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California Medieval History Seminar

Papers for the next Medieval History Seminar can be downloaded from our website at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/med_hist_sem_readings (user name and password provided when registering).

The Fall meeting of the California Medieval History Seminar will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2009, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, in the Overseer's Room at the Huntington Library in San Marino. Lunch will be included. The following papers will be discussed:

  • “Ka’b and ‘Umar Go to Jerusalem: Jewish Knowledge, Christian Stories, and Muslim Memory in the Early Islamic World” - Thomas Sizgorich (UC Irvine)
  • “Unraveling Medieval Cretan Dress” - Cristina Stancioiu (UC Los Angeles)
  • “Dancing Canons and Married Priests: Understanding the Church of Custom in High-Medieval Scandinavia and Poland” - Anthony Perron (Loyola Marymount University)
  • “The Magic of the Knight Life: Malory, Medievalism, and Arthurian Fantasy”- Kristin Noone (UC Riverside)

Cost: The seminar is free to faculty and graduate students of California universities; others are welcome (provided space is available) but are asked to pay $25 to cover associated costs.

Registration: Advance registration is required. To register, reply to this announcement or e-mail cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.

Professors Piotr Gorecki and Pat Geary.CMRS Associates, Professor Piotr Górecki (History, UC Riverside), left, and Professor Patrick Geary (History, UCLA), right, have both been active participants in the California Medieval History Seminar since its inception. The other pictures show the conferees meeting around the conference table in the Overseer's Room at the Huntington Libarary where the quarterly seminars are held.

The California Medieval History Seminar fosters intellectual exchange and acquaints its participants with medieval historical research currently underway in the state. Three times a year, the seminar gathers at the Huntington Library to discuss four research papers (two by faculty members, two by graduate students or recent Ph.D. recipients).

California Medieval History Seminar attendees at the Huntington Library conference room.The program is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This funding has made it possible to bring a noted medieval historian in past years to participate in one of the sessions: Robert Ian Moore (Oxford University) in 2004, Chris Wickham (University of Birmingham) in 2005, and Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv University) in 2006.

Advance registration for the seminar meetings is required. Papers are sent to registrants before the meeting so they may read the papers in advance and discuss them at the seminar.

Speakers and paper topics are announced by email. To be added to the announcement list, contact the Center at cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.

Previous programs since 1995 are listed at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/med_hist_sem_programs.html.

California Medieval History Seminar attendees at the Huntington Library conference room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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