January Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

The UCLA Globalization Research Center Africa (GRCA) is a member of a four-university consortium---the Globalization Research Network-- that was established with a grant from the US Congress, through the Department of Education. The purpose of the consortium is to promote collaborative research among constituent centers on the process of globalization. The four universities, each with a particular geographic focus, are the University of Hawaii, Manoa, the George Washington University, the University of South Florida and UCLA. The research done by the consortium and its members is intended to improve public understanding of globalization as it is manifested in all parts of the world and to interject the study of globalization into the curriculum of schools.

The GRCA is making available a limited amount of funds on a competitive basis to full time regular UCLA faculty and Ph.D. students for the support of research on how globalization impacts Africa and how Africa impacts the globalization process. These grants may be to individuals up to $3000 and/or research teams up to $15,000.

The deadline for receiving proposals is February 22, 2006.

For complete details and application, we invite you to visit www.globalization-africa.org

Completed RFPs should be sent to the following address:

Globalization Research Center Africa 10359 Bunche Hall

Mail Code 148703

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

This series will explore the role and place of theory in the field of Comparative Literature. As a discipline whose academic identity in recent years has been closely associated with the intellectual currents and movements thought of as “high theory,” recent pronouncements of the end of theory invite a critical reflection on the future of the field. Of particular interest in this series will be the question of the way globalization has transformed academic conversations about both theory and world literature.

RANJI KHANNA (Duke University) AND NATALIE MELAS (Cornell University) 10/25/05 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

PEGGY KAMUF (University of Southern California) 11/2/05 5:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

HAUN SAUSSY (Yale University) 1/19/06 4:00 pm Faculty Center Downstairs Lounge

RICHARD RORTY (Stanford University) 2/16/06 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

JONATHAN ARAC (Columbia University) 3/09/06 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

PETER HULME (University of Essex) 4/20/06 4:00 pm Faculty Center Hacienda Room

REY CHOW (Brown University) 4/27/06 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

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

Co-sponsored by the Netherlands Consulate General of Los Angeles.

The term “capitalist” appears only late in the eighteenth century as a way of describing the speculating or commercial classes. Yet money was ubiquitous in early modern Europe. The goal of this conference is to examine how people who sought to make it, struggled to acquire and keep it, viewed themselves. They operated in cities great and small, in capitals of trade such as Venice, Hamburg, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Lyon, and Marseille, but also in Leeds and The Hague. How did they explain themselves; how did they understand their worldly activities? How did they cope with a culture that had for so long opposed material wealth to spiritual possessions, earthly pursuits to the spiritual realm? This sort of “self perception” can be read directly from the writings of merchants themselves (through their memories, letters, addresses) and also it can be found in legitimating discourses employed by contemporaries interested in valorizing trade. Our work has been informed by Weber on Protestantism and capitalism, yet we propose to access a new vocabulary, based on the sources and taking into account also Catholic and Sephardic merchants.

Papers: Conference papers will be posted to the Center’s website by January 8, and will remain accessible until February 5. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm

Registration Deadline: January 8, 2007

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

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.

Program Schedule:

Friday, January 19

9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks – Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Session 1 Chair: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA Giacomo Todeschini, Università di Trieste The Theological Roots of Medieval/Modern Merchant’s Self-Representation

Francesca Trivellato, Yale University Images and Self-Images of Sephardic Merchants in Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean

Julia Adams, Yale University Seeing Like a Capitalist? Assuming and Ascribing Agency in Early Modern European Trading Companies

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 2 Chair: Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht Clé Lesger, Universiteit van Amsterdam Merchants in Charge: Ambitions and Self-Perception of Amsterdam Merchants, 1550-1700

Dorothee Sturkenboom, Vrije Universiteit Merchants on the Defensive. Conflicting Self-Images of a Capitalist Nation under Crisis

Leos Müller, Uppsala Universitat “Merchants” and “Gentlemen” in Early-Modern Sweden. The World of Jean Abraham Grill, 1736-1792

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, January 20

9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3 Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA

Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California Accounting for Science: How a Merchant Kept His Books in Elizabethan London

Jochen Hoock, Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot Professional Ethics and Commercial Rationality at the Beginning of the Modern Era

John Smail, University of North Carolina at Charlotte A Coming of Age in Commerce: Young Men of Business in Eighteenth-Century England

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 4 Chair: Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Success and Self-Loathing in the Life of an Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneur

Mary Lindemann, University of Miami From Windtrading to Malicious Bankruptcy: Perceptions of Economic Impropriety in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg

