The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies hosts a symposium that presents an opportunity to think about different methodologies and different ways of writing history when faced with the challenge of sources.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095


Can we still use the traditional narrative within a connected history of brokers, frontiers, and cultural transfers, or should we be thinking about different ways of telling history, developing, for instance, network narratives or fragmented narratives?
Speakers:
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François-Xavier
Fauvelle – Collège de
France; Chair of History and Archaeology of African Worlds/Histoire etarchéologie des mondes africains
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Lamia Balafrej – Art History, UCLA
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Jody Benjamin – History, UC Riverside
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Kristen Collins – J. Paul Getty Museum
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Bryan Keene – J. Paul Getty Museum
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Ghislaine Lydon –
History, UCLA
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Hollian Wint – History, UCLA
Organized by:
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Zrinka Stahuljak
– Comparative
Literature, UCLA
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Stephanie Bosch Santana – Comparative Literature, UCLA
Funding is provided by the Endowment of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for African Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the UCLA Department of History.
Cost : Free and open to the public
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies310-825-1880
cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu https://cmrs.ucla.edu/event/medieval-africa-symposium/
Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Department of History, French and Francophone Studies