UCLA Sounds Early Music Ensemble,
Music in the Byzantine Tradition
April 6, 2001 The UCLA Sounds early music ensemble presents a musical prelude to the conference "Byzantine Women: The Everyday Experience," co-sponsored by CMRS, at UCLA on Saturday, April 7, 2001.
"Byzantine Women: The Everyday Experience"
April 7, 2001 This day-long conference in the UCLA Byzantinists’ Symposia series is dedicated to the experience of "ordinary" women in the Byzantine Empire. Rather than concentrating on the small number of privileged, imperial or aristocratic women, the six papers in this conference will address the everyday activities of women in the context of their families, their expressions of religious sentiment and their participation in public life. Featured speakers include Professor Sharon Gerstel (University of Maryland), Professor Baris_ Kreki_ (History, UCLA), and CMRS Visiting Professor Judith Herrin (Prof. of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, King’s College, London). The program is coordinated by Professor Claudia Rapp (History, UCLA). Complete schedule to be announced.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable April 11, 2001 Speaker and topic to be announced. CMRS faculty, associates, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide coffee and soft drinks.
A uo penn bit pont – Aspects of Leadership in Celtic and Indo-European
April 11, 2001
A famous Middle Welsh saying–a uo penn bit pont, literally "He who is head, let him be a bridge"– is still a riddle for modern philology. In his lecture, CMRS Visiting Prof. Stefan Zimmer (University of Bonn) explores how this enigmatic saying may be brought nearer to an acceptable explanation when compared with the requirements for leaders as expressed in Old Indo-European literatures, including Vedic Sanskrit and Latin. Professor Zimmer presents archaeological evidence to corroborate his conclusion.
Autobiographical Fiction: The Conversion of Herman the Jew
April 18, 2001 A lecture by CMRS Visiting Professor in the History Department, Jean-Claude Schmitt (Director, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).
UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Interdisciplinary Forum
April 21, 2001
CMRS is one of the co-sponsors of the first UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Interdisciplinary Forum. The day-long program, focusing on the theme "Encounters," will bring together scholars from various disciplines to present research on all aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
CMRS at the Movies: "Stealing Heaven"
April 23, 2001 This event will open with a performance by the German group Ordo Virtutum, directed by Dr. Stefan Morent, of vocal music by Peter Abelard. Then CMRS Lynn White fellow Kristen Lee Over will introduce a screening of Clive Donner's film "Stealing Heaven," starring Derek de Lint as Peter Abelard and Kim Thomson as Heloise.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable
April 25, 2001
Michael Cooperson (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) presents "'Is this town big enough for us all?' Ascetics and Mystics in Medieval Baghdad." CMRS faculty, associates, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide coffee and soft drinks.
"Braided Histories: The Travels of Leo Africanus"
May 1, 2001
How do people move between very different cultural worlds? In this lecture, Professor Natalie Davis (University of Toronto) redefines concepts of cultural mixture by exploring the movement of a sixteenth-century Muslim between the Maghreb and Italy, between Islam and Christianity, and around different parts of Africa itself.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable
May 9, 2001
Joanna Woods-Marsden (Art History) discusses "Leonardo's Mona Lisa in Context."
CMRS faculty, associates, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide coffee and soft drinks.
UC Medieval History Seminar
May 12, 2001 The UC Medieval History Seminar meets at the Huntington Library to discuss four pre-distributed papers. Presenters and paper titles to be announced. Participants are expected to read the papers in advance and come prepared to discuss them. To promote an active discussion, attendance is limited. The UC Medieval History Seminar is supported by the generosity of a number of sponsors, including CMRS, the UCLA Dean of Social Sciences, UCI, UCR, UCSB, the History Department of the University of Southern California, the California Institute of Technology, the Huntington Library, and the Caltech-Huntington Committee of the Humanities.
Annual Hammer Foundation Lecture and Dinner (by invitation only)
May 16, 2001 CMRS Visiting Professor Rona Goffen (Art History, Rutger’s University), is the featured speaker at this year’s Hammer Foundation Lecture for CMRS faculty, associates, and Council members. Professor Goffen’s illustrated presentation is titled "Signatures: Inscribing Identity in Italian Renaissance Art." Signing a work of art is perforce a declaration of authorship, but it may be more than simple informational labeling. The manner in which such masters as Giovanni Bellini, Raphael and Michel-angelo signed their works, including the placement and wording of the signature, are autobiographies in nuance, expressing their professional ambitions and their under-standing of their accomplishments.
Speaking Images: A Conference in Honor of Professor V. A. Kolve
May
17-19, 2001
A three-day conference, co-sponsored by the Department of English and CMRS, in honor of Professor V. A. Kolve (English) on the occasion of his retirement. Professor Kolve is internationally acclaimed as one of the leading authorities on Chaucer and his works. The event begins on Thursday afternoon with a presentation by CMRS Visiting Professor Robert Yeager (English, University of North Carolina, Asheville). Anticipated participants include contributors to the Festschrift, Speaking Images, being compiled to honor Professor Kolve. Complete conference program to be announced.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable
May 23, 2001 Speaker and topic to be announced. CMRS faculty, associates, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide coffee and soft drinks.
"Musica Universalis," A Tribute to Frank D'Accone
June 2, 2001 This event in honor of Frank D'Accone (Professor Emeritus, Musicology, UCLA) will include papers by Michael Allen (UCLA), Murray Bradshaw (UCLA), Alyson McLamore (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), William Prizer (UCSB), Colleen Reardon (SUNY Binghampton), and James Westby. At midday, Musica Humana, an ensemble of musicians from the UCLA Departments of Music and Musicology, will present a concert of secular vocal music from the collection edited by Frank D'Accone, Music of the Florentine Renaissance. The final event of the day will be a performance, dedicated to Frank D'Accone, of Henri Lazarof's String Quartet no. 6. A reception follows.
