Past Events
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ICW and USC Visions and Voices present
THIS GREAT AND CROWDED CITY: WOODY GUTHRIE'S LOS ANGELES
April 14, 2012
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ICW In Conversation series
KEITH WOODHOUSE
April 19, 2012
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Sunbelt Rising: The California Origins of the Modern Evangelical Right
Darren Dochuk, Purdue University
March 1, 2012
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HEH Billington Lecture
A HOLE IN THE DREAM: THE GHOST DANCE AND THE CRISIS OF GILDED AGE AMERICA
The tragic climax of the Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890 has come to symbolize the end of the frontier, but it was more than that. According to Louis Warren, professor of history at UC Davis, the visions that gave birth to the movement and the complicated American response to its signaled the start of the twentieth century and its pervasive anxieties about environmental decay and racial animosity.
November 8, 2011
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Past Tense at The Huntington: 2011-12 seminar series
Past Tense Workshop: CREATIVELY WRITING A HUNTINGTON OBJECT
April 27, 2012
WRITING ABOUT VIOLENCE
Susan Juster, University of Michigan
March 23, 2012
WRITING THE PERSONAL AND HISTORICAL IN THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLANDSDavid Adams, Cleveland State
February 17, 2012
WHAT IS A BOOK? AND HOW DO WE WRITE ABOUT IT?Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
January 20, 2012
WRITING AND NEW MEDIA panel discussion
Jana Remy, Chapman and UCI; Elizabeth Losh, UCSD; Douglas Dechow & Anna Leahy, Chapman
November 18, 2011
EARLY MODERN WRITING ABOUT MUSIC
Carla Zecher, Newberry Library
December 9, 2011
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AxS Festival 2011: Fire and Water
FIRE SEASON
William Deverell and Philip Connors
FIRE SEASON is a conversation between William Deverell, Professor of History and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and Philip Connors, acclaimed author and ardent wilderness look-out in the American Northwest.
Deverell and Connors discuss how FIRE and WATER have shaped the region - its politics, its economy and the lives of all of us living in the region, in fire zones and flood plains.
October 12, 2011
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Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican-American Generation
Becoming Mexican American and Beyond
Professor George Sanchez's 1993 study, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945, is considered one of the most influential works on the formation of Latino ethnic identity and culture in pre-World War II Los Angeles. This symposium brings Professor Sanchez, scholars, educators, and others together for an in-depth exploration and discussion of Latino ethnic identity in the U.S., current research in the field, and the ongoing impact of Sanchez's important book.
George Sanchez
October 9, 2011
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Los Angeles History Research Working Group
Clark Davis Memorial Lecture:
RE-IMAGINING INDIAN COUNTRY: AMERICAN INDIANS AND LOS ANGELES
Nicolas Rosenthal, Loyola Marymount University
April 20, 2012
"SEASONED LONG ENOUGH IN CONCENTRATION": Suburban Homeownership and Transnational Citizenship in the Inland South BayMarch 16, 2012
LIBERALS AND THE LEFT IN METROPOLITAN HISTORY, PART IIRoundtable discussion:
Mark Clapson, University of Westminster, UK; Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna; Becky Nicolaides, UCLA; Barbara Soliz, USC
February 16, 2012
LIBERALS AND THE LEFT IN METROPOLITAN HISTORY, PART I
Roundtable discussion:
Greg Hise, UNLV; David Levitus, USC; Alyssa Ribiero, University of Pittsburgh;Jess Rigelhaupt, University of Mary Washington; Mark Wild, Cal State Los Angeles
February 10, 2012
METROPOLITAN FRONDS: Street Palms and the Fashioning of Los Angeles
Jared Farmer, SUNY Stony Brook
January 17, 2012
PROFESSIONALIZATION AND INFLUENCE: The Los Angeles Realty Board and the Growth of the Southland 1903-1923
Laura Redford, UCLA
December 2, 2011
The Bell Political Crisis
Roundtable discussion:
Jeff Gottlieb, LA Times; Ruben Vives, LA Times; Jerry Gonzalez, University of Texas, San Antonio; Gilda Ochoa, Pomona College
November 4, 2011
Regional Equity and the Industrial Cities of Los Angeles County
Rebecca Overmyer-Velazquez, Whittier College
October 7, 2011
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Zocalo Public Square series
L.A. VS. SAN FRANCISCO: WHO RUNS CALIFORNIA?
