Wednesday, November 6, 2019 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:15 pm PST – Fifteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade —given by Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University The Stationers’ Register is one of the most consulted archival documents of the early modern period. It is also, frankly, one of the least understood. First established in 1557 by the London Stationers’ Company to record the publishing rights of its members […]
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019 @ 7:30 pm PST – 9:30 pm PST – Directed by Michael Hackett A new translation of Ana Caro’s play The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs has been produced by the UCLA Working Group The Comedia in Translation and Performance. This new version of the play receives a dramatic reading performed by the first-year students in the MFA Acting Program from the Department of Theater in the UCLA School of Theater, Film […]
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Friday, November 15, 2019 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:45 pm PST – A symposium organized by Helen Deutsch and Anna Chen (University of California, Los Angeles) In fall 2009 Paul Chrzanowski, a physicist and bibliophile in California, donated his collection of seventy-two early English books to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Nine additional titles followed in 2014, and twenty-one more in 2018. It is the most valuable and important donation made […]
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Friday, November 22, 2019–Saturday, November 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am PST – 3:00 pm PST – A two-day symposium and dramatic prequel to the world premiere of the new opera Juana Friday, November 22, 2019, 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, November 23, 2019, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314 Co-sponsored by UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music; UCLA College of Letters and Science, Division of Humanities; UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies; UCLA Center […]
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Sunday, December 8, 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 Rolston String Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday, October 31, 2019. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Rolston String Quartet Luri Lee, violin Emily Kruspe, violin Hezekiah Leung, viola Jonathan Lo, cello Canada’s […]
Read MoreWednesday, February 5, 2020 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST – Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Catherine Molineux, Vanderbilt University In the early 1730s, a Senegambian named Ayuba Suleiman Diallo came to London after being redeemed from slavery in colonial Maryland by the Georgia colony leader, James Oglethorpe. This lecture will explore the circumstances by which he emancipated himself from bondage, which included raising funds from various elite Britons who were interested […]
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Friday, February 21, 2020 @ 10:00 am PST – 4:30 pm PST – —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College) The year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia, the first permanent colony in British North America, for three reasons—it marked the beginning of a representative government; the arrival of captive African laborers; and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage […]
Read More Saturday, February 22, 2020 @ 10:00 am PST – 12:45 pm PST – —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College) The year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia, the first permanent colony in British North America, for three reasons—it marked the beginning of a representative government; the arrival of captive African laborers; and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage […]
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Saturday, February 29, 2020–Sunday, March 1, 2020 @ 3:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST – Presented by Opera UCLA, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library On February 29 and March 1, 2020, we co-hosted with Opera UCLA and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music two performances of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers at the Clark Library. The […]
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Saturday, March 7, 2020 @ 9:00 am PST – 5:00 pm PST – –conference organized by Anna Chen (Head Librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA) and Johanna Drucker (Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, UCLA) How will special collections libraries be sustained in the near and long-term future? Issues of sustainability touch every aspect of library activity—collections development, resource allocation, ethical issues in balancing priorities and juggling professional practices, the use of digitization, […]
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Saturday, March 14, 2020 @ 10:00 am PDT – 2:00 pm PDT – Due to concerns over the COVID-19 virus this event has been postponed. Natural History at the Clark Presents A workshop co-hosted by the Clark Library, and Occidental College’s Special Collections and Moore Lab of Zoology The Clark Library preserves and provides access to over 130,000 books, manuscripts, and artworks dating from the 15th century to the present, but there […]
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Sunday, March 22, 2020 @ 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 Ying Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, January 23, 2020. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 13, 2020. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Ying Quartet Robin Scott, violin Janet Ying, violin Phillip Ying, viola David Ying, cello The Ying Quartet […]
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Sunday, April 5, 2020 @ 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 Markus Groh concert seats posts here on Thursday, February 6, 2020. Lottery registration closes Thursday, February 27, 2020. Learn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats. Markus Groh (piano) Pianist Markus Groh gained global attention after winning the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in 1995. Since […]
Read More Friday, April 17, 2020 @ 9:00 am PDT – 3:30 pm PDT – This event is has been adapted to a one day online event. Speakers will present online via a Zoom Webinar, attendees will have multiple options to watch and listen in. Zoom access instructions for this conference will be sent to registered attendees. Please register for this online conference by completing the Booking Form below. —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University […]
Read More Saturday, April 18, 2020 @ 10:00 am PDT – This event has been adapted to a one day online event. There will no longer be a second day to this conference. —organized by Brenda E. Stevenson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College) The year 1619 was designated as the red-letter year in Virginia, the first permanent colony in British North America, for three reasons—it […]
Read MoreMonday, April 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Elena Schneider, University of California, Berkeley This lecture explores the phenomenon of maritime marronage in the Caribbean, or enslaved fugitives who stole boats and escaped slavery by sea. Across the long eighteenth century hundreds of men, women, and children fled enslavement in the colony of one imperial power by fleeing across a border to find refuge […]
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Sunday, April 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – This event is postponed, as we continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation daily and follow the public gathering guidelines set by UCLA, our local government officials, and the CDC. Please check our website for future updates. Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Cheng² Duo concert seats posts here on Thursday, February […]
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Sunday, May 10, 2020 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – This event is postponed, as we continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation daily and follow the public gathering guidelines set by UCLA, our local government officials, and the CDC. Please check our website for future updates. Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via lottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Borromeo String Quartet concert seats posts here on Thursday, […]
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Friday, May 15, 2020 @ 10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – –conference organized by Joseph Bristow (UCLA) This conference will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials, which arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male […]
Read More Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 10:00 am PDT – 12:30 pm PDT – –conference organized by Joseph Bristow (UCLA) This conference will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials, which arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male […]
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