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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-CEGS
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Thematic Priorities 2023-2025
CMRS Center for Early Global Studies operates on an open collaborative research platform of five main research axes. Across our research axes, the Center puts forward a...
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Viator 52.2 Now Available
The latest volume of our journal Viator is now in print and online, available through the publisher Brepols. Table of Contents Ganelon’s Muslim Refashioning in the Paris...
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Comitatus 54 Call for Papers
Comitatus, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in...
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Apply Now for Editorial Positions: Comitatus Volume 54 (2023)
Apply Now for Editorial Positions: Comitatus Volume 54 (2023) Comitatus is the graduate research journal sponsored by CMRS-CEGS, featuring the work of graduate students and recent PhDs in...
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Professor Verdel “Del” Kolve (1934-2022)
We are saddened to learn of the passing of V. A. (“Del”) Kolve on November 5. Professor Kolve became a member of the Center for Medieval and...
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Two CMRS-CEGS Research Seminars for Winter 2023
These seminars are open to graduate students from any department. Enroll in the usual manner. “Early Modern Empire and the Cultures of Encounter” (English 246), Thursday 12:00–2:50...
Mission
UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies promotes and sustains transdisciplinary studies of the periods from the 3rd to the 17th century C.E. across the globe. The Center’s mission is grounded in the disciplinary study of early periods and worlds (late antique, medieval, Renaissance, and early modern). Five main research axes structure the multi-faceted inquiry of the Center’s diverse faculty: Sustainability-Repurposing; Fluidity-Permanence; Bodies-Performance; Conversion-Mobility; and Communication-Archive.
This research platform is open to the widest variety of historical and methodological approaches. It enables a transdisciplinary and global research model in response to the challenge of regional world systems and the plurality of early worlds. That is, in addition to the narratives of spatial and/or temporal connectivities, the research platform of connected methodologies and epistemologies and comparison facilitates the study of a range of shared and global phenomena in an unconnected and early-connected world.
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, and financial, logistical, and other support; and,
3. To create and disseminate knowledge, encourage intellectual exchange, and promote study of the early global periods and worlds at the campus, local, regional, national, and global levels.
CMRS-CEGS is dedicated to promoting research, teaching, and new methodologies in underrepresented and nontraditional 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.