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Academic Conferences and Lectures

The Huntington hosts academic conferences and lectures every year 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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2024

Upcoming Conferences

  • Sept. 27–28, 2024
    Extra Extra! The Material History of the Visually Altered Book
    Conveners: Julie Park (Pennsylvania State University), Adam Smyth (Balliol College, Oxford)
  • Nov. 1–2, 2024
    Storm Cloud
    Conveners: Karla Nielsen (The Huntington), Melinda McCurdy (The Huntington), Kate Flint (USC)

Upcoming Lectures

  • Oct. 16, 2024
    Shapiro Center for American History & Culture Lecture
    Alison Hirsch (University of Southern California)
  • Oct. 30, 2024
    Rogers Distinguished Fellow Lecture
    Megan Kate Nelson (Writer and Historian)
  • Dec. 4, 2024
    Robert Wark Lecture in Art History
    Frederick Ilchman (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

2025

Upcoming Conferences

  • Jan. 17–18, 2025
    Abortion in American History: Intimate Decisions, Medical Knowledge, and Legal Decrees in the Two Centuries Before Roe v. Wade
    Convener: Patricia Cline Cohen (UC Santa Barbara)
  • 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 Armstutz (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

  • Jan. 8, 2025
    Billington Lecture
    Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA)
  • Jan. 15, 2025
    Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow Lecture
    Susan Amussen (UC Merced)
  • Feb. 5, 2025
    Huntington Lecture in Mormon Studies
    Paul Reeve (University of Utah)
  • Feb. 19, 2025
    Cheng Foundation Lecture
    Anna Pegler-Gordon (James Madison College)
  • Feb. 26, 2025
    Avery Distinguished Fellow Lecture
    Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan)
  • April 9, 2025
    Zeidberg Lecture in the History of the Book
    Cristina Dondi (University of Oxford)
  • April 17, 2025
    Dibner Lecture
    Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University)
  • April 23, 2025
    Isherwood-Bachardy Lecture
    Edward Mendelson (Columbia University)
  • April 30, 2025
    Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow Lecture
    Nayan Shah (University of Southern California)
  • May 7, 2025
    Ritchie Distinguished Fellow Lecture
    Serena Zabin (Carleton College)

Past Conferences

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