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 Calendar of Events, 2002–2003


Center & Clark Core Program, 2002–2003
Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600–1800

The Year at a Glance

Chamber Music Calendar, 2002–03

Click to view general information, including the location of the programs.

Touring the Clark Library
Exhibits at the Clark Library
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The Year at a Glance

Core Program Overview
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October 4–5— Conference: Rousseau and the Visual
October 20—Concert: New Hollywood String Quartet
October 26—Core, Session 1: Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600-1800
November 1–2—Conference: Factions and Fictions in Early Modern Europe
November 3 Concert: Borromeo String Quartet
November 15–16—Conference: Monarchists and Monarchisms in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
November 17—Concert: Shanghai String Quartet
December 6–7—Core, Session 2: Economy and Society in the Early Modern Mediterranean
January 31–February 1—Core, Session 3: Religion, Conflict, and Popular Culture
February 22—Poetry Reading: Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
March 1–2—Colloquium Series: UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe
March 9—Concert: Peabody Trio
March 15 —Stephen A. Kanter Lecture: Richard J. Hoffman: Typographer, Printer, Teacher
March 23—Concert: Bartók String Quartet
March 30—Concert: Quartetto di Venezia
April 4, 6 and 7—Conference: Acculturation and its Discontents: The Jews of Italy from Early Modern to Modern Times
April 11–12—Core, Session 4: Cultural Transmission in the Mediterranean World
May 4—Special Program: Clark Library Afternoon of Acquisitions
May 17—Conference: The Intersection of Politics and German Literature, 1750-2000
May 30–31—Core, Session 5: Aural and Visual Cultures in the Mediterranean
June 6–7—Conference: Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms and Post-Colonial Theories

August (date tba)—Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
[This year's Popkin Lecture will be part of the program of the 11th ISECS Quadrennial Congress, held at UCLA. Details forthcoming].


— Touring the Clark Library —
— A Special Announcement —

Guided tours of the Clark are available to interested members of the public.
Tours, each lasting about 45 mintes, are scheduled on Wednesday between 10:00 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Reservations are required. For information and appointments call 323-735-7605.

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— Library Exhibits, 2002–2003 —

Exhibits can be viewed during scheduled public programs
and as part of guided tours of the library and grounds (see above).

July–September—The Locks' Press. Books, pamphlets, and broadsides by Margaret Lock, a contemporary fine printer. The Library recently acquired much of Lock's output.

October–December—Letter Perfect: English Writing Masters and Copy Books, with a Few European Examples. Manuscripts and printed books dealing with handwriting, lettering, and penmanship. Materials are from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and later.

January–March—The Mediterranean World, 1600-1800. An exhibition to be mounted in connection with the academic core program.

April–June—New Library Acquisitions.

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Center & Clark Core Program, 2002-2003



Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600–1800

directed by the
Center & Clark Professor for 2002–03
Gabriel Piterberg
Teofilo Ruiz
Geoffrey Symcox
of the Department of History at UCLA

The yearlong program seeks systematically to consider the scholarly work that has been stimulated by Fernand Braudel's enterprise on the Mediterranean in the early modern period, and thus simultaneously to think with and beyond Braudel. There are four broad concerns to address. The first is to evaluate Braudel's work in and of itself. The second is to add to Braudel's emphasis on "hard" socio-economic history, methodologies and materials that pertain to more recent developments in historical scholarship. The third is to explore the Mediterranean world beyond the sixteenth century into the eve of modernity. The fourth is to use the Mediterranean as a framework that would collapse the constructed boundaries between East and West, and Islam and Christendom.
The program itself will be structured thematically, with separate sessions devoted to an evaluation of Braudel's vision, the price revolution and its social consequences, the radical religious movements, comparative considerations of culture in the Mediterranean, and the visual arts in the Mediterranean. Geographically the project includes the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, Italy, the Ottoman Empire (including its North African provinces), and Morocco. As in previous years, four resident Ahmanson-Getty fellows will participate in the program.


The program consists of five sessions:

1. October 26—Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600–1800
2. December 6–7—Economy and Society in the Early Modern Mediterranean
3. January 31–February 1—Religion, Conflict, and Popular Culture
4. April 11–12—Cultural Transmission in the Mediterranean World
5. May 30–31—Aural and Visual Cultures in the Mediterranean

Images, above:
Cartouche portions of maps ("A Chart of the Westermost [sic] Part of the Mediterranean Sea";
"A Chart of the Levant or Eastermost [sic] Part of the Mediterranean Sea")
in John Seller, The English Pilot (London, 1677).
From the Clark Library collection.

