Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures

Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures

a conference arranged by Lorna Clymer, California State University, Bakersfield

This conference addresses transformative interactions among religion, texts, and cultures during the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries in the British Isles, the European continent, and European settlements. The primary focus is the interaction of religious texts and Christian cultures. Such interaction can be found in Anglican, Catholic, and Dissenting practices, theology, politics, and in related definitions of the self, communities, and nations.

Each presenter will consider a text that contributed to or represents a cultural transformation, in which new practices were established, and by which important values or identities were defined. The role of religion in cultural transformation is evidenced by various texts, such as editions of the Bible, sermons, prayer books, devotional and conduct manuals, hymnals, poetry, allegories, didactic fiction and drama, tracts, and treatises.

Topics to be considered include: religious traditions evolving in print and in oral practices; discussions of miracles; the influence of the Book of Common Prayer; connections between orthodox Christianity and philosophy or science; convergences of Biblical scholarship and early modern musicology; worship as defined by theology and poetics; interactions of non-Christian religions with Christianity; and appropriations of pagan texts for Christian purposes.

The secular focus of some “Enlightenment” studies may on occasion tend to undervalue the continuing centrality of religion. This conference will explore some of the complexities of early modern cultures in which life was integrally connected with or defined by religion.

Registration fees—UC faculty & staff: $15; students with ID: no charge;* others: $30.

This event is scheduled at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, located at 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018. The library is one block east of Arlington Avenue and two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway.

The conference begins at 10:00 a.m. and concludes approximately at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

To view the program schedule, please visit the following website - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/progtransform.htm

For more information please contact 310-206-8552.

-- submitted by Annah Huang (joeyb@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/progtransform.htm

UCLA Hammer Museum Poetry Reading

W. S. Merwin's most recent books of poems are Present Company and Migration: New & Selected Poems.

-- submitted by Jeanette Gilkison (doris@english.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact nettie@humnet.ucla.edu

Vital Matters, Session 2 - "Life"

Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life and Death Part 2 — Life

Directed by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall, UCLA

In the wake of Descartes, many writers and readers in the eighteenth century worried about how to think about matter, and the potential of matter to move, organize itself, respond to outside influences, and eventually decompose. We propose to look at the many ways of theorizing about and experimenting with matter in this period, with particular attention to life as a subject for analysis, speculation, and portrayal (literary and pictorial). Extending our approach well beyond the life sciences, we will structure our inquiries around three different kinds of moments —conception, life, and death—and conclude with a conference on the indeterminate borders between them. We aim to situate the history of materialism within a larger history of ideas, but also in a range of literary, cultural, and scientific practices. This points us toward consideration of the relation of the body to the mind, the brain to the soul, the physical to the abstract, the empirical/experimental to the theoretical, the concrete to the speculative or conjectural. Thus our concern is with method as well as concepts.

Scholars of history, philosophy, literature, and political science have studied the significance of materialism for the various strains of thought contesting with each other to structure modern conceptions of sensibility, sociability, ethics, and aesthetics. Bringing together literary scholars with historians of art, science, medicine, law, and philosophy, our series of conferences will address the varieties of eighteenth-century materialism at this interdisciplinary juncture. Topics will include bodies and ideas, the life of fictional creations and apparitions, pre- and post-mortem dissections, public executions, inspiration, material manifestations of immaterial forces, sensory perception, and representation. Otherwise construed, our topic might be framed as an interdisciplinary investigation of life: what distinguishes the organic and how it functions in the social world.

Our conference on life will examine such issues as inheritance, or the ability of life to transmit its attributes forward in time; the properties of living matter; vital fluids and forces and their relationship to social models of circulation; the process of sustaining life (hygiene, food); the capacity of matter to think; and the material basis of sensibility. Our conference on death continues this investigation, defining life by its cessation, and by its transmission across time. How, for example, did materialist notions of the corporeal self affect religious conceptions of identity and afterlife? What do popular and professional attitudes toward anatomy tell us about the perceived relationship of the body to the soul, or the possibility of bodily resurrection? How do juridical definitions of the body, particularly in relation to punishment, inform the understanding of death during this period? How did eighteenth-century culture imagine the relationship of the living to the illustrious dead in the service of various forms of community? What forms do relics take in the eighteenth century? We will thus consider the inextricable questions of life and death from a variety of perspectives at the junction of religious, scientific, popular, literary and legal representations.

Registration fees—UC faculty & staff: $15; students with ID: no charge;* others: $30. *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable. Lunch and other refreshments are provided.

The conference is scheduled at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, located at 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018. The library is one block east of Arlington Avenue and two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway.

The conference begins at 10:00 a.m. and concludes approximately at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

To view the program schedule, please visit the following website - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb3

For more information, please contact 310-206-8552.

-- submitted by Anna Huang (ahuang@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu

THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ART - A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR AL BOIME

UCLA Royce Hall 314

"The Social History of Art: A Symposium in honor of Professor Al Boime

MORNING SESSION (8:30-12:30) Reconsidering the ‘Social’: Art History, Marxism and the New Left Professor Michael Orwicz, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut

Seating the Republic: Jacques-Louis David and the Invention of Revolutionary Architecture Professor & Dean Anthony Vidler, School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York

The French Academy and Engraving in the Nineteenth Century Professor Susanne Anderson-Riedel, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico

Géricault in the Hands of the New Conservatives Professor Nicos Hadjinicolaou, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Crete

Gambetta & the Arts: An Aesthetic of ‘Opportunism’ Dr. Michel Melot, Ministry of Culture, France

AFTERNOON SESSION (1:30 – 5:30 PM) Authorized and Unauthorized: The Systematic Record of the Image in France before 1900 George McKee, Library Services, SUNY Binghamton

Culture, Class and Gender: Fannia Cohn, Roberta Fansler and The Metropolitan Museum’s Worker’s Education Program Professor Frances Pohl, Department of Art and Art History, Pomona College

From iPod to Iraq Professor David Kunzle, UCLA Department of Art History

Sounds of Paradise: Hawai'i and the American Musical Imagination Professor Charles Garrett, Department of Musicology, University of Michigan

Professor Al Boime received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, has been a UCLA faculty member since 1978. He teaches the Social History of Modern Art. His pedagogical imperative is the training and stimulation of the mind to independent thought through exposure to the visual products of inventive human beings unafraid of unrestricted openness to experience. He believes that an understanding of imagery will show that we are not yet too fallen and depraved to be able to reform the world in the name of suffering humanity.

The Social History of Art is cosponsored by the UCLA Departments of Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Art History, French and Francophone, and History; the Centers for Jewish Studies and 17th & 18th Century Studies; Friends of Art History; History/Art History; Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA; UCLA Humanities Division; and individual donors.

Parking is available in Structure 2, at the Hilgard & Westholme campus entrance, $8.00/car.

Details on the program schedule will be posted on the web: www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ArtHistoryHome.html

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact gould@humnet.ucla.edu

CJS Lecture "ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

A Lecture by Bernard-Henri Levy

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY" by BHL

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

A Lecture by BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS Lecture by BHL "Anti-Semitism in Europe Today"

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY”

a lecture by Bernard-Henri Lévy

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin

A conference at the Clark Library, located at 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.

June 11-12, 2006

A conference organized by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky and Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; the UCLA Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Division of Humanities – Office of the Dean; the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Department of Philosophy; the UCLA Department of History; and the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) had a long association with the Clark Library. He was Clark Professor in 1981-82 and 1997-98 and helped organize numerous lectures and conferences at the Clark Library. He and Juliet Popkin, his wife, have supported the annual Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy since 1999. This conference will seek to assess the legacies of the late Richard H. Popkin's work in the many fields he contributed to and helped to form: the history of philosophy and particularly the history of skepticism; Jewish studies and especially the history of Jewish-Christian interactions; the intersections of philosophical and religious thought; and the impact of millenarism.

