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Box 951485 U.S. Postage Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485 PAID UCLA UCLA Center for Medieval and UCLA Medieval Centerfor Renaissance Studies 2008 –2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS A Message from the Director, August 2008.............................................................................................................2 Going Global, Getting Medieval................................................................................................................................3 Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar: “Mediterranean Studies: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600”.........4 Lectures, Conferences, and other Events, 2008 – 2009...................................................................................5 – 9 Visiting Faculty and Scholars...........................................................................................................................10 – 11 Distinguished Visiting Scholars, 2008–09 Summer Fellows UCLA Visiting Scholars affiliated with CMRS Publications.........................................................................................................................................................12 – 15 Viator Cursor Mundi Repertorium Columbianum Comitatus International Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages–Online Other Recent Publications A Checklist of CMRS Events, 2008 – 2009..................................................................................................16 – 17 Student Support and Programs.......................................................................................................................18 – 19 Lynn and Maude White Fellowship Fredi Chiappelli Travel Fellowships CMRS Research Assistantships CMRS Seminar Interdisciplinary Research Grants Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Website Research Projects and Grants..........................................................................................................................20 – 21 St. Gall Monastery Plan Virtual Reality (VR) Project Project to Digitally Recreate Medieval Monastic Libraries Medieval Canon Law Digitizing Project CMRS Sawyer Seminar on Disputation Mosfell Icelandic Archaeological Project Donors and other Support.......................................................................................................................................22 The Year in Review, 2007– 2008.....................................................................................................................23 – 27 Faculty, Associates, and Affiliates....................................................................................................................28 – 32 CMRS Staff, 2008 – 2009..........................................................................................................................................33 A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR AUGUST 2008 Dear Friends: As I write this letter, a presidential race rushes by, but who knows where? The world’s financial markets need defibrillation, but who has the equipment? And UCLA’s budget plummets in one of its periodic dives, but where’s the bottom? Answering such weighty questions requires what our ancestors called prudentia, in both senses of the word: not just the expertise that sometimes can be had quickly, but also the practical wisdom that takes a long time to acquire. As students, faculty and friends of our Center, you are wise in both ways, of course, but it’s our Center’s mission to help you become even wiser. That’s a big job, so let me explain how we’ll try to do it in the coming year, with a few words about the past. Since research is at the core of CMRS, let’s start there. I’m delighted to report that last year’s Sawyer Seminar on Disputation, funded by the Mellon Foundation, was a smashing success: I say this confidently because, after the last session of the Seminar, our own Brett Landenberger put together an online survey, addressed to the scores of people who had attended throughout the year, and their applause was loud. During the same period, we were also delighted to learn that the Mellon Foundation will support a second phase of Pat Geary’s highly innovative St. Gall Project. (Huzzahs to Patrick, now President of the Medieval Academy!) Meanwhile, Jesse Byock is still digging away (literally) in Iceland: his Mosfell Project is funded by Arcadia and the Alcoa Foundation. A new publication series, Cursor Mundi, is growing fast under the expert guidance of Blair Sullivan, who helps Andy Kelly keep Viator thriving as well. CMRS has also launched two other publication projects. The ‘CMRS Bruno’ will produce English translations, with facing-page Italian texts, of Giordano Bruno’s six Italian dialogues: David Marsh is the General Editor, and the first two volumes by Ingrid Rowland (Eroici furori) and Hilary Gatti (La Cena) will appear in 2009. CMRS has already joined Harvard’s I Tatti Renaissance Library project (ITRL): the purpose of our partnership with ITRL is to provide expert and timely editing for this crucial enterprise (see Tony Grafton’s review, New York Review of Books, October, 2006). For the ITRL/CMRS connection, the key UCLA person is Shane Butler from Classics, and for the ‘CMRS Bruno’ Massimo Ciavolella’s connection with the Cassamarca Foundation has been indispensable. Almost all these projects, new and old, as well as many of the events mentioned below and described in detail inside, rely not only on our core support from UCLA but also on the generosity of individuals and organizations. For decades now, individual donors have also supported CMRS: our distinguished History of the Book Lecture series, for example, has a large following of supporters inspired by the learning and character of Richard and Mary Rouse. Last year, another extraordinarily generous individual gave our Center $400,000, which we will be using in the future to support graduate students. Our gratitude for this gift, and for all the others that came before it and will come after it, is enormous. What impresses donors most about CMRS is the energy and talent of its people – students, faculty and staff – but this is a resource that always needs to be renewed. Last year, for example, Kendra Willson, an Icelandic specialist, joined the CMRS faculty. We also added three new Associates, Stephen Jaeger from the University of Illinois, Patrick Hunt from Stanford, and José R. Cartagena-Calderón from Pomona. And even though our beloved Associate Director, Chris Baswell, has abandoned us for chilly eastern climes, we have found a superb replacement in Zrinka Stahuljak (see page 3), a medievalist from French and Francophone Studies, who has now joined Massimo Ciavolella in this key role. Keeping all this straight, and keeping me honest, is our brilliant Karen Burgess. Bringing new people – both students and faculty – into the life of our Center is a key purpose of our new CMRS Ahmanson Conferences, now in their second season. During the next year, three Ahmanson Conferences will focus on mythology, sexuality and geography – all three in their medieval phases. For our Hammer Lecture in winter quarter, we’ll move to the Renaissance, with Timothy Verdon, a distinguished art historian from Florence and Stanford. Then in spring quarter, for the Pepys Lecture, it’s back to the Middle Ages, and Peter King, an eminent philosopher and medievalist from Toronto. In fall quarter, a History of the Book Lecture (the eighteenth!) will feature Will Noel from the Walters Art Gallery, who has a fascinating story to tell about the Archimedes Codex. Throughout the year, other major conferences will study not just the odd couple of invective and conviviality (mainly Latin, Italian, and Romance) but also historical consciousness (Russian). An extended series, “Mediterranean Studies: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600,” funded by the Mellon Foundation as part of its “Transforming the Humanities” initiative, will meet during the winter term. Finally, in March of 2009, the Renaissance Society of America will hold its annual international meeting in Los Angeles; CMRS and the Getty will be hosting a number of events in conjunction with the meeting. As you can see, it’s going to be another busy year for CMRS, and I hope that you’ll be prudent enough to be part of the fun! Salve, Brian P. Copenhaver Udvar-Hazy Professor of Philosophy and History 2 GOING GLOBAL, GETTING MEDIEVAL Going Global, Getting Medieval It seems that medieval French studies are in vigorous intellectual shape, with work of great rigor and vibrancy being produced. Perhaps it all started in the mid-1980s and early 1990s with the pitched battles around new philology and renewed interest in methodologies of manuscript edition. Then, thanks to the history of sexuality and queer theory, and postcolonial theory, we witnessed an interdisciplinary opening of the French Middle Ages. This in turn opened up communication between medievalists, normally relegated to exile in the pre-modern, and their colleagues in other, modern, centuries of French literature and history. Transformative work on French medieval manuscripts was done, such as the vast collaborative project on The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes, that looked at codices and the manuscript tradition in a more global way, thereby making crucial socio-cultural information available for a better overall understanding of the circulation of languages, cultures, and artifacts across medieval Europe, and beyond, in territories yet to be defined in national(ist) terms. In fact, global