May Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Mimicry in Doctor Zhivago

-- submitted by Inna Gergel (@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

Professor Sneja Gunew, "Transcultural Contexts: Affective Translations"

The paper draws on the interdisciplinary project “Transcultural Canada: Cultural Mingling Between, Among, Within Cultures” (http://transculturalisms.arts.ubc.ca), which attempts to produce new models for productively representing hybridity/métissage within a framework of transcultural translation. It is organised around the four themes: Ethnic and Indigenous relations; ‘Mixed race’ identities; Performing hybridity: new art forms; Globalization/Immigration/Citizenship.

Sneja Gunew has taught in England, Australia and Canada. She has published widely on multicultural, postcolonial and feminist critical theory and is currently Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She will be Director of the Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations (July 2002-7). She has edited (with Anna Yeatman) Feminism and the Politics of Difference and (with Fazal Rizvi) Culture, Difference and the Arts. Her most recent book is Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Studies, and Postcolonial Multiculturalisms: Bodies, Communities, Nations is forthcoming by Routledge. Her current work is in comparative multiculturalism and in diasporic literatures and their intersections with national and global cultural formations using theoretical frameworks deriving from feminist, postcolonial, and critical multicultural theory. She is one of six directors of the three-year Transculturalisms/Métissage project co-ordinated by the International Council for Canadian Studies.

Limited seating available, 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 at modcon@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

Memory and History in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain

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

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Alice Fulton has published five volumes of poetry, most recently Sensual Math and Felt, and a book of essays, Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry.

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

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

RICHARD MEYER - Outlaws: Queer Art & Visual Culture in LA

RICHARD MEYER

"OUTLAWS: QUEER ART & VISUAL CULTURE IN LOS ANGELES"

Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Southern California, and the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth- Century American Art (2002)

Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 4pm. Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270.

All are welcome; open to the public.

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

Renaissance Culture in 17th-Century China: Some Methodological Questions

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

Resource Sharing Consortium Lecture

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

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

"THE BELIEVER"

THURSDAY, MAY 2 7:30 p.m.

THE BELIEVER

(2001) Directed by Henry Bean

Winner of the 2001 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, THE BELIEVER is an uncompromising character study that confronts the volatile subject of Jewish self-hatred. Gifted newcomer Ryan Gosling stars as a former yeshiva student who has refashioned himself into a noxiously articulate Jew-hating neo-Nazi. When he begins moving unaccountably back towards Judaism, however, he finds himself locked in a vicious inner struggle between reverence and hatred for the faith of his fathers. Directed with rigor and sympathy by first- timer Henry Bean, and featuring strong supporting performances from Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell and Billy Zane, THE BELIEVER is an intense, unforgettable account of a young man determined to live out his life as an irreconcilable contradiction. Producers: Susan Hoffman, Christopher Roberts. Screenplay: H. Bean. Cinematography: Jim Denault. Editor: Mayin Lo, Lee Percy. With: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell, Billy Zane. 35mm, 100 min.

*IN PERSON: director Henry Bean.

Film screens at the James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall, located on the northeast corner of the UCLA Westwood campus, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue.

Tickets are available at the theater one hour before showtime. Admission is $7 general, $5 students, seniors and UCLA Alumni Association members with ID.

Parking is available adjacent to the theater in Lot 3 for $6. For further information, please call (310) 206-FILM or (310) 206-8013, or log onto www.cinema.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer)

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

Seventh Annual Marathon Reading

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

Arnaoldo Momigliano and the History of Cultural History

Arnaldo Momigliano was one of the great twentieth-century historians of the ancient world. But his many essays and lectures also called attention to the methods that, over the centuries since the Renaissance, have been used to make sense of the lived life of antiquity. This aspect of Momigliano's intellectual legacy is the subject of the present conference. It will focus, in particular, on Momigliano's provocative suggestion that modern disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, art history, sociology, and the the history of religion developed out of the practices and questions of early modern antiquarianism. In this claim lies the kernel of a yet-to-be-written history of modern cultural history, and the papers to be presented at the conference, and later developed into a publication, will give us that history. The presentations will fall into two categories: those that reflect on Momigliano's link between antiquarianism and the disciplines that developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and those that assess the contribution of Momigliano as a cultural historian by placing him alongside other twentieth- century masters such as Warburg, Huizinga, Scholem and Foucault.

The Clark Library is located at 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district, one block east of Arlington Avenue, two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway. Free parking is available on the grounds.

Fees: UC Faculty & Staff: $15

Students with ID: No Charge

All others: $25

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

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

Ying Quartet

—— Ying Quartet ——

The Ying Quartet, renowned for its outstanding performances and for its expertise at designing community outreach programs, has been celebrating its tenth anniversary during the 2001–02 season. The express goal of reintegrating artistic and creative expression into the fabric of everyday life still guides the quartet in its choice of programs, audiences, and venues, as it did in 1992, when its first residency, in rural Jesup, Iowa, brought national accolades. The return of the Yings—siblings Timothy, Janet, Phillip, and David—to the Clark for this celebration of the Library’s seventy-fifth anniversary is thus a uniquely fitting tribute to William Andrews Clark, Jr., whose similar commitment graced the public of Los Angeles with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the collection of orchestral scores at the Los Angeles Public Library, and, of course, his magnificent library building, book collection, and music room.

Additional information about the Ying Quartet can be found on the group’s own website:

http://www.yingquartet.com/

———— The Program ————

Felix Mendelssohn, Quartet in D, op. 44, no. 1

Béla Bartók, Quartet no. 1

Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartet in C Major, op. 59, no. 3

Peter Reill, the Director of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, requests the pleasure of your company at this special occasion on

May 5, 2002,

Sunday afternoon, at two o’clock

at the Clark Library.

