May Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

CDH Roundtable Meeting-Prof. Knapp/Musicology

CDH Roundtable Meeting with Prof. Raymond Knapp, Musicology

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Distinguished Lecture Series: Daniel Goldmark

Monday, May 1, 6:30pm, in 1440 Schoenberg Music Bldg.

Abstract below:

"Stuttering in American Popular Song, 1890-1930”

At the height of its commercial popularity, Tin Pan Alley manufactured thousands of songs yearly on every conceivable subject. The historical importance of the sheet music for this repertoire lies in part in the information about social issues reflected in the subjects chosen for songs and their lyrics. Songs about Prohibition, World War I, city life, and even new clothing fads were common fodder for songwriters and today give us humorous and often remarkably perceptive viewpoints about cultural trends. A surprising number of songs from this period include disability—most notably stuttering— among their subject matter. In this paper I explore the formulaic narratives told by Tin Pan Alley to show how people who stutter were portrayed, and examine the stories being told about people with disabilities in general. The conceptual gap between the stories of people who stutter and realities about life for disabled people in early twentieth century America establishes that these songs have little to do with disabilities per se, and more about the social anxieties. Through the mocking scenarios set up in these songs, disabled people are subjected to the same socio-cultural segregation that discourses of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and ethnicity—all the various discourses of otherness—face.

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

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

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

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

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

Graduate Student Salon: Sam See

Reservations are required. Please respond to 310-206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu.

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in Lot 5 for $8

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

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

Lecture by Professor Aristides Baltas

Aristides Baltas

University of Pittsburgh and National Polytechnic, Athens Greece

"Wittgenstein, Spinoza, and the Problem of God"

Aristides Baltas is the premier Greek philosopher today. Trained as a physicist, he has written extensively in matters of philosophy of science, epistemology, political theory, and psychoanalysis. His book Objects and Facets of Self was awarded the National Book Award in 2002.

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

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

Stevenson Lecture Series presents Joseph Kerman

Thursday, May 4 at 4:00pm, Popper Hall (room 1200), in the Schoenberg Music Buidling. A reception will follow immediately on the south wing patio.

Professor Kerman's talk will be on: William Byrd: Catholic and Careerist

The composer William Byrd was an outspoken Catholic at the Protestant court of Queen Elizabeth, and a man of greatest political skill and audacity. Far from being silenced, he found ways both practical and artistic to support the dissident (recusant) cause. His music towered above that of any of his compatriots, but it was only through multiple determined negotiations that Byrd achieved his unique position: Icon of his own Catholic community, and acknowledged ornament to his Protestant nation.

Joseph Kerman’s main work as a musicologist is on Byrd and Elizabethan music and on Beethoven. An influential commentator on musicology (Contemplating Music, 1986), he was an early champion of criticism within the discipline. He was founding co-editor of 19th Century Music in 1977 and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard in 1997 (Concerto Conversations, 1999). His latest book is The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715–1750 (2005), his best-known Opera as Drama (1956), and his most important Listen (1972–), a college textbook. Kerman has been writing for the New York Review of Books since 1977.

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

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

The Hungarian Language: Past and Present

Invited Speakers

Donka Farkas (UC Santa Cruz) Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) Marianne Bakro-Nagy (U Szeged & Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Anna Fenyvesi (U Szeged) Laszlo Hunyadi (U Debrecen):

Information is made available at http://kracht.humnet.ucla.edu/hun06 Contact: {jdomokos, kracht}@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Kathryn Roberts (kroberts@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jdomokos@humnet.ucla.edu; kracht@humnet.ucla.edu

Creolization of Theory

“Creolization of Theory”

May 5-6, 2006 UCLA Royce 306 & 314

Pronouncements that "theory is over" abound in literary and cultural studies. These claims themselves arise, however, from various positions that may be called theoretical, clamoring to claim the space left vacant by the "death of theory." Exactly what version of "theory" has died? What seeks to be its heir?

From minor and minoritized perspectives, "theory" may have been fatally flawed by its Eurocentric universalism, but it has also opened up other "creolized" possibilities. How then might "theory" be creolized, complicated, reinvented, and made usable in our transnationalized and globalized present? How might our investigations of minor formations as creolized objects of study necessitate, and thus enable, a new creolized theory on the deathbed of "theory?" Does the creolization of theory then promise a theory of creolization as paradigmatic for the theory of the future?

Conference Schedule

Friday May 5, 2006 Royce Hall 306

9:45 am: Introduction: Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, Co-directors of the Transnational and Transcolonial Studies MRG 10:00 am: Session 1: Creolized Theory, Minority Theory

Barnor Hesse, Northwestern University, “Creolizing the Political”

discussant: Mark Sawyer, UCLA

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, UC Irvine, “Minority Theory, Revisited”

discussant: Rafael Peréz-Torres, UCLA

1:00 pm Lunch

2:30 pm Session 2: Post-Slavery, Postcolonial and Post-Fordist Equivalences

Anne Donadey, San Diego State University, “Post-Slavery and Postcolonial Representations: Comparative Approaches”

discussant: Liz Constable, UC Davis

Neferti Tadiar, UC Santa Cruz, “Poetics of Filipina Export: Contributions Towards a Theory of Post-Fordist Servility”

discussant: Karl Britto, UC Berkeley

5:30 pm Reception

Saturday May 6, 2006 Royce Hall 314

10:00 am Session 3: Limits of Postcolonial Theory

Ping-hui Liao, Tsinghua University, “On Post-Socialist Mimicry”

discussant: Shu-mei Shih, UCLA

Pheng Cheah, UC Berkeley, “Crises of Money”

discussant: Stathis Gourgouris, UCLA

1:00 pm Lunch

2:30 pm Session 4: Language and Desire in the Theory of the Archive

Anjali Arondekar, UC Santa Cruz, “Archival Attachments: On Sexuality and Colonial Historiography”

discussant: Parama Roy, UC Riverside

Eleanor Kaufman, UCLA, “Monolingualism of the Archive”

discussant: Françoise Lionnet, UCLA

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

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

Public Lecture: Anna Fenyvesi (University of Szeged): The many faces of Hungarian: Sociolinguistic findings on contact varieties

May 5, 1648 Hershey Hall, 2pm.

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

For more information, contact jdomokos@humnet.ucla.edu; kracht@humnet.ucla.edu

Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Simulation and Concert

Reservations are required. Please respond to 310-206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu.

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in Lot 9 for $8

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

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

Center for Digital Humanities Lecture: Realizing the First Metamedium - Dr. Julian Lombardi.