Registration Deadline: June 5, 2006 Registration Fees: UC faculty & staff: $15; students with ID: no charge;* others: $30. *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

To register, please visit this web site: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11

Inquiries: 310-206-8552

Sunday, June 11 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Session 1 – Popkin and the History of Philosophy Chair: Richard Allan Watson, Washington University in St. Louis Brian Copenhaver, UCLA "Popkin Non-Scepticus: The Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy"

Allison P. Coudert, UC Davis "À Rebours in Academia: Richard Popkin’s Contributions to Intellectual History"

Sarah Hutton, Middlesex University "Popkin’s Spinoza"

Peter K.J. Park, Loyola Marymount University "Assessing the Work of Richard H. Popkin from the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Studies"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Session 2 – Religion and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century Chair: Robert S. Westman, UC San Diego James E. Force, University of Kentucky "Richard H. Popkin’s Concept of the Third Force and the Newtonian Synthesis of Theology and Scientific Methodology in Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, and William Whiston"

Martin Mulsow, Rutgers University "The Third Force Revisited"

David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania "The Study of the Mishnah and the Quest for Christian Identity in the Early Eighteenth Century: William Wotton and His Learned Friends"

Knox Peden, UC Berkeley "Gilles Deleuze: From Hume to Spinoza (An attempt to make good on a Popkin request)"

5:00 p.m. Reception

Monday, June 12

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Session 3 – Popkin and the Skeptical Tradition Chair: John McCumber, UCLA John Christian Laursen, UC Riverside "Popkin’s Skepticism and the Cynical Tradition"

José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais "Charron and Huet: Two Still Unexplored Legacies of Popkin’s Scholarship on Early Modern Skepticism"

Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale "The Quarrel over Ancient and Modern Skepticism: Some Reflections on Descartes and His Context"

Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky "Richard Popkin: A Son’s Memories"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Session 4 – Popkin and the Jews Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University "The Shabbatai Zvi Movement from a European Perspective: Richard H. Popkin’s Contribution to the Field"

Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Richard Popkin’s Marrano Question"

David S. Katz, Tel Aviv University "Popkin and the Jews"

David N. Myers, UCLA "Richard Popkin and the (Re)Writing of Jewish History"

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11

Chernyak, Wetzel, Gold Quartet - Bruman Concert

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music05-06.htm#bruman

Armadillo String Quartet - Bruman Summer Concert

———— Thursday, July 20 ———— Armadillo String Quartet Barry Socher & Steve Scharf, violins Raymond Tischer, viola Armen Ksajikian, cello Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento in D Major, K. 136 Alexander Taneyev, String Quartet in D Minor Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 108

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music05-06.htm#bruman

Mladi - Bruman Summer Concert

———— Monday, July 24 ———— Mládí Pamela Vliek, flute, Rong-Huey Liu, oboe, Maria Casale, harp Donald T. Foster, clarinet, Valentin Martchev, bassoon Teag Reaves, french horn, Alma Fernandez, viola Irving Fine, Partita for Wind Quintet Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 for Flute and Bassoon Claude Debussy, Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp Jacques Ibert, Trois pièces brèves

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music05-06.htm#bruman

Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

Philip Vaiman, violin Andrew Shulman, cello Jim Foschia, clarinet Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV1004 Reinhold Gliere, Duette for violin and cello, Op.39 Ingolf Dahl, Concerto a Tre

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music05-06.htm#bruman

I Palpiti Soloists - Bruman Summer Concert

admission is free • no tickets are required

———— Thursday, July 27 ———— I Palpiti Soloists Presented by Young Artists International Nora Hapca, Robert Kowalski, Peter Rainer & Julia Sakharova, violins Jason Calloway & Jelena Ochich, cello Rumen Cvetkova, viola, Tibi Cziger, clarinet And featuring guest musicians Marcia Dickstein, harp, and Adrian Spence, flute Bohuslav Martinu, Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola Zoltán Kodály, Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 Maurice Ravel, Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

Calder Quartet - Bruman Summer Concert

Monday, July 31

Calder Quartet Andrew Bulbrook & Benjamin Jacobson, violins Jonathan Moerschel, viola Eric Byers, cello Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 54 Johannes Brahms, String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music05-06.htm#bruman

La Camerata - Bruman Concert

———— Thursday, August 3 ———— La Camerata Philip Vaiman, violin Andrew Shulman, cello Jim Foschia, clarinet Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV1004 Reinhold Gliere, Duette for violin and cello, Op.39 Ingolf Dahl, Concerto a Tre

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music05-06.htm#bruman

Musical Theater and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain and America

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, the UCLA International Institute, the UCLA Council on Research and the UCLA Department of Musicology

Mirror-like, the musical theater of the Spanish and South American eighteenth century reflects the complexity and resourcefulness of the interlocking societies in which it thrived. As the old roles—nobility and commoner, colonizer and colonized—shifted and radically reconfigured themselves, new notions of human identity arose, finding myriad representations in the unstable signifiers of music-theatrical meaning.

Scholars from Spain and North America will convene for two days to examine and discuss the musical theater of the ‘Siglo de luces’ on both sides of the Atlantic, rich in genres both serious and comic: opera, zarzuela, intermedio, villancico, and tonadilla. The conference will include a performance of a 1779 tonadilla by Blas de Laserna, Las músicas.

Registration Deadline: October 20, 2006

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Program Schedule:

Friday, October 27

10:00 A.M. Welcoming Remarks Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Comic Music Drama I Chair: Susana Hernández Aracio, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Álvaro Torrente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid/Royal Holloway, University of London "Italian Intermezzi in the Spanish Court under Farinelli"

Raymond Knapp, UCLA "Cervantes, Voltaire, and the Reflexive Idealism of the American Musical"

José-Máximo Leza, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain "Elusive Identities: Italian Comic Opera meets ‘Zarzuela’ in Eighteenth-Century Madrid"

12:30 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Serious Music Drama Chair: Louise Stein, University of Michigan

Craig Russell, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo "Sumaya’s 'Partenope' (1711): Mexican Theatricality and European Inspiration"

Bernardo Illari, University of North Texas "Cuzco’s New Glory: Opera and the Criollo Identities in Colonial Peru"

William John Summers, Dartmouth College "Role Playing or Playing the Role in Historic Manila: Spanish and 'Filipino' Dramatic Events in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"

4:30 P.M. Reception

Saturday, October 28

10:00 A.M. Comic Music Drama II Chair: Elisabeth Le Guin, UCLA

John Koegel, California State University, Fullerton "Musical Theater in Nineteenth-Century Mexico"

Germán Labrador López de Azcona, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid "Musical Hybridization and Musical Identity in Eighteenth-Century Comic Theater"

Margaret Cayward, University of California, Davis "The Spanish Tonadilla and Musical Life in Mission-Era California"

12.30 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Audience Workshop and Performance

Blas de Laserna (1751-1816) Tonadilla a solo, “Las músicas,” 1779? Director: Elisabeth Le Guin, UCLA Soprano: Pamela Murray

3:15 P.M. Roundtable Discussion Moderator: Elisabeth Le Guin, UCLA

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#oct27

Imperial Models in the Early Modern World, Part I: Imperial Models and “Translatio imperii”: Rethinking the Early Modern World

All empires, in both Europe in Asia, have seen themselves as a long series of “translations” in which power and legitimacy were conveyed from one generation to the next and from one people to another. Every imperial power has attempted to model itself on one or another, real or imagined predecessors. The Achaemenids under Darius cast themselves as the heirs of the Medes and the Assyrians; the Parthians and the Sasanids as the heirs of the Achaemenids. The Romans saw themselves at times as the heirs of Alexander the Great, the empire of the Spanish Habsburgs was the successor state to the (western) Roman Empire. The overseas empires of France and Britain cast themselves as the heirs of Rome, or Carthage or Athens. The Ottomans described themselves as the successors of both the Byzantine emperors and later the Caliphs. The political, cultural and ideological conception of empire from antiquity until the nineteenth century was always, in this way, deeply mimetic. It is not incidental that the United States, although born out of the war of independence from one consciously classicizing empire, should be ruled from a neo-classical building called the “Capitol”.

This conference will examine the ways in which this indebtedness to the past determined the identity of the early-modern empires, culturally, political, conceptually, even, sometimes, institutionally. All imperial powers faced, or believed that they faced, a number of seemingly perennial questions: how to control extension; how to incorporate, and coerce subject peoples; how to conceive of political sovereignty across diverse, and widely dispersed, nations; how to maintain legitimacy in the face of opposition from critics and potential rivals; how to create cultures, and administrative elites, which would offer a continuity between the metropolitan centre and its distant dependences; how to cope with miscegenation, and the emergence of potentially independent settler populations. All of these question were, inevitably addressed in the terms of the lessons to be learned from past imperial models. Our hope is that by studying the continuities, real and imagined, between one imperial phase and another, we will acquire a far clearer conception of what an “empire” is, and how those who created, lived, administered and finally destroyed, the early-modern empires understood the polities in which they lived.

