View the calendar for Huntington Conferences on the Huntington Library website.
Our partners at the Huntington Library host academic conferences every year open to the public. Conference details are available approximately two months prior to the conference date on the calendar. Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library. For information about becoming a researcher, visit Using the Library.
Please contact the Huntington Library directly for details regarding their Research Conferences.
2023-2024
Friday, September 22, 2023, 9:00 am–4:00 pm (PT)
Saturday, September 23, 2023, 9:00 am–5:00 pm (PT)
Haaga Hall, Education and Visitor Center
This two-day conference brings together an international group of scholars who explore the integration of artworks into an exhibitionary ecosystem and rethink some of our fundamental assumptions about exhibitions and the corpus of objects they have furnished.
Tickets can be obtained here. Students and Huntington Long-Term Fellows can attend for free.
Funding provided by the William French Smith Endowment and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
Friday, November 3, 2023: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (PT)
Saturday, November 4, 2023: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (PT)
Haaga Hall, Education and Visitor Center
Conveners:
James Davey, University of Exeter
Kevin Dawson, University of California, Merced
Explore the emergence of a new kind of maritime history that is more inclusive, inter-disciplinary, intellectually rigorous, and closely engaged with contemporary scholarship. The Huntington is the perfect place for a conference that pushes the boundaries of what maritime history is, and what it should be. The Huntington’s extensive maritime collections and the recently established Kemble Fellowships in Maritime History reflect an institution that has considerable scope to shape the ways that maritime history is perceived both within the academy and by wider public audiences.
Tickets can be obtained here. Students and Huntington Long-Term Fellows can attend for free.
Funding provided by The John Haskell Kemble Maritime Fellowship Endowment and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
William Bauer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Wednesday, January 10, 2024: 7:30 – 8:30 am (PT)
Rothenberg Hall
“A Family Story from Native California: The Wright Family, Kinship and Mobility in California, 1849–1941”
William Bauer, professor of history at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, examines one family’s story as part of the experience of Native peoples between the “abyss” of the 19th century and their return and revival in the 20th.
Visit the Huntington Library website to obtain free tickets.
Friday & Saturday, April 12 & 13, 2024
Convener: Tonio Andrade, Emory University
Co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
