CMRS Graduate Student Opening Reception (and Book Sale!) October 11,
2000 The Center invites UCLA graduate students with an interest in Medieval and Renaissance Studies to attend a reception to mark the opening of the academic year. Meet the Center’s staff, including Director Andy Kelly, and find out about the programs, awards, and fellowships available to students from CMRS. UCLA faculty members who specialize in Medieval and Renaissance Studies will also be on hand. As a special bonus: There will be a small used book sale of relevant items courtesy of the Royce Reading Room. Drop by and meet us!
Performing Ecstasies Music, Dance, and Ritual in the Mediterranean
October 7-22, 2000 The Center is one of many co-sponsors of this multifaceted program, coordinated by Luisa Del Giudice (Director, Italian Oral History Institute) and co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The program features concerts, exhibits, music and dance workshops, food events, and a three-day conference.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable October 18, 2000
Prof. Carroll Johnson (Spanish and Portuguese) discusses "Cervantes and the Material World." CMRS faculty, associates, and interested graduate students are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide coffee and soft drinks.
UCLA Sounds: "Inebria me . . . Sacred or Secular? Ecstasy in Early Music" October 20, 2000
The UCLA Sounds early music ensemble explores settings of ecstatic texts from the first half of the second millennium C.E. This program is presented in conjunction with the conference, "Performing Ecstasies: Music, Dance, and Ritual in the Mediterranean," co-sponsored by the Center. Complete program to be announced.
UC Medieval History Seminar October 28, 2000
Each quarter, faculty and graduate students from throughout the UC system and other California universities, gather at the Huntington Library to discuss four pre-distributed historical research papers on some aspect of medieval studies. This is a working seminar! Participants are expected to read the papers in advance and come prepared to discuss them. To promote an active discussion, attendance is limited.
Fall Quarter 2000 Program: "Mystics, Demoniacs, and the Physiology of Spirit Possession in the Middle Ages," Prof. Nancy Caciola (History, UCSD) "Merovingian Factional Politics and the Archbishop of Canterbury: Cross-Channel Relations in the Mid-Seventh Century," graduate student Deanna Forsman (History, UCLA) "Religious and Intellectual Life in Tenth-Century Reims," Prof. Jason Glenn (History, USC) "[Title to be announced]," graduate student Wendy Turner (History, UCLA)
CMRS Faculty Roundtable
November 1, 2000
Professor Patrick Geary (History) discusses "Medieval Studies and the Challenge of the new Nationalism." CMRS faculty, associates, and interested graduate students are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide coffee and soft drinks.
Who was Dr. Faustus? The Renaissance Magus in Context
November 1, 2000 This lecture by Anthony Grafton (History, Princeton University) tells the story of an individual–a German astrologer and magician who flourished early in the sixteenth century, and whose life and work came in the course of the sixteenth century to be the stuff of myth and tragedy. Professor Grafton uses Faust’s career to raise some larger questions about the history of magic and science in Renaissance Europe, both as it had been written in the past and as it could be written in the future. Co-sponsored by CMRS, the Department of History, and the Dean of Social Sciences.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: A Muse for the Americas
November 4, 2000 A day-long UCLA Extension program of musical performance, poetry reading, and illustrated lectures investigating the life and works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a nun in seventeenth-century Mexico. Supported in part by a grant from the California Council of Humanities and presented in cooperation with the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
I Read, Therefore I Am: Hermeneutics and Self-Consciousness in the Renaissance
November 7, 2000
The debate over the interpretation of biblical and classical texts is a central issue in humanist circles. How does one best reach the true meaning(s) of a given text? A prominent role is given to the reader as subject. In this lecture, CMRS Visiting Professor, Michel Jeanneret (University of Geneva) illustrates the shift from author’s intention to reader’s response through Erasmus and Montaigne. For both men, however different, interpreting implies personal commitment and increases self-awareness.
The Impact of the Albigensian Crusades November 8, 2000
In 1208 Pope Innocent III called upon the Christian faithful "to attack the followers of heresy more fearlessly than the Saracens, since they are more evil." In this lecture, Malcolm Barber (Professor of History, University of Reading) assesses the effects of these crusades upon the Cathar heresy in Languedoc and upon the society in which it flourished. Co-sponsored by CMRS, the Department of History, and the Dean of Social Sciences.
Place: Morris Seminar Room (Royce 306)
Time: 4:30 pm
Fee: None
Pre-registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $6 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the lecture by Prof. Barber in Royce Hall. You will be directed to the nearest available lot.
A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain’s Secret Jews November 9, 2000
David Gitlitz (Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Rhode Island) and Linda Davidson (Instructor of Spanish, University of Rhode Island) discuss their award-winning new book which uses records of Inquisition testimony to reconstruct the eating habits of medieval Spanish Jews.
The Nature of Florentine Culture November 14, 2000
In this lecture, CMRS Visiting Professor John Onians (Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the World Art Research Programme, University of East Anglia) reconstructs the ways various factors, from the distinctive properties of Florence’s physical environment to the city’s name, have contributed to the formation of its culture.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable November 15, 2000
Paul Naiditch (Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Special Collections, Young Research Library) gives a status report on the Ahmanson-Murphy-Aldine Project at UCLA. CMRS faculty, associates, and interested graduate students are invited to attend. Please note: Don't bring your lunch! This special Roundtable meeting takes place in the library where eating is not permitted.
A Filmmaker Looks at Joan of Arc November 16, 2000
What are the responsibilities, if any, when filmmakers turn history into entertainment? Is artistic license a license to kill? Director Ron Maxwell, best know for his film Gettysburg, explores these questions and other related issues. Maxwell’s current projects include "Joan of Arc: The Virgin Warrior."
Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture and Feast
November 29, 2000
Each year, through the generosity of Will and Lois Matthews, the Center invites its faculty, associates, and Council members to a lecture by a distinguished scholar followed by dinner and a reading from seventeenth-century British society wit and diarist Samuel Pepys. This year's guest speaker, Professor Emeritus Norman Thrower (Geography, UCLA), will discuss "Pepys and the Royal Navy." By invitation only.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable December 6, 2000
Professor Herbert Plutschow (East Asian Languages and Cultures) discusses "The Japanese Garden and Sacred Space." CMRS faculty, associates, and interested graduate students are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide coffee and soft drinks.
