Seminar Leader:
Anne Goldgar, University of Southern California
2025-2026
Friday, September 12, 2025
“Curating the Enlightenment: Agency and the Museum in the History of Knowledge”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver Classroom 1 & 2
12:00 noon – 2:00 pm (PT)
RSVP by September 4 to receive lunch.
Friday, November 21, 2025
“The Devil’s Bath: Suicide by Proxy and the History of Emotions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Germany”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver Classroom 1 & 2
12:00 noon – 2:00 pm (PT)
RSVP by November 13 to receive lunch.
Friday, February 6, 2026
“‘The chest containing all his effects’: Material Histories of South Asian Sailors in Brittany, ca. 1750”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver Classroom 1 & 2
12:00 noon – 2:00 pm (PT)
No RSVP required. Brown bag lunch talk.
Friday, March 13, 2026
“Why did Early Modern Men Patronize Brothels? Answers from an Eighteenth-Century Bordello”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver Classroom 1 & 2
12:00 noon – 2:00 pm (PT)
No RSVP required. Brown bag lunch talk.
Image: Flower Brick, British, c. 1760. Tin-glazed earthenware, 3 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gail-Oxford Collection. © Courtesy of the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California.
