Udjahorresnet’s Egypt: The Crossroads of Conquest and Identity under Achaemenid Rule The concept for this workshop was inspired by the open access volume, Udjahorresnet and His World (JAEI 26, 2020),…
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Chamber Music Conversations from the Clark: Verona Quartet
Published: April 13, 2021Presented online via Zoom Webinar Sunday, May 2, 2021 4:00– 5:30 p.m. Join us for an exclusive online event featuring a concert performed by the Verona Quartet just for our…
Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: A Comparison of Morisco and Indigenous Strategies
Published: April 13, 2021Lecture by Karoline Cook, Royal Holloway, University of London Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Online event via Zoom Webinar By the early seventeenth century, petitioners at the royal…
Professional Development Roundtable: The Job Market Dossier
Published: April 12, 2021Please, be invited to our professional development roundtable on the job market dossier. Professors Arroyo, Marturano, and van Delden will answer all of your questions about the documents you need to submit…
Imposter Syndrome Roundtable
Published: April 9, 2021Join the GOAL program Thursday, April 15th at 3 pm via Zoom for an open and casual conversation on Imposter Syndrome which many students experience at some point during their…
Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Published: April 6, 2021Graduate Student conference organized by the UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA). The global medieval and early modern world (broadly considered, c. 900-1750) underwent myriad profound changes, from…
Beholding Beauty: Sa’di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry
Published: April 6, 2021New Book Salon Author Domenico Ingenito (Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) with discussants Lara Harb (Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University) and Marisa Galvez…
Signs of Sex: Comparative Semiotics of Virginity in the Greco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Worlds
Published: April 6, 2021CMRS Conference Organized by Giulia Sissa, Professor of Political Science and Classics, UCLA Virginity can be defined as a condition of sexual integrity, more specifically as the inexperience of full…
Slavery’s Archive in the Premodern World
Published: April 6, 2021CMRS Workshop Organized by Lamia Balafrej, Assistant Professor, Arts of the Islamic World, UCLA Department of Art History Slavery is often equated with archival lack and erasure, an assumption perhaps inherited…
Symposium in Homage to Michel Jeanneret (1940-2019)
Published: April 6, 2021Organized by Jean-Claude Carron (Research Professor, UCLA). This symposium convened to honor Michel Jeanneret (1940-March 2019) will memorialize the critical and creative achievements of one of the pillars of early…
The Last Unfinished Page of Genesis: Amazonian Apocalypse or Reinvention
Published: April 2, 2021Join via Zoom: Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/s/93481487640 To download the, flyer please click here.
“Steppe-ing stones: Jason and the Argonauts, Ovid, and Russophone Place-making around the Black Sea” | Lara Fabian
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Reassessing The Portuguese Colonial Past with Pedro Cardim
Published: March 23, 2021Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91013359351 Or join by phone: +1 669 219 2599 (US Toll) or +1 213 338 8477 (US Toll) Webinar…
Dancing Odissi and the Question of the ‘Medieval’ in Indian Performance History
Published: March 16, 2021New Book Salon A discussion with Professor Anurima Banerji (UCLA, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance) and Professor Urmimala Sarkar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Art and Aesthetics) about Professor Banerji’s recent book Dancing Odissi:…
Law and Disorder: Fools, Outlaws, and Justice in the Middle Ages and Renaissance – Day 2
Published: March 16, 2021CMRS Symposium Is justice possible when foolishness runs rampant? Are folly and mockery valid means to restrain those who abuse power and thwart just treatment of the populace? This virtual…
Law and Disorder: Fools, Outlaws, and Justice in the Middle Ages and Renaissance – Day 1
Published: March 16, 2021CMRS Symposium Is justice possible when foolishness runs rampant? Are folly and mockery valid means to restrain those who abuse power and thwart just treatment of the populace? This virtual…
Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Almut Hintze
Published: March 12, 2021The Yasna Ritual in Performance Up to the present day Zoroastrian priests perform a millennia old ritual, the Yasna, in which the recitation of ancient Avestan texts accompanies the performance…
California Medieval History Seminar, Spring 2021
Published: March 9, 2021The seminar meets to discuss four pre-distributed research papers Participants are scholars in the field at various stages of their careers. All attendees at the seminar are expected to read…
Spatial Grammars: The Union of Art and Writing in the Painted Books of Aztec Mexico
Published: March 9, 2021Annual Armand Hammer Art History Lecture This lecture by Elizabeth Hill Boone (Art History, Tulane), focuses on the painted books of Aztec Mexico, sixteenth-century documents that some people consider to be works…
Works-in-Progress Happy Hour with Professor Raphaëlle Burns
Published: March 9, 2021Professor Raphaëlle Burns, Department of French & Francophone Studies, UCLA “The Stories We Tell: Novellas, News, and the Uses of Casuistry in Early Modern Europe” Raphaëlle Burns teaches and writes about…