This lecture takes up questions in African Medieval to Early Modern ivory imagery and sources framed in part around a set of seemingly anomalous motifs that address how power and...
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...
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,...
Guest Speaker: Hannah Barker (Arizona State University) In 1455, the Venetian patrician Giosafat Barbaro encountered an old friend in surprising circumstances. As a young merchant in the Black Sea port...
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...
Herman L. Bennett is a Professor at the Graduate Center (CUNY) and Director of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). He has...
MORNING 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:...
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...
Cappella 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...
The 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The 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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Organizers: Sixiang Wang & Choon Hwee Koh
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,...
Organizers: Stefania Tutino and Greg Woolf
Organizer: Basil Price
