ICW NEWS
November 2009
ICW Los Angeles History Research Group meeting:
Émigré Designers in CaliforniaBobbye Tigerman, LACMASaturday, December 510:00 am
Seaver Classroom 3, Huntington Library
ICW Medicine/Public Health Working Group meeting:
Nurse Practitioners in the WestLisa Stern,
Planned Parenthood Los AngelesTuesday, November 17Noon to 1:30 pm
304 Lewis Hall, USC
ICW
In Conversation series presents:
Telling Stories: Oral History as Research and ArchivesLisa Rubens,
The Bancroft Library, UC BerkeleyAna Elizabeth Rosas,
UC IrvineNatalie Fousekis,
CSU FullertonFriday, December 4Noon to 1:00 pm
The Overseers' Room, Huntington Library
ALOUD podcast available:
Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created Californiaa conversation between Frances Dinkelspiel and ICW Director Bill Deverell
July 19
Former ICW postdoctoral fellow Volker Janssen explores California's prison crisis:
The disaster before the disaster at ChinoLA Times editorial,
August 15
2007-2009 ICW Postdoctoral Fellow Volker Janssen's work to appear in
Journal of American History:When the "Jungle" Met the Forest
ICW's 2008-2010 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer:
Casey Shoop
ICW and Zocalo:
Los Angeles vs. Berlin: How Should New Cities Deal with Their Pasts?recap of July 14 event at Aedes Gallery in Berlin
USC doctoral student Sarah Keyes publishes award-winning re-examination of the overland trail in the Journal of American History
Historic Site Survey of Los Angeles panel discussion at Los Angeles Public Library (video)Ken Bernstein, Adriene Biondo, William Deverell, Michael Diaz, Larry Mantle, Mott Smith, and Kathryn Welch Howe
Los Angeles vs. Las Vegas: Which is the Most Unreal City in America?Moderated by William L. Fox, Director of the Center for Art+Environment
at the Nevada Museum of ArtPOST-EVENT BLOG
Former ICW scholar Jared Farmer wins Parkman Prize for his book:
On Zion's Mount
ICW Director Bill Deverell's book is a recipient of the California Council for the Humanities' California Documentary Project Grant Program:
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
Three ICW-sponsored Blackwell-Wiley publications on California and the West available for special purchaseA Companion to California History -- recently published
ICW Event Archive
The Historical Society of Southern California, Port of Los Angeles, and ICW present a special screening and discussion of:
The Port of Los Angeles
discussion by Geraldine Knatz, Steven Erie, and Tom Sitton
November 8, 2009
L.A. as SUBJECT presents:
The 4th Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar
October 17, 2009
conference poster
ICW and Zocalo present:
How Will Climate Change Transform L.A.?Moderated by Paul Wennberg, Director, Linde Center for Global Environmental Science
October 29, 2009
ICW Los Angeles History Research Group presents:
"Where you going John?": Mexicans and Chinese in the Making of Public Space in Los Angeles, 1870s-1910s"
Isabela Seong-Leong Quintana, University of Michigan
October 24, 2009
ICW Medicine/Public Health Working Group presents:
Public-Private Collaborations in Nineteenth-Century Health Care: The Daughters of Charity and the Los Angeles County Hospital, 1858-1878
Kristine Gunnell, Claremont Graduate University
October 20, 2009
ICW In Conversation series presents:
Peter Richardson
author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America
October 6, 2009
ICW In Conversation series presents:
Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly
co-authors of Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles
June 16, 2009
The California Supreme Court Historical Society and the L.A. Times present:
Civil & Uncivil Rights in California: The Early Legal History
June 1, 2009
ICW Los Angeles History Research Group presents its Clark Davis Memorial Speaker:
Sarah Schrank, USC
author of Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles
May 16, 2009
ICW In Conversation series presents:
Wade Graham, author American Eden: From the Thirteen Colonies to the Present, What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are
May 18, 2009
ICW presents:
New Work on the Political Culture of the American West
Donald DeBats, Flinders University, Australia
Douglas Smith, Occidental College
May 13, 2009
ICW In Conversation series presents:
Robert Chao Romero, Asst. Professor, UCLA Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies
May 4, 2009
California State Parks Foundation Hidden Stories Series presents:
100 Years Since Allensworth: Is California Living up to the Legacy?
May 4, 2009
ICW and Zocalo present:
Los Angeles vs. Las Vegas: Which is the Most Unreal City in America?
