Margaret MacDonald | June 27, 2022 A new donation of 40 historical texts from Paul Chrzanowski further bolsters an already remarkable collection of early English texts at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The newly added items—including a 17th-century parchment with the seal of Queen Elizabeth I and a handwritten manuscript describing precious metals and gems—have…

This annual festival was founded in 1988 by Professor Henry J. Bruman (1913–2005), who sought to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. This summer we present 5 free lunchtime concerts featuring acclaimed local musicians in the elegant Powell Library Rotunda. The festival is directed by UCLA graduate, violinist …

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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   …

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…