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5/1/07 (Tues) 


"A Renaissance Commemoration of Raphael or a Romantic Obsession: A Second Version of the Madonna della Seggiola" 


4:00PM
In Royce 314
A lecture by Ken Bartlett (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto) and co- sponsored by the UCLA Department of Italian. 

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

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

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5/2/07 (Wed) 


Henrik Berggren & Lars Trägårdh Lecture-- "Is the Swede Human? Radical Individualism in the Land of Social Solidarity"


1:00PM
In Royce Hall 243
The Scandinavian Section, the History Department, the Eugen Weber Chair of History and the Swedish Institute present 

Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh 

"Is the Swede Human? Radical Individualism in the Land of Social Solidarity" 

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 

1:00 pm 

Royce Hall 243 

Henrik Berggren is a journalist and historian, formerly the editor-in-chief of the Arts & Culture section of the leading daily newspaper of Stockholm, Dagens Nyheter, now writing for its editorial page. He is currently at work on a new political biography on the assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Plame. 

Lars Trägårdh is a historian and previously a member of the history department at Barnard College, Columbia University. Currently he directs a research project on social trust at Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm and also serves as a coordinator for long term EU funded program on social capital and social policy at London School of Economics. 

Is the Swede Human? This is the provocative title of a new book by the two Swedish historians Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh (Är svensken människa? Gemenskap och oberoende i det moderna Sverige. Norstedts 2006). The book claims that the supposedly "socialist" Swedes are, in fact, individualists in extremis. To an extent unimaginable even in the US, they are devoted to the pursuit of personal autonomy. At the heart of the Swedish social compact lies a deeply rooted conception, what the authors call "a Swedish theory of love," according to which authentic love and friendship is possible only between individuals who are independent and equal. This moral logic, joining the ideal of independence to those of economic equality and social solidarity, has been institutionalized in modern Sweden through a radical alliance between the individual and the state, which the authors term "statist individualism." This has, on the one hand, liberated the individual from the ties of dependency that characterize the traditional family, churches, and charities, on the other, it has left the individual relatively powerless in relation to the state. This is a social contract, they argue, that differs dramatically from those of other modern, western democracies, notably the US and Germany, two countries that serve as comparative touchstones in the analysis. 

-- 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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5/4/07 (Fri) through 5/5/07 (Sat) 


The Godwinian Moment: Revolutionary Revisions of Enlightenment


9:30AM until 4:30PM 
In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The Godwinian Moment: Revolutionary Revisions of Enlightenment A conference at the Clark Library organized by Robert Maniquis, UCLA and Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University 

Because of the ground-breaking studies of the 1980s, William Godwin's Enquiry concerning Political Justice has become one of the most important texts for charting transitions and continuities between the British Enlightenment and the Romantic era. Recent scholars have taken the Enquiry beyond the task of delineating Godwin's political-philosophical system-beyond proving that he indeed had a rational system-and have begun to show how his later texts rethought an Enlightenment project that the Enquiry had already reconfigured. Current work has begun more detailed analysis of Godwin's entire fictional oeuvre, as well as more careful interpretation and evaluation of his educational tracts, histories, dramas, and writings for children. Now the object of scholars equipped with a variety of theoretical, critical, and textual practices, Godwin is emerging a different and even richer index to the intellectual changes rung upon the British Enlightenment. 

The current publishing environment has been hospitable to this extension of Godwin studies. Besides bringing Godwin's various works back into print, scholars (including participants in the conference) are now editing both his diaries and his letters. This effort has continued to show how central Godwin is to understanding the transformations of Enlightenment through eighteenth-century Dissent and to picturing the various elements in London publishing and coterie culture; it also promises to penetrate below the stereotyped Godwinian surface, bringing into play details of his private community on the one hand and his active outreach beyond England on the other hand, thus enriching our sense of eighteenth-century family and cosmopolis. This conference emphasizes transitions from eighteenth-century styles of thought to new categories and configurations triggered by the challenge of revolution and reaction. Participants will uncover various connections between Godwin's work and concerns about marriage, family, and childhood; Rosseauvian vs. Dissenting theories of education; the advent of the historical novel; economic tropes and realities; and transformations of rhetoric and oratory. 

Registration Deadline: April 27, 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. 

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. 

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants. 

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access. 

