Past Events
2009-2010 Los Angeles History Research Group
October 24, 2009 – Isabela Seong-Leong Quintana, University of Michigan, “‘Where you going John?’: Mexicans and Chinese in the Making of Public Space in Los Angeles, 1870s-1910s”
2009-2010 ICW Medicine/Public Health Working Group
October 20, 2009 – Kristine Gunnell, Claremont Graduate University, “‘Public-Private Collaborations in Nineteenth-Century Health Care: The Daughters of Charity and the Los Angeles County Hospital, 1858-1878”
The California Supreme Court Historical Society and L.A. Times present:
Civil & Uncivil Rights in California: The Early Legal History
Monday, June 1, 2009
4:30 to 6:30pm
Harry Chandler Auditorium, Los Angeles Times Building
DATE: Mon. June 1, 2009, 4:30 pm—6:30 pm
(Registration starts at 4 pm; light refreshments following program)
MODERATOR: Jim Newton, Editor, Los Angeles Times Editorial Page
PANELISTS: Hon. Joseph R. Grodin, Associate Justice (ret.), Cal. Supreme Court,
Prof. Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware, author, Driven Out:
The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans (Random House, 2007)
REMARKS: Prof. Robert Chao Romero, J.D., Assistant Professor,
UCLA César E. Chávez Dept. of Chicana & Chicano Studies
ADMISSION: $10 for nonmembers (validated parking)
free for CSCHS members, students & press,
MCLE: 2.0 hours MCLE / Judicial Education credit
LOCATION: Harry Chandler Auditorium, Los Angeles Times Building
Validated parking in the LA Times Garage, 213 South Spring Street
Check in at the Globe Lobby (entrance at 202 West 1st Street)
RSVP: (800) 353-7537. You may Register Online or at www.cschs.org .
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 AreMonday, May 18Noon to 1:00 pm
Seaver classrooms 1&2, Huntington Library
ICW
In Conversation series presents:
Robert Chao Romero, Asst. Professor, UCLA Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana/o StudiesMonday, May 4Noon to 1:00 pm
Seaver classrooms 1&2, Huntington Library
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
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 Conventionmoderated by John Chase, author of "Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving"June 28, 2008
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU and ICW present:
Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place and Region in the American South and SouthwestJuly 2008
ICW and Zocalo present:
Gay L.A. vs. Gay San Francisco: The Historical Orbits of Gay CaliforniaJune 18, 20087:30 pm, ArcLight Hollywood
ICW and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences present:
MOGULS, MILLIONAIRES & MOVIE STARS:
HOLLYWOOD BETWEEN THE WARS, 1920-1940
May 30-31, 2008
8:30am to 4:30pm
Huntington Library, San Marino
(All daytime events held on site at Friends Hall)
FRIDAY, MAY 30
8:30-9:00 a.m.
Coffee and Pastries
9:00-9:15
Welcome and Introduction
Bill Deverell
9:15-10:30
Panel 1
The Patrician Moguls: W. R. Hearst, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Howard Hughes
Taylor Coffman
Cari Beauchamp
Pat Broeske
Moderator: Patt Morrison
10:30
Break
10:45-12:00
Panel 2
Looking Westward: The New York and Vaudeville Connection
Armond Fields
Eve Golden
Moderator: Bill Deverell
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Friends Hall Terrace
1:15-2:30
Panel 3
Imperial Hollywood: The Studios Ascendant
Mark A. Vieira
Neal Gabler
Richard Schickel
Moderator: Tim Rutten
2:30
Break
2:45-4:00
Panel 4
Film Lumineux: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Introduction by Sid Ganis
Barbara Hall
Emily Thompson
Moderator: Steve Ross
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Catered Dinner
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Pickford Center; Linwood Dunn Theater
131 Vine Street, Hollywood
7:30
Film Screening
A Star Is Born (1937)
Linwood Dunn Theater
SATURDAY, MAY 31
8:30-9:00 a.m.