Registration Deadline: October 27, 2006

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Program Schedule:

Friday, November 3

10:00 A.M. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Clifford Ando, University of Chicago "Law, Memory and Sovereignty in the Roman Empire"

Giulia Sissa, UCLA "The First Empire of Democracy, or the Athenian Exception"

12:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Ali Anooshahr, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies "Disclaiming Tamerlane’s Inheritance and the Rise of the Mughal Empire"

Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan "Disciplining in the Name of God: Sexuality and Social Control in Safavi Iran"

4:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, November 4

10:00 A.M. Aldo Schiavone, Istituto Italiano de Scienze Umane "The Roman Empire as World-Empire"

Anthony Pagden, UCLA "The Shadow of Caracala: Citizenship and Divided Sovereignty in Europe’s Overseas Empires"

12:00 P.M. Lunch

1:00 P.M. David Armitage, Harvard University "The Elephant and the Whale: Empires of Land and Sea"

Sankar Muthu, Princeton University "Global Commerce and Empire in Enlightenment Thought"

Craig Yirush, UCLA "Conquest Theory and Imperial Governance in the Early Modern Anglo-American World"

4:00 P.M. Roundtable Discussion - Moderator: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

2 X 2

Saturday, December 2, 2006 2:00 p.m. at the Clark Library

A program in the series “Poetry Afternoons at the Clark” Arranged by Bruce Whiteman and Estelle Gershgoren Novak

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

“Poetry Afternoons at the Clark” presents an afternoon with four poets, two from Los Angeles and two from other parts of the United States.

Gene Frumkin was born in New York and graduated from UCLA in 1951. He spent his academic career teaching at the University of New Mexico. His most recent collection is "Freud By Other Means."

Estelle Gershgoren Novak has a PhD in English from UCLA and is the editor of "Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era." She has published two collections of poems, "The Shape of a Pear" and "The Flesh of Their Dreams."

Ken Norris has a PhD from McGill University and teaches at the University of Maine. Recent collections include "Dominican Moon" and "Report on the 2nd Half of the Twentieth Century," a poem in twenty-two books.

Bruce Whiteman is the Head Librarian of the Clark Library, and, with Estelle Novak, the co-coordinator of the “Poetry Afternoons at the Clark” series. His latest book of poems, "The Invisible World Is in Decline, I-VI," was published in October, 2006.

All four poets will be reading from recently published or about to be published books.

Reservation Deadline: November 27, 2006

Admission: $5

To register, please visit http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#dec2

Inquiries: 310-206-8552 c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs

To arrange for wheelchair access, please call the Center one week in advance.

The Clark Library is located at 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

The Self-Perception of Early Modern "Capitalists"

Co-sponsored by the Netherlands Consulate General of Los Angeles.

The term “capitalist” appears only late in the eighteenth century as a way of describing the speculating or commercial classes. Yet money was ubiquitous in early modern Europe. The goal of this conference is to examine how people who sought to make it, struggled to acquire and keep it, viewed themselves. They operated in cities great and small, in capitals of trade such as Venice, Hamburg, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Lyon, and Marseille, but also in Leeds and The Hague. How did they explain themselves; how did they understand their worldly activities? How did they cope with a culture that had for so long opposed material wealth to spiritual possessions, earthly pursuits to the spiritual realm? This sort of “self perception” can be read directly from the writings of merchants themselves (through their memories, letters, addresses) and also it can be found in legitimating discourses employed by contemporaries interested in valorizing trade. Our work has been informed by Weber on Protestantism and capitalism, yet we propose to access a new vocabulary, based on the sources and taking into account also Catholic and Sephardic merchants.

Papers: Conference papers will be posted to the Center’s website by January 8, and will remain accessible until February 5. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm

Registration Deadline: January 8, 2007

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Program Schedule:

Friday, January 19

9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks – Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Session 1 Chair: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA Giacomo Todeschini, Università di Trieste The Theological Roots of Medieval/Modern Merchant’s Self-Representation

Francesca Trivellato, Yale University Images and Self-Images of Sephardic Merchants in Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean

Julia Adams, Yale University Seeing Like a Capitalist? Assuming and Ascribing Agency in Early Modern European Trading Companies

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 2 Chair: Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht Clé Lesger, Universiteit van Amsterdam Merchants in Charge: Ambitions and Self-Perception of Amsterdam Merchants, 1550-1700

Dorothee Sturkenboom, Vrije Universiteit Merchants on the Defensive. Conflicting Self-Images of a Capitalist Nation under Crisis

Leos Müller, Uppsala Universitat “Merchants” and “Gentlemen” in Early-Modern Sweden. The World of Jean Abraham Grill, 1736-1792

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, January 20

9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3 Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA

Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California Accounting for Science: How a Merchant Kept His Books in Elizabethan London

Jochen Hoock, Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot Professional Ethics and Commercial Rationality at the Beginning of the Modern Era

John Smail, University of North Carolina at Charlotte A Coming of Age in Commerce: Young Men of Business in Eighteenth-Century England

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 4 Chair: Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Success and Self-Loathing in the Life of an Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneur

Mary Lindemann, University of Miami From Windtrading to Malicious Bankruptcy: Perceptions of Economic Impropriety in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg

Cathy Matson, University of Delaware Accounting for War and Revolution: Philadelphia Merchants’ Perceptions of Risk and Failure, 1774-1811

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jan19

The Self-Perception of Early Modern "Capitalists"

A conference at the Clark Library organized by Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Co-sponsored by the Netherlands Consulate General of Los Angeles.

The term “capitalist” appears only late in the eighteenth century as a way of describing the speculating or commercial classes. Yet money was ubiquitous in early modern Europe. The goal of this conference is to examine how people who sought to make it, struggled to acquire and keep it, viewed themselves. They operated in cities great and small, in capitals of trade such as Venice, Hamburg, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Lyon, and Marseille, but also in Leeds and The Hague. How did they explain themselves; how did they understand their worldly activities? How did they cope with a culture that had for so long opposed material wealth to spiritual possessions, earthly pursuits to the spiritual realm? This sort of “self perception” can be read directly from the writings of merchants themselves (through their memories, letters, addresses) and also it can be found in legitimating discourses employed by contemporaries interested in valorizing trade. Our work has been informed by Weber on Protestantism and capitalism, yet we propose to access a new vocabulary, based on the sources and taking into account also Catholic and Sephardic merchants.

Papers: Conference papers will be posted to the Center’s website by January 8, and will remain accessible until February 5. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm

Registration Deadline: January 8, 2007

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form.

Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Program Schedule:

Friday, January 19 9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks – Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Session 1 Chair: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

Giacomo Todeschini, Università di Trieste The Theological Roots of Medieval/Modern Merchant’s Self-Representation

Francesca Trivellato, Yale University Images and Self-Images of Sephardic Merchants in Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean

Julia Adams, Yale University Seeing Like a Capitalist? Assuming and Ascribing Agency in Early Modern European Trading Companies

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 2 Chair: Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

Clé Lesger, Universiteit van Amsterdam Merchants in Charge: Ambitions and Self-Perception of Amsterdam Merchants, 1550-1700

Dorothee Sturkenboom, Vrije Universiteit Merchants on the Defensive. Conflicting Self-Images of a Capitalist Nation under Crisis

Leos Müller, Uppsala Universitat “Merchants” and “Gentlemen” in Early-Modern Sweden. The World of Jean Abraham Grill, 1736-1792

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, January 20 9:30 A.M. Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3 Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA

Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California Accounting for Science: How a Merchant Kept His Books in Elizabethan London

Jochen Hoock, Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot Professional Ethics and Commercial Rationality at the Beginning of the Modern Era

John Smail, University of North Carolina at Charlotte A Coming of Age in Commerce: Young Men of Business in Eighteenth-Century England

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 4 Chair: Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Success and Self-Loathing in the Life of an Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneur

Mary Lindemann, University of Miami From Windtrading to Malicious Bankruptcy: Perceptions of Economic Impropriety in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg

Cathy Matson, University of Delaware Accounting for War and Revolution: Philadelphia Merchants’ Perceptions of Risk and Failure, 1774-1811

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jan19

"Making Sense of the Chinese Rites Debate: Rome 1735, Los Angeles 2007"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Artemis Quartet

A special fundraising event to support the Clark Library Chamber Music Endowment Fund, made possible by the generous support of Catherine Benkaim.

