12th Annual History of the Book Lecture: "Blockbooks and the Fifteenth-Century Media Revolution", Thursday, January 13, 2005 Now in its twelfth year, the History of the Book Lecture series brings eminent scholars to UCLA to share their expertise about medieval and Renaissance books. This year’s guest speaker, Nigel F. Palmer, Professor of Medieval German at Oxford University, will discuss xylographic printing (blockbooks). A blockbook is a printed codex produced from relief-engraved wooden blocks (as distinct from movable type). In this lecture, Professor Palmer will examine the place of the blockbook in the media revolution that took place during the fifteenth century. Using examples from the collection at Oxford University, he will show how blockbooks relate not only to the manuscript codex (the “book”), but also to other media, such as posters. He will also describe the various experiments that were undertaken with this unusual printed material in order to assemble the pages into something with the outer appearance of a conventional book. The principal texts that will be used are the Apocalypse and the Biblia pauperum.
Place: Royce Hall 314 (Humanities Conference Room)
Time: 4:00 pm (Note time!)
Advance Registration: Required. To register, please contact the CMRS at cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the “History of the Book Lecture” in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable,
Friday, January 14, 2005 Professor Daniel Bornstein (History, Texas A & M University) will discuss his work. CMRS faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.
Place: Royce Hall 306 (Morris Seminar Room)
Time: 12 noon – 1 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend “the CMRS Faculty Roundtable meeting in Royce Hall.” You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable,
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 David Scourfield (Professor of Classics, National University of Ireland, Maynooth) will discuss "Jerome and the Chaste Adulteress of Vercellae: Fictionalized History or Historicizing Fiction?" Jerome's Letter 1 recounts the story of a Christian woman falsely accused of adultery, who miraculously survives seven strokes of the executioner's sword. The author provides authentication of the story, which scholarship has tended to regard as an embroidered account of a historical event. Many features of the letter, however, suggest a close connection with a range of fictional/ fictionalizing texts from both pagan and Christian Antiquity. In this talk, Professor Scourfield will first seek to demonstrate the principal points of contact between the letter and this material, and in that light consider the possibility that, notwithstanding its apparent historicity, the events the letter describes are entirely fictional. This meeting of the CMRS Faculty Roundtable is co-sponsored by the Department of Classics.
Place: Royce Hall 306 (Morris Seminar Room)
Time: 12 noon – 1 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend “the CMRS Faculty Roundtable meeting in Royce Hall.” You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable,
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Professor Claude Hulet (Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA) discusses how Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, opening the sea route to India. Some eighty years of Portuguese exploration of the North and South Atlantic provided the basis for the maritime connection between Europe and India, and created the route subsequently followed by all vessels to this day.
Place: Royce Hall 306 (Morris Seminar Room)
Time: 12 noon - 1 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "the CMRS Faculty Roundtable meeting in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
Shakespeare and the Inherited Tradition,
Thursday, January 27, 2005 A lecture by Professor Alexandra Johnston (Victoria University/University of Toronto), presented in conjunction with this year's CMRS Seminar, "Early English Stages: 1400-1576" (English 244), coordinated by Professor Gordon Kipling.
P
lace: Royce Hall 314 (Humanities Conference Room)
Time: 4:30 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend “Professor Alexandra Johnston’s lecture in Royce Hall.” You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable,
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Professor R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) will discuss "Weaving to Byzantium:The Bayeux Tapestry and Eastern Silks." CMRS faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.
Place: Royce 314 (Humanities Conference Room)
Time: 12 noon – 1 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend “the CMRS Faculty Roundtable meeting in Royce Hall.” You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
The Ordo paginarum Revisited, and the Prehistory of the York Corpus Christi Play, Tuesday, February 8, 2005 Was the York Corpus Christi Play always the developed and lengthy cycle of mystery plays that we see in the surviving script (BL Additional MS 35290)? In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Meg Twycross (Professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies, Lancaster University), discusses how recent research into the growth of continental pageant-processions, and work on a new set of digital scans of the famous 1415 Ordo paginarum (the official civic 'List of pageants') suggests that the story might be more complex, and the cycle-form possibly later, than is usually accepted. This lecture is presented in conjunction with this year's CMRS Seminar, "Early English Stages: 1400-1576" (English 244), coordinated by Professor Gordon Kipling.