Cathy Matson, University of Delaware Accounting for War and Revolution: Philadelphia Merchants’ Perceptions of Risk and Failure, 1774-1811

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jan19

Ever since, in the late seventies, research on second language acquisition joined, in a rather timid way, the cognitive sciences, the comparison between the development of non-native grammars and native grammars, diachronic change and Creole formation has followed very different paths. In the case of primary language acquisition, the comparison has been systematic both to highlight the similarities and the differences between the two processes. The comparison between interlanguage systems and the development of pidgins reached a peak when the pidginization (Schumann 1979) and the nativization (Andersen 1983) hypotheses were put forward and then faded away, at least for those studying second language acquisition from the ‘linguistic’ perspective. With regards to the comparison between the development of non-native grammars and diachronic change, while there have been some sporadic attempts, one could well say that no dialogue has been established between the two disciplines.

In this presentation we will rely on two different constructs of linguistic theory, Chomsky’s (1986, 1991) I-language/E-language dichotomy and the concept of grammaticalization (Roberts and Roussou 2003), to discuss the advantages and limitations for the analysis of non-native systems of three proposals related to the above-mentioned types of change: (i) the ‘feature-assembly’ proposal put forward by Lardiere (2005, in press) in an attempt to account for the variability that characterizes interlanguage systems; (ii) the ‘relexification hypothesis’ (Lefebvre 1998) which attributes to the adult the fundamental role in Creole formation; and (iii) the ‘competing grammars hypothesis’ (Kroch 1994) whose central objective is to account for the parametric variability which characterizes native grammars at specific stages.

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

Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:00am - 12:00pm CDH Conference Room PPB 1023 *

Thanks to Prof. Philip Ethington (USC) we will have the opportunity to meet and talk with Prof. Cardesin, who works in the area of digital urban history. See for example Ferrol Urban History Please help us with planning, RSVP by visiting /

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

For more information, see http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/cardesin.php

"Rethinkings of Comparative Literature: From Perspectivism to Teleiopoesis and Beyond"

January 11, 2007 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Roland Greene is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Head of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University.  He graduated with an A.B. from Brown University, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton.  His research and teaching are chiefly concerned with the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world. His most recent book is Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (Chicago, 1999), which follows the love poetry of the Renaissance into fresh political and colonial contexts in the New World. He is also the author of Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (Princeton, 1991), and the editor with Elizabeth Fowler of The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World (Cambridge, 1997). His recent essays deal with topics such as the colonial baroque, Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Puritan poet Ann Lock, and Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is now at work on a book about the early modern cultural semantics of five words: blood, invention, language, resistance, and world.

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

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)

presents

"The Pope, the Muslims & the Problems of Religion"

or

"Oops! What the Pope Didn’t Mean to Say in Regensburg, But Did Anyway."

by:

Professor Ivan Strenski, Department of Religious Studies - UC Riverside

Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12-1:30PM Bunche Hall 10383

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

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

A free public lecture by:

Edyta Bojanowska, Harvard University

"The Penal Colony as an Image of Imperial Nation in Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the House of the Dead'"

Wednesday, January 17, 2006 3:00 p.m. 311 Humanities Building

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/index.html

“Friedrich’s book is not a lament but it is, in parts, an indictment.” — London Review of Books

Targeting Civilians: The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War II

During the Second World War Allied forces mounted a bombing campaign against German cities in order to convince civilians to withdraw their support for the German war machine. 600,000 civilians, including 70,000 children, were killed during the total air war campaign which lasted five years. Jörg Friedrich discusses his controversial book, The Fire, which is available for the first time in English. His lecture addresses the ramifications of the Allied bombing of Germany, touching on the debate over German victimhood, the morality of war, the accusations of Allied war crimes, and the implications for the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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

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

Rachel Wetzsteon's new volume of poems is Sakura Park. Her first book, The Other Stars, was chosen for the National Poetry Series.

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

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

A conference at the Clark Library organized by Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Co-sponsored by the Netherlands Consulate General of Los Angeles.

The term “capitalist” appears only late in the eighteenth century as a way of describing the speculating or commercial classes. Yet money was ubiquitous in early modern Europe. The goal of this conference is to examine how people who sought to make it, struggled to acquire and keep it, viewed themselves. They operated in cities great and small, in capitals of trade such as Venice, Hamburg, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Lyon, and Marseille, but also in Leeds and The Hague. How did they explain themselves; how did they understand their worldly activities? How did they cope with a culture that had for so long opposed material wealth to spiritual possessions, earthly pursuits to the spiritual realm? This sort of “self perception” can be read directly from the writings of merchants themselves (through their memories, letters, addresses) and also it can be found in legitimating discourses employed by contemporaries interested in valorizing trade. Our work has been informed by Weber on Protestantism and capitalism, yet we propose to access a new vocabulary, based on the sources and taking into account also Catholic and Sephardic merchants.

