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Academic and Public
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Calendar
of Events.
Several types of interdisciplinary academic
programs offered each year are designed to explore the latest research
in the early modern period or in some of the special areas represented
in the Clark's collections.
Center/Clark
Professorship
One or more distinguished scholars are appointed
each year to the Center/Clark Professorship; tenure ranges from one
quarter to an academic year, depending on the number of appointments.
The Center/Clark Professor, in collaboration with the Director, organizes
academic programs consisting of public lectures, seminars, and workshops,
and develops publications from them. If not already affiliated with
UCLA, the Center/Clark Professor holds a visiting appointment in one
of the departments and participates in its instructional activities.
Core Programs
The heart of the Center/Clark's academic activity
are its core programs—series of interdisciplinary events developed around
a common theme. This organizing principle allows for great flexibility
in format and scope: core programs may range from three or four consecutive
workshops to a series spanning a year or more, with a full complement
of symposia, workshops, graduate seminars, and public lectures, held
at the Clark or at UCLA. Core programs are organized each year by the
current Center/Clark Professor or Professors, who are encouraged to
design programs that will lead to publication in the Center/Clark
series. The Center's Ahmanson-Getty
theme-based fellowships are linked to the core programs as well.
Forthcoming and recent programs include:
- 2008–09:
The British Atlantic in an Age of Revolution and Reaction:From Boston to Peterloo and Tea Party to Massacre, directed by Saree Makdisi, English, UCLA, and Michael Meranze, History, UCLA
- 2007–08:
Spaces of "Self" in Early Modern Culture, directed by David Sabean, and Malina Stefanovska
- 2006–07:
Imperial Models in the Early Modern World, directed by Anthony Pagden, History and Political Science, UCLA, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, History, UCLA
- 2005–06:
Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and
Death, directed by Helen Deutsch, English, UCLA; and
Mary Terrall, History, UCLA
- 2004–05: Structures
of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression, directed
by Susan McClary, UCLA
- 2003–04:
The Age of Projects: Changing and Improving the Arts, Literature,
and Life during the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1820, directed
by Maximillian E. Novak, UCLA
2002–2003:
Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600–1800, directed by
Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo Ruiz, and Geoffrey Symcox, all of UCLA
- 2001–2002:
History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights, 1640–1848, directed
by Kirstie McClure, UCLA, J. G. A. Pocock, Johns Hopkins University
- 2000–2001:
Culture and Authority in the Baroque, directed by Patrick
Coleman and Massimo Ciavolella, both of UCLA
- Reading Space: Direction and Discovery
in the Expanding World
- Together Apart: Communion, Community,
and Concealment
- A third program will be announced
- 1999-2000:
The Global Eighteenth Century: The Four Corners of the Earth directed
byFelicity Nussbaum, UCLA
- Crossings: Racial and Sexual Intermixture
in Africa and the New World
- Mapping the Eighteenth-Century World
- From China to Peru: Orientalism and
Exoticism Revisited
- Homosexuality in the Eighteenth Century
- Eighteenth-Century Islands
- 1998-99: Oscar
Wilde and the Culture of the Fin de Siècle, directed by
Joseph Bristow, UCLA
- Wilde Writings: Attributions, Editions,
and Revisions
- Wilde Stages: Productions, Traditions,
Appropriations
- The New Wilde Criticism: Aesthetics,
Politics, Sexuality
- New Perspectives on the Avant-garde
and the Fin de Siècle
- Sexual Controversies of the Fin de
Siècle
- 1997-98: Millenarianism
and Messianism in Early Modern Europe and America, directed by
Richard H. Popkin, UCLA
- Jewish Messianism in the Early Modern
Period
- Catholic Millenarianism from Savonarola
to Eighteenth-Century Jansenist Thinkers
- Millenarianism among English Protestant
