October Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures

Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures

a conference arranged by Lorna Clymer, California State University, Bakersfield

This conference addresses transformative interactions among religion, texts, and cultures during the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries in the British Isles, the European continent, and European settlements. The primary focus is the interaction of religious texts and Christian cultures. Such interaction can be found in Anglican, Catholic, and Dissenting practices, theology, politics, and in related definitions of the self, communities, and nations.

Each presenter will consider a text that contributed to or represents a cultural transformation, in which new practices were established, and by which important values or identities were defined. The role of religion in cultural transformation is evidenced by various texts, such as editions of the Bible, sermons, prayer books, devotional and conduct manuals, hymnals, poetry, allegories, didactic fiction and drama, tracts, and treatises.

Topics to be considered include: religious traditions evolving in print and in oral practices; discussions of miracles; the influence of the Book of Common Prayer; connections between orthodox Christianity and philosophy or science; convergences of Biblical scholarship and early modern musicology; worship as defined by theology and poetics; interactions of non-Christian religions with Christianity; and appropriations of pagan texts for Christian purposes.

The secular focus of some “Enlightenment” studies may on occasion tend to undervalue the continuing centrality of religion. This conference will explore some of the complexities of early modern cultures in which life was integrally connected with or defined by religion.

Registration fees—UC faculty & staff: $15; students with ID: no charge;* others: $30.

This event is scheduled at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, located at 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018. The library is one block east of Arlington Avenue and two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway.

The conference begins at 10:00 a.m. and concludes approximately at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

To view the program schedule, please visit the following website - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/progtransform.htm

For more information please contact 310-206-8552.

-- submitted by Annah Huang (joeyb@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Open House

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

Robert Coover Reads at Hammer Museum

Author and noted electronic literature critic Robert Coover will read from his recent work on Sunday, October 16 at 6:00 p.m. at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Amount Coover's works are _Pricksongs and Descants_, _The Public Burning_, and _The Origin of the Brunists_, which won the William Faulker Award in 1966. He currently teaches electronic and experimental writing at Brown University.

Also on the program is fiction writer and O. Henry Prize- winner Brian Evenson, author of _Altmann's Tongue_ and _Dark Property: An Affliction_. He is an associate professor in the literary arts program at Brown University.

This event is part of the UCLA Hammer Museum's New American Writing series, organized and hosted by Benjamin Weissman, and is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit Parking information and directions are available at -- submitted by (joeyb@humnet.ucla.edu)

40th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium

ON COLLECTING: FORMATION, TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION

Hammer Museum

Friday, October 28, 2005 9:30-9:45 AM OPENING REMARKS

10:00-11:30 AM FORMATION: THE COLLECTION AS COMMODITY

Art as Commodity: Collecting European Paintings in New Spain Rebecca Long, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Negotiating Class and Ethnic Identity: The Eighteenth- Century Chinese Art Collector An Qi Christine Yu, University of Chicago

The Collecting of Collections: Reproductive Prints as Meta- Collections in Eighteenth-Century France Amy M. Von Lintel, University of Southern California

11:30-12:30 PM LUNCH BREAK

12:30-2:00 PM TRANSMISSION: POLITICS, GEOGRAPHY AND THE COLLECTION

Politically Mobilizing Collections of Material Culture: Three Nineteenth-Century French Expeditions to Tiwanaku, Bolivia Erik J. Marsh, UC Santa Barbara

Flowers of the Colony, Seeds of Independence: The Illustrations of the Royal Botanical Expedition to Nueva Granada Alejandra Rojas, Harvard University

Colonial Collecting: Religious Art for Private Patrons in the Southern Andes Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, UCLA

2:00-3:30 PM RECEPTION: THE COLLECTION IN SITU

From Site to Screen: Urban Screen Sites and the Production of Posthuman Landscapes Katheryn Wright, Florida State University