Dr. Julian Lombardi, Asst Vice President of Information Technology, Duke University

"Croquet: Realizing the First Metamedium"

Dr Lombardi is one of the architects of Croquet (http://www.opencroquet.org). Croquet is a system that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among large numbers of users, using 3D visualization and simulations.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP by visiting: http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/lombardi.php

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film screening: "Der Tunnel"

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

For more information, see http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/germanclub/filmseries.html

Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Robert Stevenson, "John Cage's West Coast Career"

Thursday, May 11 4:00 PM Schoenberg Music Bldg, room 1230 (Green Room)

Reception to Follow

"John Cage's West Coast Career"

John Cage (1912-1992), the most renowned musician born in Los Angeles, and the most influential American composer of his century, profited enormously from his years both in Los Angeles and his biennium in Seattle, before his departure from the west coast in the fall of 1940.

Stevenson, author of the first and to the present sole closely documented account of Cage’s fledgling years, buttresses his presentation with a keen knowledge of Los Angeles music history, having published in all the chief encyclopedias the Los Angeles city article.

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

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

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

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series

Mr. Hollander's books of poetry include Picture Window, Powers of Thirteen, and A Crackling of Thorns.

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

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

Literatura e música popular no Brasil

Jose Miguel Wisnik (Universidade de São Paulo)

Friday, May 12th

3 pm "Literatura e música popular no Brasil" Lecture will feature live piano music! Royce 314

Reception to follow

José Miguel Wisnik is one of Brazil’s leading composers, musicians and literary critics and a Professor of Brazilian Literature at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). His writings have sought the intersection between Brazilian popular music, literature and culture and include most recently the collection of essays Sem receita—ensaios e canções (2004). His music has been featured in films such as Terra Estrangeira (1995) and Janela da Alma (2001) and has been recorded by artists such as Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Zizi Possi and Caetano Veloso. He has composed together with Tom Zé for the dance Parabelo (1997), with Caetano Veloso for Onqotô (2005), and individually for a number of theater and dance spectacles, including for the dance troupe Grupo Corpo. His most recent CD is Pérolas aos poucos (2003).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't Knock Me A Teapot-Strange Yiddish Expressions And How They Got That Way

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Don't Knock Me A Teapot-Strange Yiddish Expressions And How They Got That Way"

A Lecture by Michael Wex

Thursday, May 11, 2006 • UCLA Faculty Center • 7:30 pm

Sponsored by the Michael and Irene Ross Fund and Cosponsored by Yiddishkayt Los Angeles.

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 2 for $8.

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

LGBTS Lecture Series: Erik N. Jensen

4:00 pm, 334C Germanic Languages Seminar Room, Royce Hall

ERIK N. JENSEN

Department of History, Miami University

Fist-fighting Females! Weimar Women's Boxing between Sensationalism and Sport

This paper explores the representation and practice of women's boxing in Weimar Germany and the ways in which the sport both challenged and reaffirmed traditional notions of feminine athleticism and sexuality. At the same time, though, popular images of women's boxing almost perfectly paralleled those of men's boxing, suggesting ways in which the sport itself was defined by theatricality, passivity (as well as activity), and a blurring of the subjective and objective body.

Cosponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages

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

Cultivation and Representation: Images and Ideals of the Self in Jewish Mysticism"

Presents

"Cultivation and Representation: Images and Ideals of the Self in Jewish Mysticism"

A Lecture by Eitan Fishbane(Hebrew Union College)

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 • UCLA Hillel • 12:00 pm

Faculty/Student Workshop

Pre-Registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

UDHIG Meeting

· Claudia Rapp, History, and Michael Phelps will discuss the EMEL (Early Manuscript Electronic Library),

· Timothy Tangherlini, Scandinavian, will discuss his Danish Folklore project,

· Rebeka Vital, Architecture, will present her dissertation project: Incorporating Cultural Identity in Virtual Architectural Reconstructions.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Hope to see you there! --zoe

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

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

The Newly Discovered Gospel of Judas

Marvin Meyer

Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies, Director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute, Chapman University; and Member of the Advisory Board of National Geographic Society Judas Codex Project

will speak about the Gospel of Judas contained in the fourth century AD Codex Tchacos, which was acquired by the Swiss Maecenas Foundation only a number of years ago. Considered to have been lost for ever, the Gospel of Judas will now be published in due course as the result of a concerted effort of scholars to conserve and translate the codex. Marvin Meyer is a member of this distinguished team of international scholars and will relate the discovery of the manuscript, the painstaking work of conservation, and the Gospel of Judas' significance for the study of early Christianity.

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

For more information, see http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/

Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture

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

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

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

Is Spinoza an Atheist?

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Is Spinoza and Atheist?"

A Lecture by Steven Nadler(University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Thursday, May 18, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12:00 pm

Faculty/Student Workshop

Pre-Registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

CDH Roundtable

Join us for a special Roundtable with John Unsworth, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Unsworth was a founding director of the University of Viriginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

This roundtable, like all of them, will be an informal discussion of technology in the Humanities. Later on the same day, Dr. Unsworth will be giving a lecture in the REMAP series (see http://remap.ucla.edu/exp/unsworth.htm).

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

For more information, see http://remap.ucla.edu/exp/unsworth.htm

John Unsworth, REMAP EXP lecture

In 2003, John Unsworth was named Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with appointments as Professor in GSLIS, in the department of English, and on the Library faculty. During the previous ten years, from 1993-2003, he served as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and a faculty member in the English Department, at the University of Virginia. For his work at IATH, he received the 2005 Richard W. Lyman Award from the National Humanities Center. He has supervised research projects across the disciplines in the humanities and published widely on the topic of electronic scholarship, as well as securing grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, IBM, Sun, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and others. His first faculty appointment was in English, at North Carolina State University, from 1989 to 1993. He attended Princeton University and Amherst College as an undergraduate, graduating from Amherst in 1981. He received a Master's degree in English from Boston University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1988. In 1990, at NCSU, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, Postmodern Culture (now published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as part of Project Muse). He also organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, and served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards.

This lecture is part of a series that explores intersections of arts and humanities with science and engineering, convened by UCLA's Vice Chancellor for Research, Dr. Roberto Peccei. It is sponsored by the Center for Research in Engineering (REMAP) and Experiential Technologies Center (ETC).

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

Rembrandt's Jews: Portraying Jewishness in 17th Century Dutch Art

Presents

"Rembrandt's Jews: Portraying Jewishness in 17th Century Dutch Art"

A Lecture by Steven Nadler(University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Thursday, May 18, 2006 • 314 Royce Hall • 7:30 pm

The Maurice Amado Lecture in Sephardic Studies

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

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

The Art of Rights: Human Rights in Comparative Perspective

The Fifth Annual MRG Graduate Student Conference Sponsored by

the UC Transnational & Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group

“The Art of Rights: Human Rights in Comparative Perspective”

19 May 2006, University of California, Los Angeles. 314 Royce Hall.

Despite repeated proclamations of “never again,” war and genocide still haunt collective realities and shape imaginations. Human rights remains a pressing topic that affects disciplines from history to the performing arts and from literature to sociology. In a general sense, this conference proposes to bring literature and the arts into dialogue with the social sciences in order to confront the ethics of representation in the context of an increasingly globalized and violent world. Taking human rights as our central focus, we will consider the following questions: How do literature and the arts re-imagine complex social realities such as genocide, war, and systematized discrimination? How do these forms of representation differ from and/or complement the work of scholars in public health, history, sociology or development? Finally, how can the humanities and social sciences work together to fight for human rights?

