Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Open House

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@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)

"A Yearning for Eternity," Voxfire in Concert

Voxfire is a collaboration of three of the West Coast’s most highly regarded interpreters of early and contemporary vocal music, who are adapting and presenting the works of these eras with their own distinctive musical style and dramatic flair. Working alone as well as with some of the most prominent instrumental specialists of today, they have performed music from medieval luminaries such as Hildegard, Machaut, and Landini through the Italian Baroque masters, such as Monteverdi and Barbara Strozzi, to works by modern-era composers as varied as Benjamin Britten and Steve Reich. Voxfire’s recent CD, “Songs to the Virgin,” has been widely acclaimed. See Voxfire’s website at http://www.voxfire.org for more information.

Advance registration not required. No fee. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased ($8) from a UCLA Parking Services kiosk. This program is presented by the UCLA Sounds Early Music Series of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. For more information, call 310-825-1880 or e-mail cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.

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

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Viking Archaeology and the Stave Church at Mosfell"

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

"Charisma and Aura: A Medievalist Raid on Some Post-Medieval Categories"

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

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "The Orsini Collection"

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

POSTPONED until Winter Quarter! CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "The Plan of St. Gall: Building a Virtual Reality Model and a Data Base of Carolingian Monastic Culture"

Faculty, associates, students, and staff are invited to attend. Advance registration not required. No fee. For more information, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.

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

Christian Life in the Pharaonic City of the Dead: Western Thebes in the 6th - 8th Centuries

presents

Dr. Heike Behlmer of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

December 5, 4-6pm; 306 Royce Hall

This paper will discuss the reuse of the famous pharaonic cemeteries of ancient Thebes in the early Christian period. To what extent was the landscape reshaped under influence of Christian beliefs and what role did the pharaonic temples and tombs play in the minds of the early ascetics? The pharaonic city of the dead challenges us to rethink issues of contested space in Late Antiquity.

Dr. Heike Behlmer is currently lecturer in Coptic Studies at Macquarie University, Australia, which position is partly funded by the local Coptic community. She directs the new and unique MA program in Coptic Studies, which can be completed entirely on-line and is open for enrollment to students world-wide. She obtained her dissertation at the University of Göttingen, Germany, with an edition of, and commentary on, an important sermon of St Shenoute, a foremost Coptic author and church leader (348-466 AD), which is preserved on a papyrus manuscript of the 7th century. Among her many interests Egyptian monasticism from the 4th to the 8th centuries counts as her main research topic. Before taking up her position at Macquarie University she was Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at the University of Göttingen and visiting Professor of Coptic Studies at the University of Munich, Germany.

-- submitted by Jacco Dieleman (dieleman@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Lecture: "AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

The Viterbi Program in Italian Jewish Studies and The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies present

"AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

By: JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 PM

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE EMAIL CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU TO RSVP.

This new program has been made possible by the generous support of the Viterbi Family Foundation.

******************************************* ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Joanna Weinberg is the James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinical Hebrew and Catherine Fellow in Rabbinics at Oxford. Professor Weinberg is the author of The Light of the Eyes of Azariah de’ Rossi (Yale UP, 2001), which reveals her mastery of rabbinic texts, Greek and Roman literature, and Italian writers. Her research interests include Jewish historiography, Jews in the Renaissance, and Midrash.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Lecture: "AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

The Viterbi Program in Italian Jewish Studies and The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies present

"AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

By: JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 PM

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE EMAIL CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU TO RSVP.

This new program has been made possible by the generous support of the Viterbi Family Foundation.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Joanna Weinberg is the James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinical Hebrew and Catherine Fellow in Rabbinics at Oxford. Professor Weinberg is the author of The Light of the Eyes of Azariah de’ Rossi (Yale UP, 2001), which reveals her mastery of rabbinic texts, Greek and Roman literature, and Italian writers. Her research interests include Jewish historiography, Jews in the Renaissance, and Midrash.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Lecture: "AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

**PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGED TO FOWLER AUDITORIUM**

The Viterbi Program in Italian Jewish Studies and The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies present

"AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

By: JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 PM

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE EMAIL CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU TO RSVP.

This new program has been made possible by the generous support of the Viterbi Family Foundation.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Joanna Weinberg is the James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinical Hebrew and Catherine Fellow in Rabbinics at Oxford. Professor Weinberg is the author of The Light of the Eyes of Azariah de’ Rossi (Yale UP, 2001), which reveals her mastery of rabbinic texts, Greek and Roman literature, and Italian writers. Her research interests include Jewish historiography, Jews in the Renaissance, and Midrash.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Exploiting a Bad King: Saul in Early Modern England"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"In the Fear of Mimesis is the Beginning of Theory. And Now?" - a lecture by Haun Saussy

the Third Lecture in their Lecture Series "What is Comparative Literature?"

HAUN SAUSSY (Yale University)

“In the Fear of Mimesis is the Beginning of Theory. And Now?”

The lecture will take place on January 19, 2006 at 4:00 pm in the Faculty Center Downstairs Lounge.

Haun Saussy is Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University. He is tthe author of "The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic" (Stanford UP, 1993) and "Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001). He has also edited the American Comparative Literature Association's 2004 report on the state of the discipline. His articles published in journals and collections address topics such as the imaginary universal languages of Athanasius Kircher, Chinese musicology, the great Qing-dynasty novel Honglou meng, the current situation and theoretical perplexities of comparative literature, the history of the idea of oral literature, Haitian literature, health care for the global poor, and contemporary art. He is currently working on a book about the concept of rhythm in psychology, linguistics, literature and folklore.

