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Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year
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- 10/5/01 (Fri) through 10/6/01 (Sat)
The Hermetic Imagination in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (off-campus)
A conference arranged by Pamela Smith (Pomona College) and Peter Reill (UCLA). Please see the Calendar of Events section of our website for program details. Registration deadline is October 1, 2001. -- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm
- 10/8/01 (Mon)
Talk by David Bleich--"The Academy Without Language"
4:00PM until 6:00PM In Kinsey 355
UCLA Writing Programs invites you to a talk by David Bleich of the University of Rochester: "The Academy Without Language." Monday, October 8th in Kinsey 355 at 4:00 p.m. (Free) David Bleich teaches writing, pedagogy, language use, women's studies, Jewish studies, and science studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Subjective Criticism (Johns Hopkins UP, 1978); The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations (Oxford UP, 1988); and Know and Tell: A Writing Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership (Heinemann, 1998). -- submitted by Greg Rubinson (rubinson@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact rubinson@humnet.ucla.edu
- 10/15/01 (Mon)
Democracy, Popular Culture, and the National Past
4:00PM until 6:00PM In Humanities Conference Room, 314 Royce Hall
The UCLA Humanities Consortium Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar Series Nations and Identities: Between Culture and State presents Geoff Eley Democracy, Popular Culture, and the National Past: National Citizenship and the Politics of Nostalgia in Western Europe,1945-2000 This paper develops an argument about the importance of "cultural memory" as a dimension of political change in Western Europe between the Second World War and the present. On the one hand, powerful popular identifications with the reformed polities of the postwar settlement were secured during the late 1940s and early 1950s, which helped cement their stability and resilience during the following two decades. On the other hand, when the resulting consensus came under attack and dissolved during the 1970s and 1980s, the associated political conflicts also circulated through the sphere of popular culture. This postwar consensus refers partly to the enduring political settlement negotiated via the reconstruction designs of wartime coalitions, the reform programs of the postwar governments, and the more pragmatic accommodations of the 1950s; partly to the corporative system of politics defined via Fordism, Keynesianism, and the politics of the welfare state; and partly the dominant cultural formation of the fifties, which combined promises of improvement and prosperity, ethics of discipline and containment, ideologies of collective goods and public responsibility, and an entrenched habitus of populist, hierarchical, and deeply historicized patriotism. When the foundations of the postwar political settlement were dismantled, the cultural meanings of 1945 were necessarily affected. In the process, popular understandings of the national past were called into question and reworked. Geoff Eley teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published widely in German history, including Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (1980), The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1984), and (as editor) The Goldhagen Effect. History, Memory, Nazism: Facing the German Past (2000). He has also co-edited Becoming National: A Reader (1996) with Ronald Grigor Suny, and Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (1994) with Nicholas Dirks and Sherry Ortner. His general history of the European Left will be published in spring 2002. He is working on film and the construction of the national past in Britain and Germany. This seminar is the first of an eight-part series made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and contributions from The Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies, The Center for Medieval and Rennaisance Studies, and The Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies. Limited seating available, no reservations required. For further information, please contact Mark Pokorski: mpok@humnet.ucla.edu or 310.206.0559. -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 10/18/01 (Thur)
LGBTS Fall Reception
4:00PM until 6:00PM In 306 Royce Hall
** LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER STUDIES FALL RECEPTION ** All are invited to celebrate the beginning of the academic year by honoring three distinguished scholars who are joining the UCLA faculty this fall: Philip Brett, Musicology; Sue-Ellen Case, Theater; Christopher Looby, English 4:00-6:00, 306 Royce Hall. Thursday, Oct 18, 2001 Free & open to the public. Refreshments will be served. -- submitted by Tammy Ho (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 10/19/01 (Fri) through 10/20/01 (Sat)
Genealogies of Feminism
In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (off-campus)
A conference arranged by Anne K. Mellor, Lynn Hunt, and Felicity Nussbaum (all at UCLA). Please see the Calendar of Events section of our website for program details. Registration deadline is October 12, 2001. -- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm
- 10/27/01 (Sat)
QGrad 2001: A Conference on Sexuality & Gender
8:45AM until 6:30PM In 306 Royce Hall - Registration
