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Conference by Domenico Ingenito, “Nezāmi and the Iranian World”

Royce 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles CA

A two-day symposium and workshop that brings together specialists of Persian literature, junior faculty, and graduate students to facilitate in-depth conversations on Nezāmi in a stimulating intellectual environment at UCLA. On the first day of the conference, “Rediscovering a Persian Treasury of Global Literature,” invited speakers will deliver lectures that offer insights on the most recent...

Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Speaker: Shawon Kinew (Harvard University) Shawon Kinew is an art historian of early modern Southern Europe at Harvard University and specializes in seventeenth-century Rome's art and theory. Her research on Roman Baroque sculpture focuses on the Maltese artist Melchiorre Cafà, who is the subject of a book manuscript in preparation, Baroque Softness: Melchiorre Cafà...

Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture by Kristina Richardson

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

"Between Two Worlds: The Roma and Early Global Print Cultures" Guest Speaker: Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia) Richardson will show that Roma and other traveling people not only blocked printing between 800 and 1450 in North Africa and West Asia, but as they migrated into central Europe in the 1410s, they introduced print technology in...

“Lost in transfer? Misunderstanding, Miscommunication, and the Production of Knowledge in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean

Royce 306 & 314

Organizers: Stefania Tutino (UCLA), Andrea Robiglio (KU Leuven), and Eva Del Soldato (UPenn) The question of how knowledge transfers has become central for understanding the culture of the premodern world in a global perspective. This workshop is interested in exploring the question of what happens when transfer fails: what happens when knowledge is not “translated”...

Junior Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop by Lamia Balafrej

This session is with Assistant Professor Lamia Balafrej (Art History). These workshops aim to provide quality feedback on a first full draft of a pre-tenure book manuscript in preparation for publication. Workshop participants are faculty members and doctoral graduate students selected by the author of the book manuscript. This is a continuing series, and junior...

California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2025)

Royce 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles CA

Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers, typically drafts of articles, book chapters, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial, and...

Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Carla Pestana

Striving for Expertise Guest Speaker: Carla Pestana (UCLA) Scholars often refer to Samuel Pepys as an early example of a state bureaucrat, his career as a civil servant in the burgeoning Restoration bureaucracy offering documentation of an important shift in governance. Of equal note—and perhaps greater interest—is the way Pepys himself aimed for expertise. Not...

California Medieval Seminar (Spring 2025)

Royce 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles CA

Participation in the Seminar consists of group discussion of pre-circulated papers, typically drafts of articles, book chapters, or dissertation chapters (with complete apparatus). Two of the papers are ordinarily by emerging scholars (including PhD students) and the other two are by established scholars. We allocate one hour per paper and presenters should anticipate substantial, and...