A Visual Journey: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. In 1870 at age 33, Sara Plummer Lemmon left the East Coast and moved west to Santa Barbara, where she taught herself botany […]
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Presenting Jane: Showing and Sharing Jane Austen in the 21st Century
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. “Presenting Jane” honors the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth through an exploration of the challenges, discoveries, and new ways a 21st-century audience […]
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Wonders of the East: Medieval Belief and Making Monsters in the Middle Ages
Book Club of CaliforniaSponsored by The Book Club of California. In the Middle Ages, monsters were of great interest to artists, authors, and theologians. They appear in all visual media and all textual […]
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Koreatown Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream”
Book Club of CaliforniaSponsored by The Book Club of California. This talk is based on the book Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream,” which delves into the social and cultural history of […]
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Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
Book Club of CaliforniaSponsored by The Book Club of California. What does it mean to imagine the American West through Black experience? For too long, popular culture, from Hollywood Westerns to novels, music, […]