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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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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:20260430T162038
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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:20260430T162038
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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:20260430T162038
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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
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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:20260430T162038
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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