November Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

The California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS) was established in 2001 to bring together faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars from around the state who are interested in Italy. The organization maintains a list-serve and holds meetings to discuss shared concerns and to organize an annual interdisciplinary conference.

The topic for the fifth annual conference, scheduled for February 24-25, 2006 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, is "Italy and the Mediterranean." Please see the attached call for papers for details.

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For further information regarding CICIS, contact Prof. Jon Snyder snyder@french-ital.ucsb.edu or Prof. John Marino jmarino@ucsd.edu

CICIS 2006 Call for Papers:

Italy and the Mediterranean

The 2006 conference of the California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS) at UCLA on February 24-25 will examine aspects of the relationship of the Italian peninsula and Italy with the Mediterranean from antiquity to the present in a transnational and transcultural perspective. Paper proposals are welcome on topics pertaining to Italy and the Mediterranean in discourses and practices ranging from history, geography, politics, literature and the arts (including film), to travel and trade networks, migrations, urban cultures, colonial and postcolonial relations, gender and racial relations, religion, media images and communication, food, popular culture and folklore.

Please send a paragraph describing your proposed paper by Monday, December 19th to the organizing committee at UCLA: Massimo Ciavolella ( ciavolel@humnet.ucla.edu) and Lucia Re, (re@humnet.ucla.edu) (The proposals will be evaluated by an Advisory Committee).

Major funding from a number of donors will allow us to pay for transportation and one- or two-night hotel accommodations for graduate students who wish to attend the conference (whether or not they are presenting papers). UC faculty and those whose departments and universities support inter-campus travel are asked to solicit local funds to pay for their own travel. (Lodging will be covered by CICIS upon request). We do have funds to provide travel for those faculty who may not be able to secure travel funding from their own campus. Please make sure you apply for inter-campus travel funds in a timely fashion. Deadlines may vary from campus to campus.

-- submitted by Danielle Cooper (webcalendar@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact snyder@french-ital.ucsb.edu

In Celebration of the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen’s birth

presents a Lecture by

SIR NIELS INGWERSEN (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

entitled

“SUBVERSIVE STORYTELLERS OF THE NORTH: FROM ANONYMOUS ICONOCLASTS TO HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN”

Thursday, November 10, 2005 Royce 314 4:00 pm

Reception to follow

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

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

Susan Wheeler is the author of a novel, Record Palace, and four books of poetry.

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

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

"JEWISH LA-- THEN AND NOW"

A three-day national conference on the history of Los Angeles Jews.

Day 1: LA JEWISH STORIES -- Saturday, November 12, 6-9PM at the Skirball Cultural Center

Day 2: JEWISH LA INSIDE AND OUT -- Sunday, November 13, 10AM-6PM at the Autry National Center

Day 3: WHAT'S WESTERN ABOUT THE LA JEWISH EXPERIENCE? -- Monday, November 14, 10AM-6PM at the UCLA Faculty Center

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

For more information, please visit www.lajh.org.

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

For more information, see http://www.lajh.org

Second Film in the Series

"Die Stille nach dem Schuss" (2000), directed by Volker Schloendorff

Tuesday, November 15 at 5:30 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

All films in German with English subtitles

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

Nelson, who teaches Digital Art and Text-Telling at Griffith University in Australia, promises to give a "combination of digital magic show, poetry reading, technical tutorial, and artist talk." Nelson's works have been shown in numerous galleries and journals, and are available for viewing and downloading at heliozoa.com and secrettechnology.com.

This event is jointly sponsored by the UCLA Department of English, the Design / Media Arts program, and the Electronic Literature Organization.

-- submitted by Carol Ann Wald (wald@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.eda.ucla.edu/main/index.php

Presents

“DOV SADAN: A ZIONIST LITERARY THEORY”

A Seminar on Jewish Culture

By: ARNOLD BAND (UCLA)

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 • 236 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

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

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

Leonard Bernstein in the Early 1950s: Theater, Genre, Cultural Critique

In the early 1950s, leading up to West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein entered the most productive phase of his entire compositional career. This paper will explore the two earliest shows from that period—Trouble in Tahiti (1952) and Wonderful Town (1953)—in terms of the multilayered questions they raise. Both works challenged the dividing line between “opera” and “musical theater.” Both dealt with pressing social and cultural issues of the day. And both were affected by McCarthy era politics. Performance venues and audience will be considered alongside musical style and cultural context.

-- submitted by Hannah Huang (webcalendar@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lesadieux@hotmail.com; hhuang@humnet.ucla.edu

Juliana Spahr is the author of Response, Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism.

Geoffrey G. O'Brien's most recent volume of poems is The Guns and Flags Project.

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

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

QUEER SCAPES:

BODY SPACE SEXUALITY

Friday, November 18, 2005 at USC / the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Saturday, November 19, 2005 at UCLA

Keynote speakers: Jacqui Alexander, David Eng, Alma Lopez, Michael Lucey, Catherine Opie

Plenary session: New Directions in Queer Latino/a Studies, with Luz Calvo, Licia Fiol-Matta, Richard T. Rodriguez, and Sandra Soto.

