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CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: “The Nature of Learned Discourse in Early Medieval Ireland” A lecture by Dr. Paul Russell, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.
“Making Sense of the Chinese Rites Debate: Rome 1735, Los Angeles 2007” Professor Carlo Ginzburg’s (History, UCLA) lecture is the keynote address for the conference “The Orsini. A Roman Baronial Family in Context: Politics, Society, and Art” (see entry below). This program is co-sponsored by the Ahmanson Foundation, the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, and the UCLA Department of Italian.
“The Orsini: A Family of Roman Baroni in Context—Politics, Society, and Art” The Orsini are one of the oldest and most prominent families in Italian history. This international conference will coincide with the completion of a two-year project to create a digital catalogue for Orsini family papers in the Department of Special Collections in the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA. This Orsini collection constitutes a significant portion of the family’s private archive, with documents dating from circa 1300 to 1950. The conference is an opportunity for scholars to share current scholarship on the family and its milieu, and a means for encouraging scholars to take full advantage of this exceptionally rich, but long under-utilized collection. The focus of the conference will be on the early modern period, and topics will range from the research-potential of baronial archives to the family’s political strategies, and from social questions such as the position of Orsini women to artistic patronage. This constellation of perspectives will yield a portrait of the family, in context, as a formidable political, economic and social entity, and also as a human one. The conference is organized by Guendalina Ajello (Orsini Archivist, Department of Special Collections, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library) who is directing the project to facilitate access and use of the Orsini documents at UCLA. Professor Carlo Ginzburg (History, UCLA) will be presenting the keynote lecture. This conference is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, the UCLA Charles E. Young Library Department of Special Collections, and the UCLA Department of Italian. Additional information about the Orsini project at UCLA is in the project section of the Center's website.
CMRS Seminar: “Lady Mary Wroth’s Interrogations of Nationalism” Lady Mary Sidney Wroth came from a family with a history of strong political involvement, which included significant travel on the continent. This background is reflected in her lengthy prose romance, The Countesse of Montgomery’s Urania, by Wroth’s continual attention to issues of identity as they are affected by place, familial ties, emotional entanglements, and political responsibilities. In this talk, Prof. Sheila Cavanaugh (Department of English, Emory University) argues that Wroth’s convoluted style simultaneously establishes and undermines links between characters and their countries of origin, adoption, or sovereignty, thereby constructing a romance where emerging strategies of narratology and nationalism continually shape each other. Wroth interrogates competing personal and political allegiances, as she creates a formidable contribution to early modern prose fiction. Presented in conjunction with the annual CMRS Seminar, coordinated by Professor Lowell Gallagher.
CMRS Lecture: “Liturgical Performance in the Early Middle Ages” A lecture by Eric Palazzo (Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Medieval Civilization, University of Poitiers) which will explore the differents aspects of the definition of the liturgical performance in the early Middle Ages with a special interest on some liturgical texts, exegetical treatises on Liturgy and on some images "showing" the performance of ritual and its anthropological and theological meanings.
CMRS Faculty Roundtable: “Three Most Mysterious Women and the Genesis of Dante's Divine Comedy” Can anything new be said about Dante? Professor Aino Paasonen (Antioch University, LA, CMRS Associate) will discuss Dante's allegorical canzone of exile, Tre donne intorno al cor mi son venute (“Three women have encircled my heart...”) as the key to a new understanding of the creative process that led to the Commedia. In the theater of Dante's heart, three women visit Amor, the god of Love, who does not at first recognize them. Only one of them tells him her name and her birthplace: Drittura (Rectitude/Justice), born at the source of the Nile. The second woman is Drittura's daughter, and the third woman is born of the second. Who are they? The conversation Dante overhears sparks a rebirth of his identity, a realignment of his life as a man and as a poet. In sending his canzone out into the world, Dante challenges his reader to identify the tre donne. Enlisting recent research as well as Helen Vendler's notion of "characteristic authorial patterns," this talk also seeks to imagine the concatenated events that led Dante to abandon his doctrinal works, the Convivio and the De vulgari eloquenzia, pushing them aside like the boosters of a rocket launched towards the stars. About this 107-line canzone, the Dante scholar, Remo Fasani has said, “If, for some reason, I had to save just one page, one single page of all Italian poetry, it would be this canzone.”
Medieval Slavic Workshop CMRS is one of the co-sponsors of the annual Medieval Slavic workshop, coordinated by Professor Gail Lenhoff (Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA). For further information on presenters and topics, download the schedule (PDF 15kb).
California Medieval History Seminar The California Medieval History Seminar meets at the Huntington Library to discuss 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
CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: “Believing the Impossible: Aethiopika and Critical Romance” In this lecture, Professor Jonathan Crewe (Dartmouth University) argues that one important feature of critical romance, at least since the Aethiopika, is its tendency to empower belief and limit skepticism. Despite or because of the ironic hyper-skepticism of sophisticated authors regarding the tropes, conventions, and wish-fulfilling imperatives of the genre, skepticism becomes an object as well as the medium of critical interrogation.
Fourteenth History of the Book Lecture The History of the Book Lecture series brings eminent scholars to UCLA to share their expertise about medieval and Renaissance books. Father Justin of St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt, presents the fourteenth lecture in the series. He will discuss the history of the library at the monastery and current projects underway to preserve its precious volumes, while at the same time making them more accessible to scholars.
CANCELED--CMRS Faculty Roundtable Professor Mortimer Chambers (History, UCLA) discusses his work on the subject of "Lorenzo Valla's Translation of Thucydides."
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