Dean's Office Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ART - A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR AL BOIME

UCLA Royce Hall 314

"The Social History of Art: A Symposium in honor of Professor Al Boime

MORNING SESSION (8:30-12:30) Reconsidering the ‘Social’: Art History, Marxism and the New Left Professor Michael Orwicz, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut

Seating the Republic: Jacques-Louis David and the Invention of Revolutionary Architecture Professor & Dean Anthony Vidler, School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York

The French Academy and Engraving in the Nineteenth Century Professor Susanne Anderson-Riedel, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico

Géricault in the Hands of the New Conservatives Professor Nicos Hadjinicolaou, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Crete

Gambetta & the Arts: An Aesthetic of ‘Opportunism’ Dr. Michel Melot, Ministry of Culture, France

AFTERNOON SESSION (1:30 – 5:30 PM) Authorized and Unauthorized: The Systematic Record of the Image in France before 1900 George McKee, Library Services, SUNY Binghamton

Culture, Class and Gender: Fannia Cohn, Roberta Fansler and The Metropolitan Museum’s Worker’s Education Program Professor Frances Pohl, Department of Art and Art History, Pomona College

From iPod to Iraq Professor David Kunzle, UCLA Department of Art History

Sounds of Paradise: Hawai'i and the American Musical Imagination Professor Charles Garrett, Department of Musicology, University of Michigan

Professor Al Boime received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, has been a UCLA faculty member since 1978. He teaches the Social History of Modern Art. His pedagogical imperative is the training and stimulation of the mind to independent thought through exposure to the visual products of inventive human beings unafraid of unrestricted openness to experience. He believes that an understanding of imagery will show that we are not yet too fallen and depraved to be able to reform the world in the name of suffering humanity.

The Social History of Art is cosponsored by the UCLA Departments of Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Art History, French and Francophone, and History; the Centers for Jewish Studies and 17th & 18th Century Studies; Friends of Art History; History/Art History; Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA; UCLA Humanities Division; and individual donors.

Parking is available in Structure 2, at the Hilgard & Westholme campus entrance, $8.00/car.

Details on the program schedule will be posted on the web: www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ArtHistoryHome.html

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact gould@humnet.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

Identity Theft Protection: How to Reduce Your Risk

BruinTech and Student Affairs have joined forces with the California Office of Privacy Protection, the UCPD, and the Office of Information Technology to offer a timely and important seminar on what you can do to protect your identity, your credit, and your peace of mind. All UCLA faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend one of the free seminars where experts in the field of identity protection will speak and answer your questions.

Although this seminar is not directly about the recent UCLA security breach, the timing of the presentations is certainly meant to address your concerns and answer your questions when you may need that information most.

The seminar is being offered three times in one day in the hope of finding a slot that works into your schedule. Please only RSVP to one seminar. The seminars are official university business events, so we hope that supervisors will allow employees to attend during regular work hours if they are interested.

The seminars are free and open to the UCLA community on a first-rsvp, first-served basis. Please RSVP as soon as possible at the site above. If the sessions fill up and there is still demand, we will plan additional seminars in the near future. We also plan to make podcasts and webcasts available shortly after the 24th.

If you have questions about what Identity Theft is, what to do before you're hit, what are the signs to look for, and what do if you actually are a victim, this is the seminar for you.

RSVP: http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/identity_theft.htm

P.S. BruinTech is also sponsoring a seminar the following week on Wednesday, January 31st, 1:30 - 3:30 PM on how to keep your home computer secure. You can also RSVP for this event through: http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/seminar200701.htm

We hope to see you there. BruinTech and UCLA Student Affairs.

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

For more information, see http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/identity_theft.htm