As we emerge from the pandemic lockdown we are very happy to announce a full raft of fellowships to support research at the Clark Library during the 2022–23 academic year. The Center offers fellowships each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers as well as support for senior researchers and independent scholars. Applications for fellowships are…
Read MoreResearching Family Histories
Published: November 9, 2021
Whispers & Legacies: a Conversation about the Clarks, the Posts, and the Palés On the photos, see the Clark Library Instagram post One highlight for all of us during the summer was Whispers & Legacies, organized and moderated by our own Rebecca Fenning Marschall. (Clark Library Manuscripts and Archives Librarian). The event was a panel…
Read MoreReflections on Research
Published: November 9, 2021
Taking Comedia Online, by Barbara Fuchs, UCLA It has been an interesting year for a core program on performance studies, to say the least. As with so much, the pandemic necessitated a switch to virtual programming for our planned conferences (“Resituating the Comedia”), and meant that our Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral fellows could only join us remotely….
Read MoreClark Library Flora and Fauna
Published: November 9, 2021
The traditional thinking about the Clark Library’s collections is that they comprise just those books, manuscripts, archives and art housed in the historic building, but since 2018, librarians have been thinking of ways to shift that thinking to include the library’s grounds as another collection worthy of study. Though the pandemic has made it difficult…
Read MoreFriends and Donors Special Thanks
Published: November 9, 2021The Center and Clark thank the following for their generous support during 2020-2021: Major Supporters Dr. Paul Chrzanowski Colburn Foundation Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund Professor Emeritus Nathaniel Grossman Paul Getty Trust Penny and Ed Kanner* Stephen A. Kanter, M.D.* Kenneth Karmiole Virginia F. and Dr. Lawrence Kruger Linda…
Read MoreCenter & Clark Collaborations
Published: November 9, 2021
A Transatlantic Happy Hour, by Helen Deutsch, UCLA Plans have been in the works for a collaboration between our Center and the Centres for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Early Modern Studies at the University of York in the UK. Faculty members from each institution have long enjoyed cordial and productive intellectual relationships which we hope to…
Read MoreStudents at the Clark
Published: November 9, 2021
We want to take this opportunity to thank our student worker, Lauren Caspersen, for her stellar support of the Clark Library. Lauren has recently graduated from UCLA, and left us in September to pursue a master’s degree in Information Studies at the University of London. We are happy and honored that her experience here played…
Read MoreNews from our Fellows
Published: November 9, 2021Translating Borders / Negotiating the Past, by Richard Huddleson Queen Mary, University of London Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow In early April, 2021, many of us were horrified to see images of a Belfast bus being engulfed in angry flames. The fire wasn’t a mechanical flaw or some terrible accident, but rather a deliberate act. As events…
Read MoreCenter/Clark Fellowship Applications Open
Published: October 26, 2021
The Center offers a broad range of graduate and post-doctoral fellowships to support research within the Clark Library’s collections. Applications for research fellowships during the 2022–23 academic year are now open and submissions will be accepted until this year’s deadline of February 1, 2022. Fellowships offered this year include our annual Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral fellowship for…
Read MoreNew Research Fellowship at the Clark Library
Published: October 5, 2021
The new Wilde-Holland Fellowship supports 1–2 months of research at the Clark Library in its Oscar Wilde collection. The award is funded by an endowment established by William Zachs and Martin Adam. In 2007 these benefactors also endowed the biennial William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde (held at the Clark Library), which focuses on…
Read MoreCall for Proposals: Forging Ahead: Fakes, Fabrications, and Facsimiles in Cultural and Literary History—Medieval to Modern
Published: September 14, 2021Forging Ahead: Fakes, Fabrications, and Facsimiles in Cultural and Literary History—Medieval to Modern A two-day conference: Thursday, May 5–Friday, May 6, 2022 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles Plenary speakers: Siân Echard (Professor of English, University of British Columbia); Aaron T. Pratt (Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Modern Books…
Read MoreCenter & Clark Library Events Calendar 2021–22
Published: September 8, 2021We are pleased to present our annual calendar of events for the 2021–22 academic year. Please download our printable 2021–22 PDF Calendar. Information for upcoming programs will be added to our Events calendar as details are confirmed.
Read MorePlease Welcome our New Librarian, Ikumi Crocoll
Published: August 27, 2021
It is our great pleasure to introduce our new Instruction and Engagement Librarian, Ikumi Crocoll, who started in August 2021. Ikumi brings with her a depth of experience in special collections librarianship. Previously, she managed the Manuscripts Collection at the Daughters of the American Revolution Library. Prior to her appointment there, Ikumi provided reference and…
Read More2021–22 Call for Works-in-Progress Sessions
Published: August 11, 2021
The UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library are inviting proposals for works-in-progress sessions to take place online via Zoom during the 2021–22 academic year (Fall and Winter quarters). Academic programs supported by the Center/Clark explore the latest research in the early modern period (including the long eighteenth century,…
Read MoreSpanish Government Honors Barbara Fuchs
Published: July 28, 2021
Core faculty member and former director, Barbara Fuchs, was recently honored by the Spanish governments’ Cervantes Institute for her work disseminating Spanish language and culture through theater and literature. Fuch’s will be awarded the institutes’ inaugural Ñ Prize in October in a ceremony presided over by Spain’s King Felipe VI. Read more on this from…
Read MoreFowler Museum Reopens With Exhibit That Includes Clark Materials
Published: July 13, 2021
UCLA’s Fowler Museum reopened in July, 2021 after an extended pandemic closure. One of the two fascinating exhibits that mark the reopening is “The Map and the Territory: 100 Years of Collecting at UCLA“. The “Map and the Territory” exhibit features materials from the Clark Library collection, which include maps, books, a model ship, and…
Read MoreThe 2021 Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
Published: June 17, 2021
Please join us online via Zoom for The 2021 Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival which runs from July 23 through August 5, 2021. Artistic Director, Ambroise Aubrun, D.M.A. has brought together five fascinating Chamber Music performances for this year’s festival: Friday, July 23 Neave Trio Tuesday, July 27 …
Read MoreDid you miss Philomela at the Fin de Siècle?
Published: May 26, 2021
Did you miss our recent “Philomela at the Fin de Siècle” lecture given by 2020–21 Karmiole fellow, Tara Thomas? This fascinating lecture, illustrated with beautiful Wildeana from the Clark collection, is now available on our YouTube channel. Thomas’ talk examines Oscar Wilde and Michael Field’s engagement with the Philomela myth from Greco-Roman mythology. Wilde engages…
Read MoreCall for 2021–22 Graduate Student Researcher Applications and Faculty Requests for GSR Assistance
Published: April 1, 2021The Center for 17th– & 18th-Century Studies has received funding for three Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) positions for Fall, Winter, and Spring Quarters 2021–22. Applications for UCLA graduate students who wish to apply for GSR positions and requests from UCLA faculty for GSR assistance are due by Friday, May 14, 2021. Graduate students can find…
Read MoreLA Times Covers Center/Clark Core Program
Published: January 7, 2021
LA Times theater critic, Charles McNulty, is a participant in our current core program roundtables organized by this year’s Clark Professor, Barbara Fuchs. The 2020–21 core program entitled “Resituating the Comedia” presents its second “For a Theater of the Future” zoom roundtable on January 15th at 2 p.m. McNulty presents a thoughtful and provocative response…
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