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Apr
Lectures
Johan Nieuhof’s Batavia
Friday, April 24, 2026
1:00 pm PDT – 2:00 pm PDT
Lecture by Emma Gagnon, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara. Recipient of the 2025-26 Kenneth Karmiole Graduate Research Fellowship The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC) made significant strides towards establishing colonial control over the Indonesian islands in the seventeenth century. When the Company founded Batavia in 1619, the city became the administrative...
26
Apr
Music
ATOS Trio, Chamber Music at the Clark
Sunday, April 26, 2026
2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, March 24 at 12:00...
6
May
Lectures
A New Map: Luis de Carvajal’s Archive, Retold
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
Lecture by Rachel Kaufman, Ph.D. Candidate in Latin American and Jewish history, University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of the 2025-26 Kenneth Karmiole Graduate Research Fellowship Luis de Carvajal el Mozo (the Younger) was a crypto-Jew from Benavente who traveled to New Spain in the late 1500s and was arrested and ultimately killed, alongside his mother and sisters, by the...
8
May
Conferences
Core Program
Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia, 1600–1800: Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited: Conference 3: Empires of Things
Friday, May 8, 2026
9:00 am PDT – 5:30 pm PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Organized by Choon Hwee Koh (History, UCLA), Meng Zhang (History, UCLA), and Abhishek Kaicker (History, UC Berkeley) Co-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia, Center for Near Eastern Studies, and Center for Chinese Studies The third conference looks at Society, Materiality, and Knowledge. In Fletcher’s terms, a “quickening tempo” of increased mobility and commercial activity across the early modern...
29
May
Lectures
Somatmospheres: Atoms, Ambiance, and Nascent Sky Bodies in the Work of Athanasius Kircher, María de Jesús de Ágreda, and Sor Juana
Friday, May 29, 2026
12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
Lecture by Katharina N. Piechocki, Associate Professor, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, The University of British Columbia This talk brings into a Transatlantic dialogue three seventeenth-century writers who engaged with sky bodies: the prolific Rome-based German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), the Spanish writer and mystic María de Jesús de Ágreda (1602-1665), and the Mexican poet and nun Sor...
31
May
Arts on the Grounds
Special Event
Adam de la Halle’s Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (The Play of Robin and Marion, 1283)
Sunday, May 31, 2026
1:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Organized by the UCLA Early Music Ensemble and UCLA Department of Musicology The UCLA Early Music Ensemble, joined by internationally renowned vielle player/fiddler, Shira Kammen, presents a new adaptation of Adam de la Halle’s Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (The Play of Robin and Marion, 1283). Our new, English adaptation by Dr. Lawrence Rosenwald (Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College) tells the original tale of...
5
Jun
Conferences
Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies
Friday, June 5, 2026–Saturday, June 6, 2026
9:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Organized by Professors Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles, and Deaglán Ó Donghaile, Liverpool John Moores University A central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the late nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originator of Irish modernism. Still, literary scholarship has largely sidelined his powerful influence over this movement. Regarded by his contemporaries as an...
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Apr
Lectures
Johan Nieuhof’s Batavia
Friday, April 24, 2026
1:00 pm PDT – 2:00 pm PDT
Lecture by Emma Gagnon, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara. Recipient of the 2025-26 Kenneth Karmiole Graduate Research Fellowship The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC) made significant strides towards establishing colonial control over the Indonesian islands in the seventeenth century. When the Company founded Batavia in 1619, the city became the administrative...
26
Apr
Music
ATOS Trio, Chamber Music at the Clark
Sunday, April 26, 2026
2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, March 24 at 12:00...
6
May
Lectures
A New Map: Luis de Carvajal’s Archive, Retold
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
Lecture by Rachel Kaufman, Ph.D. Candidate in Latin American and Jewish history, University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of the 2025-26 Kenneth Karmiole Graduate Research Fellowship Luis de Carvajal el Mozo (the Younger) was a crypto-Jew from Benavente who traveled to New Spain in the late 1500s and was arrested and ultimately killed, alongside his mother and sisters, by the...
8
May
Conferences
Core Program
Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia, 1600–1800: Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited: Conference 3: Empires of Things
Friday, May 8, 2026
9:00 am PDT – 5:30 pm PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Organized by Choon Hwee Koh (History, UCLA), Meng Zhang (History, UCLA), and Abhishek Kaicker (History, UC Berkeley) Co-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia, Center for Near Eastern Studies, and Center for Chinese Studies The third conference looks at Society, Materiality, and Knowledge. In Fletcher’s terms, a “quickening tempo” of increased mobility and commercial activity across the early modern...
29
May
Lectures
Somatmospheres: Atoms, Ambiance, and Nascent Sky Bodies in the Work of Athanasius Kircher, María de Jesús de Ágreda, and Sor Juana
Friday, May 29, 2026
12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
Lecture by Katharina N. Piechocki, Associate Professor, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, The University of British Columbia This talk brings into a Transatlantic dialogue three seventeenth-century writers who engaged with sky bodies: the prolific Rome-based German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), the Spanish writer and mystic María de Jesús de Ágreda (1602-1665), and the Mexican poet and nun Sor...
31
May
Arts on the Grounds
Special Event
Adam de la Halle’s Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (The Play of Robin and Marion, 1283)
Sunday, May 31, 2026
1:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Organized by the UCLA Early Music Ensemble and UCLA Department of Musicology The UCLA Early Music Ensemble, joined by internationally renowned vielle player/fiddler, Shira Kammen, presents a new adaptation of Adam de la Halle’s Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (The Play of Robin and Marion, 1283). Our new, English adaptation by Dr. Lawrence Rosenwald (Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College) tells the original tale of...
5
Jun
Conferences
Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies
Friday, June 5, 2026–Saturday, June 6, 2026
9:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
Organized by Professors Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles, and Deaglán Ó Donghaile, Liverpool John Moores University A central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the late nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originator of Irish modernism. Still, literary scholarship has largely sidelined his powerful influence over this movement. Regarded by his contemporaries as an...
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