Year at a Glance
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23 Jul
Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Neave Trio
- Friday, July 23, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
a free concert
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27 Jul
Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Zelter String Quartet
- Tuesday, July 27, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
a free concert
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30 Jul
Dalí Quartet (Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival)
- Friday, July 30, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
a free concert
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3 Aug
Petanova & Hoft Duo (Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival)
- Tuesday, August 3, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
a free concert
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5 Aug
Colón Duo (Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival)
- Thursday, August 5, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
a free concert
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13 Aug
Whispers & Legacies: A Conversation about the Clarks, the Posts, and the Palés
- Friday, August 13, 2021
- 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Online via Zoom Webinar This event is free of charge, but you must register in advance to attend. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iDCzRtlMTQSJpidLdgqekA Most families have secrets, but some have more than most. The Clark family and those they touched are a case in point....
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23 Sep
Celebrating Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741–1821)
- Thursday, September 23, 2021–Saturday, September 25, 2021
- 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
–Organized by Sophie Coulombeau (University of York) and Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA) Co-sponsored by the University of York Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Online Event via Zoom Register online: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rbS-hbbqToOWAuYxPaWXnQ This conference celebrates the life and writings of Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale Piozzi upon the bicentenary of her death. The conference will contribute to the ongoing reassessment of her much-neglected and...
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7 Oct
Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin, Conference 1: Decadence/Degeneration/Disease
- Thursday, October 7, 2021–Friday, October 8, 2021
- 8:30 am – 10:30 am
–Organized by Joseph Bristow (University of California, Los Angeles), Neil Hultgren (California State University, Long Beach) and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (University of California, Davis) Online Event via Zoom Register online: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvcuuhrzIoHNyjTUgdGtPym0zdLuJmCBiV During the 2021–22 academic year, the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library will host the Core Program entitled “Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin.” This program of lectures and presentations aims...
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15 Oct
Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin, Extraction Ecologies: A Roundtable
- Friday, October 15, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 314
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Location: Royce Hall 314 & online via Zoom –Organized by Joseph Bristow (University of California, Los Angeles), Neil Hultgren (California State University, Long Beach), and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (University of California, Davis) This will be a hybrid event, taking place in-person and online simultaneously: Option A: If you wish to attend in-person, please fill out the booking form below. In...
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20 Nov
Schumann Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark
- Saturday, November 20, 2021
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Please note this concert will be held on Saturday, November 20 (instead of the normal Sunday afternoon time). Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. Concert pricing is $35 per person for general admission, and $10 each for UCLA students with ID. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Schumann Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, September 23,...
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7 Dec
Herbals, Illustrated and Un-Illustrated: Selling Botany in Early Modern England
- Tuesday, December 7, 2021
- 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
ASL interpretation will be provided to live attendees. The webinar will feature Zoom’s live transcription feature, which provides automatic captioning through closed caption settings. The webinar will be recorded and will be posted to the Center's YouTube channel at a future date. Sixteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade –given by Sarah Neville, The Ohio State...
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26 Jan
Works-in-Progress session: “Lyric Comedy in the Iberian-American Atlantic”
- Wednesday, January 26, 2022
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
by Elisabeth Le Guin, Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles, and Alejandro García Sudo, Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles Presented online via Zoom meeting. Please register to attend: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUodOitrj8uHNxgHT3wkh4bhUC09V2wauWL This session presents an overview of Le Guin’s and Garcia Sudo’s recent explorations of the tonadilla, a type of satirical musical comedy that enjoyed outstanding popularity...
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2 Feb
Works-in-Progress session: “Orality, Writing, and Authentication”
- Wednesday, February 2, 2022
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
by Rebecca Jean Emigh (Professor of Sociology, UCLA) Presented online via Zoom meeting. Please register to attend: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrdu-vpjojHdDRzVCyAY2UuDraewW6QqPl When speaking to a person face to face—which Berger and Luckmann consider to be “prototypical” communication—authenticity, truth, and social position can be judged by seeing, listening, and speaking. Seeing and listening allows individuals to judge a person’s appearance and demeanor and thus...
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6 Feb
POSTPONED: Notos Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark
- Sunday, February 6, 2022
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
1-7-2022: We are sorry to announce that this Notos Quartet concert has been postponed due to Covid related concerns. Refunds have been issued to lottery winners who previously paid for their tickets. Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. Concert pricing is $35 per person for general admission, and $10 each for UCLA with ID. The booking-by-lottery...
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7 Feb
Works-in-Progress Session: “Pregnant Poems: Margaret Cavendish’s Poetics of Immanence”
- Monday, February 7, 2022
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
–presented by Shannon Forest, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register for this event and receive the pre-circulated paper draft, please email the Early Modern Research Group. In Poems and Fancies (1653), Margaret Cavendish writes: “Motion can’t dilate nor yet contract/ A body which is close, firm, and compact.”...
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10 Feb
Works-in-Progress session: “Regency Noir: Romance, Race, and the Rise of ‘The Woman of Colour’”
- Thursday, February 10, 2022
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
by Leigh-Michil George (English/Humanities Educator, Department of English, Geffen Academy, UCLA) Respondent: Lauren Dembowitz, (University of Colorado, Boulder) Presented online via Zoom meeting. Please register to attend: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrde2tpjksG9weq8OG1KdWS_2q6xDxK0cD This talk reimagines the term “Regency Noir” as encompassing two different strands of Regency romance-inspired narratives which foreground Black characters. The first strand of Regency Noir follows historical events, while the second...
