Upcoming Conferences
The Research Department of The Huntington typically hosts six academic conferences every year. Dates, descriptions, and conveners for conferences scheduled to date are below. Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library. Visit
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Guidelines for proposing conferences
2012 |
May 18-19
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| Genealogies of Genius
Conveners: Joyce Chaplin (Harvard) and Darrin McMahon (Florida State University)
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Sept. 21-22
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| Britain’s American Revolution
Conveners: Jane Kamensky (Brandeis) and Edward Gray (Florida State University)
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Nov. 9-10
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| Systems of Life: Politics, Economies, and the Biological Sciences, 1750-1850
Conveners: Richard Barney (University at Albany) and Warren Montag (Occidental College)
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| Dec. 7-8 |
| The Republic of Letters in America, 1500-1800
Conveners: Caroline Winterer (Stanford University) and Mark Peterson (UC Berkeley)
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2013 |
Jan. 25-26
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| Oceanic Enterprises: Location, Longitude and Maritime Cultures 1770-1830
Conveners: Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt (National Maritime Museum) |
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April 12-13
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| Capitalizing on Finance: New Directions in the History of Capitalism
Convener: Stephen Mihm (University of Georgia)
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May 17-18
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| The Practice of Rulership, c.850-c.1250
Conveners: Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth University) and Piotr Górecki (UC Riverside)
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June 7
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| William Blake's Manuscripts
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| Sept. 20-21 |
| Father Serra
Convener: Steve Hackel (UC Riverside)
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Nov. 1-2
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| “‘Criminal’ Justice during the Long Eighteenth Century: Theatre, Representation, and Emotion in the Courtroom and the Public Sphere”
Convener: David Lemmings (University of Adelaide)
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Dec. 13-14
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| “Cultures of Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth Century”
Conveners: Joan-Paul Rubiés (London School of Economics) and Neil Safier (University of British Columbia)
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2014 |
Jan. 10-11
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| “Aesthetic Enlightenments”
Conveners: Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St. Andrews) and Emily Senior (Birkbeck, University of London)
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April 4-5
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| “Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550-1750: Song, Art, Dance, Culture”
Convener: Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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May 16-17
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| “Revisiting Revisionism: Understanding the Political History of Seventeenth-Century England”
Convener: Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University)
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