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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
ICW Presents: Freedom and Unfreedom in the American West click for more information »
The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West hosts a conversation between Professors Alice Baumgartner and Katrina Jagodinsky about the legal ramifications of freedom and unfreedom in the American West from the late 19th to the early 20th century, with Professor Julian Lim as the moderato...
Event Location: Online (Virtual)
Cost: Free with reservation
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Three Women Doctors of Late Imperial China click for more information »
Lorraine Wilcox, professor at Emperor’s College, presents the writings of three female doctors from late imperial China. How could these upper-class literate women become doctors? How did they learn herbal medicine? Why did they choose this path? Their stories were almost lost, but we can restore ...
Event Location: The Huntington's Education and Visitor Center, Rothenberg Hall and livestream
Cost: Free with registration
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Early Books’ Migration: European Upheaval and American Collections click for more information »
This lecture presents the ongoing investigation of the consequences – intended and unintended, direct and indirect – of historical policies and political events on the European book heritage that migrated to the United States, with a specific focus on 15th-century printed books, the so-called in...
Event Location: The Huntington's Education and Visitor Center, Rothenberg Hall
Cost: Free with reservation
Friday, April 04, 2025
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
ICW Presents “A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth”: A Discussion with James Tejani click for more information »
Join ICW for a webinar with James Tejani, who will discuss his book about the history of the Los Angeles Port, charting its rise out of the mud and salt marsh of San Pedro and showing how the port is the story of modern, globalized America itself. Interweaving the natural history of San Pedro into t...
Event Location: Online (Virtual)
Cost: Free with reservation
Saturday, April 05, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century click for more information »
Exploring the historical origins of extraction and the growing field of Geoaesthetics, this conference queries how artists mined the geological imagination during this period. Presentations will respond to the cultural aftershocks of the birth of modern geology and paleontology, which instituted a m...
Event Location: The Huntington's Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center, Haaga Hall
Cost: $35.00
