Location: UCLA Humanities Conference Room, Royce 314
Please note there have been recent changes to the schedule for Day 1 and this listing below is the current version.
Thursday, February 23, 2023 - DAY 1
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9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Coffee, Tea, Fruit, Pastries
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Zrinka Stahuljak (CMRS-CEGS Director, UCLA)
Kevin Terraciano (History, UCLA)
Peter Baldwin (History, UCLA)
Meredith Cohen (Art History, UCLA)
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel 1
Moderated by Cesar Favila (UCLA)
“Opening Horizons – Thinking Objects as a Constellation”
Beate Fricke (Institute of Art History, Universität Bern)“Hearing Choreomania: New Perspectives on Music, Dance, and the Body in Medieval Europe”
Mary Channen Caldwell (Musicology, University of Pennsylvania)“Legend of Saint Barlaam and Josaphat: From the Medieval Christianized Version of Buddha’s Life to a Multimedia Performance”
Katarina Livljanić (Voice, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / Ensemble Dialogos)Discussion
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Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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1:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Panel 2
Moderated by Kristine Tanton (Université de Montréal)
“Goldrush 1270: Gothic Connected Histories”
Sarah Guérin (Art History, University of Pennsylvania) – via Zoom“Empires of the Saracens in High Medieval Literature”
Shirin Khanmohamadi (Comparative Literature, San Francisco State University)Discussion
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2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Break
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Keynote 1
“Converting the Whole World: Dream or Nightmare?”
William C. Jordan (History, Princeton University) -
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Reception
Friday, February 24, 2023 - DAY 2
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee, Tea, Fruit. Pastries
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10:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Panel 3
Moderated by Raphaëlle Burns (UCLA)
“How to Give a Future to the Voices from the Past? Paul Zumthor, from Oral Poetry to Sound Poetry”
Florent Coste (Medieval Literature, Université de Lorraine)“Conques to Compostela, Arras to Outremer: Toward a New History of Local “French” Vernaculars and Their Contexts”
Carol Symes (History, Theater and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Discussion
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11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Lunch Break
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Keynote 2
“Middle Ages as a Theorical Model of Contemporary Societies: Reflections on the “Theologico-Political” Framework of Contemporary Governmentality”
Patrick Boucheron (History, Collège de France) -
2:00 PM- 2:15 PM
Break
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2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Panel 4
Moderated by Elizabeth Morrison (The J. Paul Getty Museum)
“Present in Medieval France: Assembly, Analysis, Immersion”
Michael T. Davis (Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History and Architectural Studies, Mount Holyoke College)“Medieval Alterity and the Strangeness in/of Historical Images”
Robert A. Maxwell (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)“Unthought Medievalism and New Approaches to Worlding Medieval France”
Marisa Galvez (French and Italian, Stanford University)Discussion
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3:30 PM