Panel presentations by 50 graduate student and faculty scholars

For further information, please see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC.html

Organized by

the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program and the USC Center for Feminist Research

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC.html

Presents

“THE LAST DAYS OF BUCZACZ: JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF A MULTI-ETHNIC GALICIAN TOWN"

The "1939" Club Distinguished Lecture in Holocaust Studies

By: Omer Bartov (Brown University)

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies

Sunday, November 20, 2005 Faculty Center • 7:30 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

About the Lecture: Buczacz is the hometown of the only Hebrew author who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Shmuel Yosef Agnon; of the great Polish Jewish historian, Emanuel Ringelblum; of Sigmund Freud’s grandparents; of Simon Wiesenthal; and of Bartov’s own mother. It was founded in the 14th century as a private Polish town owned by a noble family. Bartov is particularly interested in the relationships between its Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish residents, whose ethnicity, religion and trades differed.

About the Speaker: Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University and considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of genocide. He is the author of six books and the editor of three volumes, including Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation (Oxford UP, 1996), which received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History; Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (Oxford UP, 2000), an analysis of the relationship between total war and state-organized genocide and the emergence of modern identity; and The “Jew” in Cinema: From the Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2005). As a Guggenheim Fellow (2003-2004), Professor Bartov researched the history of interethnic relations and violence in the East Galician town of Buczacz. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford.

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

Presents

"THE DEBATE OVER THE EXHIBITION ‘CRIMES OF THE WEHRMACHT’ AND THE REALITY OF INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS IN EAST GALICIA IN 1941”

A Faculty/Student Workshop

By: OMER BARTOV (Brown)

Monday, November 21, 2005 12 pm • 314 Royce Hall (please note new room)

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

About the Speaker: Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University and considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of genocide. He is the author of six books and the editor of three volumes, including Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation (Oxford UP, 1996), which received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History; Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (Oxford UP, 2000), an analysis of the relationship between total war and state-organized genocide and the emergence of modern identity; and The “Jew” in Cinema: From the Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2005). As a Guggenheim Fellow (2003-2004), Professor Bartov researched the history of interethnic relations and violence in the East Galician town of Buczacz. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford.

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

Susan Koshy, "Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation"

Michael Bourdaghs, "The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism"

Ali Behdad, "A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the US"

Rafael Perrez-Torres, "To Alcatraz, Death Row and Back: Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw"

Moradewun Adejunmobi, "Vernacular Palaver: Imaginations of the Local and Non-Native Languages in West Africa"

Books will be available for sale and "Minor Transnationalism" will be available for signing.

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

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)

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)

“A Typology of French Internment Camps, 1938-1946”

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Royce Hall 236

12 pm

Free and open to the public

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

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

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

presents

"APOCALYPTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF JERUSALEM"

by: Professor Maria Leppakari, Dept. of Language & Culture/Comparative Religion Abo Akedemi University, Helsinki

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12PM – 1:30PM Bunche Hall, 7398

Lecture is FREE and open to the public! For more information about this and other events, please visit our website at www.humnet.ucla.edu/religion

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

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

November 2, 2006 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Simon Gikandi is Professor of English at Princeton University. He graduated with a first class degree in literature from the University of Nairobi, was a British Council Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, and received his Ph.D in English from Northwestern University. His major Fields of Research and Teaching are the Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Postcolonial Britain, the “Black” Atlantic and the African Diaspora. He also has a special interest in the relation between literature and the production of knowledge and the history of English as a field of study.

He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. His many books include Reading the African Novel, Reading Chinua Achebe, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. He is the general editor of The Encyclope­dia of African Literature and co-editor of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He is currently completing a book on the relation between slavery and the culture of taste.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Francophone Studies

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

Featured Speakers: Charles de Lamberterie (Université de Paris-Sorbonne; École Pratique des Hautes Études) - "Comparison and Reconstruction"

&

Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley) - "A Typological Geography for Proto-Indo-European"

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

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/pies/IECProgram.

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

All empires, in both Europe in Asia, have seen themselves as a long series of “translations” in which power and legitimacy were conveyed from one generation to the next and from one people to another. Every imperial power has attempted to model itself on one or another, real or imagined predecessors. The Achaemenids under Darius cast themselves as the heirs of the Medes and the Assyrians; the Parthians and the Sasanids as the heirs of the Achaemenids. The Romans saw themselves at times as the heirs of Alexander the Great, the empire of the Spanish Habsburgs was the successor state to the (western) Roman Empire. The overseas empires of France and Britain cast themselves as the heirs of Rome, or Carthage or Athens. The Ottomans described themselves as the successors of both the Byzantine emperors and later the Caliphs. The political, cultural and ideological conception of empire from antiquity until the nineteenth century was always, in this way, deeply mimetic. It is not incidental that the United States, although born out of the war of independence from one consciously classicizing empire, should be ruled from a neo-classical building called the “Capitol”.

This conference will examine the ways in which this indebtedness to the past determined the identity of the early-modern empires, culturally, political, conceptually, even, sometimes, institutionally. All imperial powers faced, or believed that they faced, a number of seemingly perennial questions: how to control extension; how to incorporate, and coerce subject peoples; how to conceive of political sovereignty across diverse, and widely dispersed, nations; how to maintain legitimacy in the face of opposition from critics and potential rivals; how to create cultures, and administrative elites, which would offer a continuity between the metropolitan centre and its distant dependences; how to cope with miscegenation, and the emergence of potentially independent settler populations. All of these question were, inevitably addressed in the terms of the lessons to be learned from past imperial models. Our hope is that by studying the continuities, real and imagined, between one imperial phase and another, we will acquire a far clearer conception of what an “empire” is, and how those who created, lived, administered and finally destroyed, the early-modern empires understood the polities in which they lived.