Coffee and Pastries
9:00
Welcome
William R. Hearst III
9:15-10:30
Panel 5
From L.A. to the World: Hollywood in Radio and in the Daily Press
Rob Leicester Wagner
Dennis McDougal
Robert Gottlieb
Moderator: John Horn
10:30
Break
10:45-12:00
Panel 6
Park Avenue Gone West: Hollywood Builds and Collects
Mary Levkoff
Sam Watters
Janet Fireman
Moderator: Taylor Coffman
12:00-1:15 p.m.
Lunch
Friends Hall Terrace
1:30-2:45
Panel 7
Citizen Kane in Retrospect
Leo Braudy and David Thomson
In Conversation
2:45
Break
3:00-4:00
Wrap-up
Interwar Hollywood and California History:
Where Do We Go From Here?
Kevin Starr
Registration:
$50 (lunch will be provided both days)
$25 (graduate students)
Please email Kim Matsunaga at kmatsuna@usc.edu for registration information
Deadline: May 21
ICW gratefully acknowledges the support of Margaret and William R. Hearst III
ICW workshop:
Under the West
Saturday, May 17, 2008
1:00 to 4:00 pm
Overseers' Room, Huntington Library
ICW receives USC Provost's Arts and Humanities Initiative grant:
What Does California Mean?
April 15, 2008
The Institute on California and the West has been awarded a grant to sponsor a springtime 2008 panel discussion exploring the history and meaning of California. The panelists -- Janet Fireman, D.J. Waldie, James Quay, Ruthie Gilmore, and Kevin Starr, with ICW Director Bill Deverell serving as moderator -- are all experts in analyzing California from a variety of perspectives, and their careers are ideal representations of the contributions which engaged humanities scholarship can make to the broader society. The event will be accompanied by two programs specifically designed to engage undergraduates with the themes of the panel, including an essay contest open to all USC undergraduates to explore the theme of California’s meaning over time.
ICW Brown Bag Series on Western U.S. and Borderlands History:
Technology and Cultural Imperialism
March 25, 2008
SARAH KEYES
Doctoral Student, Department of History, USC
“Engineering Pioneers: Toy Train Play as Imperial Simulation, 1900-1941”
At the turn of the twentieth century American toy manufacturers manipulated the railroad’s status as the symbol of modern civilization to sell toy train play and model railroading as essential technical training for white males. As new technologies superseded the locomotive, toy manufacturers drew on nostalgia for the railroad age to market their products. Although the train remained central to toy train play, the emphasis on creating layouts reveals that toy train play is best understood as an imperial simulation that allowed white males to create and control their own miniature worlds.
JESSICA KIM
Doctoral Student, Department of History, USC
“Culture of Conquest: Panama, U.S. Travel Narratives, and Imagining a White Colonial Utopia, 1904-1914”
During the period of the Panama Canal’s construction between 1904 and 1914, dozens of white American travelogue authors — journalists, professional travel writers, government employees, and tourists — participated in an ideological project to legitimize U.S. claim on what many considered the most valuable strip of land in Latin America. Their published accounts defined the Panama Canal Zone as a particularly “American” place and constituted an act of cultural imperialism.
Comment: Volker Janssen, Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Fullerton
ICW Fiction and History working group meeting:
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles
Judith Freeman, author
January 26, 2008
12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, Huntington Library
contact Bill Handley
USC: Inside the Academics Studio
LA on the Edge
A discussion with William Deverell, James Dolan, and Marianne Wiggins
February 6, 2008
5:00 to 6:30 pm, USC, HNB 100
ICW
In Conversation series presents:
Bill Handley - English professor, USC
Is There A Western American Literary Canon Any Longer?
February 21, 200812:00 noon to 1:00 pm, Huntington Library
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
The Forgotten Birthplace: LA's Role in Shaping American Gay History: A Conversation
Daniel Hurewitz and Stuart Timmons
June 14, 2007
7:00 pm, Mark Taper Auditorium, LA Central Library
Moderated by William Deverell, ICW Director
The authors of two groundbreaking social histories discuss the social, political, and cultural history of lesbian, gay, and bohemian life in the City of Los Angeles, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross-gendered "two spirits" through ACT UP, GLAAD, and Queer Nation.
