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The University of California Multi-Campus Research Group on History and Culture of Late Antiquity was constituted in 1999, with funds from the UC President's Office. It unites the greatest concentration of scholars in this field on the West Coast, and currently has 20 graduate students writing dissertations and over 50 who select Late Antiquity as a field in their qualifying exams. The MRG creates a regular infrastructure of academic exchange between UC campuses for graduate students and faculty. It instructs graduate students in a variety of sub-disciplines and provides them with pre-professional training for the academic job market. It encourages shared and collaborative research of faculty and graduate students through regular meetings. And it addresses undergraduate students and the larger community through lectures and outreach activities.
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Graduate Courses offered with the UC by members of Multi-campus Research Group in Late Antiquity, academic year 2008-9
WINTER COURSES
1. INSTRUCTOR: Andrew Jacobs, UC Riverside
COURSE TITLE: Asceticism
COURSE DESIGNATOR: RLST 237
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Asceticism (4) Seminar, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Provides an analysis of the theories and practices associated with bodily renunciation, focused especially on the first Christian centuries. Explores issues such as fasting, sexual abstinence, and social withdrawal from a variety of critical perspectives, with special attention paid to gender, status, and the body in religion. May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.
OTHER INFORMATION: Web-site: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~andrew/asceticism/
2. INSTRUCTOR: Michele Salzman, UC Riverside
COURSE TITLE: Varro and his Influence in Late Antiquity
COURSE DESIGNATOR: Classics 220
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Varro’s vast range of writing and original learning gave him the reputation for being Rome’s greatest scholar. His achievements were critical for the poets and prose writers of the Augustan age, but his influence lasted well into Late Antiquity. Perhaps his most influential works were his Antiquitates humanarum et divinarum and his Hebdomades. These works survive only as fragments, the former best preserved in Augustine’s Civitas dei. But appreciating Varro through the lens of Augustine and his contemporaries requires sensitivity to multiple literary levels as well as to the polemics and culture of late antiquity. The seminar will examine Varro’s influence on late Latin authors. We will focus in Latin on Varro’s Antiquitates humanarum et divinarum as preserved in Augustine’s Civitas dei and on his Hebdomades as it influenced Symmachus’ Letters. The seminar will thus address key theoretical and methodological issues raised by the reconstruction of fragmentary works by ancient authors.
OTHER INFORMATION KNOWN: Registration Number is 22162
SPRING COURSES
1. INSTRUCTOR: Michele Salzman, UC Riverside
COURSE TITLE: Approaches to Late Antiquity
COURSE DESIGNATOR: History 222
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
OTHER INFORMATION: Registration Number not yet available
2. INSTRUCTOR: Beth Digeser, UC Santa Barbara
COURSE TITLE (probable): The Transformation of the City in Late Antiquity
COURSE DESIGNATOR: History 213A
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will be the first quarter of a two-quarter series, with the second half to be taught in the coming fall. The theme will probably be the transformation of the city in Late Antiquity, with a special focus on religious space. During the first quarter we will: 1) read key contemporary literature addressing this theme, and 2) prepare students to write their own research papers. In the fall quarter, students will write their research papers and meet to critique one another's work. Having the summer in the middle, of course, ideally gives students more time to carry out their research. The goal is (ideally) a paper of publishable quality or a dissertation chapter.
For comments or questions contact ltantiqu@humnet.ucla.edu
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