Artemis Quartet

Natalia Prischepenko and Heime Müller, violins Volker Jacobsen, viola Eckart Runge, cello

Berlin-based Artemis Quartet formed in 1989 at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany, and has grown to become one of the most renowned ensembles of its kind in all of Europe. Among their many awards are the 1996 Munich Competition, the 1997 Borciani Competition, and the 2006 ECHO Klassik Prize from the German Phonographic Academy. Artemis was also the first quartet ever to be awarded the prestigious Music Prize of the Association of German Critics, which they received in 2001.

From its inception, the Quartet has valued collaboration with other musicians. Regular partners include Sabine Meyer, Elisabeth Leonskaja, David Geringas, Juliane Banse, and Leif Ove Andsnes. The Quartet's development has also been influenced by its interest in new music and its alliance with contemporary composers. During the 2004-2005 season, for example, Artemis performed two world premieres of compositions commissioned from Mauricio Sotelos and Jorg Widmanns.

In 2005 the Artemis Quartet signed an exclusive recording contract with Virgin Classics/EMI, which will create at least ten new releases by 2010. The first of these, in October 2005, was a re-release of the Ligeti String Quartets and a new recording of the Beethoven Quartets Opus 59, Number 1 and Opus 95. March 2006 saw the release of the String Sextets of Schoenberg, Berg, and Strauss, featuring the performances by Valentin Erben and the late Thomas Kakuska.

Program

Anton Webern Langsamer Satz

Ludwig van Beethoven Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2

Intermission

Arnold Schoenberg Quartet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 7

Reception

Reservation forms must be postmarked or hand delivered to the Center no later than January 22, 2007. Admission: $75 per person, $50 of which is tax-deductible For reservation forms, visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb4

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb4

Imperial Models in the Early Modern World Part 2: Managing Difference in Early Modern Empires

All empires, in both Europe in Asia, have seen themselves as a long series of “translations” in which power and legitimacy were conveyed from one generation to the next and from one people to another. Every imperial power has attempted to model itself on one or another, real or imagined predecessors. The empire of the Spanish Habsburgs was the successor state to the (western) Roman Empire; the Ottomans described themselves as the successors of both the Byzantine emperors and later the Caliphs. The political, cultural and ideological conception of empire from antiquity until the nineteenth century was always, in this way, deeply mimetic.

Empires differ from “normal” states in terms of their scale, but also their degree of diversity. This diversity could be ethnic, religious, racial, or defined in a number of other ways. Above all, this conference will focus on the ethnic and religious dimensions and ask what forms of solutions, both institutional and ideological, were found by empires in the early modern period to deal with the problem of managing difference. These solutions could at times be radical, as with the expulsion of the Jews and Muslims from Iberia, though even that process involved some degree of assimilation of populations. We are also aware that early modern empires sometimes prided themselves on their high degree of tolerance, as was the case with the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire, and contrasted themselves self-consciously with their neighbors who they imagined were less so. To this extent, the comparative dimensions of the question of “management of difference” already have a history that takes us back to the period of the empires themselves.

The purpose of this conference will be to reflect on the diversity of experiences, ranging potentially from the Qing (who consciously adopted a policy with respect to the preservation of Manchu identity), to the Ottomans (who used the devshirme system to create an acculturated elite), to a variety of other cases, from the Americas to the range of Eurasian experiences. Ideological questions will be as much the focus as concrete institutional arrangements, and the grids of categories that were used to define difference in relation to the process of managing it, will be one of the central themes.

Registration Deadline: February 2, 2007

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Program Schedule:

Friday, February 9 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks – Anthony Pagden and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University Religious Unity and Imperial Integrity in the Iberian Empires: The Threat of Tolerance in the Age of Atlantic Revolution

Cornell H. Fleischer, University of Chicago Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in the Sixteenth Century: Is Translation Needed?

12:00 P.M. Lunch

1:30 P.M. Fernando Cervantes, University of Bristol Unity in Diversity: The Bonds of Religious Culture in the Hispanic World

Zoltán Biedermann, Ahmanson-Getty fellow, UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies Of Kings and Captains: Portuguese and Habsburg Strategies for the Management of the Sri Lankan Elite (1506-1656)

Valerie A. Kivelson, University of Michigan Mapping Diversity: Russian Imperial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Siberia

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, February 10

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University Empires and Vampires: Management of Difference by the Ottoman State and Society

Ângela Barreto Xavier, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Dissolving Difference: Conversion and the Push to Conformity in the Portuguese Empire

12:00 P.M. Lunch

1:00 P.M. Serge Gruzinski, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France Managing Differences in the Catholic Monarchy (1580-1640): Plasticity and Rigidity of the Iberian Model

Corinne Lefèvre-Agrati, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies Mughal sulh-i kull (‘universal peace’) after Akbar: The Religious Policy of Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) and its Reception by Contemporary Ulama and Sufis

Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington What Difference? Exoticism and European Imperialism Circa 1700

4:00 P.M. Roundtable Discussion

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb9

Imperial Models in the Early Modern World, Part 3: From Early-Modern to Modern Empire and from Empire to Nation-State

Our first conference in part looked back to see how the early modern empires of Europe and Asia borrowed from the empires of the past. Our second examined the ways in which empires managed the sometimes stark differences between their various subject peoples. This final conference will look forward to see how the empires of the nineteenth, twentieth, and even twenty-first centuries, represent continuity, or a discontinuity with the empires of the early-modern world. By the end of the eighteenth century, two of the major imperial European powers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spain and Portugal were in eclipse. France had lost nearly all its possessions in America and India. The Ottomans were in retreat. The Mughal Empire had become in effect a dependency of the East India Company. New imperial and would-be imperial powers now began to appear: Russia which now had the largest land empire in the world, Germany, Japan, post-Napoleonic France, and, of course, the United States. And by the early nineteenth century, Britain, after the loss of much of North America embarked on an aggressive new imperial phase; so, too, did France. It has often been claimed that these new empires were wholly unlike their predecessors. But were they, and if they were, in what ways were they different? Was, for instance, the rise of nationalism after the Congress of Vienna responsible for the creation of entirely new imperial practices, and quite distinct imperial cultures? How, indeed, was the concept of the ‘nation-state” shaped by the evolution or collapse of the older imperial states? Or was there in fact considerably continuity between the first and second phases of European empire-building? Did international commerce, for so long believed to be a possible alternative to expansion, now become merely another form of imperial belligerency? How much did the process of what the British called “indirect rule” and the French “politique des races” really differ from previous understandings of imperial sovereignty?

These are just some of the questions which this conference will attempt to answer. If the current debate over the role of “empire” and “imperialism” in the modern world is to have any meaning, we have to look beyond easy slogans and the simplistic analogies between past and present. Empires, however we define them, have, in one form or another, been with us far longer than any other kind of political society. They are now, almost certainly things of the past. But if we are to understand the ways in which they have, shaped the post-colonial, post-imperial world, we have also to understand their very long varied and complex histories.

