June Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Pro-Tools talk/Musicology Dept. Award Ceremony

When: Thursday, June 1, 4:00pm

Where: 1344 Schoenberg, with reception in 1230 Schoenberg

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

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

Cercle Francophone presents "Rhinoceros" by Eugene Ionesco

RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco.

Thursday, June 1st, 7:00PM in Moore 100

Play of the theater of Avant-garde, a comedy and absurd play questioning all ideas about conformism and individuality. In short it is a play about us, all of us.

It is free and open to everyone. Parking is available ($8)

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

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

2006 Fiction Awards for Undergraduate Student Writers

Aaron Fai - 2006 winner of The Ruth Brill Scholarship Award

Mark Burnham and Erika Herman - 2006 co-winners of The Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Award

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

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

The Young-Vilna Generation: Chaim Grade, Abraham Sutzkever, And Their Literary World

7:30 pm in Fowler Auditorium

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Contemporary Jewish Identity: Fundamentals And Mutations In The Global Context"

A Lecture by Sergio DellaPergollia(Hebrew University)

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 pm

The Naftulin Family Lecture on Jewish Identity

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking is available in Lot 4 for $8.

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

K. Anthony Appiah Lecture: "Ethics in A World of Strangers"

Ethics in a World of Strangers

June 8, 2006 4:30pm Royce 314

K. Anthony Appiah is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He was born in London and grew up in Ghana. Among his books are In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (with Amy Gutmann), Thinking It Through, and The Ethics of Identity. His most recent book is Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. His philosophical work has recently centered on liberalism as political tradition and its roots in ethics.

Co-sponsored by: The Global Fellows Program, International Institute * The Department of Comparative Literature The Department of Philosophy The James S. Coleman African Studies Center * The Department of French and Francophone Studies

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

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

Hammer Poetry Series

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

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

Reading with 2006 Prize-Winning Student Poets

Diana Khoi Nguyen - The Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets

Layla Barker Carroll - The May Merrill Miller Award

Karin Lightstone - The May Merrill Miller Award

Athena Nilssen - The May Merrill Miller Award

Kelly Rohrer - The May Merrill Miller Award

Aya Winston - The May Merrill Miller Award

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

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

The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin

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

June 11-12, 2006

A conference organized by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky and Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; the UCLA Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Division of Humanities – Office of the Dean; the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Department of Philosophy; the UCLA Department of History; and the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) had a long association with the Clark Library. He was Clark Professor in 1981-82 and 1997-98 and helped organize numerous lectures and conferences at the Clark Library. He and Juliet Popkin, his wife, have supported the annual Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy since 1999. This conference will seek to assess the legacies of the late Richard H. Popkin's work in the many fields he contributed to and helped to form: the history of philosophy and particularly the history of skepticism; Jewish studies and especially the history of Jewish-Christian interactions; the intersections of philosophical and religious thought; and the impact of millenarism.

Registration Deadline: June 5, 2006 Registration Fees: UC faculty & staff: $15; students with ID: no charge;* others: $30. *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.

To register, please visit this web site: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11

Inquiries: 310-206-8552

Sunday, June 11 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

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

Session 1 – Popkin and the History of Philosophy Chair: Richard Allan Watson, Washington University in St. Louis Brian Copenhaver, UCLA "Popkin Non-Scepticus: The Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy"

Allison P. Coudert, UC Davis "À Rebours in Academia: Richard Popkin’s Contributions to Intellectual History"

Sarah Hutton, Middlesex University "Popkin’s Spinoza"

Peter K.J. Park, Loyola Marymount University "Assessing the Work of Richard H. Popkin from the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Studies"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Session 2 – Religion and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century Chair: Robert S. Westman, UC San Diego James E. Force, University of Kentucky "Richard H. Popkin’s Concept of the Third Force and the Newtonian Synthesis of Theology and Scientific Methodology in Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, and William Whiston"

Martin Mulsow, Rutgers University "The Third Force Revisited"

David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania "The Study of the Mishnah and the Quest for Christian Identity in the Early Eighteenth Century: William Wotton and His Learned Friends"

Knox Peden, UC Berkeley "Gilles Deleuze: From Hume to Spinoza (An attempt to make good on a Popkin request)"