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

"The Poetics of Friendship in Homer and Dante"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "The Medieval Monastery Plan of St. Gall Digital Project"

Faculty, associates, students, and staff are invited to attend. Advance registration not required. No fee. For more information, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (brett@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Rethinking the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico: the Visual Texts of a Medieval Renaissance "

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (brett@humanities.ucla.edu)

Thirteenth Annual History of the Book Lecture

Viewed in terms of other musical traditions in the world, it seems strange that Western musicians have, for so many centuries, played their music with their eyes fixed upon a sophisticated chart that tells them (much of) what they have to do when they perform. This chart is the musical staff, the five-line graph that, in its various forms, has done much to shape the history of Western music. But the stave is not a recent invention. Its roots lie with the science and musical practice of Italy in the first half of the eleventh century. It also owed much to the trauma that was distinctive to the Western and Latin Church, as revealed in the lives of two monks: one the “inventor” of the system, and the other its determined advocate in the face of considerable opposition.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Piers Plowman and his After-life"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Art of the Ethiopian Church: the Formation of an African Artistic Tradition"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-lacing, and Other Forms of Body-sculpture

CMRS faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (brett@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Mainland European Specialist Publishing"

Simon Forde received his Ph.D. at Birmingham University, writing on fourteenth-century Wycliffite sermons. Subsequently he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Pontifical Institute in Toronto and then director of the International Medieval Institute at Leeds, where he was editor of the International Medieval Bibliography, assistant director of the graduate school, and founder of the annual Leeds International Medieval Congress. Since 1996 he has been in charge of medieval and Renaissance publications in English at Brepols.

Admission is free, and registration is not required.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (brett@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

"Tropics of Glory: Doxology and Invention in Premodern England"

Advance registration not required. No fee. Seating is limited; seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lesadieux@hotmail.com

“Old Spain & New Spain: Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c.1590-1664) & Cathedral Music of 17th-Century Mexico”

Spain was a powerhouse, artistically as well as politically, throughout the 16th century and into the 17th. Musically, its influence ranged far and wide. Noble and royal Spaniards traveled with their own capilla flamenca musicians, who were heard throughout Europe. The English began composing and playing theme-&-variations for solo instruments on the Spanish model. Not only was Spain known for such innovation – with the works of Cervantes and his contemporaries, and the beginning of the novel, providing fame on the literary side – but she was also known for the glorious and solemn tradition of her church music. As the Spanish expanded their realm into the western hemisphere, sacred music crossed the Atlantic as well. Music of the great composers Morales, Guerrero, Lobo, Victoria and others were imported and remained in religious libraries and choir lofts in New Spain for centuries. Spanish church musicians also made the trip from Europe, formed choirs in Mexico and other parts of New Spain, and composed music there, for performance there. In the early 17th century the Cathedral at Puebla, south of Mexico City and second in size, became the wealthiest cathedral in all of the Spanish Empire outside Spain itself. There the Spanish composer Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c.1590-1664), formerly of Málaga and Cádiz, went to work as singer and then maestro de capilla, composing and performing scores of liturgical works, and flourishing especially with the arrival in 1640 of a music- and art-loving bishop. Padilla’s choir in 1645 included 28 men and 14 boys, and instrumentalists, playing the harp, organ, and bajón.

Peter Rutenberg and the Los Angeles Chamber Singers’ CAPPELLA have made a study of this repertoire as it has been transcribed and published. They have performed works of Padilla and others from this western outpost of the siglo de oro and have made recordings of works of Padilla to help make them better known to concertgoers, as scholars continue to revisit the history of Spain, and Spanish Christianity, in Mexico. This concert is presented by the UCLA Sounds Early Music series of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: “How 17th-century Dutch Painters Accidentally Invented Animal Rights”

CMRS faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Seminar Lecture

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

The Third Rebecca D. Catz Memorial Lecture

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

28th Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference/Annual CSANA Conference

28th Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference and Annual Meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

1:00 Opening Remarks

1:15 PM Session 1, SARAH WHITTEN, CHAIR MATTHIEU BOYD (Harvard University), “What’s New in the City of Is?” AMY C. EICHHORN-MULLIGAN (University of Memphis), “Moses and the Celts - Chosen Peoples from Taliesin to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill” LIZABETH JOHNSON (University of Washington), “Family Feuds and Dynastic Stability in Medieval Wales”

2:45 PM ANGELA GLEASON (Union, ME), “The Mentally and Physically Disabled in Early Irish Society”

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM Session 2, REBECCA BLUSTEIN, CHAIR PHILLIP A. BERNHARDT-HOUSE (University College Cork), “Israelites, Lawyers and Cath Maige Tuired” JUDITH BISHOP (Mills College), “Transgendered Abbesses, Cross-Dressing Nuns: Gender-Bending Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography with Reference to Greek and Latin Source Materials” TIMOTHY BRIDGMAN (Binghamton University), “Celtic Names of Peoples and Naming Conventions in the Writings of the Ancient Greco-Roman Authors” LESLIE E. JONES (Los Angeles), “Who Are You? Reincarnations and Doppelgangers in Celtic Mythology”

6:00 PM Dinner Break

7:00-9:00 PM Session 3, MALCOLM HARRIS, CHAIR CHARLES DOHERTY (University College Dublin), “Village and Town in Early Medieval Ireland” SARA ELIN ROBERTS (University of Wales, Swansea), “The Virtual Dafydd ap Gwilym”

FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM Session 4, KAREN BURGESS, CHAIR BENJAMIN BRUCH (Harvard University), “Word and Music in Medieval Cornish Drama” MICHAEL HONCHOCK (Virginia Tech), “Early Welsh Gnomic Poetry: Issues of Form and Function” KATJA RITARI (University of Helsinki), “The Question of Holiness in the Lives of St Brigit” MARINA SMYTH (University of Notre Dame), “The Nature of the Human Body according to an Early Medieval Irish Scholar”

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM JACQUELINE BORSJE (University of Utrecht), “Miraculous Magic in Medieval Ireland: The Epaid ‘Spell’”

12:15-1:15 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM Session 5, KELLY RANDELL, CHAIR SARAH MCKIBBEN (University of Notre Dame), “The Spectator’s Imperative and the Hybrid Muse: Palestinian-Irish Poetry” CHARLENE M. SHIPMAN (Harvard University), “The Letters ‘S.D.’ and Patterns of Ascription in the Corpus Iuris Hibernici” LENORA TIMM (UC Davis), “Chanter la patrie: Constructing Breton Nationalism in 19th-c. Lyric Poetry”

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM Session 6, SHERRYLYN BRANCHAW, CHAIR BRONAGH NÍ CHONAILL (University of Glasgow), “Pregnant Women, Criminal Intentions and the Odd Craving in Medieval Irish Law” JOSEPH F. ESKA (Virginia Tech), “A Leak in Hispano-Celtic Morphology” KRISTEN OVER (Northeastern Illinois University), “Is Survival Heroic? Gwynedd and Literary Kingship in Historia Gruffudd ap Cynan”

4:45 Break

5:00 PM NIALL Ó CIOSÁIN (NUI Galway), “The Celtic Languages in Print 1700-1900: Contrasting Fortunes” (hosted by the University of Southern California)

6:00-7:00 PM “USC at UCLA” Reception

7:00-7:30 PM DOROTHY BRAY (McGill University), “Apostles to the Irish”

7:30-8:30 PM EDEL BHREATHNACH (UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute), “Tara: The Enigma Uncovered/Revealed”

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM Session 7, HEATHER LARSON, CHAIR LEE FOLLETT (University of Georgia), “The Earliest Evidence for Female Religious Life in Ireland” PATRICK K. FORD (Harvard University), “The Ruin at Morfudd Arms” EDGAR SLOTKIN (University of Cincinnati), “Can We Critique Folktales? The Case of Éamon A Búrc’s Eochair mac Rí in Éirinn” DAN M. WILEY (Hastings College), “A Medieval Irish Ghost Story”

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM ANN PARRY OWEN (Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd), “Bring with you a faithful war-band from the Dauphin's land!: Gruffudd ap Maredudd’s Plea to Owain Lawgoch”

12:15-1:30 PM Lunchtime Symposium “Teaching the Modern and Medieval Pronunciation of Celtic Languages,” Charles MacQuarrie (CSU Bakersfield), moderator (sponsored by CSU Bakersfield)

1:30 PM Seminar “Medieval Celtic Literature in the High School Curriculum,” PATRICK P. LYNCH (Marymount High School), moderator

2:30 PM Break

2:45 PM MÍCHEÁL Ó FLAITHEARTA (University of Uppsala), “Pre- Celtic Indo-European Ireland?”

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM Session 8, EMILY RUNDE, CHAIR KATHRYN KLAR (UC Berkeley), “Arglwydd and Arglwyddes: Branwen's Lordly Counterpart” CATHERINE MCKENNA (Harvard University), “The Crow that Clings to the Cliffs: Aspects of Spatial Organization in Branwen ferch Llyr” GERALDINE PARSONS (University of Cambridge), “Acallam na Senórach and Pre-Acallam Fianaigecht”

5:30 PM CSANA Business Meeting

8:00 PM Banquet (by reservation only)

SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

9:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

10:00 AM Session 9, VICTORIA SIMMONS, CHAIR LAWRENCE ESON (Denver), “A Voice from the Grave: Poetic Knowledge from the Dead in the Myrddin Poems and ‘The Finding of the Táin’” BARBARA HILLERS (Harvard University), “Cuckolds and Faithful Wives: The Genesis of the Gaelic Ballad of ‘Peadar and Peigín’” ANTONE MINARD (Design Institute of San Diego), “Meeting Medb's Mother-in-Law: Aquatic Monsters in Celtic Mythology and Hagiography” JOHN PATRICK MONTAÑO (University of Delaware), “Civilize This: Irish Responses to the Tudor Plantations”

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM Session 10, ANTONE MINARD, CHAIR MORGAN DAVIES (Colgate University), “Dindshenchas, Invention, and Memory” SARA ELIN ROBERTS (Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd), “‘You Son-of-a-bitch’: The Poetic Debate between Dafydd ap Gwilym and Gruffydd Gryg” VICTORIA SIMMONS (Los Angeles), “The Tricks of the Trade: Tricksterism, Exchange, and Identity in the Tochmarc Étaíne” THOMAS CLANCY (University of Glasgow), “A Fond Farewell to Last Night's Literary Criticism: Reading Niall Mór Mac Mhuirich”

GENERAL INFORMATION: Advance registration is not required, and there is no registration fee for the conference. Campus parking permits may be purchased ($8) from a UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the Celtic Studies Conference in Royce Hall.