Conference Schedule:

Breakfast and Opening Remarks: 9:00-9:30 Session 1: 9:30-11:00 Human Rights Violations Seen Through Literature

MODERATOR: Jeff Schroeder, Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA

Dahlia Setiyawan, Department of History, UCLA “I Can Still Hear Them Weeping: The Short Story as a Source for Indonesian Conceptualizations of the Mass Killings of 1965-66”

Flor Gragera de León, Fulbright Scholar/Department of Spanish, Princeton University “Testimony a/s/nd Trial: History and Fiction Hand in Hand to Fight for Prisoners’ Rights in Democratic Spain”

Cherif Correa, Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Islam and the Question of Agency in the Senegalese Woman's Search for Identity in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter”

Session 2: 11:00-12:30 Enacting and Performing Human Rights MODERATOR: Christina Firpo, Department of History, UCLA Randall Jay Williams, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego “Homonormativity and the Human Rights Industry: Murder in Mexico, the International Lesbian & Gay Human Rights Commission, and the Rise of Democratic Fundamentalism”

Selena Burns, School of Education, New York University “Theatre for Change: Torture as Performance, Audience Complicity, and Citizen Complacency in Griselda Gambaro's Information for Foreigners” Luis Ramos, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley “Of Landmines and Killing Fields: Remembering Cambodia’s Recent Past”

LUNCH: 12:30-1:30

Session 3: 1:30-3:30 Human Rights: Rhetoric and Reality

MODERATOR: Kathleen Washburn, Department of English, UCLA Christine Hong, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley “‘Flying Home’: the ‘Black Eagle’ and the Vertigo of U.S. Human Rights in Ralph Ellison’s Wartime Writings” Glenn Mitoma, Department of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University “An Empire of Rights: Carlos P. Romulo and the Representation of the American Rights Tradition” Yael Schacher, Department of History, Harvard University “Hiroshima and the Estrangement of John Hersey” Chandra Garber, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine “It’s Not What You Say, but How You Say It: Mapping Language in Human Rights and Cultural Identity”

Keynote Address: 4:00-5:30

Welcome: Françoise Lionnet & Shu-Mei Shih, Co-Chairs, University of California Multicampus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies

Introduction: Amy Marczewski, Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA Professor Greg Mullins, “Remembering Wrongs, Imagining Rights: Labors of Literature and Human Rights”

Greg Mullins is an Associate Professor of English at Evergreen College. His book Colonial Affairs (2002) is a study of sexuality and colonialism as represented in American and Moroccan literature written in Tangier from 1945-1970. He is currently writing a book on the discursive and cultural politics of human rights. Reception to follow. Royce 306 Terrace.

Organized by: Amy Marczewski, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Chair Christina Firpo, Department of History Jeff Schroeder, Department of Comparative Literature Jennifer Thackston-Johnson, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

To attend: This program is free and open to the public. No reservations are required, however, seating is limited.

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

“Churches and their Patrons in Romanesque Ireland”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10:30-11:00 Coffee

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

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

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

12:00-12:30 Questions

12:30-2:00 Lunch break

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

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

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

3:00-3:30 Coffee

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Terry: Governmentality, Sentimentality, and Imperial Erotics in ‘Extreme Cinema Verité’

Jennifer Terry Associate Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Irvine

Governmentality, Sentimentality, and Imperial Erotics in ‘Extreme Cinema Verité’

Monday, May 22, 2006 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

This paper analyzes the mechanisms of governmentality, affect, and homoerotics that are evident in visual images of the US led war in Iraq produced in an amateur, do-it- yourself fashion by US soldiers. Circulating on the internet, they provide an unofficial genre of war coverage that tends to valorize male-bonding, aggressive militancy, technofetishism, and racism against Arabs. Terry explores the gender, race, nationalist, and erotic politics surrounding the making and circulation of these “extreme cinema verite” texts, and shows their uncanny connection to an ideologically opposite but formally similar kind of media production: a genre of DIY moving image productions grouped under the heading of “Jihad movies" and produced by opponents of the US occupation of Iraq.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

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

Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star

Reservations are required. Please respond to 310-206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu.

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in Lot 5, $8

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

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

Bearing Witness To "The End Of What Was": Holocaust Diarists

7:30 pm in 314 Royce Hall

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Bearing Witness To "The End Of What Was": Holocaust Diarists"

A Lecture by Alexandra Garbarini(Williams College)

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 pm

The "1939" Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies

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

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

Noties de Cinema

N O I T E S DE C I N E M A

A weekly Brazilian film exhibit at UCLA

When:Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 7:00 pm Where: Moore Hall 100 - UCLA

O Homem do Ano

Director: José Henrique Fonseca 2003

Based on the award-winning novel by Patrícia Melo "O Matador" (Brazil 1995), "The Man of the Year" marks the feature film debut of director José Henrique Fonseca and depicts, in a very original manner, a society in Convulsion.

Meet Maiquel (as Michael) in his incredible destiny: the unemployed car salesman turned assassin-for-hire who becomes the owner of a highly successful security firm. "The Man of the Year" features Brazil's film and TV superstars Murilo Benicio (from Fina Torrez's "Woman on Top") and Cláudia Abreu (from Bruno Barreto's "4 Days in September") in the roles of Maiquel and his wife Cledir.

Original music composed by Dado Villa-Lobos ("Bufo & Spallanzani").

For more information visit the website, please contact pjlheman@ucla.edu or vanina@ucla.edu, or visit our site at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/port/bal.html

This is a free event.

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

Noties de Cinema

N O I T E S DE C I N E M A

A weekly Brazilian film exhibit at UCLA

When:Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 7:00 pm Where: Moore Hall 100 - UCLA

O Homem do Ano

Director: José Henrique Fonseca 2003

Based on the award-winning novel by Patrícia Melo "O Matador" (Brazil 1995), "The Man of the Year" marks the feature film debut of director José Henrique Fonseca and depicts, in a very original manner, a society in Convulsion.

Meet Maiquel (as Michael) in his incredible destiny: the unemployed car salesman turned assassin-for-hire who becomes the owner of a highly successful security firm. "The Man of the Year" features Brazil's film and TV superstars Murilo Benicio (from Fina Torrez's "Woman on Top") and Cláudia Abreu (from Bruno Barreto's "4 Days in September") in the roles of Maiquel and his wife Cledir.

Original music composed by Dado Villa-Lobos ("Bufo & Spallanzani").