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Academic and Public Programs, 2002-2003

October 4–5—Conference
October 20—Concert
October 26—Core, Session 1
November 1–2—Conference
November 3—Concert
November 15–16—Conference
November 17—Concert
December 6–7—Core, Session 2
January 31–Feb. 1—Core, Session 3
February 8—Lecture

February 22—Poetry Reading
March 9—Concert
March 23—Concert
March 30—Concert
April 3–7—Conference
April 11–12—Core, Session 4
May 4 [ tentative ]—Special Program
May 17—Conference
May 30–31—Core, Session 5
June 6–7—Conference

 


Unless otherwise noted, all programs will be held at the
Clark Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. 

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Limited seating at the Clark makes advance registration necessary for all programs.
Registration fees cover the cost of lunches and refreshments and,
where applicable, the distribution of advance copies of papers.

Inquiries should be addressed to the Center office at 310 Royce Hall, UCLA

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— A Note on Music Programs —


The Center and the Clark offer a variety of music programs throughout the year.
Click to see the full schedule of performances for the year 2002–03
and for an explanation of the reservations policy.



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October 4–5 (Friday & Saturday)

Rousseau and the Visual

a conference arranged by
Patrick Coleman, UCLA,
and Byron Wells, Wake Forest University

If Jean-Jacques Rousseau is perhaps best known in the United States as the author of The Social Contract and is most frequently discussed even in academic circles in terms of his literary and political writings, it should not be forgotten that the eighteenth-century philosophe was vitally interested in the aesthetic, metaphoric, and didactic value of the visual. Rousseau, after all, was personally involved in the commissioning and supervision of the engravings that accompanied La Nouvelle Héloïse. His repertoire included plays and opera. And he was a passionate botanist in his later years. In other words, the vivid imagination that Rousseau describes in his autobiographical texts translated itself into a passion for representation. That Rousseau's own productions exerted a considerable influence on future generations for the subjects he chose as well as for his vision of the world is unarguable. Reminders of his interests are to be found in such areas as the visual and performing arts, botanical plates, even in fashion. The conference will bring together a group of scholars from various disciplines to address this often overlooked yet important feature of Rousseau's works.

Conference papers will be accessible from this page for two weeks before and two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request.

Registration deadline—September 20.
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $15; students with ID: no charge; others: $25.
Fees include the cost of lunches and refreshments, as well as the mailing, by request, of conference papers.


Click here to view the program schedule.
Click here for a printable registration form.


Images, above:
"Le premier baiser de l'amour." Plates from the 1760 and 1808 editions of Rousseau's Julie; ou, la nouvelle Héloise. Reproduced from Alexis François, Le premier baiser de l'amour; ou, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, inspirateur d'estampes (Geneva: Sonor, 1920). Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.


October 20 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.

— Chamber Music at the Clark — 

New Hollywood String Quartet

Clayton Haslop and Rafael Rishik, violins
David Walther, viola
Paul Cohen, cello

Of the original Hollywood String Quartet (1947-61), the Los AngelesTimes recently noted that it had been, "a landmark in Southern California musical history...an ensemble of Hollywood studio players that came to represent that breed's high instrumental achievement and lofty artistic ideals.¨ Fifty years later, when the New Hollywood String Quartet made its debut, critic Daniel Cariaga wrote, "It was an auspicious and happy occasion during which the ensemble lived up to its name. The four players produce music both beautiful and immaculate, technically impeccable and artistically well considered.¨ Like their predecessors, the NHSQ members are outstanding recording industry musicians, who have also distinguished themselves regionally, nationally, and internationally as soloists and chamber musicians. In keeping with the connection to Hollywood, the quartet has initiated a commissioning project, which will involve contemporary composers writing quartets inspired by great film scores. Randy Kerber is preparing the first composition of the series, a piece based on Bernard Hermann's scores for Alfred Hitchcock.

— Program —

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quartet in D Major, K. 575, "Prussian"
Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings, op. 11
Maurice Ravel, String Quartet in F Major

Admission fee: $20
Reservations lottery closes on September 20.

Click here for additional information and
a full schedule of this year's music programs. 

