Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation
Friday & Saturday, April 17 & 18, 2026
The Huntington
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Stewart R. Smith Boardroom
in partnership with
Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, DC
Iberdrola
Queen Sofía Spanish Institute
Academic Program Committee
Emily Berquist, California State University, Long Beach
Manuel Lucena Giraldo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid
Peter Mancall, University of Southern California & Director, EMSI
María Bárbara Zepeda Cortes, Lehigh University
Participants
Rafael Orbegozo, Advisor to the Chairman’s Office, Iberdrola
Gonzalo Quintero Saravia, PhD, SJD – Doctor of Law and Doctor of American History
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert, USC, and Jason Yoshida, USC
Image Credit: Louis K. Harlow, Priest walking in courtyard of a California mission, c. 1895. Lithograph. © Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. San Marino, California.
