Events

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  • 7 Oct

    Clark Library Open House and Adopt-A-Book Fair

    Saturday, October 7, 2023
    2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All are welcome to attend the Open House and Adopt-A-Book Fair at the Clark Library! Explore and enjoy the expansive grounds and historical rooms, and consider adopting a book in the Clark Library’s collection. Donations, which are optional, will provide essential funding for the acquisition, preservation, and conservation of the library’s collections, and directly support the library’s work of caring...

  • 13 Oct

    Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, Conference 1: Global Edo: Edo in the World and the World in Edo

    Friday, October 13, 2023
    10:00 am – 5:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Conference organized by Kristopher W. Kersey, University of California, Los Angeles The subject of this initial conference is the longstanding myth that Japan was hermetically sealed from the rest of the world from the 1630s to 1853. While international travel and trade were indeed forbidden, Japan remained networked with those beyond its shores through trade with the continent, the Dutch,...

  • 29 Oct

    Notos Quartett, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, October 29, 2023
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, September 26 at 12:00 p.m. noon, via the following link. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limited. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our...

  • 4 Nov

    Modigliani Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Saturday, November 4, 2023
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, October 3 at 12:00 p.m. noon, via the following link. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limited. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our...

  • 1 Dec

    Converting Natural Resources: Representations, Performances, Narratives

    Friday, December 1, 2023–Saturday, December 2, 2023
    9:00 am – 5:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Conference organized by Elisa Antonietta Daniele, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles/University of Bologna and Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles Co-sponsored by Making Green Worlds, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant, and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program. This conference considers visual, textual, material, and performative engagement with...

  • 5 Dec

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

    Tuesday, December 5, 2023
    4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
    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...

  • 10 Dec

    Takács Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, December 10, 2023
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, November 7 at 12:00 p.m. noon, via the following link. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limited. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our...

  • 7 Jan

    Zodiac Trio with Wolfram Koessel, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, January 7, 2024
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, December 5 at 12:00 p.m. noon, via the following link. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limited. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our...

  • 2 Feb

    Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, Conference 2: Eco Edo: Ecological Perspectives on Early Modern Japanese Art

    Friday, February 2, 2024
    10:00 am – 5:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Conference organized by Kristopher W. Kersey, University of California, Los Angeles The highly urbanized nature of the Edo period—with its three metropolises of Osaka, Kyoto, and Edo—resulted in massive changes to the natural and built environments. The bustling economies of these cities fueled wide-reaching networks of production, trade, and environmental exploitation. The concept of nature itself, as well as the...

  • 17 Mar

    Dover Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, March 17, 2024
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, February 13 at 12:00 p.m. noon, via the following link. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limited. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our...

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