagonists such as Moors, Jews and Indians, as well as marginal groups such as women and sodomites. He has published on Cervantes and the subject of masculinities as well as on various discourses of effeminacy in pre- and early modern Spanish literature and culture.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok)

"Diaspora, Descent, and Dissent" - a Graduate Students Conference

co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center

Political crisis often sparks intense debate about national identity, cross-cultural exchange, and transnational labor. In the wake of September 11, this conference seeks to reassess the themes of home, exile, diaspora, and displacement that have persistently haunted the fields of postcolonial and ethnic studies. What does it mean to belong to a nation? How does the global flow of people, goods, and cultural forms alter conventional understandings of identity, affiliation or coalition, and resistance? What are the limits and possibilities of human rights discourse as a basis for political praxis? How has the role of the dissenting intellectual changed since September 11th, and what are the consequences for minority discourse? We hope to explore these and related issues in the contexts of popular culture, literature, media, politics, and performance.

Please see our website below for the list of speakers and topics.

Limited seating is available, however no reservations are required. Parking is available for $6 in Lot 2 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact our office by email at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu, or phone at (310) 825-9581.

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

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

ELO's State of the Arts Symposium

Many of the leading writers, critics, publishers and readers in the field of electronic literature will unite for three nights and two days of readings, demonstratons, and presentations. Keynote speakers include novelist Robert Coover, critic Katherine Hayles, and author and publisher Jason Epstein.

Information and registration is available on our website at http://www.eliterature.org/state. Early -bird registration discount is available through March 15.

-- submitted by Jessica Pressman (jesspres@ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jesspres@ucla.edu

On The Divide

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

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

Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s

presents

LEORA AUSLANDER

Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s

MONDAY, APRIL 22 4:00 P.M. ? 6:00 P.M. HERBERT MORRIS SEMINAR ROOM 306 ROYCE HALL

?Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s,? first analyzes efforts by the French and German states to create a national aesthetics of everyday life, and then discusses consumption patterns of an insider/outsider group ? Jews ? to assess the presence or absence of a shared national taste. Both state form and citizenship law played a part in shaping the state?s perceived need and capacity to influence inhabitants? taste. Comparative data on consumer practices, however, expose the limits to state intervention in this domain. Moving across the subdisciplinary boundaries among political, legal, cultural, and social history, this paper, and the larger project of which it is a part, suggest the utility of trans-national historical work informed by theoretical and empirical research.

LEORA AUSLANDER teaches modern European history at the University of Chicago where she was also the founding director of the Center for Gender Studies. She is the author of Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France, and co-editor (with Michelle Zancarini-Fournel) of a special issue of Clio: Histoire, femmes etsocietes on gender and the nation, as well as a volume on gender and protective legislation. She has published articles on the intersection of material culture and politics. Auslander is currently working on two projects: Revolutionary Taste: Everyday Life and Politics in England, the United States, and France and The Everyday of Citizenship: Aesthetics, Affect and Law in France and Germany, 1890-1933.

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)

Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s

presents

LEORA AUSLANDER

Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s

MONDAY, APRIL 22 4:00 P.M. ? 6:00 P.M. HERBERT MORRIS SEMINAR ROOM 306 ROYCE HALL

?Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s,? first analyzes efforts by the French and German states to create a national aesthetics of everyday life, and then discusses consumption patterns of an insider/outsider group ? Jews ? to assess the presence or absence of a shared national taste. Both state form and citizenship law played a part in shaping the state?s perceived need and capacity to influence inhabitants? taste. Comparative data on consumer practices, however, expose the limits to state intervention in this domain. Moving across the subdisciplinary boundaries among political, legal, cultural, and social history, this paper, and the larger project of which it is a part, suggest the utility of trans-national historical work informed by theoretical and empirical research.

LEORA AUSLANDER teaches modern European history at the University of Chicago where she was also the founding director of the Center for Gender Studies. She is the author of Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France, and co-editor (with Michelle Zancarini-Fournel) of a special issue of Clio: Histoire, femmes etsocietes on gender and the nation, as well as a volume on gender and protective legislation. She has published articles on the intersection of material culture and politics. Auslander is currently working on two projects: Revolutionary Taste: Everyday Life and Politics in England, the United States, and France and The Everyday of Citizenship: Aesthetics, Affect and Law in France and Germany, 1890-1933.

