Videos and Recorded Programs
Videos about The Huntington and previously recorded lectures, programs, and conferences.
In Conversation with Ourselves: Wright of Derby’s "Air Pump" as a Modern Moral Subject
Wed., March 9, 2022
Founders’ Day Lecture - Charles Yu in Conversation with Simon K.C. Li
Wed., March 2, 2022For The Huntington’s 2022 Founders’ Day celebration, acclaimed writer Charles Yu joins Huntington Trustee Simon K.C. Li to discuss Yu’s experiences writing in multiple genres, the role of fiction in constructing identity, current U.S. dialogues about race and identity, and more.
Founders’ Day is observed annually at The Huntington in honor of Henry and Arabella Huntington’s roles in envisioning and establishing the institution.
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Sitting With Sarony
Wed., Feb. 23, 2022
Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China
Thu., Feb. 17, 2022In 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....
Blasting into Space: The Poetics of Faith and Astronomy in 17th-Century England
Wed., Feb. 16, 2022In 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...
Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of “Ulysses”- Performance of song cycle set to James Joyce's Pomes Penyeach, composed by Evan Vidar
Thu., Feb. 3, 2022This 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...
Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of "Ulysses"
Thu., Feb. 3, 2022Celebrate 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...
Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of “Ulysses”- "Language of Flowers" Guided Walk
Thu., Feb. 3, 2022This 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...