UCLA Humanities | March 27, 2024 Diego Loukota, assistant professor of Asian languages and cultures, and CMRS-CEGS faculty, died at the age of 38 on March 17, in his home…
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Jamie Kreiner joins UCLA as Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History
Published: April 3, 2024The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is excited to welcome Professor Jamie Kreiner, Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History! Kreiner is a historian of the early…
Read MoreMarco Polo: The travel writer who shocked medieval Europe
Published: March 30, 2024Interview by Christina Burack (Deutsche Welle) with Professor Margaret Kim, CMRS-CEGS 2018 Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Professor Kim also gave the CMRS-CEGS co-sponsored talk, Kublai Khan’s Body: Marco Polo and the…
Read MoreCall for Papers: Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair
Published: March 14, 2024Viator Cluster: “Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair” Editors: Dawn LaValle Norman (Australian Catholic University) and Lea Niccolai (Cambridge University) The connection between hair and the sacred is as…
Read MoreCMRS-CEGS Director, Zrinka Stahuljak, to deliver CARA Plenary at 99th annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America 2024
Published: March 12, 2024At the upcoming 99th annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America 2024, Zrinka Stahuljak (Director, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies) will deliver the CARA Plenary. The lecture will…
Read MoreCMRS-CEGS announces sponsorship of seven panels at upcoming annual meeting of RSA Chicago 2024
Published: March 11, 2024We are proud to share that UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CMRS-CEGS) is sponsoring seven panels at the upcoming annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Chicago 2024….
Read MoreCMRS-CEGS Director, Zrinka Stahuljak publishes Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature
Published: February 27, 2024The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Professor Zrinka Stahuljak’s new book: Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (University…
Read MoreAnonymous Gift Fuels Esteemed Andy Kelly Prize
Published: February 16, 2024CMRS-CEGS and Viator are delighted to announce that a generous anonymous gift of $10,000 has been used to establish the Andy Kelly Prize for Best Article in Viator. This gift…
Read MoreAndy Kelly Prize for Best Article in Viator
Published: February 7, 2024We are pleased to announce the Andy Kelly Prize for Best Article in Viator, awarded biannually to an essay published in the preceding two volumes of Viator and judged by…
Read MoreComitatus Call For Book Reviews
Published: February 5, 2024Comitatus A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS The books in the attached list are available for review in Comitatus 55 (2024), the graduate student journal…
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