Lectures, 2000–

  • 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 PDT – 1:00 pm PDT

    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...

  • 2 May

    Postponed: Works-in-Progress Session: In tlateutoqujliztli: Translating “Idolatry” in the Appendix of Book 1 of the Florentine Codex

    Thursday, May 2, 2024
    3:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT

    Due to unforeseen circumstances, this talk has been postponed. The new date will be listed here and shared with all registrants soon. –presented by Chase Caldwell Smith, Doctoral Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register for this event, please fill out the form below. The Florentine Codex is...

  • 12 Mar

    Imaging Diplomacy: The Meridian Gate and the Making of European Perspectives on China (1655–1795)

    Tuesday, March 12, 2024
    1:00 pm PDT – 2:00 pm PDT

    Lecture by Sylvia Tongyan Qiu, Ph.D. Student in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship In 1692, Evert Ysbrants Ides, a Danish merchant living in the German quarters of Moscow, was sent to the Kangxi Emperor by Peter the Great as his ambassador. An account of his journey, Three Years...

  • 7 Mar

    Works-in-Progress Session: Xoquiiac Eoatoc in Eztli / The Rising Stench of Blood: Blood Sacrifice and the Senses in Historia general and Historia verdadera

    Thursday, March 7, 2024
    1:00 pm PST – 2:00 pm PST

    –presented by Rebecca Smith, Doctoral Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register for this event, please fill out the form below. Using Book 12 of Bernardino de Sahagún’s Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España written around 1555 in Nahuatl and Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s Historia verdadera...

  • 21 Feb

    The Final Hours of Oscar Wilde: “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death”

    Wednesday, February 21, 2024
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    William Andrews Clark Oscar Wilde Lecture Lecture by Joseph Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles This lecture sheds fresh light on the forty-six-year-old Oscar Wilde’s early death from encephalomeningitis at the shabby Hôtel d’Alsace on Friday, November 30, 1900, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. By drawing on documents held at the Clark Library that have...

  • 18 Jan

    Our Histories and Futures: Making New Print and Book Arts Work with/in Libraries

    Thursday, January 18, 2024
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing Lecture by Tia Blassingame, Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective, Scripps College Printmaker/book artist Tia Blassingame's creative practice marries time in the reading room handling historical documents and time in the studio working with typefaces, ink, paper, paint, and dyes in order to develop artists' books that help readers/viewers connect to history and...

  • 5 Dec

    “Chatting on paper”: Conversation and Correspondence in the World of Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800)

    Tuesday, December 5, 2023
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Eighteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade Lecture by Elizabeth Eger, King's College London Elizabeth Montagu, dubbed "Queen of the Bluestockings" by Samuel Johnson, was an author, an industrialist, and an avid consumer of books, who valued reading as the route to intellectual freedom. Famous in her lifetime, she was at the heart of several Enlightenment...

  • 30 Nov

    Cooking the Books: Manuscript Recipe Books, Early Modern English Literature, and the Twenty-First-Century Kitchen

    Thursday, November 30, 2023
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST

    Lecture by Marissa Nicosia, The Pennsylvania State University - Abington College Manuscript recipe books are full of intriguing, strange, and familiar concoctions: recipes for syllabubs, turnip cordial water, jumballs, and carrot pudding. When Dr. Nicosia launched Cooking in the Archives in 2014, she wanted to know what would happen if culinary historians asked questions in the kitchen as well as in the...

  • 15 Nov

    Spotlight Talk: “Citing Race and Seeing Death in Shakespeare”

    Wednesday, November 15, 2023
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Talk by Professor Arthur L. Little, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles This talk, which begins with Ben Jonson’s reading of Shakespeare in the First Folio and ends with the promotion of the iconic image of Lawrence Olivier as Hamlet in that play’s graveyard scene, focuses in between on the citation of a racialized Blackness circulating throughout Shakespeare’s plays. By...

  • 8 Jun

    Beyond the ‘Global Renaissance’: Imperial Gardens and Early Modern Cosmopolitan Rule in Qing-Era Eurasia

    Thursday, June 8, 2023
    12:30 pm PDT – 1:30 pm PDT

  • 18 May

    Ephemeral Architecture Imperialism Ornamentation

    Thursday, May 18, 2023
    4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT
    Dodd Hall 247
    315 Portola Pl, Los Angeles, California 90095

  • 16 Mar

    The Past, Present, And Future of “Le Rapt De La Négresse”

    Thursday, March 16, 2023
    5:30 pm PDT – 6:30 pm PDT
    Dodd Hall 275
    315 Portola Pl, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA 90095

    –Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London) Event co-sponsored by UCLA Department of Art History and the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies. Made possible by Edward W. Carter Program Funds for European Art Joanna Woodall is Professor Emerita at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She has specialised in Netherlandish visual culture during the...