Registration Deadline: October 27, 2006

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.

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, November 3

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

Clifford Ando, University of Chicago "Law, Memory and Sovereignty in the Roman Empire"

Giulia Sissa, UCLA "The First Empire of Democracy, or the Athenian Exception"

12:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Ali Anooshahr, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies "Disclaiming Tamerlane’s Inheritance and the Rise of the Mughal Empire"

Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan "Disciplining in the Name of God: Sexuality and Social Control in Safavi Iran"

4:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, November 4

10:00 A.M. Aldo Schiavone, Istituto Italiano de Scienze Umane "The Roman Empire as World-Empire"

Anthony Pagden, UCLA "The Shadow of Caracala: Citizenship and Divided Sovereignty in Europe’s Overseas Empires"

12:00 P.M. Lunch

1:00 P.M. David Armitage, Harvard University "The Elephant and the Whale: Empires of Land and Sea"

Sankar Muthu, Princeton University "Global Commerce and Empire in Enlightenment Thought"

Craig Yirush, UCLA "Conquest Theory and Imperial Governance in the Early Modern Anglo-American World"

4:00 P.M. Roundtable Discussion - Moderator: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

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

Friday, November 3, 2006

“City of Lost Children"

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro

7:30 screening followed by a Q&A with Jean-Pierre Jeunet

James Bridges Theater, UCLA

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

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

presents

"Escaping the Straightjacket of Religious Fundamentalism"

by: Dr. Jimmy Laura Smull, Independent Scholar

Wednesday, November 8, 2006 12PM – 1:30PM Bunche Hall, 7368

Dr. Smull is a cultural anthropologist with a doctorate in philosophy of human science. She is a graduate of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, and her research has focused on identifying and breaking free from destructive childhood religious ideologies. The result is her book, “Healing Eve”, which reports on the women she interviewed and tells her own story as well.

This lecture is FREE and open to the public. For more information about this event or upcoming ones, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/religion

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

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

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

Professor Irene J. Winter, Department of History of Art, Harvard University

“Mudbrick: Ziggurats and the Aesthetics of Scale in Ancient Mesopotamia”

Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 4:00 PM, Dodd Hall 121

The UCLA Department of Art History is pleased to present a lecture by

Professor Irene J. Winter, Department of History of Art, Harvard University

"Gold: Royal Tombs of Ur and Nimrud and the Aesthetics of Radiance in Ancient Mesopotamia"

Wednesday, November 9, 2006, 7:00 PM, Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum

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

November 9, 5:00pm, room 1344 Schoenberg Music Building (Reception immediately following)

“Was ist deutsch?” Dvořák’s Reception in Liberal Vienna Professor David Brodbeck, UC Irvine

Antonín Dvořák emerged into public consciousness in Vienna in late 1879, at a time of crisis within multinational Austria’s German-speaking bourgeoisie. The German Liberals had recently fallen from power in the central government and were replaced by a coalition dominated by clerical, conservative, and Slavic parties. This sudden change in fortune initiated a gradual transformation in liberal ideology. Although the liberals’ nationalist project had traditionally been of the “civic,” not “ethnic” variety, with a German liberal identity theoretically available to persons of any ethnicity who professed Bildung and Deutschtum, many increasingly adopted a particularist project of German nationalism, involving a decided defense of Nationalbesitzstand (national property). A comparative reading of Dvořák’s reception among Viennese critics during the last decades of the nineteenth century suggests that much of what was seen to be at stake in the Czech composer’s music was what did and did not count as “German.” Whereas Eduard Hanslick, critic for the Neue Freie Presse, consistently upheld traditional liberal ideology on this question, Theodor Helm’s criticism in the Deutsche Zeitung stood more in line with the newer German- nationalist project. More than that, throughout his writings on Dvořák the younger critic seemed very much aware of acting the part of German-nationalist counterbalance to the more traditional liberal-nationalist Hanslick. Whereas Hanslick was the more powerful figure among the liberal elite, in many ways by the 1890s Helm had come to be more representative of the broader segment of Vienna’s educated and semi-educated middle classes.

-- submitted by Hannah Huang (hhuang@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact hhuang@humnet.ucla.edu, jbissett@ucla.edu

Stephen Burt has published two books of poetry, Popular Music and the recently published Parallel Play.

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

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

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2006, 6:00 PM, Welcome and Introduction of the Keynote Speaker (Michael Brumbaugh)

Keynote Address: "Super Freaks: Magic, the Abnormal and the Unnatural", Page duBois, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2006

PANEL 1: THE BODY, 9:00-10:30 AM

Moderator: Suzanne Lye

"The Writhing Tongue and the Scrabbling Hand", Jarrett Welsh, Harvard University

"Righteous Freaks: Grotesque Figures on Greek Ritual Vases", Erin Thompson, Columbia University

"Vegetarian Radicals in Classical Antiquity", Tom Garvey, University of Virginia

Response: Lorenzo Garcia, UCLA Classics

PANEL 2: ANIMALS, 10:40 AM-12:10 PM

Moderator: Rob Groves

"Pinge Duos Anguis: The Protective Function of the Serpent on Pompeian Household Shrines", Amanda Pavlick, Tufts University

