EMSI Distinguished Lecturer 2024
Master Class
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Huntington Library
Ahmanson Classroom
3:30 – 5:00 pm (PT)
Public Lecture: “Cuba: An American History”
Friday, April 19, 2024
Huntington Library
Stewart R. Smith Board Room
11:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Register here to attend the Master Class and/or Public Lecture
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Past Distinguished Lectures
Tiya Miles, Harvard University
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2022
Public Lecture: “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake”
April 12, 2022
Online Zoom Event
![Tiya Miles headshot.](https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2023/07/miles.t.300.300.jpg)
Jean E. Howard, Columbia University
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2019
Public Lecture: “‘I was a stranger’: Hospitality in The Merry Wives of Windsor”
April 5, 2019
The Huntington Library
Master Class: “Communities of Practice and the Creation of Early Modern English Tragedy”
April 5, 2019
The Huntington Library
![Jean E. Howard headshot.](https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2023/07/howard.j.300.300.jpg)
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2018
Public Lecture: “American Democracy and its Discontents: History’s Hold on the Present Moment”
April 19, 2018
University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library
Master Class: “‘Most Blessed of the Patriarchs’: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination”
April 20, 2018
University of Southern California
Social Science Building
![Annette Gordon-Reed headshot.](https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2023/07/gordon.reed_.a.300.300.jpg)
John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus History, Yale University
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2017
Public Lecture: “Travels with Satan: A Look Back at Fifty Years as a Witchcraft Historian”
March 2, 2017
University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library
Master Class: “The Rebirth of Narrative History: Review and Appraisal”
March 3, 2017
University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library
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Bear McCreary, Composer
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2015
Public Lecture: “Scoring the Past with Bear McCreary: The Alchemists Tell All”
November 18, 2015
University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library
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Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2014
Public Lecture: “Protests against the Sea: Climate, Trade, and Languages in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
November 6, 2014
University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library
Master Class: “Deconstructing the Royal Entry: Festive Traditions in Early Modern Europe”
November 7, 2014
University of Southern California
History Conference Room
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Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2013
Public Lecture: “Making and Unmaking Borders in the Misnamed War of 1812”
January 31, 2013
University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library
Master Class: “Virginia’s Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in the Early Republic”
February 1, 2013
University of Southern California
University Park Campus
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John Brewer, CalTech
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2011
Public Lecture: “The Spectacle of Vesuvius: Travel, Sentiment, and Science in the Age of Revolutions”
April 7, 2011
University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library
Master Class: “Microhistory: Problems of Scale, Distance, and Narrative”
April 8, 2011
University of Southern California
Social Science Building
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Robert Darnton, Harvard University
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2009
Public Lecture: “Old Books and E-Books”
November 10, 2009
Master class
November 11, 2009
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Leonard Barkan, Princeton University
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2008
Public Lecture: “Words on Pictures”
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Master class: “Making a Name”
Friday, October 17, 2018
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Rolena Adorno, Yale University
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2007
Public Lecture: “The Polemics of Possession in Early Latin American Narratives”
March 22, 2007
Master Class: “The Polemics of Possession: Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, and the Historians of Hernán Cortés”
March 23, 2007
![Rolena Adorno headshot.](https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2023/07/adorno.r.300.300.jpg)
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2006
Early Modern Lives: Writing Biography, Then and Now
Public Lecture: “The Many Lives of Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516)”
April 13, 2006
Master Class: “Writing Biography”
Catherine M. Soussloff, UC Santa Cruz
“Falling in Love: Early Modern Lives of Leonardo da Vinci”
Malcolm Baker, USC
“An Ivory Carver’s Life and Works: Illustrating Artistic Biography in 18th-Century Amsterdam”
Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University
“Turning Lives into Things”
Greg Sullivan, Gunnis Dictionary of British Sculptors/Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
“Writing the Lives of British Sculptors, 1660-1851 and Today”
April 14, 2006
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Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2004
Public Lecture: “The New Contours of Atlantic History”
Master Class: “Dead Ends: The Dustbins of History”
![Bernard Bailyn headshot.](https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2023/07/bailyn.b.300.300.jpg)