Year at a Glance

  • 30 Jul

    Violin, Viola & Piano Recital, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Tuesday, July 30, 2024
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Andrew McIntosh, violin, viola & Steven Vanhauwaert, piano

  • 1 Aug

    Piano Quintets, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Thursday, August 1, 2024
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Ambroise Aubrun, violin; Katrin Stamatis, violin; Virginie d’Avezac, viola; Jonathan Ruck, cello; Zachary Deak, piano

  • 6 Aug

    Cello & Piano Recital, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Tuesday, August 6, 2024
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Jennifer Kloetzel, cello & Robert Koenig, piano

  • 8 Aug

    ensemble132, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Thursday, August 8, 2024
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Maria Ioudenitch, violin; Zhanbo Zheng, viola; Zachary Mowitz, cello

  • 12 Sep

    LA Escena 2024 | Los Angeles Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater

    Thursday, September 12, 2024–Tuesday, September 17, 2024
    7:00 pm PDT – 9:00 pm PDT
    UCLA Nimoy Theater
    1262 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

    UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics will be hosting LA Escena 2024, a festival celebrating Hispanic classical theater, from September 12–17th at the newly renovated Nimoy Theater in Westwood. Come see inventive presentations of Spanish Golden Age works by acclaimed artists from around the world - tickets are free but space is limited, so reserve today! Kicking off National Hispanic Heritage Month,...

  • 28 Sep

    Clark Library Open House and Adopt-A-Book Fair

    Saturday, September 28, 2024
    2:30 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All are welcome to attend the Open House and Adopt-A-Book Fair at the Clark Library! Explore and enjoy the expansive grounds and historical rooms, and consider adopting a book in the Clark Library’s collection. Donations, which are optional, will provide essential funding for the acquisition, preservation, and conservation of the library’s collections, and directly support the library’s work of caring...

  • 10 Oct

    Appreciation of Kunqu Opera Performance: Techniques and Characteristics

    Thursday, October 10, 2024
    4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Organized by Yinghui Wu (University of California, Los Angeles) and Kunqu Opera Society USA Co-sponsored by UCLA Asia Pacific Center and Center for Chinese Studies Kunqu Opera, with a history spanning over 600 years, stands alongside Greek and Sanskrit drama as one of the world's three most ancient theatrical traditions. In Kunqu, there is no sound that is not song,...

  • 17 Oct

    Caribbean Kaleidoscope: Convergence and Transformation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    Thursday, October 17, 2024
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Lecture by Ida Altman, Professor Emerita, University of Florida As Iberians in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries expanded into the Atlantic world they intentionally and unintentionally created conditions for the unprecedented convergence of peoples and cultures in the Caribbean that would transform them and the region as a whole. The dimensions and complexities of that process can be...

  • 18 Oct

    Early Global Caribbean: Conference 1: Convergences

    Friday, October 18, 2024–Saturday, October 19, 2024
    10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT
    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 Caribbean became global through successive aggregations of disparate peoples across a wide span of time. Long before the arrival of Europeans, the Caribbean Sea served as a bridge among...

  • 23 Oct

    Reading Paul Landacre’s Archive with the Clark Collections: California Landscape and the Erasure of Indigeneity

    Wednesday, October 23, 2024
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Second Annual Spotlight Talk by Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Paul Landacre was a wood engraver and artist whose first published work, California Hills (1931), established his reputation within the Fine Press community of Los Angeles. Highly skilled as an engraver, he produced a considerable corpus of acclaimed work, and...

  • 2 Nov

    Cuarteto Casals, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Saturday, November 2, 2024
    2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    New this season: 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, October...

  • 13 Nov

    Funding London’s Elite Music Scene Through the Profits of Slavery in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond: Bio-Bibliographical Work as Reparative History

    Wednesday, November 13, 2024
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Nineteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade Lecture by David Hunter, Librarian Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin Until eleven years ago, when David Hunter found Handel’s signature on several share transfer slips in the records of the Royal African Company at The National Archives, Kew, London, no one had thought to investigate the ways in...

  • 17 Nov

    Calidore String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, November 17, 2024
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    New this season: 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, October...

  • 18 Nov

    Works-in-Progress Session: In tlateutoqujliztli: Translating “Idolatry” in the Appendix of Book 1 of the Florentine Codex

    Monday, November 18, 2024
    3:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST

    Presented by Chase Caldwell Smith, PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please fill out the form below. The Florentine Codex is best known as a rich sixteenth-century repository of information – in text and image – of Nahua culture, society, and religion. However, one passage in...

  • 19 Nov

    Mapping Dry Land: Valparaíso and Late-Sixteenth-Century Morisco Ecologies

    Tuesday, November 19, 2024
    4:00 pm PST – 5:00 pm PST
    Lorrine Rona Lydeen Library, 4302 Rolfe Hall
    345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Lecture by María Lumbreras, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara In the spring of 1595, a series of archeological discoveries near the Spanish city of Granada initiated the first formal investigation into Iberian sacred antiquities explicitly modeled after a judicial inquiry. Strikingly, a considerable portion of the Sacromonte inquest file revolves around a...

  • 21 Nov

    Works-in-Progress Session: Ocean Floors, Mountain Peaks, and the Korallenberge from the Ambras Kunstkammer

    Thursday, November 21, 2024
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    Presented by Sylvia Tongyan Qiu, 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/tJwudOytqz8oGNWgHQ9o707obSooHGurrrtq Transfiguring between the submarine and the “exterranean” worlds, red coral branches on the miniature mountains (known as “Korallenberge”) in the Ambras Kunstkammer connect the depths of the Mediterranean with Alpine mountainscapes. In...

  • 15 Dec

    Balourdet Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, December 15, 2024
    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, November 12 at 12:00...

  • 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...

  • 11 Apr

    Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities

    Friday, April 11, 2025–Saturday, April 12, 2025
    10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    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 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...

  • 27 Apr

    Borromeo String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, April 27, 2025
    2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
    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, March 25 at 12:00...

  • 3 May

    The Art of Duo: A Journey through Europe to the USA from 1700 to 1930

    Saturday, May 3, 2025
    2:00 pm PDT – 3:30 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Ambroise Aubrun, violin Steven Vanhauwaert, piano “ 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...

  • 18 May

    Miró Quartet with Masumi Per Rostad, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, May 18, 2025
    2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
    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, April 15 at 12:00...