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SUMMARY:The Art of Duo | Musical Salon: From Lekeu to Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Ambroise Aubrun\, violin\nSteven Vanhauwaert\, piano \nThis concert pays tribute to the refined tradition of musical salons\, tracing their influence from nineteenth-century Vienna to early twentieth-century Los Angeles. At its heart is Guillaume Lekeu’s Violin Sonata\, performed in homage to Alfred Megerlin\, the Belgian violin virtuoso and concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 1920s. The L.A. Philharmonic itself was founded by William Andrews Clark Jr.\, a passionate patron of the arts who likely hosted intimate musical gatherings in the Drawing Room at the Clark Library. Through works by Schubert\, Fauré\, Debussy and others\, the program evokes the elegance\, intimacy\, and cultural dialogue that defined salon music across generations and continents. \nFurther details and the complete program are on the website.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/art-of-duo-2026/
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:“After Oscar”: A Conversation with Merlin Holland about Family\, Scandal\, and Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Oscar Wilde died in November 1900\, exiled in Paris and exhausted by scandal and prison life. The details of his life in the limelight are well known; what has regularly been ignored are the reverberations of the scandal for decades after his death: the challenges his descendants faced\, the myths and legends\, the quarrels between his friends and enemies\, and the court cases. \nDuring this special event\, Wilde’s only grandson\, Merlin Holland\, will speak with Rebecca Fenning Marschall\, Manuscripts & Archives Librarian\, about his new book\, After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal\, which details the remarkable posthumous life of one of the most celebrated literary and cultural figures. With pathos\, humor\, and his grandfather’s signature wit\, Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker\, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Wilde’s posthumous reputation and exposing a century of bigotry and hypocrisy within the cultural establishment. \nAn account of Oscar’s “posthumous life\,” After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal\, showing that his grandfather has caused even more trouble after his death than when he was alive\, will be published in the United States on April 7\, 2026. One of the most important works on Wilde in over fifty years\, After Oscar exposes decades of sensationalist conjecture surrounding the Wilde family\, and documents a century of homophobia within the British establishment. Illuminating and heartbreaking\, Holland has written a book that will amuse\, infuriate\, fascinate\, and shock. Mr. Holland will be available to sign copies of his new book at this event. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own copy; a limited number of books will be available at the event. \nAfter Oscar Wilde’s conviction in 1895\, his wife\, Constance\, and their two sons were forced to move abroad and change their name to Holland. The family has never reverted to the name Wilde. Merlin Holland writes\, lectures\, and broadcasts regularly on the subject of his grandfather’s life. Publications include Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess\, the first complete record of the libel trial which ultimately brought Oscar Wilde to ruin and social disgrace\, and The Wilde Album\, a pictorial biography of Oscar Wilde. He is also the co-editor of The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde and author of Conversations with Oscar Wilde\, a series of imaginary conversations between him and his grandfather. \nThe Oscar Wilde holdings at the Clark Library are the largest and most significant in the world and include nearly every edition of every printed book by and about Wilde\, in addition to a large number of his literary manuscripts and correspondence. The Library collects Wilde’s works in translation in as many languages as possible\, as well as materials related to his wider social circle and the generations of artists\, writers\, and queer activists immediately before and after Wilde. Other collections are related to contemporary social movements\, theater\, bibliophilic clubs\, and university life. A display of books and manuscripts from this collection will be available for viewing in the north and south book rooms prior to the conversation. \n\nThe event is free to attend with advance registration. It 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. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \nVisit the event webpage to register.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/after-oscar-a-conversation-with-merlin-holland-about-family-scandal-and-legacies/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:The Meaning of the American Revolution in 2026
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Professors Craig Yirush (University of California\, Los Angeles)\, and Brad A. Jones (California State University\, Fresno) \nOn the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution in 1976\, Americans celebrated it as the story of a struggle for liberty which culminated in the creation of the world’s first democratic republic. Leading historians largely concurred with this nationalistic view of the Revolution’s significance. They disagreed about whether the republicanism of the new nation was liberal and individualistic\, or classical and communitarian; but they all agreed that the Revolution sparked a “contagion of liberty” which transformed American society. \nApproaching the 250th anniversary in 2026\, things are very different. While the public continues to think about the Revolution in democratic and egalitarian terms\, historians are no longer so confident that the Revolution ushered in an age of liberty. \nThis conference will gather a group of leading scholars to see where scholarship about the Revolution is fifty years later\, on its 250th anniversary\, exploring how we’ve come to rethink this important event\, including its broader continental and global reach\, and its racial and ideological underpinnings. By addressing the talks to a largely non-academic and public audience\, we hope to show non-scholars the new ways historians are currently thinking about the meaning of this seminal event in U.S. and world history. \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\, April 6 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/american-rev-conf2026/