— October 26 (Saturday) —

Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600–1800

a conference arranged by
Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo Ruiz, and Geoffrey Symcox,
Department of History, UCLA

The opening session of the Center & Clark Core program for 2002-03 will focus on the significance of Braudel's work.
Fernand Braudel, once more. To launch this project, which intends to think with and beyond Braudel, we will dedicate an entire day to revisiting directly the master and his work. In this session prominent historians of the early modern Mediterranean will consider central themes of Braudel's work and one of them, a student of Braudel's, will reminisce about him as a teacher and director of research.

Registration deadline—October 18.
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $10; students with ID: no charge; others: $20.
Fees include the cost of lunch and refreshments.

Click here to view the program schedule.
Click here for a printable registration form.

 


— November 1–2 (Friday & Saturday) —

Factions and Fictions in Early Modern Europe

a conference arranged by Malina Stefanovska, UCLA

The social landscape of early modern Europe was permeated by factions, which revealed the existence of opposed camps or allegiances in religious, political, and literary milieux. Factions were the much maligned predecessors to political parties, the organizing principle of court dynamics, the expression of political or religious dissent and disunity. In various literary, historical, and political writings, they were described or fictionalized—positively or negatively—as factions, cabals, or conspiracies. These representations were instrumental in the articulation of distinctions between the public and private spheres, in the staging of various forms of bonding, in the conceptualization of opposition to absolutism, in the formalization of a discourse of rights, and in the assertion of the notion of religious community. Focusing on “factions and their fictions” in a long seventeenth century, particularly in France and England, this conference aims to elucidate some of the underpinnings of group dynamics and of affiliation in political, religious, courtly, or salon circles.

Conference papers will be accessible from this page two weeks before and two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request.

Registration deadline—October 18.
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $15; students with ID: no charge; others: $25.
Fees include the cost of lunches and refreshments, as well as the mailing, by request, of conference papers.

Click here to view the program schedule.
Click here for a printable registration form.

November 3 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.

— Chamber Music at the Clark — 

Borromeo String Quartet

Nicholas Kitchen, violin
William Fedkenheuer, violin
Mai Motobuchi, viola
Yeesun Kim, cello

The youthful Borromeo String Quartet has performed at major venues and participated in important chamber music festivals throughout the world, winning numerous awards, including Chamber Music America's prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award in 1998, and Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award for 2001, given annually to rising artists. The New York Times has called the group "outstanding," and the Boston Globe terms it "simply the best there is. "

— Program —

Franz Josef Haydn, Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 64, no. 6
Béla Bartók, Quartet no. 4, Sz. 91
Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130/133

Admission fee: $20
The reservations lottery closed on October 1.

Click here for additional information and
a full schedule of this year's music programs. 


Image, above:
Detail from an engraved ticket in a collection at the Clark Library.


— November 15–19 (Friday & Saturday) —

Monarchists and Monarchisms
in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

a conference arranged by
John Christian Laursen, University of California, Riverside
Hans Blom, Erasmus University
Luisa Simonutti, Center for the Study of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Milan

American triumphalism holds that ever since the eighteenth century republics have been the wave of the future, and that the ideology of republicanism was destined to win from the moment the Founding Fathers took it over. Yet in the eighteenth century monarchism was alive and well throughout Europe, contesting republicanism in a wide variety of ways, and many very modern countries are monarchies to this day. Writers could defend the single most absolute monarchy in Europe, in Denmark, on "Enlightened" grounds. Prussian officials could hold their own against critics of the Prussian monarchy, even drawing on Swiss republican theory. There were monarchist challenges to republicanism from inside the Dutch Republic and the Italian city states. England was known as a "republican monarchy." Pierre Bayle, the Physiocrats, Edward Gibbon, and the Scots contributed to the theory and practice of monarchy. How does all this fit together?
The purpose of this conference is to establish some of the contours of the ideas of monarchism in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From a comparative perspective, address a series of questions: What kinds of monarchisms debated with what kinds of republicanisms? How did modernizing monarchs compete with modernizing republics? Did monarchists and republicans sometimes ignore each other, developing insular discourses? Are there any significant legacies from the eighteenth century in today's political debates?

        

Conference papers will be accessible from this page two weeks before and two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request. Registration deadline: November 1

Registration deadline—November 1.
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $15; students with ID: no charge; others: $25.
Fees include the cost of lunches and refreshments, as well as the mailing, by request, of conference papers.