"Giraffes and Barnacles: Pliny's Monstrous Zoology", Dunstan Lowe, University of Cambridge

"Seals and Crocodiles: The Notion of Naturally Deformed Animals in Classical Greek Culture", Evrydiki Tasopoulou, Bryn Mawr College

Response: Karen Gunterman, UCLA Classics

PANEL 3: HYBRIDS, 1:30-3:00 PM

Moderator: Charlie Stein

"The Use of Theriomorphic and Therianthropic Imagery in Etruscan and Roman Art", Wayne L. Rupp, Jr., Florida State University

"The Function and Meaning of Monumental Sphinx Statues in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries", Phoebe Segal, Columbia University

"Bestiality, the Monstrous, and the Sacred", Melody Arendsee, Florida State University

Response: Liz Mullane, UCLA Archeology

PANEL 4: SEX AND GENDER, 3:10-4:40 PM

Moderator: Frances Kern

"Taming Priapus: A New Reading of Horace's Satires 1.8", Michael Vincze, Boston University

"Nil Faciet...Perversity and Morality in Juvenal 9", Michael Broder, City University of New York

"Gender Transformations in Apuleius", Anna McCullough, University of St Andrews

Response: Cameron Fitzsimmons

CONCLUDING REMARKS: 4:40-5:00 PM

Introduction of Concluding Speaker (Brian Walters)

Concluding Remarks: Amy Richlin, UCLA Classics

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

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

-- submitted by Carol Ann Wald (wald@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.cappp.ucla.edu/new_qiw/index.htm

Hans Vaget

"The Fortunes of Love in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen"

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:30 pm Royce Hall 334C

Refreshments to follow lecture

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

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

Dr Malcolm Choat is Associate Lecturer in Ancient History at Macquarie University in Sydney, from where he gained his PhD in 2000. Since then he has worked on the papyrus evidence for eary Christianity in Egypt, the rise of monasticism, especially as seen in the papyri, and the development of the Coptic epistolary tradition. His recently published book, Belief and Cult in Fourth century papyri, deals with the evidence for religion in papyrus documents, and he is currently preparing a re-edition of the papyrus archive of Apa Johannes.

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

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

Center for World Languages • 1333 Rolfe Hall • PO Box 951411 • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1411 Tel: (310) 825-2510 • Fax: (310) 206-5183

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

For more information, contact sbauckus@earthlink.net

Thursday, November 16

12 pm

Royce Hall 314

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

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

It's the last days of Adolf Hitler, April 1945, and Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge finds herself in the Der Führer's bunker. Facing inevitable defeat, Hilter's moods range from defiance to fight or flee, remain loyal or opt for self- preservation. Eva Braun parties while Magda Goebbels kills her children. The movie goes on to show how Hitler and Eva lived their last hours in the Bunker.

-- submitted by Jonathan Jones (jonjones@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact germanclub@ucla.edu

Organized by Michelle Clayton, Anna More & Maite Zubiaurre.

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

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

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

by:

Professor Mikael Rothstein, University of Copenhaven

Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 12PM – 1:30PM Bunche Hall 7386

About Professor Rothstein: Prof. Rothstein has been a major representative of Denmark in talks with Muslim leaders. Since 1989 he has been associated with the Institute for the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen. His main interest is the new religions of the western world, with special focus on the question of continuity and change. He is a member of the executive board of RENNER (Research Network on New Religions) and editor of the journal CHAOS. Publications include "Gyldendals religonshistorie" (1994) (with Tim Jensen and Jørgen Podemann Sørensen) and "Belief Transformations" (1996).

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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

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

A FORUM ON ANNA AKHMATOVA

honoring the publication of two major works on the poet’s life and works:

Roman Timenchik Anna Akhmatova v 1960-e gody (Moscow, 2006)

David MacFadyen and Natal’ia Kraineva (eds.) “Ia vsem proshchenie daruiu…”: Akhmatovskii sbornik (Moscow, 2006)

PARTICIPANTS Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov (UCLA) David MacFadyen (UCLA) Lada Panova (USC) Roman Timenchik (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 3:00 – 5:30 pm 1301 Rolfe Hall

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

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

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

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)

November 30, 5:00pm, room 1420 Schoenberg Music Building, Reception immediately following in 1230 Schoenberg (Green Room).

"Black / White Encounters on the American Musical Stage and Screen," Todd Decker

Abstract: What happens when black and white performers playing black and white characters share a song or a dance in a musical narrative on stage or screen? Such interracial performances—what I call black / white encounters—are remarkably rare occurrences on the American musical stage and screen, where all white, all black, or self-consciously color-blind casts have predominated. I will discuss three examples of black / white encounter, drawn in turn from Broadway, Hollywood, and the American opera stage, and consider what these exceptional moments reveal about the changing practical and expressive limits on interracial performance in musical-dramatic genres. My examples include the 1927 stage musical Show Boat; selected film and television performances by Fred Astaire from the 1930s to the 1960s; and the opera Margaret Garner, premiered by Michigan Opera Theater in May 2005, with music by Richard Danielpour to a libretto by novelist Toni Morrison.

