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Lecture
Louis C. Tiffany's Glass Mosaics
Thu., Feb. 1, 2018
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Louis Comfort Tiffany directed an artistic empire in the design and creation of stained glass windows and lamps, blown glass vases, and other objects of luxury.
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Exhibition Talk: Live Free or Die
Sat., Jan. 27, 2018
Artists Soyoung Shin and Juliana Wisdom, two of the seven artists whose work is featured in the current exhibition COLLECTION/S, will discuss the influence of 18th-century French history and decorative arts on their work.
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Decoding the Book: Printing & the Birth of Secrecy
Wed., Jan. 24, 2018
Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute in London, delivers the inaugural annual lecture honoring David Zeidberg, recently retired Avery Director of the Library.
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Portland Japanese Garden: The Journey Continues
Tue., Jan. 23, 2018
For more than 50 years, the Portland Japanese Garden has been a haven of serenity and an important center for Japanese culture.
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Anton Roman: San Francisco's Pioneering Bookseller & Publisher
Wed., Jan. 17, 2018
John Crichton, proprietor of the Brick Row Book Shop in San Francisco, shares the story of pioneering entrepreneur Anton Roman (1828-1903), who came to California from Bavaria in 1849 to make his fortune in the gold fields, then converted his gold into books and became one of the most important...
Conference
The Censorship of British Theatre, 1737-1843
Sat., Jan. 13, 2018
Leading experts on 18th and 19th-century theatre explore the implications of statutory theatre censorship as Britain grappled with issues of modernity, race, gender, and religion during a period of imperial expansion and conflict.
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A Mormon Diarist in California, 1850-1858
Wed., Jan. 10, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor of History at Harvard University, shares stories from the remarkable diary of Caroline Crosby.
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Conversation and Readings from the Podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Thu., Dec. 21, 2017
Vanessa Zoltan (co-host) and Ariana Nedelman (producer) of the celebrated podcast, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, along with Huntington curator Vanessa Wilkie, discuss how media format shapes message.
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Cochineal in the History of Art and Global Trade
Sun., Dec. 10, 2017
Alejandro de Ávila Blomberg of the Oaxaca Ethnobotanical Garden and Oaxaca Textile Museum will explore the historical and cultural significance of this natural crimson dye.
Conference
Globalizing the Protestant Reformations
Sat., Dec. 9, 2017
This conference investigates the nature and significance of the Protestant Reformation as a global phenomenon.
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Christian Origins in Early Modern Europe: The Birth of a New Kind of History
Thu., Dec. 7, 2017
In the 16th century, the unified Latin Christianity of the Middle Ages broke apart. New Protestant churches and a reformed Catholic church created new theologies, new liturgies, and new ways of imagining what early Christian life and worship were like.
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The Florentine Codex and the Herbal Tradition: Unknown versus Known?
Tue., Dec. 5, 2017
The 16th-century ethnographic study known as the Florentine Codex included a richly detailed account of natural history of the New World. In this lecture, Alain Touwaide—historian of medicine, botany, and medicinal plants—compares the Codex and contemporary European herbal traditions.