Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Upcoming Events
Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia Conference 1: Empires of Thought
Fri 12/5 • 9AM - 5:15PM PST
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
In the 2025-26 Core Program conference, historians of the Ottoman, Qing, and Mughal empires revisit the problem of comparison by considering synchronicities and structural parallels across Asia. The first conference, "Empires of Thought," looks at imperial ideology, challenging and broadening the default understanding of empire as a large territorial state by focusing on how each empire upheld a normative universe within which particular kinds of political authority and legitimacy were articulated. Organized by Professors Choon Hwee Koh & Meng Zhang (History, UCLA) and Abhishek Kaicker (History, UC Berkeley).
Chamber Music at the Clark: Escher Quartet
Sun 1/11 • 2PM - 4PM PST
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The Escher Quartet performs an all-Bartók program including String Quartets Nos. 1, 3, and 5. Tickets are limited and go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday, December 9. Please visit the event website for full details.
Chamber Music at the Clark presents, Benjamin Appl, Baritone & James Baillieu, Piano
Sun 3/15 • 2PM - 4PM PDT
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated for a voice that "belongs to the last of the old great masters of song" with "an almost infinite range of colours" (Suddeutsche Zeitung), and for performances "delivered with wit, intelligence and sophistication" (Gramophone). James Baillieu is one of the leading song and chamber music pianists of his generation. They will perform Franz Schubert's Winterreise. Tickets are limited and go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday, February 17, 2026. Please visit the event website for full details.
Notos Quartett, Chamber Music at the Clark
Sun 3/22 • 2PM - 4PM PDT
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Notos Quartett returns to our Chamber Music at the Clark series with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Quartet in G Minor, K.478, Sir William Walton's Piano Quartet in D Minor, and Johannes Brahms' Piano Quartet in C Minor, op. 60. Tickets are limited and go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday, February 24. Please visit the event website for full details.
ATOS Trio, Chamber Music at the Clark
Sun 4/26 • 2PM - 4PM PDT
Willam Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The German-based ATOS Trio will perform in Los Angeles for the first time at the Clark Library with selections from Joseph Haydn, Gaspar Cassadó, and Franz Schubert. Tickets are limited and go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday, March24. Please visit the event website for full details.