  • 6 Mar

    A Greater History of Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Colonial Gaze and Uses of Non-European Acoustic Objects

    Monday, March 6, 2023
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    –lecture on Zoom given by Mélanie Traversier, Professor of Early Modern History at the Université de Lille Presented by the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory which is generously supported by the Deans of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Department of Political Science. This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th-...

  • 2 Mar

    Investigating the Clark Family’s Perceptions of Butte in the Montana Collections

    Thursday, March 2, 2023
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    –lecture given by Gwendolyn R. Lockman, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin. Recipient of the 2022–23 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship Watch this lecture on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/live/fiVOuqKAn6k William Andrews Clark Sr. made the family fortune on his shrewd business decisions beginning with trading in goods from Salt Lake City to the mining camps of...

  • 7 Dec

    Works-in-Progress Session: “Lustrous Matters: Aventurine Glass in the Early Modern World”

    Wednesday, December 7, 2022
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    -presented by Cynthia Fang, Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, 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. Glass––and especially aventurine glass––is a compelling material for tracing connections between makers, spaces, agents, trade and diplomatic circuits, as well as desires...

  • 27 Oct

    Sammelband Scientia: Collecting Dürer’s Books and Printing Instruments

    Thursday, October 27, 2022
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Seventeenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade –lecture given by Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Newberry Library) This lecture is free of charge. It will be held in person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. To attend the lecture in person, you must reserve your space by submitting the booking form at the bottom...

  • 25 Oct

    Disability Scholarships in Light of English Sources to 1666: Milton’s Sightlessness and the Depiction of Space in “Paradise Lost”

    Tuesday, October 25, 2022
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT

    –given by Karmiole Fellow Joseph Nicolello (Temple University) This presentation was recorded and is made available for viewing on the Center’s YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/KHz-ndp9atE What is Milton talking about when he speaks of Pandemonium or the Garden as though they are actual places–and why did it take blindness for this vision to crystallize in earnest? The theoretical dimension of disability...

  • 11 May

    Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing: Not a Hoover

    Wednesday, May 11, 2022
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    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....

  • 28 Apr

    Confounding the Critics, Surviving the Scandal: The Remarkable Reputation of Oscar Wilde

    Thursday, April 28, 2022
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT
    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 made available to watch for a limited time after the event.  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,...

  • 1 Mar

    Works-in-Progress session: “Early Modern Multiplicities”

    Tuesday, March 1, 2022
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    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...

  • 24 Feb

    Works-in-Progress Session: “Revelatory Lines: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s Monotypes, 1637–1655”

    Thursday, February 24, 2022
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    -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,...

  • 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 PST – 5:00 pm PST

    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...

  • 7 Feb

    Works-in-Progress Session: “Pregnant Poems: Margaret Cavendish’s Poetics of Immanence”

    Monday, February 7, 2022
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    –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.”...

  • 2 Feb

    Works-in-Progress session: “Orality, Writing, and Authentication”

    Wednesday, February 2, 2022
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    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...

  • 26 Jan

    Works-in-Progress session: “Lyric Comedy in the Iberian-American Atlantic”

    Wednesday, January 26, 2022
    4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST

    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...

  • 7 Dec

    Herbals, Illustrated and Un-Illustrated: Selling Botany in Early Modern England

    Tuesday, December 7, 2021
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    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...

  • 26 May

    A Catholic Cosmopolis? Interpreting Diversity in a Coercive Empire

    Wednesday, May 26, 2021
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:30 pm PDT

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –by Zoltán Biedermann (University College London) Online event via Zoom Webinar This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All registrants will receive instructions via email after registering. Click the following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rgsWfB5WTKuEsdVpXkWyrg This paper proposes a conceptual intervention for the history of Spanish and...

