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Lecture
The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, Liberated Futures along Phantom Shores
Wed., Oct. 16, 2024
Alison Hirsch, associate professor at USC and the Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow, discusses the history and future of Tulare Lake, which reemerged after multiple atmospheric rivers hit California in March 2023.
Events
Why It Matters: Daring Mighty Things with Charles Elachi
Wed., Oct. 9, 2024
Charles Elachi, the former director of NASA and Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talked with Huntington President Karen Lawrence about the importance of daring to take risks, environmental stewardship, and the mutually enriching interactions among the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Lecture
Nineteenth-Century Nature and Contemporary Photography
Tue., Oct. 8, 2024
Contemporary voices in the exhibition "Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis" bring forward questions of environmental history to the present.
Art
Rebeca Méndez on “Storm Cloud,” John Ruskin, and a Perfect Sky
Fri., Sept. 27, 2024 | Aric Allen
Artist, designer, and UCLA professor Rebeca Méndez discusses her work Any-Instant-Whatever (2020), which is featured in “Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis
Botanical
41st Annual Succulent Plants Symposium
Fri., Aug. 30, 2024
Notable speakers from around the world cover diverse topics including succulents of South Africa, Madagascar, and Taiwan, the history of Agaves in the Southwestern United States, an enduring scholarly legacy, and a new campaign against the illegal plant trade.
Research
The Huntington’s Exchange Fellowships Partners Webinar
Tue., Aug. 13, 2024
Huntington Exchange Fellowship partners discuss the archives and collections available to prospective applicants and the application process.
Events
A Conversation with Kevin Kwan - “Lies and Weddings: A Novel”
Sat., June 15, 2024
Kevin Kwan, author of the New York Times bestseller “Crazy Rich Asians,” speaks about his new book, “Lies and Weddings: A Novel,” with Christina Nielsen, director of The Huntington’s Art Museum.
Video
"Homage to Nature" by Mineo Mizuno
Wed., June 5, 2024 | Aric Allen
California-based Japanese American artist Mineo Mizuno’s site-specific sculpture, titled "Homage to Nature," is crafted from fallen timber gathered in the forests of the Sierra Nevada, where the artist lives and works.
Events
Why It Matters: Carol T. Christ in Conversation with Karen R. Lawrence
Tue., April 30, 2024
The importance of empathy and the power of language were recurring themes in a wide-ranging conversation between Carol Christ, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and Huntington President Karen Lawrence. Topics addressed included the Pac-12 collegiate athletic conference, the impact of digital technology on education, and free speech.
Video
Highlights from Why It Matters: Carol T. Christ in Conversation with Karen R. Lawrence
Tue., April 30, 2024
The importance of empathy and the power of language were recurring themes in a wide-ranging conversation between Carol Christ, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and Huntington President Karen Lawrence. Topics addressed included the Pac-12 collegiate athletic conference, the impact of digital technology on education, and free speech.
Lectures
In Isherwood’s Footsteps: Seeing the World in the Round
Thu., April 25, 2024
In this lecture video, Pico Iyer, who has read Christopher Isherwood’s writings for half a century and introduced a book of Isherwood’s travels, takes off from his elder’s example to explain why travel, always a great luxury, is ever more a moral necessity.
Watch & Listen
Hdoc: Finding Judith
Thu., March 28, 2024 | Aric Allen
Honor Sachs, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a historian of early America whose research focuses on slavery, law, and family. She is currently writing a multigenerational history of an enslaved family that sued for freedom claiming Indigenous ancestry.