Dam Nation: The Fate & Future of Dams in the American West
Friday, May 2, 2025
9:30am – 3:00pm (Daytime Speaker & Panel Sessions) ║ 7:00 – 8:00pm (Evening Keynote)
Location: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
In celebration of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West’s 20th anniversary, join us for an exploration of the past, present, and future of dams in the American West. Expert speakers and panels examine the impact of dams across the region and address debates swirling around dam removal. From the Klamath to Glen Canyon, don’t miss this opportunity to dive deep into the complex world of dam management, removal, and environmental conservation. See you there!
More information about the conference is available here. Please note: This event includes 2 parts, which can be registered for together or separately. Spaces limited and pre-registration is required. Register Today!
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L.A. Coroner: In Conversation with Anne Choi
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
12:00 – 1:00pm PST
Join ICW for a lively discussion with Dr. Anne Choi as she talks about her research into the life and work of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the Chief Medical Examiner–Coroner of Los Angeles County from 1967 to 1982. Her book, L.A. Coroner, featuries never-before-published details about Noguchi’s most controversial cases, set against the backdrop of the social and racial politics of the 1960s and 1970s, postwar Japanese American experience, and Hollywood celebrity culture. Anne Choi will be in conversation with ICW Co-Director Bill Deverell.
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Featuring:
Anne Soon Choi, Ph.D., author of L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood (Third State Books), is a historian and professor of Asian American Studies and university administrator at California State University, Northridge. Her essay “The Japanese American Citizens League, Los Angeles Politics, and the Thomas Noguchi Case,” on which this book is based, won the 2021 Francis Wheat Prize from the Historical Society of Southern California. Choi has previously served on the faculty of Swarthmore College and the University of Kansas and is an Andrew Mellon Fellow and an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Ethnic Studies Fellow. She lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.
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.