For directions to UCLA and Royce Hall, please see http://www.ucla.edu/map/.

All of this information and updates to the program are available at http://www.csub.edu/~cmacquarrie/csana/.

For any other questions, please contact Professor Joseph Nagy of UCLA at jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu or call the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 310.825.1880.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

"Lorenzo Valla and the Rise of Humanist Dialectic"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS Lecture "ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

A Lecture by Bernard-Henri Levy

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY" by BHL

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

A Lecture by BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

“The Saint and the Hagiographer in Search of Each Other: The Holy Fool as Cultural Symbol, Literary Character and Human Being”

Advance registration is not required. Please sign in at the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first- come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "Prof. Ivanov's lecture in Bunch Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Xth UCLA Byzantinists’ Colloquium: “Byzantium on the West Coast”

9:30 Registration

10:00 Welcoming remarks: Sharon Gerstel (UCLA)

Session I: Art History Chair: Susan Downey (UCLA)

10:15 – 10:45 Anne McClanan (Portland State University) “‘Paradise Lost’: Reconsidering the Place of the Natural World in Ravenna’s Mosaics”

10:45 – 11:15 Kriszta Kotsis (University of Puget Sound) “Dressing the Part: Considering the Garments of the Byzantine Empress”

11:15 – 11:30 Discussion

11:30 – 12:00 Break

Session II: Art History Chair: Robin Cormack (Courtauld Institute, London and Getty Scholars Program)

12:00 – 12:30 Kathleen Maxwell (Santa Clara University) “Innovation in Text and Image in cod. Paris. Graec. 54 – A Response to the Circumstances of its Commission?”

12:30 – 12:45 Christina Stancioiu (UCLA) “Imagining Sacred Places: El Greco and The View of Mount Sinai”

Cover: Peribleptos Church, Ohrid. 1294/5. Image of St. George. Michael Astrapas and Euthychios, painters. 12:45 – 1:00 Galina Tirnanic (J. Paul Getty Museum) “‘Holy Image, Hallowed Ground’: Mount Sinai at the Getty, November 2006-March 2007”

1:00 – 1:15 Discussion

1:15-2:15 Lunch (Prepaid reservation required)

Session III: History Chair: Barisa Krekic (UCLA)

2:15 – 2:45 George Dennis (Loyola Marymount University) “The Byzantine Military Mind”

2:45 – 3:15 John Langdon (Marlboro School, and UCLA) “Imperial Princesses and Consorts of the Epoch of the Thirteenth-Century Anatolian Exile”

3:15 – 3:30 Discussion

3:30 – 4:00 Break

Session IV: History Chair: Dorothy Abrahamse (California State University, Long Beach)

4:00 – 4:30 Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) “Byzantine Dioscurides”

4:30 – 4:45 Srdjan Rajkovic (UCLA) “Byzantium between the Ottomans and Europe according to the Four Historians of the Fall”

4:45 – 5:00 Maria Pantelia (UC Irvine) “Byzantium and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae”

5:00 – 5:15 Discussion 5:15 – 5:30 Concluding Remarks: Claudia Rapp (UCLA)

5:30 – 6:30 Reception on the Loggia

This program is sponsored by The UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. The UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies. The UCLA Departments of Art History, Classics, History, and Slavic Languages & Literatures. The Hellenic University Club.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Advance registration required. Seating is limited; seats will be available on a first-come first-served basis. To register, complete the form in this brochure or contact the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at (310)825- 1880 or cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu. There is no admission fee.

Lunch—Advance Reservation Required! Lunch is available for conference participants for $15 per person. Make check payable to UC Regents. Reservations, with payment, must be received by April 3rd. Participants who do not attend the conference lunch may purchase lunch from one of the vendors on campus. A list of campus restaurants will be available at the conference.

Parking Campus parking permits may be purchased for $8 on the day of the event from a UCLA Parking Services kisok. Tell the attendant that you are here to attend the “Byzantinists’ Colloquium” in Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"The Hereford Map and 'the not so very good' Laity"

Advance registration is not required. Please sign in at the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first- come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the CMRS lecture in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Past Magics: A Conversation between Valerie Flint and Brian Copenhaver on Studying Magic in the Middle Ages and Renaissance"

Brian P. Copenhaver holds the Udvar-Hazy Chair of Philosophy and History in the Department of Philosophy at UCLA, and is the Director of UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He has published numerous books and articles about philosophy, science, magic, medicine, Cabala and the Hermetica in late medieval and early modern Europe.

Advance Registration is not required. Please sign in at the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first- come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the CMRS lecture in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

“On Studying the Spanish and Portuguese Empires Together”

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is one of the foremost historians of the Portuguese empire and of early modern India. He is a prolific and wide-ranging scholar whose work has focused on the interplay between economic, political and cultural history in this period, subsuming several national historical traditions. His most recent books include The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India (University of Michigan Press, 2001) and a two-volume work entitled Explorations in Connected History (Oxford University Press, 2004). He is fluent in seven languages, including Portuguese. Subrahmanyam has taught and lectured widely in Europe and the United States and is currently director of the Center for Indian and South Asian Studies at UCLA, where he also holds the Doshi Chair in Indian History. Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Advance registration is not required. Please sign in at the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first- come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "Prof. Subrahmanyam's seminar in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop

Complete program to be announced. Advance Registration is not required. Please sign in at the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "the Medieval Philosophy Workshop in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Roundtable: "Shakespeare's Reference to Magna Carta in King John Revealed (Probably) -- plus Lamord's Identity Discovered (Maybe)."

