The Widow of Valencia

Published: November 8, 2017

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 @ 7:30 pm PST – 9:30 pm PST –

a dramatic reading directed by Michael Hackett (UCLA)

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Clark Library Grand Reopening Celebration

Published: January 21, 2018

Sunday, January 21, 2018 @ 1:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – Please join us at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library as we celebrate our grand reopening. After being closed since April 2015 for a seismic retrofit and book storage expansion project, the Clark Library will be formally reopened to the public. With guided tours of the library’s new and refurbished spaces, highlights from the rare book and manuscript collections, a […]

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The Red Dragon Logbook

Published: February 16, 2018

Friday, February 16, 2018 @ 9:00 am PST – 2:00 pm PST – —a symposium organized by the UCLA Department of History Sponsored by The Department of History Atlantic History Fund and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair Fund; UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; UCLA Center for 17th-and 18th-Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies; and the Department of Geography. This one-day symposium follows the 1586 voyage of […]

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Practices (Day 1)

Published: February 23, 2018
Glitched version of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Francesco Mazzola, (1523 - 1524). Original image downloaded from Wikimedia.

Friday, February 23, 2018 @ 10:00 am PST – 4:30 pm PST –

Core Program 2017–18 | Becoming Media | Conference 2

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Practices (Day 2)

Published: February 24, 2018
Glitched version of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Francesco Mazzola, (1523 - 1524). Original image downloaded from Wikimedia.

Saturday, February 24, 2018 @ 10:00 am PST – 1:00 pm PST –

Core Program 2017–18 | Becoming Media | Conference 2

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Teaching with Primary Materials

Published: March 28, 2018

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – A workshop with Sarah Werner What does it mean to teach with primary materials? With access to digital facsimiles of many of the works we teach, often in high resolution, what do students gain from going to a special collections library and working with original materials? This workshop will take an object-centered approach to pedagogy for both teachers and librarians […]

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The Political Day in Georgian England

Published: April 4, 2018

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – —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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Attentional Modes

Published: April 27, 2018
Glitched version of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Francesco Mazzola, (1523 - 1524). Original image downloaded from Wikimedia.

Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT –

Core Program 2017–18 | Becoming Media | Conference 3

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