Registration Deadline: April 20, 2007

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Program Schedule:

Friday, April 27 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks – Anthony Pagden, UCLA

Sir John Elliott, University of Oxford "Starting Afresh? The Eclipse of Empire in British and Spanish America"

Sunil Agnani, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies "Jacobinism in India, Indianism in the English Parliament: Edmund Burke on Revolution and Empire"

12:00 P.M. Lunch

1:30 P.M. Robert Travers, Cornell University "The British Empire and the Mughal Legacy in South Asia"

Jennifer Pitts, Princeton University "'Au nom de la France libre': Nationality and Empire in Nineteenth-Century French Liberalism"

Karuna Mantena, Yale University "Henry Maine, Social Theory, and the Transformation of British Imperial Ideology"

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, April 28 9:00 A.M. Morning Coffee

9:30 A.M. Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia "Empires in Reverse: China and Japan in the Twentieth Century"

R. Bin Wong, UCLA "Fiscal Legacies of Empire in Post-’49 China"

Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte "Anti-Imperialist Empires: Ottoman and Japanese Lessons on the Nature of Modern Imperialism"

12:30 P.M. Lunch

1:30 P.M. Mark Mazower, Columbia University "The Nazi New Order and the End of European Imperialism"

Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, New York University "Imperial Trajectories and Imaginaries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA Closing Remarks

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#apr27

The Godwinian Moment: Revolutionary Revisions of Enlightenment

Because of the ground-breaking studies of the 1980s, William Godwin’s Enquiry concerning Political Justice has become one of the most important texts for charting transitions and continuities between the British Enlightenment and the Romantic era. Recent scholars have taken the Enquiry beyond the task of delineating Godwin’s political-philosophical system—beyond proving that he indeed had a rational system—and have begun to show how his later texts rethought an Enlightenment project that the Enquiry had already reconfigured. Current work has begun more detailed analysis of Godwin’s entire fictional oeuvre, as well as more careful interpretation and evaluation of his educational tracts, histories, dramas, and writings for children. Now the object of scholars equipped with a variety of theoretical, critical, and textual practices, Godwin is emerging a different and even richer index to the intellectual changes rung upon the British Enlightenment.

The current publishing environment has been hospitable to this extension of Godwin studies. Besides bringing Godwin’s various works back into print, scholars (including participants in the conference) are now editing both his diaries and his letters. This effort has continued to show how central Godwin is to understanding the transformations of Enlightenment through eighteenth-century Dissent and to picturing the various elements in London publishing and coterie culture; it also promises to penetrate below the stereotyped Godwinian surface, bringing into play details of his private community on the one hand and his active outreach beyond England on the other hand, thus enriching our sense of eighteenth-century family and cosmopolis. This conference emphasizes transitions from eighteenth-century styles of thought to new categories and configurations triggered by the challenge of revolution and reaction. Participants will uncover various connections between Godwin’s work and concerns about marriage, family, and childhood; Rosseauvian vs. Dissenting theories of education; the advent of the historical novel; economic tropes and realities; and transformations of rhetoric and oratory.

Registration Deadline: April 27, 2007

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule:

Friday, May 4 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks, Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Moderator: Frederick Burwick, UCLA

Gary Handwerk, University of Washington "'Awakening the Mind': William Godwin on Education"

Robert Anderson, Oakland University "Godwin Disguised: Politics in the Juvenile Library"

12:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Moderator: Donald G. Marshall, Pepperdine University

Timothy Webb, University of Bristol "'Assassins of Truth': William Godwin and the Temptations of Legal Oratory" Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University "History and Oratory: Godwin’s Biography of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham"

4:30 p.m. Reception

Saturday, May 5

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Moderator: Beth Lau, California State University, Long Beach

Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario "The Disfiguring of Enlightenment: War, Trauma and the Historical Novel in Godwin’s Mandeville"

Kenneth W. Graham, University of Guelph "Reviewing and Ideological Change: Two Moments in the Godwin-Malthus Contention"

12:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Moderator: Anne Mellor, UCLA

Pamela Clemit, University of Durham "From Enlightenment Intellectual to Romantic Revisionist: William Godwin in His Familiar Letters"

Julie A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara "Heavy Drama"

Robert Maniquis, UCLA "Grand Incongruities: Godwin, Calvinism, and the Phantom Self"

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#may4

Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism

This conference will investigate the imaginative, social and literary resources of English Catholic diaspora populations in the early modern period. The forum will also take stock of recent efforts to reevaluate the place of English Catholic authors in the literary canon of the English Renaissance. More broadly, the forum will address the critical legacy of problems associated with early modern cultures of English Catholicism, problems that are being voiced with new accents in contemporary concerns of political and ethical theory: Who counts, finally, as my neighbor? How can the ethical being of cultural “others” be recognized and valued outside the normative dyad of sameness and difference?

By addressing the nexus of social, political, religious, theological, and literary discourses through which early modern Catholic identities were negotiated, the symposium aims to enhance scholarly purchase on lost or forgotten aspects of the rich texture of the experience of scattered Catholic communities within English literary tradition and political cultures; and it will promote channels of communication between early modern cultural studies of religion, current debates over the effects of secularization, and changing notions of the sacred vis-à-vis religious identity and practice in an era of globalization.

Registration Deadline: May 11, 2007

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form.

Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule:

Friday, May 18 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. SESSION 1 Peter H. Reill, UCLA, Welcoming Remarks

Moderator: Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University

Chris Highley, Ohio State University "First Wave: Exile and Catholic Identity 1558-1570"

Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis "True and Perfect Relations: Or, Identifying Confessions"

Arthur F. Marotti, Wayne State University "In Defense of Idolatry: Residual Catholic Culture and the Protestant Assault on the Sensuous in Early Modern England"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. SESSION 2

Moderator: Ulrike Strasser, University of California, Irvine

Alice Dailey, Villanova University "Wonders of Devotion and Polemic: Tracking the Counter-Reformation Miracle"

Anne Dillon, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge "The Rosary Transfigured: Devotional Life in Recusant Households"

Susannah Brietz Monta, Louisiana State University "Uncommon Prayer? Catholic Devotion in Post-Reformation England"

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, May 19

9:30 A.M. SESSION 3

Moderator: Debora Shuger, UCLA

Phebe Jensen, Utah State University "'Honest Mirth & Merriment': Catholicism and Festivity in Early Modern England"

Gary Kuchar, University of Victoria "The Theology of Form in Southwell’s St. Peter’s Complaint and Crashaw’s The Weeper"

Richard Rambuss, Emory University "Richard Crashaw’s Two Temples"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. SESSION 4

Moderator: Jennifer Rust, University of California, Irvine

Holly Crawford Pickett, Washington and Lee University "Serial Conversion and Ecumenism"

Alison Shell, Durham University "William Alabaster: The Career and the Canon"

Stefania Tutino, University of California, Santa Barbara "Obedience and Consent: Thomas White and English Catholicism, 1640-1660"

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#may18

Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Mládí

July 16, 19, 23, and 26, 2007 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson

admission is free - no tickets are required

———— Monday, July 16 ————

Mládí

Pamela Vliek Martchez, flute, Lisa Dondlinger, violin Brett Banducci viola, Timothy Loo, cello Alyssa Park, violin, Alma Fernandez, viola

Bohuslav Martinù, Duo for Violin and Cello Erwin Schulhoff, Concertino for Flute, Viola, and Bass Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Sextet for Strings

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music06-07.htm#bruman

Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Janaki String Trio

July 16, 19, 23, and 26, 2007 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson

admission is free - no tickets are required

———— Thursday, July 19 ————

Janaki String Trio

Serena McKinney, violin Katie Kadarauch, viola Arnold Choi, cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento for String Trio in E Flat, K. 563 Andrew Norman, Alabaster Rounds

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music06-07.htm#bruman

Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: iPalpiti Soloists

July 16, 19, 23, and 26, 2007 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson admission is free - no tickets are required

———— Monday, July 23 ————

iPalpiti Soloists Presented by Young Artists International

Aisha Dossumova, Robert Kowalski, Mari-Liis Pakk, & Peter Rainer, violins Nicholas Cannelakis & Julie Jung, cellos Rumen Cvetkova & Sharon Wei, violas

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Six Preludes and Fugues after Johann Sebastian and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, K. 404a

Georges Enescu, Octet in C Major

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music06-07.htm#bruman

Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Chernyak quartet

July 16, 19, 23, and 26, 2007 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson

admission is free - no tickets are required

———— Thursday, July 26 ————

Tamara Chernyak & Maia Jaspr, violins Victoria Miskolczy, viola; & Andrew Cook, cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387

Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Music06-07.htm#bruman

William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland

Merlin Holland

"Oscar Wilde: Putting Music Into Words"

Oscar Wilde and music? Not an obvious connection at all for an author who is best known as a writer of society comedies, his fin de siècle novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and for the homosexual scandal which shook Victorian London to its foundations in 1895. However, his writings are scattered with musical references, for music to Oscar Wilde was above all a mood and a metaphor and closely reflects the course of his life and with it his literary creativity. From his early writings, where it represents life-enhancement, joy and spiritual as opposed to sensual pleasure, it later becomes the strident and vulgar song of the music-hall, the cancan of the Moulin Rouge, before being transposed into the melancholy, minor key of his disgrace and poverty-stricken years in exile.

