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CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Barbarian settlers were ambiguous about their “difference.” They undoubtedly saw themselves, and were seen by those among whom they settled, as novel in some sense, denizens and masters of a changed world. Even in relation to their own culture, their aspirations had been acquired and developed within the Roman world, upon which they depended for their success. How much could they afford to modify the systems they ostensibly superseded? CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Philip Rousseau (Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Early Christian Studies, Catholic University of America) will discuss this issue, focusing in particular on Ostrogothic Italy and Frankish Gaul in the sixth century.
32nd Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference The thirty-second UC Celtic Studies Conference, organized by Professor Joseph Nagy (English, UCLA) and the UCLA Celtic Colloquium, will be convened at UCLA on March 4–7, 2010. Sessions will focus on all aspects of Celtic culture including language, literature, history, art and archaeology, from late antiquity until the present day. Invited guest speakers include Professor Kim McCone (Chair of Old and Middle Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Dr. Katharine Simms (Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Trinity College Dublin). A call for papers will be sent out by email in autumn 2009. The complete conference program will be posted here in late January 2010. For more information, contact Professor Nagy at jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu.
CMRS Roundtable Professor Timothy Tangherlini (Scandinavian Section, UCLA) discusses his current work developing a web-based morphological analyzer for the study of Old Icelandic language and texts. More about this project here.
Voces Nostrates Lecture It is a commonplace that animals are alive and that machines, no matter how sophisticated, are not. But why? Debate raged throughout the Middle Ages about what the principles of life might be, whether spirits or ways matter is organized, or something else entirely. Contemporary Biology and much of contemporary Psychology grew out of these debates, they simmer still, and some current issues in these fields are structured by them. Professor Calvin Normore (PhD University of Toronto, 1976) will trace part of the history of debates about Life, and part of the history of automata, focusing on the ways thinking about automaton, body and soul interacted in the late Middle Ages and in what came next. Professor Normore, holds dual appointments as Professor of Philosophy at UCLA, and the Macdonald Chair of Moral Philosophy at McGill University, and is Honorary Research Professor at the University of Queensland. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on medieval philosophy, and has written extensively on that topic. He is also interested in the history of logic and political philosophy. Since 1997, Professor Normore has convened the annual E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Colloquium at UCLA. He became a member of CMRS the same year. Information about the entire series at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/voces_nostrates.html. Download and print the complete program brochure at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/voces_nostrates.pdf.
The Annual E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop Organized by Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA).
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