• A garden reception will follow the performance.

• • •

Seating is limited.

This event is funded in part by the E. Nakamichi Foundation

This is a special Clark Library 75th Anniversary Event. Tickets are $75 each, of which $60 is tax deductible. For more information, please contact the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies at 206-8552.

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

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

Foundling Narratives: Fictions of National Kinship in England, France, and Germany 1740-1840

presents

LAURA SCHATTSCHNEIDER

"Foundling Narratives: Fictions of National Kinship in England, France, and Germany 1740-1840"

Critics have typically accounted for fictional foundling narratives by focusing on the recognition of the foundling's blood ties that often ends them. Foundling Narratives: Fictions of National Kinship in England, France, and Germany 1740-1840, in contrast, investigates the historical implications of the way most foundling narratives begin, with the reception of a foundling infant into nonfamilial care. In this project, Dr. Schattschneider analyzes representations of the reception of foundling infants in fictional and nonfictional texts from England, France, and Germany. Reception in many of these texts demonstrates how fictive kinship acts as a principle of community formation, and its representation thematizes the moment of entrance into the social contract at a time when the significance of that moment was subject to intense debate in all three nations of study. Foundling Narratives thus situates the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century vogue of literature about foundlings at the inception of the modern state.

After giving an overview of the project, Dr. Schattschneider will concentrate on the ways certain institutional genres of reception in England inform the poetics of foundling reception in that nation's sentimental fiction.

LAURA SCHATTSCHNEIDER received a Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. She is currently spending the first of two years as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is affiliated with the Humanities Consortium and the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. At UCLA, she is completing work on a book manuscript entitled Foundling Narratives: Fictions of National Kinship in England, France, and Germany 1740-1840. In Spring 2001 an article derived from this manuscript, entitled "Mr. Brownlow's Interest in Oliver Twist," appeared in the Journal of Victorian 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@humnet.ucla.edu)

A LECTURE BY HANS R. VAGET

HANS R. VAGET (Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Smith College)

entitled

“Die Rettung des Priap: Zu Goethes Projekt einer modernen erotischen Dichtung”

This lecture will be given on Tuesday, May 7, 2002, in 334C Royce Hall, at 4:00 PM.

Reception to follow in the Lounge of the Department of Germanic Languages.

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

A Symposium on The Virtual Romanesque Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

Presenters will include:

John Williams (Distinguished Service Professor of History of Art and Architecture Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh) “History as Myth: Myth as History: The Tomb of the Apostle at Santiago de Compostela”

and

José Suárez Otero (Archeologist and Conservator, Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela) “From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The Tomb of the Apostle St. James at Compostela.”

Viewings of the model will be in UCLA’s Visualization Portal on the day of the symposium at 1:30pm & 2:30pm. Pre-registration REQUIRED for viewings, contact Tram Tran at 310-206-9933 or tramtran@humnet.ucla.edu.

The Symposium will be at 4:00 PM in Royce Hall 314. Pre- registration NOT required for the symposium. No registration fee.

www.ats.ucla.edu/portal/location.htm for Visualization Portal directions and location. www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/cathdedicprog.htm for more information on the symposium and model.

This event is cosponsored by: The UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, UCLA Cultural VR Lab, Academic Technical Services, the Dean of Humanities & the Dean of Social Sciences of the College of Letters & Sciences, the Council for European Studies, and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese

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

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

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Luigi Ballerini (Italian Dept.), "Maestro Martino at the Court of his Gastronomic Eminence, Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan"

An embarrassingly large number of recipes included in Platina’s De Honesta Voluptate (second half of the Quattrocento) were “lifted” from the Libro de Arte coquinaria by Maestro Martino who cooked for Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan and possibly for the Condottiere Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. Of the four extant manuscripts of Martino’s work, one ended up in the Medieval Collection of the Library of Congress. The first English translation of this exceptionally modern cook-book will be released by UC Press in the Spring of 2003. Not only is the Libro the first culinary guide to specify ingredients, cooking times, utensils and dosages, it is also an essential document to understand the forms of conviviality developing in Central Italy. Despite the northern origin of both employers, as well as of the employee, it is Rome – brought back to life by Pope Martin V and his successors – that serves as principal background against which to gauge Martino’s culinary achievements.

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

Professor Arif Dirlik, "Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation"

A discussion of the relationship between literature and history in the representation/construction of identity. The questions raised by this relationship pertain most importantly to the politics of literature, and its implications for issues of the public and the private. The ethnicization of literature undermines the autonomy of the author but also, contradictorily, negates the public significance of ethnic literature by imprisoning it in an ethnic cultural space. History is important in restoring a sense of the public in ethnicized literature.

Arif Dirlik is Knight Professor of Social Science at the University of Oregon, and Professor of History and Anthropology. His most recent book-length works are "Postmodernity's Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project", and two edited volumes, "Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization" (with Roxann Prazniak), and "Chinese on the American Frontier".

Limited seating available, 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 at modcon@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

"Haunts of Assimilation: The Work of New York Artist David Deutsch"

LAWRENCE RICKELS (UC Santa Barbara)

on "HAUNTS OF ASSIMILATION: THE WORK OF NEW YORK ARTIST DAVID DEUTSCH" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Professor Rickels, author of numerous books, including Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume I: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War; Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume II:Crypto-Fetishism; Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume III: Psy Fi; The Vampire Lectures; The Case of California; and Acting Out in Groups, will discuss David Deutsch's surveillance photographs and explore them in the context of contest between Old Testament and New Testament media, with special attention awarded the Golem legend.

