June Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION OF BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Where: Dodd 146 When: June 6, 2002, 9:30-10:50 am

Any interested faculty members as well as graduate students are welcome. Seats are limited, so RSVP to Ji-Soo Kim at jsinla@humnet.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Ji-Soo Kim (jsinla@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

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/

California Medieval History Seminar, Spring 2002

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

THE MAURICE AMADO COLLOQUIUM IN SEPHARDIC STUDIES

"HERMENEUTICS IN SPANISH JEWRY"

June 2, 2002 • 1 PM • Faculty Center, UCLA

SHALOM ROSENBERG (Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

"Sephardic Hermeneutics: Deciphering the Mystery of the Texts"

BOAZ HUSS (Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica, Harvard University, and Professor of Jewish Thought, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

"Exegesis and Cultural Power: The Emergence of Zoharic Literature"

MOSHE IDEL (Visiting Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, UCLA, and Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

"Spiritual Interpretations in Spanish Thought"

MOSHE LAZAR (Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California)

"Moses Arragel's 'Biblia de Alba' (1422-1430): An Ecumenical Translation-Interpretation of the Scriptures for a Tolerant Christian Patron"

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@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

Jewish Cultural Dilemmas in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947: An Analysis of Two Dance Festivals

NINA SPIEGEL (Stanford University)

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"Jewish Cultural Dilemmas in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947: An Analysis of Two Dance Festivals"

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

Classics Lecture by Richard J. Tarrant, "Names in Ovid's Metamorphoses"

Monday, June 3, 2002 5:00 PM Dodd Hall 162

Professor Tarrant’s main areas of interest are Latin literature (primarily though not exclusively poetry), Greek and Roman drama (principally tragedy), and the transmission and editing of classical Latin texts. His current research project is a critical edition (with accompanying textual commentary) of Ovid's Metamorphoses for the Oxford Classical Texts series.

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

"Documenting Human Insignificance: the Idea of the Copernican Revolution in Popular Science Writing"

"Documenting Human Insignificance: the Idea of the Copernican Revolution in Popular Science Writing"

Co-sponsored by: The UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies, Department of English, Department of History, The Oral Tradition Studies Program

Professor Schrempp, a folklorist and anthropologist at the Folklore Institute of Indiana University, is the author of "Magical Arrows: The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe" (Univ. Wisc. P, 1992), a systematic study of the supposed difference between "scientific" thinking and "mythopoeic" thinking, as well as various articles on mythology, philosophy, and science. A collection of essays entitled "Myth: A New Symposium" co-edited by William Hansen and our speaker is about to appear from Indiana University Press, and Professor Schrempp is currently completing a new monograph entitled "Mythic Visions: A Study of Popular Science Writing", which his talk will preview.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

"Rethinking Jewish Identity in America"

ARNOLD EISEN (Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Religion and Culture at Stanford University)

"RETHINKING JEWISH IDENTITY IN AMERICA"

Professor Eisen's research and teaching focuses on the transformation of Judaism in the modern West, against the background of secularization and modernization more generally. His many publications include: "Galut: Modern Jewish Reflection on Homelessness and Homecoming" (Indiana UP, 1986); "The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology" (Indiana UP, 1995); "Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community" (U. of Chicago Press, 1999); (with Steven Cohen) "The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America" (Indiana UP, 2000); and "Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America" (Indiana UP, 2000).

A reception will precede the lecture.

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

Sexual Differentiation of Brain Structure and Function

"Sexual Differentiation of Brain Structure and Function"

-- submitted by Ji-Soo Kim (jsinla@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

"Byte-sized Middle Ages: Medievalism, Film, and the Digital Imagination," a lecture by Dr. Courtney M. Booker (History, UCLA)

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

LANGUAGE AND NATION

presents

LANGUAGE AND NATION

A Conference at UCLA Organized by Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Jose Cartagena-Calderon, Mara Loveman, and Laura Schattschneider

How do we talk about language and nation? And how do we do so in different disciplines? What is at stake in talking about language in conjunction with nation-building, nationalism, or national identity? What alters the terms of such a discussion from one discipline to another, or from one historical period to another? How is such a discussion impacted by issues of translation, colonization, globalization, and postcolonial or transnational identity? We hope to foster discussion among people from the humanities and the social sciences.

Conference Schedule:

9:00AM Welcoming Remarks Vincent Pecora, Director, UCLA Humanities Consortium

9:15AM Moradewun Adejunmobi (African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis) "ImaginNations of the Local and Non-native Languages in a Postcolonial Context"

10:15AM John Zou (German, Russian, and East Asian Languages, Bates College) "English Idiom and Republican China: Repatriated Subject in Wong-Quincey's 'Chinese Hunter'"

11:15AM Vicente Rafael (Communication, University of California, San Diego) "Translation and Revenge: Nationalism and Language in the Novels of Rizal"

12:15-1:45 Break

2:00PM Amilcar Antonio Barreto (Political Science, Northeastern University) "I Speak, Therefore I Am: Language and the Progression of Puerto Rican National Identity"

3:00PM Richard Blanke (History, University of Maine) "Language and National Identity in Eastern Europe - and an Exception to the Rule: The Masurians"

4:00PM Keynote Address Eugen Weber (History, UCLA) "Language, Nation and Outsiders"

5:30PM Reception

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)

Wep-waut in Westwood: Ancient Egypt at UCLA
Ancient Egyptian Architecture and Use of Space

Please, reserve this day in your planner. The program and abstracts will be sent to you at the end of May.

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

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

Heritage Language Institute

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

For more information, see http://www.isop.ucla.edu/lrp/event.asp?eventid