Dreams of La Mancha: A Concert Presented by UCLA Sounds
April 2, 2005 A program of music celebrating the Fourth Centenary of the publication of Don Quijote I. The public is cordially invited to attend.
The Seventeenth Annual Southern California Cervantes Symposium, “Don Quijote Across Four Centuries: 1605-2005”
April 7–April 9, 2005
Generally considered the first modern novel, Don Quijote is a book that permanently altered habits of reading and writing. In its own time it blew away the official Aristotelian distinction between history and fiction. In the Romantic period it offered the paradigmatic case of the tragically misunderstood genius. At mid-twentieth century it enacted the existential dialectic of being and nothingness. In our time it continues to be a repository for such "newly-discovered" preoccupations as the construction of meaning through socio-linguistic practice, control of the discourse and the exercise of power, and the notion of novelistic discourse as a hybrid that borrows and incorporates all existing discursive forms. It has always been a deliciously engaging read.
The sixteenth annual Southern California Cervantes Symposium, co-sponsored by the CMRS, is a special commemoration of the Fourth Centenary of the publication of Don Quijote I. Many of the anticipated participants are Cervantes scholars at or near mid-career, whose work is moving the discipline off in new directions. The symposium will feature a keynote address by Augustin Redondo (Sorbonne Nouvelle), the doyen of French Hispanism and author of Otra manera de leer el "Quijote" (Madrid: Castalia, 1999). Papers will be presented in English and Spanish.
This symposium is presented by the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese. It is cosponsored by the Oficina Cultural de la Embajada de España, El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y Cooperación, The Consulate-General of Spain in Los Angeles, The Charles E. Young Research Library, and The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
For the complete program, click here.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable, “The Renaissance Embodiment of Medieval Church Law: Digitizing the Roman Edition of 1582.”
April 13, 2005
The UCLA Digital Library Program, with the support of CMRS, has undertaken to digitize UCLA's rare copy of the Rome 1582 Corpus Juris Canonici, three large volumes of medieval canon law, edited by the papally appointed “Roman Correctors” and published by authority of Gregory XIII. Howard Batchelor, UCLA Digital Library Coordinator, will explain the technical details, and Professor Andy Kelly (English, UCLA) will field legal questions. This will be the first time that the massive Ordinary Gloss and the subject indexes have been made available in a modern "publication," which will make a world of difference in gaining access to the difficult field of canon law.
CMRS faculty, associates, students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.
“Dissonance in the Tudor Era: A Demonstration/Concert Highlighting Its Use and Meaning”
April 14, 2005 Eight virtuoso singers—the Los Angeles Chamber Singers' CAPPELLA (Peter Rutenberg, Music Director)—will perform a demonstration/concert of music from the Tudor Era: The Venite and Magnificat from the newly-published, first modern edition of Robert Parsons' monumental First Service (1549) for eight voices, and, in honor of his Quincentenary, selections from Thomas Tallis' Lamentations of Jeremiah (1565) will be the featured works. Underlying musical and textual considerations for dissonance will be discussed and demonstrated. This program is sponsored by the UCLA Sounds Early Music series of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
“Hollywood Knights: Film Music and Medievalism”
April 21, 2005 A lecture by Professor Elizabeth Upton (Musicology, UCLA).
CMRS Faculty Roundtable, “Reducing Fencing into an Art in the Renaissance”
April 27, 2005
Professor Pascal Brioist (Maître de Conférences, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, François Rabelais University, Tours) discusses "Reducing Fencing into an Art in the Renaissance." CMRS faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee. This talk is cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
The Tenth Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference
April 30, 2005 The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies co-sponsors the Tenth Annual Graduate Late Antiquity Conference, which is presented by the UCLA Graduate Student Association for Study of Late Antiquity and the UC Multicampus Research Group for the History and Culture of Late Antiquity. The conference brings together scholars of diverse interests to present and discuss a range of issues surrounding the transformation of the Classical world into the Latin Medieval West, Byzantium and the Islamic world. The complete program is available at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/lateantique/gradconference.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable
May 11, 2005 CMRS Associate Dr. Aino Paasonen discusses "Dante and the Holocaust: George Steiner's A Season in Hell, Primo Levi and the Canto of Ulysses (Inferno XXXVI), and other Voyages into the Underworld." CMRS faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.
Annual Shakespeare Symposium, “Twelfth Night in Performance” May 14, 2005
Each year, the Center hosts a symposium devoted to an in-depth examination of Shakespeare's works. This year's symposium, coordinated by Professor Robert Watson (English, UCLA), focuses on Twelfth Night.
Will & Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture
May 18, 2005 Thanks to the generosity of Professor William Matthews, the Center's second Director, and his wife Lois, the CMRS presents an annual lecture, named in honor of the seventeenth-century British wit and diarist Samuel Pepys and scheduled to coincide (as closely as possible) with the date of Pepys' own annual celebration of his recovery from surgery on March 26, 1658. This year’s featured speaker, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Ekhard Kessler (Professor Emeritus, Philosophy and History of Ideas in the Renaissance, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich).
California Medieval History Seminar
May 21, 2005
The California Medieval History Seminar meets at the Huntington Library to discuss four, pre-distributed research papers (two by faculty members, two by graduate students or recent Ph.D. recipients). Presenters and paper titles will be announced by e-mail approximately 6-8 weeks before the meeting. Participants are expected to have read the papers in advance and come prepared to discuss them. To promote an active discussion, attendance is limited. The California Medieval History Seminar is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CMRS, and the Huntington Library.
Among the participants in the May 2005 seminar will be historian Christopher Wickham (University of Birmingham).
CMRS Faculty Roundtable
May 25, 2005
A talk by CMRS Associate Dr. Leonard Koff. Title to be announced. CMRS faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.
“Retelling the Best of Old Stories: A Folklore Conference in Memory of Professor Donald J. Ward of UCLA”
May 29, 2005 This conference is sponsored by the UCLA Colloquium for Oral and Popular Tradition Studies (COPTS), the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of English, the Scandinavian Section, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Special Thanks to the UCLA Campus Programs Committee.
“Shades of Night: The Mandrake, Ancient to Modern”
June 3, 2005 This half-day symposium will examine the mysterious and polyvalent mandrake, from its biblical and classical origins and its representations in medieval herbals to its twentieth-century appearances in Castelnuovo-Tedesco's opera based on Machiavelli's La Mandragola; the German expressionist film Alraune (1928); and the American comic strip Mandrake the Magician. Speakers include Cheryl Goldstein (UCLA), Anne Van Arsdall (University of New Mexico), James Westby (Brown-Buckley, Inc.), Sharon King (UCLA), and Len Wein. A flourishing mandrake will be on display throughout the afternoon.