Thinkers, 1600-1800: Science, Liberal Politics, Philosemitism, and
Millenarian Thought
- Continental Millenarianism
- Millenarianism and Revolution
- 1996-97: New
Directions in the Study of Early Modern Culture and Society, directed
by Hans Medick, Max-Planck-Institute für Geschichte, Göttingen
- Personality and the Construction
of the Self
- Outsiders: From the Periphery to
the Center
- Beyond Elias? Court Society: The
Center as Symbol and Locus of Power
- The Challenge of Microhistory and
Its Macrohistorical Responses
- Nature and Natural Philosophers in
Early Modern Europe
- Deformity, Monstrosity, and Gender,
1600–1800
- 1995-96: Challenge
of the Enlightenment, directed by Joyce Appleby, Carlo Ginzburg,
Anne Mellor, Maximillian Novak, Gary Nash, Theodore Porter, and Peter
H. Reill, all of UCLA; Hans Bödeker, Max-Planck-Institut für
Geschichte, Göttingen; and Istvan Hont, Cambridge University
- 1994-95: Life
Studies: Autobiography, Biography, and Portrait in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries, directed by Patrick Coleman, Jayne Lewis,
and Jill Kowalik, all of UCLA
- 1993-94:
American Dreams, Western Images: Mapping the Contours of Western
Experiences, directed by Valerie Matsumoto and George Sanchez,
both of UCLA
- 1992-93: Constructing
the Body in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Its Forms, Representations,
and Regulation, directed by Kathryn Norberg, Sara Melzer, and
Anne K. Mellor, all of UCLA
- 1991-92:
Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe, a cluster series
comprising the following programs:
- Mozart's Music: Text and Context
- Themes and Oppositions in the Rococo
- Civility, Court Society, and Scientific
Discourse: Reframing the Scientific Revolution
Conferences and Workshops
The Center and the Clark organize and sponsor
interdisciplinary conferences and workshops, usually at the Clark, which
bring scholars from throughout the world to UCLA to explore specific
issues and to develop innovative interpretative approaches. On occasion
these symposia are arranged in association with other campus departments
or with other institutions. Some of the proceedings are published, either
in the Center/Clark
series or in journals. Forthcoming and recent programs include:
2007-08:
Circulation and Locality in Early Modern Science
The "Majesty" of Power in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ritual, Representation, Art
At the Interface of Religion and Cosmopolotanism: Bernard Picart's Picart’s Céremonies et Coutumes Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde (1723-1743) and the European Enlightenment
Letters Before the Law, 1640-1789
“Age of Revolutions” or “World Crisis”? State Formulation and Political Reform in Global Comparison, c. 1760-1840
Changing Conceptions of Original Sin in the Early Modern Period
2006-07:
2005-06:
Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures
The Political Culture of the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1566-1648
The Arabian Nights in Historical Context:
From Galland to Burton
Courts and Scientific Exchange in the Long Seventeenth Century
2004-05:
Imposters:Identity and Pretense in Europe and the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Oscar Wilde at 150: A Legend in the Making
Atlantic Knowledges: The Sciences and the Early Modern Atlantic World
Politicizing Jane Austen
Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas-Textualities, Intellectual Disputes, Intercultural Transfers
Fashion in the Age of Louis XIV
2003-04:
2002-03:
1999-2000
Commerce and the Representation of
Nature in Early Modern Europe
Histories of Heresy, 1640-1800
The Ashes of Bruno: A Symposium to Commemorate
Giordano Bruno on the 400th Anniversary of His Death
Gaelic Culture, Literature, and Society
Iran and the Surrounding World since
1500: Cultural Influences and Interactions
Exemplary Cases: Representative Bodies
in Anglo-America, 1600-1820
Romantic Enlightenment: Sir Walter Scott
and the Politics of History New
Western Histories: Honoring Norris Hundley"New"
Women, "Old" Men? Debating Sexual Difference around the Fin de Siècle
Moralizing Nature (in Berlin)
1998-99
- Grand Crossings: A Symposium Honoring
the Life and Work of Professor Alexander Saxton