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:Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Notos Quartett
DESCRIPTION:Praised for its virtuoso brilliance\, passion\, sensitivity\, and mature interpretive powers\, the Notos Quartett is one of the most celebrated young chamber ensembles to emerge in recent years. Founded in 2007\, the Berlin-based piano quartet first drew attention by winning first prize in six major international competitions. Since then it has established itself worldwide\, performing at renowned European concert halls such as the Philharmonie Berlin\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, and London’s Wigmore Hall. The quartet made their American debut in 2022 with three concerts for Chamber Music San Francisco and returned in October 2023 for their first North American tour. \nThe Notos Quartett’s repertoire spans from the great classical masterpieces to contemporary music. They have a strong commitment to new music\, as shown by numerous commissions and collaborations with such composers as Bryce Dessner\, Garth Knox\, and Bernhard Gander. They also search for important lost or forgotten works to bring to new audiences. \nFurther details and the full program are on our website.  \n\nTickets for the Notos Quartett concert will go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday\, February 24\, 2026.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/notos-quartett-2026/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Concerts,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260315T140000
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Benjamin Appl\, Baritone & James Baillieu\, Piano
DESCRIPTION:Baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated for a voice that “belongs to the last of the old great masters of song” with “an almost infinite range of colours” (Suddeutsche Zeitung)\, and for performances “delivered with wit\, intelligence and sophistication” (Gramophone). Appl was awarded Gramophone Award Young Artist of the Year (2016)\, and has since begun a multi-album deal with Alpha Classics\, releasing his first album Winterreise with James Baillieu in February 2021 to enormous critical acclaim. Some of Appl’s recent recital debuts include Carnegie Hall\, New York’s Park Avenue Armory\, Sydney Opera House\, and Mozarteum Salzburg. \nDescribed by The Daily Telegraph as ”in a class of his own\,” James Baillieu is one of the leading song and chamber music pianists of his generation. He has given solo and chamber recitals throughout the world and collaborates with a wide range of singers and instrumentalists. Baillieu is a frequent guest at many of the world’s most distinguished music centers including Carnegie Hall\, Wigmore Hall\, the Metropolitan Opera House\, and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. His recording projects include Forbidden Fruit (Alpha Classics)\, Winterreise (Alpha Classics) and Heimat (Sony Classical) with Benjamin Appl. \nFurther details and the full program are on our website.  \n\nTickets for the Benjamin Appl & James Baillieu concert will go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday\,  \nFebruary 17\, 2026.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/appl-baillieu-concert/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Concerts,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia\, 1600–1800: Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited: Conference 2: Empires in Practice
DESCRIPTION:In this year’s Core Program\, historians of the Ottoman\, Qing\, and Mughal empires revisit the problem of comparison by considering synchronicities and structural parallels across Asia. \nThe second conference looks at Imperial Operations. How did empires work? What did the everyday operations of imperial rule look like? Early modern empires confronted the same “great enemy” of distance which severely constrained all actions\, from government communications to tax collection. The systems for delegating authority and distributing tasks that the Ottomans\, Mughals\, and Qing developed to address these common problems shared some essential features despite their autonomous development and local variations\, and reveal a level of organizational sophistication often overlooked. By examining these and other areas of imperial operations\, the conference aims to build a conceptual framework that explains both shared features and distinctive approaches without privileging any single model as universal. \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\, March 2 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/core2-empires-in-practice/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T173000