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)

Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s

presents

LEORA AUSLANDER

"Do States Make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s"

This seminar first analyzes efforts by the French and German states to create a national aesthetics of everyday life, and then discusses consumption patterns of an insider/outsider group -- Jews -- to assess the presence or absence of a shared national taste. Both state from and citizenship law played a part in shaping the state's perceived need and capacity to influence inhabitants' taste. Comparative data on consumer practices, however, expose the limits to state intervention in this domain. Moving across the subdisciplinary boundaries among political, legal, cultural, and social history, this paper, and the larger project of which it is a part, suggest the utility of trans-national historical work informed by theoretical and empirical research.

LEORA AUSLANDER teaches modern European history at the University of Chicago where she was also the founding director of the Center for Gender Studies. She is the author of "Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France," and co-editor (with Michelle Zancarini-Fournel) of a special issue of "Clio: Histoire, femmes etsocietes" on gender and the nation, as well as a volume on gender and protective legislation. She has published articles on the intersection of material culture and politics. She is currently working on two projects: "Revolutionary Taste: Everyday Life and Politics in England, the United States, and France" and "The Everyday Citizenship: Aesthetics, Affect and Law in France and Germany, 1890-1933.

Limited seating available; no reservations required. For further information, please call 310-206-0559.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok)

Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s

presents

LEORA AUSLANDER

"Do States Make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s"

This seminar first analyzes efforts by the French and German states to create a national aesthetics of everyday life, and then discusses consumption patterns of an insider/outsider group -- Jews -- to assess the presence or absence of a shared national taste. Both state from and citizenship law played a part in shaping the state's perceived need and capacity to influence inhabitants' taste. Comparative data on consumer practices, however, expose the limits to state intervention in this domain. Moving across the subdisciplinary boundaries among political, legal, cultural, and social history, this paper, and the larger project of which it is a part, suggest the utility of trans-national historical work informed by theoretical and empirical research.

LEORA AUSLANDER teaches modern European history at the University of Chicago where she was also the founding director of the Center for Gender Studies. She is the author of "Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France," and co-editor (with Michelle Zancarini-Fournel) of a special issue of "Clio: Histoire, femmes etsocietes" on gender and the nation, as well as a volume on gender and protective legislation. She has published articles on the intersection of material culture and politics. She is currently working on two projects: "Revolutionary Taste: Everyday Life and Politics in England, the United States, and France" and "The Everyday Citizenship: Aesthetics, Affect and Law in France and Germany, 1890-1933."

Limited seating available; no reservations required. For further information, please call 310-206-0559.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok)

A SEMINAR WITH ALAIN BADIOU

A Seminar With Alain Badiou: "The Desire for Philosophy and The Ethics of Truths"

on Monday April 8, 2002 at 5:00 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

A Reception will PRECEDE the seminar at 4:00 pm.

Copies of the readings are available at the Reception Desk in 212 Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo)

Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater

presents

Jose R. Cartagena-Calderon

Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spanish Theater

Monday, April 8 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Herbert Morris Seminar Room 306 Royce Hall

This presentation will look at the construction of imperial masculinities in the discourses of "discovery" and conquest of America produced in Spain during the formative period of European nation and empire. Paying particular attention to a little-known play, El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon, probably written between 1598 and 1603 by Lope de Vega, founder of Spain's national theater, Dr. Cartagena-Calderon will examine the literary, cultural and historical inter-relationships between masculinity, ethnicity and the imperial imaginary of early modern Spain.

Jose R. Cartagena-Calderon is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Humanities Consortium. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in the year 2000 with a specialty in early modern Spanish theater. His research and publications have focused on the construction of masculinities in early modern Spanish literature and culture. He is particularly interested in the gendered aspects of alterity, specifically how hegemonic masculinities were defined in the period in relation to, and in tension with, cultural antagonists such as Moors, Jews and Indians, as well as marginal groups such as women and sodomites. He has published on Cervantes and the subject of masculinities as well as on various discourses of effeminacy in pre- and early modern Spanish literature and culture.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. For further information, please contact Mark Pokorski: 310.206.0559.

