Spanish & Portuguese Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regents' Lecture Series

Lecture Series April 22-26, 2002 All lectures are located in the Bradley Hall in the International Room

Monday, April 22, 2002 4:00 p.m. Regents' Lecture "Da memoria a ficcao atraves da Historia" "From Memory to Fiction through History"

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:00 p.m. Binlingual Reading Jose Saramago Reads Selections for his Works 5:00 p.m. Autograph Session

Friday, April 26, 2002 4:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion with Jose Saramago

To attend: This program is free and open to the public, however, seating is limited. Please see our web site to rsvp for the Regents' Lecture Series.

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/events/

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi)

Regents' Lecture Series

Lecture Series April 22-26, 2002 All lectures are located in the Bradley Hall in the International Room

Monday, April 22, 2002 4:00 p.m. Regents' Lecture "Da memoria a ficcao atraves da Historia" "From Memory to Fiction through History"

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:00 p.m. Binlingual Reading Jose Saramago Reads Selections for his Works 5:00 p.m. Autograph Session

Friday, April 26, 2002 4:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion with Jose Saramago

To attend: This program is free and open to the public, however, seating is limited. Please see our web site to rsvp for the Regents' Lecture Series.

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/events.html

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi)

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

Nobel Laureate Regents' Lecture

Lecture Series April 22-26, 2002 All lectures are located in the Bradley Hall in the International Room

Monday, April 22, 2002 4:00 p.m. Regents' Lecture "Da memoria a ficcao atraves da Historia" "From memory to Fiction through History"

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:00 p.m. Binlingual Reading Jose Saramago Reads Selections from his Works 5:00 p.m. Autograph Session

Friday, April 26, 2002 4:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion with Jose Saramago

To attend: This program is free and open to the public, however, seating is limited. Please see our web site to RSVP for the Regents' Lecture Series.

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/events.html

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

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

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

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

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)