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SUMMARY:The Ahmanson Lecture on Clark Library Legacies: Landscape and Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Tracy Wolk (Landscape Designer) and Stephanie Landregan (Landscape Architect and Director Altadena Green). Moderated by Brian Brodersen\, (Landscape Architect and Principal/Owner Brodersen Associates). \nJoin us for the inaugural Ahmanson Lecture at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, an evening exploring how history\, design\, and stewardship can shape the future of Los Angeles’s most meaningful landscapes. \nLandscape designer Tracy Wolk shares her vision for the Clark’s historic gardens\, reimagining their early 20th-century character for a future grounded in sustainability\, resilience\, and respect for heritage. She will be joined by Stephanie Landregan\, director of Altadena Green\, a community initiative established after the Altadena fires to protect and restore the city’s historic trees. Together\, they consider how preservation and innovation can coexist to sustain California’s cultural landscapes in a changing climate. \nPresented in recognition of Lee Walcott\, whose enduring support through the auspices of the Ahmanson Foundation continues to nurture the Clark Library and its living legacy. \n\nThe registration form is available on our website. \nThe lecture is free to attend with advance registration. It 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 Thursday\, February 26 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/ahmanson-lecture-landscape/
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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Escher Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Within months of its inception in 2005\, the Escher Quartet came to the attention of key musical figures worldwide. Championed by the Emerson Quartet\, the Escher Quartet was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be Quartet-in-Residence at each artist’s summer festival: the Young Artists Program at Canada’s National Arts Centre\, and the Perlman Chamber Music Program on Shelter Island\, NY. \nThe Escher Quartet has received acclaim for its profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty. A former BBC New Generation Artist and recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant\, the quartet has performed at the BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall and is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall. In its home town of New York\, the ensemble serves as season artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. \nThe 2023–2024 season found the Escher Quartet embarking upon a major project: performances of the complete cycle of quartets by Bela Bartók\, culminating in a single concert performance of all six at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. \nThe Escher Quartet takes its name from the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher\, inspired by Escher’s method of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole. \nFurther details and the full program are on our website.  \n\nTickets for the Escher Quartet concert will go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday\, December 9\, 2025. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/escher-quartet-2025/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Concerts,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T171500
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SUMMARY:Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia\,  1600–1800:  Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited  Conference 1: Empires of Thought
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Choon Hwee Koh (History\, UCLA)\, Meng Zhang (History\, UCLA)\, Abhishek Kaicker (History\, UC Berkeley) \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, and Center for Chinese Studies \nIn this year’s Core Program\, historians of the Ottoman\, Qing\, and Mughal empires revisit the problem of comparison by considering synchronicities and structural parallels across Asia. \nThis first conference\, Empires of Thought\, looks at imperial ideology\, challenging and broadening the default understanding of empire as a large territorial state by focusing on how each empire upheld a normative universe within which particular kinds of political authority and legitimacy were articulated.  How did early modern Eurasian empires conceive of and construct power and legitimacy?  What were the bases of imperial ideologies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and who were their audiences? More fundamentally\, what do we mean when we talk about Eurasian “empires”? Rather than assuming a commonality in the aims of historical empires\, we seek to understand how varying traditions of thought about power patterned the practices of rule. Papers addressing these questions will be presented in four thematically organized panels: “Rulers and Plebeians\,” “Testing Sovereignty\,” “Temporal and Genealogical Order\,” and “Scholars and Bureaucrats.” \nThe list of speakers\, the conference schedule\, and the 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. \nRegistration will close on Monday\, December 1 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/synchronicities_core1/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Conference,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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SUMMARY:Scotland’s Gutenberg: William Ged and the Invention of Stereotype Printing\, 1725–49
DESCRIPTION:Twentieth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade \nLecture by William Zachs\, Director of the Blackie House Library and Museum \nIn this lecture\, William Zachs outlines the origins of stereotype printing (print production from metal plates rather than moveable type)\, then turns his focus to the “non-moveable type” productions of Edinburgh goldsmith William Ged (c. 1683–1749). Taking a forensic look at Ged’s few known works\, Zachs hypothesizes the existence of a group of previously unknown stereotyped books\, thus offering a revised history of alternative methods of book production in Britain in the first half of the 18th century. \nDr. William Zachs is the Director of the Blackie House Library and Museum\, a registered Scottish charity with a mission to bring Scottish culture to a wider audience. He is the author of numerous books and articles on book history and book collecting. In 2013\, the University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters for his contributions to book historical studies and book curation. He is a Fellow of the National Library of Scotland and an Honorary Fellow at the universities of Edinburgh and Stirling. \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\, November 17 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \nThis lecture will also be livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/karmiole_lecture_zachs/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
