Curiosity and Desire in Fin-De-Siècle Art and Literature

Published: May 11, 2018

Friday, May 11, 2018–Saturday, May 12, 2018 @ 9:00 am PDT – 5:30 pm PDT – —a special conference organized by Joseph Bristow (UCLA), Dennis Denisoff (University of Tulsa), Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College), and Charlotte Ribeyrol (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Co-hosted by the International Walter Pater Society “Curiosity, and the desire of beauty, have each their place in art, as in all true criticism. When one’s curiosity is deficient, when one is not eager enough for new impressions […]

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Between East and West: Emotions in Non-Fictional Representations of the Individual

Published: June 1, 2018

Friday, June 1, 2018–Saturday, June 2, 2018 @ 9:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – —a conference organized by Malina Stefanovska (UCLA) and Marie-Paule De Weerdt-Pilorge (Université de Tours) Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Université de Tours, and the FACE Foundation Partner University Fund This 1 ½ day conference will bring together scholars of various literatures and cultures in the […]

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Tea With Shaw

Published: June 24, 2018

Sunday, June 24, 2018 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – An Arts on the Grounds presentation at the Clark Library Chalk Repertory Theatre presents Tea With Shaw Directed by Laura Stribling with actors from Chalk Rep’s company The Clark Library welcomes back Chalk Repertory Theatre, whose production of Lady Windermere’s Fan was presented in 2013–14, for Tea with Shaw: an afternoon tea and staged reading of George Bernard Shaw’s classic […]

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Bruise Your Raspberries Well: Making and Tasting Historical Recipes

Published: September 15, 2018

Saturday, September 15, 2018 @ 10:00 am PDT – 12:30 pm PDT – What is a sugar cake? Why does it call for mace, and what is mace anyway? Join us for an interactive, multi-sensory workshop in which participants will study, prepare, and taste historical recipes drawn from the Clark Library’s collections, acknowledging the varied ways in which we acquire knowledge through both reading and doing. Recipe books represent generations of familial and […]

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LA Escena

Published: September 21, 2018

Friday, September 21, 2018–Sunday, September 23, 2018 @ 6:00 pm PDT – LA Escena – Los Angeles Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater September 21-23, 2018 Greenway Court Theater LA Escena is Los Angeles’ first Hispanic classical theater festival and will take place at Greenway Court Theater in Los Angeles. Cutting-edge Mexican company Efe Tres will present Lope de Vega’s El príncipe ynocente (The Innocent Prince), a meditation on political power and culpability […]

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Clark Library Open House

Published: October 10, 2018

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 7:00 pm PDT – Meet the staff of the UCLA Clark Library and Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies and join us for an evening of visual interest and interactive activities at our Open House. In addition to enjoying light refreshments and lawn games like badminton, ring toss, and an egg-and-spoon race, you’ll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the Clark’s architectural details, landscape […]

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In Between Spaces (Day 1)

Published: October 12, 2018
Southern Barbarian (Nanban-jin) Boat Formerly attributed to Kano School (Japanese) 17th century

Friday, October 12, 2018 @ 10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT – Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 1: In Between Spaces —organized by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University) co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant Narratives of colonialism, empire building, and religious mission—of center, periphery, and globalization—have been under revision in recent years in order […]

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In Between Spaces (Day 2)

Published: October 13, 2018
Southern Barbarian (Nanban-jin) Boat Formerly attributed to Kano School (Japanese) 17th century

Saturday, October 13, 2018 @ 10:00 am PDT – 12:30 pm PDT – Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 1: In Between Spaces —organized by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University) co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant Narratives of colonialism, empire building, and religious mission—of center, periphery, and globalization—have been under revision in recent years in order […]

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Day 1)

Published: October 20, 2018

Saturday, October 20, 2018 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Arts on the Grounds The Picture of Dorian Gray Performed by Box Tale Soup An original adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel commissioned by the Clark Library This performance will be held inside the Library’s wheelchair accessible drawing room. “What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Award-winning theater company Box Tale […]

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Day 2)

Published: October 21, 2018

Sunday, October 21, 2018 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Arts on the Grounds The Picture of Dorian Gray Performed by Box Tale Soup An original adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel commissioned by the Clark Library This performance will be held inside the Library’s wheelchair accessible drawing room. “What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Award-winning theater company Box Tale […]

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India and the Early Modern World

Published: October 29, 2018

Monday, October 29, 2018 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – —a symposium on Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s latest books: Europe’s India and Empires Between Islam and Christianity Co-sponsored by Center for India and South Asia, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, Art History, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, and the Dean of Social Sciences. Details and schedule: www.international.ucla.edu/cisa/event/13374  

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Thriving by Symbiosis: Manuscript Culture and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade

Published: November 1, 2018

Thursday, November 1, 2018 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – Fourteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade —lecture given by Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University) This lecture will present several case studies of successful interdependence between the energetic and innovative London book trade of the eighteenth century and the socially networked production of writing in manuscript. Contrary to a longstanding notion that the expansion of […]

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To Love Beyond Death

Published: November 7, 2018

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 @ 7:30 pm PST – 9:30 pm PST – The UCLA Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and the UCLA Department of Theater warmly invite you to an upcoming dramatic reading of To Love Beyond Death on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Freud Playhouse Lobby, Macgowan Hall. Michael Hackett will be directing this new translation of Calderón de la Barca’s Amar después de la […]

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Hidden Treasures Unearthed: Armenian Arts and Culture of Eastern Europe

Published: November 16, 2018

Friday, November 16, 2018–Sunday, November 18, 2018 @ All Day – Organized under the Aegis of the President of the Republic of Armenia Sponsored by the Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies at UCLA in Celebration of its 50th Anniversary Co-Sponsored by JHM Charitable Foundation, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA Dean’s Discretionary Fund in […]

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