Graduate students Julie Ershadi (NELC, Iranian Studies) and Jodie Miller (ELTS, French) have enrolled in the Center’s certification program in global medieval studies. Julie Ershadi‘s research centers on the life…
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CMRS Is Now CMRS-CEGS
Published: October 13, 2021Dear 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…
Read MoreDirector’s Annual Letter, Fall 2021
Published: September 20, 2021
Over the past year and a half of the continuing biggest upheaval – racial, social, political, health – that we have known in our lifetimes, it was essential to continue…
Read MoreAfghan Assistance at UCLA
Published: September 1, 2021CMRS 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…
Read MoreCMRS Co-Sponsors Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia Workshop
Published: July 15, 2021CMRS 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…
Read MoreLAMAR Seminar for Fall 2021: Digital/Medieval: Resistant Archives
Published: June 9, 2021
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…
Read MoreEnd-of-Year Director’s Statement, 2020-21
Published: June 8, 2021Dear 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…
Read MoreHenry Ansgar Kelly Paper Prize
Published: May 19, 2021The 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…
Read MoreReflections on 2020 Podcasts
Published: May 10, 2021Critical Mission Studies and Indigenous Community Interventions In this podcast, Dr. YVE CHAVEZ (Tongva/Gabrielino) of University of Oklahoma and Dr. CHARLENE VILLASEÑOR BLACK of UCLA discuss the $1.03 million grant…
Read MoreConference Proceedings: Iberia, the Mediterranean and the Larger World in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Published: April 22, 2021
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,…
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