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"The Man Who Would Be King of France: On a Medieval Tale and Life"

Advance registration not required. Please sign in at the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first- come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the CMRS lecture in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable | " Allegory of an Early Christian Cabalist: The Isagoge (1509-40) of Paulus Ricius"

This presentation is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. Faculty, students, staff, associates, and friends of CJS and CMRS are invited to attend.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture | "Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Phaedo"

Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first- come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the lecture in Public Policy. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture | "A Little Touch of Harry: The Perverse Henrification of George Bush"

Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first- come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the lecture in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Annual Shakespeare Symposium: "Shakespeare Interrupted: Revisiting 'Problem' Scenes in the Canon"

This year's symposium, brings together a constellation of Shakespeare scholars, including Harry Berger, Jr. (Prof. Emeritus of Literature and Art History, UC Santa Cruz, and Feloow, Cowell College), who will share critical insights into famous problem scenes from an array of plays. Complete program to be announced.

Advance Registration is required. Fee may apply. Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the "Annual Shakespeare Symposium" in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture

Although knowledge of ancient Stoicism did not entirely die out in the Middle Ages, the philosophy underwent a revival from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Interest in Stoicism during this period was by no means restricted to professional philosophers. Many humanists, vernacular authors, emblem book writers, religious thinkers and artists made use of Stoic ideas and themes in their works, bringing knowledge of this classical philosophical system, above all its ethical notions, to a wider public. The lecture will explore the various ways in which Stoicism influenced early modern culture.

Advance Registration is required. Fee may apply. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are attending the “CMRS Samuel Pepys Lecture” at the faculty Center. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

“Churches and their Patrons in Romanesque Ireland”

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

"Tales, Poems, and Bawdy Songs: Folkloric Imagination in the North"

9:00 Introduction: Prof. Joseph Nagy Opening Remarks: Prof. Mary Kay Norseng

9:30 - 10: 30 Paper Session One: The Medieval Folkloric Imagination

9:30 - 10:00 Prof. John Lindow, UC Berkeley. "The ghost with the ax and the dreamer with the sword: Kumlbúa tháttr and medieval Icelandic legend"

10:00-10:30 Prof. Judy Quinn, Cambridge University. "The tenacity of the valkyrie fantasy in Old Norse poetry"

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00 -12:30 Paper Session Two: Archaeology of the Folkloric Imagination

11:00-11:30 Prof. Johanna Domokos, UCLA. "Harald Gaski mapping Andres Fjellner mapping Saami Epos mapping... A Case of Saami Literary Archaeology"

11:30 -12:00 Prof. Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley. "Hans Christian Andersen's Archaeological Imagination"

12:00-12:30 Questions

12:30-2:00 Lunch break

2:00-3:30 Paper Session Three: Intersections: Music, Philosophy and the Folkloric Imagination

2:00-2:30 Sir Niels Ingwersen, Univ. of Wisconsin. "Endless Stories without Endings: Kierkegaard and Folklore"

2:30-3:00 Prof. Bertil Van Boer, Western Washington University. "Milk Maids, Tryptichs, and Voices Beyond the Grave: The "Unsung" Collaborations between Carl Michael Bellman and Joseph Martin Kraus"

3:00-3:30 Coffee

3:30-5:00 Paper Session Four: Politics and the Folkloric Imagination

3:30-4:00 Prof. Timothy R. Tangherlini, UCLA. " 'And the wagon came rolling in': Legend and (Self)-Censorship in 19th Century Denmark"

4:00-4:30 Prof. Tracey Sands, Univ. of Colorado. "Saints, Salvation, and Reformation: Some Observations on Scandinavian Legendary Ballad Tradition"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable | "'It is now time to be mindful of death': The Chora Parekklesion, Palaeologan Burial Chapels, and the Hope for a Peaceful Afterlife"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Dante's New Life in Twentieth-Century Literature: Modern Intertextual Appropriation of Dante"

How does one explain this fascination with Dante, and especially with his principal work, the Divine Comedy? What are the textual characteristics of Dante’s masterpiece which make it an apt vehicle for literary appropriation, thereby allowing it to enjoy a sustained cultural afterlife and to achieve the great time or macrotemporality so eloquently described by Bakhtin in his proverbial formulation? What, moreover, are the more accidental factors (e.g. taste, world view, political agenda, strong supporters, etc.) which account for the popularity of Dante among modern novelists, poets and playwrights, despite the fact that the Florentine poet took a back seat to Petrarch and his works for almost three hundred years? These are some of the issues that this conference, organized by Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA) and Amilcare A. Iannucci (University of Toronto), will explore, as well as the actual workings of intertextual appropriation of Dante and the various forms it takes from citation to allusion to imitation and parody.

Complete program available at www.humnet.ucla.edu/cmrs/Programs/dante_2006 .htm.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin

A conference at the Clark Library, located at 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.

June 11-12, 2006

A conference organized by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky and Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; the UCLA Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Division of Humanities – Office of the Dean; the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Department of Philosophy; the UCLA Department of History; and the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) had a long association with the Clark Library. He was Clark Professor in 1981-82 and 1997-98 and helped organize numerous lectures and conferences at the Clark Library. He and Juliet Popkin, his wife, have supported the annual Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy since 1999. This conference will seek to assess the legacies of the late Richard H. Popkin's work in the many fields he contributed to and helped to form: the history of philosophy and particularly the history of skepticism; Jewish studies and especially the history of Jewish-Christian interactions; the intersections of philosophical and religious thought; and the impact of millenarism.

