December Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Institute for Digital Research and Education Lecture

Please join us on Monday, December 5 at 4:00 p.m. in Law School room 1447 for a presentation by Henry Brady on Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences. Henry Brady is Director of the UCB Survey Research Center, UC DATA, and California Census Research Data Center.

More information is available at: www.idre.ucla.edu

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP online: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm? EveID=999&SecID=977

Lecture Abstract

Cyberinfrastructure (CI) enables and supports scientific research through online digital instruments, emerging sensor and observing technologies, high-powered computers, extensive data storage capabilities, visualization facilities, and networks for communication and collaboration. Science and engineering are being transformed by CI. This is just as true of the social sciences as of the physical, natural, engineering, and biological sciences. With the development of needed, appropriate, and usable CI, the social sciences can take a giant step forward. CI can enable the development of more realistic models of complex social phenomena, the production and analysis of larger datasets (such as surveys, censuses, textual corpora, videotapes, cognitive neuroimaging records, and administrative data) that more completely record human behavior, and the collection of better data through experiments and simulations on the Internet. Moreover, the revolutionary potential of CI is the ability to do these things at a much greater scale and intensity using distributed networks and powerful tools just at a time when social and behavioral scientists face the possibility of becoming overwhelmed by the massive amount of data available and the challenges of comprehending and safeguarding it. It is equally true that the social sciences are uniquely situated to help computer scientists supported by NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and their community create better CI for all the sciences and engineering.

Behavioral scientists can help develop better modes of human-computer interaction. Sociologists can analyze the implications for knowledge production of social networks developed on the Web. Organizational theorists and political scientists can develop better management and governance structures for Web-enabled research communities and the CI providers that support them. Economists can design incentive-compatible resource allocation methods. Psychologists and linguists can help computer scientists develop computer programs that understand, utilize, and translate natural languages. Working together, social scientists and computer scientists can develop better statistical and analytical methods for dealing with data, and they can understand and control the malevolent behaviors that threaten to limit the capabilities of new CI. In addition to benefiting from and helping to design successful CI for all the sciences and engineering, the social sciences can also assess the effects of CI on all of society. This task is already an accepted part of the mission of the social sciences, but it is also a natural outgrowth of efforts to develop better CI for the sciences and engineering.

After all, the Internet is the result of technical innovations that were initially confined to research communities but which expanded to society at large; it seems likely that many future CI innovations for research will also find their way into mainstream society. In addition, the vast changes expected from society-wide CI must be studied and understood to better channel and control them. The IDRE Lecture Series was designed to have a broad appeal to people across campus. If you have ideas on particular topics or speakers you would like to see included in the IDRE Lecture Series, please contact Professor Alan Laub at: laub@ucla.edu or 310-825-4245.

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

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

presents

Dr. Heike Behlmer of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

December 5, 4-6pm; 306 Royce Hall

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

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

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

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

"Erleuchtung garantiert (2000)" -Germanic Langauges Film Series

Third Film in the Series

"Erleuchtung garantiert" (2000), directed by Doris Doerrie Tuesday, December 6 at 5:30 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

All films in German with English subtitles

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

Apple Computer Presentation

Please join us this Thursday, December 8th from 11:00am to 3:00pm for a showcase of the latest Apple Computer hardware and software. Apple technicians will be on hand to demonstrate and discuss the standard computer models that will be available through the CDH Faculty Computer Upgrade Program this year, as well as other Apple technologies.

If you are looking to purchase a new computer soon, there are many good sales on Apple hardware at the ASUCLA Computer Store (see http://i2w3.ais.ucla.edu/asucla/store.aspx?pg=promos.html for details), and you can get more information on specific Apple hardware and software by attending this event before making a purchase.

No need to RSVP - just stop by Public Policy 1040 (behind the CDH Help Desk in PPB 1020) anytime between 11am and 3pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Hope to see you there!

Stacey Rosborough User Services Manager UCLA Center for Digital Humanities 1020 Public Policy Building 337 Charles E. Young Drive Los Angeles, CA  90095 (310) 825-8212

Vice President, Information Systems UCLA Staff Assembly www.staffassembly.ucla.edu

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

Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

Heather McHugh is the author of Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968- 1993.

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

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

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

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

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

By: JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By: JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)

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

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

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

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

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

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

**PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGED TO FOWLER AUDITORIUM**

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

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

By: JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)

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

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

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

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

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

Comparative Literature Lecture Series - "What Is Comparative Literature?"

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)

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

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

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

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

2 X 2

Saturday, December 2, 2006 2:00 p.m. at the Clark Library

A program in the series “Poetry Afternoons at the Clark” Arranged by Bruce Whiteman and Estelle Gershgoren Novak

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

“Poetry Afternoons at the Clark” presents an afternoon with four poets, two from Los Angeles and two from other parts of the United States.

Gene Frumkin was born in New York and graduated from UCLA in 1951. He spent his academic career teaching at the University of New Mexico. His most recent collection is "Freud By Other Means."

