Seminar Leader:
Heather James, University of Southern California

2025-2026

 

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

“Globalizing Petrarch: Vittoria Colonna, Marguerite de Navarre, Francisca de Briviesca y Arellano, and Aemilia Lanyer”

Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver 1 & 2
4:30 – 6:00 pm (PT)

Book History and Digital Studies

 

Sabina Zonno, The Huntington Library
Lynn Dodd, University of Southern California
Sue Luftschein, University of Southern California

Friday, March 27, 2026

“Presence: the Pilgrimage of Reading of Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts in Virtual Spaces”

University of Southern California
3550 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA
Doheny Memorial Library, Special Collections, DML 206
1:00 – 3:30 pm (PT)

RSVP required. A registration link will be available in Spring 2026.

 

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

“Ephemera, Erasure and Remembrance in a Precarious World: Early-Modern University Students’ Illustrated Alba Amicorum

University of Southern California
3501 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA
Ide Conference Room in Taper Hall of Humanities, 404
4:30 – 6:00 pm (PT)

Image credit: Les XXI epistres des dames illustes traduicttes d’Ovide / par le Reverend Pere en Dieu Monseigneur l’Evesque de Angoulesme, mssHM 60, c. 1490-1510. © Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.