- Forging Connections: Women's Poetry
from Renaissance to Romantic
- War and Science during the Old Regime
- British Radical Culture of the 1790s
- Casanova and the Enlightenment
- Materialist Philosophy, Religious
Heresy, and Political Radicalism, 1650–1800
- Republican Virtue in Switzerland
(In Ascona, Switzerland)
1997-98
- "Telling the Truth about History":
A Roundtable with the Authors
- Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity
- Women in the Theater
- Ordering Nature in the Enlightenment
- Stories about Childbirth
1996-97
- Nature and Natural Philosophers in
Early Modern Europe
- Deformity, Monstrosity, and Gender,
1600-1800
- Science and the Social Sciences in
the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- Napoleon's Expedition to Egypt: Considering
the Effects
- William Hogarth: A Tercentenary Symposium
(with a concurrent exhibition at UCLA at the Hammer Museum)
- The Swiss Connection: Reconceptualizing
Nature, Science, and Aesthetics
- Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and
Revolution: The Abbé Henri Grégoire and His Causes
1995-96
- The Scholar, the Intellectual, the
Teacher: Historical Representations. A Tribute to Amos Funkenstein
- Enthusiasm and Modernity in Europe,
1650-1850
- Germaine de Staël: Mediating
Culture in the Age of Revolution
- Newton and Religion
- Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian
and Jewish Cases
- Skepticism in the Late Eighteenth
and Early Nineteenth Centuries (in Leipzig and Göttingen)
1994-95
- Vindicating Wollstonecraft
- Celebrating Keats: 1795-1995
- Eighteenth-Century Opera: A Reunion
of History and Music History
- Leibniz, Mysticism, and Religion
- Dutch National Consciousness in Seventeenth-Century
Art
1993-94
- Discourses of Tolerance and Intolerance
in the Enlightenment
- The Rhetoric of Bureaucratic and
Academic Prose: Genres, Figures, Tropes, and Gestures
- Gender and Science in Early Modern
Europe
- Going Public: Women and Publishing
in Early Modern France
- Vitalism in the Enlightenment
- George Herbert in the Nineties: Reflections
and Reassessments
- Exploring the Early Modern City:
The Turin Census of 1705
1992-93
- Seventeenth-Century French Studies
Today: A Conference in Honor of Professor Lloyd Moote
- Located Knowledges: Intersections
between Cultural, Gender, and Science Studies
- Mapping the Public Sphere: Configurations
of Eighteenth-Century Culture after Habermas
- Johann Amos Comenius: Educator, Philosopher,
Theologian
- Grammar and Inscribing Culture
1991-92
- Jewish Christians/Christian Jews
in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Venue and Power: The Politics of
Place in Early Modern Europe
- "Remember St. Domingo": A Symposium
on the Bicentenary of the Haitian Revolution
Chamber Music
The chamber music programs offered by Center
and the Clark are rapidly establishing a reputation for enhancing the
cultural life of the community. At the core of these program is Chamber
Music at the Clark, a series established in 1994 with the support
of a pilot grant from the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles. The series
has now gained increased support, and several concerts take place at the
Clark each year featuring internationally acclaimed chamber ensembles.
The on-campus Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival, an
existing series for which the Center assumed responsibility in the summer
of 1998, has the additional aim of introducing new audiences to chamber
music. Finally, Clark Recitals, developed since spring 2000, is
the newest series.. Forthcoming and recent programs include:
Chamber
Music at the Clark and Clark Recitals:
2007-08:
Ying Quartet
Lawrence Quartet
Enzo Quartet
Parisii Quartet
Borealis Quartet
American String Quartet
Gryphon Trio
2006-07:
Alan Gampel
Vogler String Quartet
Boston Trio
Artemis Quartet
Quartetto di Venezia
Talich String Quartet
Parker String Quartet
Pascal Roge and Antonio Lysy
2005-06:
American String Quartet
Sequenza
Paris Piano Trio
St. Petersburg String Quartet (Chamber Music Fundraiser)
Artemis Quartet
Pavel Haas Quartet
2004-05:
The New Zealand String Quartet
Bennie Maupin Ensemble
The Boston Trio
Quartetto di Venezia
Artemis Quartet
Miro String Quartet
2003-04:
Finckel and Han Duo
Shanghai Quartet
