February Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

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

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

The deadline for receiving proposals is February 22, 2006.

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

Completed RFPs should be sent to the following address:

Globalization Research Center Africa 10359 Bunche Hall

Mail Code 148703

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

Just a reminder of the upcoming UDHIG (UCLA Digital Humanities Incubator Group) meeting that will take place on Tuesday February 21st, 4-5 pm 1648 Hershey Hall--just south of parking lot 2.

Introduction - Willeke Wendrich Because virtually all Digital Humanities projects need to store and access large quantities of text and images the UCLA Digital Library will give a presentation of the recent and ongoing developments.

Program: "Re-Inventing the Library"

- Digital Library repositories and services - Digital Preservation - Exchanging data and digital objects with a digital library: the Open Knowledge Initiative - Using Digital Library content for research, instruction, publication - Emerging digital library standards: how is this relevant for you? - eScholarship

Presenters: The Digital Library Team; Stephen Davison, Hannah Walker, and Howard Batchelor. Refreshments: Coffee and cookies.

The next meetings of UDHIG are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday April 11th. and Tuesday May 16, from 4.00-5.00 pm (place TBA).

You can follow developments on our very recently established (and not yet completed) website: http://projects.cdh.ucla.edu/udhig/

Looking forward to seeing you! --zoe .......... Zoe Borovsky, PhD UCLA-Digital Humanities Incubator Group

-- submitted by Stacey Rosborough (humnet\stacey@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://projects.cdh.ucla.edu/udhig/

Because virtually all Digital Humanities projects need to store and access large quantities of text and images the UCLA Digital Library will give a presentation of the recent and ongoing developments.

Program: The UCLA Digital Library: repositories, tools, and services for the Digital Humanities.

- Digital Library repositories and services - Digital Preservation - Exchanging data and digital objects with a digital library: the Open Knowledge Initiative - Using Digital Library content for research, instruction, publication - Emerging digital library standards: Why should you care? - eScholarship

Presenters: The Digital Library Team Stephen Davison, Hannah Walker, Howard Batchelor. Refreshments: Coffee and cookies.

-- submitted by Zoe Borovsky (zoe@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

Jill Dolan Theater and Dance, University of Texas, Austin

From Flannel to Fleece: Performing Lesbian Generations

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:00 pm 2310C Macgowan

The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information, contact the LGBT Studies Program at lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu or 310 206 0516. Organized by Critical Studies, Department of Theatre

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

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

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

"The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's Messias"

This colloquium takes place on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 334C Royce Hall.

The Speaker will offer a brief introduction and then respond to questions from those in attendance.

The paper will be pre-circulated. Request a copy from Benay Furtivo at: furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu.

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

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

Admission is free, and registration is not required.

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

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

This paper will explore the aesthetics and implications of "troping" in the musical and literary practices of medieval England. Drawing on an array of liturgical, poetic, and dramatic works from the period of the Benedictine Reform (circa 1000) through the early years of the Reformation, the discussion will focus on a series of formal and institutional relationships between and among a variety of cultural formations: liturgy and authorship, latinity and vernacularity, musical notation and rhetorical organicism, and so on. The paper derives from several parts of a long-term book project tentatively called The Work of God: Liturgical Culture and Vernacular Writing in England, 650-1550.

-- submitted by Stacey Rosborough (humnet\stacey@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

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

For more information, contact lesadieux@hotmail.com

SETH SCHEIN Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics (University of California, Davis)

An American Homer for the Twentieth Century: “The Iliad and Odyssey in Great Books Courses”

This lecture will take place on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 1:00 pm in 236 Royce Hall. Light refreshements will be provided.

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

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.

Please sign up below to be included on the CICIS mailing list if you are not already a member.

Click here to subscribe to the CICIS mailing list: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/cicis-p

For further information you may also contact Prof. Lucia Re, re@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Danielle (danielle@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Arif Dirlik

“Global Modernity and the Global South”

Friday, February 2, 2007

4-6 pm

Royce Hall 236

Arif Dirlik is Knight Professor of Social Science and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Oregon.

