Lectures, 2000–
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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
- 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)
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17 Feb
Irish Peacock and Scarlett Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde
- Tuesday, February 17, 2004
- 7:30 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
a lecture by Merlin Holland
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8 Jun
The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year
- Tuesday, June 8, 2004
- 4:00 pm
- Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
- 245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095
a lecture by Dorothy and Lloyd Moote
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19 Nov
Religion and the Rights of Women: Mary Astell to Mary Wollstonecraft
- Friday, November 19, 2004
- 4:00 pm
- 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)
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1 Apr
Visual Print Culture from the Popish Plot to the Sacheverell Trial
- Thursday, April 1, 2010
- 4:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 314
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
a lecture by Mark Knights (University of Warwick)
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25 Apr
“One single ivory cell”: Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism and the Mental Sciences
- Monday, April 25, 2011
- 4:00 pm
- Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
- 245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095
a lecture by Elisha Cohn (Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA)
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21 Oct
(In)Authentic Shakespeares: A Reading and Discussion with Arthur Phillips
- Friday, October 21, 2011
- 2:00 pm
- 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)
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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
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
a lecture by Terry Belanger (Rare Book School, University of Virginia)
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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
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
a lecture by Peter E. Hanff (Bancroft Library, UC, Berkeley)
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4 Oct
NOT by Oscar Wilde: Literary Forgery and Authorial Performance
- Thursday, October 4, 2012
- 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Gregory Mackie (University of British Columbia)
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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
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
a lecture by Nicholas Pickwoad (University of the Arts London)
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13 Dec
Printing the Past and Casting the Future: A Typefounder’s Tale
- Thursday, December 13, 2012
- 4:00 pm
- 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)
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21 Feb
The Creation of the French Café in Myth and History
- Thursday, February 21, 2013
- 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Thierry Rigogne (Fordham University)
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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
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Clark Quarterly Lecture | a lecture by Dider Mutel (artist, author, bookmaker)
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3 Oct
Oddly Stimulating: Oscar Wilde at the Odd Volumes
- Thursday, October 3, 2013
- 4:30 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
a lecture by Ellen Cromwell (Saint Louis University)
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8 Oct
Grieving Clarissa: Trauma before “Trauma” in the Eighteenth-Century Tragic Novel
- Tuesday, October 8, 2013
- 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Alex Hernandez (UCLA)
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13 Nov
Sculptor Paul Troubetzkoy and William A. Clark: the Cultural Elite in Late-1910s Los Angeles
- Wednesday, November 13, 2013
- 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Anne-Lise Desmas (J. Paul Getty Museum)
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16 Jan
Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton: The “Father of the Romantic Movement”
- Thursday, January 16, 2014
- 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Clark Quarterly Lecture | a lecture by Joseph Bristow (UCLA)
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4 Mar
Comprehending a Cube: Eighteen Months of Living with Euclid
- Tuesday, March 4, 2014
- 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Russell Maret (type designer and letterpress printer)
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12 Mar
Benjamin Franklin’s War on Piracies
- Wednesday, March 12, 2014
- 4:00 pm
- 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)
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30 Apr
Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: Shakespeare and Cosmopolitanism
- Wednesday, April 30, 2014
- 4:00 pm
- 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)
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8 Oct
“Sir” Robert Cowan, Prince of California Bookmen, and the Genesis of the UCLA Californiana Collection
- Wednesday, October 8, 2014
- 5:30 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Gary F. Kurutz (California State Library)
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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
- 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)
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15 Jan
Piety and Perversity: The Palms of Los Angeles
- Thursday, January 15, 2015
- 4:00 pm
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Clark Quarterly Lecture | given by Victoria Dailey (freelance writer and curator)
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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
- 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)
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11 Mar
The Worlds of Spanish Inquisitors
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015
- 4:00 pm
- 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)
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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
- Public Affairs
- 337 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Cécile Fromont (University of Chicago)
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7 Oct
30th Anniversary Celebration for the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
- Wednesday, October 7, 2015
- 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- 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)
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19 Nov
Hope over Experience? Cataloging the Publications of Edmund Curll
- Thursday, November 19, 2015
- 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
- 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)
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21 Apr
How States and Societies Count
- Thursday, April 21, 2016
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- 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)
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18 Oct
Blackness, Value, and the Shape of Silver “from China to Peru”
- Tuesday, October 18, 2016
- 4:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Chi-ming Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
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16 Nov
How to Do Things with Books
- Wednesday, November 16, 2016
- 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
- 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)
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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 – 5:15 pm
