Posts Tagged: Humanities

A performance by the New York-based Calidore String Quartet kicked off the 30th season of Chamber Music at the Clark. The Nov. 17 recital was dedicated to the memory of Peter Hanns Reill (1938–2019), who founded the concert series and served for nearly two decades as its director. In addition to the Calidore’s performance, the program featured…

On October 18-19, the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library hosted the first conference in this year’s Core Program on the Early Global Caribbean, bringing together scholars to explore the cultural, political, and economic convergences that defined the early Caribbean world. The conference’s overarching theme, the interactions between Indigenous peoples, Africans, and European colonizers, showcased…

The Caribbean has always been a region of dynamic convergence, where peoples, ideas, and technologies intermingled in complicated ways. In her talk, “Caribbean Kaleidoscope: Convergence and Transformation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” Professor Ida Altman of the University of Florida explored this history on Thursday, October 17 at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library….

Speaking in person to an intimate gathering of scholars, curators, students, and artists, followed by a lively discussion, Johanna Drucker’s spotlight talk on Los Angeles-based wood engraver Paul Landacre (1893-1963) provided important insights into an under-explored area in the Clark Library’s collection. Drucker outlined three main points: Landacre’s constant struggle to earn a living with…

During my month’s residence as a History of Science Fellow at the Clark Library, I was able to conduct archival research to support my doctoral dissertation, “On Vegetables and Vermin: The Politics of Insect-Plant Encounters from the Early Modern to the Anthropocene.” This project foregrounds the ways in which interactions between plants and insects, from…

Chamber Music at the Clark will be celebrating its 30th anniversary season in 2024–25. Thanks to the generous support of Friends of the Clark, the series has presented over 175 concerts, featuring some of the world’s finest chamber ensembles, in its uniquely intimate drawing room venue with its superb acoustics. The anniversary season will feature two…

On October 10, 2024, the Clark Library continued our Arts on The Grounds programming with a lecture and demonstration of “Kunqu Opera Performance: Techniques and Characteristics,” sponsored by UCLA Asia Pacific Center and Center for Chinese Studies. Elements of the event included a robust book display, as well as costuming representative of some of the…

On Sunday, September 28, over 180 visitors graced the grounds of the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library for its annual open house and adopt-a-book fair. Our staff invited scholars, local families, curious community members, and regular supporters of the Clark Library to explore our historic rare book and manuscript library, built in 1926 by…

Congratulations to Anna Chen, who has been appointed Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Director of Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina. She will oversee 50 staff in 5 curatorial units: Research and Instructional Services, Technical Services, Preservation and Conservation Services, the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, and exhibitions and engagement programs….

The Center and Clark thank the following for their generous support during 2023–2024: Major Supporters The Ahmanson Foundation Catherine G. Benkaim and Barbara A. Timmer Legacy Fund Frances L. Brody* Garden Endowment at The Clark Memorial Library Henry J. Bruman* Endowments for Chamber Music at the Clark and Summer Chamber Music Festival Dr. Paul L….

Congratulations to Anna Chen, who has been appointed Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Director of Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina. She will oversee 50 staff in 5 curatorial units: Research and Instructional Services, Technical Services, Preservation and Conservation Services, the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, and exhibitions and engagement programs….

We are pleased to announce that Professor Carla Gardina Pestana, Distinguished Professor and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World (Department of History), will serve as Director of the Center for 17th– & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library for Academic Year 2024-25. Professor Pestana studies the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century…

On May 9, John Sullivan, a PhD candidate in history at Northwestern University, delivered an online lecture as a 2023–2024 recipient of the Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship. The lecture considered how cities figured in and spurred the production of various genres of historical writing that naturalists and governmental officials used to comprehend catastrophic…

While the nationalistic myth of Japan as a homogeneous society has persisted, two marginalized groups—the Ainu and the Ryūkyūan—challenge this misconception. This pivotal topic took center stage at the final conference of the Open Edo series, hosted at the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library on April 19, 2024. Titled “Edo Outsiders: Ainu and Ryūkyūan…

The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) hosts Webinar: Library Showcase II.  Ikumi Crocoll will present for the Clark Library.  Join us on Thursday, June 13, 2024 as staff from libraries with holdings of interest to early modern researchers will present on their collections. This webinar will showcase resources at William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA),…

We are pleased to announce that Raphaëlle Burns, Assistant Professor, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) and Javier Patiño Loira, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, are recent fellowship recipients at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Information on their research can be found in the following links; Raphaëlle Burns…

On March 12, Sylvia Tongyan Qiu, a first-year Ph.D. student in Art History at UCLA delivered an online lecture as the recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship. The lecture delved into the intersection of early modern diplomatic literature and the European representation of Chinese architecture. In her lecture, Qiu explored the journeys of European ambassadors…

On Saturday, February 3, 2024, the Clark Library held a film screening of Linda Hoaglund’s film, Edo Avant Garde. The screening was followed by a Q&A and reception with the filmmaker, which allowed viewers to explore their thoughts after unfolding Edo Art.  Kristopher Kersey arranged this special viewing in conjunction with the Center & Clark’s 2023-24 Core…

On February 2, 2024, the scholarly conference “Eco Edo: Ecological Perspectives on Early Modern Japanese Art” was held, serving as a pivotal second event in the “Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868” series, organized by the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies. This year-long 2023-24 Core Program brought together six…

Oscar Wilde’s life has been examined in minute detail in numerous biographies and countless articles. But the details of his death have been widely misunderstood, according to UCLA’s Joseph Bristow. Bristow, a distinguished professor of English and leading scholar on Wilde, will help set the record straight in a free lecture at UCLA’s William Andrews…