For more information visit the website, please contact pjlheman@ucla.edu or vanina@ucla.edu, or visit our site at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/port/bal.html

This is a free event.

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

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

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

Website Presentations of New Media Colloquium

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

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

Art History Symposium/Discussion

UCLA Hammer Museum Wednesday, May 24, 7 PM

“Incorporated, Inc.: A Museum of Modern Art Before the Museum of Modern Art”

In conjunction with the current Hammer exhibition, “The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America,” a small symposium and panel discussion on the importance of the Société Anonyme as the first “experimental museum” for contemporary art in the United States.

Organized and moderated by George Baker, with Miwon Kwon, Richard Meyer, and Nancy J. Troy.

George Baker is assistant professor of art history at UCLA, an editor of OCTOBER magazine, a critic for ARTFORUM, and is currently preparing the book The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris.

Miwon Kwon is associate professor of contemporary art history at UCLA and the author of One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity.

Richard Meyer is associate professor of art history at the University of Southern California (USC); his book Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth- Century Art received the Charles C. Eldredge Prize.

Nancy J. Troy is professor of modern art at USC, president of the National Committee for the History of Art, and is currently working on a book about Piet Mondrian.

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

CDH Roundtable

When: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:00-1:00 pm Where: Public Policy Building, CDH Conference Room 1023

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

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

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

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

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

"Sweet Charity, Cabaret, and the Queer Single Girl in 1960s Musicals"

Professor Stacy Wolf, Dept. of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas, Austin

Friday, May 26th, 4:00pm Schoenberg 1440

“Sweet Charity, Cabaret, and the Queer Single Girl in 1960s Musicals”

In “Sweet Charity, Cabaret, and the Queer Single Girl in 1960s Musicals,” Stacy Wolf explores contradictory representations of gender and sexuality in the inimitable characters of Sally Bowles and Charity Hope Valentine. Interweaving cultural history, a feminist, queer reading of the musicals, visual images, sound and film clips, and autobiography, Wolf considers these characters within the conventions of mid-twentieth century musicals, in relation to the 1960s popular culture image of the Single Girl, and as performed on stage and on film.

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

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

Nusekh-Vilne: Vilna from Place to Myth in Yiddish Literature, 1919-1955

12:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Nusekh-Vilne: Vilna from Place to Myth in Yiddish Literature, 1919-1955"

A Workshop by Justin Cammy(Smith College)

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12:00 pm

Faculty/Student Workshop

Pre-Registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Searching for GOD in Judaism"

presents

"SEARCHING FOR ‘GOD’ IN JUDAISM"

by RABBI CHAIM SEIDLER-FELLER

with a response by S. SCOTT BARTCHY, Professor UCLA Department of History

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2006 4PM - 6PM HAINES A25

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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

Paulinho da Viola - Meu Tempo é Hoje

present

Noites de Cinema A weekly Brazilian film exhibit at UCLA

What: Paulinho da Viola - Meu Tempo e Hoje (director: Izabel Jaguaribe,2003)

When: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 7:00 pm

Where: Moore Hall 100 - UCLA

A must-see documentary that presents the life of one of the most prestigious and talented Brazilian Samba composers, Paulinho da Viola. It is a musical trip that takes the viewer to the universe of Samba in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with amazing performances, including the following classics "O Sol Nascera" (Elton Medeiros e Cartola), "Pecadora" (Joaozinho da Pecadora e Jair do Cavaquinho), "Carinhoso" (Pixinguinha e Joao de Barro) e "Filosofia" (Noel Rosa), among many others.

The film also presents interviews and special participations of Velha Guarda da Portela, Cristina Buarque, Marina Lima, Marisa Monte, Teresa Cristina, Zeca Pagodinho, and many more. 83 minutes of pure delight. Paulinho da Viola - Meu Tempo é Hoje. Director: Izabel Jaguaribe 2003

For more information, please contact pjlheman@ucla.edu or vanina@ucla.edu, or visit our site at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/port/bal.html

This is a free event.

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

For more information, contact pjlheman@ucla.edu

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

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

Henrik Berggren & Lars Trägårdh Lecture-- "Is the Swede Human? Radical Individualism in the Land of Social Solidarity"

Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh

"Is the Swede Human? Radical Individualism in the Land of Social Solidarity"

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

1:00 pm

Royce Hall 243

Henrik Berggren is a journalist and historian, formerly the editor-in-chief of the Arts & Culture section of the leading daily newspaper of Stockholm, Dagens Nyheter, now writing for its editorial page. He is currently at work on a new political biography on the assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Plame.

Lars Trägårdh is a historian and previously a member of the history department at Barnard College, Columbia University. Currently he directs a research project on social trust at Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm and also serves as a coordinator for long term EU funded program on social capital and social policy at London School of Economics.

Is the Swede Human? This is the provocative title of a new book by the two Swedish historians Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh (Är svensken människa? Gemenskap och oberoende i det moderna Sverige. Norstedts 2006). The book claims that the supposedly “socialist” Swedes are, in fact, individualists in extremis. To an extent unimaginable even in the US, they are devoted to the pursuit of personal autonomy. At the heart of the Swedish social compact lies a deeply rooted conception, what the authors call “a Swedish theory of love,” according to which authentic love and friendship is possible only between individuals who are independent and equal. This moral logic, joining the ideal of independence to those of economic equality and social solidarity, has been institutionalized in modern Sweden through a radical alliance between the individual and the state, which the authors term “statist individualism.” This has, on the one hand, liberated the individual from the ties of dependency that characterize the traditional family, churches, and charities, on the other, it has left the individual relatively powerless in relation to the state. This is a social contract, they argue, that differs dramatically from those of other modern, western democracies, notably the US and Germany, two countries that serve as comparative touchstones in the analysis.

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

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

The Godwinian Moment: Revolutionary Revisions of Enlightenment

Because of the ground-breaking studies of the 1980s, William Godwin’s Enquiry concerning Political Justice has become one of the most important texts for charting transitions and continuities between the British Enlightenment and the Romantic era. Recent scholars have taken the Enquiry beyond the task of delineating Godwin’s political-philosophical system—beyond proving that he indeed had a rational system—and have begun to show how his later texts rethought an Enlightenment project that the Enquiry had already reconfigured. Current work has begun more detailed analysis of Godwin’s entire fictional oeuvre, as well as more careful interpretation and evaluation of his educational tracts, histories, dramas, and writings for children. Now the object of scholars equipped with a variety of theoretical, critical, and textual practices, Godwin is emerging a different and even richer index to the intellectual changes rung upon the British Enlightenment.