-- submitted by Michael Cohen (mcohen@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

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

For more information, contact lmusca@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)

A Lecture on the French Thinker PIERRE BOURDIEU

with

PROFESSEUR LAHOUARI ADDI, Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Université Lyon 2, France

“The Dimensions of Bourdieu’s Sociology: from Anthropology in Algeria to Sociology in France”

and

LAURENT DEVÈZE, Cultural Attaché, French Consulate, Los Angeles

“Hommage à Bourdieu”

Wednesday April 10, 2002 at 4:30 pm in 236 Royce Hall.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

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

Foreign Laguage Careers in Business and Law

-- submitted by Kathryn Paul (lrp)

This Thursday! KAREN OCAMB - Gay Big Bucks & Fat Cat Dykes

The first of the QUEER LOS ANGELES lectures...

KAREN OCAMB

"GAY BIG BUCKS & FAT CAT DYKES: How L.A.'s Checkbook Activism Changed the LGBT Movement"

Former Associate Producer at CBS Network News in New York, and an award-winning journalist who has written for the LGBT and mainstream press and helped pioneer multimedia gay news online. Ocamb is also on the Board of the Los Angeles Press Club and is a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association.

(Moira Kenney's talk has been rescheduled for May 30.)

Thursday, April 11, 2002. 4:00 pm, Public Policy 2270

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

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

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

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Charles Simic is the author of fourteen books. His poetry has appeared in translation all over the world. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The World Doesn't End and many other awards.

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

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

Three Apples Fell From Heaven

-- submitted by Gayane Hagopian (hagopian)

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

Derrida/Deleuze: Psychoanalysis, Territoriality, Politics

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

For more information, contact eferris@uci.edu

"Religion and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire" - a conference

The conference will bring together a dynamic group of scholars whose research addresses pertinent aspects of the religion/culture/social change problem. They will be joined by members of the UCLA History Department from fields outside the Middle East whose work deals with issues similar to those confronting historians of the Middle East and who will comment on papers presented by the participants.

This program is being co-sponsored by The Center for Near Eastern Studies, The Department of History, The Division of Social Sciences, The Center for the Study of Religion, and The Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine.

Please see the website below for the full program schedule and online copies of papers. Hard copies of the papers are available upon request.

Limited seating is available, however no reservations required. Parking is available for $6 in Lot 2 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact our office by email at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu or by phone at (310) 825-9581.

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

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

Diderot and European Culture

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.

Fees:

UC Faculty & Staff: $15

Students with ID: No Charge

Others: $25

Registration Deadline: April 5, 2002 Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached.

-- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kod2004)

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

Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s

presents

LEORA AUSLANDER

"Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s"

This seminar first analyzes efforts by the French and German states to create a national aesthetics of everyday life, and then discusses consumption patterns of an insider/outsider group -- Jews -- to assess the presence or absence of a shared national taste. Both state form and citizenship law played a part in shaping the state's perceived need and capacity to influence inhabitants' taste. Comparative data on consumer practices, however, expose the limits to state intervention in this domain. Moving across the subdisciplinary boundaries among political, legal, cultural, and social history, this paper, and the larger project of which it is a part, suggest the utility of trans-national historical work informed by theoretical and empirical research.

LEORA AUSLANDER teaches modern European history at the University of Chicago where she was also the founding director of the Center for Gender Studies. She is the author of "Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France," and co-editor (with Michelle Zancarini-Fournel) of a special issue of "Clio: Histoire, femmes etsocietes" on gender and the nation, as well as a volume on gender and protective legislation. She has published articles on the intersection of material culture and politics. She is currently working on two projects: "Revolutionary Taste: Everyday Life and Politics in England, the United States, and France" and "The Everyday Citizenship: Aesthetics, Affect and Law in France and Germany, 1890-1933."

Limited seating available; no reservations required.

