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1/19/07 (Fri) through 1/20/07 (Sat) 


The Self-Perception of Early Modern "Capitalists"


In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The Self-Perception of Early Modern "Capitalists"

A conference at the Clark Library organized by Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Co-sponsored by the Netherlands Consulate General of Los Angeles.

The term "capitalist" appears only late in the eighteenth century as a way of describing the speculating or commercial classes. Yet money was ubiquitous in early modern Europe. The goal of this conference is to examine how people who sought to make it, struggled to acquire and keep it, viewed themselves. They operated in cities great and small, in capitals of trade such as Venice, Hamburg, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Lyon, and Marseille, but also in Leeds and The Hague. How did they explain themselves; how did they understand their worldly activities? How did they cope with a culture that had for so long opposed material wealth to spiritual possessions, earthly pursuits to the spiritual realm? This sort of "self perception" can be read directly from the writings of merchants themselves (through their memories, letters, addresses) and also it can be found in legitimating discourses employed by contemporaries interested in valorizing trade. Our work has been informed by Weber on Protestantism and capitalism, yet we propose to access a new vocabulary, based on the sources and taking into account also Catholic and Sephardic merchants.

Papers: Conference papers will be posted to the Center's website by January 8, and will remain accessible until February 5. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm 

Registration Deadline: January 8, 2007

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form.

Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Program Schedule:

Friday, January 19 9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Welcoming Remarks - Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks - Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Session 1 Chair: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

Giacomo Todeschini, Università di Trieste The Theological Roots of Medieval/Modern Merchant's Self-Representation

Francesca Trivellato, Yale University Images and Self-Images of Sephardic Merchants in Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean

Julia Adams, Yale University Seeing Like a Capitalist? Assuming and Ascribing Agency in Early Modern European Trading Companies

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 2 Chair: Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

Clé Lesger, Universiteit van Amsterdam Merchants in Charge: Ambitions and Self-Perception of Amsterdam Merchants, 1550-1700

Dorothee Sturkenboom, Vrije Universiteit Merchants on the Defensive. Conflicting Self-Images of a Capitalist Nation under Crisis 

Leos Müller, Uppsala Universitat "Merchants" and "Gentlemen" in Early-Modern Sweden. The World of Jean Abraham Grill, 1736-1792

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, January 20 9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3 Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA

Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California Accounting for Science: How a Merchant Kept His Books in Elizabethan London

Jochen Hoock, Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot Professional Ethics and Commercial Rationality at the Beginning of the Modern Era

John Smail, University of North Carolina at Charlotte A Coming of Age in Commerce: Young Men of Business in Eighteenth-Century England

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 4 Chair: Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Success and Self-Loathing in the Life of an Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneur

Mary Lindemann, University of Miami From Windtrading to Malicious Bankruptcy: Perceptions of Economic Impropriety in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg

Cathy Matson, University of Delaware Accounting for War and Revolution: Philadelphia Merchants' Perceptions of Risk and Failure, 1774-1811

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jan19 

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1/19/07 (Fri) through 1/21/07 (Sun) 


E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop 


In Dodd 399 (Friday) and Royce 306 (Saturday and Sunday)
A workshop coordinated by Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA) that will consider the topic "Anselm and the Anselmian Tradition?". Participants include Professor Mary Beth Inghem (Loyola Marymount), Professor Rega Wood (Stanford), Professor Chris Martin (Auckland), Professor Peter King (Toronto), Dr. Tomas Ekenberg (Uppsala), Professor Mikko Yrjonsuuri (Helsinki), and Professor Henrik Lagerlund (University of Western Ontario). The schedule is available to download at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/moody_phil_works hop_2007.pdf <http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/moody_phil_workshop_%20%202007.pdf> .

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/22/07 (Mon) 


CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Image and Exposition: Iconography and Doctrine in Medieval East Asian Buddhism"


4:00PM
In Royce 314
Focusing especially on the esoteric traditions of medieval Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, in which images most clearly vie with doctrinal formulations for the attention of both the believer and the scholar, this presentation by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Robert M. Gimello (Visiting Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, and Professor Emeritus, East Asian Studies, University of Arizona) will explore- against the background of modern theory, and from a somewhat comparative perspective-Buddhist thought and practice in a period when questions about the relationship between word and image seemed, in one way or another, especially urgent. 

