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- 5/13/08 (Tues)
17th History of the Book Lecture, "Sir Thomas Bodley's Competition: John Whitgift, Richard Bancroft, and the Foundation of Lambeth Palace Library"
5:00PM
In Royce 314
The second History of the Book Lecture for this year, is presented by Professor James Carley (York University).-- submitted by Brett (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu- 5/14/08 (Wed)
"Female Holiness in Coptic Egypt"
4:00PM
In Royce 314
A lecture by Dr. Heike Behlmer (Macquairie University).-- submitted by Brett (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu- 5/15/08 (Thur)
CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus: Disputing What Hell Is"
3:30PM until 6:30PM
With Professors David Riggs (Stanford University), Michael J.B. Allen (UCLA), Debora Shuger (UCLA). One of the masterworks of the Elizabethan stage, Christopher Marlowe’s Faustus leaves its audience with an unforgettable picture of the heroic individual struggling against moral rules, religious constraints and academic conventions which were still stronger than any single person, however daring and ambitious. The low-born Faustus uses his learning, including mastery of the technique of disputation, to climb to fame and power. Dissatisfied with the ordinary rewards of success, Faustus turns to magic and overcomes time itself. The play becomes a psychomachia, a spiritual battle, between forces like the Good and Bad Angels of the play, which turns into a disputation about knowledge and the nature of hell itself.-- submitted by Brett (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu- 5/17/08 (Sat)
Annual Shakespeare Symposium
In Royce 314
Organized by Professor Bruce Smith (USC). Complete program to be announced.-- submitted by Brett (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu- 5/20/08 (Tues)
CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "Epilogue: Heidegger, Cassirer and the Fracturing of Modern Western Philosophy"
3:30PM until 6:30PM
In Royce 306
With Professor Michael Friedman (Stanford University). After he had published Being and Time (1927) but before he joined the Nazi party and became Rector of Freiburg (1933), Martin Heidegger met Ernst Cassirer at Davos in 1929 to debate the future of philosophy after Kant. Cassirer, the first Jewish rector of any German university, was better known than Heidegger at the time, not so much for his recently completed Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as for two other accomplishments: Neo-Kantian responses to such new scientific problems as relativity; and major contributions to the history of philosophy. Observers judged Heidegger the winner of the Davos disputation, but Cassirer did not lose the attention of subsequent philosophical generations just by losing to Heidegger, the problematic patriarch of what Anglo-American philosophers call ‘continental’ philosophy – a name for what they often ignore. Although the prophets of Anglo-American analytic philosophy were Germans educated, like Cassirer, as Neo-Kantians, they largely repudiated Cassirer's preoccupation with the past and thereby lost touch with his thinking, which was well embedded in history.-- submitted by Brett (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu- 5/31/08 (Sat)
California Medieval History Seminar
9:30AM until 4:00PM
The California Medieval History Seminar meets at the Huntington Library to discuss pre-distributed research papers. Participants are expected to have read the papers in advance and come prepared to discuss them. The California Medieval History Seminar is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as the CMRS, the Huntington Library, and the Caltech Huntington Committee for the Humanities.Place: Overseer's Room, the Huntington Library, San Marino CA
Advance registration is required.
-- submitted by Brett (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu
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