Collecting Architecture, from Museum to Home Irene Sunwoo, Architectural Association, London/Princeton University

The Body as/of Evidence: Collecting, Curating and Conserving Performance Art in Contemporary Museums Jovana Stokic, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

3:30-5:00 PM KEYNOTE LECTURE

An Ambiguous Relationship? Art History and the History of Collecting Professor Malcolm Baker, Director, University of Southern California - Getty Program in History of Collecting and Display

The Hammer Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, on the northeast corner of Westwood and Wilshire in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 Freeway. Parking is available under the Museum. Rates are $2.75 for the first three hours with Museum stamp; $1.50 for each additional 20 minutes. Parking for people with disabilities is provided on levels P1 and P3. The 40th Annual AHGSA Symposium is funded by the UCLA Arts & Architecture Council, Campus Program Committee of the Program Activities Board, Graduate Student Association, Hammer Museum, Department of Art History and Friends of Art History.

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ahgsa/collecting/ home.htm

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ahgsa/collecting/home.htm

Apocalyptic Religion and the Environment

Presents

Apocalyptic Religion and the Environment

A Lecture By:

Dr. Jean E. Rosenfeld, Research Associate UCLA Center for the Study of Religion

Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:00PM - 1:30PM Bunche Hall 10383

About Dr. Rosenfeld | Dr. Jean E. Rosenfeld's research keeps her on the cutting edge of the interaction between religion and popular culture in the USA. Since earning her Ph.D. in the History of Religion from UCLA, she has published a book on Maori resistance movements, THE ISLAND BROKEN IN TWO HALVES, as well as many articles in academic journals, in encyclopedias dealing with religious violence and with sacred space, and in the Los Angeles Times. For many years she has served as a very productive research associate in the Center for the Study of Religion.

This event is free and open to the public. For further details, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/religion

-- submitted by Center for the Study of Religion (religion@humnet.ucla.edu)

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

W. S. Merwin's most recent books of poems are Present Company and Migration: New & Selected Poems.

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

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

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LECTURE SERIES, #1 - RANJI KHANNA AND NATALIE MELAS

First Lecture in the Series

Co-Sponsored by Dept. of French & Francophone Studies

RANJI KHANNA (Duke University) “Algeria Cuts”

and

NATALIE MELAS (Cornell University) “Equivalence”

The lecture takes place on 10/25/05 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

RANJANA KHANNA received her PhD in Women's Studies at the University of York, U.K., and is currently Associate Professor of English, the Literature Program, and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003). She has published on a variety of subjects ranging from feminism, film, autobiography, new configurations of Area Studies in the post-Cold War era, torture and terrorism, and psychoanalysis. Her talk is taken from her forthcoming book Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present (Stanford University Press, 2006). Her current work in progress is a book manuscript tentatively titled “Asylum: The Concept and the Practice.”

NATALIE MELAS received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (English, French, Ancient Greek) from UC Berkeley and is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her areas of interest include transcultural theory (between postcolonialism and globalism), the politics of disciplinary histories, cultural comparison, postcolonial neo-formalism, turn-of- the-century English literature, Anglophone and especially Francophone Caribbean literature and theory, modern reconfigurations of antiquity, Homer. She has published essays on the fate of the humanities in the contemporary university, on incommensurability, on Joseph Conrad, and on French Caribbean Literature. Her talk is taken from her forthcoming book, All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison (Stanford University Press, 2006).

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

A Lecture by Prof. Roberto Fedi

presents a Lecture by

ROBERTO FEDI (University of Perugia)

entitled

“BOCCACCIO, PETRARCA, CHAUCER AND GRISELDA”

The lecture takes place on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 5:00 pm in 342 Royce Hall, the Italian Seminar Room.

