Calendar of Events 2011-12
(all events are held at The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library unless otherwise noted)

October

Tues. 11th

All Things New: An Open House at the Clark Library

Fri. 14th
&
Sat. 15th

Conference:
Vision and Knowledge in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
—Lynn Hunt (UCLA) and Ann Jensen Adams (UCSB)

Fri. 21st

Lecture:
(In)Authentic Shakespeares: A Reading and Discussion with Arthur Phillips
—Arthur Phillips

Fri. 28th

Core Program Conference:
Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean
—Session 1: Envisioning Empire in the Old World
—Barbara Fuchs, UCLA

Sun. 30th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
The Talich Quartet

November

Sun. 6th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
The New Zealand String Quartet

Sat. 19th

Kenneth Karmiole Lecture
on the History of the Book Trade:
English Books Around the World: India and the Globalization of the English Book-trade

Graham Shaw, Formerly Head of Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections, The British Library, London

December

Fri. 2nd

Contested Songs: Music across the Atlantic, in conjunction with the LACMA-UCLA Symposium "Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World"

Co-sponsored with the Herb Alpert School of Music's Department of Musicology

Sun. 4th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
Rachel Barton Pine

January

Fri. 6th

Exhibit Opening:
Murder in the Library

Sun. 22nd

Chamber Music at The Clark:
The Boston Trio

Mon. 23rd

Earlobes and Fingernails: Debating Carlo Ginzburg's Work

A conference hosted by the UCLA History department
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies

To be held in Royce Hall 314 on the UCLA campus, starting at 9:30 a.m.

To download a full program click here.

Sun. 29th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
Augustin Hadelich & Joyce Yang

February

Thu. 9th

Lecture:
Parallel Lines Never Meet: Dolphins and Anchors and Aldus, Book Historians and Numismatists and Roman Coins
—Terry Belanger, Founder of Rare Book School, University of Virginia
Co-sponsored by Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections.

Fri. 10th

Core Program Conference:
Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean
—Session 2: Black Legends and Domestic Dissent
—Barbara Fuchs, UCLA

Sat. 25th

Poetry Afternoons at the Clark:
Young Light, Extinguished Light
—Alvaro Cardona-Hine
organized by Estelle Gershgoren Novak

March

Sun. 11th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
The Parker Quartet

Sun. 18th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
The Ying Quartet

Thu. 22nd

Lecture:
Cyclone on the Prairies: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Arts & Crafts of Publishing, Chicago, 1900
—Peter Hanff, Deputy Director, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Co-Sponsored by the Book Club of California

April

Fri. 13th
&
Sat. 14th

Conference:
Taste and the Senses in the Eighteenth Century
—Peter Reill, Hans-Peter Wagner (Universität Koblenz-Landau) and Frédéric Ogee (Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot)

Sun. 22nd

Chamber Music at The Clark:
Sergey Antonov and Ilya Kazantsev

Fri. 27th
&
Sat. 28th

Conference:
Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century
—Keith Baker (Stanford), Jenna Gibbs (Florida International University)

May

Fri. 4th

Core Program Conference:
Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean
—Session 3: Imagining the Mediterranean in Early Modern England
—Barbara Fuchs, UCLA

Mon. 7th

"A Great Number of Useful Books": The Country House Library
— Mark Purcell (Libraries Curator to the National Trust)

Hosted by the Royal Oak Foundation
Co-sponsored by the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies

To be held at the UCLA Faculty Center

For further details click here.

Fri. 11th
&
Sat. 12th

Conference:
Skepticism and Politics in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
—Gianni Paganini (University of Piedmont,Vercelli) and John Christian Laursen (UC Riverside)

Sun. 20th

Special Event:
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
A theatrical staging of Monteverdi's operatic scena