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From Bodies to Things: The Commodification of Human Life in the Early Modern Atlantic [Day 1]
Published: May 19, 2023
Friday, May 19, 2023 @ 9:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – –conference organized by Tawny Paul and Andrew Apter (University of California, Los Angeles) This conference is free of charge. It will be held in person and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. To attend the conference in person, you must reserve your space by emailing the center( details at the bottom of this page). Bookings close on Monday, May 15, […]
Read MoreFrom Bodies to Things: The Commodification of Human Life in the Early Modern Atlantic [Day 2]
Published: May 20, 2023 Saturday, May 20, 2023 @ 9:00 am PDT – 2:00 pm PDT – –conference organized by Tawny Paul and Andrew Apter (University of California, Los Angeles) This conference is free of charge. It will be held in person and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. To attend the conference in person, you must reserve your space by emailing the center( details at the bottom of this page). Bookings close on Monday, May 15, 2023 at […]
Read MoreBeyond the ‘Global Renaissance’: Imperial Gardens and Early Modern Cosmopolitan Rule in Qing-Era Eurasia
Published: June 8, 2023Thursday, June 8, 2023 @ 12:30 pm PDT – 1:30 pm PDT –
Read MoreRegency Fun and Fanfare: A Workshop on Jane Austen and the Art of the Conversation Fan
Published: July 22, 2023
Saturday, July 22, 2023 @ 10:30 am PDT – 12:30 pm PDT – Discover the fascinating history and artistry of Regency-era conversations fans in this interactive workshop led by Dr. Leigh-Michil George. Delve into the Clark Library’s collection as we examine items that help us better understand Austen and her fiction, including a beautifully crafted conversation fan—The New Paris Conversation Fan for 1802—unravelling its secrets and hidden messages. Learn about Regency charades, a […]
Read MoreThe Felici Piano Trio (Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival)
Published: August 2, 2023
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT – Program Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Piano Trio in G Major, K. 564 (1788) I. Allegro II. Andante III. Allegretto Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (1861) I. Allegro II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo — Trio: Animato III. Andante con moto IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto with Ambroise Aubrun, viola The Henry J. Bruman […]
Read MoreMozart and Brahms Piano Quartets (Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival)
Published: August 3, 2023
Thursday, August 3, 2023 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT – Program Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor (1785) I. Allegro II. Andante III. Rondo (Allegro) Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Piano Quartet No. 3, Op. 60 (1875) I. Allegro non troppo II. Scherzo: Allegro III. Andante IV. Finale: Allegro comodo The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is being held this summer in Lani Hall, a […]
Read MoreMartin Chalifour & Friends (Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival)
Published: August 9, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT – Due to an isolated facilities incident in the Schoenberg Music Building, we were unable to host or livestream the concert in Lani Hall. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Program Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) String Quartet Op. 50 No. 6 in D Major (1787) I. Allegro II. Poco Adagio III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Finale: Allegro con spirito Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) String […]
Read MoreFresno State Piano Trio (Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival)
Published: August 10, 2023
Thursday, August 10, 2023 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT – Please note the concert will take place in the Ensemble Rehearsal Room in the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center, 2520 Schoenberg Music Building. The location was moved from Lani Hall due to the facilities incident on August 9. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. Program Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8 (1854) I. […]
Read MoreExpanding the Boundaries of the Republic of Letters: Il Caffè, Enlightened Italy, and the Global Enlightenment
Published: September 22, 2023Friday, September 22, 2023–Saturday, September 23, 2023 @ 10:00 am PDT – 5:30 pm PDT – Conference organized by Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach, and Sabrina Ferri, Independent Scholar Co-sponsored by the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies, California State University, Long Beach Born out of an extraordinary confluence of talent in the socio-political context of Habsburg Lombardy, Il Caffè (1764–66) was a short-lived but wide-ranging periodical, which would prove […]
Read MoreClark Library Open House and Adopt-A-Book Fair