Ying Quartet
Jerusalem Trio
Petersen Quartet
Triple Helix
2002-03:
New Hollywood String Quartet
Artemis Quartet
Shanghai String Quartet
Peabody Trio
Bartók String Quartet
Quartetto di Venezia [Clark Recitals Series]
2001–02:
Orpheus Quartet
David Finckel and Wu Han
American String Quartet
Muir Quartet
Tom Beghin Presents Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas [Clark Recitals
Series]
Ying Quartet [special performance to celebrate the 75th anniversary
of the Clark Library]
- 2000–2001:
Lanier Trio
Pacifica Quartet
- Rosetti String Quartet
Artemis Quartet
- Il Ruggiero, Il ritorni di Ulisse
in Patria [Clark Recitals Series]
Tom Beghin Performs Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas [Clark Recitals
Series]
1999-2000:
Talich Quartet
Artemis Quartet
Duo Calabrese
Orpheus Quartet
Debussy Trio [Clark Recitals Series]
Tom Beghin Performs Joseph Haydn's "Auenbrugger Sonatas"
[Clark Recitals Series]-
1998-99: The Ying Quartet, Gilles Ragon
and Jean-Louis Haguenauer, the Orion String Quartet, Paris Piano
Trio, and Orpheus Quartet
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1997-98: The Ying Quartet, Franz Schubert's
Winterreise (performed by Gilles Ragon and Jean-Louis Haguenaur),
the St. Petersburg String Quartet, and the SoLaRe String Trio
1996-97: The Angeles Quartet, an afternoon
with Franz Schubert, the Eroica Trio, and the Artis Quartet -
1995-96: The American String Quartet,
the Duo Calabrese, the Bartók Quartet, and the Endellion
String Quartet
-
1994-95: The Cherubini String Quartet,
the Shanghai Quartet, and the Lafayette Quartet
The
Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
- Summer
2007:
Mládí; Janaki String Trio; I Palpiti Soloists presented by Young
Artists International; A string quartet headed by Tamara Chernyak;
- Summer
2006:
Chernyak, Wetzel, Gold String Quartet; Armadillo String Quartet;
Mládí; I Palpiti Soloists presented by Young
Artists
International; Calder Quartet; La Camerata;
- Summer
2005:
Chernyak, Wetzel, Gold String Quartet; Armadillo String Quartet;
Mládí; I Palpiti Soloists presented by Young Artists
International; La Camerata; Calder Quartet;
- Summer
2004:
La Camerata; Armadillo String Quartet; I Palpiti Soloists presented
by Young Artists International;
Mládí; Chernyak, Hedwall, Wetzel,
Lum String Quartet;
- Summer
2003:
Armadillo String Quartet; La Camerata; I Palpiti Soloists
presented by Young Artists International;
- Summer
2002:
Musica Angelica; Armadillo String Quartet; Brentwood Soloists;
L. A. Philarmonic Performers Tamara Chernyak, Akiko Tarumoto,Ingrid
Hutman, and Gloria Lum; I Palpiti Soloists presented by Young Artists
International;
- Summer
2001:
Armadillo String Quartet; L. A. Philarmonic Performers Tamara Chernyak,
Akiko Tarumoto,Ingrid Hutman, and Gloria Lum; I Palpiti Soloists
presented by Young Artists International;
Summer 2000:
- Armadillo String Quartet, Cypress String
Quartet, Young Artists International Laureates
- Summer 1999:
St. Petersburg String Quartet; Cypress String Quartet; Armadillo
Quartet; Young Artists International Laureates; Musica Angelica;
Marcia Dickstein, Angela Wiegand, and Simon Oswell
- Summer 1998:
Ensembles formed by Bing Wang, Evan N. Wilson, and Daniel Rothmuller;
Peter Kent, Susan Jensen, Maria Newman, Maurice Grants, and Amanda
Walker; Isabella Lippi, Meredith Snow, and Armen Ksajikian; Jacqueline
Brand, Polly Sweeney, Victoria Miskolczy, and Paul Cohen; Marcia
Dickstein, and Angela Wiegand; Rachel Purkin, Amy Hershberger, John
Scanlon, and Steve Richards
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Other Public Programs
Every year the Center and the Clark present special
public programs that highlight seventeenth- and eighteenth-century arts
and culture and aspects of the Clark's rich collections. Some of these
programs have developed into series. Poetry Afternoons at the Clark focuses
on regional poets and their work as well as the connections between poetry
and other arts. The Stephen Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing is dedicated
to an exploration of the history and practice of the printing arts. The
most recently established public series is the Richard H. and Juliet G.
Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy.
