Sunday, January 7, 2024 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, December 5 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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Thursday, January 18, 2024 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST – Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing Lecture by Tia Blassingame, Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective, Scripps College Printmaker/book artist Tia Blassingame’s creative practice marries time in the reading room handling historical documents and time in the studio working with typefaces, ink, paper, paint, and dyes in order to develop artists’ books that help readers/viewers connect to history and […]
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Friday, February 2, 2024 @ 10:00 am PST – 5:30 pm PST – Conference organized by Kristopher W. Kersey, University of California, Los Angeles The highly urbanized nature of the Edo period—with its three metropolises of Osaka, Kyoto, and Edo—resulted in massive changes to the natural and built environments. The bustling economies of these cities fueled wide-reaching networks of production, trade, and environmental exploitation. The concept of nature itself, as well as the […]
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Saturday, February 3, 2024 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – In conjunction with the Center & Clark’s 2023-24 Core Program, Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603-1868, we are pleased to present a screening of Linda Hoaglund’s film, Edo Avant Garde. This film reveals the pivotal role Japanese artists of the Edo era played in setting the stage for the “modern art” movement in the West. […]
Read MoreWednesday, February 21, 2024 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST – William Andrews Clark Oscar Wilde Lecture Lecture by Joseph Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles This lecture sheds fresh light on the forty-six-year-old Oscar Wilde’s early death from encephalomeningitis at the shabby Hôtel d’Alsace on Friday, November 30, 1900, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. By drawing on documents held at the Clark Library that have […]
Read MoreThursday, March 7, 2024 @ 1:00 pm PST – 2:00 pm PST – –presented by Rebecca Smith, Doctoral Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register for this event, please fill out the form below. Using Book 12 of Bernardino de Sahagún’s Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España written around 1555 in Nahuatl and Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s Historia verdadera […]
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 @ 1:00 pm PDT – 2:00 pm PDT – Lecture by Sylvia Tongyan Qiu, Ph.D. Student in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship In 1692, Evert Ysbrants Ides, a Danish merchant living in the German quarters of Moscow, was sent to the Kangxi Emperor by Peter the Great as his ambassador. An account of his journey, Three Years […]
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Sunday, March 17, 2024 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, February 13 at 12:00 p.m. noon, via a link posted here at that time. 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 […]
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Sunday, April 14, 2024 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday, March 12 at 12:00 noon, via a link posted here at that time. General admission seats are $40, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only, valid UID for each student required) are $10. Purchases are non-refundable. To receive announcements when concert seats go on sale, please sign up for our mailing list. SOLD […]
Read More Friday, April 19, 2024 @ 10:00 am PDT – 5:30 pm PDT – Conference organized by Kristopher W. Kersey, University of California, Los Angeles To this day, many mistake Japan for a culturally homogenous society, yet this nationalistic myth is far from the truth. In an effort to underscore the diversity of early modern Japan, this conference will direct attention to two groups who are often marginalized if not absent in narratives of […]
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Saturday, April 27, 2024 @ 10:00 am PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – In conjunction with the Center & Clark’s 2023-24 Core Program, Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, we are pleased to collaborate with UKIYO-E PROJECT to present a printing demonstration and workshop focused on ukiyo-e, a centuries-old style of art that flourished in the Edo period. These traditional Japanese woodblock prints feature multiple colors and are printed […]
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Saturday, May 4, 2024 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – We regret to inform you that the concert has been cancelled, due to unforeseen circumstances for the Doric String Quartet. Please accept our apologies for the short notice of this cancellation. We are all disappointed, as we know you are, that the concert is not able to be held as scheduled. Refunds will be processed for all ticket purchases. Seats […]
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Thursday, May 9, 2024 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT – Lecture by John Sullivan, Ph.D. Student in History, Northwestern University. Recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship Between 1788 and 1793, the Frenchman Louis-Benjamin Fleuriau de Bellevue (1761–1852) trekked the length of Italy and climbed its Alpine peaks, a long sojourn that capped his years of training as a geologist and natural historian. Toward the end of […]
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Friday, May 17, 2024 @ 9:15 am PDT – 5:30 pm PDT – Conference organized by Anna Chen, Rebecca Fenning Marschall, and Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles The early modern period was a hothouse for the study of physical things in the natural world, and for the collection and assembly of them in human-made physical spaces. In other periods, botanical samples were preserved by diarists in their journals, such as Poems […]
Read MoreSaturday, May 18, 2024 @ 11:00 am PDT – 2:00 pm PDT – Due to unforeseen circumstances, we regret to inform you that this event has been postponed. A new date will be listed here and shared with all registrants. 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 is a library of living things on the five […]
Read MoreFriday, June 7, 2024–Saturday, June 8, 2024 @ 9:15 am PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Conference organized by Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles 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 […]
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Saturday, June 15, 2024 @ 1:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – Organized by Erin Severson, University of California, Los Angeles The Ballroom scene (at times synonymized with the performance art form of “vogue”) began in the Black and Brown queer club scene of late 1970s New York, and has since flourished as an increasingly globalized space for building personal identity and community. Please join us for this workshop on the vogue […]
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT –
Andrew McIntosh, violin, viola & Steven Vanhauwaert, piano
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Ambroise Aubrun, violin; Katrin Stamatis, violin; Virginie d’Avezac, viola; Jonathan Ruck, cello; Zachary Deak, piano
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT –
Jennifer Kloetzel, cello & Robert Koenig, piano
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