The current publishing environment has been hospitable to this extension of Godwin studies. Besides bringing Godwin’s various works back into print, scholars (including participants in the conference) are now editing both his diaries and his letters. This effort has continued to show how central Godwin is to understanding the transformations of Enlightenment through eighteenth-century Dissent and to picturing the various elements in London publishing and coterie culture; it also promises to penetrate below the stereotyped Godwinian surface, bringing into play details of his private community on the one hand and his active outreach beyond England on the other hand, thus enriching our sense of eighteenth-century family and cosmopolis. This conference emphasizes transitions from eighteenth-century styles of thought to new categories and configurations triggered by the challenge of revolution and reaction. Participants will uncover various connections between Godwin’s work and concerns about marriage, family, and childhood; Rosseauvian vs. Dissenting theories of education; the advent of the historical novel; economic tropes and realities; and transformations of rhetoric and oratory.

Registration Deadline: April 27, 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.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule:

Friday, May 4 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

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

Moderator: Frederick Burwick, UCLA

Gary Handwerk, University of Washington "'Awakening the Mind': William Godwin on Education"

Robert Anderson, Oakland University "Godwin Disguised: Politics in the Juvenile Library"

12:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Moderator: Donald G. Marshall, Pepperdine University

Timothy Webb, University of Bristol "'Assassins of Truth': William Godwin and the Temptations of Legal Oratory" Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University "History and Oratory: Godwin’s Biography of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham"

4:30 p.m. Reception

Saturday, May 5

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Moderator: Beth Lau, California State University, Long Beach

Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario "The Disfiguring of Enlightenment: War, Trauma and the Historical Novel in Godwin’s Mandeville"

Kenneth W. Graham, University of Guelph "Reviewing and Ideological Change: Two Moments in the Godwin-Malthus Contention"

12:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Moderator: Anne Mellor, UCLA

Pamela Clemit, University of Durham "From Enlightenment Intellectual to Romantic Revisionist: William Godwin in His Familiar Letters"

Julie A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara "Heavy Drama"

Robert Maniquis, UCLA "Grand Incongruities: Godwin, Calvinism, and the Phantom Self"

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#may4

Annual Shakespeare Symposium

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

Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra

The Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra will discuss his work

Monday, May 7, 2007

5 pm

Royce Hall 236

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

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

Gayatri Spivak lecture

“Other Asias: A Foreword”

May 8, 2007 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.  B.A. English (Honors), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1959.  Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1967. D. Litt, University of Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, Univeristy of London, 2003. Fields: feminism, marxism, deconstruction, globalization.  Books: Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1974), Of Grammatology (translation with critical introduction of Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie, 1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Selected Subaltern Studies (ed., 1988), The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), Imaginary Maps (translation with critical introduction of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1994), The Spivak Reader (1995), Breast Stories (translation with critical introduction of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1997), Old Women (translation with critical introduction of two stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1999), Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet / Imperative zur Neuerfindung des Planeten (ed. Willi Goetschel, 1999), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Song for Kali: A Cycle (translation with introduction of Ramproshad Sen, 2000), Chotti Munda and His Arrow (translation with critical introduction of a novel by Mahasweta Devi, 2002), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2005), Red Thread (forthcoming).  Significant articles: "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography" (1985), "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (1985), "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988), "The Politics of Translation" (1992), "Moving Devi" (1999), "Righting Wrongs" (2003), "Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching" (2004), "Translating into English" (2005).

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

CMRS Faculty Roundtable

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

CDH Roundtable

Almila is an Art History graduate student and Humanities Jr. Fellow. She will discuss work to date on her project: "Mapping the Exchange Of Ideas In Interdisciplinary Research: Time-Based Data Mining."

RSVP for this event: http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=11

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu)

LGBTS Lecture

ANDREAS KRASS

A THORN IN THE FLESH: A QUEER READING OF KLEIST’S “ON THE MARIONETTE THEATER”

Wednesday, May 9, 2007 5:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

Andreas Krass is professor of German literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He has published important works on medieval literature and cultural studies and edited the only collection of queer theoretical texts translated from English into German.

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

-- submitted by Courtney D. Marshall (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Illustrating Ethnicity in the Middle Ages"

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

Countries, Cultures, Communication: Digital Innovation

I cordially invite you to attend "Countries, Cultures, Communication: Digital Innovation at UCLA." This event is being hosted by my office and the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) to showcase UCLA's many and varied strengths in digital research. Faculty and researchers from the School of Arts and Architecture, the Humanities and Social Sciences divisions of the College of Letters and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Information Science, the School of Public Affairs, the UCLA Digital Library and the School of Theater, Film and Television will be presenting projects and discussing their ground-breaking work in an open-house format.

The keynote speech will be delivered at 7 p.m. by the 2006 Richard Lyman Award winner, Dr. Willard McCarty. McCarty is a reader in humanities computing at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, in the School of Humanities at King's College London.

Thursday, May 10

Doors will be open 4-8 p.m.

1302 Perloff Hall

Admission is free; parking is $8.

Refreshments will be served.

Visit our website and RSVP by Tuesday, May 8. www.digitalinnovations.ucla.edu/

I look forward to seeing you on campus.

Roberto Peccei

Vice Chancellor for Research

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

California Medieval History Seminar

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

Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship: What, Why, How?

Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman Women Writers Project, Brown University

May 14 & 15: 9:00-5:30 UCLA’s Biomedical Library (Louise M. Darling) Location RSVP Monday & Tuesday

How are digital texts used in research? How are they created? How do text encoding practices impinge upon and affect traditional scholarly work? What is text encoding, anyway, and why does it matter? Aren't search engines enough?

This two-day seminar explores the role and significance of the text encoding in current digital scholarship, aiming to give participants a thoughtful introduction to the issues and practices surrounding the creation of scholarly digital texts. It also provides an introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, the widely used international standard for creating rigorous digital texts for humanities research. The seminar combines hands-on experimentation with discussions of encoding theory and strategy, editorial perspectives, publication methods and tools, and the changing shape of digital research. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore practical questions about planning and running digital humanities research projects.

This seminar is the second in a series of twelve funded by the NEH and designed by the Brown University Women Writers Project (WWP), with the goal of helping humanities faculty and students learn about text encoding in a way that addresses their interests and needs. With nearly two decades of experience and research, the WWP is internationally known as a center of expertise in scholarly text encoding. The project's online collection, Women Writers Online, serves as a model for issues of text representation and digital scholarly research.

About the instructors:

Julia Flanders is the Director of the WWP and serves as vice-chair of the TEI Consortium. Her research focuses on the political and social dimensions of digital humanities scholarship and of text encoding in particular. She is also the editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access digital journal.

Syd Bauman is the North American Editor of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, and the Senior Programmer/Analyst at the WWP. His work focuses on developing data standards, tools, and digital materials that reflect the real needs and constraints of humanities research.

