Our annual newsletter is hot off the press and available for download–click here. Zrinka Stahuljak steps in this year as the new director of the Center. See what she and…
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Fall Quarter Events Checklist
Published: September 27, 2019Here are all of our programs for the Fall quarter in a handy checklist. Print it out on legal-size paper and post as a reminder. Just to be sure our…
Read MoreAlain Touwaide Receives the 2019 Edward Kremers Award
Published: September 6, 2019
We’re very happy to inform you that Alain Touwaide, Visiting Professor in the UCLA Department of Classics and CMRS Associate, is the recipient of the 2019 Edward Kremers Award! This…
Read MoreLive stream watch party: 2019 NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities: “Cultural Heritage Present and Future: A Benedictine Monk’s Long View”
Published: August 21, 2019
Join UCLA scholars and students for a live streaming of the 2019 National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, given by this year’s recipient of the honor,…
Read MoreZrinka Stahuljak Named Next Director of CMRS
Published: May 15, 2019The UCLA Dean of Humanities David Schaberg has announced Professor Zrinka Stahuljak as the next director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: “I have asked Professor Zrinka Stahuljak…
Read More“Early Modern Empire and the Cultures of Encounter”: CMRS/LAMAR Seminar for Fall 2019
Published: May 14, 2019
Professor Barbara Fuchs is teaching the next CMRS LAMAR Seminar in the fall. This class receives funding from CMRS to bring distinguished scholars to UCLA to lecture, participate, and discuss…
Read MoreBritish Paleography Class, Fall 2019
Published: May 14, 2019ENGL M215A Paleography of Vernacular Manuscripts from the British Isles, c. 800 to 1500 Cross-listed as: CLASSIC M218, FRNCH M210, HIST M218 Prof. Matthew Fisher Tuesdays 12:00 – 1:50 pm…
Read MoreProfessor Arvind Thomas’ “Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages”
Published: May 13, 2019It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the lawyer’s world really so far apart? To…
Read MoreSara Burdorff Roundtable Examines Roles of Medieval Women
Published: May 7, 2019
By Paige Hua Daily Bruin, April 21, 2019 Objects are more privileged than subjects, Sara Burdorff suggests in UCLA’s next Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Roundtable. Typically, men in Anglo-Saxon…
Read MoreCMRS Associate Leonard Koff Fuses Chaucer and the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
Published: April 4, 2019
Previewing our lecture by CMRS Associate Leonard Koff, PhD, is an article in the UCLA Daily Bruin. “The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host associate Koff’s lecture Thursday….
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