Year at a Glance

  • 17 Jul

    Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: iPalpiti Soloists

    Tuesday, July 17, 2018
    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Powell Library Rotunda
    10740 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a free concert

  • 19 Jul

    Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Los Angeles Ensemble

    Thursday, July 19, 2018
    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Powell Library Rotunda
    10740 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a free concert

  • 26 Jul

    Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Annelle K. Gregory & Benjamin Lash

    Thursday, July 26, 2018
    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Powell Library Rotunda
    10740 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a free concert

  • 8 Aug

    Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Cristina Montes-Mateo

    Wednesday, August 8, 2018
    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Powell Library Rotunda
    10740 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a free concert

  • 15 Sep

    Bruise Your Raspberries Well: Making and Tasting Historical Recipes

    Saturday, September 15, 2018
    10:00 am – 12:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    What is a sugar cake? Why does it call for mace, and what is mace anyway? Join us for an interactive, multi-sensory workshop in which participants will study, prepare, and taste historical recipes drawn from the Clark Library’s collections, acknowledging the varied ways in which we acquire knowledge through both reading and doing. Recipe books represent generations of familial and...

  • 21 Sep

    LA Escena

    Friday, September 21, 2018–Sunday, September 23, 2018
    6:00 pm
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    LA Escena - Los Angeles Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater September 21-23, 2018 Greenway Court Theater LA Escena is Los Angeles' first Hispanic classical theater festival and will take place at Greenway Court Theater in Los Angeles. Cutting-edge Mexican company Efe Tres will present Lope de Vega's El príncipe ynocente (The Innocent Prince), a meditation on political power and culpability...

  • 10 Oct

    Clark Library Open House

    Wednesday, October 10, 2018
    4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Meet the staff of the UCLA Clark Library and Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies and join us for an evening of visual interest and interactive activities at our Open House. In addition to enjoying light refreshments and lawn games like badminton, ring toss, and an egg-and-spoon race, you’ll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the Clark’s architectural details, landscape...

  • 12 Oct

    In Between Spaces (Day 1)

    Friday, October 12, 2018
    10:00 am – 4:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 1: In Between Spaces —organized by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University) co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant Narratives of colonialism, empire building, and religious mission—of center, periphery, and globalization—have been under revision in recent years in order...

  • 13 Oct

    In Between Spaces (Day 2)

    Saturday, October 13, 2018
    10:00 am – 12:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 1: In Between Spaces —organized by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University) co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant Narratives of colonialism, empire building, and religious mission—of center, periphery, and globalization—have been under revision in recent years in order...

  • 20 Oct

    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Day 1)

    Saturday, October 20, 2018
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Arts on the Grounds The Picture of Dorian Gray Performed by Box Tale Soup An original adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel commissioned by the Clark Library This performance will be held inside the Library’s wheelchair accessible drawing room. “What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Award-winning theater company Box Tale...

  • 21 Oct

    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Day 2)

    Sunday, October 21, 2018
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Arts on the Grounds The Picture of Dorian Gray Performed by Box Tale Soup An original adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel commissioned by the Clark Library This performance will be held inside the Library’s wheelchair accessible drawing room. “What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Award-winning theater company Box Tale...

  • 29 Oct

    India and the Early Modern World

    Monday, October 29, 2018
    2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA
    315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    —a symposium on Sanjay Subrahmanyam's latest books: Europe's India and Empires Between Islam and Christianity Co-sponsored by Center for India and South Asia, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, Art History, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, and the Dean of Social Sciences. Details and schedule: www.international.ucla.edu/cisa/event/13374  

  • 1 Nov

    Thriving by Symbiosis: Manuscript Culture and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade

    Thursday, November 1, 2018
    4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Fourteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade —lecture given by Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University) This lecture will present several case studies of successful interdependence between the energetic and innovative London book trade of the eighteenth century and the socially networked production of writing in manuscript. Contrary to a longstanding notion that the expansion of...

  • 7 Nov

    To Love Beyond Death

    Wednesday, November 7, 2018
    7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    Freud Playhouse Lobby, Macgowan Hall
    245 Charles E. Young Drive, East, Los Angeles, California 90095

    The UCLA Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and the UCLA Department of Theater warmly invite you to an upcoming dramatic reading of To Love Beyond Death on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Freud Playhouse Lobby, Macgowan Hall. Michael Hackett will be directing this new translation of Calderón de la Barca's Amar después de la...