  • 21 May

    Philomela at the Fin de Siècle

    Friday, May 21, 2021
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:30 pm PDT

    Presented by Tara Thomas, 2020–21 Karmiole Fellow https://youtu.be/8is1yVM9sYk Tara Thomas is the recipient of the 2020–21 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship. This one-month fellowship, established through the generosity of Kenneth Karmiole, is available to all graduate students for research at the Clark Library, using archival and printed book materials, on any subject. In this talk, Dr. Thomas presents her...

  • 30 Apr

    EMRG Works-in-Progress Sessions: Summer Mentorship Research Projects

    Friday, April 30, 2021
    2:00 pm PDT – 3:00 pm PDT

    -presented Alba Menéndez Pereda (UCLA) Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom For Zoom registration details, please email the Early Modern Research Group. The Graduate Certificate in Early Modern Studies, administered by the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, offers UCLA graduate students an avenue to explore the increasingly transnational and interdisciplinary nature of early modern...

  • 14 Apr

    Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: A Comparison of Morisco and Indigenous Strategies

    Wednesday, April 14, 2021
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:30 pm PDT

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –by Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway University of London) Online event 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_cdtg3WaHSkGhC_NTWSb3UA By the early seventeenth century, petitioners at the royal...

  • 8 Apr

    Work-in-Progress Session–Summer Mentorship Research Projects

    Thursday, April 8, 2021
    1:00 pm PDT – 2:00 pm PDT

    Presented by Stanley Wu (UCLA) Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom For Zoom registration details, please email the Early Modern Research Group. The Graduate Certificate in Early Modern Studies, administered by the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, offers UCLA graduate students an avenue to explore the increasingly transnational and interdisciplinary nature of early modern studies...

  • 5 Mar

    Work-in-Progress Session–”Plutus” in Print: Aristophanes and the Early Modern English Print Public

    Friday, March 5, 2021
    4:00 pm PST – 5:15 pm PST

    Presented by Shadow Zimmerman, University of Washington Hosted by Bronwen Wilson, Center & Clark Director, Professor of Art History, UCLA Respondents: Johanna Drucker, Professor of Information Studies, UCLA Muriel McClendon, Professor of History, UCLA Claire McEachern, Professor of English, UCLA This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions...

  • 26 Feb

    EMRG Works-in-Progress Sessions: Summer Mentorship Research Projects

    Friday, February 26, 2021
    3:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST

    -presented by Elizabeth M. Landers (UCLA) Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom For Zoom registration details, please email the Early Modern Research Group. The Graduate Certificate in Early Modern Studies, administered by the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, offers UCLA graduate students an avenue to explore the increasingly transnational and interdisciplinary nature of early...

  • 18 Feb

    Critical Conversation: Exploring Visual Materials in the Early Modern World—Opportunities and Challenges for Global History

    Thursday, February 18, 2021
    4:00 pm PST – 5:15 pm PST

    Presented by Chase Caldwell Smith, UCLA and Jeffery C. J. Chen, Stanford University Zoom Meeting This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following link to register directly with Zoom:  https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsfuGpqD0uHdE7hCNvCtUMxGfIz8Ft5lMw Host – Zirwat Chowdhury, Assistant Professor of Art History, UCLA Respondent...

  • 9 Dec

    Work-in-Progress Session: Water on the Arno: Giulio Parigi’s Designs for the 1608 Argonautica

    Wednesday, December 9, 2020
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST

    –presented by Laura Hutchingame, UCLA Hosted by Helen Deutsch, Director and Professor of English, UCLA This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsdOCsrjIrH9QeCEeKM3ZQKRKT1u08BRKT  As part of our ongoing effort to sustain intellectual community and...

  • 2 Dec

    Between Fait-divers and Grand récit: The French Wars of Religion and the Genres of Historiography in the Sixteenth Century

    Wednesday, December 2, 2020
    12:00 pm PST – 1:30 pm PST

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Andrea Frisch (University of Maryland) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJl9LS1Q4MU Online event via Zoom. This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All registrants will receive instructions via email after registering. Click he following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XNsdI9SWS8eJtgvDZWHufQ As was the case with many events of the European sixteenth century, the...

  • 20 Nov

    Work-in-Progress Sessions: Summer Mentorship Research Projects

    Friday, November 20, 2020
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST

    –presented by Laura Hutchingame (UCLA) and Leah Marangos (UCLA) Online event via Zoom Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group For registration details, please email the Center at c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu The Graduate Certificate in Early Modern Studies, administered by the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, offers UCLA graduate students an avenue to explore the increasingly transnational and interdisciplinary nature of...