To view the schedule and for more information about this NEH-funded seminar series, please see http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/UCLA/

This is a two-day seminar/workshop that combines discussion and hands-on training using PCs. We will have 20 computers; participants who attend both days will have priority when assigning laptops. To reserve a seat, see the links above, or visit the website: http://projects.cdh.ucla.edu/udhig/

Email: zoe@ats.ucla.edu with questions. This event is sponsored by: UDHIG (UCLA’s Digital Humanities Incubator Group), CDH (The Center for Digital Humanities), UCLA Digital Library Program, ATS (Academic Technology Services), IDRE (Institute for Digital Research and Education)

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

"Migration, Empire, and Transformation" -- First Annual Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities Conference

Presents its 2006-2007 Annual Conference

“Migration, Empire, and Transformation” May 16-18, 2007 UCLA

This conference considers the intersections of empire and the multiple displacements of populations through the lens of cultural productions. It considers how aural, historical, literary and visual texts act as transformative forces and dialogic spaces, which contest and (re)articulate notions of identity and community beyond the categories of nation, colonizer and colonized, center and periphery. Among the questions we wish to address are the following: How does the global reach of the expansive economic and informational networks of power today compare to the earlier imperialisms associated with colonization, conquest and slavery? What is the effect on the nation of shifting frontiers, antagonistic groups, and unexpected transnational alliances?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007, James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409

Opening Film screening and Artist Presentation

6:30 pm: Opening Reception, James Bridges Theater

7:00 pm: Introduction, Elsa Chen (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow)

7:05 pm: Film Screening, James Bridges Theater

Shu Lea Cheang, “Fresh Kill” (1994, 80 minutes)

8: 30 pm: Keynote Artist’s presentation, Shu Lea Cheang

“Re-Route: Rush Hour on the Trans-Nation Highway”

9:00 pm: Audience Q&A with artist

Shu Lea Cheang is a multi-medium artist working in the field of net-based installation, social interface and film production. Her net installation works were commissioned and permanently collected by Walker Art Center (Bowling Alley, 1995), NTT [ICC], Tokyo (Buy One Get One, 1997) and the Guggenheim Museum (Brandon, 1998-1999). She made two theatrical feature films, Fresh Kill, which premiered at Berlin Film Festival in 1994 and was included in Whitney Biennale (New York) in 1995; another feature I.K.U. produced by Tokyo's Uplink, was premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2000. Her recent installation and web projects include BabyPlay (NTT [ICC], Tokyo, 2001), Garlic=RichAir (Creative time, New York, 2002), Burn (Venice Biennale, 2003), Milk (56K bastard TV, 2004), BabyLove (Palais de Tokyo, 2005). She co-founded several collectives: Kingdom of Piracy (based in netspace, since 2001), Mumbai Streaming Attack (based in Zurich since 2003) and TAKE2030 (based in London since 2003). In 2007, she launched "MobiOpera,” a collective public cinema made with mobile phones at the New Frontier, Sundance Film Festival. She is currently developing "LOVEME2030,” a series of multi-screen-based installation set in Metropolis Europa.

Thursday, May 17, 2007, Royce Hall 306

9:00 am: Welcome, Royce Hall 306

Timothy Stowell, Dean of Humanities, UCLA

Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, co-directors, UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities

9:05 am: Introduction

Babli Sinha, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

9:10 am to 12:00 pm Panel I: Transnational Media and the Production of Global Imaginaries

Hamid Naficy (Northwestern University, Department of Radio/TV/Film and Department of Art History)

“The Multiplicity Factor in the Current Cinemas”

Priya Jaikumar (USC, School of Cinematic Arts)

“Film Surveys and British India”

Olivia Bloechl (UCLA, Department of Musicology)

“Devils on the Move: Possessed Vocality in the Early Atlantic World”

Babli Sinha (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow)

“Mimicry or Mediation? Comic Reflections on Modern Life in Nayak Panchotia’s Kanya Palaka/Woman Protector”

Discussant: Ali Behdad (UCLA, Departments of English and Comparative Literature)

12:00 pm to 1:30pm: Lunch break

1:30 pm to 4:00 pm: Panel II: Resisting Colonial Violence

Angie Chabram-Dernersesian (UC Davis, Chicana/o Studies Program)

“Between the Transnational and the Translocal: Chicana Feminist Homelands and Contact Zones”

Joan Ramon Resina (Stanford University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

“The Confines of the World: Empire and Transformation in Albert Sánchez Piñol’s Cold Skin”

Eulàlia Moles (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow)

“Thinking Translatinidad through Contemporary Chicana and Catalan Feminist Decolonial Writings ”

Discussant: Rafael Pérez-Torres (UCLA, Department of English)

4:00 pm to 4:30 pm: coffee break

4:30 pm to 6:30 pm: Keynote Speech, Royce Hall 314

Étienne Balibar, “Toward a Diasporic Citizen?”

Introduction: Françoise Lionnet

Étienne Balibar is a Distinguished Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the Université de Paris X, Nanterre. He is an internationally renowned political philosopher, who early on co-authored, with Louis Althusser and others, the landmark book of French Marxism, Reading Capital(1965). His current research focuses on issues of citizenship, racism, subjectification, and the question of Europe. His works available in English include Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy before and after Marx (1993); Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein) (1994), Politics and the Other Scene (2002), and We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2004).

Friday, May 18, Sequoia Room, Faculty Center, 480 Charles Young Drive

9:30 am to 12:00 pm Panel III: Asian American Art beyond the Nation

Susette Min (UC Davis, Department of Asian American Studies)

“Between Ruins: Time Travel and Utopic Memory in the Works of The Otolith Group and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha”

Midori Yoshimoto (New Jersey City University, Department of Art History)

“Public Art as Catalyst of Social Action: Transnational Collaborations in the Art of Nobuho Nagasawa” Elsa Chen (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow)

“The Migration of Art: On the Transnational Reception of Works by Taiwanese American Media Artist Shu Lea Cheang”

Discussant: Saloni Mathur (UCLA, Department of Art History)

12:00 pm -1:30 pm: Lunch break

1:30 pm to 4:00 pm: Panel IV: Across Continents, Across Histories

Massimo Riva (Brown University, Department of Italian)

“Italian Diasporas and the Invention of a National Identity: Remarks on a Modern Paradox”

Simon Levis-Sullam (UC Berkeley, Mellon Fellow)

“Exile as a Transnational Experience and the Origins of Modern Italy”

Alessandra Di Maio (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow)

“Weak Postcolonialism? Somali Italian Writers”

Discussant: Lucia Re (UCLA, Department of Italian)

4:00 pm: Closing Reception

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

This program is free and open to the public, however, seating is limited. Parking will be available for $8 on the UCLA campus. Please go to the kiosk on Sunset and Westwood Plaza to purchase a pass for the nearest available lot.

For further information, please contact Laura Clennon at clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

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

Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism

This conference will investigate the imaginative, social and literary resources of English Catholic diaspora populations in the early modern period. The forum will also take stock of recent efforts to reevaluate the place of English Catholic authors in the literary canon of the English Renaissance. More broadly, the forum will address the critical legacy of problems associated with early modern cultures of English Catholicism, problems that are being voiced with new accents in contemporary concerns of political and ethical theory: Who counts, finally, as my neighbor? How can the ethical being of cultural “others” be recognized and valued outside the normative dyad of sameness and difference?

