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Eavesdropping on the Gold Rush
Mon., Jan. 13, 2020
J. Goldsborough Bruff was a cartographer who got gold fever and went west to California in 1849. Like most everyone else, he found no gold, but he left behind something truly unique. And one hundred years ago Henry Huntington acquired it for the library.
Lecture
The 'Huntington's 100th' Rose
Thu., Jan. 9, 2020
Rose hybridizer Tom Carruth, the E. L. and Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose Collections at The Huntington, discusses how he developed his newest floribunda, 'Huntington's 100th', named in honor of the institution's Centennial Celebration.
Lecture
Counterfeiting Science: The Uses of Evidence in the Newton-Leibniz Priority Dispute
Wed., Jan. 8, 2020
Rob Iliffe, professor of the history of science at the University of Oxford, discusses two little-known documents that reveal how Isaac Newton's approach to prosecuting contemporary counterfeiters as a warden of the Royal Mint was closely related to his strategy for revealing the corruption of Ch
Lecture
President’s Series: Octavia E. Butler’s Parables: A Music Talk with Toshi Reagon
Tue., Jan. 7, 2020
Toshi Reagon, acclaimed composer and lyricist, discusses her operatic adaption of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction novel Parable of the Sower with special guests. Presented in association with UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance.
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Beside the Edge of the World: Artist Spotlight
Fri., Dec. 13, 2019
Go behind-the-scenes with Rosten Woo, Dana Johnson, and Nina Katchadourian, as they explore The Huntington's collections through the lens of Thomas More's "Utopia." Their research informed new works created for the exhibition "Beside the Edge of the World."
Conference
John Ruskin: 19th-Century Visionary, 21st-Century Inspiration
Fri., Dec. 13, 2019
This conference introduces British art and social critic John Ruskin to a modern audience and makes the case for his continuing relevance in our own troubled time.
Lecture
Benjamin Franklin: The Never-Completed American Founder
Wed., Dec. 11, 2019
Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, revisits The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which was one of Henry Huntington's most prized manuscript acquisitions.
Lecture
Our Common Table: A Journey Through L.A.’s Flourishing Culinary Communities
Sat., Nov. 23, 2019
Bill Esparza, author of "L.A. Mexicano: Recipes, People & Places," and Elisa Callow, author of "The Urban Forager: Culinary Exploring & Eating on L.A.'s Eastside," join award-winning journalist and L.A. chronicler Val Zavala in a Q&A about L.A. food culture.
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Pollinating Blue Boy
Thu., Nov. 21, 2019
For one hundred years The Huntington has been spreading knowledge like pollen, helping scholarship bloom into exhibitions and publications. Sometimes the right pollen is hard to get though, that's why it's good to have friends who can help.
Lecture
Outstanding American Gardens: What are They, Where are They, and How Can They be Saved?
Sun., Nov. 17, 2019
James Brayton Hall, president of the Garden Conservancy, examines what America's gardens say about our culture and how new approaches pioneered by the Conservancy are helping to protect and document these landscapes for the future.
Lecture
Hamlet and Other Ghost Stories
Wed., Nov. 13, 2019
Henry Huntington acquired one of the rarest books in the history of English literature: the so-called "bad quarto" of Hamlet.
Conference
The Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground
Fri., Nov. 8, 2019
This interdisciplinary conference explored the subterranean world of Elizabethan Catholic print and scribal culture, set against the backdrop of press censorship, illicit printing, book smuggling, subversive scribal publication, and the uses of Catholic writing by government agents.