-- submitted by Hannah Huang (hhuang@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact hhuang@humnet.ucla.edu, jbissett@ucla.edu

Mel Weisburd, as co-founder with Gene of Coastlines Literary Magazine, will host the program.

Joy Harjo, the celebrated poet and musician, will discuss Gene’s career as the head of the University of New Mexico’s Creative Writing Program as both his student and colleague.

Martin Brower, who was a fellow UCLA student and Daily Bruin editor with Gene in the 1950s when the student paper was being unjustly attacked by The Los Angeles Times and The Saturday Evening Post as being infiltrated with Communists and politically biased.

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

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

Admission is free and open to the public; there is no charge for participation; pre-registration is not required.

FRIDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2007

• 8:45–9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

• 9:00–10:30 Panel I (chaired by Tim Dempsey, UCLA)

9:00–9:30, Jay Jasanoff, Harvard University: “Analogy as Sporadic Sound Change”

9:30–10:00, Kanehiro Nishimura, UCLA: “A Historical Analysis of Latin Vowel Reduction: Prosody, Phonetics, and Analogy”

10:00–10:30, Nikolai Kazansky, Institut lingvisticheskikh issledovanij RAN: “Syntactic Position and Syncope in Archaic Latin”

• 10:30–10:45 Break

• 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m., Panel II (chaired by Moss Pike, UCLA)

10:45–11:15, Todd C. Clary, Cornell University: “Restrictions on the Use of the Figura Etymologica in Ancient Greek Epic”

11:15–11:45, Edwin D. Floyd, University of Pittsburgh: “Posin endon eonta: Etymology and Literary Analysis at Odyssey 19.477”

11:45–12:15, Ana Galjanic, University of Zagreb: “Save the Best for Last: Greek Priamel and Enumerative Sets”

• 12:15–1:45, Lunch

• 1:45–2:45, Featured Speaker, Asko Parpola, University of Helsinki: ”Proto-Indo-European Speakers As the Inventors of Wheeled Vehicles: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations“

• 2:45–3:00, Break

• 3:00–4:30, Panel III (chaired by Anna Pagé, UCLA)

3:00–3:30, Jared S. Klein, University of Georgia: “Numeral Repetition in the Rigveda and the Evolution of Rigvedic Style”

3:30–4:00, Benedicte Nielsen, Cambridge University: “The Origins of the Compositional Type Ved. bharádvāja ”

4:00–4:30, Carlotta Viti, University of Pisa: “The Verb- Initial Word Order in the Early Poetry of Vedic and Ancient Greek”

• 4:30–4:45, Break

• 4:45–6:15, Panel IV (chaired by Kaspars Ozolins, UCLA)

4:45–5:15, Hans Henrich Hock, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: “Early Germanic Agreement with Mixed- Gender Antecedents”

5:15–5:45, Adam Hyllested, University of Copenhagen: “Indo-European Substrates in Balto-Slavic Revisited”

5:45–6:15, Joshua Katz, Princeton University: “Not Very Indo-European: Russian ochen' ”

SATURDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2007

• 9:00–10:30 a.m., Panel V (chaired by Andrew Byrd, UCLA)

9:00–9:30, Benjamin Fortson, University of Michigan: “The ‘Double Nasal’ Presents in Celtic and Indo- European”

9:30–10:00, Jeremy Rau, Harvard University: “The Nature of the IE Decade-Formation”

10:00–10:30, Alan J. Nussbaum, Cornell University: “The End of Some Compounds in Greek”

• 10:30–10:45, Break

• 10:45 a.m. –12:15 p.m., Panel VI (chaired by Elizabeth Thornton, UCLA)

10:45–11:15, Patrick Taylor, Houghton Mifflin: “Bhiṣma on the Plain of Olympia: Indic Perspectives on Some Fragments of the Hesiodic Corpus”

11:15–11:45, Timothy Barnes, Harvard University: “Av. hauruuatāt- amərə(ta)tāt-, Gk. ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην: On the Prehistory of Greek Ritual Language”

11:45–12:15, Sherrylyn Branchaw, UCLA: “Pwyll and Puruṣamedha : Human Sacrifice in the Mabinogi”

• 12:15–1:45, Lunch

FAIES Meeting 12:15–12:30

• 1:45–2:45, Featured Speaker, Elisabeth Rieken, Universität Marburg: “apel, bili-, ebeli : The Origins of Pronominal -l- in Anatolian”

• 2:45–3:00, Break

• 3:00–4:00, Panel VII (chaired by Sherrylyn Branchaw, UCLA)

3:00–3:30, Vyacheslav Ivanov, UCLA: “Old Assyrian tuzinnum, Hittite tuzzi and Indo-European *teut- ”

3:30–4:00, Rebeca Solís Berni, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Carlos Molina Valero, Universidad de Murcia: “Collective in Lycian”

• 4:00–5:00, Panel VIII (chaired by Kanehiro Nishimura, UCLA)

4:00–4:30, Ilya Yakubovich, University of Chicago: “The Origin of Luvian Possessive Adjectives”

4:30–5:00, David Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley: “The Dative of Agent in Ancient Greek”

• 5:00–5:15, Closing Remarks

The Nineteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference is funded by the Campus Programs Committee of the Program Activities Board. We would like to thank the UCLA Graduate Student Association. The conference is also made possible through the generosity and/or efforts of the A. Richard Diebold, Jr. Endowment in Indo-European Studies, Friends & Alumni of Indo-European Studies (FAIES), the UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies, the UCLA Indo-European Studies Student Alliance (IESSA), the Dodd Humanities Group, and the Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee.