QGRAD 2001: A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON SEXUALITY & GENDER Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:45 am -6:30 pm 306 Royce Hall A public conference devoted to graduate student research & performance in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies, on queer topics, sexuality & gender. ** 5:15 - 6:30 pm FACULTY SCHOLARS PANEL "OUT TO REVIEWERS: HOW TO GET YOUR WORK PUBLISHED IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL" For conference schedule & program, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qgrad3.html FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Graduate Division, the Division of the Humanities, International Studies and Overseas Programs, the Center for the Study of Women, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Campus Resource Center, and the Departments of Applied Linguistics, Economics, English, French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, History, Musicology, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish and Portuguese, and Writing Programs -- submitted by Tammy Ho (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qgrad3.html
- 11/2/01 (Fri) through 11/3/01 (Sat)
History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights, ca. 1640–1848, Session 1 - Diverse Subjects: Entities/Affects/Rights
In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (off-campus)
This conference, arranged by Kirstie M. McClure (UCLA), is the first session of our core conference series, "History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights, ca. 1640–1848". Please see the Calendar of Events section of our website for program details. Registration deadline is October 19, 2001. -- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm
- 11/18/01 (Sun)
Orpheus Quartet concert
2:00PM In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (off-campus)
This is the first in our concert series, "Chamber Music at the Clark". Tickets are $15 each and are provided on a lottery basis only, as seating is limited. Please see the Calendar of Events section of our website for further details. Lottery deadline is October 15, 2001. -- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm
- 12/2/01 (Sun)
Chamber Music with David Finckel, cello & Wu Han, piano
2:00PM In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (off-campus)
This is the second in our concert series, "Chamber Music at the Clark". Tickets are $15 each and available on a lottery basis only, as seating is limited. Please see the Calendar of Events section of our website for further details. Lottery deadline is October 15. -- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm
- 12/8/01 (Sat)
"Between Vienna and London": Tom Beghin Performs Haydn
2:00PM In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (off-campus)
Over the last year and a half, Tom Beghin, UCLA's expert on early keyboards, has been presenting a fascinating cycle of Haydn's complete works for keyboard. This concert, Mr. Beghin's third appearance in the Clark Recitals series, concludes the Haydn cycle. Tickets are $15 each and available on a lottery basis only, as seating is limited. Please see the Calendar of Events section of our website for further details. Lottery deadline is November 2, 2001. -- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm
- 1/26/02 (Sat)
Green Thoughts, Green Shades: A Celebration of Renaissance and Contemporary Poetry
1:30PM until 4:30PM In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
This program is cosponsored by the Department of English, UCLA, and the Friends of English, UCLA It has been arranged by Jonathan Post, English, UCLA This year's Poetry Afternoon the Clark will feature some of our most distinguished contemporarty poets reading selections from the great lyricists of the English past as well as from their own work. The readers include Calvin Bedient, Eavan Boland, Anthony Hecht, Heather McHugh, and Stephen Yenser. Reservations deadline: January 18 Admission: $5 -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/
- 1/31/02 (Thur) through 2/2/02 (Sat)
Furnishing the 18th Century
FURNISHING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY A conference arranged by Kathryn Norberg, UCLA, and Dena Goodman, University of Michigan Cosponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum -LOCATIONS- Thursday's session will be held at the Getty Center. Friday's and Saturday's sessions will be held at the Clark. Historians, literary scholars, art historians and curators interested in furniture and furnishing of France, England and their colonies during the eighteenth century will gather at this two-and-a-half day conference to critique old approaches and develop new interpretations while exploring how material culture - in this case furnishing - shaped cultural production and mirrored social patterns. A special session of the conference will be hosted by Gillian Wilson, curator of the Department of Decorative Arts at the Getty Museum, and will be held at the Getty. Abstracts of participants' papers will appear on this website during the month of January. Hard copy will be sent to registrants by request. Registration deadline- January 18 Registration fees- UC faculty and staff: $15 - Students with ID: No charge - Others: $25 Fees include the cost of advance copies of abstracts ( if requested) as well as lunches and refreshments at the Clark on Friday and Saturday. Thursday's session at the Getty will begin at 5 P.M. -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm
- 2/8/02 (Fri) through 2/9/02 (Sat)
The Fin-de-Siecle Poem
9:30AM until 5:00PM In William Andrews Clark Library
The Fin-de-Siecle Poem occasions the critical reappraisal of a wide range of distinctly aesthetic, decadent, and imperial poetry produced during the age of Oscar Wilde and his circle. It also seeks to draw attention to the wealth of fin-de-siecle materials - letters, manuscripts, and printed sources - held at UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The conference provides the opportunity to look closely at the group of male writers that W.B. Yeats once characterized as "The Tragic Generation." At the same time, the papers examine the achievements of several figures whose poetry reveals the significant contribution that women made to fin-se-siecle literary culture. Many of these authors of the 1880s and 1890s were associated with Wilde, either through the everday contacts of metropolitan literary life or the professional workings of the Woman's World - the politically radical magazine that he edited from 1887 to 1889. As a consequence, the program includes presentations that address the careers of poets as diverse as Toru Dutt, Herbert Horne, Lionel Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, Amy Levy, A. Mary F. Robinson, Arthur Symons, and "Graham R. Tomson" (Rosamund Marriott Watson). The upsurge of scholarly interest in "Michael Field" means that a whole session is dedicated to the astonishing ambitions of the aunt and niece (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) who wrote jointly under that name. Each participant will explore one or two poems in careful detail in order to raise questions about the characteristics of fin-de-siecle poetry. Copies of the poems will be precirculated to those who register for the conference by the deadline of Friday, February 1, 2002. The CLARK LIBRARY is located at: 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, one block east of Arlington Avenue, two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway. -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/
- 2/22/02 (Fri) through 2/23/02 (Sat)
Sexual States: A Colloquium and Graduate Workshop on German Sexuality Studies
9:00AM until 5:00PM In 306 and 314 Royce Hall
Sexual States: A Colloquium on German Sexuality Studies Organized By: The Department Of Germanic Languages and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Studies Program Co-Sponsored By: The Dean Of Humanities, The Center For The Study Of Women, The Department Of History, The Center For 17th And 18th Century Studies, The Center For European And Russian Studies, The Center For Modern And Contemporary Studies, and The Graduate Division FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2002 MORNING SESSION 9:00-10:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Alice Kuzniar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Testcase Treut: Reevaluating the 90s Sexuality Debates Annette Jael Lehmann, Freie Universität Berlin “So wie diese deutschen Schwuchteln können wir nicht zusammenleben”: Examples of Queer Sexuality and Masculinity in Recent German Film and Novels 10:45-12:15 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jennifer M. Kapczynski, University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: The German Patient: Metaphors of National Illness in Postwar Literature and Film Chapter: Guns, Germs, and Sex: Fascism and the Sexual Predator in Der Verlorene Mary Beth Wetli, University of Pennsylvania We Ain’t Broke -– So Stop Trying to Fix Us LUNCH 12:15—1:45 AFTERNOON SESSION 1:45-3:15 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Yvonne Ivory, San Diego State University The Urning and His Own: Self-Fashioning and the Fin-de- Sičcle Invert Robert Tobin, Whitman College Pederasty in Palestine: Arnold Zweig on Sexuality and Nationality AFTERNOON BREAK 3:15—3:30 306 Royce Hall 3:30-5:00 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jared Poley, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Ant People and Voodoo Queens: Hanns Heinz Ewers, the Occupied Rhineland, and German Decolonization Chapter: Whipping Nancy Thuleen, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dissertation: Stefan George: Homoeroticism as Catalyst and Synthesis Chapter: Homoeroticism in the Conflict Between Stefan George and Hugo von Hofmannsthal SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2002 MORNING SESSION 10:00-11:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley Cultures of Arousal and the Control of the Imagination Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania Poetry of the Breast LUNCH 11:30—1:00 AFTERNOON SESSION 1:00-2:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall James Steakley, University of Wisconsin, Madison Homo Hitler Redux Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University Holocaust Historiography and Lesbian Biography: Reading Aimee and Jaguar AFTERNOON BREAK 2:30—2:45 306 Royce Hall 2:45-4:15 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jill Suzanne Smith, Indiana University Dissertation: Reading the Red Light: The Literary and Historical “Zoning” of the Prostitute in Berlin, 1880-1933 Chapter: Dynamic Woman or Frozen Image? The Prostitute in Berlin Britta McEwen, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Model City, Moral Choices: Sexuality in Red Vienna, 1919-1934 Chapter: Creating More Perfect Unions: Clinic Culture in Interwar Vienna -- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/load.cfm?sexualstates.
