View the calendar for Huntington Conferences on the Huntington Library website.
Our partners at the Huntington Library host academic conferences every year open to the public. Conference details are available approximately two months prior to the conference date on the calendar. Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library. For information about becoming a researcher, visit Using the Library.
Please contact the Huntington Library directly for details regarding their Research Conferences.
2024-2025
Friday & Saturday, September 27 & 28, 2024
Conveners:
Julie Park, Pennsylvania State University
Adam Smyth, Balliol College, Oxford University
Register for tickets on the Huntington Library website.
Storm Cloud
Friday & Saturday, November 1 & 2, 2024
Conveners:
Kate Flint, USC
Karla Nielson, The Huntington Library
Melinda McCurdy, The Huntington Library
Abortion in American History: Intimate Decisions, Medical Knowledge, and Legal Decrees in the Two Centuries before Roe v. Wade
Friday & Saturday, January 17 & 18, 2025
Convener:
Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
This event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
Music in the Early Modern Spanish Americas: Performances, Spaces, and Archives
Friday & Saturday, March 21 & 22, 2025
Conveners:
Savannah Esquival, University of California, Riverside
Cesar Favila, University of California, Los Angeles
This event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century
Friday & Saturday, April 4 & 5, 2025
Conveners:
Nina Armstutz, University of Oregon
Stephanie O’Rourke, University of St. Andrews
The South Sea Company and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Friday & Saturday, May 16 & 17, 2025
Conveners:
Nicholas Radburn, Lancaster University
Daniel Domingues da Silva, Rice University
This event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
The Americas’ Civil War: Diverse Histories
Friday & Saturday, May 30 & 31, 2025
Conveners:
Christopher Clark, University of Connecticut
Verónica Castillo-Muńoz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Image: Francis Godwin, image from The Man in the Moone, 1657. © Courtesy of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California.
