“Invectives”
Thursday, February 5 - Saturday, February 7, 2009
Organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella
(UCLA, Italian)
“The Book of Royal Degrees and Russian Historical
Consciousness” Thursday, February 26 - Saturday, February, 28, 2009
Organized by Gail Lenhoff (UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures)
A CMRS Ahmanson Conference
“Trans Medieval Sexuality”
Friday, March 6 - Saturday, March 7, 2009
Organized by James Schultz (UCLA, Germanic Languages) and Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA, French
And Francophone Studies)
“Conviviality”
Thursday, April 2- Saturday, April 4, 2009 Organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella, and co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Department of Italian
A CMRS Ahmanson Conference
“Writing Down the Myths: The Construction of Mythology in Classical and Medieval Traditions”
Thursday, April 16 - Sunday, April 19, 2009 Organized by Professors Joseph Nagy (English, UCLA) and Kendra Willson (Scandinavian, UCLA).
CMRS Annual Shakespeare Symposium
Saturday, May 2, 2009
A CMRS Ahmanson Conference
“Mapping Medieval Geographies”
Cartography and geographical thought in the Latin West and beyond: 300-1600
Thursday, May 28 - Saturday, May 30, 2009
Organized by Keith Lilley (University of Belfast) and Denis Cosgrove (UCLA)
Geography as it was understood and practiced in the Middle Ages, within both eastern and western traditions, and as represented both graphically and textually, is a subject of renewed interest and importance among historians, philologists, and geographers. This conference aims to promote an exchange between those of different disciplines working on geographical ideas and thinking from late Antiquity to the Renaissance on the themes of ‘Translation, transmission, transculturation,’ and ‘Mapping, imagining, placing.’
Call for papers--closing date for abstract submissions is September 30, 2008.
A CMRS Ahmanson Conference
“Music and Technology of the Written Text”
Friday, November 6, 2009 - Saturday, November 7, 2009 Organized by Elizabeth Upton (UCLA, Musicology)
The Ahmanson Foundation, with the support of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Dean of Humanities, has made it possible for CMRS to fund a number of conferences over the next several years on a well-planned and predictable basis. The series will be called “the CMRS Ahmanson Conferences.”
The first round of applications will be reviewed at the end of April 2007 for conferences to be held during the period from September 2007 to June 2010. Expenses to be supported by CMRS should not exceed $20,000. Applications are due in the CMRS office by Friday, April 27.
Applications should include:
A description, no longer than a thousand words, of (a) the topic of the conference; (b) the time of the conference; and (c) the expected consequences of the conference;
A list of participants, from UCLA or from elsewhere, to be invited (it is not necessary that invitations be made or accepted at the time of application);
A description, no longer than three hundred words, of how UCLA graduate students will be involved in the conference planning, implementation and follow-up.
All UCLA faculty are eligible, but preference will be given to faculty whose tenure-track appointments at UCLA are relatively recent. Preference will also be given to applications that make a strong and persuasive commitment to engaging graduate students in planning the conference, implementing the plan and following-up on it.