  • 16 Nov

    Hidden Treasures Unearthed: Armenian Arts and Culture of Eastern Europe

    Friday, November 16, 2018–Sunday, November 18, 2018
    All Day
    Royce Hall, Room 314
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Organized under the Aegis of the President of the Republic of Armenia Sponsored by the Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies at UCLA in Celebration of its 50th Anniversary Co-Sponsored by JHM Charitable Foundation, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA Dean's Discretionary Fund in...

  • 29 Nov

    Euterpe at Play

    Thursday, November 29, 2018
    All Day
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  • 30 Nov

    Why Equine History Matters

    Friday, November 30, 2018–Saturday, December 1, 2018
    All Day
    W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library, Cal Poly Pomona
    3801 West Temple Ave , Pomona, CA 91768

  • 9 Dec

    Markus Groh (piano)

    Sunday, December 9, 2018
    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. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Markus Groh concert seats posts here on Thursday, October 11, 2018. Lottery registration closes Thursday, November 1, 2018. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Pianist Markus Groh gained immediate world attention after winning the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in 1995, the...

  • 15 Dec

    Let Spades Be Trumps: Playing Historical Card Games

    Saturday, December 15, 2018
    1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    “Let Spades be trumps!” cried Belinda, absorbed in a card game in Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock. Game play in early modern England served complex uses. It was both an important element of domestic sociability and a sign of moral degeneracy and dissipation. Playing cards provided rich metaphors for approaching the relationship between calculation and chance, from political machinations to commercial...

  • 13 Jan

    Shanghai Quartet

    Sunday, January 13, 2019
    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. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Shanghai Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, November 15, 2018. Lottery registration closes Thursday, December 6, 2018. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Shanghai Quartet Weigang Li, violin Yi-Wen Jiang, violin Honggang Li, viola Nicholas Tzavaras, cello “A wonderfully ferocious...

  • 1 Feb

    Material Flows (Day 1)

    Friday, February 1, 2019
    9:30 am – 4:45 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 2: Material Flows —organized by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University) co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant Narratives of colonialism, empire building, and religious mission—of center, periphery, and globalization—have been under revision in recent years in order to...

  • 2 Feb

    Material Flows (Day 2)

    Saturday, February 2, 2019
    9:30 am – 1:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 2: Material Flows —organized by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University) co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant Narratives of colonialism, empire building, and religious mission—of center, periphery, and globalization—have been under revision in recent years in order to...

  • 10 Feb

    Argus Quartet

    Sunday, February 10, 2019
    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. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Argus Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, December 13, 2018. Lottery registration closes Thursday, January 3, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Argus Quartet Jason Issokson, violin Clara Kim, violin Dana Kelley, viola Joann Whang, cello Praised for their...

  • 20 Feb

    William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde: Wilde and the Law

    Wednesday, February 20, 2019
    4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —lecture by Simon Stern (University of Toronto) The legal dimensions of Wilde’s writing and his life have often been explored through research on his trials; however, in his penchant for epigram and paradox, we might find another way to consider the legal dispositions of his work. Wilde’s epigrams strive not so much to be true, as to reveal a kind...

  • 22 Feb

    Exodus and Exile: Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers 1750–1850 (Day 1)

    Friday, February 22, 2019
    10:00 am – 5:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —conference organized by Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago), Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University), and Sarah Tindal Kareem (UCLA) Co-sponsored by Interacting with Print           During the so-called Romantic century, 1750–1850, the flow of people across national borders fed an emergent literature of internal alienation, fostered new demographic preoccupations in contemporary historiography, underwrote new theories of political justice, and...

  • 23 Feb

    Exodus and Exile: Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers 1750–1850 (Day 2)

    Saturday, February 23, 2019
    10:00 am – 1:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —a conference organized by Jayne Lewis (University of California, Irvine), Josephine McDonagh (King’s College London), Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University), and Sarah Tindal Kareem (UCLA) Co-sponsored by Interacting with Print           During the so-called Romantic century, 1750–1850, the flow of people across national borders fed an emergent literature of internal alienation, fostered new demographic preoccupations in contemporary...

