Past Meetings
2010-2021
(2020 and 2021 will be updated soon)
2020
4 March
Gregory Williams, “Building a Statewide Digital & Archival Collaboration: the CSU Japanese-American Digitization Project”
5 February
Michael Vinson, “А Rare Вооk Rogue in Техas: Тhе Crimеs and Misdemeanors of Johnny Jenkins”
8 January
J. David Archibald, “Books on a Boat: The Library on Darwin’s 1831-36 Voyage Aboard the HMS Beagle”
2019
4 December
David Boule, “King Citrus, Collecting and the Dream of California”
6 November
Kim Coventry, ”Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications that Shaped the City and Its Image”
2 October
Jim Tranquada, “What the Hell Is ‘Ukulele Literature’?”
5 June
Elizabeth Pomeroy, “Glen Dawson, Mountaineer and Bookman”
1 May
George Rossman, “A Journey to the Source of the Jade”
3 April
Henry (Nick) Ervin, “A Brief Bibliographic and Photographic Tour of California’s Desert Lands”
6 March
Helena de Lemos, “From One Reader to Another: The story of May Lamberton Becker, author and creator of popular early twentieth-century newspaper column, ‘The Reader’s Guide,’ and her daughter Beatrice Warde, author, typography scholar, and marketing manager for the British Monotype Corporation”
6 February
J.C. McElveen, “Planning and Curating an Exhibit on Nineteenth Century American Westward Exploration: An Amateur’s Perspective”
2 January
Rand Boyd, “Let’s Make Believe We’re Soldiers: American Juvenile Series Fiction and the First World War”
2018
5 December
“Breaking the Glassine Ceiling”. Zamorano Celebrates 90: Honoring the Contributions of Women to Books and Book Collecting in Southern California. Book presentation by the publications committee
7 November
James R. Phillips, “Robinson Jeffers & Five California Master Printers”
3 October
David Grabhorn, “Indiana Roots of the Grabhorn Press”
6 June
David Rips, “The History of Science and Medicine: Acquisitions Update 2017-May 2018”
2 May
John Wilkins (1614-1672), “We Are the 17th Century”. Channelled by Stephen White
4 April
Dennis Kruska, “The Lure and Lore of Yosemite: A 19th-Century View”
7 March
David Brafman, “Flowers, Drugs, Chemicals, and Colors, or How Botanical Books Changed the World”
7 February
Randy Tarpey-Schwed, “Cookery & Connections: A Collector’s Passion”
3 January
Laura Skandera Trombley, “If I Had a Camel: The Sesquicentennial of Innocents Abroad”
2017
6 December
David Gunther, “Life on the Santa Fe as Seen through Publications”
1 November
Aleta George, “Ina Coolbrith’s Poetic Origins: How the pueblo of Los Angeles played a significant role in the life of California’s first poet laureate”
4 October
Nick Curry, “The Rockefeller Largesse”
7 June
David Rips, “The History of Science and Medicine: Acquisitions Update 2012-2016”
3 May
David Brafman, “Sacred Geometry and Slimy Sludge, or, Making Art with Alchemy”
5 April
Kitty Maryatt, “Re-Creation: Sonia Delaunay’s & Blaise Cendrars’ La Prose du Transsibérien of 1913”
1 March
Simon Winchester, “The Professor and the Madman: The Making of a Bestseller”
1 February
Marc Kuritz, “Churchill: Language, Life, and Leadership”
4 January
Suzanne Muchnic, “Temple on the Tar Pits: A Sticky History of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art”
2016
7 December
Scott Stine, “The Marvels and Wisdom of Zenas Leonard’s Narrative”
2 November
James Keeline, “Building a Series Book” (last-minute stand-in for Andrea Mays)
5 October
Stephen White, “Karl Marx, Mark Twain, and the Advent of Social Media”
1 June
Mark Hall-Patton, “Wanna Get Lucky? A Mass-Market Collection of a Mass-Market Town. Books as Popular-Culture Artifacts in a Museum Collection”
4 May
Sharon Gee, “Fair Warning! Auction Secrets Revealed”
6 April
Gary Kurutz, “From 49ers to Sourdoughs: Literary Excursion into the First and Last Great Western Gold Rushes by Gary F. Kurutz, a Cheechako Bibliographer in the Klondike”
2 March
Lori Anne Ferrell, “Piety, Greed, and Bibliomania: How the Victorians Invented English History”
3 February
Phil Brigandi, “Searching for Ramona: The Literature and Lore of Southern California’s Most Famous Novel”
6 January
Dana Gioia, “Creating America’s Book Club: The Story of NEA’s Big Read”
2015
2 December
Alan Jutzi, “Stories of a Rare Book Curator”
4 November
Diana Kormos-Buchwald, “Einstein’s Three Winters at Caltech”
7 October
Romy Wyllie, “Caltech’s Architectural Heritage”
3 June
Laura Rips, “‘All in One Lifetime’: Collecting the History of Science—Bern Dibner and the Burndy Library”
6 May