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

SAINT PAUL AND MODERNITY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs)

"THE PIT AND THE ROPE: JUDAH DISCOVERS JOSEPH"

AVIVAH ZORNBERG (Pardes Institute of Torah Studies)

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

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

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

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

A Lecture by CLAUDE IMBERT

CLAUDE IMBERT, Visiting Professor, University of California, Davis

entitled

DELACROIX REVISITÉ: UN AUTRE COUP D'OEIL SUR “LE PEINTRE DE LA VIE MODERNE”

Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 4:30 pm in 236 Royce Hall.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

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

"The Architecture of Panini's Grammar"

The lectures will take place Monday through Thursday, April 15th-18th, at 4 p.m. in Dodd Hall 170. They are free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Brent Vine (vine)

TORIE OSBORN - This Thursday

TORIE OSBORN VISION-MONEY-SPRAWL: LA's Unique Model for GLBT Organizing

Osborn is the Executive Director of Liberty Hill Foundation, the former Executive Director, LA Gay and Lesbian Center and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the author of Coming Home to America (1996)

THURSDAY, April 18, 2002. 4pm in Public Policy 2270.

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

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

TORIE OSBORN - Vision- Money-Sprawl

QUEER LOS ANGELES Lecture Series

TORIE OSBORN "VISION-MONEY-SPRAWL: LA's Unique Model for GLBT Organizing"

Osborn is the executive director of Liberty Hill Foundation, former Executive Director, LA Gay and Lesbian Center and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the author of Coming Home to America (1996)

THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2002 4pm in Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270

Organized by LGBTS. Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs)

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

"THE HOLOCAUST AND GERMAN FOOD POLICY IN THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, 1942"

THE ANNUAL "1939" CLUB HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL LECTURE,

to be given this year by

DR. CHRISTIAN GERLACH (U. of Maryland)

Please join us on THURSDAY,APRIL 18 at 7 PM in ROYCE 314. Refreshments will be served after Dr. Gerlach's lecture.

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

Italy's Eighteenth Century - Gender and Culture in the age of the Grand Tour

Recent work on eighteenth-century Italy by scholars working in different disciplines in Europe and North America not only suggests that Italy is an interesting place from which to view cultural developments in the eighteenth century, but also highlights the importance of gender in understanding Italian art, literature, music, and science. It situates, as well, our understanding of Italy in light of its prominent role in the Grand Tour. Both foreign perceptions of Italy and regular contact with foreigners shaped this world. In an era in which Italy could no longer claim to be the most "modern" of regions, as it had during the Renaissance, it nonetheless continued to be an important point of reference for European thought and culture. This workshop will consider ways in which Italian culture reflected the relations between Italy and other regions of Europe.

Conference Locations & Parking

Friday: The Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall

1200 Getty Center Drive, off the 405 Freeway, Getty Center Drive exit. Parking is reserved for registrants at no charge.

Saturday: The Clark Library

2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district, one block east of Arlington Avenue, two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway. There is ample free parking on the grounds.

Fees:

Friday's sessions at the Getty Center: Free of charge

Saturday's sessions at the Clark Library: UC Faculty & Staff: $10

Students with ID: No charge

Others: $20

Registration Deadline: April 12, 2002

Space at both locations is limited and registration will close when capacity is reached.

-- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kod2004)

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

"Rumor and Contemporary Legend: An Outline of the French Approach"

“RUMOR AND CONTEMPORARY LEGEND: AN OUTLINE OF THE FRENCH APPROACH”

Véronique CAMPION-VINCENT (formerly of Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris)

Using examples culled from her research on Organ Theft narratives, and cancer causing Cell Phones, Campion- Vincent, one of France's foremost specialists on Urban Legend, will explore the specificities of the French approaches to the study of Rumor and Contemporary Legend.

Véronique Campion Vincent is a writer specialized in sociological approaches of urban rumors and legends, their evolution and reception. Among her many publications are La légende des vols d'organes (Les Belles Lettres, 1997) and Légendes urbaines. Rumeurs d'aujourd'hui (with J.-B. Renard) (Payot, 1992) and the forthcoming De source sûre. Nouvelles légendes urbaines. Paris, Payot (co-authored with Jean-Bruno Renard), 2002. She has also written Images du Dahomey. Un royaume africain lors de sa conquête.

