We’re pleased to share that members of our stellar California Medieval Seminar Steering Committee have recently received a series of well-deserved recognitions. Rowan Dorin received the Medieval Academy of America’s…
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Call for Papers –Translations: People, Texts & Objects in Motion Across the Early Global World
Published: January 9, 2026
The UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association, sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, is pleased to announce the call for papers for our 6th Annual…
Read MoreIn Memoriam of Efraín Kristal
Published: December 17, 2025
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Efraín Kristal, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, on November 14. Professor Kristal was a devoted, long-standing member…
Read MoreELTS PhD Candidate received the 2025 Grandgent Award
Published: December 2, 2025We are pleased to share that one of our recently published Comitatus articles, “Unfolding Dante’s Map” by Hugo Fortin (ELTS), was awarded the 2025 Charles Hall Grandgent Award by the Dante Society of…
Read MoreCMRS-CEGS co-sponsors “Living Threads” at the Fowler Museum, led by Solsiré Cusicanqui, with master craftswomen from San Miguel, Cajamarca
Published: November 7, 2025
This past Saturday, October 25, the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CMRS-CEGS) co-sponsored “Living Threads: Ancestral Textile Knowledge from the Peruvian Andes,” a public program at the Fowler Museum…
Read MoreAssistant Professor Choon Hwee Koh hosts three leading scholars through CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar program
Published: October 22, 2025
This past Spring, Assistant Professor Choon Hwee Koh (History) offered HIST 208A: History of Money through the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar program. With support from CMRS-CEGS, Koh invited three leading scholars…
Read More2025-2026 Annual Newsletter
Published: October 9, 2025
Welcome to the new academic year and the start of the Fall Quarter! Please take a look at our annual newsletter, which we’ve shared below, celebrating the past year’s achievements and highlighting…
Read MoreUCLA undergraduate student who won two awards for her work on Boccaccio’s Decameron is set to present at this weekend’s conference celebrating Boccaccio
Published: September 30, 2025
UCLA undergraduate Alexa Rojas has received two prestigious honors for research developed in Professor Roberta Morosini’s Winter 2025 course Transgression/s at the Periphery—The Merchant and the Siren: On Blu Humanism,…
Read MoreAmanda Styles graduates with CMRS Center for Early Global Studies Certificate in Global Medieval Studies in June 2025
Published: September 25, 2025
Amanda Styles earned her Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from UCLA’s Information Studies Department and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies Certificate in Global Medieval Studies in June 2025. She…
Read MoreCMRS-CEGS Associate Director, Oona Paredes, creates 2nd ever book in endangered Philippine Indigenous language
Published: August 19, 2025
Congratulations to Oona Paredes, incoming Associate Director of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, whose research with the Higaunon people led to the creation of only the second book…
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