Co-sponsored by:

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center for European and Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

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

DENNIS ALTMAN - Queer LA in the Global Imaginary

DENNIS ALTMAN

"QUEER LA IN THE GLOBAL IMAGINARY"

Altman is a Professor of Politics, La Trobe University, Australia, and the author of The Homosexualization of America (1983), AIDS in the Mind of America(1986) , and Global Sex (2001).

Thursday, May 9, 2002 at 4pm. Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270.

All are welcome; open to the public.

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

Defoe's Footprints: A Conference in Honor of Maximillian E. Novak

—— Cosponsored by the Department of English, UCLA ——

Robinson Crusoe, startled by the sight of a human footprint, embodied a new homo economicus—overcoming his fear in order to instill fear, threatened by God, nature, and other human beings yet shaping, even in disaster, what seems to be the whole universe to his ends. Defoe's stories may be about a man surviving on an island or a woman surviving in the city; they may bristle with whole populations fleeing disease or accumulating fortunes; they may turn upon common human pettiness or grand imperial ideas. But whatever his topics, Defoe puts into brilliant imaginative form an extraordinary number of what we know are still our social contradictions. Whether we consider his portrayals of the commodification of the imagination, the isolated self, sexual power, the knotting together of religion and capitalism, the family, science, economics, technology, or racial ideas—these and many other topics make talking about Defoe interesting at any time and any place.

But on this occasion to discuss Defoe we shall at the same time celebrate the career of Professor Maximillian E. Novak. The new homo economicus in Defoe's works found one of its most important contemporary interpreters in Max Novak. From his first monographs on Defoe to his recent biography, Professor Novak has continually shaped and enlivened our understanding of one of the greatest of European novelists.

This conference will also coincide with the publication of Teaching Robinson Crusoe, a volume edited by Maximillian Novak and Carl Fisher. One conference session will be devoted to that novel: talks on Robinson Crusoe will be followed by a panel in which several contributors to the Novak and Fisher volume will join to consider issues involved in teaching the work.

Registration deadline—May 24.

Registration fees—

UC faculty and staff: $15

Students with ID: no charge

Others: $25

Fees include the cost of lunches and other refreshments.

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

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

"Women and Renaissance Theater: Playwrights and Performers"

Advance registration is strongly recommended. No charge for students, UCLA faculty and staff, and members of the CMRS Council. All others, $10. Lunch available for an additional charge. To register, or for more information, contact the CMRS 310-825-1880 or cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu

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

Masques & Monody: Nicholas Lanier and the Italian Style

Though many English composers of the early seventeenth century were aware of and influenced by Italian musical styles, composer Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) is credited with introducing the Italian technique of recitative into England. The epitome of this Italian influence in the musical setting of English words is Lanier’s Hero and Leander, composed on his return from Venice in 1628. This composition was a favorite of Charles I, and seventeenth- century writer Roger North observes that “The King was exceedingly pleased with this pathetic song and caused Lanier often to sing it… and when Lanier sang it, he used to stand by him with his hand upon his shoulder.”

This concert explores the differing musical senses of the self as displayed in music, contrasting the importation of the courtly musical subjectivity in the musical settings of Italian composers such as Luca Marenzio, Giovanni Sances, and Giulio Caccini with the music of English composers Nicholas Lanier, Thomas Weelkes, Alonso Ferrabosco II, John Coperario, and John Wilson.

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

For more information, contact harawacky@earthlink.net

Professor Ian Hacking, "Body Parts: Large and Small"

7:00 PM - Lecture

New technologies are radically changing our relationships to our bodies. On the large scale, we have organ transplants. The purchase and sale of body parts. A new meaning for death – brain death. Sex change. Intense new desires: an obsessive need to have a healthy limb amputated. On the small scale we have genetic medicine, the Icelandic sale, or at any rate lease, of genetic codes and genealogies of the entire population. In the realm of fantasy, large and small, we have cyborgs. These topics are much discussed one by one. This lecture takes them as instances of major changes in how we conceive of our bodies. It links them to some traditional philosophy, for example Kant. And it concludes that in an era when philosophers say we have finally got away from Cartesian theories of knowledge, we are implicitly restoring a Cartesian vision of mind and body.

Ian Hacking holds the chair of philosophy and history of scientific concepts, Collège de France, and is a University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was born and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. His doctoral work was completed at Cambridge University. He has taught at the University of British Columbia, Cambridge University and Stanford University. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the British Academy, and an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has written several books, including Historical Ontology (2002); Probability and Inductive Logic (2001); The Social Construction of What? (1999); Le plus pur nominalisme (1993); The Taming of Chance (1990); and Why does Language Matter to Philosophy? (1975).

The Kanner Lectures are funded by a generous endowment created by Penny Kanner, Ph.D. These lectures are devoted to the relationship of new science and technologies to public welfare and cultural life in the 21st century. This is the second lecture in this series.

This program is free and open to the public. 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 at modcon@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

"Jesus, Gentiles and the Synagogue: The Real Origins of Christianity"

PAULA FREDRIKSEN (Boston University)

on "JESUS, GENTILES, AND THE SYNAGOGUE: THE REAL ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsors: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for European & Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies

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

Performing (Trans)Gender

NIKO BESNIER

Visiting Professor of Anthropology, UCLA; Professor, Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

"PERFORMING (TRANS)GENDER: Beauty Pageants in Tonga, Western Polynesia"

The Miss Galaxy beauty pageant held annually in Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, is, at first glance, a show of transgendered glamour, but it is equally a display of trans- locality. Through the performance of an exotic otherness, the socially marginalized contestants claim to define the local, in ways that may oppose the received order, in which the difference between locality and non-locality is controlled by the privileged. The juxtaposition of gender transformation and trans-locality in the same event reinforces their stereotypical linking, and imports globalized fantasies into local politics of marginality and legitimacy.

