Seminar Leader:
Anne Goldgar, University of Southern California
European History Seminar programming ended in Spring 2026.
2025-2026
September 12, 2025
Vera Keller, University of Oregon
“Curating the Enlightenment: Agency and the Museum in the History of Knowledge”
Huntington Library
November 21, 2025
Kathy Stuart, University of California, Davis
“The Devil’s Bath: Suicide by Proxy and the History of Emotions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Germany”
Huntington Library
February 6, 2026
Margaret Schotte, York University, Toronto
“‘The chest containing all his effects’: Material Histories of South Asian Sailors in Brittany, ca. 1750”
Huntington Library
March 13, 2026
Kate Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles
“Why Did Early Modern Men Patronize Brothels? Answers from an Eighteenth-Century Bordello”
The Huntington
2024-2025
September 13, 2024
Alana Mailes, USC Society of Fellows
“Secrecy, Sociality, and Diplomacy in Early Modern Chamber Music”
Huntington Library
November 8, 2024
Daniel Rafiqi, William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA
“‘Windows into men’s hearts and secret thoughts?’ Post-Revocation Huguenot Life Writing and the Navigation of Refugee Experience”
Huntington Library
December 6, 2024
Hannah Murphy, King’s College, London
“Medical Inspection and the Epistemologies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
Huntington Library
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.