CREATED:20251022T221450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T221450Z
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Modigliani Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Founded in 2003\, the Modigliani Quartet is recognized as one of today’s most sought-after quartets\, featuring regularly in prominent international series and on the world’s most prestigious stages. \nIn addition to annual tours in the United States and in Asia\, the quartet’s numerous European tours have brought them to Wigmore Hall\, the Paris Philharmonie\, the Théâtre des Champs- Elysées\, the Berlin Philharmonie\, the Vienna Konzerthaus\, the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonia\, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. \nThe Modigliani Quartet has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released 13 award-winning albums. In January 2024\, the quartet’s latest album with string quartets by Grieg and Smetana was released and received enthusiastically by the international press. Since 2024\, the quartet has dedicated itself to the greatest challenge in the life of a string quartet: recording all 16 string quartets by Beethoven. \nFor further details and a the full program\, please visit our website.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/modigliani-quartet/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Concerts,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251110T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251110T164500
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
CREATED:20251022T220244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T213703Z
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SUMMARY:We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
DESCRIPTION:We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe sheds light on the overlooked presence of African and Black individuals in Renaissance Europe\, highlighting their depiction in masterpieces by some of the era’s most celebrated artists. \nDirected by award-winning filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu and produced by Do The Right Films\, this multilingual documentary takes viewers on an expansive journey through the UK\, Italy\, Spain\, Portugal\, the Netherlands\, and France\, offering a compelling reexamination of European art history and its cultural legacy. Featuring insights from leading scholars in Art History\, Black Studies\, and History\, alongside Black activists and curators\, the film provides a rich\, layered perspective on a neglected chapter of European history. \nTo learn more\, please view the trailer here. \n\nThe screening is free to attend with advance registration. \nIt will be held in-person at UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 147. \nSeating is limited; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/we-were-here/
LOCATION:147 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,Humanities,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
CREATED:20250522T220356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250612T173711Z
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SUMMARY:Clark Library Nature and Garden Festival
DESCRIPTION: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 acres outside the library’s building\, too\, and this event will celebrate the urban nature and green spaces at the Clark – and across LA! \nAttendees can get garden advice from an expert UC Master Gardener\, go on bird walks with experienced guides from UCLA’s Bruin Birding Club\, and learn more about how people thought and learned about gardens and wild creatures in the 1700s through rare books on display inside the historic library building. Attendees will also be able to make their own field notebooks\, participate in a Clark Library Biodiversity survey on iNaturalist to help expand our knowledge of the library’s outdoor collections\, plant seeds to take home from our heirloom seed library\, trade plant cuttings and seeds with other attendees – and more! \nAll ages are welcome! Registration is free\, but limited; please fill out the form below. Guests are welcome to bring a lunch and picnic on the Clark grounds\, and to explore all of the day’s activities at their own pace. The Clark can be reached via LA Metro and LADOT Dash public transit\, and free parking and bike racks are available on site; please see here for more information and directions.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/garden-festival/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T120000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
CREATED:20250522T224913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T224913Z
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SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress Session: Earth and Exchange: Tapia and the Construction of Early Modern Iberia
