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5/13/08 (Tues)

CJS Seminar: 'Apocolypse Then: Eschatology and Violence in Jewish Antiquity'

12:00PM until 2:00PM
In 306 Royce Hall
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

'Apocolypse Then: Eschatology and Violence in Jewish Antiquity'

A faculty/student Seminar by:

Steven Weitzman

on May 13, 2008 at 12PM

Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP to cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 267-5327.

-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjsrsvp@humanities.ucla.edu)

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)

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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)

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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)

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5/15/08 (Thur)

Professor Richard Yarborough discusses The Street by Ann Petry

4:00PM until 5:30PM
In 193 Humanities Building
UCLA Department of English Professor Richard Yarborough was featured on the PBS American Masters special “Novel Reflections on the American Dream” that showcased 20th- century authors and the novels that illuminate society's inequities, limitations and heartbreaks. Ann Petry's The Street recounts the tale of Lutie Johnson whose downfall is due to her inability to understand the reality of race in America and her belief that anyone can achieve wealth through hard work.

Professor Yarborough teaches African American literature and 19th- and 20-century American fiction. He is also a Faculty Research Associate with UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, which he directed for six years. The recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987, he has been recognized as an Outstanding Faculty Member by the African Student Union in 1997 and he has received commendations from the City of Los Angeles (1990) and the County of Los Angeles (1991). He has published extensively on African American literature, and he is the Associate General Editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature (5th ed., 2006). Since 1988 he has been the editor of The Library of Black Literature reprint series published by the University Press of New England.

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

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

5/16/08 (Fri)

UCLA 19th Annual Southland Graduate Student Conference: Genre Matters

In Faculty Center - Sequoia Room
Panels of graduate students from across the country will consider Yale University Professor Wai Chee Dimock's observation that “far from being a neat catalog of what exists and what is to come, genres are a vexed attempt to deal with material that might or might not fit into that catalog.” This suggestion invites scrutiny into the materials that compose genres and the genres that compose materials.

Presentations will address various dimensions of the relationship between genre and materiality. UCLA Department of English Professors Lowell Gallagher and Yogita Goyal will be the keynote speakers.

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

For more information, contact genrematters@gmail.com

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)

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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)

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5/22/08 (Thur)

Hammer Poetry Series - Frank Bidart

7:00PM until 8:30PM
In Hammer Museum
Frank Bidart’s most recent volumes of poems are Star Dust (2005), Music Like Dirt (a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002), and Desire (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997). His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series.

In 2007, Frank Bidart received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. His other honors include election to the position of Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the Academy’s Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace- Reader’s Digest Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award given by the Poetry Society of America, and the inaugural Bernard F. Connors Prize from The Paris Review in 1981. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.

-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.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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