Papers: Conference papers will be posted to the Center’s website by January 8, and will remain accessible until February 5. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm

Registration Deadline: January 8, 2007

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form.

Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

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.

Program Schedule:

Friday, January 19 9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks – Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Session 1 Chair: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

Giacomo Todeschini, Università di Trieste The Theological Roots of Medieval/Modern Merchant’s Self-Representation

Francesca Trivellato, Yale University Images and Self-Images of Sephardic Merchants in Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean

Julia Adams, Yale University Seeing Like a Capitalist? Assuming and Ascribing Agency in Early Modern European Trading Companies

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 2 Chair: Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

Clé Lesger, Universiteit van Amsterdam Merchants in Charge: Ambitions and Self-Perception of Amsterdam Merchants, 1550-1700

Dorothee Sturkenboom, Vrije Universiteit Merchants on the Defensive. Conflicting Self-Images of a Capitalist Nation under Crisis

Leos Müller, Uppsala Universitat “Merchants” and “Gentlemen” in Early-Modern Sweden. The World of Jean Abraham Grill, 1736-1792

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, January 20 9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3 Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA

Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California Accounting for Science: How a Merchant Kept His Books in Elizabethan London

Jochen Hoock, Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot Professional Ethics and Commercial Rationality at the Beginning of the Modern Era

John Smail, University of North Carolina at Charlotte A Coming of Age in Commerce: Young Men of Business in Eighteenth-Century England

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 4 Chair: Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Success and Self-Loathing in the Life of an Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneur

Mary Lindemann, University of Miami From Windtrading to Malicious Bankruptcy: Perceptions of Economic Impropriety in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg

Cathy Matson, University of Delaware Accounting for War and Revolution: Philadelphia Merchants’ Perceptions of Risk and Failure, 1774-1811

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jan19

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

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

Justin Steinberg

University of Chicago

"The Spectre of the Other Woman in Dante and Petrarch"

Monday, January 22, 2007

5:00 pm

Royce 243

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

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

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:00 PM

Royce Hall 236

Made in War (2006, 40') is a documentary about the Italian Resistance against Fascism during World War II. The documentary, by Alice Carletti and Jerry Ioppolo, analyzes the Resistance in Bologna through the testimonies of the people who lived under the oppression of the Fascist regime, the sad experience of war, and concentration camps. Interviews with historians, writers, and Partisans help to retell this difficult moment in Italian history.

This presentation of Made in War is organized by the Italian Department Graduate Students.

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

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

BruinTech and Student Affairs have joined forces with the California Office of Privacy Protection, the UCPD, and the Office of Information Technology to offer a timely and important seminar on what you can do to protect your identity, your credit, and your peace of mind. All UCLA faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend one of the free seminars where experts in the field of identity protection will speak and answer your questions.

Although this seminar is not directly about the recent UCLA security breach, the timing of the presentations is certainly meant to address your concerns and answer your questions when you may need that information most.

The seminar is being offered three times in one day in the hope of finding a slot that works into your schedule. Please only RSVP to one seminar. The seminars are official university business events, so we hope that supervisors will allow employees to attend during regular work hours if they are interested.

The seminars are free and open to the UCLA community on a first-rsvp, first-served basis. Please RSVP as soon as possible at the site above. If the sessions fill up and there is still demand, we will plan additional seminars in the near future. We also plan to make podcasts and webcasts available shortly after the 24th.

If you have questions about what Identity Theft is, what to do before you're hit, what are the signs to look for, and what do if you actually are a victim, this is the seminar for you.

RSVP: http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/identity_theft.htm

P.S. BruinTech is also sponsoring a seminar the following week on Wednesday, January 31st, 1:30 - 3:30 PM on how to keep your home computer secure. You can also RSVP for this event through: http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/seminar200701.htm

We hope to see you there. BruinTech and UCLA Student Affairs.

