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Axis-Based Research
UCLA’s world-class hub for scholars studying aspects of the world-historical time frame from the 3rd to the 17th century CE. More than a half-century after its founding, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) is now known as CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CMRS–CEGS).
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Podcasts
Recordings of past lectures and conferences are posted on our podcasts page. Stay tuned for new media as we comb through our archives.
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Publications at CMRS-CEGS
The volumes published under the CMRS-CEGS aegis include the highly-regarded journal Viator, the graduate student journal Comitatus, the Cursor Mundi book series, and the proceedings from many of our conferences.
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Student Support
CMRS-CEGS supports graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in their academic and research activities through fellowships, travel grants, research assistantships, research funds, publication projects, and classes.
Awards & Fellowships
News at CMRS
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Viator 52.1 Online at Brepols – Humans and Animals on the Move
The latest volume of our esteemed journal Viator is now available at BrepolsOnline. This issue includes a cluster of articles dedicated to the topic of humans and...
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CMRS-CEGS Thematic Programs: Call for Proposals
Dear Colleagues: I am writing to invite proposals from the Center's Faculty for a variety of CMRS Center for Early Global Studies Programs for AY 2023-2024 and...
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Call for Sponsored Panels at RSA 2023
Dear Colleagues, The CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is an Associate Organization of the Renaissance Society of America. This means that every year we can submit...
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Graduate Student Awards for 2022-23
The Center is pleased to grant a total of $160,730 (as of June 6, 2022) for AY 2022-23. Congratulations to all the fellows and grant recipients! Supplemental...
Mission
UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies promotes and sustains transdisciplinary studies of the period from the 3rd to the 17th century C.E. across the globe. Five main research axes structure the polyvalent and multi-faceted inquiry of the Center’s diverse faculty: Sustainability-Repurposing; Fluidity-Permanence; Bodies-Performance; Conversion-Mobility; Communication-Archive. All research axes are open to the widest variety of historical and methodological approaches.
The Center has three primary goals: 1) To stimulate and support the scholarship and research activities of its affiliated faculty, associates, students, and scholars; 2) To foster and prepare the next generation of scholars and researchers by providing educational opportunities, financial, and other support; and, 3) To disseminate knowledge, encourage intellectual exchange, and promote Late Antique, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies at the campus, local, regional, national, and global levels.
CMRS-CEGS is dedicated to promoting research, teaching, and new methodologies, both in underrepresented and non-traditional areas of study, and in traditional fields and frameworks. It is guided by the conviction that without the study of the past, the present and the future are inaccessible and opaque.