  • 18 Nov

    Work-in-Progress Session: Insufficiency as World-Remaking: Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House”

    Wednesday, November 18, 2020
    12:00 pm PST – 1:30 pm PST

    –presented by Joseph Torres, UCLA Hosted by Helen Deutsch, Director and Professor of English, UCLA Moderated by Lowell Gallagher, Professor of English, UCLA This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc--vrj0pGtQGDaQqzDu-1z-AJuL0xYw_ As part of...

  • 21 Oct

    Blackness, Immobility, and Visibility in Europe 1600–1800: A New Collaborative Scholarly Resource at Journal 18

    Wednesday, October 21, 2020
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT

    Presented by Zirwat Chowdhury (UCLA) and Louis Susunaga Online event via Zoom This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All registrants will receive instructions via email after registering. Click he following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_10g7QhMCQlG1eEr6ba4PgQ  Responding in June 2020 to the rallying cries of Black Lives Matter amid conditions of...

  • 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 PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    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...

  • 20 Apr

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

    Monday, April 20, 2020
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    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...

  • 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 PST – 5:00 pm PST
    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...

  • 6 Nov

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

    Wednesday, November 6, 2019
    4:00 pm PST – 5:15 pm PST
    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...

  • 22 Oct

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

    Tuesday, October 22, 2019
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    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...

  • 27 Sep

    An Animated Character: An Evening of Vance Gerry

    Friday, September 27, 2019
    5:30 pm PDT – 7:30 pm PDT
    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,...

  • 22 May

    The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

    Wednesday, May 22, 2019
    4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT
    Royce Hall, Room 314
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    –book talk by Nile Green (UCLA) Co-sponsored by UCLA Program on Central Asia, Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library  Discussants: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, UCLA Arash Khazeni, Pomona College Laura Mitchell, UC Irvine Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition...

  • 9 May

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

    Thursday, May 9, 2019
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    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...

  • 24 Apr

    On Books, Soap Opera, and River Rafting

    Wednesday, April 24, 2019
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:15 pm PDT
    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...

  • 20 Feb

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

    Wednesday, February 20, 2019
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    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...

  • 1 Nov

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

    Thursday, November 1, 2018
    4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT
    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...

  • 4 Apr

    The Political Day in Georgian England

    Wednesday, April 4, 2018
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA
    315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    —a lecture given by Amanda Vickery, Queen Mary, University of  London Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Studies, the European History Colloquium, and the UCLA Department of History What did an eighteenth-century politician do all day? The meaning and mechanisms of eighteenth-century high politics have long been debated. Was government personal, local and the possession of a...

  • 27 Feb

    Minority Communities Making Theatre and Performance in Early Modern Italy

    Tuesday, February 27, 2018
    4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Erith Jaffe-Berg, UC Riverside.

  • 25 Jan

    The Invention of Colonial America: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies (1781–1844)

    Thursday, January 25, 2018
    4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Byron Hamann, The Ohio State University.

  • 16 Nov

    The Book and Slave Trades in Concert: The Colonial Library and the Atlantic Economy

    Thursday, November 16, 2017
    4:00 pm PST – 5:15 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Thirteenth Annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade. "The Book and Slave Trades in Concert: The Colonial Library and the Atlantic Economy" given by Sean D. Moore, University of New Hampshire.

  • 25 Oct

    Physiognomy, Cosmography, and Other Itchy Pictures: Vexed Viewing in the Early Modern Print

    Wednesday, October 25, 2017
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Stephanie Leitch, Florida State University

  • 13 Apr

    Apostasy and Orthodoxy in Ireland, England, and the Hispanic New World: Imperial Circulations of Religious Masculinities

    Thursday, April 13, 2017
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Stephanie Kirk (Washington University in St. Louis)

  • 15 Mar

    “O Manchester, so much to answer for”: Fates of the Literary in an Industrial Revolution, 1780-1830

    Wednesday, March 15, 2017
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    Humanities 193
    415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a lecture by Jon Mee, University of York

  • 8 Mar

    Beautiful Blackness: Representing Black Sanctity in the Early Modern Catholic Atlantic

    Wednesday, March 8, 2017
    4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Erin Kathleen Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)