By addressing the nexus of social, political, religious, theological, and literary discourses through which early modern Catholic identities were negotiated, the symposium aims to enhance scholarly purchase on lost or forgotten aspects of the rich texture of the experience of scattered Catholic communities within English literary tradition and political cultures; and it will promote channels of communication between early modern cultural studies of religion, current debates over the effects of secularization, and changing notions of the sacred vis-à-vis religious identity and practice in an era of globalization.

Registration Deadline: May 11, 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.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule:

Friday, May 18 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. SESSION 1 Peter H. Reill, UCLA, Welcoming Remarks

Moderator: Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University

Chris Highley, Ohio State University "First Wave: Exile and Catholic Identity 1558-1570"

Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis "True and Perfect Relations: Or, Identifying Confessions"

Arthur F. Marotti, Wayne State University "In Defense of Idolatry: Residual Catholic Culture and the Protestant Assault on the Sensuous in Early Modern England"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. SESSION 2

Moderator: Ulrike Strasser, University of California, Irvine

Alice Dailey, Villanova University "Wonders of Devotion and Polemic: Tracking the Counter-Reformation Miracle"

Anne Dillon, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge "The Rosary Transfigured: Devotional Life in Recusant Households"

Susannah Brietz Monta, Louisiana State University "Uncommon Prayer? Catholic Devotion in Post-Reformation England"

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, May 19

9:30 A.M. SESSION 3

Moderator: Debora Shuger, UCLA

Phebe Jensen, Utah State University "'Honest Mirth & Merriment': Catholicism and Festivity in Early Modern England"

Gary Kuchar, University of Victoria "The Theology of Form in Southwell’s St. Peter’s Complaint and Crashaw’s The Weeper"

Richard Rambuss, Emory University "Richard Crashaw’s Two Temples"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. SESSION 4

Moderator: Jennifer Rust, University of California, Irvine

Holly Crawford Pickett, Washington and Lee University "Serial Conversion and Ecumenism"

Alison Shell, Durham University "William Alabaster: The Career and the Canon"

Stefania Tutino, University of California, Santa Barbara "Obedience and Consent: Thomas White and English Catholicism, 1640-1660"

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#may18

Francis Higginson Lecture -- "The Francophone African Crime Novel"

Francis Higginson

Bryn Mawr College

"The Francophone African Crime Novel"

Monday, May 21, 2007

4:30 pm

Royce Hall 236

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

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

Award Winners Announced for Humanities' Essay Contest

This year's recipient of the $1,000 Teague-Melville-Elliott Prize is Manoa W. Hui for "Structural Role of the Dedication in Wallace Stevens' ‘Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.’ ” The essay, written for English 182C, was nominated by Professor Stephen Yenser.

The following students are winners of the $500 Peter Rotter Prize:

Katie Boyden, nominated by Professor Calvin Bedient for her English 165 essay “Poetry, Truth, and the Feminine Voice: A look at ‘Triptych’ by Seamus Heaney”

Roanne Sharp, nominated by Professor Kathleen L. Komar for her Comparative Literature 163 essay “It happens I’m tired of being a man: The uncanny experience as a point of crisis”

Audrey Kuo, nominated by Professor Michael North for her English 10C essay “Akin Do What I Want: The struggle for individuality and freedom within familial relationships in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre”

Melissa Townley, nominated by Professor Gina Shaffer for her English 3 essay “The Criminalization of Media Violence”

The Teague-Melville-Elliott and Peter Rotter Essay Competition is sponsored annually by UCLA Writing Programs in recognition of outstanding student essays produced for lower- and upper-division humanities courses.

-- submitted by Candace (candace@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent: Professor CLAUDIA RAPP, Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007 4PM-6PM HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, our knowledge of the practice of silent contemplation, as well as insights from modern disciplines of physics and neuroscience in order to see how the practice of prayer evolves into the description of mystical experience as well as spiritual leadership.

About Daniel Wolpert: Daniel Wolpert has been a student of the life of prayer for 30 years. He worked as a psychologist and spiritual director, a farmer, a teacher, and a construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS – 2000). Over the past twenty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation and led retreats in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, the Fund for Theological Education, and Luther Seminary. Daniel currently serves as the church pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Crookston, MN where he lives with his wife, Dr. Debra Bell, and their two sons, Sam and Max. Dan is a co-founder of the Minnesota Institute for Contemplation and Healing (MICAH- www.micahprays.com). He is also the author of “Leading a Life with God: the practice of spiritual leadership” (Upper Room 2006); “Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices”(Upper Room 2003), and co-author of “Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media” (Abingdon 2004).

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

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent: Professor CLAUDIA RAPP, Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007 4PM-6PM HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, our knowledge of the practice of silent contemplation, as well as insights from modern disciplines of physics and neuroscience in order to see how the practice of prayer evolves into the description of mystical experience as well as spiritual leadership.

About Daniel Wolpert: Daniel Wolpert has been a student of the life of prayer for 30 years. He worked as a psychologist and spiritual director, a farmer, a teacher, and a construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS – 2000). Over the past twenty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation and led retreats in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, the Fund for Theological Education, and Luther Seminary. Daniel currently serves as the church pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Crookston, MN where he lives with his wife, Dr. Debra Bell, and their two sons, Sam and Max. Dan is a co-founder of the Minnesota Institute for Contemplation and Healing (MICAH- www.micahprays.com). He is also the author of “Leading a Life with God: the practice of spiritual leadership” (Upper Room 2006); “Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices”(Upper Room 2003), and co-author of “Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media” (Abingdon 2004).

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

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

Presents

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar

DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent:

Professor CLAUDIA RAPP,

Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007 4PM-6PM HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, our knowledge of the practice of silent contemplation, as well as insights from modern disciplines of physics and neuroscience in order to see how the practice of prayer evolves into the description of mystical experience as well as spiritual leadership.

About Daniel Wolpert: Daniel Wolpert has been a student of the life of prayer for 30 years. He worked as a psychologist and spiritual director, a farmer, a teacher, and a construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS – 2000). Over the past twenty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation and led retreats in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, the Fund for Theological Education, and Luther Seminary. Daniel currently serves as the church pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Crookston, MN where he lives with his wife, Dr. Debra Bell, and their two sons, Sam and Max. Dan is a co-founder of the Minnesota Institute for Contemplation and Healing (MICAH- www.micahprays.com). He is also the author of “Leading a Life with God: the practice of spiritual leadership” (Upper Room 2006); “Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices”(Upper Room 2003), and co-author of “Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media” (Abingdon 2004).