Place: Royce Hall 314 (Humanities Conference Room)
Time: 4:30 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend “Professor Meg Twycross’s lecture in Royce Hall.” You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable,
Thursday, February 10, 2005 Yitzhak Hen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) will discuss "Charlemagne’s Jihad." Professor Hen's talk will focus on Charlemagne's war in Saxony, and especially on the so-called Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, re-dating it and placing it in a new cultural as well as political context. Faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.
Place: Royce Hall 306 (Morris Seminar Room)
Time: 12 noon – 1 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "the CMRS Faculty Roundtable meeting in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
Annual Symposium on Women and Gender: "Women of Violence in the Medieval World", Friday, February 11, 2005 Scholars of medieval women’s studies have frequently addressed the topic of women as victims of violence. This year, the Center’s Symposium on Women and Gender will look instead at women who were themselves violent, whether in actuality or in the literary imagination. One question considered will be how violence in women was understood and evaluated differently from violence on the part of men. Participants will include Professors Lisa Bitel (History, USC), Jesse Byock (Germanic Languages, UCLA), Michelle Hamilton (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Irvine), and Carol Lansing (History, UC Santa Barbara); CMRS Associate Dr. Sharon King (UCLA); and graduate students Katrin E. Sjursen (History, UC Santa Barbara) and Margaret Trenchard-Smith (History, UCLA). The symposium is coordinated by Deborah Bochner Kennel (CMRS, UCLA).
Place: Royce Hall 314 (Humanities Conference Room)
Time: Complete program here.
Advance Registration: Required. To register, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu
Fee: May apply.
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the "Symposium on Women of Violence in the Medieval World" in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable,
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Eric Jager (English, UCLA) will discuss "The Carrouges-Le Gris Duel (1386): New Light on an Old Case." Professor Jager will speak about the research involved in his recent book, The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France–which concerns a famous judicial duel between a Norman knight and a squire accused of raping the knight’s wife. He will discuss his research in archival records that threw new light on this notorious and still-controversial case, including the lives of the three principals and the court politics that forged a fatal triangle of crime, scandal, and revenge culminating in the last judicial duel reportedly ordered by the Parlement of Paris. Faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.
Place: Royce Hall 306 (Morris Seminar Room)
Time: 12 noon – 1 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "the CMRS Faculty Roundtable meeting in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
"Epic and Ballad: Some Recent Discoveries", Thursday, February 17, 2005A lecture by Samuel Armistead (Distinguished Professor of Spanish, University of California, Davis).
Place: Royce Hall 314 (Humanities Conference Room)
Time: 4:30 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "the lecture by Professor Armistead in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
Seminar on the Letters of Heloise and Abelard,
Friday, February 18, 2005Professor Constant Mews, an internationally known specialist on Abelard, Heloise, and intellectual history of the twelfth century, will conduct an informal seminar on the letters of Heloise and Abelard, on Friday 18 February, from 10 a.m. to noon. The seminar is co-sponsored by the English Department and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. No advance preparation is necessary. Handouts of relevant passages from the letters will be available at the seminar.
Constant Mews is Associate Professor of History and Director, Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Professor Mews has edited several works of Peter Abelard. He is author of Peter Abelard , 1079-1142 (Authors of the Middle Ages, 1995), Abelard and his Legacy (2001), and The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth Century France (with Nevill Chiavaroli, 1999). He has edited many collections, including Listen Daughter: The Speculum virginum and the formation of religious women in the Middle Ages (2001), Reason and Belief in the age of Roscelin and Abelard (2002), and Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540 (2003).
Place: Royce 306
Time: 10 am - 12 noon
Advance registration: Please reserve a place in the seminar by e-mailing Professor Christopher Baswell, baswell@humnet.ucla.edu
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the "seminar by Professor Mews" in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
Place-name Evidence for Viking and Early Scandinavian Society and History,
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Stefan Brink (Seminar for the Study of Early Scandinavian Society and Culture, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University).
Place: Royce Hall 314 (Humanities Conference Room)
Time: 4:30 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "Professor Brinks's lecture in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
CMRS Winter Quarter Early Music Concert,
Thursday, February 24, 2005 (by invitation only) The Center's faculty, associates, Council members, and friends will be invited to a program of early music presented by UCLA Sounds.
Place: Royce 314 (Humanities Conference Room)
Time: 5 pm
Advance Registration: Required. To register, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu
Fee: No charge for invitees.
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "the early music concert in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
Medieval Slavic Workshop,
Friday, February 25, 2005 The CMRS is one of the co-sponsors of the annual Medieval Slavic workshop, coordinated by Professor Gail Lenhoff.