Moderated by William L. Fox, Director of the Center for Art+Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art
April 29, 2009
ICW presents an all-day public symposium:
Where Minds and Matters Meet: Technology in California and the West
April 25, 2009
ICW In Conversation series presents:
Louise Nelson Dyble, Assoc. Director of Research, USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy
April 23, 2009
California Studies Association presents:
Debugging the Silicon Dream: Real Life in a Virtual World
April 24, 2009
ICW, EMSI, and Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture:
Permanence and the Built Environment of the Pacific Basin 1700-1820
April 17 and 18, 2009
program link
The W.P. Whitsett California Lecture Series presents:
Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism
George Sanchez, USC
April 2, 2009
ICW Public Health and Medicine Working Group Meeting:
Collapse and Expand: Architecture and Tuberculosis Therapy in Montreal, 1909, 1933, 1954
Annmarie Adams, McGill University
April 2, 2009
link to paper
The Haynes Foundation Lecture:
Little Girl Lost: The Kathy Fiscus Tragedy
Bill Deverell
March 30, 2009
CSU Northridge Department of History presents:
The 4th Annual Whitsett Graduate Seminar in California History
March 20, 2009
Sierra Hall 451, CSUN
youTHink of the Zimmer Children's Museum presents:
Race and Racism in Los Angeles' History
Bill Deverell
March 19, 2009
Zimmer Children's Museum, Los Angeles
ICW In Conversation series presents:
Phoebe Kropp - author of California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place
March 9, 2009
The USC History Graduate Students Association announces its spring lecture:
Pushing Boundaries: Transnational Scholarship and Its Future
Gunther Peck, Duke University
March 6, 2009
ICW Brownbag Series on Western U.S. and Borderlands History:
The Politics of Tourism and Mobility in Twentieth-Century California
February 5, 2009
USC History Seminar Series presents:
Suns, Moons, Clocks, and Bells: Native Americans and Time
Cheryl Wells, University of Wyoming
December 1, 2008
ICW In Conversation series presents:
David Ulin - Book Editor, The Los Angeles Times
December 2, 2008
ICW In Conversation series presents:
Frances Dinkelspiel - author, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
November 20, 2008
ICW and The Los Angeles Region Planning History Group present:
Colloquium II: Beyond the Bulldozer: SURVEYLA - Finding L.A.'s History to Plan our Future City
part of the Saturday Mornings at the Huntington series
November 22, 2008
ICW, The Pacific Asia Museum, and The Autry National Center of the American West present:
Grace Nicholson Conference
November 15, 2008
ICW and the Water Education Foundation present:
The Fate and Future of the Colorado River
October 31 and November 1, 2008
conference program
ALOUD LA presents:
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
James McPherson
October 28, 2008
ICW History of Los Angeles working group meeting:
Wiring the Region: The Telephone and the Development of Los Angeles, 1880-1918
Emily Bills, Woodbury University
October 25, 2008
3rd-Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar:
Archives Live
October 25, 2008
ICW In Conversation series presents:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
October 7, 2008
ICW Brownbag Series on Western U.S. and Borderlands History:
Bodies, Land, and Difference: Race-Making in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Sarah Keyes, Julia Ornelas-Higdon
September 12, 2008
USC Research Salon moderated by Bill Deverell:
Making a Big Book out of a Big (or not so big) Idea: Two Paths to Publication from Inspiration and Dissertation
Rick Wartzman, CGU and Doug Smith, Occidental College
September 18, 2008
ICW and the California African American Museum present:
A Conversation with Dr. Quintard Taylor
September 11, 2008
ICW and Zocalo present:
L.A. vs. Seattle: Whose Pacific Rim is it?