5:00 p.m. Reception

Monday, June 12

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Session 3 – Popkin and the Skeptical Tradition Chair: John McCumber, UCLA John Christian Laursen, UC Riverside "Popkin’s Skepticism and the Cynical Tradition"

José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais "Charron and Huet: Two Still Unexplored Legacies of Popkin’s Scholarship on Early Modern Skepticism"

Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale "The Quarrel over Ancient and Modern Skepticism: Some Reflections on Descartes and His Context"

Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky "Richard Popkin: A Son’s Memories"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Session 4 – Popkin and the Jews Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University "The Shabbatai Zvi Movement from a European Perspective: Richard H. Popkin’s Contribution to the Field"

Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Richard Popkin’s Marrano Question"

David S. Katz, Tel Aviv University "Popkin and the Jews"

David N. Myers, UCLA "Richard Popkin and the (Re)Writing of Jewish History"

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11

UDHIG meeting

When: Tuesday, June 13, 4-5 pm

Where: Visualization Portal, 5628 Math Sciences Bldg

We have had some last-minute cancellations-we apologize for the late notice.

· Kandace Pansire,Eric Wells and Willeke Wendrich (NELC) will present "Visualization as a Tool in Archaeological Research and Preservation" and

· Zoe Borovsky (UDHIG) will present "Some new tools for digital humanities projects". She will show:

Juxta (for creating critical editions of texts, http://www.patacriticism.org/juxta/ ), TAPoR (an online text-analysis tool, http://test- tapor.mcmaster.ca/portal/portal ) and an image mark-up tool http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/ ).

We hope to see you on Tuesday afternoon! --zoe

......

Zoe Borovsky, Ph.D.

UCLA-Digital Humanities Incubator Group

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

MUSICàNTICA

The Student Committee for the Arts &

The Italian Club @ UCLA present:

MUSICàNTICA

A dynamic and interactive evening of music and culture from Mediterranean Italy. Using traditional instruments from Southern Italy and around the Mediterranean, MUSICàNTICA promises a unique performances of Italian folk music throughout the ages.

Friday June 1st 2007

Kerckhoff Grand Salon

Door open at 7:30pm

Performance begins at 8pm

FREE ADMISSION

The salon is in Kerckhoff Hall (adjacent to Ackerman Union) across the terrace from the coffeehouse. The closest parking is available in Lot 6. Take Westwood Blvd North into campus and Lot 6 is on the left.

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

"From Hebrew to Ladino: Manuscripts and Books Among the Jews of Medieval Spain and the 'Sephardi Diaspora'"

"From Hebrew to Ladino: Manuscripts and Books Among the Jews of Medieval Spain and the 'Sephardi Diaspora'" The Maurice Amado Symposium in Sephardic Studies Evelyn Cohen (The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York) Moshe Lazar (USC) Shalom Sabar (UCLA / Hebrew University)

Limited Seating. Please RSVP at CJSRSVP@humnet.ucla.edu For more information contact CJS (310) 825-5387.

-- submitted by UCLA Center for Jewish Studies (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

LGBTS Lecture: The Queer Crime of Cross Dressing

In 1974, in the city’s Tenderloin district, the San Francisco Police Department arrested ten drag queens for the criminal offense of wearing women’s clothing. According to the police, the queens were violating a local cross-dressing law that made it illegal to appear in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors had passed this law more than a century earlier as part of a broader attempt to regulate “good morals and decency.” However, far from being a nineteenth-century anachronism, cross-dressing law had proved remarkably durable, and by the mid-twentieth century it had become a flexible tool for policing emerging lesbian, gay and transsexual communities. In this talk, Clare Sears analyzes the history of San Francisco’s cross-dressing law, with particular focus on the forces that undermined its viability and led to its removal from the law books in 1976. Her analysis focuses on the emergence of a medicalized transsexual identity, struggles between doctors and police for ownership of this gender offense, and transsexual women’s efforts to deploy medical discourse to challenge the law.

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

CDH Round Table

What would Bertrand Russell do?

RSVP for this event. http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=13

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

For more information, see http://www.mcmaster.ca/home.cfm

Prize-Winning Student Poetry

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

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