CMRS-CEGS Workshop “Possession: Race, Gender, and Ownership in the French Atlantic,” a lecture by Jennifer Palmer (History, University of Georgia). Organized by Barbara Fuchs (English, Spanish, UCLA) and Andrew Devereux (History, UCSD).
CMRS-CEGS Seminar Organized by Barbara Fuchs (English, Spanish, UCLA) and Andrew Devereux (History, UCSD). With Chloe Ireton (History, University College London) and Jennifer Palmer (History, University of Georgia).
CMRS-CEGS Workshop “Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Spanish Atlantic in the 16th Century,” a lecture by Chloe Ireton (History, University College London). Organized by Barbara Fuchs (English, Spanish, UCLA) and Andrew Devereux (History, UCSD).
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?” Davide Panagia (Political Science, UCLA)...
CMRS-CEGS Conference Organized by Chet Van Duzer (Lazarus Project, University of Rochester) and Stephen P. McCormick (Romance Languages, Washington & Lee University). See the complete schedule at the conference website. Register to attend in person in Royce 314. Register to attend online with Zoom. Image: Naples BN MS IVE9, f. 24r Virgil Georgics zonal mappamundi
“Silver: Mutability and Materiality across Seventeenth-Century Networks of Trade and Plunder in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans” Nancy Um (Associate Director, Research and Knowledge Creation, Getty Research Institute) This talk delves into the circulation of silver in the late seventeenth century, a time when the silver streams of Potosi fueled the global maritime trade. It explores...
This lecture, “The Acts of the Christian Martyrs and Court Protocols,” is by Professor Éric Rebillard (Cornell), part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Spring 2023, Persecution and Defiance: Religious Minorities in the Roman World 200-700 CE (History201B). It has long been assumed that acts of martyrs derived from court protocols of their trials. Not only no...
In most of the older studies of the Renaissance, Eastern Central Europe was a “dark area” about which very little was said. We have since come a long way in understanding 15th-century culture in Hungary, Slavonia and Croatia. A thriving Renaissance movement was spreading, and its focal point was Bishop John Vitez, a generous patron...
Johanna Drucker (School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA) discusses her book Inventing the Alphabet (The University of Chicago Press, 2022) with Helen Deutsch (English, UCLA). Register to attend in person Royce 306. Register to attend online with Zoom.
This lecture, “Re-Staging the Judean ‘Nation’: The Rise of the Neighborhood in Roman Palestine” by Professor Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford), is part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Spring 2023, Persecution and Defiance: Religious Minorities in the Roman World 200-700 CE (History201B). Professor Fonrobert will focus on one particular ritual innovation that the rabbinic movement...
The California Medieval History Seminar fosters intercampus networking and intellectual exchange by acquainting participants with historical research in medieval studies currently underway in California. The seminar meets quarterly to discuss pre-distributed research papers (two by faculty members, two by graduate students). During AY 2022-23, the seminar will meet on October 29, February 11, and May...
As part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Fall 2023, Money Matters: Between Antiquity and the Enlightenment (ca. 600-1600), guest lecturer, Wolfgang Mueller (Fordham University) will share about his research that focuses on written norms and laws of the European West between 500 and 1500 CE. He is author of several scholarly monographs,...
CMRS-CEGS/AARHMS Symposium As part of its thematic series of co-sponsored sessions this academic year on “Iberian History as Global History” at major international conferences, the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) has partnered with UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CEGS) to host this symposium on The Western Mediterranean and the...
As part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Fall 2023, Money Matters: Between Antiquity and the Enlightenment (ca. 600-1600), guest lecturer, Professor Craig Muldrew (Cambridge, UK) will share about his expertise in British Social and Economic History from 1500 to 1800. Craig Muldrew's research mainly focuses on the investigation of the economic and...
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...
"On the Introduction of Chinese Decorated Paper to Iran and How it Revolutionized Manuscript Production in the Islamic World" Guest speaker: Ilse Sturkenboom (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) The fifteenth-century introduction of long sheets of brightly colored and gold-embellished paper from Ming China to Iran provided book artists with a range of new possibilities in the production of...
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 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...
Copy of Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖 (Complete map of the world), 1674, Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. held at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Image stitched together from individual images of each frame of the map screen. Guest Speaker: S.E. Kile (University of Michigan) "Was the World Early Modern?: Telescopes, Surgery, and Print Media in China,...
“Patterns of Anomaly in African Ivories” Abstract: 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 ivory have mutually shaped each other both in Africa (particularly Nigeria) and in European contexts. Among the works taken...