For most of the past half-century, Southern Californians have dominated the highest state offices, including the state governorship. But in recent years, a young class of talented politicians, including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Kamala Harris, has risen in San Francisco, while L.A.'s balkanized politics has produced fewer politicians with statewide aim. Compounding the trouble for Southern Californians, San Francisco voters are some of the most engaged in the state - 59 percent of them voted in the November 2010 general election, compared to 43 percent of Angelenos. Is this part of a natural cycle that will soon swing L.A.'s way once again, or symbolic of a permanent shift? Creator and publisher of LA Observed Kevin Roderick; founding editor of Buzz Magazine Allan Mayer; historical geographer and author Gray Brechin; and University of Washington historian Margaret O'Mara visit Zocalo to discuss the Los Angeles-San Francisco rivalry.
moderated by Conan Nolan
October 3, 2011
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ICW In Conversation series
GREG FISCHER
Greg Fischer, Los Angeles Planning and Transportation deputy for Council District 9 (downtown) and a member of ICW’s Los Angeles Regional History Planning Group, has lectured to many groups about why Los Angeles exists and how it came to dominate Southern California. In his conversation with Bill Deverell, Fischer will share his research on Los Angeles visionary Arthur Letts, one of the most prominent men in L.A. from the mid-1890’s to the early 1920’s.
September 30, 2011
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ICW In Conversation series
ANNE HYDE
Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 is part of a five-volume series published by the University of Nebraska Press that reassesses the entire field of Western history.
The book makes clear that the Louisiana Purchase did not involve virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires.
The period covered in Hyde’s book spans the fur trade, Mexican War, gold rushes, and the Overland Trail, usually very male-dominated fields of study. Hyde has taken a different approach, and, using letters and business records, documented the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic boundaries. According to Hyde, “These folks turned out to be almost entirely people of great wealth and status who loved and married across racial and cultural lines. It turns out that the West of that period is really a mixed race world that made perfect cultural and economic sense until national ideas made that cultural choice impossible in the 1850s."
August 5, 2011
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ALOUD at Los Angeles Public Library
FIRE MONKS: WILDFIRES IN CALIFORNIA - PODCAST
In Conversation with Bill Deverell
Colleen Morton Busch and Stephen H. Pyne
July 19, 2011
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ICW In Conversation series
ERIC JOHN ABRAHAMSON
From the New Deal forward, the promotion of homeownership became a critical component of the regulated and managed economy. Seizing opportunities created by politicians eager to support this new American dream, Howard F. Ahmanson built an empire in Los Angeles that included the largest savings and loan in the nation and made him one of the richest men in America. He helped promote Southern California’s dramatic growth and encouraged the city’s cultural transformation. For policymakers, scholars and general readers struggling to understand the mortgage-led financial crisis of the 21st century, Ahmanson’s life and times offer insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the managed economy and the dream of widespread homeownership.
July 12, 2011
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ICW Western History Dissertation Workshop
The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, the Research Division of The Huntington Library, The Hemispheric Institute of the Americas at the University of California, Davis, The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University, the Institute for the Study of the North American West at the Autry National Center, and the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West at Stanford University invite applications for the sixth annual "Western History Dissertation Workshop," which will be held on
June 11, 2011
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ICW In Conversation series
LAWRENCE CULVER
Author of The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America.
Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs--it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this "culture of leisure" gradually took hold with an increasingly broad group of Americans, and ultimately manifested itself in suburban developments throughout the Sunbelt and across the United States. This history connects Southern Californian recreation and leisure to larger historical themes, including regional development, architecture and urban planning, labor and race relations, Indian policy, politics, suburbanization, and changing perceptions of nature.
May 12, 2011
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ICW In Conversation series
GABRIELLE BURTON
We know from history that Tamsen Donner, the pioneer heroine of the 1846 Donner Party, kept a journal, but it was never found. Combining years of historical research with insight and empathy, Burton imaginatively creates Tamsen’s lost journal, particularly during the four months she was starving and trapped in the mountains with her five daughters and dying husband. Anchored in Tamsen Donner's compelling story of adventure, love, and motherhood, Burton delves into larger questions about how people confront adversity: Why do some maintain hope, while others give up? At its heart, IMPATIENT WITH DESIRE: the Lost Journal of Tamsen Donner is a story of hope, heroism, and the enduring human spirit.
May 5, 2011
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ICW Los Angeles History Research Group
Clark Davis Memorial Lecture
Mother of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right
Michelle Nickerson, University of Texas at Dallas
April 16, 2011
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ICW In Conversation series
ERIKA ESAU
Fulbright Scholar and art historian Erika Esau has just published Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California, 1850-1935 (Power Publications) on the aesthetic connections between Australia and the American West. From gold rush photography to Spanish style houses, the absorption of images into the everyday life of these “new” Western societies constructed distinctive cultural iconographies and helped to create a sense of place based upon a shared ocean and climate. Esau works presently as librarian at LACMA’s Rifkind Center of German Expressionist Studies.
March 30, 2011
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ICW Los Angeles History Research Group
New Birth of Freedom: Civil War to Civil Rights in California
Benjamin Cawthra, Michelle Antenesse, Bethany Girod - CSU Fullerton
March 12, 2011
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Autry Western History Workshop 2010-2011
Extracting Gravity's Capital: Creating the Comstock's Industrial Watershed
Robert Chester, University of the Pacific
April 12, 2011
People, Peoples, and Politics in Borderlands: Blood Talk in New Mexico
Brian Delay, UC Berkeley
Joint session with ICW Borderlands Group
March 8, 2011
- Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
- Department of History
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles, California 90089-0034
- Email: icw@college.usc.edu