Calendar of Events 2012-13
(all events are held at The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library unless otherwise noted)

October

Thur. 4th

Clark Quarterly Lecture:
NOT by Oscar Wilde: Literary Forgery and Authorial Performance
—Gregory Mackie, University of British Columbia

Tues. 9th

2nd Annual Clark Library Open House 
a lecture and exhibition opening

Eric Gill: A Complex Spirit, talk by Paul Soady and Jennifer Bastian

Fri. 19th & Sat 20th

Conference:
New Directions in Gender: Literary and Cultural Studies, 1700–1840
A Conference in Honor of Anne K. Mellor 
—Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA)

Sun. 28th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
American String Quartet

Tue. 30th

Lecture:
Unfinished Business: Incomplete Bindings Made for the Book Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century
—given by Nicholas Pickwoad, University of the Arts London

November

Sat. 3rd

Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade:
Resisting Censorship: Petrarch and the Venetian Book Trade, 1549–1600
—Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania

Sun. 4th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
Parisii Quartet

Fri. 8th, Sat. 10th & Sun. 11th

Co-sponsored conference:
Port Cities and Printers: Global Armenian Print —organized by Sebouh Aslanian (History, UCLA)

EVENT HELD ON UCLA CAMPUS

Fri. 16th & Sat. 17th

Core Program Conference:
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
—Session 1: Moralism and the Rhetoric of Decline in Seventeenth-Century Eurasia 
—Gabriel Piterberg (UCLA) and Andrea Goldman (UCLA) 

Fri. 16th & Sat. 17th

Co-sponsored Conference:
Goethean Thought
—organized by Michael Saman (ACLS postdoctoral fellow in Germanic Languages, UCLA)

EVENT HELD ON UCLA CAMPUS

December

Sun. 2nd

Chamber Music at The Clark:
Israeli Chamber Project

Fri. 7th & Sat. 8th

Conference:
Rethinking Enlightenment c.1650–c.1800
—Mark Knights and Jonathan Mee (University of Warwick) and Helen Deutsch (UCLA)

Thurs. 13th

Clark Quarterly Lecture:
Printing the Past and Casting the Future: A Typefounder’s Tale 
—Stan Nelson, Atelier Press

January

Thur. 17th

Co-sponsored Conference:
Disprovals: Between Narrative and Evidence
—organized by UCLA History Dept.
—event honoring Carlo Ginzburg

EVENT HELD ON UCLA CAMPUS
Bunche 6275, 11:00am-5:30pm

Sun. 20th

Pride and Prejudice, performed by L.A. Theatre Works

Thurs. 31st

William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde:
Oscar Wilde in the Marketplace
—Dr. Rick Gekoski, Rare Book Dealer, Writer, Broadcaster

February

Sun. 3rd

Chamber Music at The Clark:
Zodiac Trio

Fri. 8th

Core Program Conference:
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600-1900
—Session 2: Urban Discontent in the Long Eighteenth Century across Eurasia  
—Gabriel Piterberg (UCLA) and Andrea Goldman (UCLA) 

Thurs.  21st

Clark Quarterly Lecture:
The Creation of the French Café in Myth and History
—Thierry Rigogne, Fordham University

Sat. 23rd

Poetry Afternoons at the Clark:

Erasure Poetry

—with Mary Ruefle, Vermont College
—co-hosted with Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA

March

Fri. 1st & Sat. 2nd

Conference:
Cities and Empire in the Early Modern Spanish Habsburg World
—Peter Arnade (University of Hawaii) and Margaret Jacob (UCLA)

Fri. 1st & Sat. 2nd

Co-sponsored Conference:
Western Ottomanists’ Workshop
—organized by Lee Beaudoen and Jan Andrew (Graduate Students, UCLA History Dept)
—hosted by G.E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies

EVENT HELD ON UCLA CAMPUS

Sun. 10th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
Leipzig Quartet

Sun. 17th

Chamber Music at The Clark:
Attacca Quartet

April

Tue. 9th

Exhbition Opening Reception:

Bibliology and Bibliography from the Viewpoint of the Pig, or, How to Describe a Squealer

Fri. 12th & Sat. 13th

Conference:
Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations 1680–1830 
—Clorinda Donato (California State University, Long Beach) and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität Saarbrücken)

Thur. 18th

Clark Quarterly Lecture:
From the Atelier Rémond (1793) to the Atelier Mutel (2008): Past and Future of an Engraving Studio in Paris
—Didier Mutel, Artist, Author, Bookmaker

Sun. 21st

Chamber Music at the Clark:
Pacifica Quartet

Mon. 29th

Stephen A. Kanter Lecture
on California Fine Printing:
Running the Asylum: Artists' and Poets' Roles in the Production of Books in California, 1877 to Now 
—Alastair Johnston, Printer and Co-founder of Poltroon Press

May

Sat. 4th

The Liar (Le Menteur )
by Pierre Corneille
—performed by L.A. Theatre Works

Fri. 17th

Core Program Conference:
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
—Session 3: Imperialism and Fundamentalism in Nineteenth-Century Eurasia
—Gabriel Piterberg (UCLA) and Andrea Goldman (UCLA)