- 2/22/02 (Fri) through 2/23/02 (Sat)
History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights, ca. 1640-1848: Inside/Outside Constitutionalisms: Rights/Revolutions/Empires
9:30AM until 4:00PM In Clark Library
The American and French Revolutions of the eighteenth century put universal rights and modern constitutionalism on the mattering map of political modernity. And yet, neither customary practices nor more recent patterns of social engagement or encounter, nor even aspects of ancient constitutionalist alternatives disappeared from that topography. In colonial arenas in particular, but also in the domestic politics of various European states, regional or non-national particularities, hierarchies, and hybridities both challenged and inflected the elaboration of the rights of citizens in practice. Attuned to such diverse contexts, this conference will explore the social partitions and remainders roiling in the wake of modern constitutionalism. Papers for this conference will be posted on the Center's website (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm#core) as they are received, from mid-February. Registrants who indicate that they do not have access to the Internet will receive hard copies. Registration Deadline: February 15, 2002 Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. Fees: UCLA Faculty and Staff - $15 Students with ID - No charge All others - $25 -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs
- 2/27/02 (Wed)
One Royal Body or Two? The Problem of Sacred Monarchy in Early Modern Western Europe
4:30PM In Royce Hall 306
Did anybody really believe that Western European kings were sacred? Were they seen as possessing a mystical body as well as a natural one, and did this royal dualism provide a theological foundation for the growth of the state? In this lecture, Paul Monod (History, Middlebury College) re-examines these questions, first raised forty years ago by Ernst Kantorowicz, in light of recent research on court rituals, political practices, and the human body. Professor Monod shows that what emerges is not a coherent theory of sacred monarchy, but a dynamic history of contested political concepts and changing royal publicity. Advance registration not required. No fee. This lecture is co-sponsored by CMRS, the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Dean of Social Sciences, and the Department of History. -- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 3/8/02 (Fri) through 3/9/02 (Sat)
New Findings and New Interpretations of the Role and Influence of Modern Scepticism
10:30AM until 5:00PM In Clark Library
A colloquium arranged by Richard H. Popkin, UCLA In the half century since Richard Popkin's original articles on the sceptical crisis and the rise of modern philosophy and his book on The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, there has been a growing interest in tracing how philosophical scepticism developed from the late fifteenth century onward, and a lot of controversy about how to interpret the views of various major sceptical figures, such as Montaigne, Pierre Bayle, and David Hume. A great deal of new research has appeared, and there are new evaluations of the relationship vetween philosophical scepticism and religious belief. This conference proposes to bring together figures who are in the forefront of new researches in the field. Participant's papers will appear on this website about two weeks before the conference; hard copy will be predistributed to registrants by request. This colloquium is being held in lieu of the current year's Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy. The event is made possible by the generous support of Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin. Fees: UC Faculty and Staff - $15 Students with ID - No charge All others - $25 -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs
- 3/15/02 (Fri) through 3/
Celtic Movie Night
7:30PM until 11:00PM In James Bridges Theater
The UCLA Celtic Colloquium with support from Melnitz Movies presents a double feature this Friday, March 15th at the James Bridges Theater. At 7:30pm, we will show "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), the Academy Award winning movie with Maureen O'Hara and Roddy McDowall and at 9:15ish, we will show "Asterix and Obelix against Caesar" (1999), the live- action French film starring Gerard Depardieu and Roberto Benigni. Admission is free. Please contact Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu) if you have any questions. -- submitted by Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 3/15/02 (Fri)
Celtic Movie Night
7:30PM until 11:00PM In James Bridges Theater
The UCLA Celtic Colloquium with support from Melnitz Movies presents a double feature this Friday, March 15th at the James Bridges Theater. At 7:30pm, we will show "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), the Academy Award winning movie with Maureen O'Hara and Roddy McDowall and at 9:15ish, we will show "Asterix and Obelix against Caesar" (1999), the live- action French film starring Gerard Depardieu and Roberto Benigni. Admission is free. Please contact Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu) if you have any questions. -- submitted by Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 3/15/02 (Fri) through 3/16/02 (Sat)