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24 Feb
Works-in-Progress Session: “Revelatory Lines: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s Monotypes, 1637–1655”
- Thursday, February 24, 2022
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
-presented by Drew Erin Becker Lash, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register for this event, please email the Early Modern Research Group. This presentation examines a small number of works on paper by the seventeenth-century Genoese artist, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Exploring his experimental handling of materials,...
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1 Mar
Works-in-Progress session: “Early Modern Multiplicities”
- Tuesday, March 1, 2022
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
given by Carina Johnson (Professor of History, Pitzer College and Extended Faculty, Claremont Graduate University) and Ayesha Ramachandran (Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Chair of the Program in Renaissance Studies, Yale University) Respondent: Lisa Voigt (Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University) Presented online via Zoom Meeting. This event is free of charge, but you must register to...
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11 Mar
Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin, Conference 2: Nightmares and Resurrections: The Temporalities and Endings of the fin de siècle
- Friday, March 11, 2022–Saturday, March 12, 2022
- 8:30 am – 10:30 am
–Organized by Joseph Bristow (University of California, Los Angeles), Neil Hultgren (California State University, Long Beach) and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (University of California, Davis) Online Event via Zoom meeting. Please register in advance: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcu2upjkoGNVul39O1wqWHApU_Mun2auN During the 2021–22 academic year, the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library will host the Core Program entitled “Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin.” This program of lectures...
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20 Mar
Polonsky-Shifrin-Wiley Trio, Chamber Music at the Clark
- Sunday, March 20, 2022
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. Concert pricing is $35 per person for general admission, and $10 each for UCLA students with ID. The booking-by-lottery entry form for the Polonsky-Shifrin-Wiley Trio concert seats posts here on Thursday, January 20, 2022. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 10, 2022. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at...
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3 Apr
Borromeo String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark
- Sunday, April 3, 2022
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. Concert pricing is $35 per person for general admission, and $10 each for UCLA students with ID. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Borromeo String Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, February 3, 2022. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 24, 2022. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats....
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22 Apr
Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin, Conference 3: Exhaustion/Entropy/Extraction
- Friday, April 22, 2022–Saturday, April 23, 2022
- 8:30 am – 10:30 am
–Organized by Joseph Bristow (University of California, Los Angeles), Neil Hultgren (California State University, Long Beach) and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (University of California, Davis) Online Event via Zoom meeting. Please register in advance: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdeCprTIsGNE5W9uvMDMAJVR55hkSSH38 During the 2021–22 academic year, the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library will host the Core Program entitled “Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin.” This program of lectures...
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28 Apr
Confounding the Critics, Surviving the Scandal: The Remarkable Reputation of Oscar Wilde
- Thursday, April 28, 2022
- 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde –given by Merlin Holland This lecture was livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel and will be available to watch for a limited time: https://youtu.be/c53h2aqK8KM Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, writes, lectures and broadcasts regularly on the subject of his grandfather's life. His publications include Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, the...
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11 May
Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing: Not a Hoover
- Wednesday, May 11, 2022
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing –given by Richard Wagener, Mixolydian Editions This lecture was livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/t4iNxVBWAyk Richard Wagener will discuss his forty-plus year dialogue with wood engraving, beginning with the origin and evolution of abstraction and representation in his work, along with early and late influences....
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13 May
2022 Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Roundtable–Cultivating Space: Land, Literature, and Art of the Long Nineteenth Century
- Friday, May 13, 2022
- 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Organized by Lindsay Wells and Zach Fruit, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellows Online Event via Zoom meeting. Please register in advance: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUucOqrqDIiGdyaEox4Am9wSJHkuAMFFqOm “Cultivating Space: Land, Literature, and Art of the Long Nineteenth Century” is presented by the 2022 UCLA Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral working group, which builds on themes from the 2021-22 Core Program “Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin” hosted by UCLA’s...
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15 May
Ying Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark
- Sunday, May 15, 2022
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. Concert pricing is $35 per person for general admission, and $10 each for UCLA students with ID. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Ying Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, March 24, 2022. Lottery registration closes Thursday, April 14, 2022. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the...
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22 May
Horszowski Trio, Chamber Music at the Clark
- Sunday, May 22, 2022
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. Concert pricing is $35 per person for general admission, and $10 each for UCLA students with ID. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Horszowski Trio concert seats posts here on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Lottery registration closes Thursday, April 21, 2022. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the...
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3 Jun
Early Modern Explorations: A Conference in Honor of Mary Terrall
- Friday, June 3, 2022
- 8:45 am – 5:15 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 314
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
–organized by Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles) Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History, UCLA College of Social Sciences Dean’s Office, UCLA Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, and the Huntington Library Dibner Program in the History of Science and Technology. Join us in person on the UCLA campus. Livestream available on the Center's YouTube Channel All attendees...
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25 Jun
PUBLIQuartet, Chamber Music at the Clark
- Saturday, June 25, 2022
- 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. This concert offers special pricing at $10 per person. The booking-by-lottery entry form for PUBLIQuartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, April 28, 2022. Lottery registration closes Thursday, May 19, 2022. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. All attendees must complete a pre-entry check to...