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

For more information, contact dcgunkel@gmail.com

After a first birth before the age of the Roman Kings, the Latin language has enjoyed many rebirths: one was in the Carolingian era, another in the High Middle Ages, and a third in the Renaissance. In our own time, two extraordinary scholarly enterprises have renewed the vigor of Latinity: the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum (CTC) and the I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL), the first led by Professor Virginia Brown of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, the second by Professor James Hankins of Harvard University.

With the generous support of the Cassamarca Foundation, CMRS and the UCLA Department of Italian present a conference to discuss and celebrate the work of Professors Brown and Hankins. The program will explore the implications—actual and potential—for humanist scholarship of the CTC, the ITRL, and the texts and authors illuminated by them. Expected speakers include Chris Celenza (Hopkins), Michele Ciliberto (Scuola Normale, Pisa), Frank Coulson (Ohio State), Tony D’Elia (Queens, Kingston), Charles Fantazzi (East Carolina), Mirella Ferrari (Milan), Julia Gaisser (Bryn Mawr), Craig Kallendorf (Texas A&M), David Marsh (Rutgers), and Fabio Troncarelli (University of Tuscia). At the end of the conference, Professors Brown and Hankins will reflect on the presentations and discussions.

The program is available in PDF format-- click here.

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

Richard B. Sher "William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and the Big Business of Scottish Enlightenment Publishing" Saturday, November 3, 2007, 2:00 p.m. In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library The remarkable outburst of enlightened intellectual activity by eighteenth-century Scottish men of letters, commonly known today as the Scottish Enlightenment, has attracted much scholarly attention. In fields as diverse as moral philosophy, medicine, natural philosophy, geology, history, political economy, biography, literary criticism, and fiction, Scottish authors such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, James Boswell, Henry Mackenzie, William Cullen, and James Hutton became famous names in their own day, and most of them are still respected as seminal figures in the history of ideas.

This talk explores the neglected role of the book trade in the making of the Scottish Enlightenment. It focuses particularly on two interlocking London firms that were founded by the Scottish bookseller Andrew Millar and the Scottish printer William Strahan. In the decade after Millar’s death in 1768, the publishing partnership led by Strahan and Millar’s successor, Thomas Cadell, transformed publishing in Great Britain into a large-scale enterprise, with books by Scottish authors at its core. This talk will explore some of the key features of this transformation, including the payment of large amounts of copy money to popular authors and the forging of publishing alliances with booksellers in Edinburgh. The result of these developments was the establishment of a new era in the history of print culture, in which authors and publishers – both predominantly Scottish – could aspire to high status and enormous wealth through the collaborative publication of learned books.

Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology and NJIT Chair of the Federated History Department of Rutgers University, Newark and NJIT. The recipient of fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other prestigious organizations, he is the author of The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (2006) and many other publications having to do with book history and the cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, especially in Scotland.

Established by Kenneth Karmiole, a Santa Monica antiquarian bookseller, the annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade will focus on the book trade in England and Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Clark’s growing collection of materials relating to the collecting, publishing, and dissemination of books in the early modern period make this series particularly appropriate. Ken Karmiole has run his own rare book business in Los Angeles since 1976, and is a highly respected member of the book trade. The Center and the Clark are deeply grateful to Ken for this gift, and for the expression of faith in our programs and collections that it represents. Registration Deadline: October 26, 2007 Admission is complimentary, but limited space at the Clark makes advance registration necessary. To register, please call 310-206-8552, or visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov3 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. Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov3

Julia Hell

(University of Michigan)

"Ruins of Modernity: Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West"

Monday, November 5, 2007

Royce Hall 314

5:00 pm

-- 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)

Master Class

with

Francis Veber

Director of Le Placard and Le Dîner des cons

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Dodd Hall 147

4:00 pm

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

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

Jung in the Land of Mujaheddin

by filmmakers Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

5:00 pm

Royce Hall 314

"Jung" means war in the Dari language. It is a word laden with meaning for the Afghan people as they struggle for survival in a country devastated by more than twenty years of conflicts.

Filmed in 1999-2000, Jung is a narrative documentary that follows the human and professional venture of Italian surgeon Gino Strada and British nurse Kate Rowlands as they go through the process of building a hospital to provide specialized treatment to victims of land mines. They are accompanied by Ettore Mo, a war correspondent who has been reporting this "forgotten war" from Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion. The third and final act of the account, shot in winter and spring of the year 2000, bears witness to the life of the EMERGENCY hospital where in the midst of tragic injuries, its compelling presence opens the way to hope for an alternative to the madness of war.

Film screening followed by discussion. Refreshments will be served.

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

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

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

Presents

“ISLAM, HONOR/SHAME and FORGIVENESS”

A CSR Colloquium featuring

AMIR HUSSAIN, Professor Loyola Marymount University

Respondent:

Dr. S. SCOTT BARTCHY, Director Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA and Professor of Christian Origins and History of Religion at the Department of History

WEDNESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2007 4:00PM – 6:00PM HAINES 118

This lecture is FREE and is open to the public! For more information, please visit our website at www.humnet.ucla.edu/religion.

