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

• 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
  Early Books’ Migration: European Upheaval and American Collections
  Cristina Dondi (Sapienza University of Rome)
• April 30, 2025
  Life’s “Continual Vibrations”: Asian American Artists and the Natural World
  Nayan Shah (University of Southern California)
• May 1, 2025
  Auden and Isherwood: Religion versus Friendship
  Edward Mendelson (Columbia University)
• May 7, 2025
  Ritchie Distinguished Fellow Lecture
  Serena Zabin (Carleton College)
• May 14, 2025
  Shapiro Book Prize Lecture
  “Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson”
  Ashley Brown (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• May 27, 2025
  Alliance & Collectivity: Retracing the Vibrant History of Asian American Artistic Communities in Interwar California
  ShiPu Wang (UC Merced)

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