Susan Einbinder, Professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut Historians have long noted the literary abundance that characterizes the Great Italian Plague of 1631, but…
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Works-in-Progress Happy Hour
Published: August 25, 2020Professor Peter Cowe, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA “Armenian Integration into Sequential Hemispheric Cultural Norms as Illustrated by the Alexander Romance“ CMRS is hosting twice-monthly Works-in-Progress Happy Hours to…
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Published: August 18, 2020Stefanie Matabang, Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA “Making the Middle Ages Filipino: Colonial Philippines and the Imagined Medieval Period of Empire” CMRS is hosting twice-monthly Works-in-Progress Happy Hours…
Read MoreNew Book Salon
Published: August 17, 2020Erica Weaver, Assistant Professor of English at UCLA, and co-editor Daniel C. Remein, Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, discuss their book Dating Beowulf: Studies in…
Read MoreCalifornia Medieval History Seminar, Fall 2020
Published: August 17, 2020The Fall 2020 session of the California Medieval History Seminar will take place online instead of at its usual venue, the Huntington Library. The seminar meets to discuss four pre-distributed…
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Published: August 17, 2020Laura Muñoz, PhD Student, UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese “Valencia, All a Riot: Lope de Vega’s (Re)Creation of the Valencian Cityscape” CMRS is hosting twice-monthly Works-in-Progress Happy Hours to…
Read MoreCMRS Conference: Varallo and the Sacri Monti of Northwestern Italy, Day 2
Published: August 17, 2020Watch this event on YouTube: Introduction, Day 2 Session 1, and Day 2 Session 2. This conference, organized by Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA), explores the history and extraordinary art of the…
Read MoreCMRS Conference: Varallo and the Sacri Monti of Northwestern Italy, Day 1
Published: August 17, 2020Watch this event on YouTube: Introduction, Day 2 Session 1, and Day 2 Session 2. This conference, organized by Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA), explores the history and extraordinary art of the…
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Published: August 17, 2020Carla Neuss, Graduate Student, Department of Theater, UCLA “South African Medievalism” CMRS is hosting twice-monthly Works-in-Progress Happy Hours to promote intellectual exchange and collegiality while most of us are continuing…
Read MoreCMRS Annual Open House 2020-21
Published: August 17, 2020We invite you to join CMRS Director Zrinka Stahuljak and the Center’s faculty, students, associates, and staff for the annual Open House celebrating the start of the new academic year….
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