Program Schedule: 

Friday, May 4 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee 

10:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks, Peter H. Reill, UCLA 

Moderator: Frederick Burwick, UCLA 

Gary Handwerk, University of Washington "'Awakening the Mind': William Godwin on Education" 

Robert Anderson, Oakland University "Godwin Disguised: Politics in the Juvenile Library" 

12:00 p.m. Lunch 

2:00 p.m. Moderator: Donald G. Marshall, Pepperdine University 

Timothy Webb, University of Bristol "'Assassins of Truth': William Godwin and the Temptations of Legal Oratory" Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University "History and Oratory: Godwin's Biography of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham" 

4:30 p.m. Reception 

Saturday, May 5 

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee 

10:00 a.m. Moderator: Beth Lau, California State University, Long Beach 

Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario "The Disfiguring of Enlightenment: War, Trauma and the Historical Novel in Godwin's Mandeville" 

Kenneth W. Graham, University of Guelph "Reviewing and Ideological Change: Two Moments in the Godwin-Malthus Contention" 

12:00 p.m. Lunch 

2:00 p.m. Moderator: Anne Mellor, UCLA 

Pamela Clemit, University of Durham "From Enlightenment Intellectual to Romantic Revisionist: William Godwin in His Familiar Letters" 

Julie A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara "Heavy Drama" 

Robert Maniquis, UCLA "Grand Incongruities: Godwin, Calvinism, and the Phantom Self" 

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#may4 

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5/5/07 (Sat) 


Annual Shakespeare Symposium


In Royce 314
"Shakespeare's Couples, Shakespeare's Couplings" is this year's conference title. The program and registration form are posted online at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/shakespeare_2007. pdf <http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/shakespeare_2007.pdf%20%20> . 

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

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

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5/8/07 (Tues) 


Gayatri Spivak lecture


4:30PM until 7:00PM 
In 314 Royce Hall
Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University) 

"Other Asias: A Foreword" 

May 8, 2007 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.  B.A. English (Honors), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1959.  Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1967. D. Litt, University of Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, Univeristy of London, 2003. Fields: feminism, marxism, deconstruction, globalization.  Books: Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1974), Of Grammatology (translation with critical introduction of Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie, 1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Selected Subaltern Studies (ed., 1988), The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), Imaginary Maps (translation with critical introduction of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1994), The Spivak Reader (1995), Breast Stories (translation with critical introduction of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1997), Old Women (translation with critical introduction of two stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1999), Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet / Imperative zur Neuerfindung des Planeten (ed. Willi Goetschel, 1999), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Song for Kali: A Cycle (translation with introduction of Ramproshad Sen, 2000), Chotti Munda and His Arrow (translation with critical introduction of a novel by Mahasweta Devi, 2002), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2005), Red Thread (forthcoming).  Significant articles: "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography" (1985), "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (1985), "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988), "The Politics of Translation" (1992), "Moving Devi" (1999), "Righting Wrongs" (2003), "Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching" (2004), "Translating into English" (2005). 

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

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5/9/07 (Wed) 


CMRS Faculty Roundtable


12:00PM
In Royce 306
Professor Rebecca Emigh (Sociology, UCLA) discusses economic and social evolution in fifteenth-century Tuscany. 

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

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

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5/9/07 (Wed) 


CDH Roundtable


12:00PM until 1:00PM 
In 1023 Public Policy Building (CDH Conf Room)
CDH Roundtable with Almila Akdag. 

Almila is an Art History graduate student and Humanities Jr. Fellow. She will discuss work to date on her project: "Mapping the Exchange Of Ideas In Interdisciplinary Research: Time-Based Data Mining." 

RSVP for this event: http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/rsvp.php?eventid=11 

-- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero at humanities.ucla.edu)

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5/10/07 (Thur) 


"Illustrating Ethnicity in the Middle Ages"


4:00PM
In Bunch 6275
A lecture presented by Robert Bartlett (Professor of Medieval History, University of St Andrews) and co- sponsored by the UCLA Department of History. 

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

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

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5/10/07 (Thur) 


Countries, Cultures, Communication: Digital Innovation 


4:00PM until 8:00PM 

Dear UCLA Faculty, 

I cordially invite you to attend "Countries, Cultures, Communication: Digital Innovation at UCLA." This event is being hosted by my office and the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) to showcase UCLA's many and varied strengths in digital research. Faculty and researchers from the School of Arts and Architecture, the Humanities and Social Sciences divisions of the College of Letters and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Information Science, the School of Public Affairs, the UCLA Digital Library and the School of Theater, Film and Television will be presenting projects and discussing their ground-breaking work in an open-house format. 