Opposition, Dissent, & Revolutionary Sympathies: Origin of the British Left, ca. 1770-1800
9:30AM until 5:00PM In William Andrews Clark Library
During the wars against the American and French Revolution, there emerged in Britain the phenomenon of an opposition so far convinced that these wars were wrong as, at times, to welcome revolutionary victories against British forces or those of their allies. This attitude was new in being based less on religious conviction than on "enlightened" and "liberal" principle, and within Britain it displayed less revolutionary intention than sympathy with the revolutions of others. Americans who remember the 1960s will know that this mindset is an enduring force in modern history, and this conference will investigate its origins in the Britain of George III. Some lay in the politics of Whiggism, others in the politics of Dissent; and the European war against the universal claims of the French Revolution is situated within a period of civil war within the British empire, from America in the 1770s to Ireland in 1798. It will be suggested that the characters of patriotism, loyalism and their opposites, including treason and subversion, changed significantly during these years. -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (snoddy@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#core
- 4/12/02 (Fri) through 4/13/02 (Sat)
Diderot and European Culture
9:30AM until 5:00PM In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Denis Diderot has long been recognized as a central figure in European intellectual and artistic life - both as an imbiber of innovative ideas and practices and, in turn, as a promoter of radically new perceptions. This colloquium will take this dialectic forward by engaging with previously little-explored areas of Diderot's work and examining his encounters, within a European as well as a more specifically English context, with epistemology, the interface between philosophy and fiction, artistic practice, scientific discourse, the emerging discourse on race, translation, historiography, and orientalism. The aim will be to identify new links between these diverse aspects of his work by setting them critically within a European context, and to recognize in his writings, less the manifestation of a discrete and originally literary and intellectual figure, than a highly signifying nexus within the evolving cutural forces of his time and beyond. The Clark Library is located at 2520 Cimarron Street in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, one block east of Arlington Avenue, two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway. Fees: UC Faculty & Staff: $15 Students with ID: No Charge Others: $25 Registration Deadline: April 5, 2002 Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kod2004)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs
- 4/19/02 (Fri) through 4/20/02 (Sat)
Italy's Eighteenth Century - Gender and Culture in the age of the Grand Tour
9:30AM until 5:00PM In Getty Center (Friday) & Clark Library (Saturday)
This workshop brings together scholars of history, literature, art history, and music working on different aspects of gender and culture in eighteenth-century Italy. Until recently, Italy's eighteenth century has played a marginal role in general accounts of eighteenth-century Europe. Scholarship often situates Italy on the periphery of the Enlightenment; accordingly, its political and cultural developments tend to be seen, when they are described at all, as responsive to developments in such countries as England and France rather than worth studying for their own sake. Italian scholarship on the eighteenth century has taken a different view, but very little of this work, to date, is accessible to English-speaking readers. Recent work on eighteenth-century Italy by scholars working in different disciplines in Europe and North America not only suggests that Italy is an interesting place from which to view cultural developments in the eighteenth century, but also highlights the importance of gender in understanding Italian art, literature, music, and science. It situates, as well, our understanding of Italy in light of its prominent role in the Grand Tour. Both foreign perceptions of Italy and regular contact with foreigners shaped this world. In an era in which Italy could no longer claim to be the most "modern" of regions, as it had during the Renaissance, it nonetheless continued to be an important point of reference for European thought and culture. This workshop will consider ways in which Italian culture reflected the relations between Italy and other regions of Europe. Conference Locations & Parking Friday: The Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall 1200 Getty Center Drive, off the 405 Freeway, Getty Center Drive exit. Parking is reserved for registrants at no charge. Saturday: The Clark Library 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district, one block east of Arlington Avenue, two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway. There is ample free parking on the grounds. Fees: Friday's sessions at the Getty Center: Free of charge Saturday's sessions at the Clark Library: UC Faculty & Staff: $10 Students with ID: No charge Others: $20 Registration Deadline: April 12, 2002 Space at both locations is limited and registration will close when capacity is reached. -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kod2004)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/