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rachel Schloss\, Doctoral Candidate\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nHosted by the Early Modern Research Group \nOnline event via Zoom\nTo register\, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/qHytTYlcTiiINu5XzDQiew\n \nEarthen materials have played a critical role in political and social development on the Iberian Peninsula. The unique geology of the Peninsula harbors rich soils\, minerals\, and clays that have featured in the built environment and material culture of diverse peoples and practices across the region up to the present: Spain and Portugal together are two of the world’s largest exporters of ceramics. Iberian earthen architectural traditions are part of this suite of practices\, but their deep importance to cultural and political realities is underexplored. \nIn this presentation\, Rachel Schloss analyzes the social\, cultural\, and technological history of tapia\, a system of rammed-earth building utilized on the Iberian Peninsula from the 11th to 17th centuries CE\, from which impressive large-scale structures were built\, including the Alhambra in Granada. In particular\, Schloss considers how the shifts and changes in the material and construction technology over time were underwritten by political developments and exchange of knowledge as well as shifting relationships with the environment and the earth. As tapia originated in the Near East\, Schloss reflects on the question: Is there such a thing as Iberian tapia? Finally\, by understanding tapia as a means to sculpt the Iberian built landscape out of earth\, Schloss demonstrates how the technology tells a story of the construction of Early Modern Iberian identity into the age of conquest\, where Iberians exported earthen practices and values to new places. \nRachel Schloss is a doctoral candidate in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, where she studies early modern Andean and Iberian earthen practices\, and their roles in shaping built environments and the construction of Inca history. In her doctoral research\, Schloss combines methods from Archaeology\, Art and Architectural History\, Indigenous Studies\, and Geology. Additionally\, Schloss co-coordinates the Architecture Lab and Architecture Working Group at UCLA. Her research has been supported by UCLA’s Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies\, Latin American Institute\, Cotsen Institute\, and the Division of Graduate Education\, and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, the Society of Architectural Historians\, and the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/works-in-progress-session-earth-and-exchange-tapia-and-the-construction-of-early-modern-iberia/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T153000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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SUMMARY:The Art of Duo: A Journey through Europe to the USA from 1700 to 1930
DESCRIPTION:Ambroise Aubrun\, violin\nSteven Vanhauwaert\, piano \n“ A Journey through Europe to the USA from 1700 to 1930” invites you to an exploration of the violin and piano duo’s rich history. Each piece performed will reflect the evolving styles and cultural influences that shaped the duo’s repertoire from the baroque era to the early 20th century. The performance is complemented by engaging presentations and discussions\, offering a guide to a deeper understanding of this timeless repertoire. \nFurther details and the complete program are on the website.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-art-of-duo-a-journey-through-europe-to-the-usa-from-1700-to-1930/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary presents Borromeo String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Concert presented in honor of Bruce Whiteman \nEach visionary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our time. Admired and sought after for both its fresh interpretations of the classical music canon and its championing of works by twentieth- and twenty-first-century composers\, the ensemble has been hailed for its “edge-of-the-seat performances” by the Boston Globe\, which called it “simply the best.” \nThe group recently premiered new works written for it by Sebastian Currier and Aaron Jay Kernis at recitals at Carnegie Hall\, Shriver Concerts\, and the Tippet Rise Art Center. The ensemble continues to perform violinist Nicholas Kitchen’s transcriptions of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the Well-Tempered Clavier Bk. I\, the latter of which the BSQ recently released as an acclaimed premiere recording which hit the billboard charts. \nFurther details and the complete program are on the website.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/chamber-music-at-the-clark-30th-anniversary-presents-borromeo-string-quartet/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250412T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T182731Z
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SUMMARY:Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California\, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) \nCo-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World \nThe 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 dimensions of global processes that have long shaped the Caribbean Basin. This final conference will consider how the region’s early global histories may be tracked through their material manifestations in constructed and natural environments from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the materials embedded and moving through Caribbean land- and waterscapes prompts lines of investigation about how historical interactions and social constructions of meaning were mediated across different historical moments. These interactions and constructions can be explored through physical artifacts\, objects\, and living organisms. We will deliberate on how both the environment itself and the material cultural productions of the people living in the Basin were profoundly and continuously influenced by the advent of different groups\, the imposition of new agricultural regimes\, and a host of other aspects of quotidian life that persisted\, gained new forms\, or disappeared. To what extent might the historical study of transformations in the circumstances of life in the Caribbean benefit from considering distributed agencies of different human and non-human actors across time? What do considerations of materiality in or beyond traditional archives contribute to a global understanding of Caribbean history? \nPlease visit the website for a complete list of speakers and the program schedule.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/early-global-caribbean-conference-3-materialities/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T175742Z