Monday April 22, 2002 3:00 pm 236 Royce Hall Refreshments will be served

Co-Sponsored by THE SCANDINAVIAN SECTION, DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES, AND THE ORAL TRADITIONS STUDIES PROGRAM

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

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

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

by PROFESSOR DAVID NIRENBERG (Johns Hopkins University).

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

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

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar Series - "Nations and Identities: Between Culture and State"

presents

LEORA AUSLANDER

"Do States make Style? German, French, and Jewish Taste in the 1920s and 1930s"

This seminar first analyzes efforts by the French and German states to create a national aesthetics of everyday life, and then discusses consumption patterns of an insider/outsider group -- Jews -- to assess the presence or absence of a shared national taste. Both state form and citizenship law played a part in shaping the state's perceived need and capacity to influence inhabitants' taste. Comparative data on consumer practices, however, expose the limits to state intervention in this domain. Moving across the subdisciplinary boundaries among political, legal, cultural, and social history, this paper, and the larger project of which it is a part, suggest the utility of trans- national historical work informed by theoretical and empirical research.

LEORA AUSLANDER teaches modern European history at the University of Chicago where she was also the founding director of the Center for Gender Studies. She is the author of "Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France," and co-editor (with Michelle Zancarini- Fournel) of a special issue of "Clio: Histoire, femmes etsocietes" on gender and the nation, as well as a volume on gender and protective legislation. She has published articles on the intersection of material culture and politics. She is currently working on two projects: "Revolutionary Taste: Everyday Life and Politics in England, the United States, and France" and "The Everyday Citizenship: Aesthetics, Affect and Law in France and Germany, 1890-1933."

Limited seating available; no reservations required. For further information, please call 310-206-0559.

-- submitted by Michael Cohen (mcohen@humnet.ucla.edu)

"TEACHING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST IN POLAND: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE"

Professor Trojanski is a senior lecturer at the Institute of History of the Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland where he specializes in the modern history of the Jews in Poland, and especially Holocaust education. He is a member of the Polish-German Center in Krakow and the Polish Society of Jewish Studies as well as on the editorial board of the journal "Studia Judaica." He is the co-author of the Polish curriculum for teaching about the Holocaust ("Holocaust: About the History and Extermination of the Jews within the Framework of Humanities Lessons in Post- Primary Schools.")

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

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

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

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

Dr. D. B. Johnson's lecture on "Captain Mayne Reid and Vladimir Nabokov's Discovery of America"

Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

The event is organized by the Slavic Graduate Student Association and funded by the Program Activities Board Mini Fund.

-- submitted by Justina Bandol (jbandol@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact JBANDOL@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

"Faat-Kine"

"Faat-Kine"

in French with English subtitles

Wednesday April 24, 2002, 7:30 pm. UCLA James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall Free and Open to the Public

Synopsis: Chic, sexy, single and a working mother, the title heroine is born that same year that Senegal wins independence. In other words, both are thoroughly liberated, although males in Dakar seem a little slow to realize it about Faat-Kine. Especially the different fathers of her two children, each of whom betrayed her in turn. Even her own father wanted to kill her when she was born, for the crime of not being a son. When Faat-Kine gets an entry-level job in a gas station, she weathers the inevitable sexual discrimination and innuendos to prove herself, climbing the ladder of promotions. She will settle for nothing less that becoming the manager of a multinational oil company.

Please check out website: www.humnet.ucla.edu/french/cinema Click on NEXT MOVIE

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

Conference 2002

Art History Lecture - "Public Duty, Private Interests: Mexican Art at New York's Museum of Modern Art, 1940-45

PHILL WILSON - "Until There's a Cure..."

"Kabbalah: From Secrets to Mysteries and Back"

Regents' Lecture Series

Regents' Lecture Series

Nobel Laureate Regents' Lecture

"Jacques Derrida: The Last and Least of the Jews"

Franz Rosenzweig and Political Thoelogy: Universalism, Particularism, Exceptionalism"

A Colloquium with Franco Moretti: World Literature at Large

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