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Monday, March 12th, 2018
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring the solar system: Who has done it, how, and why?
Peter Westwick,
Lecturer in History, Caltech; Research Professor of History, USC; Director, Aerospace History Project, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Media Before Gutenberg
Ingrid Nelson,
Associate Professor of English,
Amherst College,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Hillary Mushkin & Cavan Concannon
Tracing Lines Across the Sea: Mapping the Mediterranean
Hillary Mushkin,
Research Professor of Art and Design in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
Cavan Concannon,
Assistant Professor of Religion,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America
Christine Filippone,
Associate Professor,
Millersville University ,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Paul Hyams, Cornell University
House, Hand, and the Wolf's Head: Anglo-Saxon England and the Western Legal Tradition
Paul Hyams,
Professor Emeritus of History,
Cornell University,
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CANCELLED | William Bennet Munro History Seminar Series
This talk has been cancelled.
Wim Decock,
Research Professor of Legal History, Universities of Leuven and Liège; Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History; Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Keith Pluymers, Caltech
Cow Trials and Murdered Rivers: Violent Landscapes and Resistance in the Early Modern World
Keith Pluymers,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in the Humanities,
Caltech,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Curious Creatures: Aesthetics, Sentience, and the case of the Medieval Ape
Patricia Clare Ingham,
Associate Professor, Department of English, Adjunct Professor,
Department of Religious Studies,
Indiana University,
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Reputation Management in late Eighteenth-century England: Angelica Kauffman, the Women and the Men
Amanda Vickery,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Caltech,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Brown Bag Seminar: Leah Klement, Caltech
England In and Out of Europe in Lydgate's "Troy Book" and "The Serpent of Division"
Leah Klement,
Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Postdoctoral Instructor,
Caltech,
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
‘The Invention of Nature,' Alexander von Humboldt, and the Merging of the Arts and the Sciences
Andrea Wulf,
Historian and Author,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Rory Cox, Caltech
Towards a Global History of the Ethics of War
Rory Cox,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech; Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews,
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CANCELLED | Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Brown Bag Seminar: Leah Klement, Caltech
This talk has been cancelled.
Leah Klement,
Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Postdoctoral Instructor,
Caltech,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Patricia Palmer, University College London
Off Campus
The Arts of War and the ‘Embedded' Poet: Incitement, Exultation and Elegy in Literary Responses to the Conquest of Ireland
Patricia Palmer,
Professor,
Department of English,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
The Extraordinary Journeys of Louisa Catherine Adams
Louisa Thomas,
Author,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Susanna Throop, Ursinus College
"Not Cruelty but Piety?" The Difficulties of Assessing "Crusading Violence" and Why It Matters
Susanna Throop,
Associate Professor of History,
Ursinus College,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
What are the ‘Global Middle Ages,' and Why Do They Matter?
Geraldine Heng,
Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies,
University of Texas, Austin,
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Building Science: Multiple Agendas
Thom Mayne,
Architect and Design Director,
Morphosis,
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William Bennett Munro History Seminar
Did Edward Gibbon Meet Yelü Chucai?: Detecting Chinese Influence on European Historiography about the Mongol Empire
Matthew Mosca,
Assistant Professor of History,
University of Washington,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Margo Todd, University of Pennsylvania
Preventing Violence in the Early Modern Town: Arbitration, Bonds, and Cautions
Margo Todd,
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow in British History, The Huntington Library,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar Series
Sarah Bernhardt's Exteriority Effects: Affect, Performance, Agency
Sharon Marcus,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Dean of Humanities,
Columbia University,
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William Bennett Munro History Seminar
The Expenses of Sovereignty: Federal Finance, Dependence, and Allegiance in the Early U.S. Territories
Greg Ablavsky,
Assistant Professor of Law,
Stanford Law School,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
The Iberian Voyages of Discovery and the Origin of Modern Science: A Geological Perspective
Walter Alvarez,
Professor of the Graduate School,
Earth and Planetary Science Department,
University of California, Berkeley,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University
The Rationality of Terrorism and Other Forms of Political Violence: Lessons from the Jewish Campaign in Palestine, 1944-1947
Bruce Hoffman,
Professor, Director of the Center for Security Studies and the Security Studies Program,
Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University
From Violence to Order: Changing Ideas of Tyranny during the Latin Middle Ages
Cary J. Nederman,
Co-Director, Ethics and Political Science; Professor,
Texas A&M University,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar Series
‘The advancement and the perversion of mind at this particular time': The Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society, James Montgomery, and the Fate of Improvement
Jonathan Mee,
Professor of English,
University of York,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar
Violence in History and in Contemporary Conflicts: Why History Matters for Today's Politics
Bettina Koch,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Fellow,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
The Trouble with Numbers: The Drama of Mathematics in the Age of Shakespeare
Carla Mazzio,
Associate Professor of English,
University of Buffalo,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology
Ronald G. Blom,
Principal Scientist (Retired),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
An Evening of Poetry and Music: Ciaran and Deirdre Carson
Ciaran and Deirdre Carson,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Medieval Marvels and Fictions
Michelle Karnes,
Associate Professor of English,