Recent and forthcoming programs include:
- 2007-2008
- William Zachs Lecture on Oscar Wilde
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade
- 2006-2007
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade
- 2005-2006
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade
- 2004-2005
- Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture
in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
- SARAH HUTTON
Professor of Early Modern Studies at Middlesex University,
Religion and the Rights of Women: Mary Astell to Mary Wollstonecraft
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- 2003-2004
- Celebrating Richard Popkin's
New History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle
and His Eightieth Birthday
- David Myers, UCLA,
Between False Messiahs and Free Thinkers: Dick Popkin and the Rethinking of Jewish History
- Harry Bracken, Arizona State University,
Popkin's Discovery of Berkeley's Anti-Pyrrhonism
- Avrum Stroll, University of California, San Diego,
Collaborating and Disagreeing with Genius
- Allison Coudert, Arizona State University,
Memories of a Grateful Popkinite
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
-
Merlin Holland -
Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess:
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde
- Dorothy and Lloyd Moote -
The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year
- A Colloquium in Honor of Frederick Burwick
- 2002-2003
- Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture
in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
- Held as part of ISECS Quadrennial
Congress
- Seventh UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- 2001-2002
- Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture
in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
-
Conference - Scepticism as a Force in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought
New Findings and New Interpretations
of the Role and Influence of Modern Scepticism
- Staged Reading of "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- 2000-2001
- Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture
in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
- David Sorkin, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
"A Wise, Enlightened, and Reliable Piety": The Religious Enlightenment
in Central and Western Europe, 1689–1789
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- 1999–2000
- Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture
in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
- David Brion Davis, Yale University,
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Diverse City: Multicultural Poets
of Los Angeles
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- Peter Koch, Printing the Pre-Socratics
in Berkeley
- 1998-99
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark.
- The Other Sister Art: Poetry and
Music
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- 1997–98
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark
- Kanter Lecture on Fine Printing
- Printing in the Shadow of the Big
Three: Recollections of Patrick Reagh
- John Randle of the Whittington Press,
The Technique of Pochoir Illustration
- 1996-97
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark.
- Poetry and Jazz: In the Spirit
of Venice West
- 1995-96
- Poetry Afternoons at the Clark.
- Remembrance of Poets Past: A Memorial
Reading of L.A. Poets by L.A. Poets Who Knew Them
- 1994-95
- Compassion behind Bars: Oscar Wilde
in Reading Gaol and After
- Printing at Whittington, 1971-1994
- 1993-94
- The String Quartet: Music for Mischa
- The Painted Book
- 1992-93
- Musical Repercussions of 1492: An
Afternoon with Robert Stevenson, with music by I Cantori
- Cruikshank:The Satiric Tradition
- 1991-92
- Nature and Health: Town and Country
in Georgian London
Lectures and
Faculty Seminars
The Center and the Clark sponsor individual
lectures by visiting scholars and by UCLA faculty on subjects of interest
to the Center/Clark community. These lectures are generally arranged
in cooperation with academic departments at UCLA.
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Programs for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Interested graduate students are invited and
encouraged to attend all of the Center/Clark programs. In addition,
the following programs are designed specifically for students:
Graduate Colloquia and Seminars:
The Center organizes colloquia for graduate
students allowing them to present papers, research projects, or dissertation
proposals focusing upon a specific area or subject matter. The UC
Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe, which serves as
a model for such endeavors, brings together graduate students from
the University of California system to present papers and discuss
issues pertaining to various aspects of early modern Central Europe.
The colloquium focuses upon the culture, literature, and societies
of the area that originally comprised the Holy Roman Empire (Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Low Countries,
and parts of Poland and northern Italy). The era covered stretches
from the fourteenth century into the nineteenth century.
The Center also offers UCLA faculty members
the opportunity to organize graduate seminars designed to stimulate
cross-disciplinary studies at UCLA. Team-taught by faculty from
different departments, the seminars present students with an opportunity
to investigate subjects and explore approaches cutting across traditional
academic, cultural, and intellectual boundaries. Topics vary from
year to year.
Master Classes:
The program of master seminars brings graduate
students, along with UCLA faculty, into direct contact with internationally
known scholars, who conduct the classes. Members of the Center's core
faculty organize the seminars in consultation with the Director.
Programs for Undergraduate Students
The Center organizes a yearly undergraduate
seminar that explores a subject in seventeenth- and/or eighteenth-century
studies. The seminar, directed by one of the core faculty members,
is held at the Clark Library and requires students to complete a research
project based upon the Clark's holdings. The
participants in this seminar receive a grant of one thousand dollars
upon the successful completion of the course. This program is made
possible by the generous support of the Ahmanson Foundation.
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