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/22/07 (Mon) 


Justin Steinberg Lecture: The Spectre of the Other Woman in Dante and Petrarch


5:00PM until 7:00PM 
In Royce 243
The UCLA Department of Italian invites you to a lecture

Justin Steinberg

University of Chicago

"The Spectre of the Other Woman in Dante and Petrarch" 

Monday, January 22, 2007

5:00 pm

Royce 243

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon at humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/23/07 (Tues) 


Made in War


5:00PM until 7:00PM 
In Royce 236
Made in War

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:00 PM

Royce Hall 236

Made in War (2006, 40') is a documentary about the Italian Resistance against Fascism during World War II. The documentary, by Alice Carletti and Jerry Ioppolo, analyzes the Resistance in Bologna through the testimonies of the people who lived under the oppression of the Fascist regime, the sad experience of war, and concentration camps. Interviews with historians, writers, and Partisans help to retell this difficult moment in Italian history. 

This presentation of Made in War is organized by the Italian Department Graduate Students.

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon at humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)
View full announcement <http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/calendar/fulltext/fulltext5969809875.html> .
For more information, contact clennon at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/24/07 (Wed) 


Identity Theft Protection: How to Reduce Your Risk


10:00AM until 5:00PM 
In Korn Hall Auditorium, Anderson School, North Campus
Identity Theft Protection: How to Reduce Your Risk Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 Repeating Sessions: 10:00-11:30 AM, 1:00-2:30 PM, 3:30- 5:00 PM Korn Hall Auditorium, Anderson School, North Campus RSVP: http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/identity_theft.htm (RSVP options in the left column, please RSVP for the particular session you'd like to attend)

BruinTech and Student Affairs have joined forces with the California Office of Privacy Protection, the UCPD, and the Office of Information Technology to offer a timely and important seminar on what you can do to protect your identity, your credit, and your peace of mind. All UCLA faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend one of the free seminars where experts in the field of identity protection will speak and answer your questions.

Although this seminar is not directly about the recent UCLA security breach, the timing of the presentations is certainly meant to address your concerns and answer your questions when you may need that information most.

The seminar is being offered three times in one day in the hope of finding a slot that works into your schedule. Please only RSVP to one seminar. The seminars are official university business events, so we hope that supervisors will allow employees to attend during regular work hours if they are interested.

The seminars are free and open to the UCLA community on a first-rsvp, first-served basis. Please RSVP as soon as possible at the site above. If the sessions fill up and there is still demand, we will plan additional seminars in the near future. We also plan to make podcasts and webcasts available shortly after the 24th.

If you have questions about what Identity Theft is, what to do before you're hit, what are the signs to look for, and what do if you actually are a victim, this is the seminar for you.

RSVP: http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/identity_theft.htm

P.S. BruinTech is also sponsoring a seminar the following week on Wednesday, January 31st, 1:30 - 3:30 PM on how to keep your home computer secure. You can also RSVP for this event through: http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/seminar200701.htm

We hope to see you there. BruinTech and UCLA Student Affairs. 

-- submitted by Jenny (jenny at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/events/identity_theft.htm 

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1/24/07 (Wed) 


Northern Light: A Celebration of Jules Zentner (1926-2006)


7:00PM until 9:00PM 
In South Bay Room, Covel Commons
Northern Light: A Celebration of Jules Zentner (1926-2006)

A night celebrating the late Professor Jules Zentner

Featuring an introduction to the life of Jules Zentner, a screening of the short film De Düwe, and light refreshments

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

South Bay Room

Covel Commons

Parking will be available for $8

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon at humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)
View full announcement <http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/calendar/fulltext/fulltext5803926696.html> .
For more information, contact clennon at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/24/07 (Wed) 


"Le Couperet" Screening and Q&A with director Costa Gavras


8:00PM
In James Bridges Theater
The Department of French and Francophone Studies, Unifrance, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs present the Fourth Edition of On-Set with French Cinema at UCLA. On-Set with French Cinema allows students studying film in the United States the opportunity to attend master classes with leading French film artists. As part of the series, the following film will be shown for UCLA students and faculty, followed by a Q&A with the film's director:

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

"Le Couperet"

Directed by Costa Gavras

8 pm film screening followed by a Q&A with Costa Gavras

James Bridges Theater, UCLA

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon at humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/25/07 (Thur) 


CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "A Postmodern View of Byzantine Art"


4:00PM
In Royce 314
The discovery of Byzantine art in the first quarter of the 20th century had a profound impact on Modernist artists. In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Anthony Cutler (Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University) considers and contrasts their uses of Byzantium with an approach--rarely taken even today--shaped by attitudes that can be described as Postmodernist. While these attitudes themselves are now "history," they still have much to offer to our understanding of Byzantium. 