2nd Annual "Western History Dissertation Workshop"
June 18, 2007
Autry National Center
Presenters Chosen for Second Annual Thesis Workshop
The Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West at Stanford University, the Research Division of the Huntington Library, the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center have selected five graduate students for the second annual “Western History Dissertation Workshop,” which will be held on June 18, 2007 at the Griffith park Campus of the Autry National Center in Los Angeles:
Adam Arenson, Yale University
City of Manifest Destiny: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War, 1848-1877
Joshua Paddison, UCLA
American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California
Melissa Stuckey, Yale University
“All Men Up” Race, Rights, and Power in the Black Town of Boley, Oklahoma, 1903-1939
Manu Vimalassery, New York University
Skew Tracks: Chinese and Native Americans and the First Transcontinental Railroad
Mary Beth Zundo, University of Illinois
Mapping Destiny: Cartography and 19th-Century American Art of the Frontier
ICW conference:
Rocket Science and Region: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Aerospace Industry in Southern CaliforniaAugust 3 to August 4, 20078:30 am to 4:30 pm, Huntington Library
ROCKET SCIENCE AND REGION: THE RISE, FALL, AND RISE OF THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
With historical roots reaching back to the early twentieth century, the aerospace industry has long been an important economic, cultural, and technological feature of life in Southern California. This exciting two-day conference, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik satellite, will explore many facets of the industry's regional influence and history. Historians of science and technology will join with pioneering aerospace leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss the rise of the industry and its central role in the Cold War. Other commentators and writers will examine the cultural impact of aerospace innovation on suburban life in Southern California; military leaders will comment on the role that the armed services have played in fostering aerospace technology and expansion over the past half century; and archivists and curators will discuss various possible approaches to documenting the history of the industry. The conference will thus stimulate both the preservation and study of this crucial aspect of Southern California--and American--history.
Registration - $40.00
We are grateful for support received from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
ICW In Conversation Series presents:
Iris Yamashita and Justin Lin
September 18, 2007
11:00 am to 12:00 noon, USC
IRIS YAMASHITA
Born in Missouri, raised in Hawaii and having lived in Guam, California, and Japan, Iris Yamashita was able to experience a diversity of culture while growing up. From early on, she had aspirations of becoming a fiction writer. Iris earned an M.S. in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley, but turned her sights towards screenwriting, enrolling in several UCLA extension courses. Two of her short stories were published in All Nippon Airway’s inflight magazine, Wingspan, after successively winning first place in their international short fiction contests, and her first screenplay won first place honors in the Big Bear Lake Screenwriting Competition, where she was discovered by an agent at CAA who was a presiding judge for the competition.
Iris was nominated for an Academy Award in 2007 for her first produced screenplay, Letters From Iwo Jima, directed by Clint Eastwood. Until then, she had worked as a web programmer at a software company.
JUSTIN LIN
Justin Lin -- director, editor, cinematographer, producer, screenwriter -- directed the films “Better Luck Tomorrow” and “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” and most recently has completed “Finishing the Game.”
Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Buena Park, California. He earned his B.A. and M.F.A. in film directing at the UCLA School of Film and Television. His work as production coordinator of the Media Arts Center at the Japanese American National Museum led to his critically-acclaimed screenplay “Better Luck Tomorrow,” about youthful malaise among the Asian American high-school set. Elevating and increasing the influence of Asian Americans in filmmaking is one of Lin’s goals, and he has just started his own production company, Trailing Johnson (www.trailingjohnson.com).
ICW In Conversation Series presents:
Donna Graves
October 9, 2007
12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, Gamble House, Pasadena
Donna Graves is a public arts and cultural planner, historian and writer based in Berkeley, California. Her specific areas of expertise encompass strategies for using art, urban design and community engagement to explore local histories and the significance of place. Graves served as project director for the Rosie the Riveter Memorial: Honoring American Women's Labor During WWII in Richmond, California where she oversaw the development of the first monument to women's contribution to the home front. Since the Memorial’s dedication in 2000, she has worked with the City of Richmond and the National Park Service to develop a new national park about the broader social history of the World War II home front. Other recent projects include organizing a competition to design a monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade on San Francisco's waterfront. In an earlier lifetime, she served as executive director of The Power of Place, a non-profit organization dedicated to revealing Los Angeles’ multi-ethnic histories through projects and programs in the city’s downtown.