- 5/3/02 (Fri) through 5/4/02 (Sat)
Arnaoldo Momigliano and the History of Cultural History
9:00AM until 5:00PM In Clark Library
A conference arranged by Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center, and Peter H. Reill, UCLA Arnaldo Momigliano was one of the great twentieth-century historians of the ancient world. But his many essays and lectures also called attention to the methods that, over the centuries since the Renaissance, have been used to make sense of the lived life of antiquity. This aspect of Momigliano's intellectual legacy is the subject of the present conference. It will focus, in particular, on Momigliano's provocative suggestion that modern disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, art history, sociology, and the the history of religion developed out of the practices and questions of early modern antiquarianism. In this claim lies the kernel of a yet-to-be-written history of modern cultural history, and the papers to be presented at the conference, and later developed into a publication, will give us that history. The presentations will fall into two categories: those that reflect on Momigliano's link between antiquarianism and the disciplines that developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and those that assess the contribution of Momigliano as a cultural historian by placing him alongside other twentieth- century masters such as Warburg, Huizinga, Scholem and Foucault. The Clark Library is located at 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district, one block east of Arlington Avenue, two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway. Free parking is available on the grounds. Fees: UC Faculty & Staff: $15 Students with ID: No Charge All others: $25 -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (snoddy@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs
- 5/5/02 (Sun)
Ying Quartet
2:00PM In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Celebration —— Ying Quartet —— The Ying Quartet, renowned for its outstanding performances and for its expertise at designing community outreach programs, has been celebrating its tenth anniversary during the 2001–02 season. The express goal of reintegrating artistic and creative expression into the fabric of everyday life still guides the quartet in its choice of programs, audiences, and venues, as it did in 1992, when its first residency, in rural Jesup, Iowa, brought national accolades. The return of the Yings—siblings Timothy, Janet, Phillip, and David—to the Clark for this celebration of the Library’s seventy-fifth anniversary is thus a uniquely fitting tribute to William Andrews Clark, Jr., whose similar commitment graced the public of Los Angeles with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the collection of orchestral scores at the Los Angeles Public Library, and, of course, his magnificent library building, book collection, and music room. Additional information about the Ying Quartet can be found on the group’s own website: http://www.yingquartet.com/ ———— The Program ———— Felix Mendelssohn, Quartet in D, op. 44, no. 1 Béla Bartók, Quartet no. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartet in C Major, op. 59, no. 3 Peter Reill, the Director of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, requests the pleasure of your company at this special occasion on May 5, 2002, Sunday afternoon, at two o’clock at the Clark Library. • A garden reception will follow the performance. • • • Seating is limited. This event is funded in part by the E. Nakamichi Foundation This is a special Clark Library 75th Anniversary Event. Tickets are $75 each, of which $60 is tax deductible. For more information, please contact the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies at 206-8552. -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/
- 5/31/02 (Fri) through 5/1/02 (Wed)
Defoe's Footprints: A Conference in Honor of Maximillian E. Novak
10:00AM In Clark Library