Registration Deadline: June 5, 2006 Registration Fees: UC faculty & staff: $15; students with ID: no charge;* others: $30. *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

To register, please visit this web site: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11

Inquiries: 310-206-8552

Sunday, June 11 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Session 1 – Popkin and the History of Philosophy Chair: Richard Allan Watson, Washington University in St. Louis Brian Copenhaver, UCLA "Popkin Non-Scepticus: The Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy"

Allison P. Coudert, UC Davis "À Rebours in Academia: Richard Popkin’s Contributions to Intellectual History"

Sarah Hutton, Middlesex University "Popkin’s Spinoza"

Peter K.J. Park, Loyola Marymount University "Assessing the Work of Richard H. Popkin from the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Studies"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Session 2 – Religion and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century Chair: Robert S. Westman, UC San Diego James E. Force, University of Kentucky "Richard H. Popkin’s Concept of the Third Force and the Newtonian Synthesis of Theology and Scientific Methodology in Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, and William Whiston"

Martin Mulsow, Rutgers University "The Third Force Revisited"

David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania "The Study of the Mishnah and the Quest for Christian Identity in the Early Eighteenth Century: William Wotton and His Learned Friends"

Knox Peden, UC Berkeley "Gilles Deleuze: From Hume to Spinoza (An attempt to make good on a Popkin request)"

5:00 p.m. Reception

Monday, June 12

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Session 3 – Popkin and the Skeptical Tradition Chair: John McCumber, UCLA John Christian Laursen, UC Riverside "Popkin’s Skepticism and the Cynical Tradition"

José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais "Charron and Huet: Two Still Unexplored Legacies of Popkin’s Scholarship on Early Modern Skepticism"

Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale "The Quarrel over Ancient and Modern Skepticism: Some Reflections on Descartes and His Context"

Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky "Richard Popkin: A Son’s Memories"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Session 4 – Popkin and the Jews Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University "The Shabbatai Zvi Movement from a European Perspective: Richard H. Popkin’s Contribution to the Field"

Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Richard Popkin’s Marrano Question"

David S. Katz, Tel Aviv University "Popkin and the Jews"

David N. Myers, UCLA "Richard Popkin and the (Re)Writing of Jewish History"

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11

Reception Celebrating Prof. Kelly's New Book Satan: A Biography

Christians traditionally think of Satan as Lucifer, God's enemy, who rebelled against Him out of pride and then caused Adam and Eve to sin. However, Kelly argues that this portrayal is not Biblical but is rather a scenario developed by the early Fathers of the Church, which became what he calls the "New Biography" of Satan. The "Original Biography" must be reconstructed from the data of the New Testament. Here we see that Satan is the same sort of celestial functionary we find in the Book of Job. He has been appointed to govern the world, specifically to monitor and test human beings, to determine whether they are worthy of reward. But he is brutal and obstructionist in his methods, and Jesus predicts that his rule will soon come to an end. We do not see this happening, however, except in a vision of the future, when Satan is to be defeated by Michael and dismissed from his position as Accuser of Humans. But in post-Biblical times, after Satan is transformed to Lucifer and identified with the Serpent of Eden, more doctrines developed: original sin and inherited guilt, captivity by Satan, and punishment in Hell at his hands; and his battle with Michael was moved from the future to the beginning of time, as in Milton's Paradise Lost.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"The Contribution of the Vienna School to the Historical Ethnography of the Early Middle Ages"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Open House

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Roundtable: "The Islamic Interpretation of the Crusade; a New (Old) Paradigm for Understanding the Crusades"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Roundtable: "An Oblique Look at a Medieval Translator's Work"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Sound Government and (Shakespeare's) Sound Jests"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Roundtable: "Satan, Hell, and Limbo: Late Developments"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Roundtable: "Ritual in Images in Medieval Liturgical Manuscripts"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Savonarola: God and Politics in Renaissance Italy"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"'The filigree hiding the gothic'. The Malatesti: The Books, the Sword, the Women, and their Pope"

Although not as well-known as families such as the Medici or Gonzaga, the Malatesti occupy a central position in the history of the Italian Renaissance. In Inferno V, Dante recounts the tragic story of Paolo Malatesti and Francesca da Polenta, one of the most famous episodes of the Divine Comedy. Pope Pius II, in his Commentaries, devotes a long section to the “unspeakable crimes” of Sigismondo Malatesta, lord of Rimini, a man gifted with eloquence and great military skill, who “surpassed every barbarian in cruelty … the worst of all men who have lived or ever will live, the shame of Italy, the disgrace of our age.” Four hundred years later, historian Jakob Burckhardt considered the same Sigismondo the crowning figure among “the furtherers of humanism,” equally capable in war and art, unscrupulous, cruel, and yet refined, in other words, the epitome of the new man capable of changing the course of civilization, and of ushering in the age of modernity. Ezra Pound’s description of Sigismondo in his “Malatesta Cantos” as the “filigree that hides the gothic” takes us back to Burckhardt’s definition of the Italian Renaissance as a time of physical violence and artistic delicacy, and of Sigismondo Malatesti as the source of one of the highest cultural achievements of the West.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Department of Italian, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Annual Hammer Foundation Lecture: "Giordano Bruno's Heroic Madness"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Medieval Cripples, Visible and Invisible"

The word “cripple,” from an Anglo-Saxon word that means “to creep,” was more apt for people with mobility impairments in the Middle Ages than it is perhaps today. In fact, the ‘able’ body was neither quite so frequent nor so dominating in the Middle Ages or Renaissance as it became later. Eccentric bodies abounded. Illness increased the proportion of the deaf, blind, and lame. Medieval manuscripts and Renaissance prints have many images of the blind and of people using crutches. Others are shown dragging their twisted bodies about by means of small hand trestles. In these images the blind and lame emerge, neither institutionalized nor hidden away. If not ‘normal’, they often seem quite ordinary.

