Seminar Leaders:

Ashley Cohen, University of Southern California
Sarah Kareem, University of California, Los Angeles

2025-2026

 

Friday, September 26, 2025

“Reading Indigenous Objects and Belongings in the Eighteenth Century”

Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver Classroom 1 & 2
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)

 

Friday, January 16, 2026

“Jane Austen’s Consequences”

Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver Classroom 1 & 2
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)

 

Friday, February 20, 2026

“FID(ish): 18th Century Experiments with Voice and Perspective”

Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver Classroom 1 & 2
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)

 

Friday, April 3, 2026

“Pawnship, Enslavement, and Literary History: Oroonoko, The Royal African, and the Royal African Company Letters”

Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver 1 & 2
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)

This event is co-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.

Image credit: William King (British, 18th century), Marmoset, n.d. Watercolor, sheet/ image: 9 x 6 3/4 in. (22.9 x 17.1 cm), mat: 19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm). The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. © Courtesy of The Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California.