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Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar Professor Brian Catlos (History, UC Santa Cruz) presents “Accursed, Superior Men: Power and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean.” Seminar leader: Teofilo Ruiz (History, UCLA). Information about the entire seminar series is at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/mediterranean2.html.
CMRS Open House The Center invites faculty and students with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Studies to attend an Open House marking the beginning of the new academic year. Meet the Center’s staff and learn about CMRS programs, awards, and fellowships. Drop by and see us!
Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar Professor Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz) presents “How To Do Things in the Medieval Mediterranean.” Seminar leader: Zrinka Stahuljak (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA). Information about the entire seminar series is at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/mediterranean2.html.
“Byzantine Mysteries of Miracle-working Icons” Professor Christine Angelidi’s lecture will explore Byzantine narratives about icons that display physical symptoms, such as weeping or bleeding, or that react upon attack. The “suffering icon” factor and its use by the community in constructing its identity will also be discussed. This lecture is cosponsored by the Onassis Foundation and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. A reception will follow the lecture cosponsored by the UCLA Departments of Art History and History. Professor Angelidi is with the Institute for Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, and a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture The Norman Kingdom of Sicily, well known as a crossroads of Latin European, Greek Byzantine, and Arab Islamic cultures, has been subjected to various historical interpretations, such as a forerunner of modern states, a paragon of Christian religious tolerance, and so on. In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Hiroshi Takayama (Professor of Occidental History, University of Tokyo) will discuss the coexistence and confrontation of different cultures and the kingdom’s characteristics.
Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar Professor Oumelbanine Zhiri (Literature, UC San Diego) presents “Archiving the Orient in Early Modern Europe.” Seminar leaders: Christine Chism (English, UCLA) and Peter Stacey (History, UCLA). Information about the entire seminar series is at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/mediterranean2.html.
CMRS Roundtable Ideas derived from the apocalyptic tradition found their way into some unexpected places in the Middle Ages; one is the body of attitudes about menopause. Death is the ultimate personal apocalypse, but the death of one’s fecundity also signaled a fundamental transition from one state of being to another. In this talk, Professor Matthew Brosamer (English, Mount St. Mary’s College, and CMRS Associate) will look at a number of texts (apocalyptic, literary, medical/biological), focusing in particular on the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, to see how they help us understand this dimension of what it then meant to be an “old” woman.
Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar Professor Jocelyne Dakhlia (EHESS, Paris) presents “Lingua franca: Hybridity and Conflict in the Mediterranean.” Seminar leader: Zrinka Stahuljak (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA). Information about the entire seminar series is at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/mediterranean2.html.
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