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Thinking With Materiality in the Early Global World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
Zoom Meeting OnlineMORNING SESSION 08:00–08:15 PDT Opening Words Chase Caldwell Smith, Patrick Morgan, and Sofía Yazpik 8:15–8:20 PDT Welcome Zrinka Stahuljak, Director, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA PANEL 1: Making South Asian and Indian Ocean Materialities Moderator: Chase Caldwell Smith 8:20–8:40 PDT Traded Silks for the Gods in Kerala: Patola, its Connections, Contributions and...
California Medieval Seminar (Fall 2024)
Royce 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles CAParticipation 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...
Cappella Romana: In the Footsteps of St. Demetrios
Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral 1324 S Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CACappella Romana brings to life the vibrant soundscape of medieval Thessaloniki, Byzantium's second largest city. Hear ancient hymns honoring the city's patron, the ever-popular St. Demetrios, sung on the weekend of his annual feast day. Experience ecstatic Byzantine chants for the saint adorning the Cathedral Rite of Constantinople, sung by the women and men of...
Medieval Texts Reading Group Fall 2024 Meeting
Kaplan 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be...
Lecture by Panagiotis Agapitos, “Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction”
Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAThis lecture tackles the question of “authenticity” when writing crime novels set in the remote past. Agapitos’ three novels (published between 2003 and 2009 in Greece), which are set in the first half of ninth-century Byzantium during the rule of the last iconoclast emperor, Theophilos (r. 829–842), form the basis of a lively discussion about...