Graves is currently project director of Preserving California’s Japantowns, a statewide research project funded by the California State Library and is co-author with Gail Dubrow of the book Sento at Sixth and Main: Preserving Landmarks of Japanese American Heritage (Smithsonian Institution Press), which won an EDRA/Places Research Award. Her publications include articles in Places, Sculpture, and Public Art Review and the anthology, Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context and Controversy (Harper Collins Press). She developed and taught one of the first survey courses on the history of public art and urbanism at UC Davis and has lectured on various aspects of public art, urban history and urban design throughout the United States. She holds an M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA and an M.A. in American Civilization from Brown University.
ICW
In Conversation Series presents:
Gregory RodriguezNovember 14, 200712:00 noon to 1:00 pm, location TBA
Gregory Rodriguez, a writer praised for “decisively changing the
understanding of the Latino experience in the United States” (The
Economist), has recently published /Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and
Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America/
(Pantheon, 2007) -- a provocative work on how the mestizo legacy of
Mexican Americans will forever change how Americans think about race and ethnicity. Rodriguez is an Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and an op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
ICW
In Conversation Series presents:
Louise Nelson DybleNovember 29, 200712:00 noon to 1:00 pm, USC
Louise Nelson Dyble is the author of Paying the Toll: Power, Politics,
and the Golden Gate Bridge, 1923-1971 (forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press), in which she discusses the controversial independent government agency, The Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, and how it has shaped the Bay Area physically and politically. Dyble is the Director for Research at the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at USC.
In Conversation with Joe Mathews
Joe Mathews is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, a fourth-generation Californian, and a Little League baseball coach. He worked at the Baltimore Sun and Wall Street Journal before joining the Times. He is the author of The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy (PublicAffairs, 2006).
March 19, 2007
12:00 noon to 1:00 pm
Munger Building, Huntington Library
The Recent History of the U.S. District Court, California's Central District
October 27, 2006
ICW will co-sponsor, along with Southwestern Law School, a symposium titled "The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966-2006: Text and Context." The symposium, marking the 40th anniversary of the present design of California's Federal judicial districts, will examine the history of the Central District, major changes, and some of the key cases decided by its judges. Speakers include fourteen sitting Federal District Court and Court of Appeals judges and eight prominent historians and law professors. Morning panels will focus on the early history of the Court, changes in U.S. litigation practice since the 1960's, and on how changes in Southern California and U.S. society generally have influenced the work of the District Court. Afternoon panels will focus on the desegregation of Pasadena, the Century Freeway litigation and settlement, and important cases involving Hollywood and Technology and Law Enforcement, with comments by the judges who presided over the key cases.
The conference will be held at Southwestern Law School -- 3050 Wilshire Blvd., in Los Angeles. Admission is free of charge; lunch - $40; 6 hours of CLE credit - $75 ($50 for Southwestern alumni).
RSVP required by October 23 to the Student Affairs Office, Southwestern Law School, tel. 213-738-6716.
In Conversation with Professor Kevin Starr, former California State Librarian
October 31, 2006
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Friends' Hall at the Huntington Library
In Conversation with Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray
July 18, 2006
Dr. Cecil Murray is a native Floridian with an undergraduate degree from Florida A&M University. He received his Doctorate in Religion from the School of Theology at Claremont. He has lectured and been adjunct professor at Iliff University, Seattle University, Claremont's School of Theology, Fuller Seminary, and Northwest Theological Seminary. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Ebony Magazine, CNN, Netowrk News, religious periodicals, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles 900, and other print and television media. Rev. Murray retired in November 2004 as the senior minister at First AME Church in Los Angeles. He currently serves as Professor, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Religion, University of Southern California, and holds the Tanzy Chair of Christian Ethics, University of Southern California.