There are also disabled people of great fame and accomplishment in the Middle Ages. Hermann of Reichenau, also called Hermannus Contractus, ‘Hermann the Cripple’, was one of the most celebrated eleventh century scholars of Latin, Greek, and Arabic. He could scarcely move without assistance. King John the Blind ruled Bohemia from 1309 to 1346, and died in battle, fighting the English at Crécy. Nonetheless, people with eccentric bodies were usually just that – eccentric, found at the edges of the social order and culturally invisible.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Image and Exposition: Iconography and Doctrine in Medieval East Asian Buddhism"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "A Postmodern View of Byzantine Art"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, A Symposium"

Related lectures are planned with Anthony Cutler on Thursday, January 25 ( see calendar entry above) and Bissera Pentcheva on Sunday, January 28, at 3:00 pm in University Hall at Loyola Marymount University. Prof. Pentcheva (Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Stanford University) will discuss “The Performative Icon.” For more information about the conference, please contact Michelle Keller at 310-440-7034 or write mkeller@getty.edu.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Disitinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Boats and Beachcombing: Poets and Power in Early Medieval Ireland, Some Stories from Cormac's Glossary"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Roundtable: "Conversion and the Self"

We will look at an early medieval conversion narrative that brought psychological and physical wholeness, a 14th- century story of conversion where a converted body proves theological truths claimed to restore wholeness, and some Rabbinic theorizing about conversion, bodily impurity, and the status of the pure converted body in this world.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Disitinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Sons and Fathers: the Expression of Patronymy in Celtic Onomastics"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Making Sense of the Chinese Rites Debate: Rome 1735, Los Angeles 2007"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Lady Mary Wroth's Interrogations of Nationalism"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Liturgical Performance in the Early Middle Ages"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Three Most Mysterious Women and the Genesis of Dante's Divine Comedy"

Enlisting recent research as well as Helen Vendler's notion of "characteristic authorial patterns," this talk also seeks to imagine the concatenated events that led Dante to abandon his doctrinal works, the Convivio and the De vulgari eloquenzia, pushing them aside like the boosters of a rocket launched towards the stars.

About this 107-line canzone, the Dante scholar, Remo Fasani has said, “If, for some reason, I had to save just one page, one single page of all Italian poetry, it would be this canzone.”

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Medieval Slavic Workshop

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

California Medieval History Seminar

Advance registration is required! To register, write to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu. No charge for faculty and graduate students from California colleges and universities; for others, $25 fee may apply. Please inquire when registering.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Believing the Impossible: Aethiopika and Critical Romance"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Fourteenth History of the Book Lecture

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

The Fourth Rebecca Catz Memorial Lecture: "Presumable West African Routes Created by the Portuguese Explorers, including Vasco da Gama"

Professor Hulet will discuss presumable West African routes created by the Portuguese explorers, including Vasco da Gama’s historic conquest of the South Atlantic in 1497- 1499, and his establishment of the classic maritime route bringing Europe and Asia together by sea. By invitation only.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "El Greco's Neoplatonism and the Eyes of Reason"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Conference: HISTORY AS REFLECTED IN ISRAELI LITERATURE

“HISTORY AS REFLECTED IN ISRAELI LITERATURE" An International Conference March 11-13, 2007

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. TO REGISTER, PLEASE EMAIL CJSRSVP@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: One of the signal achievements of Israeli culture since its very beginning has been the production of a rich and varied literature. This conference is dedicated to the examination of Israeli literature in its intersection with Israeli history. That is, we are interested in the way in which literature integrates, confronts, or ignores historical events of significance to the formation of Israeli (and Jewish) culture. Accordingly, we have invited to UCLA a distinguished and diverse group of writers, literary scholars, historians to reflect on the intersection of literature and history. At the heart of our deliberations stand a set of overlapping question: Can one write Israeli history today without paying careful attention to Israel's rich literary tradition? And can one write literature in Israel without feeling the heavy weight of history? Ultimately, we seek to explore in this conference the subtle relationships among literary creations, historical memory, and the society they reflect or mold.

FOR A COMPLETE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE, PLEASE VISIT: http://www.cjs.ucla.edu/Events/Flyers/IsraelConf.pdf

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. TO REGISTER, PLEASE EMAIL CJSRSVP@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (cjs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.cjs.ucla.edu/Events/Flyers/IsraelConf.pdf

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Poets in Two Worlds"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Fifteenth History of the Book Lecture

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Christina of Markyate and the St. Albans Psalter."

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Dr. Rita Charon Discusses the Narrative of Henry James

-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LUSO-HISPANIC STUDIES Lecture Series 2006-2007

Neil Larsen (UC Davis)

Lecture: “Towards a Theory of ‘Theory’” Wednesday, April 11 Lecture — 4 p.m. Royce Hall 306

Please write to Dacia Serrano (dacia@humnet.ucla.edu) to register for the seminar and receive a pre-circulated paper

Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Latin American Center, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Education Office, Consulate General of Spain, in Los Angeles.

