Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies

Upcoming Events

Appreciation of Kunqu Opera Performance: Techniques and Characteristics

Thu 10/10 • 4PM - 6PM PDT

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Kunqu Opera, with over 600 years of history, is one of the world’s oldest theatrical traditions, alongside Greek drama and Indian Sanskrit theatre. This lecture features two distinguished experts: a first-class national actor known for his xiaosheng...

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Caribbean Kaleidoscope: Convergence and Transformation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Thu 10/17 • 4PM - 5:30PM PDT

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Lecture by Ida Altman. Ida is the author, co-author, or editor of numerous books and articles on early modern Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world. Her most recent book is Life and Society in the EarlySpanish Caribbean: The Greater...

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Core Program 2024-25: Early Global Caribbean: Conference 1: Convergences

Fri 10/18 • 10AM - Sat 10/19 • 1:15PM PDT

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana, UCLA and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, Brown University, and Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World. For further information, a complete list of speakers, and to register...

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Reading Paul Landacre's Archive: California Landscape and the Erasure of Indigeneity

Wed 10/23 • 4PM - 5:30PM PDT

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Second Annual Spotlight Talk by Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Paul Landacre was a wood engraver and artist whose first published work, California...

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Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies