Holiday Closures
The Library will be closed on Friday, Dec. 24, 2021, and Friday, Dec. 31, 2021.
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Library Access - Reminders for Readers
Vaccination Policy
The Huntington is requiring all researchers to be fully vaccinated (two weeks have passed since their final dose) by the date of their appointment. Readers must present proof of vaccination to enter the Library.
Ahmanson Reading Room - OPEN
The Ahmanson Reading Room is open to all researchers 18 and older by appointment. Access is limited to those who wish to consult rare materials including both first-time applicants and renewing readers.
Appointments are available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1 p.m.–4 p.m. Rare materials must be requested in advance of your appointment. Apply for access and request an appointment (subject to availability).
We are actively working on opening the Rothenberg Reading Room and will be expanding access in the new year. Stay tuned!
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Joycean Cartographies Conference and Graduate Seminars
Virtual and Onsite
Thursday, Feb. 3 and Friday, Feb. 4
8:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Celebrate the publication centennial of James Joyce's Ulysses with the Joycean Cartographies conference at The Huntington from Feb. 3-4, 2022. Pre-conference activities on Wednesday, February 2, 2022 include the Ridge Lecture in Literature given by Ato Quayson (Stanford) on “Spatial Theory in Ulysses and Post-Colonial Literature” and two graduate seminar opportunities taught by Paul Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania) and Vicki Mahaffey (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). The seminar taught by Professor Vicki Mahaffey will take place virtually and does not require participation in the onsite conference.
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Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of “Ulysses”
Rothenberg Hall
Thursday, Feb. 3 and Friday, Feb. 4
8:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Reservation required
The Huntington hosts this onsite conference in San Marino, California to celebrate the publication centennial of James Joyce’s Ulysses. In tandem with the conference, The Huntington presents the exhibition “Mapping Fiction,” which focuses on novels and maps from the 16th through the 20th century, including a newly acquired series of engraved maps derived from Ulysses, made by the artist David Lilburn.
Joyce’s Ulysses uses Dublin as a 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 visualization (schemas, maps, charts, word indexes) to decolonization, intertexts and intermedia, mapping as metaphor and places as texts, in an effort to open up new ways of reading. The conference days will also be punctuated by short “Ulysses on the Clock” segments, readings of the text at the time of day at which they are set, serving as a reminder of the circadian structure of the novel and hearkening to the playful nature of annual international Joyce conferences.
Graduate students will also have the opportunity to register for one of two graduate seminars related to the conference theme on Wednesday, Feb. 2 from 3–5 p.m.
Registration includes all scheduled presentations on Thursday, Feb. 3 and Friday, Feb. 4, as well as the evening reception on Thursday, Feb. 3. By registering for this conference, you attest to full COVID-19 vaccination and agree to provide proof upon arrival.
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Spatial Theory in “Ulysses” and Post-Colonial Literature
Rothenberg Hall
Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022
7:30 p.m.–9 p.m.
Reservation required
Ato Quayson, the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English at Stanford, discusses James Joyce’s use of physical space in Ulysses. Joyce's Ulysses situates Leopold Bloom's perambulations as the conduit for thinking about semi-imperial Dublin in the early 20th century. They also raise implications about the complex configurations of space and temporality in the wider Empire in the same period. This talk uses this spatially introverted and extroverted quality of Ulysses to rethink both formalist and Marxist theories of space for literary analysis in the 21st century, offering new readings of other postcolonial literary writers of urban spaces, such as Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children), Ayi Kwei Armah (The Beautyful [sic] Ones are not Yet Born), Naguib Mahfouz (Midaq Alley), and Toni Morrison (Jazz), among many others.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the “Joycean Cartographies: Navigating a New Century of Ulysses” Conference on Feb. 3 and 4. Click here to purchase tickets for the conference.
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Close to the Ground: The Complex History of Outdoor Settlement in the American West
Virtual Lecture
Friday, Dec. 10, 2021
12 p.m.–1 p.m.
Reservation required
This discussion, moderated by Marissa López, professor of English and Chicana/o studies at UCLA, explores the wide-ranging history of camping and tent encampments across the last 150 years in the American West. Phoebe Young, associate professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses her new book Close to the Ground with guest speakers Anthony Allman, veterans’ rights advocate and founder of the Military Veterans Organization at UCLA, and Josh Sides, Whitsett Professor of California History at CSU Northridge.
The program is presented by the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West and is co-sponsored by the Huntington Research Department and the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.
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Civic Memory and Memorials in the American West
Virtual Lecture
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021
12 p.m.–1 p.m.
Reservation required
Historian Megan Kate Nelson joins Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles, in a wide-ranging discussion of memory and memorialization in the West and Southwest. Part of the Third LA series, this conversation explores commemorative themes beyond the sites and histories that the Civic Memory project recently took up across greater Los Angeles.
Megan Kate Nelson is a historian and writer, with a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Iowa. Her most recent book, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History. Scribner will publish her next book, Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, in March 2022.
The program is presented by the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West and is co-sponsored by the Huntington Research Department and the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.
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Image: The Bella Union Hotel on N. Main Street, photographed in 1876. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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Huntington Library Quarterly
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The Huntington Library Quarterly launched in 1937 and has been integral to the scholarly profile of The Huntington for over eighty years. Today it is an important interdisciplinary venue for academic studies of British and American history, literature, and art history in the early modern period.
The Huntington Library Quarterly invites submissions of research articles concerning the literature, history, and art of Britain and America from the sixteenth century through the long eighteenth century. These need not relate to the Huntington Library’s own collections; the site of research or sources has no influence on the evaluation of submissions.
See the HLQ Penn Press page for more information
See the full list of Penn Press journals here
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