This event is free and open to the public.

Parking is available in Lot 4 for $8.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LUSO-HISPANIC STUDIES Lecture Series 2006-2007

Organized by Michelle Clayton, Anna More & Maite Zubiaurre

Neil Larsen (UC Davis)

“Race, Periphery, Reification: Speculations on ‘Hybridity’ in Light of Gilberto Freyre’s Casa grande e senzala ”

Thursday, April 12

Seminar — 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Rolfe 4302 (Lydeen Library)

Please write to Dacia Serrano (dacia@humnet.ucla.edu) to register for the seminar and receive a pre-circulated paper.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Latin American Center, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Education Office, Consulate General of Spain, in Los Angeles.

This event is free and open to the public.

Parking is available in Lot 4 for $8

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Meg Lamont Discusses "Brut", a Popular History of England

-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Rituals of Departure for Crusade"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

The Thirtieth Symposium on Portuguese Traditions--SIMPÓSIO XXX

The Symposium traditionally has no fixed theme and welcomes the widest range of pertinent topics. Papers may be presented in English or Portuguese and are limited to fifteen minutes reading time. Registration forms, programs of recent Symposiums, and contents of recent issues of Encruzilhadas/Crossroads may be found at www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/portsymp/portsympmain.html. Registration is $50 ($40 before March 15th); no fee for UCLA students, faculty, and staff. Send registration check to: Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, c/o Prof. Claude L. Hulet, UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Los Angeles CA 90095-1532.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact chulet@ucla.edu

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Cervantes and Shakespeare: The Middle Ages in Renaissance Garb"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"A Renaissance Commemoration of Raphael or a Romantic Obsession: A Second Version of the Madonna della Seggiola"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Annual Shakespeare Symposium

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Illustrating Ethnicity in the Middle Ages"

-- submitted by Brett landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

California Medieval History Seminar

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Shu Lea Cheang's "Fresh Kill"

presents

Shu Lea Cheang's "Fresh Kill"

Film Screening followed by Artist's Reflections and Q&A with Director Shu Lea Cheang

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

James Bridges Theater, 1409 Melnitz Hall

7:00 pm

"Fresh Kill" tells the story of two young lesbian parents (Sarita Choudhury of MISSISSIPPI MASALA and Erin McMurtry) who get caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. The place is New York and the time is now. Raw fish lips are the rage on trendy menus across Manhattan. A ghost barge, bearing nuclear refuse, circles the planet in search of a willing port. Household pets start to glow ominously and then disappear altogether. The sky opens up and snows soap flakes. People start speaking in tongues. The crisis escalates when a multinational corporation is implicated and the couple's infant daughter mysteriously vanishes. After uncovering censored information, a group of young New Yorkers makes an unlikely alliance with activists in the developing world and strikes back.

Visit http://humnet.ucla.edu/mellon for more information

This event is sponsored by the Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, and the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

"From Hebrew to Ladino: Manuscripts and Books Among the Jews of Medieval Spain and the 'Sephardi Diaspora'"

"From Hebrew to Ladino: Manuscripts and Books Among the Jews of Medieval Spain and the 'Sephardi Diaspora'" The Maurice Amado Symposium in Sephardic Studies Evelyn Cohen (The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York) Moshe Lazar (USC) Shalom Sabar (UCLA / Hebrew University)

Limited Seating. Please RSVP at CJSRSVP@humnet.ucla.edu For more information contact CJS (310) 825-5387.

-- submitted by UCLA Center for Jewish Studies (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

The Ninth St. Shenouda Conference of Coptic Studies

You are cordially invited to attend

The Ninth St. Shenouda Conference of Coptic Studies at UCLA.

Friday-Saturday, 13-14 July 2007

Royce Hall, Room 314,

For full program and directions, see www.stshenouda.com.

You may register at www.stshenouda.com. Walk-ins are most welcome.

Scholars from 14 institutions will present 19 papers in all things Coptic: monasticism, history, sociopolitical development, language, early Christian literature, Gnosticism, art, music, ecumenism, library resources, and education.

The conference is organized by St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society and co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) of UCLA and the Collegiate Coptic Orthodox Christian Club at UCLA.

Nineteen will be presented by scholars such as:

- Professor James Robinson of Claremont Graduate University,

- Professor Marvin Meyer of Chapman University,

- Professor Boulos Ayad Ayad of University of Colorado,

- Dr. Jacco Dieleman of UCLA,

- Professor Mark Swanson of the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago,

- Dr. Tim Vivian of California State University Bakersfield,

- Dr. Monica Bontty of the University of Louisiana in Monroe,

- Mr. Hany Takla of St. Shenouda Society,

- Dr. Maged (Severus) Mikhail of California State University Fullerton,

- Dr. Rene Marquedant of Claremont Graduate University,

- Michelle Youssef-Forgione of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles,

- Dr. Youhanna Youssef of Australian Catholic University in Melbourne,

- Dr. Saad Michael Saad, Senior Editor, Watani International.

-- submitted by Jacco Dieleman (dieleman@humanities.ucla.edu)

"The Saga of Egill, Viking Skald and Psychopath: Tradition and Text"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Medieval Manuscripts -- Their Makers and Users: A Conference in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse"