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 of Man, nor do any of its many translations. While early Christian and rabbinic commentators identify various species as the forbidden fruit—the fig, the grape, the citron—they never include the apple. How, then, did the forbidden fruit come to be identified as the apple? Examining...
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) “Aristotle’s Political Theory of Media” Giulia Sissa (Political Science, Comparative Literature and Classics, UCLA) “Aristotle’s Error. And Why It Is Still Bad for Women” Anthony Pagden (Political Science, UCLA) “Natural Slavery, yet Another Paradigmatic Error” Ziyaad Bhorat, Discussant (USC Dornsife Center for Science, Technology, & Public Life;...
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 farflung oceanic networks of value, by tracing material connections between distant yet intertwined monetary systems on the Arabian Peninsula and colonial North America and by highlighting dispersed legacies of metalwork and numismatics. Register to attend in person in Royce 314. Register to attend online with Zoom.. Featured...
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 such official document has ever been discovered but a good case can be made that the adoption of the protocol format by acts of martyrs is a development that is posterior to the Great Persecution. Instead of assessing the authenticity of the acts upon their...
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 of the arts and a scholar himself. This native of Slavonia and son of Croatian-speaking petty nobles brought together an international circle of artists and scholars, who would meet at his court in Oradea in today’s Romania and, later, in Esztergom in today’s Hungary. His...
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 instituted in the context of the ancient norms circumscribing the Sabbath, an innovation that turned the Sabbath into a ritual of neighborhood and a tool of the ritualization of neighborhood. Drawing on one of the most well-known Judean/Jewish practices in the late ancient world –...
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 20. Presentations are organized by the seminar’s director, Professor Piotr Górecki (History, UC Riverside). The following papers will be discussed at the seminar: “The Paranoid Style in Frankish Crusading” Jay Rubenstein (University of Southern California) “Oath-Taking and the Performance of Urban Customary Law” Esther Liberman...
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, including The Criminalization of Abortion. Its Origins in Medieval Law (Cornell, 2012) and Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517 (Cambridge UP, 2021). “Money” is a Fall 2023 graduate course designated as a CMRS Center for Early Global Studies Research Seminar which provides funding for...
