Events
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21 Feb
Early Global Caribbean: Conference 2: Convictions
- Friday, February 21, 2025–Saturday, February 22, 2025
- 10:00 am PST – 4:30 pm PST
- UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018
Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World The diverse peoples who converged on the Caribbean before 1700 held a range of differing beliefs, ideas about the natural world, and understandings of social, political, and spiritual order. Considering...
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25 Feb
‘Wild and Ungovernable Passions’: Emotional Scripts and the Fate of U.S. Expansion in the Vigilante Rocky Mountain West, 1864–1866
- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST
Lecture by Abby Gibson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Southern California. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship During the first two months of 1864, Montana Territory was in the throes of a violent spate of "vigilante justice" that resulted in the hangings of twenty-two men, including the Sheriff of Bannack City, Idaho Territory, and what...
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2 Mar
Ariel Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary
- Sunday, March 2, 2025
- 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
- UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, February 4 at 12:00...
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6 Mar
Works-in-Progress Session: The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City
- Thursday, March 6, 2025
- 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST
Presented by Sofia Yazpik, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/27QJuD5aR7CWYepuuHGUBA The Codex Osuna, or the Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México (Painting of the Municipal Governor, Judges, and Councilors of Mexico), is a pictorial and Nahuatl-language text produced by Nahuas for...
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8 Mar
Preserving Your Family History
- Saturday, March 8, 2025
- 10:00 am PST – 12:30 pm PST
- UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Join us at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library to learn the basics of understanding and caring for your family heirlooms with the Clark’s librarians and conservators from the UCLA Library Preservation & Conservation Department. Many of us have inherited collections of family papers, scrapbooks, photographs, albums, or treasured books that we’re not quite sure how to handle. These items...
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10 Mar
Katherine Philips, Meta-Metaphysical Poet
- Monday, March 10, 2025
- 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
Lecture by Arya Sureshbabu, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship Katherine Philips (1632–64) occupies an unusual place in the canon of seventeenth-century poetry. Now alternatively billed as an apostle of female friendship or a proto-sapphic icon, she was also known in her own time as an exemplary practitioner...
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14 Mar
Cases and Scale in Historiography
- Friday, March 14, 2025
- 10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
- UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Conference organized by Michael Osman and Cristóbal Amunátegui (University of California, Los Angeles) In the last few decades, debates stemming from the science and history “wars” have called attention to the ways in which cases are constructed and proven across disciplines. This has led to questions about the nature and selection of evidence, the role of scale, and the function...
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23 Mar
La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina (The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina)
- Sunday, March 23, 2025
- 10:00 am PDT – 12:30 pm PDT
- UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
400th Anniversary Performance of the First Woman-Composed Opera Organized by UCLA Early Music Ensemble and L.A. Camerata Co-sponsored by The Colburn Foundation The UCLA Early Music Ensemble and L.A. Camerata will celebrate Early Music Month and Women's History Month with an outdoor performance of the first opera composed by a woman. Caccini's Alcina depicts a power struggle between two women—demigodess...
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11 Apr
Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities
- Friday, April 11, 2025–Saturday, April 12, 2025
- 10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
- UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018
Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World The tangible realities of daily life and the patterns of exchange in the Caribbean and the other Atlantic regions integrated into the Caribbean’s orbit enhance our understanding of the local...
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27 Apr
Borromeo String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary
- Sunday, April 27, 2025
- 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
- UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, March 25 at 12:00...