This talk by Professor Daniella Talmon-Heller (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) will highlight commonalities and differences between Jewish and Muslim thinking about the aural, graphic, and material forms of the Torah and Qurʾan. Jews and Muslims have both been preoccupied with transcribing and reading the authentic text as accurately as possible while securing its sanctity....
The UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies presents the 2021-2022 Charles Speroni Endowed Chair Lecture by Professor Susan Gaylard. Early sixteenth-century developments in printing brought forth a profusion of illustrated history books. Many of these histories included a high proportion of women’s images and biographies. Yet by the 1560s, images of women had...
The sensory turn in many areas of the humanities has failed to make a significant impression on Islamic and Middle East Studies, and on the study of Islamic history in particular. In the last couple of years, however, there has been a rise in interest in historical manifestations of the Muslim sensorium. This is demonstrated...
A lecture by Professor Paulin Ismard (History, Université Aix-Marseille). Organized by the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory and co-sponsored by CMRS-CEGS. About the Lecture: Professor Ismard will question the benefit that specialists of Greco-Roman slavery can gain from dialogue with the historians of slavery from other periods. Considering the question of the relationship between...
The caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (d. 193/809) allegedly led the ḥajj nine times over the course of his twenty-three-year reign, in 188/804 he was also the last ʿAbbāsid caliph to lead the pilgrimage rites. The pilgrimage served as a means of legitimation as well as a place of succession and nomination, with Hārūn and his wife Zubayda...
"Permanence & Decay" Keynote Speakers: Melody Jue (UCSB) and Amir R, Mufti (UCLA) Please see the flyer or visit the website for more details. RSVP here by Friday, May 6, 2022 at 5pm PST. Review the COVID-19 protocol provided on the flyer prior to attending the event. Questions? Contact the Organizing Committee at ucla.elts.conference@gmail.com. UCLA ELTS Graduate Conference 2022...
"Permanence & Decay" Keynote Speakers: Melody Jue (UCSB) and Amir R, Mufti (UCLA) Please see the flyer or visit the website for more details. RSVP here by Friday, May 6, 2022 at 5pm PST. Review the COVID-19 protocol provided on the flyer prior to attending the event. Questions? Contact the Organizing Committee at ucla.elts.conference@gmail.com. UCLA ELTS Graduate Conference 2022...
Kanner Forum Featuring Matthew Vernon Join UCLA English for "Unexceptional Blackness and Blind Matter," a talk by Matthew Vernon, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Davis. Professor Vernon will discuss Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s adaptation of Everyman as it relates to invisibilization of race. Professor Vernon will focus on the problems and possibilities...
UCLA will be hosting the Western Ottomanists' Workshop (WOW) hybrid, both in person and online. Organized by CMRS-CEGS faculty member Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA, History) and hosted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Friday, November 18 - Day 1 10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor) & Zoom Alternate plans for strike 1:30pm Registration 2pm...
UCLA will be hosting the Western Ottomanists' Workshop (WOW) hybrid, both in person and online. Organized by CMRS-CEGS faculty member Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA, History) and hosted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Friday, November 18 - Day 1 10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor) & Zoom 1:30pm Registration 2pm Opening Speech - James...
A symposium organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella (ELTS and Comparative Literature, UCLA), Professor Emerita Valeria Finucci (Romance Studies, Duke University) and doctoral candidate Megan Tomlinson (ELTS, UCLA). The symposium will examine how the study of a person's facial features or expressions as indicatives of character or ethnicity, has evolved from the crossroad of magic, religion,...
"From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.)," is a two-day conference focusing on the many cross-influences among Romance literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages through more recent times, with special attention to the topic of translation. More than 25 international scholars will examine different aspects of...
"From Romance to Romance: Translating among Medieval and Early Modern Romance Vernacular Texts (13th-18th c.)," is a two-day conference focusing on the many cross-influences among Romance literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages through more recent times, with special attention to the topic of translation. More than 25 international scholars will examine different aspects of...
Miguel Valerio (Spanish/Performing Arts, Washington University in Saint Louis) is the speaker at this seminar which is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory. Co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
Erin Kathleen Rowe (Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education, Professor of History, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University) will give a talk about African and Black saints in early modern Iberia. Beginning in the seventeenth-century, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient...
