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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, 2025
The Huntington, which holds Octavia E. Butler’s archive, hosted a special conversation on March 26, 2025, about Butler’s novels “Parable of the Sower” and “Parable of the Talents,” which focus on themes of resilience, community, and social change. Moderator Monique Thomas and panelists Nikki High, Tamisha A. Tyler, and John Williams explored Butler’s call to community building, her influence on writers and activists, and how her fiction does—and doesn’t—speak to the present moment.
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Out of the Woodwork: U.S. Forests and Black Cultures, 1800–1940

Wed., Feb. 26, 2025

Susan 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.

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The Mormons in Black and White: Racial Mixing among the Latter-day Saints

Wed., Feb. 19, 2025

Join 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.

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Breaking Curfew: Everyday Japanese American Resistance during World War II

Wed., Feb. 19, 2025

Anna 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.

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The Whites-Only Immigration Regime

Wed., Jan. 22, 2025
Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA, gives a lecture that tracks the rise of the whites-only immigration regime and how federal authorities have yet to abolish it.
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Goya’s Portraits and a New Prize for The Huntington

Wed., Dec. 4, 2024

Join 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.

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The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, Liberated Futures along Phantom Shores

Wed., Oct. 16, 2024
Alison Hirsch, associate professor at USC and the Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow, discusses the history and future of Tulare Lake, which reemerged after multiple atmospheric rivers hit California in March 2023.
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Why It Matters: Daring Mighty Things with Charles Elachi

Wed., Oct. 9, 2024
Charles Elachi, the former director of NASA and Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talked with Huntington President Karen Lawrence about the importance of daring to take risks, environmental stewardship, and the mutually enriching interactions among the arts, humanities, and sciences.