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

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

Presents

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent: Professor CLAUDIA RAPP, Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007

4PM-6PM

HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, our knowledge of the practice of silent contemplation, as well as insights from modern disciplines of physics and neuroscience in order to see how the practice of prayer evolves into the description of mystical experience as well as spiritual leadership.

About Daniel Wolpert: Daniel Wolpert has been a student of the life of prayer for 30 years. He worked as a psychologist and spiritual director, a farmer, a teacher, and a construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS – 2000). Over the past twenty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation and led retreats in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, the Fund for Theological Education, and Luther Seminary. Daniel currently serves as the church pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Crookston, MN where he lives with his wife, Dr. Debra Bell, and their two sons, Sam and Max. Dan is a co-founder of the Minnesota Institute for Contemplation and Healing (MICAH- www.micahprays.com). He is also the author of “Leading a Life with God: the practice of spiritual leadership” (Upper Room 2006); “Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices”(Upper Room 2003), and co-author of “Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media” (Abingdon 2004).

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

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

Presents

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar

DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent: Professor CLAUDIA RAPP, Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007 4PM-6PM HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, our knowledge of the practice of silent contemplation, as well as insights from modern disciplines of physics and neuroscience in order to see how the practice of prayer evolves into the description of mystical experience as well as spiritual leadership.

About Daniel Wolpert: Daniel Wolpert has been a student of the life of prayer for 30 years. He worked as a psychologist and spiritual director, a farmer, a teacher, and a construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS – 2000). Over the past twenty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation and led retreats in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, the Fund for Theological Education, and Luther Seminary. Daniel currently serves as the church pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Crookston, MN where he lives with his wife, Dr. Debra Bell, and their two sons, Sam and Max. Dan is a co-founder of the Minnesota Institute for Contemplation and Healing (MICAH- www.micahprays.com). He is also the author of “Leading a Life with God: the practice of spiritual leadership” (Upper Room 2006); “Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices”(Upper Room 2003), and co-author of “Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media” (Abingdon 2004).

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

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

Presents

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar

DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent:

Professor CLAUDIA RAPP,

Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007

4PM-6PM

HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, our knowledge of the practice of silent contemplation, as well as insights from modern disciplines of physics and neuroscience in order to see how the practice of prayer evolves into the description of mystical experience as well as spiritual leadership.

About Daniel Wolpert: Daniel Wolpert has been a student of the life of prayer for 30 years. He worked as a psychologist and spiritual director, a farmer, a teacher, and a construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS – 2000). Over the past twenty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation and led retreats in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, the Fund for Theological Education, and Luther Seminary. Daniel currently serves as the church pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Crookston, MN where he lives with his wife, Dr. Debra Bell, and their two sons, Sam and Max. Dan is a co-founder of the Minnesota Institute for Contemplation and Healing (MICAH- www.micahprays.com). He is also the author of “Leading a Life with God: the practice of spiritual leadership” (Upper Room 2006); “Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices”(Upper Room 2003), and co-author of “Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media” (Abingdon 2004).

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

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

Presents

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar

DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent: Professor CLAUDIA RAPP, Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007 4PM-6PM HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, our knowledge of the practice of silent contemplation, as well as insights from modern disciplines of physics and neuroscience in order to see how the practice of prayer evolves into the description of mystical experience as well as spiritual leadership.

About Daniel Wolpert: Daniel Wolpert has been a student of the life of prayer for 30 years. He worked as a psychologist and spiritual director, a farmer, a teacher, and a construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS – 2000). Over the past twenty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation and led retreats in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, the Fund for Theological Education, and Luther Seminary. Daniel currently serves as the church pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Crookston, MN where he lives with his wife, Dr. Debra Bell, and their two sons, Sam and Max. Dan is a co-founder of the Minnesota Institute for Contemplation and Healing (MICAH- www.micahprays.com). He is also the author of “Leading a Life with God: the practice of spiritual leadership” (Upper Room 2006); “Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices”(Upper Room 2003), and co-author of “Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media” (Abingdon 2004).

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

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

Presents

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar

DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent:

Professor CLAUDIA RAPP, Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007 4PM-6PM HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, our knowledge of the practice of silent contemplation, as well as insights from modern disciplines of physics and neuroscience in order to see how the practice of prayer evolves into the description of mystical experience as well as spiritual leadership.

About Daniel Wolpert: Daniel Wolpert has been a student of the life of prayer for 30 years. He worked as a psychologist and spiritual director, a farmer, a teacher, and a construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS – 2000). Over the past twenty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation and led retreats in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, the Fund for Theological Education, and Luther Seminary. Daniel currently serves as the church pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Crookston, MN where he lives with his wife, Dr. Debra Bell, and their two sons, Sam and Max. Dan is a co-founder of the Minnesota Institute for Contemplation and Healing (MICAH- www.micahprays.com). He is also the author of “Leading a Life with God: the practice of spiritual leadership” (Upper Room 2006); “Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices”(Upper Room 2003), and co-author of “Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media” (Abingdon 2004).

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

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

Presents

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar

DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent:

Professor CLAUDIA RAPP, Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007 4PM-6PM HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, our knowledge of the practice of silent contemplation, as well as insights from modern disciplines of physics and neuroscience in order to see how the practice of prayer evolves into the description of mystical experience as well as spiritual leadership.

About Daniel Wolpert: Daniel Wolpert has been a student of the life of prayer for 30 years. He worked as a psychologist and spiritual director, a farmer, a teacher, and a construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS – 2000). Over the past twenty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation and led retreats in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, the Fund for Theological Education, and Luther Seminary. Daniel currently serves as the church pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Crookston, MN where he lives with his wife, Dr. Debra Bell, and their two sons, Sam and Max. Dan is a co-founder of the Minnesota Institute for Contemplation and Healing (MICAH- www.micahprays.com). He is also the author of “Leading a Life with God: the practice of spiritual leadership” (Upper Room 2006); “Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices”(Upper Room 2003), and co-author of “Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media” (Abingdon 2004).

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

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

What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience.

"What “Really” Happens? Prayer, Sacred Texts, and Our Everyday Experience. An Exploration of the life and practice of the Desert Mothers and Fathers"

A lecture by Independent Scholar DANIEL WOLPERT

Respondent: Professor CLAUDIA RAPP, Department of History, UCLA

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007 4PM-6PM HAINES HALL, Room A18

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

About the Lecture: Our society has become obsessed with “the real” and with “experience.” From reality TV shows, to U-Tube, to spiritual practice, we are fascinated with the question of what is real and what ‘really happened’ at a given place and time. This question, which is grounded in a view of reality based largely upon a kind of scientific materialism, has particular significance in the realm of religious practice and study as people attempt to make claims about humans and God and the interaction between the two. What is the result when we try to describe that which by it’s nature can defy description? Are miracle stories “true”? Did so and so really see and angel? Etc. These are the questions I will explore using texts from the period of the Desert Mothers and Fathers,