‘Wild and Ungovernable Passions’: Emotional Scripts and the Fate of U.S. Expansion in the Vigilante Rocky Mountain West, 1864–1866

Published: February 25, 2025

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 @ 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST – Lecture by Abby Gibson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Southern California. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship During the first two months of 1864, Montana Territory was in the throes of a violent spate of “vigilante justice” that resulted in the hangings of twenty-two men, including the Sheriff of Bannack City, Idaho Territory, and what […]

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Ariel Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

Published: March 2, 2025

Sunday, March 2, 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, February 4 at 12:00 […]

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Works-in-Progress Session: The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City

Published: March 6, 2025

Thursday, March 6, 2025 @ 12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST – Presented by Sofia Yazpik, 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/27QJuD5aR7CWYepuuHGUBA The Codex Osuna, or the Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México (Painting of the Municipal Governor, Judges, and Councilors of Mexico), is a pictorial and Nahuatl-language text produced by Nahuas for […]

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Preserving Your Family History

Published: March 8, 2025

Saturday, March 8, 2025 @ 10:00 am PST – 12:30 pm PST – Join us at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library to learn the basics of understanding and caring for your family heirlooms with the Clark’s librarians and conservators from the UCLA Library Preservation & Conservation Department. Many of us have inherited collections of family papers, scrapbooks, photographs, albums, or treasured books that we’re not quite sure how to handle. These items […]

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Katherine Philips, Meta-Metaphysical Poet

Published: March 10, 2025

Monday, March 10, 2025 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT – Lecture by Arya Sureshbabu, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship Katherine Philips (1632–64) occupies an unusual place in the canon of seventeenth-century poetry. Now alternatively billed as an apostle of female friendship or a proto-sapphic icon, she was also known in her own time as an exemplary practitioner […]

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Cases and Scale in Historiography

Published: March 14, 2025

Friday, March 14, 2025 @ 10:00 am PDT – 4:40 pm PDT – Conference organized by Michael Osman and Cristóbal Amunátegui (University of California, Los Angeles) In the last few decades, debates stemming from the science and history “wars” have called attention to the ways in which cases are constructed and proven across disciplines. This has led to questions about the nature and selection of evidence, the role of scale, and the function […]

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La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina (The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina)

Published: March 23, 2025

Sunday, March 23, 2025 @ 10:00 am PDT – 12:30 pm PDT – 400th Anniversary Performance of the First Woman-Composed Opera Organized by UCLA Early Music Ensemble and L.A. Camerata Co-sponsored by The Colburn Foundation The UCLA Early Music Ensemble and L.A. Camerata will celebrate Early Music Month and Women’s History Month with an outdoor performance of the first opera composed by a woman. Caccini’s Alcina depicts a power struggle between two women—demigodess […]

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Works-in-Progress Session: Transatlantic Book History: Black Humor in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda

Published: April 9, 2025

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 @ 12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT – Presented by Erin Severson, 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/iISb0vh0TDiwV7SWDigUWQ The praxis of transatlantic book history is contingent on one’s ability to conduct extensive research on the material conditions of the trade in both books and bodies—which were treated as interchangeable commodities in […]

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Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities

Published: April 11, 2025

Friday, April 11, 2025–Saturday, April 12, 2025 @ 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 tangible realities of daily life and the patterns of exchange in the Caribbean and the other Atlantic regions integrated into the Caribbean’s orbit enhance our understanding of the local […]

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Energy Transitions in Long Modernity (Day 1)

Published: April 25, 2025

Friday, April 25, 2025 @ 9:00 am PDT – 12:00 pm PDT – Conference organized by Robert N. Watson (University of California, Los Angeles), Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis), and Todd Borlik (Purdue University) Co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the UC Davis Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/16-Z8Yv_S0y3k18NdEb-Ew The recent turn to the ‘energy humanities’ is only […]

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Borromeo String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

Published: April 27, 2025

Sunday, April 27, 2025 @ 2:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – 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, March 25 at 12:00 […]

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