But Wilde did not just borrow from an art which was not his own; his Irish heritage and classical education provided him with the finest possible apprenticeship to becoming, as he regarded himself, a musician in his own right – a musician of words; the effects on his style and even the consequences for posterity, as Merlin Holland shows in this lecture, were sometimes remarkable.

Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, has devoted extensive research and study to his grandfather’s life. He is the co-editor, along with Rupert Hart-Davis, of The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (2000). He is also the author of The Wilde Album: Public and Private Images of Oscar Wilde (1998), as well as Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters (2006), and the just released Coffee with Oscar Wilde.

The Clark Library's collection of materials by and relating to Oscar Wilde is the most comprehensive in the world. Based on Clark's early purchases from Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland, bibliographer Christopher Millard, and executor Robert Ross, the holdings include a remarkable group of autograph letters and drafts by Wilde and his circle, supported by a nearly complete collection of printed editions of his works. Photographs, original portraits, caricatures, playbills, and news cuttings provide a depth of holdings which cannot be found elsewhere. Most of the important Wilde studies in recent years have drawn heavily upon the Clark's resources. Other books and documents relate to Wilde or to the decadent and modernist movements of the 1890s.

This special lecture also marks the re-opening of the Clark Library. Closed to readers for two years to accommodate a large-scale upgrade to the library’s heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, we are pleased to celebrate our re-opening with this, the inaugural William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde. Mr. Holland’s lecture will be followed by a champagne reception.

This biennial lecture on Oscar Wilde and his time is made possible by a generous endowment founded by Mr. William Zachs.

Admission is complimentary, but limited space at the Clark makes advance registration necessary. Registration will close when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity. Please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes early to guarantee seating.

To register, please call the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies at 310-206-8552 no later than Monday, October 1.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#oct14

Circulation and Locality in Early Modern Science

This conference will examine the many ways in which scientific knowledge, instruments, texts and practitioners moved around the globe in the early modern period. Science was global as well as local in this period, and local meanings and settings interacted with the imperatives of circulation across large distances. Going beyond the now-familiar theme of globalization, we will look at the dynamics of circulation in a range of cases involving different distance scales and different types of practices. Indeed, one of the principal themes is the historical contingency and mutation of scientific notions and practices introduced by movement itself.

Many recent studies in science studies, history of science and colonial history have shown how local conditions and contingencies enter into the production of knowledge, and how place (nation, city, institution, laboratory, ecosystem, colony, ocean, farm) matters. This work has tended to problematize the process by which local knowledge gains status as canonical or universal, taken to be true for all times and places. In this conference, we are interested in pushing considerations of locality to include negotiations and practices that travel (one way or the other) to distant locations, to be put to different uses, and perhaps to be interpreted differently. This means looking at colonial contexts, and intercultural encounters, but also provincial settings and the relations between province and capital. It means examining how knowledge from the metropole was taken or sent to other venues, how it interacted with local people and conditions, and perhaps how it then moved on to other settings. Knowledge moves in all different directions, as do objects: the instruments, specimens, drawings, books, and letters carried knowledge from one place to the other, and from one sort of user to another. One of the main issues for this conference then is to reconsider simple models of metropolitan center and remote colonial periphery by investigating how experiences of travel, encounter and exchange changed both the knowledge at issue and its bearer. We will examine the relation of metropolitan or stay-at-home savants and their distant correspondents, as well as the negotiations of the travelers with the complex of indigenous interlocutors: savants, merchants, assistants, translators, artists, etc.

Conference Papers: Summaries of papers will be posted to the Center’s website by October 8, and will remain accessible until November 5. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm

Registration Deadline: October 12, 2007 To register, please call 310-206-8552, or visit http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#oct19

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Program Schedule:

Friday, October 19 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks, Peter H. Reill, UCLA Introduction, Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Nicholas Dew, McGill University "Circulating Measurement in the Early Enlightenment World"

Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire "Nation, Ocean, and Atmosphere: British Knowledge of Climate in the Eighteenth Century"

12:30 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Martha Few, University of Arizona "Circulating Smallpox Knowledges: José Flores, Maya Indians, and Designing the 'Real Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna,' 1780-1806"

Mary Terrall, UCLA "Following Insects Around: Tools and Techniques of Natural History in Reaumur’s World"

Jakob Vogel, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin "Locality and Circulation in the Habsburg Empire: The Disputes around the Medical Salt of Karlsbad, 1763-1784"

5:00 p.m. Reception

Saturday, October 20 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales "Putting Circulation in Order: Court Culture in 18th-century Calcutta"

Catarina Madeira Santos, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales "Administrative Knowledges in a Colonial Context (Eighteenth-Century Angola)"

Jane H. Murphy, Colorado College "Locating the Sciences in Eighteenth-Century Egypt"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Avner Ben-Zaken, Harvard Society of Fellows "Objects in Motion: Science, Networks and Trust across the Mediterranean"

Carla Nappi, Montana State University "Recipe: Forms of Circulation and Scents of Place in Chinese-Arabic Medical Exchange"

4:00 p.m. Final Commentary and Discussion Moderator: Theodore Porter, UCLA

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#oct19

"The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain" with Peter Cole

“The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry From Muslim and Christian Spain”

The Maurice Amado Lecture in Sephardic Studies

Peter Cole has published two collections of poetry, Rift (Station Hill) and Hymns & Qualms (Sheep Meadow Press). What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1989, was recently published by Shearsman Books in the UK. Cole has worked intensively on Hebrew literature, with special emphasis on medieval Hebrew poetry. His Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid, published by Princeton U.P. (1996), received the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Translation. Cole was granted a TLS translation award for Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, also by Princeton U. Press (2001). His new anthology, The Dream of the Poem, traces the arc of the entire period and reveals this remarkable poetic world in all of its richness, humor, grace, gravity, and wisdom.

Cole has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 1998 Modern Language Association Translation Award. He was just named a recipient of the prestigious 2007 MacArthur Genius Award.

-- submitted by David Wu (davidwu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.cjs.ucla.edu

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, Part 1: Circles of Sociability

Friday, October 26 – Saturday, October 27

A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08 Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.

In part one of this year-long series, we examine Circles of Sociability, be they represented in treatises of court civility, literary quarrels, or epistolary exchanges, or constructed in coffee houses, bourgeois salons and spas, all connect individual identity to practices of hierarchy, exchange, bonding, or conflict.

Forthcoming Programs in the Core Program: Part 2 – Sites of Exteriority – November 30-December 1, 2007 Part 3 – The “Inner Self” – February 22-23, 2008 Part 4 – Spaces of Sacrality – March 14-15, 2008 Part 5 – Family and Work Space – April 25-26, 2008

Registration Deadline: October 19, 2007 To register, please call 310-206-8552 or visit http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#oct26

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity. Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants. Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule: Friday, October 26 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Peter H. Reill, UCLA Welcoming Remarks

Malina Stefanovska, UCLA Opening Remarks

Session 1: Women and Sociability

Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida "Epistolary Narratives of Royal Women: Sharing the Stage and Practicing Power in Baroque Tuscany"

Angela Borchert, The University of Western Ontario "Sociability at the Court of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach: The Journal von Tiefurt"

Jean Garapon, Université de Nantes "Mademoiselle de Montpensier, Madame de Caylus, Madame de Staal-Delaunay: The Worldly Set and the Force of Women’s Words in the Age of Classicism"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 2: Modes of Sociability

David Harrison, Grinnell College "Saint-Simon, Theorist of Conversation"

Vera Keller, Princeton University "Circles of Invention: Cornelis Drebbel and the Lovers of Art"

Brian Cowan, McGill University "English Coffeehouses and French Salons: Rethinking Habermas, Gender and Sociability in Early Modern French and British Historiography"

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, October 27 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3: Fashioning Identities

Jean-Pierre van Elslande, Université de Neuchâtel "The Social Invention of Childhood and the Literary Reinvention of Social Values in the French Renaissance"