The seminar discussion will be based on two articles, “Global South: Predicament and Promise” and “Conceptual Field(s) of Globality,” available on the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship website at www.humnet.ucla.edu/mellon. Please read the articles in advance of the seminar.

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

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

A special fundraising event to support the Clark Library Chamber Music Endowment Fund, made possible by the generous support of Catherine Benkaim.

Artemis Quartet

Natalia Prischepenko and Heime Müller, violins Volker Jacobsen, viola Eckart Runge, cello

Berlin-based Artemis Quartet formed in 1989 at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany, and has grown to become one of the most renowned ensembles of its kind in all of Europe. Among their many awards are the 1996 Munich Competition, the 1997 Borciani Competition, and the 2006 ECHO Klassik Prize from the German Phonographic Academy. Artemis was also the first quartet ever to be awarded the prestigious Music Prize of the Association of German Critics, which they received in 2001.

From its inception, the Quartet has valued collaboration with other musicians. Regular partners include Sabine Meyer, Elisabeth Leonskaja, David Geringas, Juliane Banse, and Leif Ove Andsnes. The Quartet's development has also been influenced by its interest in new music and its alliance with contemporary composers. During the 2004-2005 season, for example, Artemis performed two world premieres of compositions commissioned from Mauricio Sotelos and Jorg Widmanns.

In 2005 the Artemis Quartet signed an exclusive recording contract with Virgin Classics/EMI, which will create at least ten new releases by 2010. The first of these, in October 2005, was a re-release of the Ligeti String Quartets and a new recording of the Beethoven Quartets Opus 59, Number 1 and Opus 95. March 2006 saw the release of the String Sextets of Schoenberg, Berg, and Strauss, featuring the performances by Valentin Erben and the late Thomas Kakuska.

Program

Anton Webern Langsamer Satz

Ludwig van Beethoven Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2

Intermission

Arnold Schoenberg Quartet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 7

Reception

Reservation forms must be postmarked or hand delivered to the Center no later than January 22, 2007. Admission: $75 per person, $50 of which is tax-deductible For reservation forms, visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb4

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb4

invites you to a lecture

Roberta Morosini

Wake Forest University

“Whispers of the Dove. The ‘legendary’ biography of ‘Malcometto’ the prophet of Islam in XIV Century Mediterranean Italy: between prejudice and tradition in the Commentaries on Dante’s Inferno XXVIII and Fazio degli Uberti’s Dittamondo”

Monday, February 5, 2007 5:00 p.m. Royce 236

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

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

Mr. De Prada will be presented by the Consul General of Spain in Los Angeles, the honorable Inocencio F. Arias.

Date: Tuesday, February 6th Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: 314 Royce Hall

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

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

Jeff Sacks

Columbia University

"Idioms of Mourning: Mahmoud Darwish and Edmond Amran El-Maleh"

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

5 pm

Royce Hall 306

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

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

Sarah Manguso is the author of two books of poems, The Captain Lands in Paradise and Siste Viator.

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

For more information, contact nettie@english.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 empire of the Spanish Habsburgs was the successor state to the (western) Roman Empire; 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.

Empires differ from “normal” states in terms of their scale, but also their degree of diversity. This diversity could be ethnic, religious, racial, or defined in a number of other ways. Above all, this conference will focus on the ethnic and religious dimensions and ask what forms of solutions, both institutional and ideological, were found by empires in the early modern period to deal with the problem of managing difference. These solutions could at times be radical, as with the expulsion of the Jews and Muslims from Iberia, though even that process involved some degree of assimilation of populations. We are also aware that early modern empires sometimes prided themselves on their high degree of tolerance, as was the case with the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire, and contrasted themselves self-consciously with their neighbors who they imagined were less so. To this extent, the comparative dimensions of the question of “management of difference” already have a history that takes us back to the period of the empires themselves.