Patrick Boucheron (History, Collège de France) is the speaker at this seminar which is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory. Co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the French Embassy Center of Excellence at UCLA.
This is the first of the Games and Korean History webinar series in Winter 2023, presented by Chosŏn History Society and hosted by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. This series brings together game creators, history teachers and scholars, and the gaming community through discussions over Korean history and its simulation. Dr. Álvaro Sanz from Paradox...
UCLA Center for the Study of Religion is sponsoring a talk with Azzan Yadin-Israel (Jewish Studies, Rutgers University). With the exception of the cross, the apple—as the forbidden fruit—may be the most widely-recognized biblical image. Yet the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew original does not name the species of fruit that caused the Fall...
A roundtable organized by Giulia Sissa (Classics, Political Science, UCLA). Iacopo Costa (CNRS and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) “Can We Bypass the Middle Ages When We Read Aristotle?” Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) “Aristotle’s Phronesis: a Hidden Presence in Political Philosophy?” Guillaume Navaud (Lycée Henri IV) "Correcting/Cancelling Evil in Literature: a Resurgence of an Anti-Aristotelian Platonism?"...
Marco Polo and his father and uncle spent seventeen years in China, and because of his personal history there, Sinologists have long scrutinized and debated his connection to the larger history of China and his status as a historical writer of China. In response to biographical discussions about Polo in Sinology, this talk investigates the...
This symposium will focus on Korea and Eurasia from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries and highlight thematic approaches that resonate with other places and periods. The symposium features scholars interested in integrating early modern Korea into regional and global narratives. Their projects weave together Mongolian, Ming, Koryŏ, and Chosŏn histories or provide interdisciplinary perspectives on...
Friday, November 3, 2023 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (Pacific Time) Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum REGISTER HERE A journey to find extraordinary people leads to the discovery of a community living on the shores of Sabah, Malaysia and the Philippines. An ethnolinguistic group that dwelled on houseboats for hundreds of years moving across the...
Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten When: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 10:30 am Where: Kaplan Hall 193 This seminar is centered around a work-in-progress book chapter exploring the Old English metrical charms, a set of twelve vivid and enigmatic magic spells written down in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The seminar will be a chance to...
Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten When: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 4:00 pm Where: Kaplan Hall 193 What does it mean, culturally speaking, to get sick? What makes a body healthy? This talk explores depictions of disease in medical remedies and healing charms from the medieval North Atlantic, a multilingual zone of intensive cultural interaction and exchange....
A Workshop Hosted by Global Antiquity for Colleagues in California December 5–6, 2023 | Royce Hall 306 Global Antiquity is thrilled to announce its inaugural workshop titled “(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds.” This event, held at UCLA in Royce 306 over two days (December 5 and 6, 2023), will include invited speakers from across the University of...
December 8th, 2023 Special Collections Roundtable UCLA Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles CA, 90095 Laureate Classroom Refreshments Served 3:00–5:00 PM Roundtable and Discussion Followed by Reception South Courtyard, Luskin Center 5:15 PM (Los Angeles Time) December 9th, 2023 Symposium 8:30 - 5:00 PM (PST) UCLA Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza...
As the theater of engagement and integration of communities originating on the shores or from the hinterlands of Africa, Asia, and Europe, the Mediterranean region served as a dynamic center of interaction and exchange from Antiquity through early modernity. Even as it began to lose political and economic centrality, it has remained a zone of...
Description of Lecture: The reception of Italian lyrical poetry in Cyprus during the time of Venetian rule (1489-1571) yielded rich fruits. The precious collection of Cypriot love poems, preserved in a unique manuscript at the Marciana Library in Venice, is a mature expression of Renaissance reflections and artistic sensitivity. Simultaneously, it reveals a convergence of...
Abstract: The ideal of "death for the fatherland" (Pro patria mori) may seem to be an invariable reality of human society, from Sparta and Athens to today's wars. In fact, it is a political imaginary whose periodization can be traced. Ernst Kantorowicz, in a famous article published in 1951, proposed an analysis of this problem....