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

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

Presents

Fighting for the Honor of Israel: Jews and Professional Wrestling in Warsaw before WWII, a Seminar in Yiddish Studies.

By Edward Portnoy (Jewish Theoloigcal Seminary)

Thursday, November 15, 2007 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)

Mark Poster

(UC Irvine)

"McLuhan and Cultural Theory of Media"

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Royce Hall 306

5:00 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

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

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

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

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

A conference at the Clark Library organized by Matteo Casini, Suffolk University

All throughout the Italian territory in the seventeenth century, kings, princes, republics, and single preeminent groups or persons adopted various forms of representation for displaying the distinctive “majesty” of their power. The political, social, artistic, and cultural activity patronized by princes and aristocracies remained very much alive, notwithstanding the economical crisis. Therefore the representations of majesty could follow multiple paths – ritual, religious, visual, literary, spectacular, etc. With an interdisciplinary and wide geographical approach, this conference aims to understand the several symbolic and concrete facets of power in Baroque Italy.

Registration Deadline: November 9, 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.

To register, please visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov16

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.

Lunch on Saturday and all other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please note that Friday’s session will begin at 1:30 P.M.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule:

Friday, November 16

1:30 P.M. Peter H. Reill, UCLA Welcoming Remarks

Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA Introductory Remarks

Session 1: The Power in Space

Andrew Hopkins, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila "Stately Spaces: 'Seicento' Ceremonial for the 'Serenissima'"

Diane Bodart, Université de Poitiers / Harvard University – Villa I Tatti "Royal Statues in the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily"

Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA "The Changing Face of the Prince: Public Ceremonies in Seventeenth-Century Turin"

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, November 17

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 2: Ritual and Competition

Matteo Casini, Suffolk University "The Baroque Rites of the Medici"

Thomas Dandelet, University of California, Berkeley "Spanish Ritual in Seventeenth-Century Rome"

Pablo Vázquez Gestal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid "Being a 'King' in a Competitive Society: Viceroyal Ceremonies in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 3: Searching Identities

George L. Gorse, Pomona College "A Republic Becomes a Monarchy: Genoa and the Virgin Mary in 1637"

James G. Harper, University of Oregon "Magnificence & Responsibility: Famiano Strada, Ludovico Ludovisi and the Church of Sant’Ignazio in Rome"

Alice Jarrard, Harvard Graduate School of Design "Between Document and 'Idea d’un principe Eroe': Printmaking and Princely Image at the Este Court in Modena"

Matteo Casini, Suffolk University Closing Remarks

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

Presents

'Civil Society: From Spinoza to Warren Buffett'

By Bruce Sievers (Haas Center)

Monday, November 19, 2007 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)

Peter Hallward

(Middlesex University)

"Haiti 2004: Coup d'etat or coup de grace?"

Monday, November 19, 2007

Faculty Center Hacienda Room

4:00 pm

Co-sponsored by the UCLA English Department

-- 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)

Bernd U. Schipper (Associate Professor for Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Bremen)

Egypt and Israel –The ways of cultural contact in the Late Bronze and Iron Age

Abstract: The debate on the form and significance of cultural contact between Israel and Ancient Egypt is one of the most salient issues of religious history in the Ancient Near East. Besides the so-called 'Egyptian-tradition' with such famous texts as the Joseph Story or the book Exodus, a few more literary traditions are represented in the Old Testament that show similarities with Egyptian literature. For example, the book of Proverbs includes passages which are influenced by Egyptian wisdom instruction of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550 – 1070 BCE). If these Biblical texts are taken as evidence for Egyptian influence on the Old Testament, a pertinent question poses itself to the scholarly community: how to imagine and reconstruct the ways of cultural contact? And when could Egyptian literary texts such as the Instruction of Amenemope have had an influence on literary production in Ancient Israel? The lecture will put forward an answer to this question by examining all relevant sources that shine light on the ways of cultural contact between Egypt and Israel in the Late Bronze and Iron Age.

Bernd U. Schipper studied Theology, Egyptology and Archaeology at the Universities of Mainz and Bonn. In 1999 he obtained a PhD in Theology (University of Bonn) and in 2004 a PhD in Egyptology (University of Hamburg: Prof. Hartwig Altenmueller). Since 2002 he has been Associate Professor for Biblical and Religious Studies at the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Bremen. During the summer term 2007 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg. He is co-editor of the Journal "Die Welt des Orients" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Press) and has published and edited books about the history of Apocalypticism, the cultural contacts between Egypt and Israel in biblical times, the history of Egyptology and the religious literature of Pharaonic Egypt. More: http://www.religion.uni-bremen.de/schipper

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

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

presents a seminar by

Walter Mignolo

(Duke University)

Monday, November 26, 2007

4:30 pm

Royce Hall 306

The seminar is based on two articles “The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference” and ‘From Central Asia to the Caucasus and Anatolia: transcultural subjectivity and decolonial thinking,” both of which are available on the Mellon website at http://www.humnet.ucla/mellon. Please read the articles in advance of the seminar.

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/mellon

presents

“Ir-religious religious education: a must for a Secular State”

by Tim Jensen, Associate Professor Department of the Study of Religions University of Southern Denmark

Monday, 26 November 2007 4PM - 6PM Bunche Hall 6275

About Professor Jensen | Tim Jensen (b. 1950) received the Danish equivalent of the Ph.D. degree in 1981, at the Department of the History of Religions, University of Copenhagen. The thesis dealt with ‘The Concept of Hybris in the Homeric Epics’, focusing also on the reception of the concept of hybris in European history.