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

For more information, see http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/identity_theft.htm

Mr. Youssef Sidhom Editor-in-Chief of Egyptian weekly Watani

Abstract: The promotion of Coptic culture in the media and educational systems in Egypt can have a powerful positive impact on the promotion of democracy, education, civil society, and nation building. Since the late 18th century Coptic politicians and intellectuals have been involved in the process of nation building of the modern republic of Egypt, even though their presence and input may not always be acknowledged in the public media and history text books. The talk will address the Coptic contribution from a variety of angles, such as its cultural, social, political, historical, and religious aspects, and reflect upon the possibilities and challenges of today. The ongoing project to amend the Egyptian constitution presents an opportunity for Coptic initiatives once again; are we seeing positive signs and is there a cause for optimism?

Biography: Mr. Youssef Sidhom is Editor-in-Chief of Watani, which is a major weekly Egyptian newspaper founded in 1958. Watani (www.wataninet.com) is the only newspaper in the Arab world that contains sections in Arabic, English and French. Watani’s mission includes providing a forum for democracy, citizenship rights, liberalism (by Egyptian standards), and women and minority issues. Watani is deeply dedicated to offer its readers high quality, extensive, credible press coverage, with special focus on Coptic issues, culture, heritage, and contribution to Egyptian society.

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

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

A night celebrating the late Professor Jules Zentner

Featuring an introduction to the life of Jules Zentner, a screening of the short film De Düwe, and light refreshments

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

7:00 PM—9:00 PM

South Bay Room

Covel Commons

Parking will be available for $8

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

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

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

"Le Couperet"

Directed by Costa Gavras

8 pm film screening followed by a Q&A with Costa Gavras

James Bridges Theater, UCLA

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

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

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

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)

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

“The contemporary figure of the soldier in poetry and politics”

January 30, 2007 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Alain Badiou was born in Rabat, Morocco. He is Professor (and formerly Chair) of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He also teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie, and the European Graduate School, and has taught at University of Paris VIII. He is co-founder and President of the Centre International d'Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine. He was trained as a mathematician, and was one of the founding members of the Unified Socialist Party in France, a group particularly active in the struggle for the decolonization of Algeria. In addition to several novels, plays, and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. He is the author most recently of Logiques des mondes. Several of his books have recently appeared in English, including, Being and Event (Continuum 2006), as well as Handbook of Inaesthetics (Stanford 2005), Metapolitics (Verso, 2005), Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Verso, 2001), Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Stanford 2003), Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy (Continuum 2005). Badiou is rapidly emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time, a peer of Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan. Badiou opposes the contemporary reduction of philosophy to nothing but a matter of language and premature announcements of the end of philosophy and thus sets himself against both analytic and continental modes of philosophy. Setting the traditional Platonic concerns of philosophy, truth, and being against the modern sophists of postmodernism, Badiou has articulated a powerful systematic philosophy with profound ethical and political consequences. Badiou's enormously original work has made major contributions not only to philosophy and political theory, but also to psychoanalysis, film theory, and aesthetics. For additional information visit: www.soundandsignifier.com

This Event is Co-Sponsored by The Mellon Fellows Program

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

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)

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

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

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

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

Presents

Polish-Jewish Relations Today

A Seminar moderated by

Michael Berenbaum (American Jewish University)

Featuring Speakers

Zbigniew Nosowski (Editor-in-chief of The WIEZ)

The Hon. David Peleg (Ambassador of Israel in Poland)

The Hon. Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Former Polish Foreign Minister)

Monday, January 14, 2008 7:30PM - 9:30PM

Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP at (310) 267- 5327 or at cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu

For more information about the event or the speaker, please visit our website.

-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

PAUL AUSTER

THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST

Monday, January 14, 2008 at 7:30 P.M.

in the James Bridges Theatre (1409 Melnitz Hall)

Parking Available in Lot 3, $8

Following Paul Auster’s now legendary collaborations with Wayne Wang on Smoke (for which Auster won the Independent Spirit Award for best first screenplay) and Blue in the Face, as well as his solo debut as writer and director of Lulu on the Bridge, THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST represents Auster’s most original and captivating work in the movies to date.

Film synopsis: Novelist Martin Frost has just published his latest book. He decides to rest his mind alone in a country house. The dawn of his first day, he discovers with amazement a mysterious and astonishing woman lying next to him. Fascinated by her beauty and intelligence Martin falls deeply in love with her. He has found the muse that helplessly drives him to write his most perfect piece. But is Claire really the person she claims to be? A philosophical mystery that asks us to question the manner in which we define reality and the way we choose to see the world around us, THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST is at once tender, moving, and devilishly funny.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED

This Event is Free and Open to the Public - RSVP to friends@english.ucla.edu

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

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

Julija Sukys

"Postcard from Dachau: A Librarian in the Land of the Dead"

Tuesday, January, 15, 2008

4:30 pm

Royce Hall 236

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

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

In Its “FUTURE OF RELIGION” Series

Invites you to a two-day conference on the theme:

“MIMETIC THEORY and NEUROSCIENCE”

Featuring the author of this famous theory of human behavior, Prof. RENÉ GIRARD of Stanford University and Prof. ANTONIO DAMASIO, distinguished neuroscientist at the University of Southern California.