September 3, 2008
ALOUD LA presents:
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Rick Wartzman, Bill Deverell
September 4, 2008
ICW, Zocalo, and the USC American Academy in China present:
L.A. vs. Shanghai: Who Is the Art Capital of the Pacific Rim?
July 27, 2008
ICW and the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University present:
Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region in the American South and Southwest
July 19, 2008
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU and ICW present:
Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place and Region in the American South and Southwest
July 18 and 19, 2008
The Los Angeles Region Planning History Group and ICW present Saturdays Mornings at the Huntington:
Colloquia I: The Architecture of Place and the Architecture of Object: The Uses of Invention and Convention
moderated by John Chase, author of "Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving"
June 28, 2008
Autry National Center presents:
Border Matters
Wells Fargo Theater, Autry's Griffith Park Campus
"Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West"
Hampton Sides
June 14, 2008
ICW and Zocalo present:
Gay L.A. vs. Gay San Francisco: The Historical Orbits of Gay California
June 18, 2008
podcast
ICW conference:
Moguls, Millionaires & Movie Stars: Hollywood Between the Wars, 1920-1940
May 30 and 31, 2008
registration form
conference program
ICW workshop:
Under the West
Saturday, May 17, 2008
public presentation participants
EMSI and ICW co-sponsor a Past Tense Seminar:
A Hole in the Dream: The Ghost Dance and the Making of Modern America
Louis Warren, UC Davis
May 15, 2008
California American Studies Association 2008 conference:
Assembling California Cultures
April 25 to April 27, 2008
ICW essay contest for USC undergraduates and panel discussion:
What Does California Mean?
April 15, 2008
USC senior Anna-Marie McLemore submits winning entry in ICW's What Does California Mean? essay contest:
Orange Country
Autry National Center presents:
Border Matters
Wells Fargo Theater, Autry's Griffith Park Campus
"Line in the Sand: National Space and State Power on the U.S.-Mexico Border"
Rachel St. John, Harvard University
April 10, 2008
"Violence, Justice, and the Mexican-American War"
Daniel Walker Howe, UCLA and Oxford University
April 12, 2008
A Conference at The Huntington:
Pacific Passages: Connecting East, West, and Center in the Pacific Basin
April 4 to April 5, 2008
Postdoctoral Appointment in the Literature of the American West for 2008-2010
submission deadline: April 1, 2008
ICW Brown Bag Series on Western U.S. and Borderlands History:
Technology and Cultural Imperialism
March 25, 2008
Geography of Hope: A Conference Celebrating Wallace Stegner
March 7 to March 9, 2008
Autry National Center's biennial John and Laree Caughey Foundation Lecture:
Citizens, Non-Citizen, and the Poverty of the Current Immigration Debate
David Gutierrez, UCSD
March 8, 2008
ICW In Conversation series presents:
Bill Handley - English professor, USC
Is There A Western American Literary Canon Any Longer?
February 21, 2008
Pasadena Star-News:
Lassoing the Western myth
USC: Inside the Academics Studio
LA on the Edge
A discussion with William Deverell, James Dolan, and Marianne Wiggins
February 6, 2008
ICW Fiction and History working group meeting:
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles
Judith Freeman, author
January 26, 2008
EMSI/ICW Native Peoples and the Americas working group meeting:
Reclaiming Dine History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita
Jennifer Nez Denetdale, University of New Mexico
January 19, 2008
ICW In Conversation Series presents:
Robert Gottlieb - author, Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City and The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City
January 8, 2008
Pasadena Star-News coverage
ICW Coverage and Announcements Archive
Podcast available:
Wallace Stegner & the Shaping of Environmental Consciousness in the West
Tom Curwen, William Deverell, Jenny Price, Page Stegner
Moderated by David L. Ulin, book editor, L.A. Times
Program date: January 28, 2009
USC Master of Liberal Studies course offered:
Imagining the American WestBill Handley, USCTuesdays, May 26 to August 11, 2009
The USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration and the USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity announce:
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2009-2011
USC History Department non-tenure track position offered in:
20th Century American History
ICW helps launch DOE
Teaching American History grant:
PUSD Teachers Become U.S. History Scholarspress release
ICW announces renewal of the public lecture series:
Los Angeles and the Worlddetails forthcoming
