Events

Lecture by Dr. William Zachs, Director, Blackie House Library and Museum Nearly a decade ago the descendants of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) transferred a substantial part of the author's private library to Blackie House Library and Museum in Edinburgh, the city of his birth. Each of the 400 volumes tells a unique story of...

Twenty-First Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade Lecture by Dennis Duncan, Associate Professor, University College London This paper begins with a collection of four dozen Burying in Woollen affidavits from the village of Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, dating from the first decade of the eighteenth century to the last. Each affidavit...

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 $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale...

Organized by Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Department of Information Studies (University of California, Los Angeles) The connection between William Andrews Clark Jr. and the fine press community that emerged in Southern California in the 1930s is evident in the extensive collections assembled in his lifetime and after. This conference reflects on...

Organized by Javier Patiño Loira (University of California, Los Angeles) and David P. Bardeen (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) This conference is part of the 2026-27 Core Program, a year-long series of three conferences – Human/Plant, Human/Animal, and Human/Machine – that invite participants from across the humanistic disciplines (including history, art history, history of...