Monday, May 13, 2002.

4:00 pm, Kinsey 355. UCLA.

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

See http://www.vuw.ac.nz/anthropology/staff/besnier/besnier.html for additional information on Professor Besnier.

LGBTS Events Schedule: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/events.html

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

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

Art History Lecture - "Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Men's House at Arles"

“Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Men’s House at Arles”

Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 12:30 PM Public Policy 2270

Professor Eisenman’s research and teaching interests are Modern Art and its many social and political contexts. He is the author of The Temptation of Saint Redon (1992) and Gauguin’s Skirt (1997). He is chief author and editor of 19th Century Art – A Critical History, 2nd Edition, 2002. His research has led him to publish essays exploring questions of racism in Europe and Latin America, and neocolonialism in the contemporary South Pacific. He is currently completing a textbook survey of European Art (and Barbarism) co-written with Karl Werckmeister. He is also writing a book entitled The Perspectives of William Morris and co-writing the catalogue of 19th Century Paintings at the Norton Simon Museum of art.

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

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

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students present the Distinguished Lecturers Series

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

For more information, contact lmusca@ucla.edu

"ISAAC ENCOUNTERS ISHMAEL: A MUSLIM-JEWISH CONVERSATION"

RABBI CHAIM SEIDLER-FELLER (UCLA Hillel) AND PROFESSOR KHALED ABOU EL FADL (The Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Felllow in Islamic Law, UCLA) ON "ISAAC ENCOUNTERS ISHMAEL: A MUSLIM-JEWISH CONVERSATION"

Co-sponsor: UCLA Hillel

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

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

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

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

Lyn@humnet.ucla.edu

The 5th Annual SCALAR Symposium

Wednesday, May 15th, 2002

Dr. Liz Hamp-Lyons Chair Professor of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Assessing writing across the curriculum: First language and second language competence

-- submitted by Lyn Repath-Martos (lyn@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact greenb@ucla.edu

What women want: praying for miracles in premodern Russia

Wednesday, May 15, at 3.00 pm, in Kinsey 184.

Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

EVE LEVIN's areas of expertise are Russia before c. 1750 and the Orthodox Slavs of the Balkans in the pre-modern period. Her research interests focus on popular and religious culture in the context of the State and society, in particular Eastern Orthodox religious law and observance, folk belief and practice, women, sexuality, health and medicine. Her current book project concerns the experience of illness and healing in Russia in the early- modern period. She is author of "Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700" and editor and translator of "Women in Russian History" by Natalia Pushkareva. Dr. Levin is also Editor of "The Russian Review", a leading academic journal in the field of Russian studies.

This event is funded by the UCLA GSA and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies.

-- submitted by justina bandol (jbandol@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

"L'Algerie a Travers l'Amnesie et la Memoire" - A lecture by SORAYA TLATLI

"L'Algerie a Travers l'Amnesie et la Memoire"

(This lecture will be given in French)

Date: Wednesday, May 15th 2002

Time: 4:30pm

Place: 236 Royce Hall

-- submitted by Cyndia Soloway (soloway@humnet.ucla.edu)

Rebellion, Repression and Terrorism From Elio Petri to Toni Negri In Italy in the 1970's

ALESSANDRO STILLE

"Rebellion, Repression and Terrorism From Elio Petri to Toni Negri In Italy in the 1970's"

Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 2pm 147 Dodd Hall

-- submitted by Cyndia Soloway (soloway@humnet.ucla.edu)

TERRY WOLVERTON - Queer Writing from the Streets of LA

TERRY WOLVERTON

"QUEER WRITING FROM THE STREETS OF L.A."

Wolverton is the author of the novel Bailey's Beads, a finalist in the American Library Association's Gay and Lesbian Book Awards for 1997, and about which Kirkus Reviews said, "her ambitious debut features a stark but melodious prose style -- confident style and affecting characters." She has also published two collections of poetry: Black Slip, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 1993, and Mystery Bruise. Her fiction, poetry, essays and drama have been published in periodicals internationally, and widely anthologized. A memoir, Insurgent Muse, will be published by City Lights Books in 2002, and a novel in poems, Embers, will be published by Red Hen Press in 2003.

Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 4pm.

Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270.

All are welcome; open to the public.

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

ECHO reception

Thursday, May 16 6:00 P.M. Royce 314

A reception introducing the online journal ECHO: a music-centered journal to the UCLA community. There will be short presentations on: 1. the journal, 2. a scholar's experience publishing in ECHO, and 3. the advantages and capabilities of online publication. Wine and hors d'oeuvres served. All are welcome.

ECHO: a music-centered journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, web-based journal created by graduate students in the Department of Musicology at UCLA. ECHO's purpose is to create a forum for discussion about music and culture which includes voices from diverse backgrounds. To that end, we endeavor to make all work accessible to readers without formal musical training; the use of sound and film clips in our journal enables us to discuss nuances of performance without relying solely on music notation.

Articles address music in diverse social contexts, and are not confined to any geographically, historically, or methodologically bounded genre.

For more information, contact us at echojour@humnet.ucla.edu. Visit us at http://www.echo.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by ECHO: a music-centered journal (echojour@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

Reception for ECHO: a music-centered journal

ECHO: a music-centered journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, web-based journal created by graduate students in the Department of Musicology at UCLA. ECHO's purpose is to create a forum for discussion about music and culture which includes voices from diverse backgrounds. To that end, we endeavor to make all work accessible to readers without formal musical training; the use of sound and film clips in our journal enables us to discuss nuances of performance without relying solely on music notation. Articles address music in diverse social contexts, and are not confined to any geographically, historically, or methodologically bounded genre.