Tim Jensen has been heavily involved in the politics and development of the study of religions at various levels, as well as in religious education more generally in a Danish context. He has been chairman of The Danish Religious Education Teachers’ Association, of DAHR and of Norrel, and later (2001-2004) General Secretary of the EASR. Since 2005 he holds the position of General Secretary of the IAHR, the International Association for The History of Religions (cf. http://www.iahr.dk). He has been head of the department in Odense for the last 6 years and head of the Institute for Philosophy and the Study of Religions for 3 years.

This lecture is FREE and is open to the public! For more information, please visit our website at www.humnet.ucla.edu/religion.

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

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

"Cultures in Transnational Perspectives"

presents a seminar by

Walter Mignolo

(Duke University)

Based on the articles "The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference” and “From Central Asia to the Caucasus and Anatolia: transcultural subjectivity and de-colonial thinking”

Monday, November 26, 2007

Royce Hall 306

4:30 pm

Please see the Mellon website at www.humnet.ucla.edu/mellon for copies of the articles.

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/mellon

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

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

present a lecture by

Helene Desmeestre

"The Contribution of French immigration to the development of L.A."

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Bunche Hall 3211

2:00 pm

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

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

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

The Department of English invites you to mark this special occasion with a lecture by

Michael Phillips

on

The Making of Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Wednesday 28 November at 4:00 PM in Royce 154

Michael Phillips is the author, most recently, of a new facsimile edition of Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven & Hell; he is also the author of William Blake: The Creation of the Songs, from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing, and was the guest curator of the major Blake exhibition that launched Tate Britain in London in 2000 (and later moved to the Metropolitan Museum in New York). He is currently completing Blake and the Terror, a biography of Blake in Lambeth.

Contact Saree Makdisi (makdisi @ ucla.edu) with any questions.

-- submitted by Saree Makdisi (makdisi@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Presents

'The Jew as Critic'

A Series in Modern Jewish Culture

By Kenneth Turan (Film Critic, LA Times)

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 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)

Presents

'Benjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments: The Text and Its Controversy'

A Faculty/Student Seminar

By Susan Derwin (UC Santa Barbara)

Thursday, November 29, 2007 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)

Alessandro Dal Lago

and Serena Giordano

authors of "Mercanti d'aura. Logiche dell'arte contemporanea"

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Royce Hall 236

2:30 pm

What does a person need in order to be defined as an artist? How does a simple object (a bike wheel, a soup can) become an art work? The authors will try to answer these questions, starting from the concept of "aura" by Walter Benjamin.

The lecture will be conducted in Italian.

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

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

Friday, November 30 – Saturday, December 1

A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08 Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.

In part 2 of this year-long series, we examine Sites of Exteriority such as gardens, mountains, landscape painting, travels or maps participate in the construction of the self by articulating its relationship to otherness (the sublime, the infinite, imaginary or exotic lands, cosmological representations), as well as a novel way of situating oneself in the world (personal perspective, point of view, exploration, limits).

Forthcoming Programs in the Core Program: Part 3 – The “Inner Self” – February 22-23, 2008 Part 4 – Spaces of Sacrality – March 14-15, 2008 Part 5 – Family and Work Space – April 25-26, 2008 Registration Deadline: November 21, 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.

To register, please call 310-206-8552, or visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov30

Program Schedule: Friday, November 30 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Peter H. Reill, UCLA, Welcome

David Sabean, UCLA Opening Remarks

Session 1: The Self in the Sovereign’s Palace

Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore College "Louis XIV’s Royal Houses, Wondrous Epics, and the Somatics of Sovereignty"

Tom Conley, Harvard University "« Ingénieurs du roy, ingénieurs du moi »: Spatial Design of the "Self" after the Age of Henry IV"

Michel Jeanneret, Johns Hopkins University and Université de Genève "The Grotesque in Versailles: The Return of the Repressed"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:30 P.M. Session 2: A Natural Self?

William T. Hendel, University of Memphis "The Theatrical Garden in Watelet’s Essai sur les jardins (1774): The Natural Self as Actor and Spectator"

Michael Taormina, Hunter College, CUNY "Saint-Amant’s Nature Poetry and the Extravagant Self"

4:30 P.M. Reception

Saturday, December 1 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3: Broader Reaches

Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University "Fashions for the Interstitial: Garden Stories from Beijing and Nagasaki in 1720’s London"

Susan Johnson-Roehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "John Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis: The Mapping of Imperial Subjectivity at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1675-1729"

Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University "Fashioning Bluestocking Conversation: Elizabeth Montagu’s Chinese Room"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 4: Limits Within and Without

Christopher Wild, UCLA "Melancholy and the Cartographic Self"

Hans Medick, Formerly Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen and Universität Erfurt "The Home Town as Torture Chamber: Spatializations of Self and Perceptions of Violence in Volckmar Happe’s Chronicle of the Thirty Years War"

Michael J. Sauter, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. "Germans in Space: Astronomy and ‘Anthropologie’ in the Eighteenth Century"

Malina Stefanovska, UCLA Closing Remarks

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

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