LA History & Metro Studies Group
2012-2013 Schedule
September 8, 2012 – conference: workshops and discussions
“Things I’d Like to Know About Los Angeles”
Drawn from A Companion to Los Angeles, edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise
Pre-registration required. For information, go to:
** Saturday 8:30am-4pm, Friends Hall, Huntington Library
October 12, 2012 – roundtable discussion
“Metropolitan History: What Is It and Where Is It Going?”
Lauren Hirschberg, UCLA
David Levitus, USC
Janice Reiff, UCLA
Andrew Wiese, San Diego State University
November 16, 2012 – pre-circulated paper
“Skyscrapers and Chicken Plants: Mexicans, Latinos, and Sunbelt Immigration Politics in Greater Charlotte, 1990-2011.”
Julie Weise, Cal State Long Beach
December 7, 2012 – dual-paper seminar: L.A. Jews and the Question of Race (pre-circulated papers)
“American Jewish Diversity: Conversion, Race, and Cultural Change in Contemporary L.A.”
Genevieve Okada, University of California San Diego
“Not Quite White: Residential Patterns of Los Angeles Jews, 1920-2000”
Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College
January 22, 2013 –pre-circulated paper
“Pilgrims’ Metropolis: Postwar Migrations and the Construction of a Southern California Religious Marketplace”
Eileen Luhr, Cal State Long Beach
** Tuesday 6:30 p.m., Autry National Center - Joint session with Autry Western History Workshop
February 22, 2013 – roundtable discussion
“Religion and Metropolitan History”
Samuel Chu, ONE-LA; California Faith for Equality, MAZON; Immanuel Presbyterian
Brie Loskota, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture
Richard Flory, USC
Eileen Luhr, Cal State Long Beach
Mark Wild, Cal State Los Angeles
March 15, 2013 – dual-paper seminar: Sex, Gender & the Politics of Space (pre-circulated papers)
“Zoning Privacy: Regulating Adult Entertainment in Santa Clara County, CA, 1965-1980”
Clayton Howard, College of the Holy Cross.
“Housing the Liberation: The Fight for Equitable Housing and the Politics of Gay Activism in Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1960-1984”
Ian Baldwin, University of Nevada Las Vegas
April 12, 2013 – Clark Davis Memorial Lecture
"All Roads Lead to East L.A.: Freeways and the Freeway Revolt in Los Angeles"
Eric Avila, UCLA
All sessions will beginat 12 noon in Seaver Classrooms 1 & 2 in the Munger Research Center, Huntington Library, unless otherwise noted. Parking is free. For most sessions, lunch will be available beginning at 11:45 a.m. to attendees who RSVP before the posted deadline.
For seminars with a pre-circulated paper, the paper will be made available approximately 2 weeks prior to the seminar. At that time, you can access the paper via a link posted on the ICW website at The link will also be circulated in the email announcement for each session.
If you would like to receive announcements for these sessions, please fill out the form at
We kindly request that attendees access and read the papers before coming.
For more information, email the co-coordinators—Becky Nicolaides, David Levitus, Genevieve Carpio, Lily Geismer—at .
The LA History & Metro Studies Group is generously sponsored by
the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW)