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“Hybridity”: In-Between People, Texts & Objects Across the Early Global World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference

Royce 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles CA

The 5th Annual Conference of the UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association seeks to highlight the innovative work of graduate students on the manifold ways people, texts, and objects “in-between” shaped the early global world, from the early medieval to the late early modern periods. Presentations will engage with the concept of the so-called "hybrid," asking:...

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...

Literary Journeys from Metaphor to Plot: Travel, Mind, and Experience

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

The theme of this conference explores travel as both an idea and a specific form of human experience, examined through various representations ranging from literature to visual arts to philosophy. The aim is to investigate how travelers' minds are altered by their experiences along their respective paths. The conference is not focused on travel writing...

“Status: Developing a Category of Analysis for the Early Global World”, Conference by Sixiang Wang & Choon Hwee Koh

Royce 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles CA

This workshop invites participants to develop status as a category of analysis for the pre- and early modern world by investigating categories of social practice that were current in the past. Interested participants should be prepared to share a specific, concrete case study from their area of research between the 3rd and 19th centuries (roughly...

On Land and Across the Sea: Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds. Junctions and Interweavings Conference

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

To mark 650 years since Boccaccio’s death, a conference on Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds invites exploration of Boccaccio’s “Other Words” and “Other Worlds.” Boccaccio’s narratives—not limited to the Decameron—vividly depict cultural and intellectual exchanges, emphasizing human behavior, morality, and societal complexities across the Mediterranean and beyond, including Cathay. In the Decameron, the Levant serves as a crucial geographical and cultural...

California Medieval Seminar (Fall 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...

California Medieval Seminar (Winter 2026)

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...

California Medieval Seminar (Spring 2026)

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...

Odious Comparisons…Across & Beyond the Early Global World

Organized by Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow, CMRS-CEGS, UCLA) and Nancy Alicia Martínez (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, UCLA) In his 1996 essay “Why Comparisons Are Odious,” W.J.T. Mitchell observed that if “difference and identity are the potent and inevitable terms in a new comparativism grounded in culture, it may be important to...