The conference will be focused on the latest developments in Girard’s “mimetic theory,” including a high-powered symposium dealing with cutting-edge research on the relation of Girard’s theory to recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and developmental psychology. On the first day, Tuesday January 15, Prof. Girard will speak at 7:30PM, and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Hamerton-Kelly also from Stanford, will speak that afternoon at 4:00.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15 in the PUBLIC POLICY BUILDING, ROOM 1246:

4:00-5:45: Lecture by Dr. Hamerton-Kelly titled “Religion as a Theory of Human Behavior”

7:30-9:00: Lecture by Prof. Girard titled “Religion and Apocalypse”

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16TH, 3:00PM – 6:00PM: Panel discussion in ROYCE HALL, ROOM 314.

Theme: “Mimetic Theory and Neuroscience”

The panelists are:

René Girard (Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, Honorary Chair of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion and elected member of the Academie française, the highest rank for French intellectuals)

Antonio Damasio (Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Neurology at USC and Director of the USC College Brain and Creativity Institute)

Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the École Polytechnique, Paris and the Director of C.R.E.A. (Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée), which he founded in 1982. At Stanford University, he is a researcher at the Center for Study of Language and Information (C.S.L.I.)

Scott Garrels (Assistant Research Professor, Travis Research Institute, Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary)

Marco Iacoboni (Associate Professor, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA and Director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab of the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center) (not yet confirmed)

Dr. Hamerton-Kelly (President of “Imitatio Inc.-Integrating the Human Sciences”) will introduce the panel and Dr. William Hurlbut (Consulting Professor, The Neuroscience Institute at Stanford, Stanford University Medical Center, and the President’s Council on Bioethics) will moderate.

Parking in Structure #2 at Westholme off Hilgard. A fee of $8.00 is charged.

This conference is FREE and open to the public.

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

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

This conference is made possible by a generous grant from the Ahmanson Foundation, and cosponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Dean of Humanities of the UCLA College of Letters and Science, and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. It was organized by UCLA graduate students Leanne Good, Ned Schoolman, and Sarah Whitten, all of the History department, with the assistance of Dr. Barbara Schedl (UCLA and the University of Vienna) and Professor Patrick Geary (UCLA).

Time: Friday, January 18, from 12 noon-5:30pm, and Saturday, January 19, from 10am-5pm.

The complete program can be downloaded at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/monasticism_program.pdf

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

Presents

The War Between Eldad the Danite and Prester John Through Time and Space

A Faculty/Student Seminar on Jewish-Christian Relations

By Micha Perry (UCLA)

Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:00PM

Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP at (310) 267- 5327 or at cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu

For more information about the event or the speaker, please visit our website.

-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

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

Download the readings in advance at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/disputation_readings/index .html#trevisa_berkeley. You will need to contact CMRS for the user name and password to access the files. Call 310-825-1880 or email cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu

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

Presents

"The 'Jewish Question' Among the German-Speaking Exiles in Los Angeles"

Seminar on the LA Jewish Experince

By Ehrhard Bahr (UCLA)

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:00PM

Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP at (310) 267- 5327 or at cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu

For more information about the event or the speaker, please visit our website.

-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

“Porous Sovereignty, Walled Democracy”

January 29, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Professor Brown received her Ph.D in Political Philosophy from Princeton University in 1983. Prior to coming to Berkeley in 1999, she taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz and at Williams College. Brown's books include Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988), States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, 1995), Politics Out of History (Princeton, 2001), Left Legalism/Left Critique, co-edited with Janet Halley (Duke, 2002), Edgework: Critical Essays in Knowledge and Politics (Princeton, 2005), and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton, 2006). She has lectured widely in Europe and North America, has held a number of distinguished visiting lectureships, and has recently been a Senior Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a UC Berkeley Humanities Fellow.

This event is co-sponsored by the Mellon Fellows Program

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

presents

Bernhard Siegert

(Bauhaus Universitat Weimar and UC Santa Barbara)

"(Im)possibilities of Writing Media History"

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Royce Hall 314

5:30 pm

Co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary, the Department of Germanic Languages, and the Department of Comparative Literature

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

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