Tuesday, December 7, 2021 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST – ASL interpretation will be provided to live attendees. The webinar will feature Zoom’s live transcription feature, which provides automatic captioning through closed caption settings. The webinar will be recorded and will be posted to the Center’s YouTube channel at a future date. Sixteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade –given by Sarah Neville, The Ohio State […]

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST – by Elisabeth Le Guin, Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles, and Alejandro García Sudo, Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles Presented online via Zoom meeting. Please register to attend: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUodOitrj8uHNxgHT3wkh4bhUC09V2wauWL  This session presents an overview of Le Guin’s and Garcia Sudo’s recent explorations of the tonadilla, a type of satirical musical comedy that enjoyed outstanding popularity […]

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 @ 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST – by Rebecca Jean Emigh (Professor of Sociology, UCLA) Presented online via Zoom meeting. Please register to attend: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrdu-vpjojHdDRzVCyAY2UuDraewW6QqPl When speaking to a person face to face—which Berger and Luckmann consider to be “prototypical” communication—authenticity, truth, and social position can be judged by seeing, listening, and speaking. Seeing and listening allows individuals to judge a person’s appearance and demeanor and thus […]

Monday, February 7, 2022 @ 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST – –presented by Shannon Forest, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register for this event and receive the pre-circulated paper draft, please email the Early Modern Research Group. In Poems and Fancies (1653), Margaret Cavendish writes: “Motion can’t dilate nor yet contract/ A body which is close, firm, and compact.” […]

Thursday, February 10, 2022 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST – by Leigh-Michil George (English/Humanities Educator, Department of English, Geffen Academy, UCLA) Respondent: Lauren Dembowitz, (University of Colorado, Boulder) Presented online via Zoom meeting. Please register to attend: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrde2tpjksG9weq8OG1KdWS_2q6xDxK0cD This talk reimagines the term “Regency Noir” as encompassing two different strands of Regency romance-inspired narratives which foreground Black characters. The first strand of Regency Noir follows historical events, while the second […]

Thursday, February 24, 2022 @ 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST – -presented by Drew Erin Becker Lash, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register for this event, please email the Early Modern Research Group. This presentation examines a small number of works on paper by the seventeenth-century Genoese artist, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Exploring his experimental handling of materials, […]

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 @ 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST – given by Carina Johnson (Professor of History, Pitzer College and Extended Faculty, Claremont Graduate University) and Ayesha Ramachandran (Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Chair of the Program in Renaissance Studies, Yale University) Respondent: Lisa Voigt (Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University) Presented online via Zoom Meeting. This event is free of charge, but you must register to […]

Thursday, April 28, 2022 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT – William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde –given by Merlin Holland This lecture was livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel and made available to watch for a limited time after the event.  Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, writes, lectures and broadcasts regularly on the subject of his grandfather’s life. His publications include Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, […]