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.
