Lectures

The Center hosts individual talks, as well as talks in the lecture series listed below.

Past Events

Upcoming Events

  • 25 Feb

    ‘Wild and Ungovernable Passions’: Emotional Scripts and the Fate of U.S. Expansion in the Vigilante Rocky Mountain West, 1864–1866

    Tuesday, February 25, 2025
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    Lecture by Abby Gibson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Southern California. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship During the first two months of 1864, Montana Territory was in the throes of a violent spate of "vigilante justice" that resulted in the hangings of twenty-two men, including the Sheriff of Bannack City, Idaho Territory, and what...

  • 6 Mar

    Works-in-Progress Session: The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City

    Thursday, March 6, 2025
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    Presented by Sofia Yazpik, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/27QJuD5aR7CWYepuuHGUBA The Codex Osuna, or the Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México (Painting of the Municipal Governor, Judges, and Councilors of Mexico), is a pictorial and Nahuatl-language text produced by Nahuas for...

  • 10 Mar

    Katherine Philips, Meta-Metaphysical Poet

    Monday, March 10, 2025
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT

    Lecture by Arya Sureshbabu, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship Katherine Philips (1632–64) occupies an unusual place in the canon of seventeenth-century poetry. Now alternatively billed as an apostle of female friendship or a proto-sapphic icon, she was also known in her own time as an exemplary practitioner...