The keynote speech will be delivered at 7 p.m. by the 2006 Richard Lyman Award winner, Dr. Willard McCarty. McCarty is a reader in humanities computing at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, in the School of Humanities at King's College London. 

Thursday, May 10 

Doors will be open 4-8 p.m. 

1302 Perloff Hall 

Admission is free; parking is $8. 

Refreshments will be served. 

Visit our website and RSVP by Tuesday, May 8. www.digitalinnovations.ucla.edu/ 

I look forward to seeing you on campus. 

Roberto Peccei 

Vice Chancellor for Research 

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

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5/12/07 (Sat) 


California Medieval History Seminar


9:30AM until 4:00PM 
In Overseer's Room, the Huntington Library, San Marino CA 
The California Medieval History Seminar meets at the Huntington Library to discuss pre-distributed research papers. Participants are expected to have read the papers in advance and come prepared to discuss them. The California Medieval History Seminar is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as the CMRS, the Huntington Library, and the Caltech Huntington Committee for the Humanities 

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

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

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5/18/07 (Fri) through 5/19/07 (Sat) 


Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism


9:30AM until 5:00PM 
In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism a conference organized by Lowell Gallagher, UCLA 

This conference will investigate the imaginative, social and literary resources of English Catholic diaspora populations in the early modern period. The forum will also take stock of recent efforts to reevaluate the place of English Catholic authors in the literary canon of the English Renaissance. More broadly, the forum will address the critical legacy of problems associated with early modern cultures of English Catholicism, problems that are being voiced with new accents in contemporary concerns of political and ethical theory: Who counts, finally, as my neighbor? How can the ethical being of cultural "others" be recognized and valued outside the normative dyad of sameness and difference? 

By addressing the nexus of social, political, religious, theological, and literary discourses through which early modern Catholic identities were negotiated, the symposium aims to enhance scholarly purchase on lost or forgotten aspects of the rich texture of the experience of scattered Catholic communities within English literary tradition and political cultures; and it will promote channels of communication between early modern cultural studies of religion, current debates over the effects of secularization, and changing notions of the sacred vis-à-vis religious identity and practice in an era of globalization. 

Registration Deadline: May 11, 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. 

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. 

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants. 

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access. 

Program Schedule: 

Friday, May 18 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee 

10:00 A.M. SESSION 1 Peter H. Reill, UCLA, Welcoming Remarks 

Moderator: Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University 

Chris Highley, Ohio State University "First Wave: Exile and Catholic Identity 1558-1570" 

Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis "True and Perfect Relations: Or, Identifying Confessions" 

Arthur F. Marotti, Wayne State University "In Defense of Idolatry: Residual Catholic Culture and the Protestant Assault on the Sensuous in Early Modern England" 

1:00 P.M. Lunch 

2:00 P.M. SESSION 2 

Moderator: Ulrike Strasser, University of California, Irvine 

Alice Dailey, Villanova University "Wonders of Devotion and Polemic: Tracking the Counter-Reformation Miracle" 

Anne Dillon, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge "The Rosary Transfigured: Devotional Life in Recusant Households" 

Susannah Brietz Monta, Louisiana State University "Uncommon Prayer? Catholic Devotion in Post-Reformation England" 

5:00 P.M. Reception 

Saturday, May 19 

9:30 A.M. SESSION 3 

Moderator: Debora Shuger, UCLA 

Phebe Jensen, Utah State University "'Honest Mirth & Merriment': Catholicism and Festivity in Early Modern England" 

Gary Kuchar, University of Victoria "The Theology of Form in Southwell's St. Peter's Complaint and Crashaw's The Weeper" 

Richard Rambuss, Emory University "Richard Crashaw's Two Temples" 

1:00 P.M. Lunch 

2:00 P.M. SESSION 4 

Moderator: Jennifer Rust, University of California, Irvine 

Holly Crawford Pickett, Washington and Lee University "Serial Conversion and Ecumenism" 

Alison Shell, Durham University "William Alabaster: The Career and the Canon" 

Stefania Tutino, University of California, Santa Barbara "Obedience and Consent: Thomas White and English Catholicism, 1640-1660" 

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

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#may18 

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5/24/07 (Thur) 


Hammer Poetry Series - James Longenbach


7:00PM until 8:30PM 
In Hammer Museum
James Longenbach is the Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester. His most recent publication is a new book of poems, Draft of a Letter. He has received awards from the Guggenheim, Mellon, and Whiting Foundations. 

-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan at humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact friends at english.ucla.edu 

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