The UCLA Program on Central Asia invites you to the multidisciplinary workshop, Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation, Islamic Philosophy, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by…
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The Director’s annual letter is a serious task because it conveys a commitment to the project of the coming academic year and to a vision of a long-term future. But…
Read MoreAs part of CMRS’s regular biweekly email news blasts, we’d like to offer the Center’s faculty and students an opportunity to reflect on the remarkable times we are living in….
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A Viator essay cluster, edited by Przemysław Marciniak. The relationship between humans and their nonhuman traveling companions changed over time, and over the distances they traveled. Who would Don Quixote…
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For Fall 2020, Professor Sarah Beckmann (Classics) presents the CMRS/LAMAR Seminar “The Late Antique World: Transitions and Transformations Between Classical and Medieval” (CLASSIC 250), an interdisciplinary seminar focusing on late…
Read MoreAs an Organized Research Unit of the University of California dedicated to the study of the deep history of structures, mechanisms, and representations of society, and with it the causes…
Read MoreDear Friends, On June 8, 2020, CMRS released a statement in support of Black Lives Matter. In it, we also reaffirmed our commitment to systemic and programmatic changes which we…
Read MoreCMRS is providing a total of $58,520 of financial support to graduate students for the summer of 2020. The Center was able to make these fellowships available in part by…
Read MoreBeginning this fall, CMRS will be hosting twice-monthly “Works-in-Progress Happy Hours” to promote intellectual exchange and collegiality, while most of us will be continuing to work and learn remotely. The…
Read MoreCMRS plans to host a monthly medieval and Renaissance reading group for graduate students and faculty. We’re proposing an ongoing, online conversation through summer and into the next academic year….
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