The purpose of this conference will be to reflect on the diversity of experiences, ranging potentially from the Qing (who consciously adopted a policy with respect to the preservation of Manchu identity), to the Ottomans (who used the devshirme system to create an acculturated elite), to a variety of other cases, from the Americas to the range of Eurasian experiences. Ideological questions will be as much the focus as concrete institutional arrangements, and the grids of categories that were used to define difference in relation to the process of managing it, will be one of the central themes.

Registration Deadline: February 2, 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.

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, February 9 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

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

Opening Remarks – Anthony Pagden and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University Religious Unity and Imperial Integrity in the Iberian Empires: The Threat of Tolerance in the Age of Atlantic Revolution

Cornell H. Fleischer, University of Chicago Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in the Sixteenth Century: Is Translation Needed?

12:00 P.M. Lunch

1:30 P.M. Fernando Cervantes, University of Bristol Unity in Diversity: The Bonds of Religious Culture in the Hispanic World

Zoltán Biedermann, Ahmanson-Getty fellow, UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies Of Kings and Captains: Portuguese and Habsburg Strategies for the Management of the Sri Lankan Elite (1506-1656)

Valerie A. Kivelson, University of Michigan Mapping Diversity: Russian Imperial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Siberia

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, February 10

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University Empires and Vampires: Management of Difference by the Ottoman State and Society

Ângela Barreto Xavier, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Dissolving Difference: Conversion and the Push to Conformity in the Portuguese Empire

12:00 P.M. Lunch

1:00 P.M. Serge Gruzinski, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France Managing Differences in the Catholic Monarchy (1580-1640): Plasticity and Rigidity of the Iberian Model

Corinne Lefèvre-Agrati, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies Mughal sulh-i kull (‘universal peace’) after Akbar: The Religious Policy of Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) and its Reception by Contemporary Ulama and Sufis

Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington What Difference? Exoticism and European Imperialism Circa 1700

4:00 P.M. Roundtable Discussion

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb9

February 9, 2007

4:00 p.m.

Hacienda Room, Faculty Center

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

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

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

invites you to a lecture

KARLA MALLETTE

Miami University of Ohio

“Intellectual Geographies in the Divine Comedy”

Monday, February 12, 2007

5:00 p.m.

Royce Hall 306

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

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

Maya Boutaghou

University of Gabes

"Between History and Memory: Emergent Voices of Femininity in Zaynab (1914) by Muhammad Husayn al Haykal and Les Alouettes naives (1967) by Assia Djebar"

-- 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)

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

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

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

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Ursula Lindqvist

University of Colorado

"Constructing Swedishness in form and function, from the People's Home to IKEA"

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

4 pm

Royce Hall 314

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

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

Presents

A special lecture on our ”TEACHING ABOUT RELIGION AT UCLA” Series

By: Dr. Ra’anan Boustan, Assistant Professor Department of History & Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007 12:00PM – 1:30PM BUNCHE HALL, 7386

About Dr. Boustan: Dr. Boustan is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA teaching courses on all aspects of Jewish history (society, culture, literature, and language) within its broader ancient Mediterranean context from approximately 300 BCE to 750 CE.

Before coming to UCLA in September 2006, Dr. Boustan served for two years as an Assistant Professor of early Judaism in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. During the 2003–2004 academic year, he was a research fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in a group working on the interface between Anthropology and History in Jewish Studies.

Dr. Boustan completed his PhD in 2004 in the Department of Religion at Princeton University with a dissertation on the historical development of early Jewish mystical literature.

This lecture is FREE & open to the public.

-- submitted by 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)

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

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

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

Arne Lunde

University of Minnesota

"Charlie Chan is Swedish: Warner Oland, Asian Racial Masquerade, and the Nordic Other in Classical Hollywood"

Wednesday, February 21

Royce Hall 314

4 pm

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

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

presents talks by

Phil Gentry

“Secret Loves: The Orioles, the Moonglows, and Doris Day”

The post-WWII tradition of Africa-American vocal harmony gives us a complex portrait of music-making at a particularly tumultuous political moment. Although emerging from a distinctly African-American tradition, these groups were also influenced by the music of dominant white culture as well. Tin Pan Alley standards provided the basis for much of the vocal harmony repertoire; for example, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was recorded by no less than thirty-five different vocal harmony groups. This paper will examine the life of one particular popular standard, the Doris Day vehicle “Secret Love,” in versions by both the Orioles and the Moonglows, each released in 1954.