Stanford University,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Genre and the <p>Longue Durée</p>
Lauren Goodlad,
Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Poetry Reading
Amy Gerstler,
Poet, critic, and journalist,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Fire and Ice: Exploring Volcanoes on Earth and the Solar System
Rosaly M. C. Lopes,
Senior Research Scientist, Manager for Planetary Science, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
American Poetry in Public
Virginia Jackson,
UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Critical Theory School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine,
6:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
"At the Intersection of Art and Science" - A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Gross
Joyce Carol Oates,
Author,
Charles Gross,
Neuroscientist,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Worrying about Weeds: Exotic Plants and Biological Invasions in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Paolo Squatriti,
Associate Professor of Italian,
University of Michigan,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Man and Machine: Reports from the Front Lines of Exploration
Jeff J. Marlow,
PhD Candidate, Geobiology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
South Sea Dreams: Pacific Exploration in Spanish Histories of the Americas, 1500-1550
Ricardo Padrón,
Associate Professor of Spanish,
Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese,
University of Virginia,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
On Not Being Someone Else: A Letter to My Sister
Andrew H. Miller,
Professor of English,
Indiana University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial / History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Credit, Thanks, and Blame in Print: the Strategies of Conrad Gesner (1516-65)
Ann Blair,
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History,
Harvard University,
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Is Time Hollow, or Just the Earth? The Strange Case of James Ross Island
Gillen Wood,
Professor of English and Director of the Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
How Did the Humanists Define Antiquity? Historical Periodization and the Origins of Classical Scholarship
Frederic Clark,
Postdoctoral Instructor,
Stanford University,
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Public Experiments
Steve Kurtz,
Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Studies,
University of Buffalo,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Becoming Earthlings: Citizen-Observers in Nineteenth-Century Geoscience
Deborah Coen,
Associate Professor of History,
Barnard College, Columbia University,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Mars with Curiosity: Mapping, Trekking, Discovery
John P. Grotzinger,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Plague, Pollution and the Poor in late Renaissance Florence
John Henderson,
Department of History,
Birkbeck College,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Watching a Renaissance Cartographer at Work: The Construction of Waldseemüller's Carta marina (1516)
Chet Van Duzer,
Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
John Trevisa and Late Medieval Literary Encyclopedism
Emily Steiner,
Department of English,
University of Pennsylvania,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Throwaway Society? A New Look at the History of Waste and Wasting in Modern and Contemporary History
Frank Trentmann,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech,
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology,
Birkbeck College, University of London,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Doing Good and Doing Evil: The Issue of Robustness
Philip Pettit,
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values,
Princeton University,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
JunÃpero Serra and the Spanish Craze
Richard L. Kagan,
Professor Emeritus,
Department of History,
Johns Hopkins University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
What Entanglement Might be Telling US: Quantum Mechanics, Individuation, and Space-Time
Jenann Ismael,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Arizona,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Aspects of Mathematical Explanation
Marc Lange,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Thomas Jefferson and the Meaning of Religious Freedom
John A. Ragosta,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Hamilton College,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Slavery's Scientific Management: Plantation Accounts in Antebellum America
Caitlin C. Rosenthal,
Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History,
Harvard Business School,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Model Gettier Cases and Metacognition
Jennifer Nagel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Toronto,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Final Passages: Slave Trafficking from the Caribbean to North America
Gregory E. O'Malley,
Assistant Professor of History,
UC Santa Cruz,
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Humanities Event
Life in the Gutter: White Space as Narrative Space
Reif Larsen,
Novelist & Essayist,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Catholic Cosmopolis: Rethinking Orientalism in Early Modern Rome
Daniel Stolzenberg,
Department of History,
UC Davis,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
In a Future Tense: Immigration Law, Counterfactual Histories, and Chinese Invasion
Edlie Wong,
Associate Professor of English ,
University of Maryland,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Benjamin Franklin's Book Shop
James N. Green,
Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia,
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James Michelin Seminar
A Conversation with Walter Isaacson: With Jed Buchwald
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Afterlife of Isaac Newton: Accidents of the Archive and the History of Science
Sarah Dry,
Independent Scholar,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Isolation and Exchange in Eighteenth-Century France
Emma Rothschild,
Harvard University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Hollywood's First Wave of "Holocaust" Films: From Frank Sinatra to Anne Frank
Lawrence Baron,
Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History,
Department of History,
San Diego State University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Changing Visions of the Last Supper in Early Modern Europe
Anthony Grafton,
Professor of History,
Princeton University,
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Fiction Reading
Fiction Reading
Mat Johnson,
Novelist; Creative Writing Program Professor,
The University of Houston,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
'Throw That Junk!': The Art of the Movie in Citizen Kane
Jeffrey Knapp,
Chancellor's Professor of English,
UC Berkeley,
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