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

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

Conference 2002

One central feature of contemporary field work practice is that researchers face increasing demands from federally- mandated institutional review boards charged with protecting human subjects. The Conference will conclude with a session devoted to human subjects protection regulations and their consequences for the direction, content and quality of ethnographic field research, issues of deep and immediate concern for the contemporary practitioners.

The Conference will inaugurate a new ethnography series, Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries, by the University of Chicago Press. The series will honor the core components of the Chicago fieldwork tradition, emphasizing: Novel data, produced by originality in the places and people studied, in the angle the researcher takes in the field (e.g., looking ‘from below’ at a setting often seen through the lenses of people in positions of power), or in the way the researcher interacts with and records evidence about the people studied. Naturalistic data, providing unique access to subjectivity and to lived experience in contemporary social life, leading to analyses grounded in the experience of the people studied, in their worlds as they live them, and preserving their own sense of their situations and the personal colors and innovations through which they shape their conduct. Explicit analysis and self-reflective methods, promoting a triangular relationship between reader, author and subjects; our model ethnography is a framework in which the reader, by seeing not only the author’s interpretations but the subjects more or less directly, finds resources for assessing how the author is re-presenting them.

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

For more information, contact LNCenter@ucla.edu

HEIDI BYRNES WITH A LECTURE ON "CONTENT BASED CURRICULUM"

Heidi Byrnes from Georgetown University will be at UCLA on May 16th and 17th to discuss her work in content based language education.

On Thursday, May 16th at 4:30 pm in Rolfe 2117, the LRP will host an informal "chat" with Dr.Byrnes. The chat will focus on “Developing Multiple Literacies” and the curriculum project of the German Department at Georgetown University. Wine and cheese will be served.

On Friday, May 17th, Dr. Byrnes will deliver a lecture and a workshop.

Lecture Title: From content-based instruction to content- oriented curriculum: A proposal for collegiate FL departments Place: Faculty Center Sequoia Room Time: 2:00 -3:15 pm Refreshments will be served.

Workshop Title: Considering content-based curriculum construction in a collegiate FL context Place: Faculty Center Sequoia Room Time: 3:30 - 5:30 pm

-- submitted by Language Resource Center (lrp@humnet.ucla.edu)

Madhu Dubey, "Counter-Modernism in U.S. Ethnic Literatures"

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

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

A LECTURE BY INGEBORG HOESTEREY

A Lecture by Ingeborg Hoesterey (Indiana University, Bloomington)

"Visible Subtext: Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin and its Roots in Deconstructivist Architecture"

Friday, May 17, 2-4 p.m., 236 Royce Hall (French Seminar Room)

Ingeborg Hoesterey is Professor of Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. With a background in literary studies and art history, Professor Hoesterey has in recent years focused on interrelations of verbal and visual art in modernism/postmodernism. Her latest book is no exception: "Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature" (Indiana UP, 2001). Earlier book-length publications include "Verschlungene Schriftzeichen: Intertextualitaet von Literatur und Kunst in der Moderne/Postmoderne" ("Intertextuality of Literature and Art in Modernism/Postmodernism") and "Zeitgeist in Babel: The Postmodernist Controversy," among other collections. In her current research Hoesterey examines the intriguing cross-over of "theory" to avant-garde architectural thought and practice.

A reception will follow the lecture.

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

Lecture: Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin

A Lecture by Ingeborg Hoesterey (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Visible Subtext: Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin and its Roots in Deconstructivist Architecture.

Ingeborg Hoesterey is Professor of Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. With a background in literary studies and art history, Professor Hoesterey has in recent years focused on interrelations of verbal and visual art in modernism/postmodernism. Her latest book is no exception: "Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature" (Indiana UP, 2001). Earlier book-length publications include "Verschlungene Schriftzeichen: Intertextualitaet von Literatur und Kunst in der Moderne/Postmoderne" ("Intertextuality of Literature and Art in Modernism/Postmodernism") and "Zeitgeist in Babel: The Postmodernist Controversy," among other collections. In her current research Hoesterey examines the intriguing cross-over of "theory" to avant-garde architectural thought and practice.

A reception will follow the lecture.

-- submitted by Astrid Klocke (aklocke@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

Illuminated Folklorist Conference

The Illuminated Folklorist:

Recovering the Folklore of the Past

Royce Hall, Room 314

May 17-19, 2002

Friday, May 17

1:30 Registration

2:00-2:10 Welcome

Andrea Fitzgerald Jones, Conference Co-Chair

2:10-2:30 Opening Remarks

Timothy Tangherlini, UCLA

Session 1 (Robert Alan Gurval, Moderator)

2:30-3:30 Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University, "The Making of a Märchen from Medieval Matter"

3:30-3:45 Break

Session 2 (H.A. Kelly, Moderator)

3:45-4:15 Carol Branch, Los Angeles, "Searching Through My Mother’s Medicine Cabinet: Lore and Lacunae in African- American Tradition."

4:15-5:15 Juliette Wood, University of Cardiff, "Witches and Warlocks: Early Images of Witchcraft and Magic Working and Modern Welsh Folktales"

5:30 Reception

Saturday, May 18

Session 3 (Muriel C. McClendon, Moderator)

9:00-10:00 Peter Tokofsky, UCLA, "Re-Constructing a Pre- Modern Carnival"

10:00-10:30 Martin Walsh, University of Michigan, "Horned Beasts, Angry Saints, Dead Revelers: Festival Fatalities in Twelfth-Century Scotland"

10:30-10:45 Break

Session 4 (Christine Goldberg, Moderator)

10:45-11:15 Nicole Archambeau, UCLA, "The Influence of Pragmatic Literacy on Early Troubadour Lyric"

11:15-11:45 Maria Teresa Agozzino, University of California- Berkeley, "Winlogee a Wanton Woman?: A Trans-Disciplinary Interpretation of the Modena Archivolt"

11:45-1:00 Lunch

Session 5 (Peter Nabokov, Moderator)

1:00-2:00 Barre Toelken, Utah State University, "Reflections on a Stone Mouse (and Other Icons of Folk Tradition)"

2:00-2:15 Break

Session 6 (Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, Moderator)

2:15-2:45 Laura Wilhelm, West Hollywood, CA, "The Fable as Folklore: Is It or Isn’t It?"

