Twelve Trees: A Conversation with Huntington Curator Daniel Lewis & University of Aberdeen Professor Alan Marcus
September 24, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00pm PST
Join ICW for this webinar conversation with Dan Lewis and Alan Markus as the two discuss the Dr. Lewis’ recent book, Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future.
Dan Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science & Technology at the Huntington Library. He is a writer and an environmental historian. His permanent exhibition Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World was named as the best exhibition in America by the American Association of Museums the year after it opened. His most recent book, Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future explores the relationship between human and nature and our interconnected future.
Alan Marcus is Professor in Creative and Cultural Practice at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. As a filmmaker and cultural historian, he often explores themes associated with the impact of mass tourism and urbanization on iconic post-traumatic sites. Works include films on the US/Mexican border controversy, the environmental impact of over-development in Waikiki, and a current project on the effects of climate change on a Canadian Inuit community on the Arctic Ocean.
Compton in My Soul: A conversation with Albert Camarillo
October 14, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00pm PST
Join ICW for an afternoon with Albert Camarillo, speaking about his new book, Compton in My Soul. Joining in on the conversation will be Bill Deverell, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, and George Sanchez.
Al Camarillo is Professor of American History and the Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor/Haas Centennial Professor of Public Service, Emeritus at Stanford University. A member of the Stanford University History Department for over forty years, Camarillo is widely regarded as one of the founding scholars of the field of Mexican American history and Chicano Studies. He was born and raised in Compton where he attended public schools before entering the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his BA in History in 1970 and his Ph.D. in U.S. History in 1975. He is the first Mexican American in the nation’s history to receive a Ph.D. in U.S. history with a specialization in Chicano History.
Kelly Lytle Hernández holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of the award-winning books Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022). She also leads the Million Dollar Hoods research initiative, which maps fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. For her historical and contemporary work, Professor Lytle Hernández was named a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. She is also an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Pulitzer Prizes Board.
George J. Sánchez is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, and History at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Diversity and Democracy and as chair of the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity. In addition, Professor Sanchez is director of USC’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows program and runs the university’s major in Contemporary Latino and Latin American Studies. He is the author of Boyle Heights: How A Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy (Univ. of California Press, 2021), Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993), and co-editor of three other books. He received his B.A. in History and Sociology from Harvard University in 1981 and his Ph.D. in History in 1989 from Stanford University. He was born in Boyle Heights to two immigrant parents from Mexico and was a first generation college student.
“Where You Stand: Chinatown 1880 to 1939” – Union Station Installation in Partnership with Metro Art
In collaboration with historian Greg Hise and friends at the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, The Huntington, and USC Cinema, the Chinatown History Project blends historical research with creative website and augmented reality experiences to recover the neighborhood of the original Chinatown of Los Angeles.
In the mid-1930s, the city’s first Chinatown, a vibrant, polyglot neighborhood of several thousand people, was razed to make way for Union Station, the last major metropolitan train station constructed in the United States. From a foundational database research project designed to repopulate this place with the lives of the people who lived and worked there, the project expands outward by inviting audiences and end users to see within and across layers of Southern California space and history. Where You Stand: Chinatown 1880 to 1939 invites participants into the center of the vibrant community through a multi-dimensional experience.Access the prototype of the augmented reality and details from the exhibit here.
Western Edition Season 4 Podcast
More than 50 million viewers begin each new year looking to Pasadena, tuning into the Rose Parade to see flower and seed-coated floats cruise slowly down Colorado Boulevard. But to nearly 1450,000 of those viewers, the “City of Roses” is home, a complex suburb of downtown Los Angeles with a deep history. Pasadena has played a greater role in American and Pacific histories than most of its residents even know.
This new season of Western Edition digs deep into the “Crown City” of the San Gabriel Valley with six little-known Pasadena stories, from Simons brickyard to Vroman’s bookstore, St. Barnabas church to the Shoya House at The Huntington. It also considers Pasadenans from the past, from John Brown’s children to John Birch’s followers.