CMRS 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…
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CMRS 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,…
Read MoreAn Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts
Published: April 15, 2021
CMRS is a co-sponsor with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies of an upcoming free online workshop that runs August 23 – 27. Participants will learn the basics of…
Read MoreNew Online Fellowship Application Forms
Published: March 14, 2021We have implemented a new online system for submitting applications and letters of recommendation for our fellowships. This change will make the application process easier for everyone with a web…
Read MoreIn memoriam: Florence Ridley, CMRS Founding Member
Published: February 28, 2021Florence Howse Ridley, a barrier-breaking academic who was the first woman to chair the modern incarnation of UCLA’s Academic Senate and only the third woman to become a full professor…
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