Stephanie Vander Wel

“Chewing Chawing Gum”: Lulu Belle and the National Barn Dance

In 1932, Lulu Belle presented the first enactment of the female hillbilly of WLS’s National Barn Dance in Chicago. Unraveling the ways in which Lulu Belle’s persona parodied mountain culture through notions of gender and class, I analyze her performances and publicity in WLS’s fanzines. Her rendition of “Chewing Chawing Gum” relied on the musical soundscape of Southern Appalachia to assert female agency while critiquing domestic gender roles. Though WLS’s promotional material of Lulu Belle attempted to mitigate her bold portrayal, Lulu Belle became one of most popular women in radio through her commanding depictions of a hillbilly.

Thursday, February 22nd at 4pm 1420 Schoenberg Music Building

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

A Celebration of César Vallejo

Featuring his Translator, Award-Winning Poet and 2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer

Clayton Eshleman

Thursday, February 22nd, 4pm, 314 Royce

Clayton Eshleman will read from his translation, The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo (University of California Press, 2006).

Reception to follow.

Copies of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman, will be available for purchase on both days.

César Vallejo (Peru, 1892-1938) is one of the foremost Latin American poets of the twentieth century; his four densely lyrical and demanding volumes of poetry map the passage from modernismo through the avant-garde to politically-engaged writing.

Clayton Eshleman's translation of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo was recently published by the University of California Press. Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & the Center for World Languages.

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

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

A Celebration of César Vallejo

Featuring his Translator, Award-Winning Poet and 2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer

Clayton Eshleman

Friday, February 23rd, 10am-4:30pm, Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge

A Symposium on the Poetry of César Vallejo

10am: Roundtable on Poetry and Translation, featuring Clayton Eshleman, Kelly Austin (University of Chicago), and Michael Heim (UCLA), moderated by Efrain Kristal (UCLA).

12-1:30pm: Break for lunch.

1:30pm: Screening of Traspié entre 46 estrellas, a short biographical film on César Vallejo, by Stephen Hart (University College London).

2pm: New critical readings by Efraín Kristal (UCLA), Michelle Clayton (UCLA), Stephen Hart (University College of London) and Chrystian Zegarra (UCLA) followed by Q&A session. 4:30pm: Reception.

Copies of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman, will be available for purchase on both days.

César Vallejo (Peru, 1892-1938) is one of the foremost Latin American poets of the twentieth century; his four densely lyrical and demanding volumes of poetry map the passage from modernismo through the avant-garde to politically-engaged writing.

Clayton Eshleman's translation of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo was recently published by the University of California Press. Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & the Center for World Languages.

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

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

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

Arietta Papaconstantinou (Dumbarton Oaks)

‘They have forgotten their language and speak the language of the hijra’ - Reconsidering the fate of Coptic after the Arab conquest

Abstract: When the Arab general ‘Amr ibn al-As conquered Egypt in 642CE, he subjugated a Christian country where proficiency in the native tongue – called Coptic – and in Greek was the norm. Despite the gradual introduction of Arabic in Egyptian society the subsequent first two centuries of Arab rule were among the most productive in terms of original Coptic literature, and the form and content of those texts have much to say about the self-definition of the Egyptian Christian communities during that period. However, even though ecclesiastical authors in Egypt did not start using Arabic until the tenth century, when they did start they almost completely abandoned Coptic as a writing language. Over the following two centuries, Egyptian gradually disappeared as a spoken language as well, so that by the thirteenth century, Coptic was only used in formal ritual contexts, primarily the liturgy. Although Arabicization was widespread among the Christian communities of the Middle East, only Coptic was eventually fully supplanted by Arabic, thus bringing a longstanding tradition of multilingualism within the country to an end. It is remarkable how few attempts have been made to explain this language shift and those few suggestions mostly focus on linguistic and religious aspects, or rest on biased premises. However, recent work on the sources of the period is opening up an avenue for a renewed approach, which involves examining more closely the stages of this development and taking into consideration the broader historical context within which this extraordinary language shift took place.

