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

• Nov. 1–2, 2024
  Storm Cloud: Environment, Empire, and the Arts in the Industrial Age
  Conveners: Karla Nielsen (The Huntington), Melinda McCurdy (The Huntington), Kate Flint (USC)

Upcoming Lectures

• Oct. 30, 2024
  The Italian Murders: Crime and Punishment in the Reconstruction West
  Megan Kate Nelson (Writer and Historian)
• Dec. 4, 2024
  Goya’s Portraits and a New Prize for The Huntington
  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. 15, 2025
  Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow Lecture
  Susan Amussen (UC Merced)
• Jan. 22, 2025
  Billington Lecture
  Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA)
• 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)

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