Upcoming Lectures

 

Scheduled lectures for 2012-2013. Details for each lecture will be available on our online calendar approximately two months prior to the lecture date. Unless otherwise noted, all lectures begin at 7:30 p.m.

 

2012
Sept. 12		The Allan Nevins Lecture in American History Witch-Hunting and the Sadness of Everyday Life: An Alternative Perspective on Early New England Professor David Hall (Harvard Divinity School)
Sept. 20		The Paul G. Haaga Jr. Lecture in the History of American Entrepreneurship Andrew W. Mellon: The Life of Business and the Business of Life Professor Sir David Cannadine (History, Princeton University)
Oct. 3		The Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow’s Lecture in Early American History The Slave War of 1812 Professor Alan Taylor (History, University of California at Davis)
Nov. 26		The Martin Ridge Lecture in Literature The Signatures of the Robben Island Shakespeare Dr. David Schalkwyk (The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC)
Dec. 5		The Crotty Lecture in the History of European Civilization Religious Nonconformity and the Quality of Mercy: The Merchant of Venice in English Reformation Context  Professor Ethan Shagan (History, University of California at Berkeley)
Dec. 10		The Dibner Lecture in the History of Science and Technology Sex, Religion, and the Private Life of Isaac Newton Professor Rob Iliffe (History, University of Sussex)
2013
Jan. 23		The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Lecture in the History of Los Angeles The Simple Art of Murder Judith Freeman (English, University of Southern California)
Jan. 30		The Ray Allan Billington Lecture in the History of the American West Empires, Nations, and Families: Children of the Fur Trade Professor Anne Hyde (History, Colorado College)
Feb. 6		The Fletcher-Jones Distinguished Fellow’s Lecture in British History Providence vs. Prudence: Religion and Law in 17th-Century England Professor Christopher Brooks (History, University of Durham)
March 6		The Keck Foundation Director of Research Lecture Dr. Steve Hindle (The Huntington)
April 18		The LA Times Distinguished Fellow’s Lecture in American Studies Professor Bill Brown (English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)
April 29		The Rogers’ Distinguished Fellow’s Lecture in Nineteenth-Century American History Professor Bruce Levine (History, University of Chicago at Illinois)
May 13		The Avery Distinguished Fellow’s Lecture in the Humanities Professor David Hancock (History, University of Michigan)