Academic Conferences and Lectures

The Huntington hosts academic conferences and lectures every year that are open to the public. Information and dates may be found on the calendar. For conferences, program details are typically available two months before the conference date; Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library.

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2025

Upcoming Conferences

• March 21–22, 2025
  Music in the Early Modern Spanish Americas, Performance Spaces, and Archives
  Conveners: Savannah Esquivel (UC Riverside), Cesar Favila (UCLA)
• April 4–5, 2025
  The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century
  Conveners: Nina Amstutz (University of Oregon), Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St. Andrews)
• May 16–17, 2025
  The South Sea Company and the Atlantic Slave Trade
  Conveners: Nicholas Radburn (Lancaster University), Daniel Domingues da Silva (Rice University)
• May 30–31, 2025
  The Americas’ Civil War Era: Diverse Histories
  Conveners: Christopher Clark (University of Connecticut), Verónica Castillo-Muñoz (UC Santa Barbara)

Upcoming Lectures

• April 9, 2025
• Zeidberg Lecture in the History of the Book
  Cristina Dondi (University of Oxford)
• April 30, 2025
  Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow Lecture
  Nayan Shah (University of Southern California)
• May 1, 2025
  Isherwood-Bachardy Lecture
  Edward Mendelson (Columbia University)
• May 7, 2025
  Ritchie Distinguished Fellow Lecture
  Serena Zabin (Carleton College)
• May 27, 2025
  Hannah and Russell Kully Distinguished Fellow Lecture in American Art
  ShiPu Wang (UC Merced)

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