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Lecture by Panagiotis Agapitos, “Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction”

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

This 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...

Medieval Iberian Architecture Lecture by Fernando Vegas and Camilla Mileto, “Earthen Architecture and Heritage Conservation: Case Studies from Spain”

Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas will present a hybrid lecture entitled "Earthen Architecture and Heritage Conservation: Case Studies from Spain." Mileto and Vegas are Professors of Architecture and Historic Preservation at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, and directors of the research group Res-Arquitectura: Research, Conservation, and Dissemination of Architectural Heritage. They are also current Getty...

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 utilized block printing between 800 and 1450 in North Africa and West Asia but also introduced print technology in their new homes when they migrated to Central...

William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Carla Pestana

Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

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...

Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew, “St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home, c. 1660”

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

Abstract: At the end of the 1650s, Melchiorre Cafà, a Maltese sculptor, was newly established in Rome. Rome was the most significant site for sculptural production in Europe at that time. It was also a Golden Age of sculpture as artists vied for papal commissions and pushed the limits of their medium. They transformed hard...