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/26/07 (Fri) through 1/27/07 (Sat) 


"Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, A Symposium"


In Getty Museum (Fri.) Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium (Sat.)
This symposium is presented by CMRS and the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in conjunction with the exhibition "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai" on view at the Getty Museum from November 14, 2006 to March 4, 2007. Additional support for the conference has been provided by the UCLA Departments of Art History, Classics, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. The exhibition reveals the central role of the icon in Orthodox devotion and religious practice during the Byzantine era. It also considers how the geographical and historical position of The Holy Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai, Egypt- the oldest continuously operating monastery in existence- contributed to the formation of its astonishing holdings of icons and books. The first day of the symposium (January 26), "Performative Icons: Holy Image and Sacred Space at Mount Sinai," will take place at the J. Paul Getty Museum and will examine objects and themes associated with the exhibition. On Saturday (January 27), the symposium moves to the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History for "Sinai in Context," a consideration of the icons in a broader historical and cultural context. 

Related lectures are planned with Anthony Cutler on Thursday, January 25 ( see calendar entry above) and Bissera Pentcheva on Sunday, January 28, at 3:00 pm in University Hall at Loyola Marymount University. Prof. Pentcheva (Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Stanford University) will discuss "The Performative Icon." For more information about the conference, please contact Michelle Keller at 310-440-7034 or write mkeller at getty.edu.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/29/07 (Mon) 


CMRS Disitinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Boats and Beachcombing: Poets and Power in Early Medieval Ireland, Some Stories from Cormac's Glossary" 


4:00PM
In Royce 314
In this lecture, Dr. Paul Russell (Department of Anglo- Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge) considers a series of stories preserved in the encyclopaedic Glossary attributed to the late ninth- century king and bishop of Cashel, Cormac mac Cuilennáin. He argues that, because of the particular distribution of these stories through the Glossary, they may have been absorbed into it at the same time. Consequently, it is worth exploring the thematic links between them. It emerges that there are several interrelated themes of which (unsurprisingly for material collected in a glossary) the power of language is the most dominant. 

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/30/07 (Tues) 


Alain Badiou lecture


4:30PM until 7:00PM 
In 314 Royce Hall
Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) 

"The contemporary figure of the soldier in poetry and politics"

January 30, 2007 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Alain Badiou was born in Rabat, Morocco. He is Professor (and formerly Chair) of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He also teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie, and the European Graduate School, and has taught at University of Paris VIII. He is co-founder and President of the Centre International d'Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine. He was trained as a mathematician, and was one of the founding members of the Unified Socialist Party in France, a group particularly active in the struggle for the decolonization of Algeria. In addition to several novels, plays, and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. He is the author most recently of Logiques des mondes. Several of his books have recently appeared in English, including, Being and Event (Continuum 2006), as well as Handbook of Inaesthetics (Stanford 2005), Metapolitics (Verso, 2005), Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Verso, 2001), Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Stanford 2003), Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy (Continuum 2005). Badiou is rapidly emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time, a peer of Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan. Badiou opposes the contemporary reduction of philosophy to nothing but a matter of language and premature announcements of the end of philosophy and thus sets himself against both analytic and continental modes of philosophy. Setting the traditional Platonic concerns of philosophy, truth, and being against the modern sophists of postmodernism, Badiou has articulated a powerful systematic philosophy with profound ethical and political consequences. Badiou's enormously original work has made major contributions not only to philosophy and political theory, but also to psychoanalysis, film theory, and aesthetics. For additional information visit: www.soundandsignifier.com

This Event is Co-Sponsored by The Mellon Fellows Program 

-- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp at humanities.ucla.edu)

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1/31/07 (Wed) 


CMRS Roundtable: "Conversion and the Self"


12:00PM until 1:00PM 
In Royce 306
This talk by CMRS Associate Dr. Leonard Koff, discusses an issue that medieval conversion narratives sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly raise: the status of the body of a convert. It asks, for example, in what ways is the body converted when the heart or the mind is? Does the body always following the mind? And for how long? Can the mind keep the body from "falling back," from returning to what is always postulated as the body's "mind of its own"? Is the mind-body dualism, which medieval conversion narratives and indeed conversion theory assume, ever healed? The most thoughtful conversion narratives illustrate how others have literally healed the mind-body split, or how that split can be healed. The desire to heal it gives medieval conversion narratives not only their psychological, but also their philosophical energy.

We will look at an early medieval conversion narrative that brought psychological and physical wholeness, a 14th- century story of conversion where a converted body proves theological truths claimed to restore wholeness, and some Rabbinic theorizing about conversion, bodily impurity, and the status of the pure converted body in this world.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu 

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1/31/07 (Wed) 


CMRS Disitinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Sons and Fathers: the Expression of Patronymy in Celtic Onomastics"


7:00PM
In Humanities Building Room 193
In this talk, Dr. Paul Russell (Lecturer, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Pembroke College, Cambridge) considers the ways in which patronymy has remained a constant in Celtic onomastics, while the form of that expression has varied considerably. He examines naming patterns from Continental Celtic into the Insular Celtic languages, and argues that there are many more layers to the naming patterns than has been previously recognized.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu 

 

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