Seminar Leader:
Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
2023-2024
Saturday, September 30, 2023
“The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492″
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Smith Board Room
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Coffee will be available at 10:00 am.
Please complete the rsvp form by September 27 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Thursday, October 19, 2023
“Diverse Progenies and Lineages: Africans and Native Americans in Sixteenth-Century France”
University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library, DML 241
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (PT)
Free parking available.
Please complete the rsvp form by October 16 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Discussion of his book Writing Early America
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Smith Board Room
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Coffee will be available at 10 am.
Please complete the rsvp form by January 24 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
“Slave Society and British Imperial Political Economy: The Significance of Governor Edward Trelawny of Jamaica”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Rogers Classroom
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Coffee will be available at 10 am.
Please complete the rsvp form by February 14 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
“Zapotec Consumerism in Colonial Oaxaca: European Goods in Indigenous Markets”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Stevens Classroom
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Coffee will be available at 10 am.
Please complete the rsvp form by April 3 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Dissertation Workshop
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Discussion of the dissertation projects of
Mary Casey, University of California, Riverside
“Feasting and the Formation of Community: Native Ritual, Power, and Persistence in the Shadow of the California Missions”
Dissertation director: Steven Hackel, University of California, Riverside
Commentator: Peter Mancall, University of Southern California
&
Rebecca Simpson-Menzies, University of Southern California
“From Agawam to Springfield: Society, Culture, and the Environment in a New England Town”
Dissertation director: Peter Mancall, University of Southern California
Commentator: Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Rogers Classroom
12:30noon (PT)
Lunch will be served.
Please complete the rsvp form by April 12 to register for lunch and receive pre-circulated materials.
Image: Small Makuk, late 18th to early 19th century, birchbark and spruce root. Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
