Welcome back to UCLA for Fall 2018! Classes start Thursday, September 27th . . . CMRS has a stimulating schedule of programs lined up. Highlights include a conference on medieval and early modern Iberia and another on understanding the medical humanities. We also have three of the six Distinguished Visiting Scholars for 2018-19 coming to…
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We’re pleased to announce the upcoming publication of the proceedings from “The Illustrated Body” a conference held at UCLA-CMRS three years ago which commemorated and celebrated Aldus Manutius and Andreas Vesalius for their spread of anatomical knowledge. A fitting topic since UCLA Library Special Collections houses one of the world’s most important collections of books…
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Coming up this May, the CMRS Council will visit the Getty Villa in Malibu for an inside look at their collection of Byzantine Art with a tour by Curator Mary Hart and CMRS Associate Director and UCLA Professor of Art History Sharon Gerstel. The previous outing in January to the Getty Center in Brentwood was…
Read MoreGraduate Students interested in any discipline and studying any aspect of Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, or the Early Modern eras are invited to apply for the following: CMRS Research Assistants (Graduate Student Researchers) The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will award three Research Assistantships (Graduate Student Research positions) for the 2018-19 academic…
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Congratulations to our Assistant Director Dr. Karen Burgess for her recognition from CSANA at last week’s conference! “The Celtic Studies Association of North America wishes to express its deepest gratitude to Karen Burgess for her exemplary efforts in organizing the Association’s 2018 annual meeting in Los Angeles, for her longstanding support of Celtic studies, and…
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Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies; we particularly welcome articles that integrate or synthesize disciplines. SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 49…
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The proceedings from the conference we sponsored last year in honor of Professor Paul Freedman (History, Yale University) are now available from Brepols Publishers as Volume 22 of the Europa Sacra series, Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World: Essays in Honour of Paul Freedman, edited by Thomas Barton, Susan McDonough, Matthew Wranovix, and Sara…
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This year’s annual Open House for the new school year was a great success. Thanks go to all the new and returning students, our faculty, associates from neighboring institutions, and the interested public who turned out to see what’s in store this year. It was a pleasure to welcome Professor Sharon Gerstel to her first…
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Click here to download the CMRS 2017-18 Annual Booklet. As the new academic year begins, I am happy to report that the Center, which is now in its 55th year, is as strong and vibrant as ever. We’re looking forward to a full and intellectually-stimulating series of conferences, lectures, and other events in 2017-18. I…
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This Fall, Jessica Goldberg, Associate Professor of History, is teaching History 221A: Law and Medieval History on Fridays, from 2:00-4:50pm in Bunche Hall 2156. Students from outside history are welcome–outside perspectives on legal material always make a class like this richer and more rewarding. The professor’s permission is need to enroll. Each week will involve…
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