Graduate Student online conference organized by the UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA). The global medieval and early modern world (broadly considered, ca. 900–1750) underwent myriad profound changes, from devastating famines, plagues, and …
A lecture by CMRS-CEGS Associate Yonatan Binyam, President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. In this talk, Dr. Binyam reviews some of the objections against …
Adam Talib ( School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University) discusses “As Inconvenient and Offensive as Abundance.” Literary studies developed in European modernity in conditions of cultural scarcity and narrowness, though it has often laid …
"A Woman’s Pleasure: Philosophy and Sexuality in the Poetry of Sulpicia" A lecture by Erin McKenna Hanses (Penn State University), part of the Winter 2022 CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar, Classics 250, “Eros. Amor. The Erotic Cultures of the Early …
A book panel with Arezou Azad and Jawanshir Rasikh discussing Professor Zrinka Stahuljak’s recent book Les Fixeurs au Moyen âge: Histoire et littérature connectées. Organized by the UCLA Program on Central Asia.
Alexander Beecroft, (Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages, University of South Carolina) presents a talk titled “Contactless Comparison.” It’s easy to compare things that are produced near each other, by people who are …