Click here to view the program schedule.
Click here for a printable registration form.


Images, above:
—Denmark’s Frederick III dictating the royal Constitution to Griffenfeld. Reproduced from Danske fortaæller Fædrelandshistorie (Copenhagen: Berlinske Forlag, 1953). Courtesy of John C. Laursen.
—William and Mary of Orange, King and Queen of Great Britain. From an untitled collecton of plates on the theme of the English revolution of 1688; engraved after Pieter Pickaert (Amsterdam [?], 1689 [?]). Clark Library collection.
—Frederick II of Prussia. From Adolph Menzel, Bilder zur Geschichte Friedrichs des Grossen (Leipzig: R. Voigtlander, [n.d.]). Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

November 17 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.

— Chamber Music at the Clark —

A Special Fund-Raising Event to Support the
Clark Library Chamber Music Endowment Fund 

Shanghai String Quartet

Within four years of its formation at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983, the Shanghai Quartet won two international competitions and embarked on an extensive touring career. Today, this unusually refined and musically distinct group is recognized as one of the leading quartets of its generation. It appears regularly in the major music centers of North America, Europe, and Asia, collaborating on occasion with pianists Lillian Kallir, Joseph Kalichstein, Ruth Laredo, and Gerhard Oppitz; flutist Eugenia Zuckerman; and cellist Yo-Yo Ma; among others. On the occasion of its tenth anniversary as Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Richmond, the Quartet premiered a new work by Bright Sheng, commissioned especially for the event by the University and the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C. Under the auspices of Delos International, the Shanghai Quartet has built an extensive discography offering traditional string quartet repertoire as well as unconventional cross-cultural and best-selling “cross-over” classical fare.

— Program —

Joaquin Turina, La oracion del torero, op. 34
Hugo Wolf, Italian Serenade in G Major, "Italian Serenade"
Dmitri Shostakovich, Quartet no. 3 in F Major
Franz Schubert, Quartet no. 14 in D Minor, D. 810,
"Death and the Maiden"

Admission fee: $65 per person ($50 is tax-deductible)
The reservations lottery closes on October 14

Click here for additional information and
a full schedule of this year's music programs. 

 


— December 6–7 (Friday & Saturday) —

Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600–1800
Part 2. Economy and Society
in the Early Modern Mediterranean

a conference arranged by
Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo Ruiz, and Geoffrey Symcox,
Department of History, UCLA

The second session of the Center & Clark Core program for 2002-03.
This conference will ask whether the various regions of the Mediterranean underwent similar economic and social processes, and whether these are related to the formation of the early modern dynastic states. Before moving into waters that Braudel charted less thoroughly, this program will re-examine the Braudel paradigm on its home turf in the light of more recent research.

Conference papers will be accessible from this page two weeks before and two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request.

Registration deadline—November 22.
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $15; students with ID: no charge; others: $25.
Fees include the cost of lunches and refreshments, as well as the mailing, by request, of conference papers.

Click here to view the program schedule.
Click here for a printable registration form.


— January 31–February 1 (Friday & Saturday) —

Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600–1800
Part 3. Religion, Conflict, and Popular Culture

a conference arranged by
Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo Ruiz, and Geoffrey Symcox,
Department of History, UCLA

The third session of the Center & Clark Core program for 2002-03.

As Braudel has taught us, the early modern Mediterranean witnessed millenarian movements, and dramatic religious changes. Banditry, violence against and by the rising centralized states, and heightened religious expectations in the wake of the Reformation, the Counter Reformation, and Sabbatai Zevi's messianic movement serve as the focus of this session's papers. They will expand Braudel's pioneering discussion of social movements, and address the new methodological and critical approaches to the study of violence, religion, and radical millenarian movements.

Above: Rethymnon, in Crete; plate in Joseph Pitton de Tournefort,
A Voyage into the Levant (London, 1718). Clark Library collection.

Conference papers will be accessible from this page two weeks before and two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request.

Registration deadline—January 17.
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $15; students with ID: no charge; others: $25.
Fees include the cost of lunches and refreshments, as well as the mailing, by request, of conference papers.

Click here to view the program schedule.
Click here for a printable registration form.


February 22 (Saturday), 2:00 p.m.