  • 1 Feb

    Oscar Wilde, Rachilde, and the Mercure de France

    Wednesday, February 1, 2017
    4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST
    Royce Hall, Room 314
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde given by Petra Dierkes-Thrun (Stanford University)

  • 12 Jan

    Rabbits, Whigs, and Hunters: Cultural History and Protest in Mary Toft’s Monstrous Births of 1726

    Thursday, January 12, 2017
    4:00 pm PST
    6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA
    315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a lecture by Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield)

  • 11 Jan

    The Mobile Artist and the Early Modern Mediterranean Prospect: Guillaume-Joseph Grélot’s Drawings for Ambrosio Bembo (1664–65)

    Wednesday, January 11, 2017
    4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA)

  • 10 Jan

    Bone Folder, Brayer, and Loupe: A Panel Discussion on the Present and Future of Book Arts Education

    Tuesday, January 10, 2017
    4:00 pm PST – 5:15 pm PST
    UCLA Anderson School of Management, Gold Hall, Executive Dining Room B209
    110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing | given by Gloria Kondrup (ArtCenter College of Design), Kitty Maryatt (Scripps College), and Kathleen Walkup (Mills College)

  • 16 Nov

    How to Do Things with Books

    Wednesday, November 16, 2016
    4:00 pm PST – 5:15 pm PST
    Charles E. Young Research Library, Room 11360
    280 Charles E. Young Drive, North, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Twelfth Annual Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade | given by Stephen Orgel (Stanford University)

  • 18 Oct

    Blackness, Value, and the Shape of Silver “from China to Peru”

    Tuesday, October 18, 2016
    4:00 pm PDT
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Chi-ming Yang (University of Pennsylvania)

  • 21 Apr

    How States and Societies Count

    Thursday, April 21, 2016
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    Royce Hall, Room 306
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Censuses in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom | a discussion with Jean Emigh (UCLA), Dylan Riley (UC, Berkeley), Patricia Ahmed (South Dakota State), Theodore M. Porter (UCLA), Jacob G. Foster (UCLA)

  • 19 Nov

    Hope over Experience? Cataloging the Publications of Edmund Curll

    Thursday, November 19, 2015
    4:00 pm PST – 5:15 pm PST
    Charles E. Young Research Library, Room 11360
    280 Charles E. Young Drive, North, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Eleventh Annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade | given by Pat Rogers (University of South Florida)

  • 7 Oct

    30th Anniversary Celebration for the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies

    Wednesday, October 7, 2015
    4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT
    Royce Hall, Room 314
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    featuring "Tea, Women, and Civilization: Towards a Global History of Europe" | a lecture by Lynn Hunt (UCLA)

  • 8 Apr

    Nature, Culture, and Faith in Translation: Capuchin Missionary Images and Cross-Cultural Knowledge in Kongo and Angola, 1650–1750

    Wednesday, April 8, 2015
    4:00 pm PDT
    Public Affairs
    337 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Cécile Fromont (University of Chicago)

  • 11 Mar

    The Worlds of Spanish Inquisitors

    Wednesday, March 11, 2015
    4:00 pm PDT
    Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
    245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Kimberly Lynn (Western Washington University)

  • 18 Feb

    The Printer, the Translator, the Scribe, and the Slave Girl: Acculturating the Mukhtar al-Hikam, ca. 1200–ca. 1700

    Wednesday, February 18, 2015
    4:00 pm PST
    Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
    245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Professor A. E. B. Coldiron (Florida State University)

  • 15 Jan

    Piety and Perversity: The Palms of Los Angeles

    Thursday, January 15, 2015
    4:00 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Victoria Dailey (freelance writer and curator)

  • 3 Dec

    The Richard H. Popkin Papers at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: Modernity and the Discourse on the Origin of Mediterranean Peoples

    Wednesday, December 3, 2014
    4:00 pm PST
    Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
    245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | a lecture by Carlos Cañete (CSIC, Spain)

  • 8 Oct

    “Sir” Robert Cowan, Prince of California Bookmen, and the Genesis of the UCLA Californiana Collection

    Wednesday, October 8, 2014
    5:30 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Gary F. Kurutz (California State Library)

  • 30 Apr

    Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: Shakespeare and Cosmopolitanism

    Wednesday, April 30, 2014
    4:00 pm PDT
    Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
    245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Valerie Traub (University of Michigan)

