Academic
Negotiation Workshop for Grad Students and Postdocs
Tue 5/7 • 4PM - 5:30PM PDT RSVP
How can you negotiate effectively? Join us to learn and practice strategies for identifying your priorities in a negotiation process, communicating your value-add based on experiences and expertise, and navigating the job offer/negotiation process....
Captivity: Assembling Nature's Histories
Fri 5/17 • 9:15AM - 5:30PM PDT
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Conference organized by Anna Chen, Rebecca Fenning Marschall, and Bronwen Wilson. The early modern period was a hothouse for the study of physical things in the natural world and the collection and assembly of them in human-made physical spaces....
Bookish Biomes
Sat 5/18 • 11AM - 2PM PDT
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The Clark Library preserves and provides access to over 130,000 books, manuscripts, and artworks dating from the 15th century to the present. But there is a library of living things on the five acres of green space outside the library's building,...
Conference: "Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State"
Fri 6/7 • 10AM - Sat 6/8 • 1PM PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
This conference will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials, which...