— Poetry Afternoons at the Clark — 

Viva Black Sparrow Press!

program arranged by
Bruce Whiteman, UCLA, and Estelle Gershgoren Novak, UCLA

Poetry Afternoons at the Clark is a series of poetry readings, presented annually, with programs dedicated to the work of poets associated with Los Angeles.

This reading will celebrate the past and the future of Black Sparrow Press. Black Sparrow was founded by John and Barbara Martin in Los Angeles in 1967, and ownership recently passed to David Godine in Boston. The press has published many important poets. Four of them will read from their work and say a little about what the press has meant to them as writers.

The Participating Poets
Nancy Boutilier
David Bromige
Wanda Coleman
Aram Saroyan

Reservations deadline: February 14
Admission: $5 [free of charge to students]

Click here for a printable registration form.

March 1–2 (Saturday & Sunday)

Seventh UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe

The UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe is an annual interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty of the University of California system who work in any aspect of late medieval and early modern Central Europe. The primary area of interest is the German-speaking world, though contiguous areas such as the Low Countries, Bohemia, and northern Italy (roughly the extent of the Holy Roman Empire) are considered as well. The era covered stretches from the fourteenth century (roughly the beginning of Early New High German) into the nineteenth century.

The colloquium is organized by Thomas A. Brady, History, University of California, Berkeley; Peter H. Reill, History, UCLA; David Sabean, History, UCLA; and Elaine Tennant, German, University of California, Berkeley.

For additional information about the Seventh UC Colloquium, please contact the
UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
at 310-206-8552 or by email at .

For additional information about the UC Colloquim and for schedules of previously held sessions,
please see the Colloquium's website .


March 9 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.

— Chamber Music at the Clark — 

Peabody Trio

Violaine Melançon, violin
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Seth Knopp, piano

The Peabody Trio established itself as an ensemble with a professional feature in 1989, when it won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Since then the group has performed in major cities throughout North America and more recently has begun appearing in Israel, earning acclaim along the way for its interpretations of piano trio classics as well as for its renditions of contemporary compositions. The trio is especially committed to new music and to this end has worked with Shulamit Ran, Zhou Long, Bright Sheng, Charles Wuorinen, and Leon Kirchner, among others. To a busy schedule of concerts, winter and summer, the group adds pedagogical duties at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and at the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Putney, Vermont.Festival in Putney, Vermont.

— Program —

Gabriel Fauré, Piano Trio in D Minor
Alfred Schnittke, Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in B-flat Major, op. 97, "Archduke"

Admission fee: $20
The reservations lottery closes on February 3.

Click here for additional information and
a full schedule of this year's music programs

March 22 (Saturday), 2:00 p.m.

—The Sixth Annual Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing —

Richard J. Hoffman: Typographer, Printer, Teacher

A lecture by Ethan Lipton, California State University, Los Angeles

— A reception will follow the lecture —

Admission:
     Free of charge.
Reservations:
          R.S.V.P. to 323-735-7605.  Seating is limited.

—This program is made possible by the generous support of Dr. Stephen A. Kanter —


 

March 23 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.

— Chamber Music at the Clark — 

Bartók String Quartet

The Bartók Quartet, renowned for the tonal beauty, clarity, and directness of its playing, and for its extraordinary sense of ensemble, is considered one of the great string quartets of the world. The quartet members first came together in 1957, at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, adopting the name Komlos Quartet for their nascent ensemble. In 1963, after winning several major chamber music prizes in Europe, the group assumed the name, Bartók Quartet, in honor of the illustrious twentieth-century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The Quartet is equally at home with repertory from all periods, but it is perhaps most acclaimed for its performances of works by its illustrious namesake, one of which will be heard at the Clark.

— Program —

Franz Josef Haydn, Quartet in G Major, op. 77, no. 1
Béla Bartók, String Quartet no. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartet in E Minor, op. 59, no. 2, "Razumovsky"

Admission fee: $20
The reservations lottery closes on February 18

 

Click here for additional information and
a full schedule of this year's music programs

March 30 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.

