Events
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14 Apr
Gryphon Trio, Chamber Music at the Clark
- Sunday, April 14, 2024
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, March 12 at 12:00 noon, via a link posted here at that time. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Purchases are non-refundable. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our mailing list. SOLD...
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19 Apr
Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, Conference 3: Edo Outsiders: Ainu and Ryūkyūan Art
- Friday, April 19, 2024
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Conference organized by Kristopher W. Kersey, University of California, Los Angeles To this day, many mistake Japan for a culturally homogenous society, yet this nationalistic myth is far from the truth. In an effort to underscore the diversity of early modern Japan, this conference will direct attention to two groups who are often marginalized if not absent in narratives of...
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27 Apr
Ukiyo-e Printing Demonstration and Workshop with Ogawa Nobuto
- Saturday, April 27, 2024
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
In conjunction with the Center & Clark’s 2023-24 Core Program, Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, we are pleased to collaborate with UKIYO-E PROJECT to present a printing demonstration and workshop focused on ukiyo-e, a centuries-old style of art that flourished in the Edo period. These traditional Japanese woodblock prints feature multiple colors and are printed...
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4 May
Doric String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark
- Saturday, May 4, 2024
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, April 2 at 12:00 noon, via a link posted here at that time. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Purchases are non-refundable. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our mailing list. Seating...
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9 May
Witnessing Disaster: Fleuriau de Bellevue and the Writing of Seismic Histories in Italy and Guatemala, 1717–1796
- Thursday, May 9, 2024
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lecture by John Sullivan, Ph.D. Student in History, Northwestern University. Recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship Between 1788 and 1793, the Frenchman Louis-Benjamin Fleuriau de Bellevue (1761–1852) trekked the length of Italy and climbed its Alpine peaks, a long sojourn that capped his years of training as a geologist and natural historian. Toward the end of...
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17 May
Captivity: Assembling Nature’s Histories
- Friday, May 17, 2024
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Conference organized by Rebecca Fenning Marschall, Manuscripts & Archives Librarian, and Anna Chen, Head Librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles The early modern period was a hothouse for the study of physical things in the natural world, and for the collection and assembly of them in human-made physical spaces. In other periods, botanical samples were...
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7 Jun
Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State
- Friday, June 7, 2024–Saturday, June 8, 2024
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Conference organized by Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles This conference will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials, which arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the...