2:45-3:15 Jesse Byock, UCLA, "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Saga of the Volsungs: Modern Bard or Author?"

3:15-3:30 Break

Session 7 (James Massengale, Moderator)

3:30-4:00 Thomas DuBois, University of Wisconsin- Madison, "Ludic or Laudatory? The Role of Illuminations in the Program of Flatyjarbók"

Session 8 (Timothy Tangherlini, Moderator)

4:00-5:00 Recovering Medieval Folklore: Creating an Encyclopedia of Folklore of the Past—A Panel Discussion with John McNamara and John Lindow

Sunday, May 19

Session 9 (Zoe Borovsky, Moderator)

10:30-11:30 John Lindow, University of California- Berkeley, "Giants and Trolls in Myth and in Life"

11:30-11:45 Break

Session 10 (Christopher C. Baswell, Moderator)

11:45-12:15 John McNamara, University of Houston, "Legends of William Wallace, Medieval and Modern"

12:15-12:45 Elena Ivanova, Boston College, "Materializing the Marvelous in Wonder Tales and Miracle Tales: Two Tale Collections from Medieval Spain"

12:45-1:45 Catered Lunch, Royce 306

Session 11 (Hossein Ziai, Moderator)

1:45-2:15 Yona Sabar, UCLA, "The Multiple Faces of Eve: The Characterization of Women in the Folk Literature of a Near Eastern Jewish Community"

2:15-2:30 Break

Session 12 (Joseph F. Nagy, Moderator)

2:30-3:30 Recovering the Folklore of the Past: A Roundtable Retrospective. This panel discussion will include all speakers in a discussion of the conference proceedings.

3:30-3:45 Closing Remarks

Victoria Simmons, Conference Co-Chair

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dean Pauline Yu has allocated funding for a graduate seminar to be taught by English or Language and Literature faculty on a topic of general interest to advanced graduate students in the humanities. The course is an opportunity for graduate students to take a seminar on current conceptual trends in literary and cultural studies. The format will be as follows:

A cross-listed graduate seminar (e.g. M295) that would carry 5 units of credit.

Prerequisite: the 200-level (or equivalent) first- year "methods" or theory course in the student's department.

Permission of instructor. Enrollment is by application from the student, and the instructor will consult with department chairs or directors of graduate study before admitting a student.

Visiting lecturers: Funds are available to invite up to four outside speakers, for a 2 or 3-day visit each, to participate in the seminar/workshop and to give a public lecture on the general theme of the course.

Graduate Student Researcher: Funds are also available to hire a part-time research assistant to help with organization and planning

We are calling for proposals from interested faculty for a course to be taught in Spring 2003. The seminar may count as one class toward the instructor’s annual course load. A committee made up of department chairs and/or directors of graduate study will select the course proposal for 2002-03. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 20 May 2002

Please send proposals to Françoise Lionnet, Chair, Dept. of French and Francophone Studies, 212 Royce Hall, Mail Code 155003

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

QGrad 2002: Call for Papers

QGRAD 2002 A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON SEXUALITY AND GENDER

On Saturday, November 16, 2002, the UCLA LGBTS Program will host our fourth annual QGrad conference devoted to research and other work in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies, on queer topics, sexuality and gender by graduate students in all fields. The QGrad conference provides an opportunity for graduate students to meet and exchange ideas on their research with each other and with faculty scholars from Southern California.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND OTHER PROPOSALS

Graduate students are invited to present their research or other work on LGBT or queer topics, on sexuality and gender. We particularly encourage students working in film, performance, and the visual arts to participate. Proposals are welcome from all interested graduate students, including those who are now graduate students but who may have completed their degrees by the time of the conference.

Please submit an abstract and a CV (each two pages maximum) to the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: JUNE 3, 2002

OFF-CAMPUS SUBMISSIONS: QGrad 2002 UCLA LGBTS 251A Kinsey Hall Box 951384 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1384 ON-CAMPUS SUBMISSIONS: QGrad 2002 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program 251A Kinsey Hall Campus 138405

SUBMISSIONS MAY ALSO BE EMAILED TO: lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu (please send attachments in PC word or plain text format)

For further information, please contact the LGBTS office at 310 206-0516 or lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu Website: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/QG02cfp.html

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

presents

MARA LOVEMAN

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

Since at least the nineteenth century, the idea of race mixture has figured centrally in official constructions of modern nationhood in much of Latin America. Continuing into the present day, official discourse in the region often treats the mixture of races as synonymous with the forging of the nation. These racialist narratives of nationhood are not generally seen as puzzling or problematic; they appear to merely reflect the "natural facts" of Latin America?s demographic history. In this paper, Dr. Loveman suggests that the crystallization of explicitly racialist definitions of modern nationhood in nineteenth-century Latin America cannot be attributed to the region's demography alone. Rather, official constructions of racially-mixed Latin American nations crystallized as state and nation-builders in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries grappled with two simultaneous challenges. On the one hand, they sought to comply with an international cultural model of modern nation-statehood. On the other, they sought to challenge the prevailing scientific wisdom that racially-mixed populations were doomed to degeneracy.

