Seminar Leaders:
Lindsay O’Neill, University of Southern California
Tawny Paul, University of California, Los Angeles
2025-2026
Saturday, September 27, 2025
“Politics Under Cover: Writing a New History of the Eighteenth-Century British Body”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Marking Skin in the Early Modern British World
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Steven’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:30 pm (PT) Please note the special end time.
“Painted Bodies on Display in the Early Modern World”
“Skin Marked White in the Early Modern World”
Saturday, February 7, 2026
“‘The Phippses of Cape Coast Castle: An Afro-English Family living between Fetu and England”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
RSVP by January 30 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Co-sponsored by the EMSI American Origins Seminar.
Saturday, April 11, 2026
The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Steven’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
This event is co-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.
Image credit: Thomas Rowlandson. An Affair of Honour, n.d. pen and watercolor, 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (11.4 x 18.4 cm.) mat: 19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm.) © Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Bequest of Albert M. Weil
