Videos and Recorded Programs

In his book, Ordering the Myriad Things, Nicholas K. Menzies, research fellow in The Huntington’s Center for East Asian Garden Studies, examines how traditional knowledge of plants in China gave way to scientific botany between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. This talk focuses especially on images of plants, contrasting their representation in late-imperial Chinese painting and materia medica to the conventions of scientific botanical drawing....

In this lecture, Wendy Wall, Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University, describes how 17th-century woman Hester Pulter, while sick and confined to her bedroom after giving birth to her 15th child, sought solace in an unusual way: she wrote poems about taking off into space to explore planets in the heliocentric universe. While intellectuals of the day feared that new conceptions of astronomy undermined...

This video is part of the proceedings of the “Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of Ulysses” conference, which took place at The Huntington to mark the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses in February 2022.

This conference is co-hosted by the President’s office and by the Research Division of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in collaboration with the...

This video is part of the proceedings of the “Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of Ulysses” conference, which took place at The Huntington to mark the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses in February 2022.

This conference is co-hosted by the President’s office and by the Research Division of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in collaboration with the...

Celebrate the publication centennial of James Joyce’s Ulysses in a two-day conference at The Huntington. 

Joyce’s Ulysses uses Dublin as map as well as palimpsest upon which to inscribe his vision of worlds past and present. This conference will explore approaches to literary study that make clearer the verbal and nonverbal coordinates of Joyce’s literary terrain and their global expressions. Topics will range from forms of...

The Ridge Lecture in Literature featuring Ato Quayson
Ato Quayson, the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English at Stanford, discusses James Joyce’s use of physical space in Ulysses. Joyce’s Ulysses situates Leopold Bloom’s perambulations as the conduit for thinking about semi-imperial Dublin in the early 20th century. They also raise implications about the complex configurations of space and temporality in...

A 322-year-old house from Marugame, Japan is being added to the Japanese Garden. This well-preserved structure is an exquisite example of a working magistrate’s residence that once served as the center of village life and home to generations of the same family.