Year at a Glance

  • 11 Jul

    Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Hausmann Quartet

    Thursday, July 11, 2019
    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Powell Library Rotunda
    10740 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a free concert

  • 16 Jul

    Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: iPalpiti Soloists

    Tuesday, July 16, 2019
    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: Eclipse Quartet

    Friday, July 19, 2019
    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Powell Library Rotunda
    10740 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a free concert

  • 31 Jul

    Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Aperture Duo

    Wednesday, July 31, 2019
    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Powell Library Rotunda
    10740 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a free concert

  • 9 Aug

    Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Ambroise and Friends

    Friday, August 9, 2019
    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Powell Library Rotunda
    10740 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a free concert

  • 25 Aug

    A Wilde Picnic: A Reading of The Importance of Being Earnest

    Sunday, August 25, 2019
    2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    An Arts on the Grounds presentation at the Clark Library  Chalk Repertory Theatre presents A Wilde Picnic: A Reading of "The Importance of Being Earnest" with actors from Chalk Rep's company The Clark Library welcomes back Chalk Repertory Theatre, which brought us last summer’s Misalliance event “Tea with Shaw,” and whose production of Lady Windermere’s Fan was presented in 2013–14,...

  • 27 Sep

    An Animated Character: An Evening of Vance Gerry

    Friday, September 27, 2019
    5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    The Whittington Press has recently released Vance Gerry & The Weather Bird Press, a limited edition book about the life and work of the Southern California based artist, printer, and publisher Vance Gerry (1929–2005). To mark the occasion, Robert Bothamley will give a lively, illustrated lecture about the work of the late artist. The Clark Library holds Vance Gerry's archives,...

  • 27 Sep

    Outdoor Film Screening: 101 Dalmatians

    Friday, September 27, 2019
    7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    The Southern California-based artist, printer, and publisher Vance Gerry (1929–2005) was born and raised in Pasadena, California. He worked for the Walt Disney Animation Studio for many years as a layout and story sketch artist. He later became a professional printer and founded numerous presses, including The Weather Bird Press. The Clark Library holds Vance Gerry’s archives, comprising illustrations, layout sketches,...

  • 6 Oct

    Horszowski Trio

    Sunday, October 6, 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 Horszowski Trio concert seats posts here on Thursday, August 8, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, August 29, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Horszowski Trio Jesse Mills, violin Raman Ramakrishnan, cello Rieko Aizawa, piano Hailed by The New Yorker as...

  • 11 Oct

    Metamorphosis and the Environmental Imagination, from Ovid to Shakespeare

    Friday, October 11, 2019–Saturday, October 12, 2019
    12:00 am
    Royce Hall, Room 314
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Narratives of metamorphosis, from human into other living and mineral forms, have long provided an important tool for thinking through the complexities of our relationship with the world around us. From Ovid to David Cronenberg, thinkers and artists have used the trope of physical transformation to figure the ways in which human and non-human agencies have evolved from and adapted...

  • 22 Oct

    “All is well except the women”: Violence, Gender, and Native Women in the La Florida

    Tuesday, October 22, 2019
    4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside In 1695 a Native woman shocked a Spanish officer with her deeply personal story of loss. She claimed that a Spanish woman had murdered her baby. Soon other women came forward with tales of abuse. These underexplored testimonies provide important insights into the lives and experiences of Native women in the...

  • 24 Oct

    Porosity & Reciprocity

    Thursday, October 24, 2019–Friday, October 25, 2019
    9:00 am – 5:00 pm
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    1st Annual ELTS Graduate Student Conference To inaugurate the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS), our committee of graduate student organizers from the former Departments of French, Italian, German, and Scandinavian proudly presents "Reciprocity & Porosity," exploring issues of cultural borders & exchange. For details and registration visit: https://www.porosityandreciprocity.com/

  • 25 Oct

    Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619, Conference 1: “20. And odd Negroes”: African Labor, Colonial Economies, Cultural Pluralities [DAY 1]

    Friday, October 25, 2019
    10:00 am – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College) The year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia, the first permanent colony in British North America, for three reasons—it marked the beginning of a representative government; the arrival of captive African laborers; and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage...

  • 26 Oct

    Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619, Conference 1: “20. And odd Negroes”: African Labor, Colonial Economies, Cultural Pluralities [DAY 2]

    Saturday, October 26, 2019
    10:00 am – 12:45 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College) The year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia, the first permanent colony in British North America, for three reasons—it marked the beginning of a representative government; the arrival of captive African laborers; and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage...