12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Seaver Classrooms of the Munger Building, Huntington Library. Lunchboxes will be provided to the first 35 people who respond. For more information, please contact Kim Matsunaga at kmatsuna@usc.edu.
Thesis Workshop on the History of the North American West
June 19, 2006
Together, the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, the Autry National Center’s Institute for the Study of the American West, the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and the Research Division of the Huntington Library are pleased to announce a one-day thesis writing workshop on the history of the North American West. Five students working on doctoral dissertations (chapters linked below) focusing on any aspect of the history of the North American West were recently chosen to attend the workshop:
Allison Tirres (Harvard)
Steven Rosales (UC Irvine)
Alicia Chavez (Stanford)
Lauren Cole (UC San Diego)
Stacey Smith (U of Wisconsin)
At the workshop, scholars affiliated with the centers and institutions listed above will offer sustained comment on the thesis projects based upon student presentations and submission of written work.
For more information, please contact Bill Deverell.
In Conversation Series:
Alice McGrath, 2006
For more than 65 years, Alice Greenfield McGrath has been a social justice activist and advocate. She worked closely with Carey McWilliams for the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee in the 1940s, and continues to fight for fairness in the courts and the availability of affordable legal services.
Tuesday, May 9, 2006. For more information, contact deverell@usc.edu.
ICW Los Angeles History Research Group
Third Annual Clark Davis Memorial Seminar
Urban Coalitions in an Age of Immigration: the New Politics of L.A.
The Third Annual Clark Davis Memorial Seminar, the final gathering of the Los Angeles History Research Group for the 2005-2006 year, took place on May 13, 2006 at the Huntington Library. Our guest was Raphael Sonenshein, Professor of Political Science at California State University, Fullerton. He delivered a presentation entitled Urban Coalitions in an Age of Immigration: The New Politics of L.A. For more information, please contact Mark Wild or Arthur Verge
The Evolution of the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Cultural Center
Mayme Clayton, a professional librarian, has over the past forty years collected an astonishing range of rare material documenting the African-American experience. Her son Avery is creating a library and media-based research center to house the collection and to advance research and public education. Speakers for this panel discussion included Mayme and Avery Clayton and ICW Director Bill Deverell.
April 6, 2006 from 7:30pm at the Huntington Library. For more information, please call 626-405-2146. Free.
In Conversation Series:
D.J. Waldie
D. J. Waldie is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out, Close to Home: An American Album, and Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles, which was named one of the best books in 2004 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Waldie received a Whiting Writers Award from the Whiting Foundation of New York in 1998 and his narratives about life in Los Angeles have appeared in numerous magazines and other publications.
May 2, 2006 from 12:00 noon to 1:00 at the Huntington Library. For more information, contact deverell@usc.edu.
A place of our very own: The Pacific Beach Club, Black Angelenos, and Incendiary White Southerners
Dan Cady of CSU Fresno spoke at this ICW Los Angeles Working Group seminar.
March 18, 2005 at the Huntington Library. For more information, contact Mark Wild.
In Conversation with Peter Richardson
Author of American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
February 28, 2005 at the Huntington Library. For more information, contact Bill Deverell.
Rethinking Conservation: Nature, City, and Suburb in Progressive-Era Los Angeles
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This ICW Los Angeles Working Group seminar featured Ben Johnson of Southern Methodist University, and was co-sponsored by the Autry Museum.
February 9, 2005 at the Autry Museum. For more information, contact Mark Wild.
EMSI/ICW North American Environments Working Group Meeting:
This NA Environments Working Group meeting featured Jenny Price, author of Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature in Modern America, a merger of environmental history and cultural history. A new version of her essay, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.,” was discussed, which will be the opening chapter of her forthcoming book.
January 28, 2005 from 2:00 to 4:00pm at the Huntington Library. For more information, contact Jared Farmer
Rick Wartzman is the editor of West, the new Los Angeles Times magazine. He is the co-author of The King of California, and is currently at work on Obscene in the Extreme, a book exploring the banning and burning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath in Depression-era California.
