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SUMMARY:Early Modern Skies
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Professors Lyle Massey (University of California\, Irvine)\, Vin Nardizzi (The University of British Columbia)\, Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California\, Davis)\, and Bronwen Wilson (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art \nConference organizers are grateful to the Hannah & Edward Carter Endowment for 17th-Century Art History for generous programming support. \nCritiquing the environmental humanities’ narrowly earth-centric focus\, Carl Phelphstead asks us to look heavenward\, to think “cosmocritically” and expand our awareness for how attitudes towards the heaven shape those on earth. What is sky? Both a border for land and sea\, and a blank canvas for portents and celestial events\, sky reflects fears and hopes for stasis in a changing and unpredictable environment. \nThis conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore early modern concepts of sky from a variety of environmentally consequential perspectives\, from the history of science and art\, to poetics and literature. \nThe list of speakers\, the conference schedule\, and the registration form are available on our website. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in person at the Clark Library. \nRegistration will close on Monday\, February 2 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/early-modern-skies/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Printing the Gothic: Horace Walpole and the Reimagining of English Aesthetic Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is pleased to present the exhibition Printing the Gothic: Horace Walpole and the Reimagining of English Aesthetic Tradition\, curated by Edward Hyunsoo Yang\, Loren and Frances Rothschild Endowed Graduate Research Fellow. \nThe Gothic has long carried a reputation of being little more than cheap entertainment: a genre thought to possess limited literary or cultural value. This exhibit challenges that view by tracing the Gothic’s connection to a collective cultural effort to establish\, and promote\, an identifiably English art. At the center of this exhibit is Horace Walpole—antiquarian\, collector\, and author of the first Gothic novel—whose Castle of Otranto makes striking use of the preface to address readers directly\, and fundamentally reimagines how readers might engage with material texts. This gesture\, which becomes a hallmark of later Gothic works\, exemplifies how paratextual spaces invited interaction between writer and reader. By examining Gothic fiction alongside eighteenth-century art historiography\, this exhibit highlights a shared practice of using the material book—its prefaces\, framing texts\, and editorial choices—not only to inspire readers\, but also to contribute to a national cultural project. \n\n3:30 PM – Doors Open\n4:00 PM – Welcome remarks by Head Librarian Derek Christian Quezada Meneses\n4:05 PM – Introduction and overview presentation by Curator Edward Hyunsoo Yang\n4:30-6:00 PM – Reception and exhibition viewing\n\nThe exhibition will be on view through April 13\, 2026 and will be open by appointment only. To schedule an appointment\, please contact clarktours@humnet.ucla.edu. \n\nTo register for Friday\, February 13 opening\, please visit the website. \nThe event is free to attend and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. \nSeating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/printing-gothic-exhibit/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Fantasies\, Fantasias\, and Fangirls: Wilde’s Fairy Tales and “New Women” Writers
DESCRIPTION:William Andrews Clark Oscar Wilde Lecture \nLecture by Margaret D. Stetz\, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities\, University of Delaware \nOscar Wilde’s importance in the world of the theatre is\, of course\, unparalleled. His effect on Gothic fiction (and on queer fiction) has been equally profound\, due to the popularity of his one novel\, The Picture of Dorian Gray. This talk\, however\, will suggest that his fairy tales have been just as influential\, and that their influence was clear almost immediately after the publication of both The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891)\, especially in works by rebellious “New Women” of the 1890s. Irish and English writers such as “George Egerton” (Mary Chavelita Dunne)\, Mabel Nembhard\, and Ella Erskine followed his lead in this form\, while often turning their own storytelling in different directions\, including feminist ones. Like his\, their fairy tales were not for children\, but for politically conscious adults. Though their names may be unfamiliar to readers today\, these women helped to keep Wilde’s innovations and his literary reputation alive throughout his persecution by the British legal system and catastrophic fall from grace. \nMargaret D. Stetz has been the author or editor of a number of volumes and of over 130 published essays on topics ranging from Victorian women’s comic fiction\, to sexual violence during wartime\, to the politics of animated films. She has also been curator or co-curator of over a dozen exhibitions on late-Victorian print culture and art at museums\, libraries\, and galleries. In addition\, she is a widely published poet. \nThe registration form is available on our website. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in person at the Clark Library  and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. No registration is required to watch the livestream. \nRegistration will close on Monday\, February 16 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/oscar-wilde-stetz/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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