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Markus Groh (piano)
Published: December 9, 2018
Sunday, December 9, 2018 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Markus Groh concert seats posts here on Thursday, October 11, 2018. Lottery registration closes Thursday, November 1, 2018. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Pianist Markus Groh gained immediate world attention after winning the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in 1995, the […]
Read MoreLet Spades Be Trumps: Playing Historical Card Games
Published: December 15, 2018
Saturday, December 15, 2018 @ 1:30 pm PST – 4:30 pm PST – “Let Spades be trumps!” cried Belinda, absorbed in a card game in Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock. Game play in early modern England served complex uses. It was both an important element of domestic sociability and a sign of moral degeneracy and dissipation. Playing cards provided rich metaphors for approaching the relationship between calculation and chance, from political machinations to commercial […]
Read MoreShanghai Quartet
Published: January 13, 2019
Sunday, January 13, 2019 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Shanghai Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, November 15, 2018. Lottery registration closes Thursday, December 6, 2018. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Shanghai Quartet Weigang Li, violin Yi-Wen Jiang, violin Honggang Li, viola Nicholas Tzavaras, cello “A wonderfully ferocious […]
Read MoreMaterial Flows (Day 1)
Published: February 1, 2019
Friday, February 1, 2019 @ 9:30 am PST – 4:45 pm PST – Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 2: Material Flows —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 to […]
Read MoreMaterial Flows (Day 2)
Published: February 2, 2019 Saturday, February 2, 2019 @ 9:30 am PST – 1:00 pm PST – Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 2: Material Flows —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 to […]
Read MoreArgus Quartet
Published: February 10, 2019
Sunday, February 10, 2019 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Argus Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, December 13, 2018. Lottery registration closes Thursday, January 3, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Argus Quartet Jason Issokson, violin Clara Kim, violin Dana Kelley, viola Joann Whang, cello Praised for their […]
Read MoreWilliam Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde: Wilde and the Law
Published: February 20, 2019
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST – —lecture by Simon Stern (University of Toronto) The legal dimensions of Wilde’s writing and his life have often been explored through research on his trials; however, in his penchant for epigram and paradox, we might find another way to consider the legal dispositions of his work. Wilde’s epigrams strive not so much to be true, as to reveal a kind […]
Read MoreExodus and Exile: Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers 1750–1850 (Day 1)
Published: February 22, 2019
Friday, February 22, 2019 @ 10:00 am PST – 5:00 pm PST – —conference organized by Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago), Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University), and Sarah Tindal Kareem (UCLA) Co-sponsored by Interacting with Print During the so-called Romantic century, 1750–1850, the flow of people across national borders fed an emergent literature of internal alienation, fostered new demographic preoccupations in contemporary historiography, underwrote new theories of political justice, and […]
Read MoreExodus and Exile: Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers 1750–1850 (Day 2)
Published: February 23, 2019Saturday, February 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am PST – 1:00 pm PST – —a conference organized by Jayne Lewis (University of California, Irvine), Josephine McDonagh (King’s College London), Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University), and Sarah Tindal Kareem (UCLA) Co-sponsored by Interacting with Print During the so-called Romantic century, 1750–1850, the flow of people across national borders fed an emergent literature of internal alienation, fostered new demographic preoccupations in contemporary […]
Read MoreComparative Pornographies: Transnational Approaches to Writing Sex, East and West (Day 1)
Published: March 8, 2019
Friday, March 8, 2019 @ 9:30 am PST – 5:45 pm PST – —conference organized by Andrea S. Goldman (UCLA), Kathryn Norberg (UCLA) and Paola Zamperini (Northwestern University) At the end of the twentieth century, scholars of European pornography began to explore obscenity and its implications for our understanding of the time that produced it, the seventeenth and, especially, eighteenth centuries. A world of previously ignored texts came to light, producing new theories […]
Read MoreComparative Pornographies: Transnational Approaches to Writing Sex, East and West (Day 2)
Published: March 9, 2019 Saturday, March 9, 2019 @ 9:30 am PST – 1:15 pm PST – —conference organized by Andrea S. Goldman (UCLA), Kathryn Norberg (UCLA) and Paola Zamperini (Northwestern University) At the end of the twentieth century, scholars of European pornography began to explore obscenity and its implications for our understanding of the time that produced it, the seventeenth and, especially, eighteenth centuries. A world of previously ignored texts came to light, producing new theories […]
Read MoreAmerican String Quartet
Published: March 24, 2019
Sunday, March 24, 2019 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for American String Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, January 24, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 14, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. American String Quartet Peter Winograd, violin Laurie Carney, violin Daniel Avshalomov viola Wolfram Koessel, cello “…luxurious, […]
Read MoreIsraeli Chamber Project
Published: April 7, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Israeli Chamber Project seats posts here on Thursday, January 31, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 21, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Israeli Chamber Project Daniel Bard, violin Tibi Cziger, clarinet Guy Ben-Ziony, viola Tony Rymer, cello Assaff Weisman, […]
Read MoreThe Dialectic of Private and Public Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Published: April 12, 2019
Friday, April 12, 2019 @ 10:00 am PDT – 5:15 pm PDT – —conference organized by Rebecca Jean Emigh (UCLA), Dylan Riley (UC Berkeley), Patricia Ahmed (South Dakota State University) Knowledge is understood to be a social product that is both shaped by and subsequently affects the society from whence it sprang. Bringing together a wide variety of scholars working on different aspects of the social construction of knowledge and different forms containing […]
Read MoreOn Books, Soap Opera, and River Rafting
Published: April 24, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 5:15 pm PDT – Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing –lecture by Carolee Campbell (Ninja Press) In celebration of Ninja Press’s 35th anniversary, sole proprietor Carolee Campbell will discuss her life leading up to the founding of the press, share her influences along the way, and explain how an actress, trained in and devoted to the theatre, fell into a long and […]
Read MoreOther Worlds (Day 1)
Published: May 3, 2019 Friday, May 3, 2019 @ 9:30 am PDT – 4:45 pm PDT – Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 3: Other Worlds —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 to […]
Read MoreOther Worlds (Day 2)
Published: May 4, 2019 Saturday, May 4, 2019 @ 9:30 am PDT – 1:00 pm PDT – Core Program 2018–19 Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization Conference 3: Other Worlds —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 to […]
Read MoreThe Pitfalls of Eighteenth Century Biography: Denis Diderot, a Case Study
Published: May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – —Andrew Curran, Wesleyan University In this wide-ranging talk, Andrew Curran will introduce his new book, Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (Other Press, 2019), before taking up the question of what it is like to shift from writing intellectual history for an academic audience to writing a biography for a general audience. Andrew Curran is the William Armstrong Professor […]
Read MoreBoston Trio
Published: May 12, 2019
Sunday, May 12, 2019 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Boston Trio concert seats posts here on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, April 4, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Boston Trio Irina Muresanu, violin Jonah Ellsworth, cello Heng-Jin Park, piano “Whenever this trio plays, drop everything […]
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