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CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture
“Queens in Gaelic Society”
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Katharine Simms (Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Trinity College Dublin) speaks on the topic of “Queens in Gaelic Society.” Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of English.

  • Place: Humanities Building, Room 250
  • Time: 5:00 pm
  • Advance registration is not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
  • Fee: None
  • Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • New campus parking procedure at UCLA! Please use the Self Pay Parking in UCLA Lots 2, 3, and 4. Click this link for more parking information and maps.

 


 

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture
“Barbarian ‘Modernity’ and the Endurance of Romanitas: Some Continuity Issues Revisited”
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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 How much could they afford to modify the systems they ostensibly superseded?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.

  • Place: Royce 314
  • Time: 4:00 pm
  • Advance registration is not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
  • Fee: None
  • Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • New campus parking procedure at UCLA! Please use the Self Pay Parking in UCLA Lots 2, 3, and 4. Click this link for more parking information and maps.

 


 

32nd Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference
March 4 – 7, 2010

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).

Complete program schedule as a webpage.
Complete program schedule as a PDF.

Click this link for information about hotels near UCLA.

  • Place: Royce 314
  • Time: check program schedule for full details
  • Advance registration is not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
  • Fee: None
  • Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • New campus parking procedure at UCLA! Please use the Self Pay Parking in UCLA Lots 2, 3, and 4. Click this link for more parking information and maps.

 


 

UCLA Sounds Early Music Series
“Musical Twilight ~ The Celtic Connection”
Friday, March 5, 2010

“It may be for years, and it may be forever…” Please join us for a concert of traditional and composed music, songs of exile, nostalgia, romanticization and true sorrow, leavened with the joy and resilience of language and culture strengthened in artistic expression. Songs from and about the countries where Celtic languages have been spoken through the ages…

  • Place: Powell Library Rotunda
  • Time: 8 pm
  • Advance registration is not required.
  • Fee: None
  • Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • New campus parking procedure at UCLA! Please use the Self Pay Parking in UCLA Lots 2, 3, and 4. Click this link for more parking information and maps.

 


 

CMRS Roundtable
“Computational Old Norse: Morphological Analysis and Look-up Tools for the Study of Old Norse”
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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.

  • Place: Royce 306
  • Time: 12:30 pm Note the start time is 30 minutes later than usual!
  • Advance registration is not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
  • Fee: None
  • Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • New campus parking procedure at UCLA! Please use the Self Pay Parking in UCLA Lots 2, 3, and 4. Click this link for more parking information and maps.

 


 

Voces Nostrates Lecture
“Animal Souls, Human Bodies, and Automata”
Thursday, March 11, 2010

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.

  • Place: Royce 314
  • Time: 5:00 pm
  • Advance registration is not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
  • Fee: None
  • Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • New campus parking procedure at UCLA! Please use the Self Pay Parking in UCLA Lots 2, 3, and 4. Click this link for more parking information and maps.

 


 

The Annual E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop
Saturday, March 13 - Sunday, 14, 2010

The UCLA Department of Philosophy presents the 2010 Moody Conference in Medieval Philosophy and Logic: Medieval and Early Modern Theories of Relations

    Saturday, March 13th in Royce 314
  • 9:30 am: Massimo Mugnai, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa)
    Leibniz and Bradley’s Argument on Relations
  • 10:45 am: Ben Hill, University of Western Ontario,
    The Background and Sources of Locke’s Anti‐Realism Regarding Relations
  • 12:00 pm: Break
  • 01:00 pm: Terence Parsons, University of California (Los Angeles),
    Relations in Medieval Logic
  • 02:15 pm: Henrik Lagerlund, University of Western Ontario (Talbot College)
    Buridan on Relations
  • 03:30 pm: Rega Wood, Stanford University
    Universals: Common relations Predicable of No Individual
  • 04:45 pm: Christopher J. Martin, University of Auckland
    Abelard on the Structure of Substance
    Sunday, March 14th in Dodd 399
  • 10:30 am: Roundtable Discussion on Medieval and Modern Theories of Relations
  • 01:00 pm: Adjourn

Invited participants also include: Ahmed al-Wisha, Max Etchemendy, Peter King, Stephen Menn and Riccardo Strobino. In Memory of Ernest Moody, Professor of Philosophy, UCLA, 1958-1975. For more information see http://philosophy.ucla.edu/index.php/component/content/article/147 or call Julian Fischer in the Philosophy Dept at 310-825-0452.

Organized by Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA).

  • Place: Saturday in Royce Hall 314; Sunday in Dodd Hall 399
  • Advance registration is not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at the door.
  • Fee: None
  • Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • New campus parking procedure at UCLA! Please use the Self Pay Parking in UCLA Lots 2, 3, and 4. Click this link for more parking information and maps.

 


 

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