Videos and Recorded Programs
Videos about The Huntington and previously recorded lectures, programs, and conferences.
Sowing Community: Living with Octavia E. Butler’s Parables
Founders’ Day 2025
Tue., April 22, 2025Out of the Woodwork: U.S. Forests and Black Cultures, 1800–1940
Wed., Feb. 26, 2025Susan Scott Parrish, professor at the University of Michigan and R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow in the Humanities at the Huntington Library, leads a lecture on the role that Black artisans and artists played in the transformation of eastern U.S. forests into built environments and painted landscapes.
The Mormons in Black and White: Racial Mixing among the Latter-day Saints
Wed., Feb. 19, 2025Join W. Paul Reeve, Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies in the History Department at the University of Utah, for a discussion on shifting complexities of race relations within the Mormon church, drawing on evidence from Century of Black Mormons, a public history project.
Breaking Curfew: Everyday Japanese American Resistance during World War II
Wed., Feb. 19, 2025Anna Pegler-Gordon, professor at James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University, uses previously overlooked FBI case files to explore the extensive everyday resistance of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The Whites-Only Immigration Regime
Wed., Jan. 22, 2025Goya’s Portraits and a New Prize for The Huntington
Wed., Dec. 4, 2024Join Frederick Ilchman, chair of the Art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as he explores Francisco Goya’s extraordinary achievements in portraiture. This lecture highlights The Huntington’s newly acquired “Portrait of José Antonio Caballero” (1807) and delves into Goya’s masterful portrayal of society.