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Description: Steve Hindle from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector,” a conference held at The Huntington May 5–6, 2017.

In 2013, Loren and Frances Rothschild donated their Evelyn Waugh archive to The Huntington. Now, their gift is celebrated in a symposium which brings together researchers, editors, and archival practitioners to explore the biographical and disciplinary significance of the new holdings. The symposium is a collaboration between The Huntington, the Evelyn Waugh Society, and the UK-based Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project.  The conference was held at The Huntington May 5–6, 2017.

CONFERENCE | Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector

Clifford Will delivers a lecture titled “Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment.” Will is the Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Florida.

Part of “Francis Bacon Conference: General Relativity at One Hundred,” a conference held at Caltech and The Huntington March 10–12, 2016.

Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

Robert Murray Davis from University of Oklahoma delivers a talk titled “Waugh and the Profession.” This talk was included in the session titled “Waugh’s Life in Archives.”

Part of “Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector,” a conference held at The Huntington May 5–6, 2017.

Waugh and the Profession

Richard Oram, former associate director of Harry Ransom Center, delivers a talk titled “Whatnots and Whatnot: Evelyn Waugh and Victorian Aesthetics of Ornamentation.” This talk was included in the session titled “Waugh’s Life in Archives.” 

Part of “Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector,” a conference held at The Huntington May 5–6, 2017.

Whatnots and Whatnot: Evelyn Waugh and Victorian Aesthetics of Ornamentation

Martin Stannard from University of Leicester delivers a talk titled “Editing the Complete Works: Textual Policy.” This talk was included in the session titled “Compiling the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh.” 

Part of “Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector,” a conference held at The Huntington May 5–6, 2017.

Editing the Complete Works: Textual Policy

Chip Long from Portland State University delivers remarks for “Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector,” a conference held at The Huntington May 5–6, 2017.

Remarks by Chip Long

Steve Hindle from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector,” a conference held at The Huntington May 5–6, 2017.

Welcome by Steve Hindle

Paula Findlen from Stanford University delivers a talk titled “Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples.” This talk was included in the session titled “Conceptualizing.”

Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples

Historian Daniela Bleichmar, co-curator of the exhibition “Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin,” discusses the surprising and little-known story of the pivotal role that Latin America played in the pursuit of science and art during the first global era. This talk is part of the Wark Lecture Series at The Huntington.
 
Recorded Oct. 16, 2017.

Seeing and Knowing: Visions of Latin American Nature, ca. 1492–1859

The Browns of California: A Conversation with Governor Jerry Brown and Miriam Pawel, moderated by William Deverell.

The Browns of California: A Conversation with Governor Jerry Brown

Architect Marc Appleton, author of "Ranches: Home on the Range in California", discusses the history of cattle ranching in California. Once a robust industry in the state, ranching is now a much diminished and challenged enterprise, says Appleton, and many ranchers are witnessing the passing of a way of life.

California Ranches: Lands in Transition

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Welcome by Steve Hindle

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