Events

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  • 9 Jan

    Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic

    Thursday, January 9, 2025
    4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST
    Lorrine Rona Lydeen Library, 4302 Rolfe Hall
    345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Book Talk by Chloe L. Ireton, Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500–1800, University College London Chloe L. Ireton is a Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500–1800 at University College London and is currently also a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2023–2026). Ireton's first monograph, Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in...

  • 10 Jan

    Energy Transitions in Long Modernity

    Friday, January 10, 2025
    9:30 am PST – 5:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Conference organized by Robert N. Watson (University of California, Los Angeles), Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis), and Todd Borlik (Purdue University) Co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the UC Davis Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program The recent turn to the ‘energy humanities’ is only beginning to galvanize scholarship on the material and symbolic...

  • 17 Jan

    Works-in-Progress Session: Earth and Exchange: Tapia and the Construction of Early Modern Iberia

    Friday, January 17, 2025
    3:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST

    Presented by Rachel Schloss, Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvduquqzsjEtcWPt8b5SESANbtE3vKFz4d Earthen 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...

  • 26 Jan

    Trio Bohémo, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, January 26, 2025
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, December 17 at 12:00...

  • 27 Jan

    Works-in-Progress Session: Drawings for the Medici Trionfi da Tavola (1646–1670) and the Corporeal Nature of Vessels in Early Modern Florence

    Monday, January 27, 2025
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    Presented by Emily Ann Ostlander, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-2vpj0oEtEnrJdCJuoDudU5rn4nCj7B A drawing in ink and blue wash from a series of table-top creations known as the Trionfi da Tavola presents viewers with a design for a fantastic ewer. The vessel is devised...

  • 21 Feb

    Early Global Caribbean: Conference 2: Convictions

    Friday, February 21, 2025–Saturday, February 22, 2025
    10:00 am PST – 5:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World The 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...

  • 25 Feb

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

    Tuesday, February 25, 2025
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    Lecture by Abby Gibson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Southern California. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship During the first two months of 1864, Montana Territory was in the throes of a violent spate of "vigilante justice" that resulted in the hangings of twenty-two men, including the Sheriff of Bannack City, Idaho Territory, and what...

  • 2 Mar

    Ariel Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, March 2, 2025
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, February 4 at 12:00...

  • 10 Mar

    Katherine Philips, Meta-Metaphysical Poet

    Monday, March 10, 2025
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT

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

  • 14 Mar

    Cases and Scale in Historiography

    Friday, March 14, 2025
    10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Conference organized by Michael Osman and Cristóbal Amunátegui (University of California, Los Angeles) In the last few decades, debates stemming from the science and history “wars” have called attention to the ways in which cases are constructed and proven across disciplines. This has led to questions about the nature and selection of evidence, the role of scale, and the function...

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