Short bio: Arietta Papaconstantinou has currently a leave of absence from the Collège de France in Paris and works as a fellow in Byzantine Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington DC on a project entitled “The Rise and Fall of Coptic: a Cultural History of the Language and its Speakers”. She is a specialist in Coptic and Byzantine studies, both as a philologist and cultural historian, as exemplified by her book Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides. L’apport des inscriptions et des papyrus grecs et coptes, collection "Le monde byzantin", CNRS Éditions, Paris 2001.

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

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

Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Turin and Program Director, Collège de France, will give a public lecture entitled:

“Postmoderno vent’anni dopo”

Time: Monday, February 26, from 2-3:30 PM

Place: Library of the Department of Italian (342 Royce Hall)

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

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

Heather Webb

Ohio State University

"Plurality, Action and Delight in Dante's Political Thought"

Monday, February 26, 2007

5 pm

Royce Hall 306

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

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

Present

NOURI GANA University of Michigan, Dearborn

“Melancholy Acts: Reclaiming Arabness in Contemporary Arab Literature and Culture”

Monday, February 26, 2007

5:00 pm

314 Royce Hall

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

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

Christopher A. Faraone,

Frank C. and Gertrude M. Springer Professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of Chicago

Disappearing Speech Acts? Wing- and Heart-shaped Magical Words on Greco-Roman Amulets

Faraone is a renowned specialist on ancient magic and has written numerous articles and books on the subject. He is co-editor (with D. Dodd) of Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives (2003) and (with L. McClure) of Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (2005), and author of Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual (1992) and Ancient Greek Love Magic (1999). His The Stanzaic Structure of Ancient Greek Elegiac Poetry will appear in 2007 with Oxford University Press.

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

Steven Beller

"Island of the Blessed/Island of the Damned: Austria and the Jews in Modern History"

Tuesday, February 27

7:30 pm

Royce Hall 314

-- 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)

Cosponsored by the Chicano Studies Research Center

-- submitted by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Christopher Oscarsson

Brigham Young University

"Embodying the Bird's-Eye View: Early Swedish Cinema and the Ecologial Imagination"

Wednesday, February 28

4 pm

Royce Hall 306

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

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

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 3 of this year-long series, we examine the 'Inner Self' and will question how this specifically early modern notion is crafted through the use of spatial metaphors for representing subjectivity and its relation to otherness (interiority, meditation, concealment, truth or lying), for discussing the mind, the soul, or rhetorical memory, in fiction, medical or religious writings, and philosophy. Forthcoming Programs in the Series: Part 4 – Spaces of Sacrality – March 14-15, 2008 Part 5 – Family and Work Space – April 25-26, 2008 Registration Deadline: February 15, 2008 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.

Program Schedule: Friday, February 22

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

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

Session 1: The "Innermost Recesses"

Andreas Bähr, Freie Universität Berlin "Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early Modern Dream Narratives"

Robert G. Dimit, New York University "Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the 'Inner Self' in Seventeenth-Century France and England"

Jean-Philippe Antoine, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3 "Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann's Outer Selves and the Body without Organs"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:30 P.M. Session 2: Language and Thought

Misia Sophia Doms, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken "Souls and Spaces – Spatial Metaphors for the Soul in German Baroque Poetry and their Anthropological Implications"

Nicholas Paige, University of California, Berkeley "How to Read a Mind: The Language of Thought in Crebillon"

4:30 P.M. Reception

Saturday, February 23

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3: Motion and Sound

Erec R. Koch, University of Tennessee-Knoxville "Nicole's Tourbillions: Materiality, Motion, and the Passions"

Ljubica Ilic, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow "Sound, Self and Space"

12:00 P.M. Lunch

1:30 P.M. Session 4: From the Personal to the Social

Claudia Jarzebowski, FU Berlin/Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut "Spaces of Her 'Self' in the Memoirs of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth (1709-1758)"

Karin Sennefelt, UCLA Ahmanson Getty-Fellow "Virtue, Property and Space in Eighteenth-century Stockholm"

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb22

Place: Dodd Hall 399 on Friday; Royce 306 on Saturday; Dodd 399 on Sunday.

