Print Your Own Broadside Affair
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program Letterpress print your own broadside on the Book Club’s Colombian hand press with Li Jiang, Lemoncheese Press. A limited number of broadsides will be printed. Registration required.
The Life, Motto, and Library of William Walker (1570-1642), Vicar of Chiswick
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program Approximately twenty-five printed books and ten manuscripts have been located from before 1640 which bear the florid inscription: “Will and Walke aright. Will: Walker,” usually appearing on the title-page of a printed book, or on the first or last leaf of a manuscript. This talk […]
Bibliophiles Beware: The Situationist International and the Art & Politics of Cultural Hijacking
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Exhibition Opening and Remarks Active between 1957 and 1972, The Situationist International (S.I.) was a revolutionary alliance of artists, intellectuals, architects and political theorists that is hailed as the “last avant-garde” of the 20th century. One of the organization’s core concepts is that of détournement, which […]
Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, The Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging […]
Clubhouse Turn: The Twilight of Hollywood Park Race Track
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program Pasadena Heritage | 160 N Oakland Avenue | Pasadena, California 91101 On December 22, 2013, Hollywood Park Racetrack closed its doors permanently. Comprising 500 photographs culled from more than 25,000 taken on location, Clubhouse Turn (2013-2016) is the final documentation of the historic landmark before its demolition. […]
Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program An essential piece in California Studies, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California’s most ambitious interpreter. While Starr’s multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gaze—synthesizing central features, big themes, and incredible problems with the propitious […]
An Evening at the Quasi-Library
6:30 PM Pacific – Program ArtCenter College of Design | South Campus, 1111 South Arroyo Parkway | 5th Floor Lobby | Pasadena, California 91105 Join guest librarian Alex Balgiu (Designing Writing), alongside Rachel Julius and Bob Dirig (ArtCenter Library) for an immersive and tactile happening where attendees will interact directly with the diverse array of books and printed materials on display. […]
California and Reframing the Making of a Modern U.S. West
5:00 PM Pacific – Program A central theme of Making a Modern U.S. West by Sarah Deutsch is the question of what would constitute a modern U.S. and whose vision would define the West and the nation. Modernity for some meant corporate consolidation, capital intensive agriculture, white supremacy, male-headed families and private individual land-holding. For […]
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
5:00 PM Pacific – Program An archive survives to be revived. The archive as a limit, a thing in a box, is always also an opening. It opens on losses sustained, harms inflicted, the tenacity of survival, and on the persistence of lineages both proud and shameful. But what is it to approach an archive, […]
2024 Oscar Lewis Awards
5:00 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program The Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992), author, historian, and club secretary. This year Dr. Albert L. Hurtado will be recognized for his contributions to Western History and Lawrence G. Van Velzer and Peggy Gotthold will be recognized […]