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

“THE POINT OF COMPARISON: REFLECTIONS ON A COMPARATIVE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES”, a lecture by PROF. DAVID MURPHY

presents a Lecture by

PROF. DAVID MURPHY (University of Stirling)

entitled

“THE POINT OF COMPARISON: REFLECTIONS ON A COMPARATIVE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES”

Wednesday October 26, 2005

306 Royce Hall Herbert Morris Seminar Room

4:30 pm

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

“HAITI'S WATERS: SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS AND ECOCRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS”, a lecture by Richard Watts

Presents a Lecture by

PROF. RICHARD WATTS (Tulane University)

entitled

“HAITI'S WATERS: SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS AND ECOCRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS”

to be held on Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 4:30 pm in 236 Royce Hall, French Seminar Room

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

Concert of Music to Accompany the Poetry of Ausiàs March

For more information, visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/spanport/curriculum%20Josep%20y%20Nuria.pdf

This program is cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

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

Seventeenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

Featured Speakers:

Michael Janda (Universität Münster) “The Religion of the Indo-Europeans”

&

Katheryn Linduff (University of Pittsburgh) “Through the Looking Glass: Remaining Sogdian in China”

The conference is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, including a complete program, please visit:

-- submitted by (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/pies/IECProgram.html

40th ANNUAL UCLA ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM ON COLLECTING: FORMATION, TRANSMISSION, AND RECEPTION

10:00-11:30 AM FORMATION: THE COLLECTION AS COMMODITY Art as Commodity: Collecting European Paintings in New Spain Rebecca Long, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Negotiating Class and Ethnic Identity: The Eighteenth- Century Chinese Art Collector An Qi Christine Yu, University of Chicago

The Collecting of Collections: Reproductive Prints as Meta- Collections in Eighteenth-Century France Amy M. Von Lintel, University of Southern California

11:30-12:30 PM LUNCH BREAK

12:30-2:00 PM TRANSMISSION: POLITICS, GEOGRAPHY AND THE COLLECTION Politically Mobilizing Collections of Material Culture: Three Nineteenth-Century French Expeditions to Tiwanaku, Bolivia Erik J. Marsh, UC Santa Barbara

Flowers of the Colony, Seeds of Independence: The Illustrations of the Royal Botanical Expedition to Nueva Granada Alejandra Rojas, Harvard University

Colonial Collecting: Religious Art for Private Patrons in the Southern Andes Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, UCLA

2:00-3:30 PM RECEPTION: THE COLLECTION IN SITU From Site to Screen: Urban Screen Sites and the Production of Posthuman Landscapes Katheryn Wright, Florida State University

Collecting Architecture, from Museum to Home Irene Sunwoo, Architectural Association, London/Princeton University

The Body as/of Evidence: Collecting, Curating and Conserving Performance Art in Contemporary Museums Jovana Stokic, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

3:30-5:00 PM KEYNOTE LECTURE An Ambiguous Relationship? Art History and the History of Collecting Professor Malcolm Baker, Director, University of Southern California - Getty Program in History of Collecting and Display

The Hammer Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, on the northeast corner of Westwood and Wilshire in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 Freeway. Parking is available under the Museum. Rates are $2.75 for the first three hours with Museum stamp; $1.50 for each additional 20 minutes. Parking for people with disabilities is provided on levels P1 and P3. The 40th Annual AHGSA Symposium is funded by the UCLA Arts & Architecture Council, Campus Program Committee of the Program Activities Board, Graduate Student Association, Hammer Museum, Department of Art History and Friends of Art History.

For additional information about the Symposium, go to http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ahgsa/collecting/ home.htm

Contact info: AHGSA Symposium 2005 Committeel ahsympos@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Stacey Rosborough (webcalendar@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

"Hungary in the European Union and in NATO"

kindly invites you to the lecture of

*Mr. FERENC BOESENBACHER*,

Consul General of the Republic of Hungary about

*HUNGARY in the EUROPEAN UNION*

*and in the NATO*

on FRIDAY, October 28, 3pm

at 1648 Hershey Hall (south-east corner of the building)

For more information contact Johanna Domokos

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

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