Drawing evidence from her original research on nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin American censuses, Dr. Loveman illustrates how these two struggles became intertwined in a specific institutional domain of modernizing Latin American states. Analysis of censuses suggests that official constructions of racially-mixed Latin American nations were not mere reflections of demographic "reality," but rather the deliberate projections of bureaucratic, intellectual and political elites intent on gaining their countries' membership in the international community of modern, "civilized" nations.

MARA LOVEMAN received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001. Her dissertation, titled "Nation-State Building, Race, and the Production of Official Statistics: Brazil in Comparative Perspective," examines how a global model of modern nation-statehood, combined with prevailing scientific theories of racial determinism, shaped both bureaucratic practices of racial accounting and the construction of racialist definitions of modern nationhood in Latin America. Her published work has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology and Theory and Society. She is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Consortium and the Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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

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

presents

MARA LOVEMAN

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

Since at least the nineteenth century, the idea of race mixture has figured centrally in official constructions of modern nationhood in much of Latin America. Continuing into the present day, official discourse in the region often treats the mixture of races as synonymous with the forging of the nation. These racialist narratives of nationhood are not generally seen as puzzling or problematic; they appear to merely reflect the "natural facts" of Latin America?s demographic history. In this paper, Dr. Loveman suggests that the crystallization of explicitly racialist definitions of modern nationhood in nineteenth-century Latin America cannot be attributed to the region's demography alone. Rather, official constructions of racially-mixed Latin American nations crystallized as state and nation-builders in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries grappled with two simultaneous challenges. On the one hand, they sought to comply with an international cultural model of modern nation-statehood. On the other, they sought to challenge the prevailing scientific wisdom that racially-mixed populations were doomed to degeneracy.

Drawing evidence from her original research on nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin American censuses, Dr. Loveman illustrates how these two struggles became intertwined in a specific institutional domain of modernizing Latin American states. Analysis of censuses suggests that official constructions of racially-mixed Latin American nations were not mere reflections of demographic "reality," but rather the deliberate projections of bureaucratic, intellectual and political elites intent on gaining their countries' membership in the international community of modern, "civilized" nations.

MARA LOVEMAN received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001. Her dissertation, titled "Nation-State Building, Race, and the Production of Official Statistics: Brazil in Comparative Perspective," examines how a global model of modern nation-statehood, combined with prevailing scientific theories of racial determinism, shaped both bureaucratic practices of racial accounting and the construction of racialist definitions of modern nationhood in Latin America. Her published work has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology and Theory and Society. She is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Consortium and the Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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

A Distant Chorus: Women's Voices in Welsh Folklore

Dr. Wood will also be speaking at the "Illuminated Folklorist" conference to be held this weekend (May 17-19) in Royce 314, where some of the talks will touch on Celtic topics. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/cmrs/folklorist/.

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/opm/news.html

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Philip Brett (Musicology), "Byrd's Soul Authority"

The role of William Byrd (1540-1623) in Elizabethan musical culture is in some ways strikingly similar to that of his younger contemporary Edmund Spenser (1554-1599) in the literary sphere. Both had a sense of history, both cultivated (as Louis Montrose has argued in relation to Spenser) "a distinctive and culturally authoritative authorial persona" through appropriating print, both received royal appointments or favors. A great difference lies in their religious lives, for Byrd remained an ardent Roman Catholic, and courted danger in befriending Jesuit priests. Professor Brett argues that under pressure of religious conviction, Byrd's carefully constructed indigenous authorial voice was slowly undermined by an inward expressiveness upon which later generations have constructed his greatness but which his contemporary audience, outside the Roman enclave, virtually ignored.

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

CSR EVENT

presents

"Has the University become the established church of our day?"

by Professor Huston Smith

UC Berkeley "Dean" of American Historians of Religion

Professor Smith is best known for his frequently published textbook "The World's Religions" which has been praised as "the most helpful book of its kind in the field of religion"

respondent: Dr. Ivan Strenski

Holstein Professor of Religious Studies, U.C. Riverside

USA Editor of Religion, an International Journal

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

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

The Theatre of Chay Yew

THE THEATRE OF CHAY YEW: A Conversation with the Playwright and Director Chay Yew and Guests, moderated by David Roman.

Yew's plays include Porcelain, A Language of Their Own, A Beautiful Country, and Wonderland. Among the numerous awards Yew has received are the GLAAD Media Award, APGF's Community Visibility Award, and the Robert Chesley Award. His plays have also been nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Drama; a new volume of plays, Hyphenated American Plays, will be published by Grove this fall. A member of the New Dramatists, Yew is also the Director of the Taper's Asian Theatre Workshop, and the Artistic Director of the Northwest Asian American Theatre in Seattle.

Roman is an associate professor of English and American Studies, University of Southern California, author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, & AIDS (1998), and co-editor of O Solo Homo (1998).

Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 4pm.

Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270.

All are welcome; open to the public.

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

"Wagner, Kafka, Rosenzweig on Soil, Blood, Language"

ELISABETH WEBER (UC Santa Barbara)

on "Wagner, Kafka, Rosenzweig on Soil, Blood, Language" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsored by:

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center for European and Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

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

PASSIONS OF THE REAL: SCIENCE, ART, POLITICS, a Lecture series with SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

Schedule:

“Cynical Reason: A Discussion” – Slavoj Žižek and Fredric Jameson on Monday, May 20, 2002, 4:00 pm, 314 Royce Hall, reception to follow.

“How does Cognitivism Affect Psychoanalysis?” Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 5:00 pm, 362 Royce Hall.

“Art Beyond the Pleasure Principle” Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 5:00 pm, 314 Royce Hall.

“Against Democracy: Towards a Politics of Subtraction” Friday, May 24, 2002, 4:00 pm, 314 Royce Hall.

