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SUMMARY:40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies\, the nation’s first research center for early modern studies. Founded in 1985\, the Center provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies\, and organizes a wide range of academic and cultural programs. Additionally\, the Center administers the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, located on a historic property in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles\, which serves as the research laboratory for a distinguished array of fellows working either in early modern studies or the fin-de-siècle world of Oscar Wilde. \nThe program features a talk presented by UCLA Professor of English Helen Deutsch\, who served as the Center & Clark’s Director for a four year-term from 2017 to 2020. Following the talk\, guests are invited to mingle with friends and colleagues in Royce 306\, where they can add a message to the 40th anniversary Padlet\, view a display of Center & Clark ephemera and a slideshow\, and enjoy a reception on the terrace. \nAt a moment when higher education is under siege\, the study of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries might seem a luxury at best\, irrelevant at worst. Professor Deutsch’s talk\, a review and celebration of the Center and its history\, refutes such assumptions. She will argue that the work of the Center and its partner the Clark—research\, musical and theatrical performance\, conferences\, collaborations in many forms—is not a retreat to the past but rather an ongoing engagement with our present. Critical University Studies scholar Christopher Newfield has recently described universities as “places of unique challenge\, novelty\, and happiness\, of intellectual revolutions and personal transformations.”  The Center is just such a place\, and our imaginative and intellectual investments in the past illuminate the ways in which such revolutions are both rooted in history and ongoing collective projects of the utmost relevance. \nProfessor Deutsch joined UCLA’s English department in 1995 and was first affiliated with the Center & Clark as an Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral fellow in 1992–93. In addition to serving as Director\, she has assisted the Center & Clark in many capacities over the years\, including as Clark Professor in 2005–06\, and as a member and chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee. \nHer research is fueled by the love of literature and the love of authors. She practices a unique kind of feminist historical formalism that reads texts in relationship to the embodied lives of the writers who produced them. Her first two books consider the singular bodies of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in symbiotic relationship to each author’s uniquely imitative literary style and contested critical reception. \nHer most recent book\, The Last Amateur\, goes beyond the single-author framework to consider what it means to learn to love one author through another\, and to be transformed in the process. Deutsch scrutinizes Edward Said’s career-long conversation with Jonathan Swift\, which began with an unfinished book (a part of which was presented at the Clark)\, in order to raise questions of her own about the path of literary studies. At a time when many in the field have lost faith in critique\, she shows how passion and refusal of professional propriety—the hallmarks of the amateur—can enliven critique again. \nIn addition to serving as departmental Vice Chair for Graduate Studies\, she successfully spearheaded the founding of UCLA’s interdisciplinary Disability Studies Minor\, which she chaired from 2006 to 2011. She has been a member at large of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies\, chair of the Division for Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature of the Modern Language Association\, an advisory editor for PMLA\, the association’s journal\, and a member of its Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in-person on the UCLA campus in Royce Hall 314 and 306. Seating is limited; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. Registration will close on Thursday\, October 1\, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. \n\nLoading… \n\nPhoto credit: Reed Hutchinson
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SUMMARY:Private Passions\, Public Legacies: William Andrews Clark Jr. and the Making of Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special event commemorating the Clark Library’s centennial and exploring the remarkable life of its founder\, William Andrews Clark Jr. \nThe event begins with the opening of the exhibition Private Passions\, Public Legacies: William Andrews Clark Jr. and the Making of Los Angeles\, curated by the staff of the Clark Library\, to be followed by a talk by Liz Brown\, author of Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire (Penguin\, 2021)\, who will discuss the history of the library’s founder. The afternoon concludes with an outdoor reception as the library remains open for exhibition viewing. \n\n3:30 PM – Doors open\n3:45-4:15 PM – Welcome remarks and overview of exhibition by Head Librarian Derek Christian Quezada Meneses\n4:15-5:15 PM – Presentation on William Andrews Clark Jr. by Liz Brown and Q & A\n5:15–6:30 PM – Reception in Outdoor Reading Room\, exhibition viewing\n\nWelcome remarks\, the exhibition overview\, and Liz Brown’s presentation will be livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube channel and available to watch after the event for a limited time. \nPrivate Passions\, Public Legacies: William Andrews Clark Jr. and the Making of Los Angeles \nKicking off the centennial celebration of UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, this exhibition explores the remarkable role of its founder\, William Andrews Clark Jr.\, in shaping the cultural landscape of Los Angeles. \nDrawing principally upon the collections of the Clark Library\, Private Passions\, Public Legacies places Clark within the extraordinary network of artists\, printers\, musicians\, architects\, collectors\, society figures\, civic leaders\, wives\, lovers\, and friends who surrounded him. Together\, these relationships reveal a city whose cultural identity did not emerge through growth and circumstance alone\, but was deliberately constructed through philanthropy\, patronage\, collecting\, scholarship\, and institution building. \nThe exhibition follows Clark from his private world of books\, music\, clubs\, gardens\, and collecting into the public institutions and cultural networks that grew from those interests. It considers his role in the founding of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the development of the city’s musical life; Los Angeles’s distinctive traditions of fine printing and the book arts; the social and cultural networks that connected collectors and philanthropists across the city; Clark’s interests in astronomy and scientific inquiry; and the architecture and landscape of the estate he created around his library. \nA century after the Clark Library was completed\, the exhibition asks how private passions become public legacies—and how one comparatively little-known figure helped shape the cultural ambitions of modern Los Angeles. The exhibition will be on view through February 10\, 2027. \nThe Clark is delighted and honored to welcome Liz Brown\, author of Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire (Penguin\, 2021)\, to present a talk as part of the exhibition opening that highlights William Andrews Clark Jr.’s role as a major—but often overlooked—figure in L.A.’s cultural development\, and the ways his story continues today. Doheny\, Huntington\, Getty—these names are well known in the landscape and the lore of Los Angeles. But what about William Andrews Clark Jr.? His legacy continues with the Clark Library\, of course\, but also the LA Philharmonic\, Hollywood Bowl\, Pershing Square\, and Hollywood Forever Cemetery. And yet\, few know his name or his connection to these landmarks. Clark remains a shadowy figure—as he was in his own era. A child of the Gilded Age\, heir to a copper dynasty\, Clark was an aspiring violinist\, ardent bibliophile\, and powerful philanthropist with a secret gay life. The story of Will Clark is also a story about LA\, from its expansive boom in the 1920s to the bust and constriction of the 1930s. Clark’s later years resembled something of a real-life noir\, the kind of plot that his fellow bibliophile and clubman Raymond Chandler might have written. Join us for this fascinating lecture about forgotten LA history\, hidden gay lives\, the legacy of an American dynasty\, and the limits of self-invention—even in LA. \n \nLiz Brown is the author of Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire. Her writing has appeared in Bookforum\, London Review of Books\, Los Angeles Times\, New York Times Book Review\, Slate\, T Magazine\, and elsewhere. www.lizbrown.la \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. Registration is not required to watch the livestreamed portion of the event. \nThis event has reached capacity. To be added to the wait list\, please complete and submit the form below. \n\nLoading… \n\nImage caption: Clark (William Andrews\, Jr.) and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Records\, 1878-2022 (Clarkive. Pre-1934). The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, University of California\, Los Angeles. \nPhoto courtesy of Liz Brown.
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