Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Upcoming Events
Edo Outsiders: Ainu and Ryukyuan Art
Fri 4/19 • 10AM - 5PM PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The third conference in the Center & Clark's 2023-24 Core Program, Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868, focuses on two groups who are often marginalized if not absent in narratives of early modern...
Ukiyo-e Printing Demonstration and Workshop with Ogawa Nobuto
Sat 4/27 • 2PM - 4PM PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
In conjunction with the Center & Clark’s 2023-24 Core Program, "Open Edo: Diverse, Ecological, and Global Perspectives on Japanese Art, 1603–1868," we are pleased to collaborate with UKIYO-E PROJECT to present a printing demonstration and workshop...
Doric String Quartet (Chamber Music at the Clark)
Sat 5/4 • 2PM - 4PM PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Seats for the Doric String Quartet concert will go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. $40 General Public/$10 current UCLA students with valid UID. Please note, seats are very limited and will sell out within minutes. The program includes...
Kenneth Karmiole Research Fellowship Presentation: Witnessing Disaster
Thu 5/9 • 12PM - 1PM PDT
Talk given by John Sullivan a PhD candidate and Quinn Fellow in the History Department at Northwestern University. Between 1788 and 1793, the Frenchman Louis-Benjamin Fleuriau de Bellevue (1761–1852) trekked the length of Italy and climbed its...
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...