Dear faculty, staff, and friends, I am pleased to share exciting news regarding UCLA’s world-class hub for scholars working in periods from the 3rd to the 17th century CE across the world. More than a half-century after its founding, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) will now be known as CMRS Center for…
Read MoreCMRS faculty member Domenico Ingenito (Associate Professor of Persian Literature at UCLA and Director of the Program on Central Asia) has been assisting Afghan refugees flown to Italy to clear resettlement hurdles there and is actively supporting the UCLA effort to place Afghan scholars on campus. He will devote considerable programming to Afghanistan at the…
Read MoreCMRS is pleased to co-sponsor the Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia workshop “Historicizing Disaster Risk Management: The Ecology of Mt. Isarog and its Environs,” This series of eight panel discussions takes place in August and September 2021. CMRS faculty member Professor Stephen Acabado (Department of Anthropology, UCLA) coordinated the workshop and has assembled many…
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Professor Matthew Fisher (English) is teaching the next LAMAR Seminar in the Fall. The course, English 257, “Digital/Medieval: Resistant Archives” will focus on the theoretical and practical complexities of contemporary archives, digitization and archival preservation practice, and medieval documents and books. Working hands-on with UCLA’s collections, and also hands-on with some of the interoperable data…
Read MoreDear Friends, A year ago, in June 2020, we released a statement in support of Black Lives Matter. We promised to continue systemic and programmatic changes that we initiated in 2019. And we are starting to deliver. I am delighted to report on the results of this past year that has seen CMRS attain new…
Read MoreThe Medieval Association of the Pacific is pleased to announce the Henry Ansgar Kelly Paper Prize to be awarded to a scholar for a peer-reviewed article or chapter published in the previous two calendar years on any subject of Dr. Kelly’s wide range of research areas (cv). In his long and still productive career, Dr….
Read MoreCritical Mission Studies and Indigenous Community Interventions In this podcast, Dr. YVE CHAVEZ (Tongva/Gabrielino) of UC Santa Cruz and Dr. CHARLENE VILLASEÑOR BLACK of UCLA discuss the $1.03 million grant “Critical Mission Studies at California’s Crossroads,” funded by UCOP’s Multicampus Research Program and Initiatives (2019-2021). They address the importance of Indigenous legacies in the California…
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Seven essays from the 2018 CMRS Conference “Iberia, the Mediterranean, and the World in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods” are featured as a dossier in Volume 40 of Pedralbes, Revista d’història moderna (2020). Published under the auspices of the Universitat de Barcelona, the journal is open-access and the articles are free to download. Introduction:…
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CMRS is a co-sponsor with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies of an upcoming free online workshop that runs August 23 – 27. Participants will learn the basics of codicology, palaeography, and manuscript production and circulation within the context of current debates in Arabic manuscript research. Organized by Princeton University Professor of Near Eastern…
Read MoreWe have implemented a new online system for submitting applications and letters of recommendation for our fellowships. This change will make the application process easier for everyone with a web form indicating what is required. Click this link to go the the instructions for the application submission page and the letter of recommendation submission page….
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