Thursday, August 8, 2024 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT –
Maria Ioudenitch, violin; Zhanbo Zheng, viola; Zachary Mowitz, cello
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LA Escena 2024 | Los Angeles Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater
Published: September 12, 2024Thursday, September 12, 2024–Tuesday, September 17, 2024 @ 7:00 pm PDT – 9:00 pm PDT – UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics will be hosting LA Escena 2024, a festival celebrating Hispanic classical theater, from September 12–17th at the newly renovated Nimoy Theater in Westwood. Come see inventive presentations of Spanish Golden Age works by acclaimed artists from around the world – tickets are free but space is limited, so reserve today! Kicking off National Hispanic Heritage Month, […]
Read MoreClark Library Open House and Adopt-A-Book Fair
Published: September 28, 2024Saturday, September 28, 2024 @ 2:30 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 MoreAppreciation of Kunqu Opera Performance: Techniques and Characteristics
Published: October 10, 2024Thursday, October 10, 2024 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – Organized by Yinghui Wu (University of California, Los Angeles) and Kunqu Opera Society USA Co-sponsored by UCLA Asia Pacific Center and Center for Chinese Studies Kunqu Opera, with a history spanning over 600 years, stands alongside Greek and Sanskrit drama as one of the world’s three most ancient theatrical traditions. In Kunqu, there is no sound that is not song, […]
Read MoreCaribbean Kaleidoscope: Convergence and Transformation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Published: October 17, 2024Thursday, October 17, 2024 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT – Lecture by Ida Altman, Professor Emerita, University of Florida As Iberians in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries expanded into the Atlantic world they intentionally and unintentionally created conditions for the unprecedented convergence of peoples and cultures in the Caribbean that would transform them and the region as a whole. The dimensions and complexities of that process can be […]
Read MoreEarly Global Caribbean: Conference 1: Convergences
Published: October 18, 2024Friday, October 18, 2024–Saturday, October 19, 2024 @ 10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT – Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World The Caribbean became global through successive aggregations of disparate peoples across a wide span of time. Long before the arrival of Europeans, the Caribbean Sea served as a bridge among […]
Read MoreReading Paul Landacre’s Archive with the Clark Collections: California Landscape and the Erasure of Indigeneity
Published: October 23, 2024Wednesday, October 23, 2024 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT – Second Annual Spotlight Talk by Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Paul Landacre was a wood engraver and artist whose first published work, California Hills (1931), established his reputation within the Fine Press community of Los Angeles. Highly skilled as an engraver, he produced a considerable corpus of acclaimed work, and […]
Read MoreCuarteto Casals, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary
Published: November 2, 2024Saturday, November 2, 2024 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – New this season: All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, October […]
Read MoreFunding London’s Elite Music Scene Through the Profits of Slavery in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond: Bio-Bibliographical Work as Reparative History
Published: November 13, 2024Wednesday, November 13, 2024 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST – Nineteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade Lecture by David Hunter, Librarian Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin Until eleven years ago, when David Hunter found Handel’s signature on several share transfer slips in the records of the Royal African Company at The National Archives, Kew, London, no one had thought to investigate the ways in […]
Read MoreCalidore String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary
Published: November 17, 2024Sunday, November 17, 2024 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – New this season: All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, October […]
Read MoreWorks-in-Progress Session: In tlateutoqujliztli: Translating “Idolatry” in the Appendix of Book 1 of the Florentine Codex
Published: November 18, 2024Monday, November 18, 2024 @ 3:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – Presented by Chase Caldwell Smith, PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please fill out the form below. The Florentine Codex is best known as a rich sixteenth-century repository of information – in text and image – of Nahua culture, society, and religion. However, one passage in […]
Read MoreMapping Dry Land: Valparaíso and Late-Sixteenth-Century Morisco Ecologies
Published: November 19, 2024Tuesday, November 19, 2024 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST – Lecture by María Lumbreras, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara In the spring of 1595, a series of archeological discoveries near the Spanish city of Granada initiated the first formal investigation into Iberian sacred antiquities explicitly modeled after a judicial inquiry. Strikingly, a considerable portion of the Sacromonte inquest file revolves around a […]
Read MoreWorks-in-Progress Session: Ocean Floors, Mountain Peaks, and the Korallenberge from the Ambras Kunstkammer
Published: November 21, 2024Thursday, November 21, 2024 @ 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST – Presented by Sylvia Tongyan Qiu, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwudOytqz8oGNWgHQ9o707obSooHGurrrtq Transfiguring between the submarine and the “exterranean” worlds, red coral branches on the miniature mountains (known as “Korallenberge”) in the Ambras Kunstkammer connect the depths of the Mediterranean with Alpine mountainscapes. In […]
Read MoreBalourdet Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary
Published: December 15, 2024Sunday, December 15, 2024 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, November 12 at 12:00 […]
Read MoreSlavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
Published: January 9, 2025Thursday, January 9, 2025 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST – Book Talk by Chloe L. Ireton, Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500–1800, University College London Chloe L. Ireton is a Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500–1800 at University College London and is currently also a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2023–2026). Ireton’s first monograph, Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in […]
Read MoreCancelled: Energy Transitions in Long Modernity
Published: January 10, 2025Friday, January 10, 2025 @ 9:30 am PST – 5:30 pm PST – UPDATE 1/9/25: Due to the ongoing wildfires in our area and a recent update from UCLA administration curtailing campus operations and cancelling classes today and tomorrow, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the conference. We are working with the organizers on a potential remote session later in Winter or Spring Quarter, and thank you for your understanding. Conference […]
Read MoreSpanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV
Published: January 23, 2025Thursday, January 23, 2025 @ 4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST – Book Talk by Amander Wunder, Professor of History and Art History at the City University of New York, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center Amanda Wunder will speak about her latest book, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV, which reconstructs the life and work of Mateo Aguado, a court tailor who […]
Read MoreTrio Bohémo, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary
Published: January 26, 2025Sunday, January 26, 2025 @ 2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST – All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, December 17 at 12:00 […]
Read MoreWorks-in-Progress Session: Drawings for the Medici Trionfi da Tavola (1646–1670) and the Corporeal Nature of Vessels in Early Modern Florence
Published: January 27, 2025Monday, January 27, 2025 @ 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST – Presented by Emily Ann Ostlander, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-2vpj0oEtEnrJdCJuoDudU5rn4nCj7B A drawing in ink and blue wash from a series of table-top creations known as the Trionfi da Tavola presents viewers with a design for a fantastic ewer. The vessel is devised […]
Read MoreEarly Global Caribbean: Conference 2: Convictions
Published: February 21, 2025Friday, February 21, 2025–Saturday, February 22, 2025 @ 10:00 am PST – 4:30 pm PST – Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World The diverse peoples who converged on the Caribbean before 1700 held a range of differing beliefs, ideas about the natural world, and understandings of social, political, and spiritual order. Considering […]
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