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

The Syntax of Special Inflection in Coptic and Hausa WH-Constructions

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

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

The Older Egyptian Verbal System: Roots and "Binyanim" (Stem Classes)

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

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

8th Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

May 23-25, 2002 Kerckhoff Charles E. Young (Grand) Salon

Friday, May 24th 8:50am-4:15pm Saturday, May 25th 9:00am-5:15pm

Free Admission -- Parking $6 -- can register at the door

Paper presentations and the following plenary speakers:

Friday:

Niko Besnier (UCLA and Victoria U. of Wellington) "Crossing genders, mixing languages: The linguistic construction of transgenderism in Tonga"

Barbara Rogoff (UC Santa Cruz) "Learning through intent participation in sociocultural activity"

Saturday:

Gene Lerner (UC Santa Barbara) "Me first: Intervening actions in the selection of next speaker"

William F. Hanks: (UC Berkeley) "Proximity and construal in the deictic field"

Refreshments.

-- submitted by Emmy Goldknopf (emmy@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/conference.html

New Light on the Egyptian Historian al-Jabarti (1753-1825) and His Work ‘Aja’ib al-Athar (1688-1821)

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

"Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: Biblical Texts in Historical Contexts"

MARY ANN TOLBERT (Graduate Theological Union)

on

"HOMOEROTICISM IN THE BIBLICAL WORLD: BIBLICAL TEXTS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTS"

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

Cosponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Department of Germanic Languages

Department of English

UCLA Hillel

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Center for European & Russian Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

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

WebLAS demo for language instructors

No RSVP required, but seating is limited.

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

The End of Travel

Moderator: Malina Stefanovska, Associate Professor, UCLA

Participants:

Andrea Loselle, Associate Professor, UCLA "The Art of Seeing Double: Baudrillard's Travel Medium"

John Culbert, Visiting Asst. Professor, UC Irvine "Horizon of Encounter: Eugène Fromentin's Algerian Narratives"

Georges Van Den Abbeele, Professor, UC Davis "Oceans Into Bramble": Exile and Return in Viet-Kieu Literature"

Wednesday May 29, 2002

2:00 - 5:00 pm

306 Royce Hall

Refreshments will be served.

-- submitted by Cyndia Soloway (soloway@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Le Logiche de Delirio" - A Lecture Given in Italian

"Le Logiche de Delirio"

from 4:00 - 5:30 pm in 342 Royce Hall on Wednesday, May 29, 2002

This lecture will be given in Italian

-- submitted by Cyndia Soloway (soloway@humnet.ucla.edu)

MOIRA KENNEY - How Gay Is LA?

A Graduate of UCLA, Kenney is a Senior Planner and Policy Analyst for the San Francisco Children and Families Commission, and the author of Mapping Gay L.A. (2001)

Thursday, May 30, 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

"New Reflections of Spinoza's Excommunication"

RICHARD POPKIN (UCLA, Emeritus)

on

"NEW REFLECTIONS OF SPINOZA'S EXCOMMUNICATION"

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

Co-sponsors:

UCLA Department of English

UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

UCLA Department of Germanic Languages

UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

UCLA Hillel

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

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

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

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

Purevoice voice email for language instruction: a demo and workshop

No RSVP required, but seating is limited.

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

French & Francophone Studies: The Spring Graduate Colloquium

Scheduled Speakers:

Zara Bennett "Esquisse d'un nouveau geste baroque"

Lauren Brown "Silence et Chaos: en attendant la prochaine étape de la littérature antillaise"

Friday, May 31 2002 at 3:00 pm

236 Royce Hall

Refreshments will be served

-- submitted by Cyndia Soloway (soloway@humnet.ucla.edu)

Matthews Lecture

"Midway to the Second Floor: The Cultural Erasure and Reemergence of the Mexican-American Middle Class"

by José Limón

Professor of English, Mexican-American Studies, and Anthropology Director, Center for Mexican-American Studies University of Texas, Austin

Friday, May 31 3:00 p.m. Viewpoint Conference Room Ackerman Union

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/events/matthews_lecture.html

Defoe's Footprints: A Conference in Honor of Maximillian E. Novak

Cosponsored by the Department of English, UCLA

Robinson Crusoe, startled by the sight of a human footprint, embodied a new homo economicus - overcoming his fear in order to instill fear, threatened by God, nature, and other human beings yet shaping, even in disaster, what seems to be the whole universe to his ends. Defoe's stories may be about a man surviving on an island or a woman surviving in the city; they may bristle with whole populations fleeing disease or accumulating fortunes; they may turn upon common human pettiness or grand imperial ideas. But whatever his topics, Defoe puts into brilliant imaginative form an extraordinary number of what we know are still our social contradictions. Whether we consider his portrayals of the commodification of the imagination, the isolated self, sexual power, the knotting together of religion and capitalism, the family, science, economics, technology, or racial ideas - these and many other topics make talking about Defoe interesting at any time and any place.

But on this occasion to discuss Defoe we shall at the same time celebrate the career of Professor Maximillian E. Novak. The new homo economicus in Defoe's works found one of its most important contemporary interpreters in Max Novak. From his first monographs on Defoe to his recent biography, Professor Novak has continually shaped and enlivened our understanding of one of the greatest of European novelists.

This conference will also coincide with the publication of Teaching Robinson Crusoe, a volume edited by Maximillian Novak and Carl Fisher. One conference session will be devoted to that novel: talks on Robinson Crusoe will be followed b a panel in which several contributors to the Novak and Fisher volume will join to consider issues involved in teaching the work.

Registration deadline: May 24

Registration Fees:

UC Faculty and Staff: $15

Students with ID: No Charge

All Others: $25

Fees include the cost of lunches and other refreshments.

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

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