Defoe's Footprints: A Conference in Honor of Maximillian E. Novak —— Cosponsored by the Department of English, UCLA —— Robinson Crusoe, startled by the sight of a human footprint, embodied a new homo economicus—overcoming his fear in order to instill fear, threatened by God, nature, and other human beings yet shaping, even in disaster, what seems to be the whole universe to his ends. Defoe's stories may be about a man surviving on an island or a woman surviving in the city; they may bristle with whole populations fleeing disease or accumulating fortunes; they may turn upon common human pettiness or grand imperial ideas. But whatever his topics, Defoe puts into brilliant imaginative form an extraordinary number of what we know are still our social contradictions. Whether we consider his portrayals of the commodification of the imagination, the isolated self, sexual power, the knotting together of religion and capitalism, the family, science, economics, technology, or racial ideas—these and many other topics make talking about Defoe interesting at any time and any place. But on this occasion to discuss Defoe we shall at the same time celebrate the career of Professor Maximillian E. Novak. The new homo economicus in Defoe's works found one of its most important contemporary interpreters in Max Novak. From his first monographs on Defoe to his recent biography, Professor Novak has continually shaped and enlivened our understanding of one of the greatest of European novelists. This conference will also coincide with the publication of Teaching Robinson Crusoe, a volume edited by Maximillian Novak and Carl Fisher. One conference session will be devoted to that novel: talks on Robinson Crusoe will be followed by a panel in which several contributors to the Novak and Fisher volume will join to consider issues involved in teaching the work. Registration deadline—May 24. Registration fees— UC faculty and staff: $15 Students with ID: no charge Others: $25 Fees include the cost of lunches and other refreshments. -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/
- 5/28/02 (Tues)
New Light on the Egyptian Historian al-Jabarti (1753-1825) and His Work Ajaib al-Athar (1688-1821)
3:00PM In 10383 Bunche Hall
Lecture by Professor Shmuel Moreh, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- submitted by Michael Fishbein (fishbein@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 5/31/02 (Fri) through 6/1/02 (Sat)
Defoe's Footprints: A Conference in Honor of Maximillian E. Novak
10:00AM In Clark Library
Defoe's Footprints: A Conference in Honor of Maximillian E. Novak Cosponsored by the Department of English, UCLA Robinson Crusoe, startled by the sight of a human footprint, embodied a new homo economicus - overcoming his fear in order to instill fear, threatened by God, nature, and other human beings yet shaping, even in disaster, what seems to be the whole universe to his ends. Defoe's stories may be about a man surviving on an island or a woman surviving in the city; they may bristle with whole populations fleeing disease or accumulating fortunes; they may turn upon common human pettiness or grand imperial ideas. But whatever his topics, Defoe puts into brilliant imaginative form an extraordinary number of what we know are still our social contradictions. Whether we consider his portrayals of the commodification of the imagination, the isolated self, sexual power, the knotting together of religion and capitalism, the family, science, economics, technology, or racial ideas - these and many other topics make talking about Defoe interesting at any time and any place. But on this occasion to discuss Defoe we shall at the same time celebrate the career of Professor Maximillian E. Novak. The new homo economicus in Defoe's works found one of its most important contemporary interpreters in Max Novak. From his first monographs on Defoe to his recent biography, Professor Novak has continually shaped and enlivened our understanding of one of the greatest of European novelists. This conference will also coincide with the publication of Teaching Robinson Crusoe, a volume edited by Maximillian Novak and Carl Fisher. One conference session will be devoted to that novel: talks on Robinson Crusoe will be followed b a panel in which several contributors to the Novak and Fisher volume will join to consider issues involved in teaching the work. Registration deadline: May 24 Registration Fees: UC Faculty and Staff: $15 Students with ID: No Charge All Others: $25 Fees include the cost of lunches and other refreshments. -- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/
- 3/27/02 (Wed) through 3/29/02 (Fri)
University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference
In University of California at Berkeley
The eighteenth annual conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative, dedicated to the investigation of narrative, its elements, techniques, and forms; its relations to other modes of discourse; and its power in cultures past and present. The Conference generally features 250-300 participants. We welcome papers or panels on all aspects of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period, nationality, discipline, or medium. We encourage literary subjects (including poetry, pre-modern narrative, and film), as well as cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics (including folklore, history, law, philosophy, and science). Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Conference participants must join the Society for the Study of Narrative. -- submitted by Nancy Giganti (nancyg@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 3/27/02 (Wed) through 3/29/02 (Fri)