Li Wei Yang,“The Yongle Dadian: An Emperor’s Encyclopedia”
1 April
Robert Palazzo, “The Integration of Major-League Baseball: Books, Publications, and Ephemera (It’s not just Jackie Robinson)”
4 March
Nicholas Basbanes, “Among the Gently Mad: A Fellowship of Books and Book People”
4 February
Nancy Turner, “Encounters with the Scissormen: Treating Illuminated Cuttings and Leaves from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Conservation Studio”
7 January
Simon Loxley, “Frederic Warde: The Gatsby of Type”
2014
3 December
Bill Warren, “Will W. Robinson, Twinkly-Eyed Southern California Historian, Author, and Zamoranan Extraordinaire”
5 November
Paul Bryan Gray, “Gatekeeper to Diaz, 1876-1911”
1 October
Megan Rosenbloom, “Death in Rare Books”
4 June
Donald Sterrenburg, “Laudatus: Birth of a Typeface”
7 May
Kim Keeline, “Collecting Shakespeare: The Commodification of a Writer”
2 April
Msgr. Francis Weber, “Zamorano Memories”
5 March
Charles Johnson, “The Curious Case of George M. Millard, Books, El Paseo de la Guerra, Santa Barbara”
5 February
Chuck Rennie, “Sex, Science, and Sardines: Reality and Myth in the Steinbeck-Ed Ricketts Friendship and its Literature”
8 January
David Kalifon, “Peutinger’s Tabula Itineraria: Exploring an Ancient Roman Road Map through Ortelius’s 1598 Facsimile”
2013
4 December
Richard Wagener, “Engraving Books”
6 November
Jeff Groves, “A Hands-On Approach to Printing History: Building a Replica of an Eighteenth-Century Printing Press”
2 October
Steven Hackel, “The Rock and the Crucifix: Changing Representations of Serra over Time”
5 June
Dennis Kruska, “The Lure and Lore of Yosemite: A 19th-Century View”
1 May
Gary Strong, “Collecting Los Angeles at the UCLA Library”
3 April
Elizabeth Pomeroy, “What Makes San Marino, San Marino? Looking for Answers in Geography, Books, and Lives”
6 March
Jake Wien, “Paul Landacre and Ward Ritchie: 25 Years of Inspired Collaboration, 1932-1957”
6 February
Jennifer Watts, “A Strange and Fearful Interest: The Making of a Civil War Exhibition”
2 January
Judy Harvey Sahak, “Shadows in Southern California, 1933: Forgotten Visits of T.S. Eliot, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Um… Er… Ah”
2012
5 December
Larry Burgess, “Christmas in Old California”
7 November
Stephen White, “Skydreamers: A Pathway to the Universe”
3 October
Stephen Shepherd, “Marginal Images as Scholarly Commentary in a 15th-Century Anglo-Irish Manuscript”
6 June
Dennis Kruska, “Glen Dawson and the High Sierra: A Man to Match the Mountains”
2 May
Beth Gates Warren, “Edward Weston’s Los Angeles”
4 April
Paul Bryan Gray,“The Emergence and Exile of Francisco P. Ramírez, an Early Los Angeles Activist”
7 March
Susan Allen, “John I. Perkins (1863-1942) Collects: The Kelmscott Press for Los Angeles”
1 February
Charles Johnson, “A Tale of Two Men: The Origins of Printing in Alta California”
4 January
Seth Lerer, “On a 15th-Century Book of Hours”
2011
7 December
Shelley Erwin, “The Art of the Map”
2 November
Laura Skandera Trombley, “Mark Twain’s World Celebrity”
5 October
Marcella Ruble and Timothy Lindsay, “Beverly Hills’ First Estate: The House and Gardens of Virginia and Harry Robinson”
1 June
Barbara Kesel, “Comics: A Small Medium Gets Large”
4 May
Dennis Casebier, “Oral History in an Empty Land”
6 April
Kitty Maryatt, “The Gutenberg Page”
2 March
O.M. Brack, “Sam Johnson as a Collector”
2 February
Peggy Lobnitz, “Alice Eastwood Behind the Hand Lens: California’s Celebrated Botanist and Author”
5 January
Mario Molina, “Men and Books: Some Gems from the Medical Library”
2010
1 December
David Brafman, “Mystical Memory in the Manly Hall Collection”
3 November
Robert Palazzo, “Sam Dunham, Captain Jack, and Alaska Gold Rush Poets”
6 October
James Keeline, “The Mystery of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: The Origins of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew”
2 June
Mark Roosa, “Gathering Malibu: The Rancho and Beyond”
5 May
Anne Willan, “Cookbooks in History from 1474-1820: A Personal View”
7 April
Romy Wyllie, “Bertram Goodhue: Architect and Master of Many Arts”
3 March
Michael Geer, “Repairing Books and Manuscripts”
3 February
William G. Donohoo, “Opening the Vaults”
Zamorano Lecture speakers at the Huntington:
| 2017 | Stephen Orgel |
| 2016 | Columba Stewart |
| 2015 | Matthew Fisher |
| 2014 | Nick Wilding |
| 2013 | David Schalkwyk |
| 2012 | David Szewczyk |
| 2011 | David Hall |
| 2010 | Michael Winship |
| 2009 | Peter Stallybrass |
| 2008 | Robert Darnton |