January 17, 2006 at the Huntington Library. For more information, contact Bill Deverell.
ICW Medicine/Public Health Working Group Meeting:
January 11, 2006 at USC. For more information, contact David Sloane
Changing Ethnic Patterns in Greater Los Angeles, 1990-2000
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Professor James Allen of CSU Northridge was the featured speaker at this ICW Los Angeles Working Group seminar.
December 3, 2005 in Seaver Classroom 3 at the Huntington Library. For more information, contact Mark Wild.
El Clamor Público: 150 Years of Latino Newspapers in Southern California
Sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, the USC Annenberg School for Communication, the California State University, Northridge Graduate Studies Program Distinguished Speaker Series, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
This conference examined the history and legacy of El Clamor Público through an exploration of Latino newspapers in Southern California’s past, present, and future. October 28, 2005 at the Huntington Library.
Co-presented by ICW and the Los Angeles Conservancy in conjunction with the Conservancy program Curating the City: Wilshire Boulevard, this workshop explored how past and current developments in and around MacArthur Park, a historic urban park in Los Angeles, have affected housing, local institutions, and residents' sense of community. October 29, 2005 at MacArthur Park.
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The ICW Brown Bag Series in U.S. Western/Borderlands History presented "Patriotic Potlucks and Bakeless Bake Sales: Conservative Housewives and the Domestication of Politics in 1950s Los Angeles" by Barbara Soliz and "The 1964 California 'Forced Housing' Ballot Initiative and the Emergence of Disavowed Racism" by Daniel HoSang. Comment by Michelle Nickerson. October 26, 2005 at the Huntington Library.
Bill Deverell and California State Librarian Emeritus Kevin Starr spoke on the history of California and the West, looking at the roles Los Angeles and USC have played in shaping Southern California. October 7, 2005.
David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized as one of the great Mexican muralists of the 20th century, created only three murals in the United States -- all in Los Angeles during a six-month stay in 1932. Bill Deverell participated in a panel discussion on the political, social and artistic environments of Los Angeles and Mexico that preceded his Siqueiros' landmark visit.
Sunday, October 9, 2005 at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre.
ICW's Brown Bag Series in US Western/Borderlands History presents "Little Farms Near the (Globalizing) City?: Activism, Land Use Policy, and the California Dream in a Los Angeles Equestrian Community, 1960-1990" by Laura Barraclough; and "Continuity and Change: The 20th Century African American Community in Santa Monica" by Allison Jefferson. Comment by Mark Wild, CSULA.
The West has been America's great racial and ethnic stew pot. This conference considered how exchanges among its many nineteenth-century peoples -- Native Americans, Chinese, Latinos, African Americans, and whites -- shaped the nation's racial history and heritage. Huntington Library, September 30-October 1, 2005.
Frances Dinkelspiel, Isaias Hellman’s great great granddaughter, discussed Hellman’s life and the early history of Jews in Los Angeles at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple on September 20, 2005. Her book Towers of Gold: Isaias Hellman and the Creation of California will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2007.
Friends, family, and fans of the late Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith, who died in 1996, discussed the life and career of one of the “Big Orange’s” most beloved journalists. ICW Director Bill Deverell moderated panel participants, including his sons Curt and Doug Smith and Times columnist Al Martinez. Smith’s papers were recently donated to The Huntington. Friends’ Hall. September 7, 2005.
Bill Deverell, ICW Director, appeared with, among others, Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and United States Senator Max Baucus, at the centennial commemoration of the James R. Browning United States Courthouse in San Francisco. The event, which included Courthouse staff and judges in period costume, was held on August 29th, 2005. Professor Deverell gave the keynote historical address, entitled A Sense of Time: August 29, 1905.
The NEH Summer Institute for College and University Instructors recently took place at the Huntington Library to examine ICW themes from multiple and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Former Governors of California Gather at the Huntington Library
ICW co-sponsored a gathering of former governors of California at the Huntington Library on the evening of May 13, 2005. The event was organized by the public television news magazine California Connected and was broadcast
