[Hum_events] Calendar Events (3): CSR Event; 17/18th St Event; CDH Eventxx[...]

Tue May 4 08:00:14 PDT 2004

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--> Poetry Reading with Israeli Political Poet, Dr. Sami Shalom
Chetrit, CSR Research Associate and Dr. Gil Hochberg, Professor -
Dept. of Comparative Literature
--> conference: "Aretino & the Libertine Tradition"
--> "Towards a Cultural Informatics: Defining a Space between Computer
Science and the Humanities"
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5/5/04 (Wed) 
 Poetry Reading with Israeli Political Poet, Dr. Sami Shalom Chetrit, CSR Research Associate and Dr. Gil Hochberg, Professor - Dept. of Comparative Literature
 4:00PM until 6:00PM 
 In: HAINES 118

The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion
  invites you to a colloquium presentation entitled:

  Poetry Reading with Israeli Political Poet, DR. SAMI SHALOM 
  CHETRIT, Research Associate Center for the Study of 
  Religion and Prof. Gil Hochberg, Dept. of Comparative 
  Literature

  ABOUT DR. SHAMI SHALOM CHETRIT | Dr. Sami Shalom Chetrit
  Teacher, writer and activist. The author of numerous 
  articles and books on culture, society, education and the 
  Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The recent books: Poems in 
  Ashdodian, poetry form 1982 to 2002, published by Andalus 
  2003; and The Mizrahi Struggle in Israel: 1948-2003 
  (Hebrew) was published in March 2004, by Am-Oved / Ofakim 
  Series. Chetrit is the editor-in-chief of Kedma - Middle 
  Eastern Gate to Israel, www.kedma.co.il . He teaches 
  critical studies on culture, politics and society in Israel 
  and the Middle East, (last semester he taught Israeli 
  Political Poetry, at UC Berkeley). He is a research 
  associate in the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA, 
  finishing a paper on Shas as part of the growing power of 
  socio-religious movements in the Mead East. For more 
  biography, articles and poetry, please visit: 
  www.authorsden.com/sschetrit.

  ABOUT DR. GIL HOCHBERG | Dr. Hochberg, Assistant Professor 
  of Comparative Literature, UCLA, specializes in 
  contemporary Levantine literatures (North Africa, Israel, 
  Palestine). Specific areas of interest include: Arab Jewish 
  relationship post 1948; nationalism, immigration and exile. 
  She has published on such issues as: Francophone North 
  African literature, Palestinian writers of Hebrew, gender 
  and nationalism, cultural memory and immigration. Her book-
  in-progress, "The Levant in Present Tense" is a comparative 
  reading of contemporary novels written in Hebrew and Arabic 
  about and "beyond" Arab Jewish relationship.
 -- submitted by Center for the Study of Religion (religion at humnet.ucla.edu)
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5/14/04 (Fri)  through 5/15/04   (Sat)  
 conference: "Aretino & the Libertine Tradition"

May 14–15 (Friday & Saturday)

  Aretino and the Libertine Tradition

  a conference cosponsored with
  Department of Italian, UCLA
  Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
  UCLA Center for Medieval and Rennaissance Studies 

  arranged by
  Massimo Ciavolella, UCLA
  Peter H. Reill, UCLA

  In December of 2002, the UCLA Center for Seventeenth and 
  Eighteenth Century Studies acquired, for its William 
  Andrews Clark Memorial Library, a major private collection 
  of books by and relating to the Italian writer Pietro 
  Aretino (1492-1556). The collection, rich in early 
  editions of Aretino's writings, translations (especially 
  into French), and later editions, also includes works by 
  both supporters and detractors of the author, particularly 
  in Italy and France. It is the importance of this 
  acquisition that the conference "Aretino and the Libertine 
  Tradition" celebrates. 

  Pietro Aretino was one of the most versatile, innovative, 
  and original writers of the Italian Renaissance. 
  Throughout his literary career he excelled in all the 
  important genres of his time, and when he died in 1556 he 
  was undoubtedly one of the most famous writers in Europe. 
  He had friendships with many powerful figures, but his 
  reputation as the "scourge of princes" and the "prophet of 
  sexuality"—a reputation he himself encouraged—over time 
  contributed to his undoing. In the last canto of his 
  Orlando furioso, Ludovico Ariosto praised him as 
  a "divine" writer; while his many enemies and detractors 
  branded him a blasphemer, a pornographer, an assiduous 
  frequenter of prostitutes, and a vile sodomite. Within 
  three years after his death, on the evidence of only two 
  of his works—Le sei giornate and the Sonetti sopra i 'XVI 
  modi,'—his entire literary production was placed on the 
  Index of Forbidden Books. The objective had been to 
  condemn him to an actual damnatio memoriae, but in fact 
  his fame grew ever brighter precisely because of that 
  condemnation.

  By the end of the century Le sei giornate and the Modi 
  were among the best known underground books in Europe, 
  and "that notorious ribald of Arezzo,"—as John Milton 
  later describes him—is transformed into one of 
  those "libertines," condemned by Calvin in 
  1544, "deprouveues des sens et de raison": men free from 
  dogmatic-religious constraints and from moral obligations, 
  and therefore able to: "se lascer la bride, à une licence 
  charnelle, et à memer vie dissolue." Not surprisingly, in 
  Casanova's Histoire de ma vie, the privileged interlocutor—
  the author hidden behind the description of many gallant 
  encounters—-is Pietro Aretino, and the voyeurism of the 
  Sei giornate constitutes the background of the most 
  renowned exploits of the Venetian libertine. This 
  international conference will explore the myth of Aretino 
  as a "prophet of libertine literature," as well as the 
  relationship between culture and pornography from the late 
  sixteenth century to the eighteenth century.

  Registration deadline—May 7. 
  Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $15; students with 
  ID: no charge; others: $25. 
  Registration fees include the cost of lunches and 
  refreshments. The fees are not refundable. 

  The program takes place at the William Andrews Clark 
  Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams 
  district of Los Angeles. The library is one block east of 
  Arlington Avenue and two blocks south of the Santa Monica 
  Freeway.

  The sessions begin at 9:30 a.m. and concludes 
  approximately at 5:00 p.m., on both days.

  To view the program schedule, please visit the following 
  URL- 
  http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/ProgAretino.htm

  For additional information or to register, please call 310-
  206-8552.
 -- submitted by Anna Huang (ahuang at humnet.ucla.edu)
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5/19/04 (Wed) 
 "Towards a Cultural Informatics: Defining a Space between Computer Science and the Humanities"
 3:45PM until 5:00PM 
 In: Royce Hall 190

  The Center for Digital Humanities invites all Faculty in 
  the Humanities to attend a talk on May 19th at 3:45pm by:

  Professor Gregory Crane
  Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship
  Department of Classics - Tufts University

  Royce Hall - 190
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  Please watch for future announcements.

 -- submitted by Rebecca Powers (reb at humnet.ucla.edu)
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 http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/calendar/fulltext/fulltext27828613281.html
 For more information, contact CDHInfo at humnet.ucla.edu
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 This event is taken from the Center for Digital Humanities Calendar.
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