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- 9/30/05 (Fri) through 10/1/05 (Sat)
Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures
9:30AM until 5:00AM
In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, located at 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018
September 30 - October 1, 2005Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures
a conference arranged by Lorna Clymer, California State University, Bakersfield
This conference addresses transformative interactions among religion, texts, and cultures during the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries in the British Isles, the European continent, and European settlements. The primary focus is the interaction of religious texts and Christian cultures. Such interaction can be found in Anglican, Catholic, and Dissenting practices, theology, politics, and in related definitions of the self, communities, and nations.
Each presenter will consider a text that contributed to or represents a cultural transformation, in which new practices were established, and by which important values or identities were defined. The role of religion in cultural transformation is evidenced by various texts, such as editions of the Bible, sermons, prayer books, devotional and conduct manuals, hymnals, poetry, allegories, didactic fiction and drama, tracts, and treatises.
Topics to be considered include: religious traditions evolving in print and in oral practices; discussions of miracles; the influence of the Book of Common Prayer; connections between orthodox Christianity and philosophy or science; convergences of Biblical scholarship and early modern musicology; worship as defined by theology and poetics; interactions of non-Christian religions with Christianity; and appropriations of pagan texts for Christian purposes.
The secular focus of some “Enlightenment” studies may on occasion tend to undervalue the continuing centrality of religion. This conference will explore some of the complexities of early modern cultures in which life was integrally connected with or defined by religion.
Registration fees—UC faculty & staff: $15; students with ID: no charge;* others: $30.
This event is scheduled at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, located at 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018. The library is one block east of Arlington Avenue and two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway.
The conference begins at 10:00 a.m. and concludes approximately at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
To view the program schedule, please visit the following website - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/progtransform.htm
For more information please contact 310-206-8552.
-- submitted by Annah Huang (joeyb@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/progtransform.htm- 9/29/06 (Fri)
The Anecdote: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1:00PM until 5:30PM
In 236 Royce Hall
The Department of French and Francophone StudiesTHE ANECDOTE: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
Friday, September 29, 1-5:30 pm 306 Royce Hall A Conference organized by Andrea Loselle and Malina Stefanovska
Session I: 1 pm- 3:30 pm
Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University "Anecdote and Antidote: Montaigne on Dissemblance"
Marcel Hénaff, Department of Literature and Department of Political Science, UC San Diego "The Anecdotal: Detail and Truth"
Helen Deutsch, Department of English Literature, UCLA "Boswell, Johnson, and Anecdotal Intimacy"
Respondent: Malina Stefanovska, Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA
Break Session II: 3:30 pm- 5:30 pm
John McCumber, Department of Germanic Languages, UCLA "To Be Is To Be An Anecdote: Hegel And The Therapeutic Absolute"
Andrea Loselle, Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA « Anecdotal Clutter in Eugène Atget’s Intérieurs Parisiens. » Respondent: Dominique Jullien, Department of French and Italian, UC Santa Barbara
Reception
-- submitted by Danielle (danielle@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu- 9/30/06 (Sat)
Lawrence Grobel reads from "Al Pacino"
3:00PM until 4:00PM
In Dutton's Brentwood, 11975 San Vicente Boulevard
Hailed by Joyce Carol Oates as “the Mozart of interviewers,” and by Playboy as “the interviewer’s interviewer,” New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Grobel has interviewed subjects no one has before, and has gotten them to speak about subjects no one has before. From stars like Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, and Barbra Streisand, to politicians like Governor Jesse Ventura, sports figures like Bobby Knight, and even Nobel laureates like Saul Bellow and Richard Feynman, Mr. Grobel’s interviews with our most fascinating public figures have made him one of the most celebrated journalists of his generation. Since 1970, he has done over 400 interviews for national magazines, books, and cable television. He has written for Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Reader’s Digest, and Details, and is a contributing editor at Playboy.-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact susan@english.ucla.edu- 9/23/07 (Sun)
Festival of California Poets
6:00PM until 7:30PM
In Hammer Museum
Contemporary California poets discuss and read from canonical California poets.Harryette Mullen on Bob Kaufman: Kaufman (1925-1986) attended The New School in New York where he met Ginsberg and others. There he became a founding figure of the Beat movement.
Carol Muske-Dukes on Ann Stanford: Stanford (1916-1987) authored six volumes of poems and won many awards for her beautifully crafted work, including the DiCastagnola and Shelley Memorial Awards from the Poetry Society of America. She was also a Professor of English at California State University in Northridge.
Stephen Yenser on Robinson Jeffers: Jeffers (1887-1962) is known for his long narrative poems, drama, and lyrics. A harbinger of ecology and a participant in the philosophical tradition that propounds the divinity of the non-human, he was an anti-Modern Modernist.
-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.ucla.edu)
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