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SUMMARY:Beyond Honor and Shame: Rabbinic Control of Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Restrictions imposed on women in Mediterranean societies both past and present are often understood to reflect a gendered model of “honor and shame” that conditions men’s status on their female relatives’ sexual purity. This talk will use legal documents from the Cairo Geniza\, an enormous corpus of everyday papers preserved in a synagogue in Cairo\, to examine why and how Jews in medieval Egypt limited women’s movements—and to argue that this uniquely well-documented population understood gendered shame more as an economic than a sexual problem.  \n  \nEve Krakowski is an assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She studies the social history of the medieval Middle East\, mainly through documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza. Her work to date has focused on gender\, kinship\, and rabbinic legal practice among Jews in Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt. Her first book\, tentatively titled Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Young Women and Society among the Jews of the Cairo Geniza\, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. \nSponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for the Study of Religion\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/beyond-honor-shame-rabbinic-control-jewish-women-medieval-egypt/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures":MAILTO:CNES@international.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T080000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Conference on Religion- Performing Devotion: Religious Rituals and Religious Practices
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URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/performing-devotion-religious-rituals-religious-practices/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T160000
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SUMMARY:Paradisiacal Realms in Ancient Egypt and Early China
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Lecture for the UCLA Graduate Conference on Religion:\nPerforming Devotion: Religious Rituals and Religious Practices\n  \nThis talk explores the concept and representation of post-mortem paradises in Ancient Egypt and Early China. The notion of a paradise for the worthy\, accessed through personal piety\, ethical conduct or ritual knowledge\, developed at a particular historical moment in the development of each of these great civilizations and expressed a genuine desire on the part of regular people for salvation and immortality. These expressions would have a lasting impact on the development of paradisiacal realms in the later universal religions of Christianity and Buddhism. After a brief introduction to the nature of the soul and the geography of the afterlife in each civilization\, the talk explores the features and iconography of the Marsh of Reeds in Egypt and the paradise of the Queen Mother of the West on Mt. Kunlun in China as revealed in texts\, illustrative vignettes\, painted tomb murals\, and stone carvings. A special focus will be on ritual practices that would assist oneself or one’s deceased relatives in attaining entrance to paradise\, including the playing of ritual board games like senet and liubo. \n  \nGraduate Conference 2017 Keynote Lecture by:\nDr. Anthony Barbieri-Low\, History Department\, UC Santa Barbara \nAnthony Barbieri-Low specializes in the social\, legal\, and material culture history of Early China.  He has published books on Chinese law and the social history of artisans\, as well as an exhibition catalog and computer simulation of a group of offering shrines from a family cemetery in northeast China.  His current research seeks to compare several aspects of the early imperial civilizations of China and Egypt. \n  \nThis conference is made possible by the generous support of\nUCLA Asia Institute \nand the cosponsorship of:\nUCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, UCLA Department of English\, UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, UCLA Department of History\, UCLA Department of Philosophy\, and the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance \n[gravityform id=”7″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/paradisaical-realms-ancient-egypt-early-china/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
ORGANIZER;CN="Michael S. Chen":MAILTO:uclareligionconference@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000
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SUMMARY:The Death of Jesus: Comparing Christian\, Jewish\, and Muslim Accounts
DESCRIPTION:All three religions’ representations of how Jesus/Yeshu/`Isa died\, developed over centuries\, promoted very different understandings and valuations of the event itself\, its aftermath\, and its significance. At stake in these competing narratives were claims about messiahship\, prophethood\, divine sonship—and God’s favored people.  A close weighing side-by-side of (a) select Christian interpretations of the meaning of Jesus’s death in Gospels\, creeds\, and art\, (b) two Jewish writings—a parody of the life of Yeshu/Jesus and a 7th century apocalypse announcing the imminent appearance of the messiah\, Menahem\, and (c) alternative treatments of `Isa’s/Jesus’s death in the Qur’an\, among its interpreters\, and in Muslim paintings\, lays bare numerous elaborations of viewpoint and argument. A sharp case of the kind of story or teaching that contributed to the divergence and independent existence of Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam as religions\, this exploration at the same time underlines a shared\, and core eschatological mentality: a day of judgment approaches. \n  \nRobert Gregg came to Stanford in 1987 from the faculty of Duke University.   Prior to becoming in 1999 the Teresa Moore Professor of Religious Studies\, he served as Dean of Stanford Memorial Church\, while also holding a professorship in Religious Studies and Classics (1987-1999). Gregg’s scholarship includes a book on philosophies about grieving the dead in ancient Greek\, Roman\, and Christian communities; two volumes concerning struggles over orthodoxy and heresy in 4th century Christianity; a translation of Athanasius’ famous Greek life of the desert monk\, Saint Anthony; and a book treating the interactions between Jews\, “pagans\,” and Christians in the Golan Heights and Syria\, 1st-7th centuries CE.   Professor Gregg recently published (Oxford\, 2015) Shared Stories\, Rival Tellings—Early Encounters of Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims\, which treats  project several “scriptural” narratives appearing in the two Bibles and in the Qur’an.  This is a comparative study of the ways five of these stories were differently interpreted by Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim writers and painters between the 1st and the 13th centuries. \n[gravityform id=”8″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/death-jesus-comparing-christian-jewish-muslim-accounts-2/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunny Kim":MAILTO:sunnyhjkim@humnet.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Learning the Other's Past: History\, Education\, and Curricula in Israel/Palestine
DESCRIPTION:A conference convened by David N. Myers (UCLA) & Sami Adwan (Hebron University) \nRSVP\nRSVP required\, space is limited. \n  \nThis international conference will bring together historians\, education scholars\, and elementary and secondary school teachers to discuss the way in which Palestinians and Israelis teach their own and the other’s history. Underlying our discussions is the question of whether history can be a tool of deeper understanding and even reconciliation. \n  \n310-825-1181\nCNES@international.ucla.edu \n  \nSponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Department of History\, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, Center for the Study of Religion\, University of Haifa\, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy\, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History\, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Estate\, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME)\, Office of the UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/learning-others-past-history-education-curricula-israelpalestine/
LOCATION:UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000
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SUMMARY:How Prayer Solves Problems and Creates Them: Spontaneity and Certainty in Evangelical Spiritual Life
DESCRIPTION:American Evangelicals believe prayer can do a lot\, both for themselves and for the world. Yet just as prayer solves problems for them\, it also creates them.  Two especially important problems are spontaneity and certainty: it’s important for Evangelicals to feel as though they “really mean it” when they pray and that they understand God’s will as they seek advice and guidance. In this talk\, I draw on Heidegger and other studies of technology to think about how particular “cultural tools” become useful and habituated\, and how they then create new problems which might or might not be solvable which the original tool in question. The historical basis of Evangelicals’ optimism about prayer also has important political implications for contemporary discussions of Evangelicals’ relationship to social problems\, as it emphasizes the importance of spontaneity\, authenticity\, and individual relationships over more prosaic and traditional organizational structures.\nJeffrey Guhin is an assistant professor of Sociology at UCLA.  His first book\, forthcoming from Oxford\, is titled Make Belief: When Morality Matters in Muslim and Christian Schools.  The book is a comparison of two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian high schools in the New York City area. He maintains research interests in Islam\, Evangelicalism\, education\, and sociological theory. \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”11″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/prayer-solves-problems-creates-prayer-cultural-tool-american-evangelicals/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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