Seminars are 11:45am-1:00pm in the Overseers Room or the Seaver Classrooms of the Huntington Library. Please RSVP if you plan to attend so you can get the pre-circulated readings and reserve a lunch.
September 28: The Art of the Profile:
Telling China’s Story, One Life at a Time
Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine and Chinese Characters co-editor)
Angilee Shah (journalist and Chinese Characters co-editor)
James Carter (St. Joseph’s University and Chinese Characters contributor)
October 19: Reducing the Scale of Historical Observation:
Micro-history, Alltagsgeschichte, Local History
Steve Hindle (W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, Huntington Library)
December 14: Stop Saving the Planet, Already!:
Rachel Carson, History, and the Future of Environmentalism
Jenny Price (independent scholar and L.A. Urban Ranger)
February 1: Understanding Inner Lives,
from Lincoln to John Lennon
Joshua Wolf Shenk (author and Huntington Long-Term Fellow)
March 8: “The Internal Enemy”:
Narrating Slavery in Post-Revolutionary Virginia
Alan Taylor (UC Davis and Huntington Long-Term Fellow)
April 19: Writing the Stagecoach Nation:
Thinking through Locality, Communication and the Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Ruth Livesey (University of London and Huntington Short-Term Fellow)
Please, come join in the conversations!
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