  • 3 Nov

    Trio Karénine

    Sunday, November 3, 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 Trio Karénine concert seats posts here on Thursday, September 5, 2019. Lottery registration closes on Thursday, September 26, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Trio Karénine Fanny Robilliard, violin Louis Rodde, cello Paloma Kouider, piano Founded in Paris in 2009,...

  • 6 Nov

    “Entered for his copy”: Reading the Stationers’ Register

    Wednesday, November 6, 2019
    4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Fifteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade —given by Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University The Stationers' Register is one of the most consulted archival documents of the early modern period. It is also, frankly, one of the least understood. First established in 1557 by the London Stationers' Company to record the publishing rights of its members...

  • 6 Nov

    The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs

    Wednesday, November 6, 2019
    7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    The Theater Lab, Melnitz Hall 1473
    235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Directed by Michael Hackett A new translation of Ana Caro’s play The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs has been produced by the UCLA Working Group The Comedia in Translation and Performance. This new version of the play receives a dramatic reading performed by the first-year students in the MFA Acting Program from the Department of Theater in the UCLA School of Theater, Film...

  • 15 Nov

    Early Modern Bibliophilia: A Celebration of the Chrzanowski Collection

    Friday, November 15, 2019
    2:00 pm – 4:45 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    A symposium organized by Helen Deutsch and Anna Chen (University of California, Los Angeles) In fall 2009 Paul Chrzanowski, a physicist and bibliophile in California, donated his collection of seventy-two early English books to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Nine additional titles followed in 2014, and twenty-one more in 2018. It is the most valuable and important donation made...

  • 22 Nov

    “You Imagine Me and I Exist”: The Afterlives of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695)

    Friday, November 22, 2019–Saturday, November 23, 2019
    10:00 am – 3:00 pm
    Royce Hall, Room 314
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    A two-day symposium and dramatic prequel to the world premiere of the new opera Juana Friday, November 22, 2019, 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, November 23, 2019, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314 Co-sponsored by UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music; UCLA College of Letters and Science, Division of Humanities; UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies; UCLA Center...

  • 8 Dec

    Rolston String Quartet

    Sunday, December 8, 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 Rolston String Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, October 31, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Rolston String Quartet Luri Lee, violin Emily Kruspe, violin Hezekiah Leung, viola Jonathan Lo, cello Canada’s...

  • 5 Feb

    A West African Imam in 18th-Century London: How the Radical Enlightenment Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade

    Wednesday, February 5, 2020
    4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Catherine Molineux, Vanderbilt University In the early 1730s, a Senegambian named Ayuba Suleiman Diallo came to London after being redeemed from slavery in colonial Maryland by the Georgia colony leader, James Oglethorpe. This lecture will explore the circumstances by which he emancipated himself from bondage, which included raising funds from various elite Britons who were interested...

  • 21 Feb

    Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619, Conference 2: “Burgesses to be chosen in all places”: Representative Governance Takes Hold on British Claimed Soil [DAY 1]

    Friday, February 21, 2020
    10:00 am – 4:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College) The year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia, the first permanent colony in British North America, for three reasons—it marked the beginning of a representative government; the arrival of captive African laborers; and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage...

  • 22 Feb

    Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619, Conference 2: “Burgesses to be chosen in all places”: Representative Governance Takes Hold on British Claimed Soil [DAY 2]

    Saturday, February 22, 2020
    10:00 am – 12:45 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College) The year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia, the first permanent colony in British North America, for three reasons—it marked the beginning of a representative government; the arrival of captive African laborers; and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage...

  • 29 Feb

    Charpentier’s “La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers”

    Saturday, February 29, 2020–Sunday, March 1, 2020
    3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Presented by Opera UCLA, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Performances will be held inside the Library’s drawing room, which is wheelchair accessible. Baroque master Stephen Stubbs leads students from Opera UCLA in Charpentier's beautiful and moving French baroque rendition of the Orpheus myth. Lauded...

  • 7 Mar

    Sustaining Visions and Legacies: The Future of Special Collections Libraries

    Saturday, March 7, 2020
    9:00 am – 5:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    –conference organized by Anna Chen (Head Librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA) and Johanna Drucker (Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, UCLA) How will special collections libraries be sustained in the near and long-term future? Issues of sustainability touch every aspect of library activity—collections development, resource allocation, ethical issues in balancing priorities and juggling professional practices, the use of digitization,...

  • 14 Mar

    POSTPONED: Birds & Books: Ornithology and Scientific Exploration from the 16th Century to the Present

    Saturday, March 14, 2020
    10:00 am – 2:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Due to concerns over the COVID-19 virus this event has been postponed.   Natural History at the Clark Presents A workshop co-hosted by the Clark Library, and Occidental College’s Special Collections and Moore Lab of Zoology 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...