Estelle Gershgoren Novak has a PhD in English from UCLA and is the editor of "Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era." She has published two collections of poems, "The Shape of a Pear" and "The Flesh of Their Dreams."

Ken Norris has a PhD from McGill University and teaches at the University of Maine. Recent collections include "Dominican Moon" and "Report on the 2nd Half of the Twentieth Century," a poem in twenty-two books.

Bruce Whiteman is the Head Librarian of the Clark Library, and, with Estelle Novak, the co-coordinator of the “Poetry Afternoons at the Clark” series. His latest book of poems, "The Invisible World Is in Decline, I-VI," was published in October, 2006.

All four poets will be reading from recently published or about to be published books.

Reservation Deadline: November 27, 2006

Admission: $5

To register, please visit http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#dec2

Inquiries: 310-206-8552 c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs

To arrange for wheelchair access, please call the Center one week in advance.

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

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

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Joshua Clover is the author of Madonna anno domini (1997) and most recently The Totality for Kids.

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

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

Overcoming Borders: Mapuche poetry and Technology

Please join us for a presentation of the anthology organized by Allison Ramay and Motus Sodalis.

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

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

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, Part 2: Sites of Exteriority

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)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov30

CJS SEMINAR: Remapping German-Jewish Intellectual History

Presents

'Remapping German-Jewish Intellectual History'

A Book Discussion

By Todd Presner (UCLA)

Monday, December 3, 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)

Mellon Seminar by Alessandro Dal Lago -- "The Globalization of War"

“Cultures in Transnational Perspective”

presents a seminar by

Alessandro Dal Lago

(University of Genoa)

“The Globalization of War”

Monday, December 3rd

Royce Hall 236

4:30 PM

The seminar is based on the article “The Global State of War,” which is available on the Mellon website at: www.humnet.ucla.edu/mellon/monthly_seminars.html. Please read the article in advance of the seminar.

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

A DIALOGUE CONCERNING THE NATURE OF GOOD AND EVIL ACCORDING TO ABRAHAMIC TRADITION

In Association with the University Religious Conference

Present

"A DIALOGUE CONCERNING THE NATURE OF GOOD AND EVIL ACCORDING TO ABRAHAMIC TRADITION"

With

Reverend George Grose , Ph.D., UCLA Professor President – The Academy for Judaic, Christian and Islamic Studies

Rabbi Elliott Dorf, Professor of Philosophy, American University of Judaism VP & Rector – The Academy for Judaic, Christian and Islamic Studies

Imam Jihad Turk, Spiritual Director Southern California Islamic Center

MONDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2007 5PM – 7PM HAINES HALL, 118

This event is free and open to the public. For further 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

CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "The Owl and the Nightingale: Philosophy and the Female Voice"

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

Foreign Language Electronic Workbook for First Year College and Beyond

Nancy Ezer Lecturer of Hebrew 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Foreign Language Electronic Workbook for First Year College and Beyond Wednesday, December 5th, 2007, 3:30-4:30pm CDH PC Lab, LuValle B01

About the presentation: My presentation introduces the project I have been working on for the last year. With the grant from the Committee on Instructional Improvement Programs and the guidance of the Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA, a team of eight of my former students and I have been converting the three volumes of the Hebrew workbook, which I have developed over the course of many years of teaching, into an interactive, web-based E-Workbook. For this project we have adapted the new course management system, Moodle, and its quiz feature. The E-Workbook, which systematically drills the five active Hebrew verb paradigms, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and syntax, can improve students’ language acquisition by expanding the learning experience beyond the classroom, providing students with immediate and individualized feedback, facilitating more efficient and effective use of class and instructor time, and enabling more comprehensive supervision of student progress. In addition, the Hebrew E-Workbook with its independent and self-paced training can fill in students’ knowledge gaps at higher levels of learning Hebrew as well.

A Powerful Monitoring Tool: The E-Workbook can provide foreign language instructors with a sophisticated monitoring system of their students’ progress. Through this program, the instructor will have access to statistical information about the students’ study habits and performance, the level of difficulty of each assignment, and the amount of time it takes each student to complete it. Access to this information would enable the instructor to maximize learning opportunities. The E-Workbook is thus a powerful tool, applicable to the teaching of other foreign languages. Statistical data can further be used to determine the effectiveness of technology in language teaching and to compare it with traditional learning modes. Following the first phase of this project, a placement exam and classroom quizzes can be integrated with the online material.

Questions about this event? Contact Ted Liu, Foreign Language IT Coordinator, Center for Digital Humanities @ ted@humanities.ucla.edu, 310.206.4518.

-- submitted by Calvin Tong (calvin@humanities.ucla.edu)

At the Interface of Religion and Cosmopolitanism: Bernard Picart's Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743) and the European Enlightenment

Co-sponsored by UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, the Getty Research Institute, and the Netherlands Consulate-General of Los Angeles.

Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was one of the most prolific and talented engravers of his age. He was also intellectually curious, and a player in internationally connected social circles - some with a penchant for Deism and Spinozism. Together with Jean Frédéric Bernard, a French language bookseller and publisher of Huguenot stock based in Amsterdam, he published a seven-volume folio work that sought to capture the ritual and ceremonial life of all the known religions of the world: Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743). Bernard supplied the 3000 pages of the text while Picart engraved over 250 illustrations. Its first volume offered the world one of the most sympathetic portraits then available of European Jewry. Despite being the work of two French Protestant refugees and done in Amsterdam, the book attempted to be reasonably accurate about Catholic customs and to cast a more favorable light on the so-called "idolatrous peoples" who on the whole appeared in most of the travel literature as barbarous and even without any religion at all. In the life time of Picart the Dutch Republic stood at the heart of the European book trade. Picart and Bernard took full advantage of the opportunities they found in their adopted land, and the Cérémonies in its various translations sold a remarkable 3000 copies. Its translation into Dutch and English removed some of the more radical comments about religion found in the original French text, but those translations, and one in German, meant that Picart's images became the standard means of portraying many of the world's religions until well into the nineteenth century.

Papers: Conference papers presented at the Clark Library will be posted to the Center’s website by November 26, and will remain accessible until December 21. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm

Registration Deadline: November 26, 2007 Registration Fees: Thursday sessions at the Getty Center: Free of charge. The Getty Research Institute will host a reception. Lunch will not be served; the Getty Center offers a rich choice of indoor and outdoor cafes, a restaurant, and a picnic area.

Friday and Saturday sessions at the Clark Library: $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#dec6

Conference Locations & Parking: Thursday: The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, off the San Diego Freeway (405), Getty Center Drive exit. Parking: reserved for registrants at no charge.

Friday – Saturday: The Clark Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district, one block east of Arlington Avenue, two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway (10). Parking: ample free parking on the grounds.

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

Please be aware that space at both locations 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. Program Schedule: Thursday, December 6 at the Getty Center

9:00 a.m. Graduate Student Session: New Research on Bernard Picart, Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall

Guillaume Calafat, École Normale Supérieure "The Jansenist Roots of the Bernard-Picart Vision"

Verónica A. Gutiérrez, UCLA "Quetzalcoatl's Enlightened City: A Close Reading of Bernard Picart's Engraving of Cholollan/Cholula"

Catherine Clark, USC "Chinese Idols and Religious Art: Questioning Difference in Cérémonies et coutumes "

Jesse Sadler, UCLA "The Collegiants, a Small Presence in the Republic, a Large Metaphor for the Book"

11:30 a.m. Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. Digital Picart: Presentation & Discussion, Museum Lecture Hall Tom Moritz, Getty Research Institute, Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Lynn Hunt, UCLA

2:00 p.m. Viewing of Picart materials/documents, Getty Research Institute special collections

3:00 p.m. Free Time: visit Museum and GRI exhibition "China on Paper"

4:00 p.m. Keynote address by Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht Museum Lecture Hall

5:00 p.m. Invitational Reception at the Getty Center Restaurant

7:00 p.m. CONCERT, Harold M. Williams Auditorium Performed by New Dutch Acadamy, Chamber Soloist Ensemble "Early 18th Century Music Making in the Amsterdam Canal Houses" Elizabeth Dobbin, soprano, Georgia Browne, baroque flute, Karl Nyhlin, baroque lute, Simon Murphy, cello piccolo/viola pomposa, and Rebecca Rosen, cello

Friday, December 7 at the Clark Library

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Bernard Picart in French and Dutch Art Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA

Ann Jensen Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara "Originality and Authenticity in the Graphic Work of Bernard Picart"

Louis Marchesano, Getty Research Institute "Impostures innocentes: Bernard Picart and Reproductive Printmaking"

Inger Leemans, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen "Picart’s Dutch Connections: Family Trouble, the Amsterdam Theatre and the Business of Engraving"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Inventing Comparative Religion Chair: Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Jacques Revel, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales "The Uses of Comparison: Religions in the Early Eighteenth Century"

Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University "Persian Pictures: Artiface and Authenticity in the Representations of Islam in Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde"

Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute "Picart on China: 'Curious' Discourses and Images Taken Principally from the Jesuits"

5:00 p.m. Reception

Saturday, December 8 at the Clark Library

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. The Sources for the Cérémonies Chair: Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

David Brafman, Getty Research Institute "Picart, Bernard, Hermes, and Muhammad (Not Necessarily in that Order)"

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität Saarbrücken "(Re)Inventing Encyclopedias in the Early European Enlightenment. The Work of Bruzen de la Martinière and its Relations with the Cérémonies et coutumes"

Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California "Illness and Death among Americans in Bernard Picart’s Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Translation: Linguistic and Historical Chair: Lynn Hunt, UCLA

Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Universität Zürich "David Herrliberger and the German Edition of the Cérémonies"

Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan "The Fate of Ceremonies in the Nineteenth Century"

4:15 p.m. Concluding Discussion: What we now know, what needs to be known Moderators: Lynn Hunt, UCLA, Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#dec6