Winter Quarter 2013 Programs
Details and updates are posted at cmrs.ucla.edu/programs
Thursday, January 10, 2013
“The Medici Archive Project & the Early Modern Digital Humanities”
Prof. Mark Rosen
(History, University of Texas at Dallas)
Royce 314, 4 pm
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
22nd History of the Book Lecture
“Papal Councils, Papal Records, & the First Crusade: the Council of Benevento in 1113”
Prof. Robert Somerville
(Religion, Columbia University)
Royce 314, 5 pm
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
CMRS Roundtable, A Book Launching
A translation of Giovanni Botero’s On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities
Prof. Emeritus Geoffrey Symcox
(History, UCLA)
Royce 306, 12 pm
Thursday, January 17, 2013
CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture
“Vitruvian Man Goes Baroque: The Renaissance Legacy & Baroque Dance”
Catherine Turocy, Artistic Director
(New York Baroque Dance Company)
Royce 314, 4 pm
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Voces Nostrates Lecture
“Wounded Hands & Woeful Faces: The Hidden Mystery of Cervantes’ Self-Portrait”
Dr. Alvaro Molina
(Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA)
Royce 314, 5 pm
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
CMRS Roundtable“Poetry & the Politics of First Person in Late Seventh-Century Japan”
Prof. Torquil Duthie
(Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA)
Royce 306, 12 pm
Thursday, Jan 31–Friday, Feb 1, 2013
CMRS Ahmanson Conference
“Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval & Early Modern Mediterranean”
UCLA Professors Chris Chism, Zrinka Stahuljak & Teofilo Ruiz, organizers
Royce 314
Saturday, February 2, 2013
“Gendering the Mediterranean” Workshop
UC Mediterranean Studies
Multi-campus Research P roject
Advance registration required
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
CMRS Roundtable
“Their Brothers’ Keepers: Cain & Romulus in Machiavelli’s Thought”
Prof. Andrea Moudarres
(Italian, UCLA)
Royce 306, 12 pm
Friday, February 8, 2013
Sixteenth Annual Winter Workshop in Medieval & Early Modern Slavic Studies
Prof. Gail Lenhoff, organizer
Royce 306
Advance registration required
Saturday, February 9, 2013
California Medieval History Seminar
Huntington Library
9:30 am – 4 pm
Advance registration required
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Annual Hammer Foundation Lecture
“Invention on the Page: Marginalia in Medieval Art”
Prof. Paul Binski
(Art History, Univ. of Cambridge)
Royce 314, 5 pm
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
CMRS Roundtable
“Languages of Taste in Early Medieval Chinese Literature & Politics”
Prof. David Schaberg
(Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA)
Royce 306, 12 pm
Thursday, February 14, 2013
CMRS Co-sponsored Lecture
Prof. Claudia Rapp
(Byzantine Studies, University of Vienna)
Location & Time TBA
Thursday, February 21, 2013
CMRS co-sponsored lecture
“The Traditional Life Cycle of Iranian Jews in Art & Folklore”
Prof. Shalom Sabar
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Room A139
7:30 pm
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
CMRS Roundtable
“Reading Ghost Poetry in Medieval China”
Prof. Jack Chen
(Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA)
Royce 314, 12 pm
Thursday, February 28, 2013
CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture
“Living Life Forwards & Backwards”
Prof. Emeritus Robert Taft
(Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome)
Royce 314, 4 pm
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Voces Nostrates Lecture
“Fortune in Ariosto’s Comedies”
Heather Sottong, PhD Candidate
(Italian, UCLA)
Royce 314, 5 pm
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Annual William & Lois Matthews Samuel
Pepys Lecture
“Beer for Breakfast, or Bad Times for Brewing in Pepys’ Day”
Prof. Richard W. Unger
(History, Univ. of British Columbia)
UCLA Faculty Center, 6 pm
Advance registration required
Thursday, March 14, 2013
CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture
“The Law Scrappers”
Prof. Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco
(Latin American & Iberian Cultures, Columbia University)
Royce 314, 4 pm
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