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SUMMARY:Cases and Scale in Historiography
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Michael Osman and Cristóbal Amunátegui (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nIn 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. “Cases and Scale in Historiography” will explore the relationship between the case and one of its constitutive elements: scale. Among many other things\, cases are a way of managing distance: between the past and the present\, the far away and the near\, norms and exceptions\, ideation and reality. Thus defined\, cases are inevitably bound to the shifting measures and temporalities of scale\, something which may seem at odds with today’s dominant culture of scholarly specialization. Like magnets\, cases have the potential of centripetally attracting different knowledge\, sites\, and periods in order to solve the problems they pose. To deal with the spatiotemporal vagaries of scale\, however\, entails facing a wide-ranging set of historiographical and epistemological difficulties: the scalar analysis imposed by cases seems to pit historiographical specificity against both blind specialization and Diogenean erudition. By pointing to the links between scale and the case\, then\, our invitation is to explore the limits and possibilities of the historian as both expert and generalist. \nPlease visit the website for the list of speakers and program schedule and register for this event. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/cases-scale/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250310T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T165923Z
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SUMMARY:Katherine Philips\, Meta-Metaphysical Poet
DESCRIPTION:Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship   \nLecture by Arya Sureshbabu\, Ph.D. Candidate in English\, University of California\, Berkeley. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship \nKatherine 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 of intimacy. But a less adulatory strain of reception history reads her verse as overstuffed with hyperbolic praise and extended conceits that fail to sustain readerly interest. This talk suggests that these seemingly contradictory assessments of Philips are in fact connected: her poems and letters express closeness through a disproportionate outpouring of attention to minor details\, petty situations\, and all-too-earthly individuals. Philips’s preoccupation with the interplay between excess and diminution is as stylistic as it is thematic; her copious adaptations of her poetic predecessors index a process of intimate reading in addition to describing intimate relationships among members of her literary coterie. Her self-conscious reflections on the twinned practices of reading and writing are especially evident in her embellishments of John Donne’s poems\, where she iteratively revises his images with an assiduousness that anticipates modern characterizations of the metaphysical conceit’s simultaneous fragility and force. Taking these resonances as a point of departure\, this presentation explores how Philips’s poetics blur the lines between affection\, interpretation\, and creative endeavor—and how eighteenth-century readers’ fleeting encounters with her literary output remix and reactivate its intimate potentials. \nArya Sureshbabu is a PhD candidate in English with a Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is completing a dissertation on intimacy and textual minutiae in the poetry\, drama\, and correspondence of the English Renaissance. In addition to the Center & Clark\, her work has been supported by the Beinecke Library\, the Harry Ransom Center\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. \nFor additional details and to register for the Zoom lecture
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/karmiole_aryas/
LOCATION:ZOOM Lecture
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250308T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250308T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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SUMMARY:Preserving Your Family History
DESCRIPTION: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. \nParticipants may bring up to five paper-based heirlooms (no larger than 18” x 24”) from their own collections. These items will become part of the instructional display\, alongside examples from the Clark Library’s stacks. Using this group display\, librarians and conservators will be able to discuss and show common issues – and provide guidance for next steps and other preservation resources. \nFor more information and to register for this workshop\, please visit our website. \nThis workshop is limited to 30 participants and will be filled on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nRegistration will close on Monday\, February 17 at 5:00 p.m.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/preserving-your-family-history/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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SUMMARY:The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City