Published: October 7, 2023Saturday, October 7, 2023 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – All are welcome to attend the Open House and Adopt-A-Book Fair at the Clark Library! Explore and enjoy the expansive grounds and historical rooms, and consider adopting a book in the Clark Library’s collection. Donations, which are optional, will provide essential funding for the acquisition, preservation, and conservation of the library’s collections, and directly support the library’s work of caring […]
Read MoreOpen Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, Conference 1: Global Edo: Edo in the World and the World in Edo
Published: October 13, 2023
Friday, October 13, 2023 @ 10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – Conference organized by Kristopher W. Kersey, University of California, Los Angeles The subject of this initial conference is the longstanding myth that Japan was hermetically sealed from the rest of the world from the 1630s to 1853. While international travel and trade were indeed forbidden, Japan remained networked with those beyond its shores through trade with the continent, the Dutch, […]
Read MoreThe Forgotten Canopy: Ephemeral Architecture Workshop with Everett Osceola, Seminole Nation
Published: October 15, 2023Sunday, October 15, 2023 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 3:00 pm PDT – The fourth and final workshop associated with the 2022–2023 Core Program “The Forgotten Canopy” will be held on October 15, 2023. This community-based workshop will take place at Sage Hill Native Plants and Wildlife Habitat on the UCLA campus. The event will open with lunch and then, Everett Osceola, Cultural Ambassador for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, will talk about […]
Read MoreNotos Quartett, Chamber Music at the Clark
Published: October 29, 2023
Sunday, October 29, 2023 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, September 26 at 12:00 p.m. noon, via the following link. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limited. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our […]
Read MoreModigliani Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark
Published: November 4, 2023
Saturday, November 4, 2023 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, October 3 at 12:00 p.m. noon, via the following link. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limited. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our […]
Read MoreSpotlight Talk: “Citing Race and Seeing Death in Shakespeare”
Published: November 15, 2023Wednesday, November 15, 2023 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST – Talk by Professor Arthur L. Little, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles This talk, which begins with Ben Jonson’s reading of Shakespeare in the First Folio and ends with the promotion of the iconic image of Lawrence Olivier as Hamlet in that play’s graveyard scene, focuses in between on the citation of a racialized Blackness circulating throughout Shakespeare’s plays. By […]
Read MoreCooking the Books: Manuscript Recipe Books, Early Modern English Literature, and the Twenty-First-Century Kitchen
Published: November 30, 2023Thursday, November 30, 2023 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST – Lecture by Marissa Nicosia, The Pennsylvania State University – Abington College Manuscript recipe books are full of intriguing, strange, and familiar concoctions: recipes for syllabubs, turnip cordial water, jumballs, and carrot pudding. When Dr. Nicosia launched Cooking in the Archives in 2014, she wanted to know what would happen if culinary historians asked questions in the kitchen as well as in the […]
Read MoreConverting Natural Resources: Representations, Performances, Narratives
Published: December 1, 2023Friday, December 1, 2023–Saturday, December 2, 2023 @ 9:00 am PST – 6:00 pm PST – Conference organized by Elisa Antonietta Daniele, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles/University of Bologna and Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles Co-sponsored by Making Green Worlds, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant, and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program. This conference considers visual, textual, material, and performative engagement with […]
Read More“Chatting on paper”: Conversation and Correspondence in the World of Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800)
Published: December 5, 2023Tuesday, December 5, 2023 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST – Eighteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade Lecture by Elizabeth Eger, King’s College London Elizabeth Montagu, dubbed “Queen of the Bluestockings” by Samuel Johnson, was an author, an industrialist, and an avid consumer of books, who valued reading as the route to intellectual freedom. Famous in her lifetime, she was at the heart of several Enlightenment […]
Read MoreTakács Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark
Published: December 10, 2023
Sunday, December 10, 2023 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, November 7 at 12:00 p.m. noon, via the following link. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limited. Purchases are non-refundable. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign […]
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