- 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)
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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 – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA)
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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
- 6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA
- 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
a lecture by Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield)
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1 Feb
Oscar Wilde, Rachilde, and the Mercure de France
- Wednesday, February 1, 2017
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- 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)
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8 Mar
Beautiful Blackness: Representing Black Sanctity in the Early Modern Catholic Atlantic
- Wednesday, March 8, 2017
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Erin Kathleen Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)
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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 – 5:00 pm
- Humanities 193
- 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
a lecture by Jon Mee, University of York
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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 – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Stephanie Kirk (Washington University in St. Louis)
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25 Oct
Physiognomy, Cosmography, and Other Itchy Pictures: Vexed Viewing in the Early Modern Print
- Wednesday, October 25, 2017
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Stephanie Leitch, Florida State University
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16 Nov
The Book and Slave Trades in Concert: The Colonial Library and the Atlantic Economy
- Thursday, November 16, 2017
- 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
- 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.
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25 Jan
The Invention of Colonial America: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies (1781–1844)
- Thursday, January 25, 2018
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Byron Hamann, The Ohio State University.
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27 Feb
Minority Communities Making Theatre and Performance in Early Modern Italy
- Tuesday, February 27, 2018
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Erith Jaffe-Berg, UC Riverside.
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4 Apr
The Political Day in Georgian England
- Wednesday, April 4, 2018
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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22 May
The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
- Wednesday, May 22, 2019
- 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- 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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 – 5:30 pm
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...
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18 Nov
Work-in-Progress Session: Insufficiency as World-Remaking: Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House”
- Wednesday, November 18, 2020
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
–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...
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20 Nov
Work-in-Progress Sessions: Summer Mentorship Research Projects
- Friday, November 20, 2020
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
–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...
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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 – 1:30 pm
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...
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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 – 5:30 pm
–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...
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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 – 5:15 pm
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...
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26 Feb
EMRG Works-in-Progress Sessions: Summer Mentorship Research Projects
- Friday, February 26, 2021
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
-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...
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5 Mar
Work-in-Progress Session–”Plutus” in Print: Aristophanes and the Early Modern English Print Public
- Friday, March 5, 2021
- 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
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...
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8 Apr
Work-in-Progress Session–Summer Mentorship Research Projects
- Thursday, April 8, 2021
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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...
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14 Apr
Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: A Comparison of Morisco and Indigenous Strategies
- Wednesday, April 14, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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...
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30 Apr
EMRG Works-in-Progress Sessions: Summer Mentorship Research Projects
- Friday, April 30, 2021
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
-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...
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21 May
Philomela at the Fin de Siècle
- Friday, May 21, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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...
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26 May
A Catholic Cosmopolis? Interpreting Diversity in a Coercive Empire
- Wednesday, May 26, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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...
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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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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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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 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,...
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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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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 – 5:00 pm
–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...
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27 Oct
Sammelband Scientia: Collecting Dürer’s Books and Printing Instruments
- Thursday, October 27, 2022
- 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
- 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...
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7 Dec
Works-in-Progress Session: “Lustrous Matters: Aventurine Glass in the Early Modern World”
- Wednesday, December 7, 2022
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
-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...
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2 Mar
Investigating the Clark Family’s Perceptions of Butte in the Montana Collections
- Thursday, March 2, 2023
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
–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...
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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 – 1:00 pm
–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-...
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16 Mar
The Past, Present, And Future of “Le Rapt De La Négresse”
- Thursday, March 16, 2023
- 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
- 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...