— Clark Recitals Series — 

Quartetto di Venezia

— A concert cosponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles —

Andrea Vio and Alberto Battiston, violins
Luca Morassutti, viola
Angelo Zanin, cello

The Quartetto di Venezia, now more than a decade old and familiar to chamber music audiences in Europe, North and South America, Japan and South Korea, unites four musicians who were students together at the Benedetto Marcello Music Conservatory in Venice, Italy. The ensemble’s unique artistic personality derives from its conceptions of quality of sound, bowing technique, and vibrato, as well as from the emphasis given to individual instruments within the fabric of any particular composition. The group acknowledges artistic indebtedness to two major European string quartet traditions: the one Italian, associated with the Quartetto Italiano and with the teaching of Piero Farulli; the second, Central European, represented by the Végh Quartet and with the guidance of members Sándor Végh and Paul Szabo.

— Program —

Franz Josef Haydn, String Quartet in D Minor, op. 76, no. 2
Igor Stravinsky, Three Pieces for String Quartet
Giacomo Puccini, String Quartet, "I Crisantemi"
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in C Major, op. 59, no. 3 "Razumovsky"

Admission fee: $20
The reservations lottery closes on February 24

Click here for additional information and
a full schedule of this year's music programs

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April 4, 6 and 7 (Friday, Sunday, Monday)

Acculturation and its Discontents:
The Jews of Italy from Early Modern to Modern Times

a conference cosponsored with the
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation,
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

arranged by
Massimo Ciavolella, David N. Myers, Peter H. Reill, Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA,
and Gilberto Pizzamiglio, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

This conference will bring together distinguished scholars from Europe, Israel, and North America to offer new perspectives on the complex process of Jewish interaction with non-Jewish Italian society, as well as to take stock of recent developments in Italian Jewish historiography. Assessing the status of a minority culture such as the Jews of Italy is complicated by a set of competing factors: on one hand, the evident willingness of Italian Jews to engage in a wide range of typically non-Jewish cultural pursuits; and on the other, the ambivalence of both Jews and Christians in Italy to the very prospect of Jewish social integration.

In our attempt to understand the tension between these two impulses, we will cover the rich period of Italian Jewish history extending from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Topics to be discussed include the function of the ghetto in the Italian (Jewish) mind, the role of Jews in Italy's economic life, the complex relationship between Italian Judaism and Christianity (as well as between Jewish and Christian intellectuals), and the breakdown and subsequent re-establishment of the ghetto in the nineteenth century. While these topics have been studied before, at times in great detail, we hope to provide a fresh and new assessment of the field of research.

Locations:
     Friday, April 4 and Sunday, April 6: at the Clark Library
           Parking: Ample free parking is available on the Clark Library grounds.

     Monday, April 7: at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles
     (1023 Hilgard Avenue—south of Weyburn Avenue, west side of Hilgard )
          Parking: Parking is not offered at Istituto Italiano,
           but there is street and public parking nearby,
           including the lot of the “Monty’s Building,” at 1100 Glendon Avenue.

Please note that advance registration is required for all sessions.
Seating is limited at both locations, and registration will close when capacity is reached.

Registration deadline—March 28
Registration fees—
      Sessions at the Clark (April 4 & 6): UC faculty and staff: $15; students with ID: no charge; others: $25.
     Fees include the cost of lunches and refreshments at the Clark.
     Sessions at Istituto Italiano (April 7): Free of charge.
     Lunch will be provided courtesy of Istituto Italiano.

Click here to view the program schedule.
Click here for a printable registration form.


— April 11–12 (Friday & Saturday) —

Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600–1800
Part 4. Cultural Transmission in the Mediterranean World

a conference arranged by
Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo Ruiz, and Geoffrey Symcox,
Department of History, UCLA

The fourth session of the Center & Clark Core program for 2002-03.
Complementing in a way the December gathering, this conference will ask whether the Mediterranean may be seen as an integrated space not only in terms of its material and political history, but also with respect to cultural production and exchange. It begins to address the relative absence of culture from Braudel's investigation, and brings to bear the cultural history approach on the materials of the early modern Mediterranean.

Conference papers will be accessible from this page two weeks before and two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request.

Registration deadline—March 28.
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $15; students with ID: no charge; others: $25.
Fees include the cost of lunches and refreshments, as well as the mailing, by request, of conference papers.

Click here to view the program schedule.
Click here for a printable registration form.

Sobrenia, an Arab town west of Motril, in the Granada province.
Illustration in François Louis Schmied, Peau-Brune:
de St. Nazaire à la Ciotat (Lyon, 1931).
Clark Library collection.


