Seminar Leaders:
Joel A. Klein, Huntington Library
Daniela Bleichmar, USC
2024-2025 Events
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Stevens Classroom
10:00 am – 3:00 pm (PT)
A hands-on, collections-based workshop with Paula Findlen (Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History, Stanford University) and Pamela Smith (Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society, Columbia University).
9:45 – 9:55 am: Check in at the Munger Building lobby
10:00 – 11:15 am: Examination of Huntington Library materials on early modern making and knowing, led by Pamela Smith in the Oversize Reading Room.
11:30 am – 12:30 noon: Hands-on workshop on early modern techne lab: azurite grinding and levigation in Stevens Classroom.
12:30 noon – 1:30 pm: lunch in Stevens Classroom
1:30 – 2:45 pm: Examination of Huntington Library materials on early modern natural history illustration led by Paula Findlen in the Oversize Reading Room.
3:00 – 4:00 pm: Hands-on workshop on early modern techne: botanical drawing in Stevens Classroom
Register by November 12 to be added to the waitlist.
Registered participants will be contacted with details prior to the event.
Friday, March 7, 2025
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver Classroom 3
Space is limited, RSVP by February 28
Schedule
10:00 – 11.30 am: Public lecture and discussion
11:45 am – 1:00 pm: Collections-based workshop
1:00 – 2:00 pm: lunch
This event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington EMSI Visual and Material Culture Seminar, USC Visual Studies Research Institute, and USC Levan Institute for the Humanities.
Photo credit: Anne Ryan
Image: Eucharius Rösslin, Kreuterbuch…, (Frankfurt am Main: Egenolff, 1538), The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. © Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