Déborah Blocker, University of California, Berkeley "Theatrical Identities: Fashioning Subjects through Drama in the House of Cardinal Richelieu (1635-1643)"

Larry F. Norman, University of Chicago "Sociability, Self Identity and Modernity"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 4: Broadening the Limits

Amanda Herbert Bilby, The John Hopkins University "Gendering Space, Sociability and Self at British Health Spas, 1640-1714"

Tamara Zwick, University of South Florida "The Private Party of a Public Circle: Neumühlen and the Landscape of Networks"

David S. Shields, University of South Carolina "Selfhood and Sociability at the Center of England’s Culture of Print"

David Sabean, UCLA Closing Remarks

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#oct26

Richard B. Sher: "William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and the Big Business of Scottish Enlightenment Publishing"

Richard B. Sher "William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and the Big Business of Scottish Enlightenment Publishing" Saturday, November 3, 2007, 2:00 p.m. In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library The remarkable outburst of enlightened intellectual activity by eighteenth-century Scottish men of letters, commonly known today as the Scottish Enlightenment, has attracted much scholarly attention. In fields as diverse as moral philosophy, medicine, natural philosophy, geology, history, political economy, biography, literary criticism, and fiction, Scottish authors such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, James Boswell, Henry Mackenzie, William Cullen, and James Hutton became famous names in their own day, and most of them are still respected as seminal figures in the history of ideas.

This talk explores the neglected role of the book trade in the making of the Scottish Enlightenment. It focuses particularly on two interlocking London firms that were founded by the Scottish bookseller Andrew Millar and the Scottish printer William Strahan. In the decade after Millar’s death in 1768, the publishing partnership led by Strahan and Millar’s successor, Thomas Cadell, transformed publishing in Great Britain into a large-scale enterprise, with books by Scottish authors at its core. This talk will explore some of the key features of this transformation, including the payment of large amounts of copy money to popular authors and the forging of publishing alliances with booksellers in Edinburgh. The result of these developments was the establishment of a new era in the history of print culture, in which authors and publishers – both predominantly Scottish – could aspire to high status and enormous wealth through the collaborative publication of learned books.

Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology and NJIT Chair of the Federated History Department of Rutgers University, Newark and NJIT. The recipient of fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other prestigious organizations, he is the author of The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (2006) and many other publications having to do with book history and the cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, especially in Scotland.

Established by Kenneth Karmiole, a Santa Monica antiquarian bookseller, the annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade will focus on the book trade in England and Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Clark’s growing collection of materials relating to the collecting, publishing, and dissemination of books in the early modern period make this series particularly appropriate. Ken Karmiole has run his own rare book business in Los Angeles since 1976, and is a highly respected member of the book trade. The Center and the Clark are deeply grateful to Ken for this gift, and for the expression of faith in our programs and collections that it represents. Registration Deadline: October 26, 2007 Admission is complimentary, but limited space at the Clark makes advance registration necessary. To register, please call 310-206-8552, or visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov3 Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity. Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov3

The "Majesty" of Power in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ritual, Representation, Art

A conference at the Clark Library organized by Matteo Casini, Suffolk University

All throughout the Italian territory in the seventeenth century, kings, princes, republics, and single preeminent groups or persons adopted various forms of representation for displaying the distinctive “majesty” of their power. The political, social, artistic, and cultural activity patronized by princes and aristocracies remained very much alive, notwithstanding the economical crisis. Therefore the representations of majesty could follow multiple paths – ritual, religious, visual, literary, spectacular, etc. With an interdisciplinary and wide geographical approach, this conference aims to understand the several symbolic and concrete facets of power in Baroque Italy.

Registration Deadline: November 9, 2007 Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

To register, please visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov16

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Lunch on Saturday and all other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please note that Friday’s session will begin at 1:30 P.M.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule:

Friday, November 16

1:30 P.M. Peter H. Reill, UCLA Welcoming Remarks

Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA Introductory Remarks

Session 1: The Power in Space

Andrew Hopkins, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila "Stately Spaces: 'Seicento' Ceremonial for the 'Serenissima'"

Diane Bodart, Université de Poitiers / Harvard University – Villa I Tatti "Royal Statues in the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily"

Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA "The Changing Face of the Prince: Public Ceremonies in Seventeenth-Century Turin"

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, November 17

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 2: Ritual and Competition

Matteo Casini, Suffolk University "The Baroque Rites of the Medici"

Thomas Dandelet, University of California, Berkeley "Spanish Ritual in Seventeenth-Century Rome"

Pablo Vázquez Gestal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid "Being a 'King' in a Competitive Society: Viceroyal Ceremonies in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 3: Searching Identities

George L. Gorse, Pomona College "A Republic Becomes a Monarchy: Genoa and the Virgin Mary in 1637"

James G. Harper, University of Oregon "Magnificence & Responsibility: Famiano Strada, Ludovico Ludovisi and the Church of Sant’Ignazio in Rome"

Alice Jarrard, Harvard Graduate School of Design "Between Document and 'Idea d’un principe Eroe': Printmaking and Princely Image at the Este Court in Modena"

Matteo Casini, Suffolk University Closing Remarks

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, Part 2: Sites of Exteriority

Friday, November 30 – Saturday, December 1

A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08 Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.

In part 2 of this year-long series, we examine Sites of Exteriority such as gardens, mountains, landscape painting, travels or maps participate in the construction of the self by articulating its relationship to otherness (the sublime, the infinite, imaginary or exotic lands, cosmological representations), as well as a novel way of situating oneself in the world (personal perspective, point of view, exploration, limits).

Forthcoming Programs in the Core Program: Part 3 – The “Inner Self” – February 22-23, 2008 Part 4 – Spaces of Sacrality – March 14-15, 2008 Part 5 – Family and Work Space – April 25-26, 2008 Registration Deadline: November 21, 2007 Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

To register, please call 310-206-8552, or visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov30

Program Schedule: Friday, November 30 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Peter H. Reill, UCLA, Welcome

David Sabean, UCLA Opening Remarks

Session 1: The Self in the Sovereign’s Palace

Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore College "Louis XIV’s Royal Houses, Wondrous Epics, and the Somatics of Sovereignty"

Tom Conley, Harvard University "« Ingénieurs du roy, ingénieurs du moi »: Spatial Design of the "Self" after the Age of Henry IV"

Michel Jeanneret, Johns Hopkins University and Université de Genève "The Grotesque in Versailles: The Return of the Repressed"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:30 P.M. Session 2: A Natural Self?

William T. Hendel, University of Memphis "The Theatrical Garden in Watelet’s Essai sur les jardins (1774): The Natural Self as Actor and Spectator"

Michael Taormina, Hunter College, CUNY "Saint-Amant’s Nature Poetry and the Extravagant Self"

4:30 P.M. Reception

Saturday, December 1 9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3: Broader Reaches

Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University "Fashions for the Interstitial: Garden Stories from Beijing and Nagasaki in 1720’s London"

Susan Johnson-Roehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "John Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis: The Mapping of Imperial Subjectivity at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1675-1729"

Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University "Fashioning Bluestocking Conversation: Elizabeth Montagu’s Chinese Room"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 4: Limits Within and Without

Christopher Wild, UCLA "Melancholy and the Cartographic Self"

Hans Medick, Formerly Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen and Universität Erfurt "The Home Town as Torture Chamber: Spatializations of Self and Perceptions of Violence in Volckmar Happe’s Chronicle of the Thirty Years War"

Michael J. Sauter, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. "Germans in Space: Astronomy and ‘Anthropologie’ in the Eighteenth Century"

Malina Stefanovska, UCLA Closing Remarks

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov30

At the Interface of Religion and Cosmopolitanism: Bernard Picart's Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743) and the European Enlightenment

Co-sponsored by UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, the Getty Research Institute, and the Netherlands Consulate-General of Los Angeles.

Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was one of the most prolific and talented engravers of his age. He was also intellectually curious, and a player in internationally connected social circles - some with a penchant for Deism and Spinozism. Together with Jean Frédéric Bernard, a French language bookseller and publisher of Huguenot stock based in Amsterdam, he published a seven-volume folio work that sought to capture the ritual and ceremonial life of all the known religions of the world: Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743). Bernard supplied the 3000 pages of the text while Picart engraved over 250 illustrations. Its first volume offered the world one of the most sympathetic portraits then available of European Jewry. Despite being the work of two French Protestant refugees and done in Amsterdam, the book attempted to be reasonably accurate about Catholic customs and to cast a more favorable light on the so-called "idolatrous peoples" who on the whole appeared in most of the travel literature as barbarous and even without any religion at all. In the life time of Picart the Dutch Republic stood at the heart of the European book trade. Picart and Bernard took full advantage of the opportunities they found in their adopted land, and the Cérémonies in its various translations sold a remarkable 3000 copies. Its translation into Dutch and English removed some of the more radical comments about religion found in the original French text, but those translations, and one in German, meant that Picart's images became the standard means of portraying many of the world's religions until well into the nineteenth century.

Papers: Conference papers presented at the Clark Library will be posted to the Center’s website by November 26, and will remain accessible until December 21. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/calendar.htm

Registration Deadline: November 26, 2007 Registration Fees: Thursday sessions at the Getty Center: Free of charge. The Getty Research Institute will host a reception. Lunch will not be served; the Getty Center offers a rich choice of indoor and outdoor cafes, a restaurant, and a picnic area.

Friday and Saturday sessions at the Clark Library: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

To register, please visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#dec6

Conference Locations & Parking: Thursday: The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, off the San Diego Freeway (405), Getty Center Drive exit. Parking: reserved for registrants at no charge.

Friday – 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 (10). Parking: ample free parking on the grounds.

Lunch and other refreshments are provided complimentary to all registrants on Friday and Saturday.

Please be aware that space at both locations is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity. Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access. Program Schedule: Thursday, December 6 at the Getty Center

9:00 a.m. Graduate Student Session: New Research on Bernard Picart, Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall

Guillaume Calafat, École Normale Supérieure "The Jansenist Roots of the Bernard-Picart Vision"

Verónica A. Gutiérrez, UCLA "Quetzalcoatl's Enlightened City: A Close Reading of Bernard Picart's Engraving of Cholollan/Cholula"

Catherine Clark, USC "Chinese Idols and Religious Art: Questioning Difference in Cérémonies et coutumes "

Jesse Sadler, UCLA "The Collegiants, a Small Presence in the Republic, a Large Metaphor for the Book"

11:30 a.m. Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. Digital Picart: Presentation & Discussion, Museum Lecture Hall Tom Moritz, Getty Research Institute, Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Lynn Hunt, UCLA

2:00 p.m. Viewing of Picart materials/documents, Getty Research Institute special collections

3:00 p.m. Free Time: visit Museum and GRI exhibition "China on Paper"

4:00 p.m. Keynote address by Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht Museum Lecture Hall

5:00 p.m. Invitational Reception at the Getty Center Restaurant

7:00 p.m. CONCERT, Harold M. Williams Auditorium Performed by New Dutch Acadamy, Chamber Soloist Ensemble "Early 18th Century Music Making in the Amsterdam Canal Houses" Elizabeth Dobbin, soprano, Georgia Browne, baroque flute, Karl Nyhlin, baroque lute, Simon Murphy, cello piccolo/viola pomposa, and Rebecca Rosen, cello

Friday, December 7 at the Clark Library

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Bernard Picart in French and Dutch Art Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA

Ann Jensen Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara "Originality and Authenticity in the Graphic Work of Bernard Picart"

Louis Marchesano, Getty Research Institute "Impostures innocentes: Bernard Picart and Reproductive Printmaking"

Inger Leemans, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen "Picart’s Dutch Connections: Family Trouble, the Amsterdam Theatre and the Business of Engraving"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Inventing Comparative Religion Chair: Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Jacques Revel, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales "The Uses of Comparison: Religions in the Early Eighteenth Century"

Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University "Persian Pictures: Artiface and Authenticity in the Representations of Islam in Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde"

Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute "Picart on China: 'Curious' Discourses and Images Taken Principally from the Jesuits"

5:00 p.m. Reception

Saturday, December 8 at the Clark Library

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. The Sources for the Cérémonies Chair: Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

David Brafman, Getty Research Institute "Picart, Bernard, Hermes, and Muhammad (Not Necessarily in that Order)"

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität Saarbrücken "(Re)Inventing Encyclopedias in the Early European Enlightenment. The Work of Bruzen de la Martinière and its Relations with the Cérémonies et coutumes"

Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California "Illness and Death among Americans in Bernard Picart’s Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Translation: Linguistic and Historical Chair: Lynn Hunt, UCLA

Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Universität Zürich "David Herrliberger and the German Edition of the Cérémonies"

Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan "The Fate of Ceremonies in the Nineteenth Century"

4:15 p.m. Concluding Discussion: What we now know, what needs to be known Moderators: Lynn Hunt, UCLA, Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#dec6

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, Part 3: The 'Inner Self'

A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08 Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values. In part 3 of this year-long series, we examine the 'Inner Self' and will question how this specifically early modern notion is crafted through the use of spatial metaphors for representing subjectivity and its relation to otherness (interiority, meditation, concealment, truth or lying), for discussing the mind, the soul, or rhetorical memory, in fiction, medical or religious writings, and philosophy. Forthcoming Programs in the Series: Part 4 – Spaces of Sacrality – March 14-15, 2008 Part 5 – Family and Work Space – April 25-26, 2008 Registration Deadline: February 15, 2008 Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Program Schedule: Friday, February 22

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Peter H. Reill, UCLA, Welcome

Session 1: The "Innermost Recesses"

Andreas Bähr, Freie Universität Berlin "Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early Modern Dream Narratives"

Robert G. Dimit, New York University "Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the 'Inner Self' in Seventeenth-Century France and England"

Jean-Philippe Antoine, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3 "Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann's Outer Selves and the Body without Organs"

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:30 P.M. Session 2: Language and Thought

Misia Sophia Doms, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken "Souls and Spaces – Spatial Metaphors for the Soul in German Baroque Poetry and their Anthropological Implications"

Nicholas Paige, University of California, Berkeley "How to Read a Mind: The Language of Thought in Crebillon"

4:30 P.M. Reception

Saturday, February 23

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3: Motion and Sound

Erec R. Koch, University of Tennessee-Knoxville "Nicole's Tourbillions: Materiality, Motion, and the Passions"

Ljubica Ilic, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow "Sound, Self and Space"

12:00 P.M. Lunch

1:30 P.M. Session 4: From the Personal to the Social

Claudia Jarzebowski, FU Berlin/Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut "Spaces of Her 'Self' in the Memoirs of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth (1709-1758)"

Karin Sennefelt, UCLA Ahmanson Getty-Fellow "Virtue, Property and Space in Eighteenth-century Stockholm"

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb22

Poetry Afternoons at the Clark: English(ed) Verse: Poetry and Translation

"English(ed) Verse: Poetry and Translation"

Arranged by Bruce Whiteman and Estelle Gershgoren Novak

Poet, translator, and Judaic scholar Marcia Falk is the author of The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible, which Adrienne Rich called “one of the great classics of the art of translation.” Her other books include several volumes of poetry and translations of modern women poets, including With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman (translated from the Yiddish) and The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda (translated from the Hebrew). The Book of Blessings, her bilingual re-creation of Jewish liturgy in poetic forms, has been widely acclaimed. Cynthia Ozick wrote that “It is as beautiful as it is innovative.” A former professor of literature and creative writing at SUNY Binghamton, the Claremont Colleges, and Hebrew Union College, Dr. Falk lectures widely on biblical poetry, Jewish women’s literature, and other topics.

Poet and translator David Ferry is Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English, Emeritus at Wellesley College and a Visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Boston University. He has translated Virgil and Horace, as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh, and his collections of poetry include Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (1999). He is an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently working on translations of Horace’s Satires and Virgil’s Aeneid.

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#feb9

Michael Warner Lecture

"Antisecularism and 'Secular Humanism'"

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Michael Warner is Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. One of his interests is the way social worlds are built up out of circulating media and ways of reading or hearing.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Michael Warner Lecture

"Antisecularism and 'Secular Humanism'"

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Michael Warner is Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. One of his interests is the way social worlds are built up out of circulating media and ways of reading or hearing.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)