— May 4 (Sunday) —

Clark Library Afternoon of Acquisitions

The annual fund-raising program, arranged by a committee of the Director's Advisory Council, which provides individual donors with the opportunity to sponsor books or manuscripts recently acquired by the Library. Details about the program and about the materials available for sponsorship will be announced.


May 17 (Saturday)

The Intersection of
Politics and German Literature, 1750–2000
A conference in Honor of Ehrhard Bahr, UCLA

arranged by Andrew Hewitt, UCLA 

—  cosponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages, UCLA   —  

While the intersection of politics and literature appears self-evident to those working in cultural studies today, Ehrhard (Ted) Bahr pioneered this perspective before it was fashionable in German Studies. From his early work on Kafka behind the Iron Curtain to his current investigations of the Goethe Society under National Socialism, Ted has consistently developed original questions and approaches to this complex area. His work has encompassed three centuries with equal erudition and subtlety, and its focus has always been progressive. In looking backwards, whether to Weimar Classicism, to the literature of World War II, or to the problem of Fascism, he has taught us to look forward as well. His research on the impact of the French Revolution on German intellectuals, his writing on Anti-Semitism, and finally his groundbreaking work on exile literature will stand the test of time as the political-historical problems of revolution, religious persecution, and exile assume ever greater prominence in an increasingly chaotic globalized context. Alive to the importance of changing methodologies in a constantly changing world, Ted's receptivity to new interpretive paradigms rests precisely at the intersection of politics and literature. His work has enriched the lives of students and colleagues alike. This conference will be a celebration of Ehrhard Bahr and of his contributions to scholarship.

Registration deadline—May 9.
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $10; students with ID: no charge; others: $20.
Fees include the cost of lunch and refreshments.

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The drawing by Franz Kafka (above) is reproduced from Franz Kafka, The Trial, trans. Willa and Edwin
Muir (New York: Schocken Books, 1968, c. 1956); from the copy in the English Reading Room, UCLA.



— May 30–31 (Friday & Saturday) —

Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600–1800
Part 5. Aural and Visual Cultures in the Mediterranean

a conference arranged by
Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo Ruiz, and Geoffrey Symcox,
Department of History, UCLA

The concluding session of the Center & Clark Core program for 2002-03.
Braudel did not study the rich cultural production of the early modern Mediterranean world, in literature, music and opera, and the visual arts. This session will seek to extend his synthesis temporally and conceptually by examining this field of enquiry, and perhaps offering some hypothesis as to why he chose not to include it in his great work. The April session and the present one will critically engage with the East/West constructed boundaries, for they will question the foundation of this construction, namely, cultural essentialism.

Conference papers will be accessible from this page two weeks before and two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request.

Registration deadline—May 16
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $15; students with ID: no charge; others: $25.
Fees include the cost of lunches and refreshments, as well as the mailing, by request, of papers.

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Gibraltar, illustration in François Louis Schmied,
Peau-Brune: de St. Nazaire à la Ciotat (Lyon, 1931).
Clark Library collection.

 



— June 6–7 (Friday & Saturday) —

Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms
and Postcolonial Theories

a conference arranged by
Daniel Carey, National University of Ireland, Galway
Lynn Festa, Harvard University
Doris Garraway, Northwestern University
Sven Trakulhun, Forschungszentrum Europaeische Aufklärung, Potsdam

This conference will address the powers and limitations of postcolonial theory as it applies to eighteenth-century literature, culture, and history. In part because the need for primary historical and literary research has been so great, there has been a relative dearth of work placing the specific nature of eighteenth-century colonialism into relation with postcolonial theories. While traditions of Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment are thought to have contributed to the formation of postcolonial theory, many of the analytic terms used in postcolonial theory are grounded in practices of nineteenth-century imperialism. The conference considers these categories in relation to the specificity of eighteenth-century colonialisms, with special attention to the shadings that distinguish the imperial endeavors of different nations and the diversity of historical experience, power relations, practices of resistance, and colonial discourses.

Edmond Halley's New and Correct Chart Showing the Variations of the Compass in the Western and Southern Oceans (London, 1700); hand-colored engraved single sheet. From the Clark Library collection.
Conference papers will be accessible from this page two weeks before and two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request.

Registration deadline—May 23.
Registration fees—UC faculty and staff: $15; students with ID: no charge; others: $25.
Fees include the cost of lunches and refreshments, as well as the mailing, by request, of papers.

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