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SUMMARY:William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture by Carla Pestana
DESCRIPTION:Striving for Expertise \nGuest Speaker: Carla Pestana (UCLA) \nScholars 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 content to serve as a cog in a larger bureaucratic machine\, Pepys sought to educate himself about the workings of the navy and of sailing ships\, going beyond the demands of his own office to achieve a deeper understanding. In doing so\, he once again revealed his insecurities\, while he also indulged in personal rivalries and resisted the limitations placed on him in his role as a civil servant. \nCarla Gardina Pestana is Distinguished Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World. Her research focuses on 17th and 18th century Atlantic worlds\, especially the English Atlantic\, the Caribbean\, and U.S. religious history. Professor Pestana has published books on religion and empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, most notably Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (2009). \nProfessor William Matthews\, a member of UCLA’s English Department faculty and the Center’s second Director (1970-1972)\, was an authority on the life and writings of the seventeenth-century British wit and diarist Samuel Pepys. With the assistance of his wife Lois\, Matthews and his co-editor Robert Latham produced the definitive edition (eleven volumes) of Pepys’s works\, which was published incrementally between 1971 and 1983. The Matthewses’ will\, which endows the Center’s annual lecture and also a festive dinner\, specifies that the event should be scheduled to coincide with Pepys’s own annual celebration commemorating the surgery he endured on March 26\, 1658. \nRegister to attend in Luskin Conference Center\, Laureate Classroom \nMore information about past William and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys lectures can be found here.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/will-and-lois-matthews-samuel-pepys-lecture-by-carla-pestana/
LOCATION:Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew\, “St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home\, c. 1660”
DESCRIPTION: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 stone into weightless apparitions. But\, in his early days in the Caput Mundi\, Cafà returned home conceptually. He carved in the humble material of wood the patron saint of his island\, St. Paul\, to be sent back to Malta. Today the sculpture is at the center of local devotional practices\, still carried in processions celebrating the Apostle’s shipwreck in Malta. Our time is connected to Paul’s and to Cafà’s in this living tradition. A study of Cafà’s St. Paul is one of Mediterranean cultural continuities\, and a meditation on the ethnographic gaze of the art historian. \nShawon Kinew is an art historian of early modern Southern Europe at Harvard University and specializes in seventeenth-century Rome’s art and theory. Her research on Roman Baroque sculpture focuses on the Maltese artist Melchiorre Cafà\, who is the subject of a book manuscript in preparation\, Baroque Softness: Melchiorre Cafà and the Sculpture of Mysticism. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nMore information about past Hammer Art History Lectures can be found here.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/rescheduled-hammer-art-history-lecture-by-shawon-kinew-st-paul-among-the-snakes-a-maltese-artist-goes-home-c-1660/
LOCATION:Royce 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Hammer Art History Annual Lecture,Humanities
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SUMMARY:New Book Salon Book Talk by Roberta Morosini
DESCRIPTION:What does a flying bull with a half moon on its belly in Filippino Lippi’s 1502 painting\, the Adoration of the Golden Calf\, have in common with Muhammad\, as a character of Dante’s Comedy? This is the question that Roberta Morosini tries to answer by following the journey of a legend traveling in the Oriental Mediterranean. She argues that what Lippis’s painting and Dante’s Muhammad have in common is a legend of a celestial delivery of the “bull law\,” the Qur’an and Moses’s Tablets of the Law. Just as Moses received the Tablets of the Law from God on Mount Sinai\, the Qur’an\, written according to Thomas Aquinas by mixing fables and a rippled Bible\, is carried by the bull on its horns. Taking us from Medieval Christian Byzantium to the depictions of Muhammad and Averroës in the iconographic tradition\, to the Rome of Oliviero Carafa in the events following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 through Dante’s Comedy\, the real protagonists of Dante\, Moses and the Book of Islam\, a story narrated through texts and images\, are the Book and the Mediterranean as spaces of transmission of knowledge. Morosini provides a ground breaking reading of Filippino’s Adoration of the Golden Calf as an ancient scene of anti-Islam propaganda\, while shedding new light on Dante’s construction of the cultural other\, on his spaces of otherness\, and on the importance the poet gives to books that bring unity and give form to what lacks it\, like his book\, the Comedy.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-book-talk-by-roberta-morosini/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsorship,Humanities,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Naoíse Mac Sweeney | “The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration\, Urbanisation\, and the Emergence of Greekness?”
DESCRIPTION:Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor \nNaoíse Mac Sweeney\, University of Vienna \n“The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration\, Urbanisation\, and the Emergence of Greekness?” \nLecture summary:  By the start of the classical period\, the Greek world stretched from Spain to Cyprus\, and from Libya to the Crimea\, and was comprised of over 1\,000 autonomous polities. In this lecture\, I will consider how this geographically dispersed and politically fragmented Greek world came into being over the course of the 11th to sixth centuries BCE\, focusing in particular on new data from archaeological surveys designed to uncover processes of urbanisation and migration at varying scales. This new data suggests divergent pathways to Greekness in different parts of the Greek world\, with the adoption of Greek lifestyles and cultural traits happening at radically different times and in response to different local contexts. If\, as this evidence suggests\, the Greek world was forged in a more piecemeal and uneven manner than previously thought\, does this have implications for what we assume the Greek world fundamentally was? \nAbout the speaker: Naoíse Mac Sweeney\, professor of Greek archaeology at the University of Vienna\, is the author of books including “Community Identity and Archaeology” (2011)\, “Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia” (2013)\, “Troy: Myth\, City\, Icon” (2018) and\, most recently\, “The West: A New History of an Old Idea” (2023). \nKindly RSVP at collegeevents@support.ucla.edu.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/naoise-mac-sweeney-the-birth-of-the-ancient-greek-world-migration-urbanisation-and-the-emergence-of-greekness/
LOCATION:Fowler Museum
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Palevsky Lecture
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SUMMARY:“Hybridity”: In-Between People\, Texts & Objects Across the Early Global World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Annual Conference of the UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association seeks to highlight the innovative work of graduate students on the manifold ways people\, texts\, and objects “in-between” shaped the early global world\, from the early medieval to the late early modern periods. Presentations will engage with the concept of the so-called “hybrid\,” asking: what does it mean to label something as in-between\, mixed\, syncretic\, blended\, amalgamated\, or composite? To what end might something be constituted as “hybrid”? Does “hybridity” as a term still carry meaning when encompassing so much? Does the contact and exchange of people\, things\, and ideas inevitably result in “hybridity”? The event seeks to problematize the term and its synonyms\, thinking about “hybridity” as a threshold of negotiation\, contestation\, in(ter)vention\, interpretation\, translation\, and debate. \nRegister to attend in Royce 306 \nOrganized by the Officers of MEMSA: Chase Caldwell Smith\, Sofía Yazpik\, Miranda Heaner\, and Stanley Wu \nSponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/hybridity-in-between-people-texts-objects-across-the-early-global-world-memsa-graduate-student-conference/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Humanities,MEMSA
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