Monday, November 17, 2025

Time: 2:30 p.m.

When Drugs Leave Their Place of Origin: The Longue Durée of Chinese Medical Migration
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Michael Stanley-Baker of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, explores how Chinese medicine has incorporated new drugs arriving from near and far throughout history. Chinese medicine has a long tradition of thinking about the relationship between the places where drugs originate and their efficacy. New digital tools allow us to trace long…

Event Location: The Huntington's Rothenberg Hall and Livestream

Cost: Free with reservation

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Time: 6:30 p.m.

A Print of a Chinese Theater in California: A Life History
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Join Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Board of Governors Professor of Music, Rutgers University, for the story of an engraved illustration of a glamorous Chinese theater in San Francisco from 1870. Originally published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, the object gives rise to a series of questions. Who fashioned it? For whom…

Event Location: The Huntington's Rothenberg Hall

Cost: Free with reservation

Saturday, November 01, 2025

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Did the Soul Die in the 1990s? The Making (and Unmaking) of So-Called Consciousness Studies
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Join Anne Harrington, the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, for an illuminating lecture on the evolving history of consciousness research. In the early 1990s, consciousness became a newly respectable focus in neuroscience. Nobel Prize–winning biologist Francis Crick, along with collaborator Christoph Koch, declared…

Event Location: The Huntington's Ahmanson Classroom and Livestream

Cost: Free with reservation

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

War Stories: "The Ones We Bring Back and How"
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Veterans Day panel presentation with Pablo Agrio on writing as a way of coping with trauma; Bill Cushing on capturing battle in poetry and prose; GT Foster on a draftee's experience; and John McBrearty on working through the ranks.

Event Location: Lamanda Park Branch Library

Cost: Free

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Author Talk: The Search for Truth and the Persistence of Love Across Time with Novelist Amanda Peters
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Pasadena Public Library invites the community to an online conversation with acclaimed writer Amanda Peters, author of the instant bestselling novel The Berry Pickers and the tender short fiction collection Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories. Influenced by Peters’ Mi'kmaq heritage, The Berry Pickers offers a riveting exploration of…

Event Location: Online (Virtual)

Cost: Free