2025-2026
Huntington Library Academic Conferences
January 23 & 24, 2026
“Making the Body in Renaissance Italy”
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February 27 & 28, 2026
“United Queendom: Legacies of Gendered Power in the Early Modern British World”
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March 6 & 7, 2026
“Old Women, Race, and Power in the Atlantic World, 1600-Present”
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March 14, 2026
“Perspectives on Gardens in the American Context”
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April 17 & 18, 2026
“Extinction Revealed: Tracing the Legacies of Lost Species”
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May 1 & 2, 2026
“Disability and Care in Medieval and Early Modern France”
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Huntington Library Academic Lectures
November 6, 2025
Dustin Tahmahkera, Billington Lecture
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December 10, 2025
Craig Santos Perez, Avery Distinguished Fellow Lecture
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January 29, 2026
Meredith Martin, Wark Lecture
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February 4, 2026
Helen Thompson, Dibner Distinguished Fellow Lecture
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February 18, 2026
Sonya Posmentier, Ridge Lecture
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March 11, 2026
Sandy Rodriguez, Hannah and Russel Kully Distinguished Fellow Lecture
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March 18, 2026
Joshua Piker, Ritchie Distinguished Fellow Lecture
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April 22, 2026
Aaron Pratt, Zeidberg Lecture in the History of the Book
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April 29, 2026
Karen Harvey, Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow Lecture
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May 4, 2026
Fara Dabhoiwala, Homer Crotty Lecture
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2024-2025
September 27 & 28, 2024
“Extra, Extra! The Material History of the Visually Altered Book”
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November 1 & 2, 2024
“Storm Cloud: Environment, Empire, and the Arts in the Industrial Age”
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January 17 & 18, 2025
“Abortion in American History: Intimate Decisions, Medical Knowledge, and Legal Decrees in the Two Centuries before Roe v. Wade”
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Co-sponsored by EMSI and the Molina Family Foundation.
March 21 & 22, 2025
“Music in the Early Modern Spanish Americas, Performance Spaces, and Archives”
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May 16 & 17, 2025
“The South Sea Company and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
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2023-2024
Friday, September 22 – Saturday, September 23, 2023
“Paintings, Peepshows, and Porcupines: Exhibitions in London, 1775-1851”
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Friday, November 3 – Saturday, November 4, 2023
“Maritime History from Below: Re-Thinking Societies and the Sea”
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
“A Family Story from Native California: The Wright Family, Kinship and Mobility in California, 1849-1941”
William Bauer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Friday, April 12 – Saturday, April 13, 2024
“Gods, Guns, and Gardens: China and the West, from the Manchu Conquest to the Opium Wars”
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2021-2022
Friday, April 8 – Saturday, April 9, 2022
Early Modern Ireland and the Wider World
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Friday, May 13 – Saturday, May 14, 2022
Shakespeare and the Poetics and Politics of Relevance
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