  • 12 Mar

    Benjamin Franklin’s War on Piracies

    Wednesday, March 12, 2014
    4:00 pm PDT
    Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
    245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Mark G. Hanna (UC, San Diego)

  • 4 Mar

    Comprehending a Cube: Eighteen Months of Living with Euclid

    Tuesday, March 4, 2014
    4:00 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Russell Maret (type designer and letterpress printer)

  • 16 Jan

    Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton: The “Father of the Romantic Movement”

    Thursday, January 16, 2014
    4:00 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | a lecture by Joseph Bristow (UCLA)

  • 13 Nov

    Sculptor Paul Troubetzkoy and William A. Clark: the Cultural Elite in Late-1910s Los Angeles

    Wednesday, November 13, 2013
    4:00 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Anne-Lise Desmas (J. Paul Getty Museum)

  • 8 Oct

    Grieving Clarissa: Trauma before “Trauma” in the Eighteenth-Century Tragic Novel

    Tuesday, October 8, 2013
    4:00 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Alex Hernandez (UCLA)

  • 3 Oct

    Oddly Stimulating: Oscar Wilde at the Odd Volumes

    Thursday, October 3, 2013
    4:30 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    a lecture by Ellen Cromwell (Saint Louis University)

  • 18 Apr

    From the Atelier Rémond (1793) to the Atelier Mutel (2008): Past and Future of an Engraving Studio in Paris

    Thursday, April 18, 2013
    4:00 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | a lecture by Dider Mutel (artist, author, bookmaker)

  • 21 Feb

    The Creation of the French Café in Myth and History

    Thursday, February 21, 2013
    4:00 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Thierry Rigogne (Fordham University)

  • 13 Dec

    Printing the Past and Casting the Future: A Typefounder’s Tale

    Thursday, December 13, 2012
    4:00 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Raymond S. Nelson Jr. (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian)

  • 30 Oct

    Unfinished Business: Incomplete Bindings Made for the Book Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century

    Tuesday, October 30, 2012
    4:00 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    a lecture by Nicholas Pickwoad (University of the Arts London)

  • 4 Oct

    NOT by Oscar Wilde: Literary Forgery and Authorial Performance

    Thursday, October 4, 2012
    4:00 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Gregory Mackie (University of British Columbia)

  • 22 Mar

    Cyclone on the Prairies: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Arts & Crafts of Publishing in Chicago, 1900

    Thursday, March 22, 2012
    4:00 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    a lecture by Peter E. Hanff (Bancroft Library, UC, Berkeley)

  • 9 Feb

    Parallel Lines Never Meet: Dolphins and Anchors and Aldus/Book Historians and Numismatists and Roman Coins

    Thursday, February 9, 2012
    4:00 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    a lecture by Terry Belanger (Rare Book School, University of Virginia)

  • 21 Oct

    (In)Authentic Shakespeares: A Reading and Discussion with Arthur Phillips

    Friday, October 21, 2011
    2:00 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    a lecture by Arthur Phillips (novelist) | followed by a discussion with Helen Deutsch (UCLA) and Claire McEachern (UCLA)

  • 25 Apr

    “One single ivory cell”: Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism and the Mental Sciences

    Monday, April 25, 2011
    4:00 pm PDT
    Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
    245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a lecture by Elisha Cohn (Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA)

  • 1 Apr

    Visual Print Culture from the Popish Plot to the Sacheverell Trial

    Thursday, April 1, 2010
    4:00 pm PDT
    Royce Hall, Room 314
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a lecture by Mark Knights (University of Warwick)

  • 19 Nov

    Religion and the Rights of Women: Mary Astell to Mary Wollstonecraft

    Friday, November 19, 2004
    4:00 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Third Annual Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy | given by Sarah Hutton (Middlesex University)

  • 8 Jun

    The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year

    Tuesday, June 8, 2004
    4:00 pm PDT
    Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
    245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095

    a lecture by Dorothy and Lloyd Moote

  • 17 Feb

    Irish Peacock and Scarlett Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

    Tuesday, February 17, 2004
    7:30 pm PST
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    a lecture by Merlin Holland

  • 14 Oct

    “A Wise, Enlightened, and Reliable Piety”: The Religious Enlightenment in Central and Western Europe, 1689–1789

    Saturday, October 14, 2000
    2:00 pm PDT
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy | given by David Sorkin (University of Wisconsin, Madison)