Time: 3-6 pm on Friday; 10 am - 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

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

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

presents

Febe Armanios

Assistant Professor of History Middlebury College

Abstract The history of Copts in the “early modern” Ottoman era (1517-1798 CE) has been scarcely studied in the academic literature. But the question of how to begin writing the history of non-Muslims in the Middle East has been framed within this narrow construct: were these communities “tolerated” or “persecuted” by the broader Islamic society? This paradigm fails to produce the complex, nuanced answers demanded by varying historical situations. In essence, and for the Coptic case, it tells us little about what it meant to be a practicing Coptic Christian in Ottoman Egypt. As such, I discuss how we can go about uncovering new sources and how to raise different questions so that we can transcend these restrictive paradigms and learn more about the varied nature of Coptic life. In my talk, I present “snapshots” of the Coptic religious experience in an effort to grasp how Coptic believers actually constructed and, at times, contested their religious identity. I look to a body of sources that has been mostly neglected in the scholarly literature and analyze Coptic-Arabic manuscripts—martyrologies, hagiographies, miracle narratives and sermons—collected from archives in Egypt, Europe and the United States. I also supplement my work with Ottoman-era Arabic chronicles and European travel accounts. In the end, I argue that maintenance of and participation in popular religious life became crucial for a Coptic minority which resisted full cultural assimilation by seeking to articulate and preserve its religious distinctiveness in Ottoman Egypt.

Biography Febe Armanios is an Assistant Professor of History at Middlebury College in Vermont, where she specializes in Islamic and Middle Eastern History. Her research interests the history of popular religious practices among Egypt’s Copts, Muslim-Christian relations, and women and gender in the Muslim World. Her publications include “Patriarchs, Archons and the Eighteenth-Century Resurgence of the Coptic Community,” in William Lyster, ed., The Cave Church at the Monastery of St. Paul the First Hermit (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2008); “A Christian Martyr under Mamluk Justice: The Trials of Salib (d. 1512) according to Muslim and Coptic Sources,” co-authored with Boğaç Ergene, in Muslim World (2006); and “‘The Virtuous Woman’: Images of Gender in Modern Coptic Society,” in Middle Eastern Studies (2002). She is currently preparing a monograph on Coptic religious life in the Ottoman period, titled Beyond Persecution and Tolerance: Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt.

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

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Electronic Book

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 7:00 p.m. The Herbert Morris Seminar Room 306 Royce Hall

Co-sponsored by The Center for Digital Humanities

Related Event: Round-table discussion at CDH, Thu, Feb 7, noon-1pm

Please See http://remap.ucla.edu/exp/siemens.htm for more details and to RSVP.

-- submitted by CDH Help Desk (hcf@humanities.ucla.edu)

As a follow up to the EXP lecture on Feb 6th (see http://remap.ucla.edu/exp), join us for informal discussion with Ray Siemens.

RSVP at http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=26

-- submitted by CDH Help Desk (hcf@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

"English(ed) Verse: Poetry and Translation"

Arranged by Bruce Whiteman and Estelle Gershgoren Novak

Poet, translator, and Judaic scholar Marcia Falk is the author of The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible, which Adrienne Rich called “one of the great classics of the art of translation.” Her other books include several volumes of poetry and translations of modern women poets, including With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman (translated from the Yiddish) and The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda (translated from the Hebrew). The Book of Blessings, her bilingual re-creation of Jewish liturgy in poetic forms, has been widely acclaimed. Cynthia Ozick wrote that “It is as beautiful as it is innovative.” A former professor of literature and creative writing at SUNY Binghamton, the Claremont Colleges, and Hebrew Union College, Dr. Falk lectures widely on biblical poetry, Jewish women’s literature, and other topics.