  • 22 Mar

    POSTPONED: Ying Quartet

    Sunday, March 22, 2020
    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 Ying Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, January 23, 2020. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 13, 2020. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Ying Quartet Robin Scott, violin Janet Ying, violin Phillip Ying, viola David Ying, cello The Ying Quartet...

  • 5 Apr

    POSTPONED: Markus Groh (piano)

    Sunday, April 5, 2020
    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, February 6, 2020. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 27, 2020. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Markus Groh (piano) Pianist Markus Groh gained global attention after winning the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in 1995. Since...

  • 17 Apr

    ONLINE: Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619, Conference 3: “Respectable Women”: Gender, Family, Labor, Resistance, and the Metanarrative of Patriarchy

    Friday, April 17, 2020
    9:00 am – 3:30 pm
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    This event is has been adapted to a one day online event. Speakers will present online via a Zoom Webinar, attendees will have multiple options to watch and listen in. Zoom access instructions for this conference will be sent to registered attendees. Please register for this online conference by completing the Booking Form below. —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University...

  • 18 Apr

    DATE CANCELLED: Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619, Conference 3: “Respectable Women”: Gender, Family, Labor, Resistance, and the Metanarrative of Patriarchy [DAY 2]

    Saturday, April 18, 2020
    10:00 am
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    This event has been adapted to a one day online event. There will no longer be a second day to this conference. —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College) The year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia, the first permanent colony in British North America, for three reasons—it...

  • 20 Apr

    CANCELLED: Knowledge Networks and Narratives of Escape: Contesting Slavery on a Caribbean Borderland

    Monday, April 20, 2020
    4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Elena Schneider, University of California, Berkeley This lecture explores the phenomenon of maritime marronage in the Caribbean, or enslaved fugitives who stole boats and escaped slavery by sea. Across the long eighteenth century hundreds of men, women, and children fled enslavement in the colony of one imperial power by fleeing across a border to find refuge...

  • 26 Apr

    POSTPONED: Cheng² Duo

    Sunday, April 26, 2020
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    This event is postponed, as we continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation daily and follow the public gathering guidelines set by UCLA, our local government officials, and the CDC. Please check our website for future updates. Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Cheng² Duo concert seats posts here on Thursday, February...

  • 10 May

    POSTPONED: Borromeo String Quartet

    Sunday, May 10, 2020
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    This event is postponed, as we continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation daily and follow the public gathering guidelines set by UCLA, our local government officials, and the CDC. Please check our website for future updates. Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Borromeo String Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday,...

  • 15 May

    CANCELLED: Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State [Day 1]

    Friday, May 15, 2020
    10:00 am – 5:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    –conference organized by Joseph Bristow (UCLA) 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 state prohibition of male...

  • 16 May

    CANCELLED: Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State [Day 2]

    Saturday, May 16, 2020
    10:00 am – 12:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    –conference organized by Joseph Bristow (UCLA) 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 state prohibition of male...

  • 19 May

    CANCELLED: Hidden Histories of the French Wars of Religion: French Accounts of the New World as a Vector of Religious Polemic

    Tuesday, May 19, 2020
    4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Andrea Frisch, University of Maryland, College Park Contemporary readers of Jean de Léry’s Histoire d’un voyage en terre de Brésil, first published in 1578, have tended to downplay or outright ignore the context of the work’s composition and repeated publication in the midst of the French Wars of Religion. Though most scholars acknowledge Léry’s status as...

  • 29 May

    POSTPONED: Archive and Theory: The Future of Anglo-American Early Modern Disability Studies [Day 1]

    Friday, May 29, 2020
    10:00 am – 5:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    This event is postponed, as we continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation daily and follow the public gathering guidelines set by UCLA, our local government officials, and the CDC. Please check our website for future updates. –conference organized by by Helen Deutsch (UCLA), Jason Farr (Marquette University), Paul Kelleher (Emory University), and Jared Richman (Colorado College) Co-sponsored by UCLA’s Dean...

  • 30 May

    POSTPONED: Archive and Theory: The Future of Anglo-American Early Modern Disability Studies [Day 2]

    Saturday, May 30, 2020
    10:00 am – 12:30 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    This event is postponed, as we continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation daily and follow the public gathering guidelines set by UCLA, our local government officials, and the CDC. Please check our website for future updates. –conference organized by by Helen Deutsch (UCLA), Jason Farr (Marquette University), Paul Kelleher (Emory University), and Jared Richman (Colorado College) Co-sponsored by UCLA’s Dean...