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We are delighted to announce that UCLA Art History professor and CMRS faculty member Sharon Gerstel has won the prestigious 2016 Runciman Award, an annual literary award offered by the…

The Ahmanson Foundation has awarded a major grant to the UCLA Library to fund key aspects of the Sinai Library Digitization Project.  This major project – initiated by the fathers…

CMRS Faculty Robert N. Watson (Department of English) has written an article detailing his research on a statistical analysis of Shakespeare’s plays which confirms his hunches about word use in…

UCLA’s Distinguished Research Professor Henry Ansgar Kelly spoke about the Devil, based on his book Satan, a Biography. Andy’s lecture was for the Annual William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture…

Can traditional medical experience, knowledge and wisdom help rethink present-day medicine? That was the question asked by an international panel of scholars, scientists, physicians, and practitioners at “Medical Traditions for…

The project began because Sharon Gerstel, an art history and archaeology professor at UCLA, realized something was missing from her already-deep understanding of Byzantine art. “What struck me was, we…

Call for Applications Dante and the Visual Arts: a Summer Symposium at UCLA and the J. Paul Getty Museum August 22 – 24, 2016 The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance…

The UCLA Department of Classics is pleased to announce a fully funded and annual stipend of $18,000 for the 2016-17 academic year for the third and final year of a…

Thanks to the generosity of the Ahmanson Foundation the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies has two fellowships available for UCLA Italian Department graduate students who are working in…

Our annual booklet is now available. Get full details on the ins-and-outs of the academic year.