DESCRIPTION:Early Modern Research Group  Works-in-Progress Session \nPresented by Sofia Yazpik\, Ph.D. Student\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe 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 a legal dispute in Mexico City during the sixteenth century. It is a valuable resource for deepening our understanding of how the Spanish legal system functioned in New Spain and how Indigenous litigants strategically presented their cases to defend their rights and property within this colonial institution\, particularly during the politically tumultuous period of the 1560s. By focusing on pictorial writing in particular\, Yazpik’s research project seeks to demonstrate the Codex Osuna’s historical significance in the early colonial period by examining how Indigenous peoples utilized their own creative forms of expression within the Spanish legal system. \nSofía Yazpik is a third-year Ph.D. student in History at UCLA. Her research focuses on Mesoamerican codices\, presently examining an early colonial legal pictorial and alphabetic-writing manuscript from central Mexico. She is interested in Indigenous productions of knowledge\, the relationship between pictorial and alphabetic writing systems\, and early modern collecting practices. \nFor additional details and to register for the Zoom lecture\, visit the website.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/wip_yazpik/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250302T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250302T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary presents\, Ariel Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Distinguished by its virtuosity\, probing musical insight\, and impassioned\, fiery performances\, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than twenty years. The Quartet serves as the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music\, where they direct the chamber music program and present a concert series in addition to maintaining a busy touring schedule in the United States and abroad. \nRecent highlights include the Ariel Quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut\, as well as the release of a Brahms and Bartók album for Avie Records. In 2020\, the Ariel gave the U.S. premiere of the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Daniil Trifonov (with the composer as pianist). Ariel Quartet has won numerous international prizes\, including the Cleveland Quartet Award: Grand Prize at the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. \nFurther details and the full program are on our website. Competition \nPhoto: Ariel Quartet by Marco Borggreve
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/ariel-quartet/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250225T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T151226
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SUMMARY:‘Wild and Ungovernable Passions’: Emotional Scripts and the Fate of U.S. Expansion in the Vigilante Rocky Mountain West\, 1864–1866
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Abby Gibson\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, University of Southern California. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship \nThe Montana Vigilantes\, as they have become known within the popular nostalgia of the Wild West\, were almost immediately and are still often hailed as heroes of the frontier in their brave efforts to fill in for the American justice system in the wild days before statehood. In 1866\, English schoolteacher and recent arrival to Montana Territory\, Thomas J. Dimsdale\, published a passionate defense of the events of January and February 1864–The Montana Vigilantes!–which is held in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library’s vast collection of Montana memorabilia. Dimsdale’s book is among the most cited firsthand accounts of the Montana Vigilantes\, but in this presentation Gibson will take a different angle on his work by bringing to the fore his extensive commentary on the disorderly emotional climate of Montana Territory that made the extremism of the vigilante violence possible. With this affective lens trained on Dimsdale’s account\, Gibson will discuss not only an implicit ambivalence in his descriptions of the Vigilantes\, but consider the larger story of emotional containment and U.S. expansion in the Rocky Mountain West contained within this work. \nAbby Gibson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Van Hunnick History Department at the University of Southern California and an Editorial Assistant for The Huntington Library Quarterly. Before arriving at USC\, she received her Master’s degree in the history of the American West at the University of Oklahoma\, where she worked as one of two Editorial Fellows for The Western Historical Quarterly during her two years at OU. Abby’s dissertation\, “Fearful Land: Managing Terror in the American West\, 1820–1920” lies at the intersection of the history of U.S. westward expansion and the history of emotions. \nFor additional details and to register for the Zoom lecture\, please visit the website
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/karmiole_gibson/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Early Global Caribbean: Conference 2: Convictions
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (UCLA) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) \nCo-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World \nThe 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 how Indigenous\, African\, and European systems of thought and faith clashed\, adapted\, and transformed will be the focus of this second meeting. We invite participants to consider how culturally specific systems of knowledge were expressed and transformed under emergent rubrics of what would become known as religion\, science\, and law. We will likewise reflect on how these ideas animated the creation and maintenance of institutions of governance and knowledge production both in the Caribbean and extending beyond it. This conference grants an opportunity to weigh how the globalization of the early Caribbean marked historical changes in beliefs and ideas but also witnessed continuities that cut across the 1492 divide. In the process\, a multitude of convictions about spiritual\, natural\, corporal\, social\, and political order helped shape (and were reshaped by) encounters in the Basin. \nFor the list of speakers and the program schedule\, please visit the website.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/egc-c2-convictions/
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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