{"id":1007,"date":"2023-05-30T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/emsi\/?page_id=1007"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:03:59","slug":"huntington-conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/seminar-series\/huntington-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntington Library Research Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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View the calendar for Huntington Conferences on the\u00a0Huntington Library website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0calendar<\/a>. Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library. For information about becoming a researcher, visit\u00a0Using the Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n 2025-2026 Huntington Library Academic Conferences\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n \n
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\n Making the Body in Renaissance Italy<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Friday & Saturday, January 23 &<\/strong>\u00a024, 2026<\/strong>
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Conveners:
\nShannon McHugh<\/a>, Huntington Library
\nJessica Maratsos<\/a>, Cambridge University<\/p>\n

What is a body? Which medical and cultural authorities set its boundaries? How has bodily autonomy evolved in history, alongside advances in science and conceptions of peoplehood? This conference explores these issues at the critical historical juncture of the Italian Renaissance, a moment that gave rise to a scientific revolution alongside a transformation in literary and artistic production. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach to the medical humanities, panels interrogate the supposedly objective autonomy of science by investigating myriad early modern conceptions of the human body. Presenters will share new research demonstrating how discourses around the body were shaped not only by medical treatment and dissection, but by portrayals in art and poetry.<\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n United Queendom: Legacies of Gendered Power in the Early Modern British World<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Friday & Saturday, February 27 & 28, 2026
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Conveners:
\nAmanda Herbert<\/a>, Durham University
\nVanessa Wilkie<\/a>, Huntington Library<\/p>\n

During the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, five queens regnant ruled across England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the spaces they claimed as colonies; for many British people living in that time, it was more routine to bow to a woman on the throne than it was to bow to a man. And yet within that period, submission to female rule remained controversial, despite its commonplace; contemporaries viewed it as a cause for anxiety and antagonism rather than accommodation and acceptance. This discomfort continues today. This conference calls together an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on femininity, monarchy, authority, and governance in the early modern British world, to join in assessment of both the early modern experience of gendered power and its longer legacy.<\/p>\n

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\n Old Women, Race, and Power in the Atlantic World, 1600-Present<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Friday & Saturday, March 6 & 7, 2026\u00a0<\/b>
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Conveners:
\nCori Field<\/a>, University of Virginia
\nKimberly Hamlin<\/a>, Miami University, Ohio<\/p>\n

Negative stereotypes of older women abound in early modern culture: hags, spinsters, crones, witches, and freaks of longevity, or little old ladies, grannies, and mammies. And yet, throughout the transatlantic world, older women have often provided the vital labor \u2013 paid, unpaid, and volunteer \u2013 advocacy and caregiving that have kept economies, families, and societies functioning and bending toward equality. How might we understand the power and agency of older women \u2013 liberated from pregnancy and childrearing \u2013 even as the larger culture has tended to dismiss older women as sexless and invisible? This conference gathers scholars who have been trying to answer these questions from a variety of archivally-based disciplines, including history, art history, literature, gender, and race\/ethnic studies.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, March 14, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conveners:
\nNicole Cavender<\/a>, Telleen\/Jorgensen Director of the Huntington Botanical Gardens
\nSusan Juster<\/a>, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, Huntington Library<\/p>\n

A one-day symposium in conjunction with the “An American Garden” project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Extinction Revealed: Tracing the Legacies of Lost Species<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Friday & Saturday, April 17 & 18, 2026
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Conveners:
\nDan Lewis<\/a>, Huntington Library
\nDavid Bottjer<\/a>, USC<\/p>\n

Extinction has been a part of the planet\u2019s toolbox since life first emerged. But extinction has a rich cultural as well as scientific history, and our responses to extinction and disappearance in the natural world have followed an arc from the Classical era, through the Renaissance and early modern period, up through the nineteenth century, into the 20th<\/sup>, and up to the present day. Extinction is one of the most pressing topics of the modern era, and its long history, in significant ways, remains misunderstood, and to a significant degree, unscrutinized. What does it mean, for instance, to say that we\u2019ve \u201clost\u201d something in the first place? Over the centuries, we\u2019ve etched a progression (or has it been a regression?) in thinking about decline and loss in the natural world: from curiosity (and denial) and no sense of loss at all, to learning how parts of the natural world have indeed disappeared, to watchful and somber working on mitigating extinction, to considering that humans should press our hand hard on the survival scale, with potentially very mixed results.<\/p>\n

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\n Disability and Care in Medieval and Early Modern France<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Friday & Saturday, May 1 & 2, 2026<\/strong>
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Conveners:
\nAlani Hicks-Bartlett<\/a>, Brown University
\nCynthia Nazarian<\/a>, Northwestern University<\/p>\n

Gathering an interdisciplinary group of scholars who work transculturally and transhistorically, this conference offers a capacious collaborative exploration of forms of premodern embodiment and relationality, particularly as these intersect with disability, affect, and care. Conceptualizing the body and mind within their contingent frameworks, our conference will foster dialogue amongst scholars and attendees invested in literature, history, the history of medicine, art history, disability studies, and critical theory. Together we will study the intersections of three rich currents of scholarship centered on the body, on affect, and on care and bring these to bear on questions of emotional and corporeal difference, perceptions of \u201cnormativity,\u201d and theorizations of vulnerability, health, and agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n 2025-2026 Huntington Library Academic Lectures\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n \n
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\n Dustin Tahmahkera, Billington Lecture<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Thursday, November 6, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n Craig Santos Perez, Avery Distinguished Fellow Lecture<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n Meredith Martin, Wark Lecture<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Thursday, January 29, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin will also deliver pre-show talks before performances by Oakland Ballet on January 30 & 31.<\/p>\n

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\n Helen Thompson, Dibner Distinguished Fellow Lecture<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n Sonya Posmentier, Ridge Lecture<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n Sandy Rodriguez, Hannah and Russel Kully Distinguished Fellow Lecture<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n Joshua Piker, Ritchie Distinguished Fellow Lecture<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Wednesday, March 18, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n Aaron Pratt, Zeidberg Lecture in the History of the Book<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n Karen Harvey, Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow Lecture<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thursday, May 4, 2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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