CMRS-CEGS/Getty Symposia

April 4, 2022
Event: Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts: Transcultural Interpretation and Transmission Organized by Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts, The J. Paul Getty Museum, and Zrinka Stahuljak, Professor of French and Comparative Literature and CMRS-CEGS Director.

May 19, 2019
Event: Beastly Imagery in the Medieval World Organized by Professor Meredith Cohen (UCLA) and Dr. Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum). In conjunction with the special exhibition Book of Beasts: Bestiary in the Medieval World at the J. Paul Getty Museum, May 14-August 18, 2019.

February 10-11, 2019
Event: Pontormo: Painting in an Age of Anxiety Organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA) and Dr. Davide Gasparotto, Curator (J. Paul Getty Museum). In conjunction with the Getty exhibit, Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters, on view at the Getty Museum from February 5 to April 28, 2019.

March 3-4, 2017
Event: The Ark after Noah: Beasts, Books, and Bodies of Knowledge Organized by Associate Professor Matthew Fisher (UCLA) and Dr. Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum).

August 22-24, 2016
Event: Dante and the Visual Arts Summer Symposium Organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA), Dr. Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum), and Professor Rossend Arqués (Institut d’Estudis Medievals, Universitat Autònomia de Barcelona).

February 9, 2016
Event: East-West Relations in a Global Middle Ages Organized by Professor Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA) and Dr. Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum).

May 1-3, 2014
Event: Heaven and Earth: Perspectives on Greece’s Byzantium Organized by Professor Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) and Dr. Mary Louise Hart (J. Paul Getty Museum). Presented in conjunction with the exhibits Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa, April 9 through August 25, 2014, and Heaven and Earth: Byzantine Illuminations at the Cultural Crossroads, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, March 25 through June 22, 2014.

February 1-2, 2014
Event: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England Organized by Associate Professor Matthew Fisher (UCLA) and Dr. Kristen Collins (J. Paul Getty Museum). Presented in conjunction with the exhibit Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, September 20, 2013, through February 2, 2014.

April 12-13, 2013
Event: Medievalisms Manuscripts: The History of Medieval Manuscripts off the Shelf Organized by Assistant Professor Matthew Fisher (UCLA) and Dr. Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum). Presented in conjunction with the exhibit Untold Stories: Collecting and Transforming Medieval Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center.

February 3-4, 2011
Event: The Future of the Past: History in the Medieval Francophone West Organized by Assistant Professor Matthew Fisher (UCLA), Professor Anne D. Hedeman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne), Dr. Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum), and Associate Professor Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA). Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, November 16, 2010, through February 6, 2011.

October 7-9, 2007
Event: Medieval Manuscripts: Their Makers and Users Organized by Professor Christopher Baswell (UCLA), Professor Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University), and Professor Sandra Hindman (Northwestern University and Les Enluminures). This conference, in honor of Richard and Mary Rouse, was jointly presented by UCLA-CMRS, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Huntington Library.

January 26-27, 2007
Event: Icons from Sinai Organized by Professor Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) and Dr. Kristen Collins (J. Paul Getty Museum). Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center.