Poet and translator David Ferry is Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English, Emeritus at Wellesley College and a Visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Boston University. He has translated Virgil and Horace, as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh, and his collections of poetry include Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (1999). He is an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently working on translations of Horace’s Satires and Virgil’s Aeneid.

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb9

Presents

"Lyric Testimony: Anthropomorphism and Survival in Post- Holocaust Writing"

A Faculty/Student Seminar

By Sara Guyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Monday, February 11, 2008 12:00PM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mona Simpson, organizer of the Some Favorite Writers series, is the author of "Anywhere But Here," "The Lost Father," and "Off Keck Road."

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

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

Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial studies. He is the author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (NYU, 1999), The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (Columbia, 1986; Duke pb 1993) and Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (Verso, 1993). He has edited Intellectuals: Aesthetics, Politics, Academics (Minnesota, 1990) and The Phantom Public Sphere (Minnesota, 1993) and co-edited Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation (Minnesota, 1998). He was co- editor of the journal Social Text from 1991 to 2000.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

4:30pm

314 Royce Hall

Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial studies.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

People magazine named Cockeyed one of the hottest reads of the summer of 2006 and The Boston Globe described it as "an unexpectedly wry view of a life that twisted into the extraordinary." Known for his wit and peculiar perspective, Ryan Knighton is a National Magazine Award- nominated journalist. He has written about popular culture, politics, education and disability for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and Saturday Night.

A frequent contributor to CSC radio, Knighton is also a faculty member in the English Department at Capilano College, where he teaches literature and writing, both creative and destructive. He also collects tattoos and hopes they resemble what he imagines.

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

For more information, contact egremse@support.ucla.edu

present an international and interdisciplinary conference

Austria 1918 and the Aftermath -- History, Literature, and Film

February 22-23, 2008

Royce Hall 314

9:30 am Opening Remarks:

Dean Timothy A. Stowell (University of California, Los Angeles)

Hans Wagener (University of California, Los Angeles)

Karl Müller (Universität Salzburg, Austria)

Moderator: Vic Fusilero (UCLA)

10:00 am Peter Loewenberg (UCLA)

Austria 1918: Coming to Terms with the National Trauma of Defeat and Fragmentation

11:00 am Bela Rasky (Universität Wien, Austria)

Habsburg ohne Habsburg. Zur Nachgeschichte der k.u.k. Monarchie in Österreich und Ungarn

Moderator: Ivett Guntersdorfer (UCLA)

2:00 pm Robert Weigel (Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama)

„Um diese Zeit ist vieles hoffnungslos und krasser“: Das Schicksalsjahr 1918 als Kulmination und Fortsetzung des Brochschen Wertevakuums

3:00 pm Helga Schreckenberger (University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont)

Literarische Reaktionen zur ostjüdischen Zuwanderung nach 1918

4:30 pm Wolfgang Nehring (UCLA)

Fronten ohne Front – Zur verspäteten Analyse des 3. November 1918 durch Franz Theodor Csokor

Saturday, February 23, 2008 – UCLA, Royce Hall, Room 314

Moderator: André Schütze (UCLA)

9:30 am Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner (Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria)

Theateravantgarden der Ersten Republik – Positionen und Beispiele

10:30 am Karl Müller (Universität Salzburg, Austria)

Literarische Spiegelungen der Zeit: "Inflation" – "der neue Mensch" 11:30 am Maria-Regina Kecht (Rice University, Houston, Texas)

Weltgeschichte in Erinnerung: Kriegsgeschehen in den Texten von österreichischen Gegenwartsautorinnen

Moderator: Mohammad Rafi (UCLA)

2:00 pm Fatima Naqvi (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey)

Michael Haneke und postnationale Konstellationen

3:00 pm Robert von Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado)

Finis Austriae, vivat Austria – The Re/Vision of 1918 in Austrian Film

4:00 pm General Discussion

Co-sponsored by UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the Austrian Consulate General

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

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

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