  • 8 Mar

    Comparative Pornographies: Transnational Approaches to Writing Sex, East and West (Day 1)

    Friday, March 8, 2019
    9:30 am – 5:45 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —conference organized by Andrea S. Goldman (UCLA), Kathryn Norberg (UCLA) and Paola Zamperini (Northwestern University) At the end of the twentieth century, scholars of European pornography began to explore obscenity and its implications for our understanding of the time that produced it, the seventeenth and, especially, eighteenth centuries.  A world of previously ignored texts came to light, producing new theories...

  • 9 Mar

    Comparative Pornographies: Transnational Approaches to Writing Sex, East and West (Day 2)

    Saturday, March 9, 2019
    9:30 am – 1:15 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —conference organized by Andrea S. Goldman (UCLA), Kathryn Norberg (UCLA) and Paola Zamperini (Northwestern University) At the end of the twentieth century, scholars of European pornography began to explore obscenity and its implications for our understanding of the time that produced it, the seventeenth and, especially, eighteenth centuries.  A world of previously ignored texts came to light, producing new theories...

  • 24 Mar

    American String Quartet

    Sunday, March 24, 2019
    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. The booking-by-lottery entry form for American String Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, January 24, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 14, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. American String Quartet Peter Winograd, violin Laurie Carney, violin Daniel Avshalomov viola Wolfram Koessel, cello “…luxurious,...

  • 7 Apr

    Israeli Chamber Project

    Sunday, April 7, 2019
    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. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Israeli Chamber Project seats posts here on Thursday, January 31, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 21, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Israeli Chamber Project Daniel Bard, violin Tibi Cziger, clarinet Guy Ben-Ziony, viola Tony Rymer, cello Assaff Weisman,...

  • 12 Apr

    The Dialectic of Private and Public Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

    Friday, April 12, 2019
    10:00 am – 5:15 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —conference organized by Rebecca Jean Emigh (UCLA), Dylan Riley (UC Berkeley), Patricia Ahmed (South Dakota State University) Knowledge is understood to be a social product that is both shaped by and subsequently affects the society from whence it sprang. Bringing together a wide variety of scholars working on different aspects of the social construction of knowledge and different forms containing...

  • 24 Apr

    On Books, Soap Opera, and River Rafting

    Wednesday, April 24, 2019
    4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing –lecture by Carolee Campbell (Ninja Press) In celebration of Ninja Press’s 35th anniversary, sole proprietor Carolee Campbell will discuss her life leading up to the founding of the press, share her influences along the way, and explain how an actress, trained in and devoted to the theatre, fell into a long and...

  • 3 May

    Other Worlds (Day 1)

    Friday, May 3, 2019
    9:30 am – 4:45 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 3: Other Worlds —organized by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University) co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant Narratives of colonialism, empire building, and religious mission—of center, periphery, and globalization—have been under revision in recent years in order to...

  • 4 May

    Other Worlds (Day 2)

    Saturday, May 4, 2019
    9:30 am – 1:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 3: Other Worlds —organized by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University) co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant Narratives of colonialism, empire building, and religious mission—of center, periphery, and globalization—have been under revision in recent years in order to...

  • 9 May

    The Pitfalls of Eighteenth Century Biography: Denis Diderot, a Case Study

    Thursday, May 9, 2019
    4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    —Andrew Curran, Wesleyan University In this wide-ranging talk, Andrew Curran will introduce his new book, Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (Other Press, 2019), before taking up the question of what it is like to shift from writing intellectual history for an academic audience to writing a biography for a general audience. Andrew Curran is the William Armstrong Professor...

  • 12 May

    Boston Trio

    Sunday, May 12, 2019
    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. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Boston Trio concert seats posts here on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, April 4, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Boston Trio Irina Muresanu, violin Jonah Ellsworth, cello Heng-Jin Park, piano “Whenever this trio plays, drop everything...

  • 19 May

    Agave Baroque featuring Reginald Mobley, countertenor

    Sunday, May 19, 2019
    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. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Agave Baroque featuring Reginald Mobley, Countertenor concert seats posts here on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, April 11, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Agave Baroque Aaron Westman and Anna Washburn, violin Andrew McIntosh, viola William Skeen,...

  • 8 Jun

    Bugs and Books: Natural History at the Clark

    Saturday, June 8, 2019
    9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    A workshop co-sponsored by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The Clark Library preserves and provides access to over 130,000 books, manuscripts, and artworks dating from the 15th century to the present. But there is a library of living things outside the Clark, too. This winter we became home to a Red-Flanked Bluetail, a rare avian visitor from...