Place: Hershey Hall (room to be announced)
Time: Schedule to be announced.
For more information, contact Professor Lenhoff.
California Medieval History Seminar, Winter 2005,
Saturday, February 26, 2005 The California Medieval History Seminar meets at the Huntington Library to discuss four, pre-distributed research papers. Participants are expected to have read the papers in advance and come prepared to discuss them. The California Medieval History Seminar is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as the CMRS, the Huntington Library, and the Caltech Huntington Committee for the Humanities.
Place: Overseer’s Room, The Huntington Library
Time: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Advance Registration: Required. Registration opens when the e-mail announcement of the seminar is sent. To register, reply to the e-mail announcement or to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu
Fee: No charge for faculty and graduate students from California colleges and universities; for others, $25 fee may apply. Inquire when registering.
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Available at the Huntington Library, no charge. Tell the attendant at the gate that you are here to attend the "California Medieval History Seminar in the Overseer's Room."
To receive e-mail announcements of seminar meetings: Contact Karen at cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu
One for the Road: Traveling Players and Profits,
Tuesday, March 1, 2005 A lecture by Professor Barbara D. Palmer (English, University of Mary Washington) presented in conjunction with this year's CMRS Seminar, "Early English Stages: 1400-1576" (English 244), coordinated by Professor Gordon Kipling.
Place: Royce Hall 314 (Humanities Conference Room)
Time: 4:30 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "Professor Barbara Palmer's lecture in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable,
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Speaker and topic to be announced. CMRS faculty, associates, graduate students, and friends are invited to attend. Bring your lunch! The Center will provide soft drinks and coffee.
Place: Royce Hall 306 (Morris Seminar Room)
Time: 12 noon – 1 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign in at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "the CMRS Faculty Roundtable meeting in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC) Annual Meeting,
Friday-Saturday, March 4-5, 2005 The CMRS is one of the co-sponsors of the RCSC's annual interdisciplinary conference in Renaissance studies at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. John A. Marino, Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, will deliver the Annual Lecture. March 5th will be a joint-meeting with the South Central Renaissance Conference (SCRC).
Place: The Huntington Library
Time: Complete program to be announced.
Advance Registration: Required. Registration forma available at www.rcsca.org/registrationform.htm
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Free parking is available at the Huntington.
For more information about the program, visit the RCSC website at www.rcsca.org
For information about the SCRC conference, write to Darryl Tippens at Darryl.Tippens@pepperdine.edu. http://www.scrc.us.com
The Second Rebecca D. Catz Memorial Lecture: "Fernando Pessoa, the Incurable Outsider", Thursday, March 10, 2005 Eugenio Lisboa, renowned Portuguese poet and Professor of Literature at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, will present the second lecture in a series established in memory of Dr. Rebecca Catz, a long-time CMRS Associate and scholar of sixteenth-century Portuguese history and literature. This lecture series is made possible through the generosity of Dr. Boris Catz, Rebecca's husband.
Place: UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
Time: 6 pm
Advance Registration: Required. To register, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the Rebecca Catz Lecture by Professor Eugenio Lisboa in the Faculty Center. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
"One Hell of an Ending: Staging the Last Judgment in the Corpus Christi Plays and in Doctor Faustus A and B", Tuesday, March 14, 2005 A lecture by David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago). Professor Bevington has taught at the University of Chicago since 1967. His studies include From "Mankind" to Marlowe (1962), Tudor Drama and Politics (1968), and Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture (1985). He is also the editor of Medieval Drama (Houghton Mifflin, 1975); The Bantam Shakespeare, in 29 paperback volumes, 1988, currently being reedited; and The Complete Works of Shakespeare (HarperCollins; fifth edition, Longman, 2003), as well as the Oxford 1 Henry IV (1987) the Cambridge Antony and Cleopatra (1990), and the Arden 3 Troilus and Cressida (1998). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, and is a senior editor of the Revels Plays and of the forthcoming Cambridge edition of the works of Ben Jonson. He is senior editor of the recently published Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama (2002). With Peter Holbrook he has edited a collection of essays on The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque (CUP, 1998). His latest book, intended for general readers, is called simply Shakespeare (2002); it is about to appear in a second edition in 2005.
Place: Royce 362
Time: 4:30 pm
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking: Parking permits may be purchased for $7 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the lecture by Professor Bevington in Royce Hall. You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