Pasadena Star-News:
Larry Wilson: We're all diminished by loss of book reviewsDecember 4, 2008
ICW Banning Family History Project Nears Completion
ICW welcomes an affiliated scholar:
Professor Robert Chao Romero
ICW partners with the Pasadena and El Rancho Unified School Districts to implement a "Teaching American History" grant from U.S. Department of Education:
History buffs get a boost for travelby Caroline AnPasadena Star-News, June 30, 2008
ICW/USC is pleased to announce the new postdoc for 2008-2009:
Peter Westwick
Director of the ICW Aerospace History Initiative
The Institute for the Study of the American West:
Butcher Scholar Award
call for applications
deadline: March 27, 2009
ICW, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders (Yale), Bill Lane Center for the American West (Stanford), Research Division of the Huntington Library, Institute for the Study of the American West (Autry National Center), and the Hemispheric Institute of the Americas (UC Davis) present:
The Fourth Annual Western History Dissertation Workshop
Friday, May 15, 2009
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
call for applications
deadline: March 15, 2009
4th Annual Whitsett Graduate Seminar in California History
submission deadline: January 20, 2009
2009 Pacific Coast Branch - American Historical Association:
Creating and Crossing Borders: Conquest, States, Peoples, Families
August 6 to 8, 2009
Albuquerque, New Mexico
call for papers
deadline: January 16, 2009
ICW Aerospace History Project announces that the Huntington Library has acquired aerospace collections from Willis Hawkins and Ben Rich
From the ALOUD Series at the Los Angeles Public Library:
Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills
podcast from November 2006 program
Haynes Foundation News cites ICW/Zocalo program:
Los Angeles and the World: How L.A. Stacks Up Against Other Global Cities
Spring 2008 newsletter
Mellon grant awarded for USC doctoral students to assist The Huntington Library in the processing of California and Western American manuscripts
Project Archivist: job posting by The Huntington Library
USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute:
Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship in the history of the early modern Atlantic world for 2008-2010
submission deadline: August 15, 2008
ICW and USC English Department Partner on New Postdoctoral Position in Western American Literature
L.A. Then and Now; Historians dig deep to find West's past; Wells, mines and tunnels were the source of wealth as well as folkloric stories of danger and death.
by Larry Gordon
Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2008
How Hollywood moguls and their myth-making factory influenced an era
by Susan King
Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2008
ICW Conference:
Rocket Science and Region: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Aerospace Industry in Southern California
L to R: Dan Lewis, Sherman Mullin, Allan Boardman, Bill Deverell, Fred Adler, William Graham
L to R: Lt. Gen. "Jack" Hudson, Dan Lewis, Maj. Gen. (retired) Phil Conley, Bill Deverell, Maj. Gen. Curt Bedke
LA Times:
A time when sky wasn't the limit: The Cold War aerospace industry and its lasting effects on the Southland are recalled at a two-day conference at the Huntington Library
Pasadena Star-News:
Looking beyond the stars
conference program
ICW Postdoc Peter Westwick Awarded the 2008 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics (AIAA):
Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 (Yale University Press, 2007)
also awarded the 2006 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, from the American Astronautical Society
ICW announces:
Fellowship Competition: Summer 2008
submission deadline: April 15
ICW, Stanford University, and others announce:
Thesis Workshop on the History of the North American West
Thursday, June 19
submission deadline: April 10
California Studies Association presents:
Changing Climates: Class, Culture & Politics in an Era of Global Warming
April 11 to April 13, 2008
Berkeley City College
membership form
Autry National Center fellowship opportunities:
2008 Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship
2008 Visiting Scholar Fellowship
ICW Given Support to Study the History of Medicine in the American West
Thanks to a recent gift, ICW expects soon to launch a new initiative in studying the history of medicine in the American West. This may include lectures, workshops, conferences, and the possibility of fellowship support for research within the Huntington's archival collections. More information will be made available early in the new year.
ICW and EMSI Receive NEH Funding
Professor Volker Janssen named new ICW postdoc for 2007-2009