University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference
In University of California at Berkeley
The eighteenth annual conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative, dedicated to the investigation of narrative, its elements, techniques, and forms; its relations to other modes of discourse; and its power in cultures past and present. The Conference generally features 250-300 participants. We welcome papers or panels on all aspects of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period, nationality, discipline, or medium. We encourage literary subjects (including poetry, pre-modern narrative, and film), as well as cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics (including folklore, history, law, philosophy, and science). Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Conference participants must join the Society for the Study of Narrative. For more information visit www.vanderbilt.edu/narrative -- submitted by Nancy Giganti (nancyg@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact narcon03@socrates.berkeley.edu
- 7/15/02 (Mon)
Musica Angelica
1:00PM until 2:00PM In Korn Convocation Hall, the Anderson School
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival July 15, 22, 25, 29, & August 1, 2002 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Korn Convocation Hall, The Anderson School at UCLA Admission is free; no tickets are required. Monday, July 15 Musica Angelica Susan Judy, soprano Christen Herman, mezzo-soprano Michael Eagan, lute A Midsummer Day's Dream True & Unrequited Love in Seventeenth-Century Italian and English Song Works by Claudio Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi, Henry Purcell, John Dowland, William Lawes, and Nicolas Vallet This festival is made possible by the Henry J. Bruman Trust with the support of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies -- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/summer02.htm
- 7/22/02 (Mon)
Armadillo String Quartet
1:00PM until 2:00PM In Korn Convocation Hall, the Anderson School
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival July 15, 22, 25, 29, & August 1, 2002 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Korn Convocation Hall, The Anderson School at UCLA Admission is free; no tickets are required. Monday, July 22 Armadillo String Quartet Barry Socher & Steve Scharf, violins Raymond Tischer, viola David Garrett, cello The Four Seasons of Armadillo The program will include works by Antonio Vivaldi, Peter Shickele, Charles Ives, and Barry Socher This festival is made possible by the Henry J. Bruman Trust with the support of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies -- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/summer02.htm
- 7/25/02 (Thur)
Soloists of the Mládí Chamber Orchestra
1:00PM until 2:00PM In Korn Convocation Hall
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival July 15, 22, 25, 29, & August 1, 2002 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Korn Convocation Hall, The Anderson School at UCLA Admission is free; no tickets are required. Thursday, July 25 Soloists of the Mládí Chamber Orchestra Shalini Vijayan, violin Lisa Dondlinger, violin Brett Banducci, viola Timothy Loo, cello Pamela Vliek, flute Maria Casale, harp Kathryn Nevin, clarinet Ernst von Dohnányi, Serenade for Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 10 Siegfried Karg-Elert, Sonata-Appassionata in F-sharp minor, Op. 140 Maurice Ravel, Introduction and Allegro Please note this is a schedule change. The Soloists of the Mládí Chamber Orchestra have replaced the Brentwood Soloists. This festival is made possible by the Henry J. Bruman Trust with the support of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies -- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/summer02.htm
- 7/29/02 (Mon)
Concert: Tamara Chernyak, Akiko Tarumoto, Ingrid Hutman, & Gloria Lum
1:00PM until 2:00PM In Korn Convocation Hall, the Anderson School
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival July 15, 22, 25, 29, & August 1, 2002 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Korn Convocation Hall, The Anderson School at UCLA Admission is free; no tickets are required. Monday, July 29 Tamara Chernyak & Akiko Tarumoto, violins Ingrid Hutman, viola Gloria Lum, cello Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quartet in D-minor op. 421 Alexander Borodin, String Quartet no. 2 in D This concert made possible by a gift from Wendell E. Jeffrey and Bernice M. Wenzel This festival is made possible by the Henry J. Bruman Trust with the support of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies -- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/summer02.htm
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