| 2022 |
“Writing and Revising Narrative History” by Megan Kate Nelson, with the Mechanics Institute, August 21 |
| 2021 |
“The Social Crusader: Berkeley Mayor J. Stitt Wilson’s Lifelong Quest for a Just Society,” online lecture by Stephen Barton, Berkeley Historical Society, July 22 |
| 2020 |
“Revealing San Francisco’ s Hidden 19th Century African American History,” online lecture by Susan D. Anderson, San Francisco History Days, September 26 (video here) |
| 2020 |
“Harlem of the West: The Fillmore Jazz Era and Redevelopment,” online lecture by Elizabeth Pepin Silva, a documentary filmmaker, photographer, writer, and former day manager of the historic Fillmore Auditorium, August 16 |
| 2019 |
“The Coit Tower Murals: Visual Feast, Political Controversy, Decades of Neglect, and a Spectacular Restoration,” lecture by Professor Emeritus Robert Cherny, hosted by Presidio Historical Association, October 3 |
| 2019 |
Julia Morgan Play Reading, Berkeley Historical Society, July 27 |
| 2018 |
“South Asians in the South Bay: The Privileged Immigrants – with Jeevan Zutshi,” Mechanics’ Institute, September 29 |
| 2018 |
“Storms, Droughts, Floods: Two Classic Documentary Films by Pare Lorentz,” San Francisco Public Library, September 9 |
| 2018 |
“The Making of Benjamin Madley’s Book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe,” Mechanics’ Institute, April 27 |
| 2018 |
“The Future of the Past in the Digital Age, 1.0,” San Francisco History Days, March 3, and “2.0,” SFPL, March 31 |
| 2017 |
“Siberia and California: Connections during the Russian Revolution and Civil War,” Merced Branch SFPL, November 15 |
| 2016 |
“Where Do Archives Come From?,” San Francisco Public Library, November 17 |
| 2015 |
World War I Film Series, co-sponsored, San Francisco Public Library, January-May |
| 2013 |
“Treasures in the Archives,” with representatives from four San Francisco archives, co-sponsored, San Francisco Public Library, October 10 |
| 2013 |
Talk by C.W. Gortner, historical novelist, co-sponsored, San Francisco Public Library, July 10 |
| 2011 |
Three Sara Bard Field performances by Bonda Lewis at San Francisco Public Libraries, October 19, November 1 and 16 |
| 2010 |
“Gifts of the Great Depression”— presentations about the WPA, the Federal Writers’ Project, and the Civilian Conservation Corps, September 14, San Francisco Public Library |
| 2007 |
“Historical Mysteries”— discussion with three writers of historical mystery novels, November 8, San Francisco Public Library |
| 2006 |
“We Were There”— readings of first-person accounts of the great earthquake and fire, April 19, San Francisco Public Library |
| 2002 |
“Hidden Masonic Symbols in the San Francisco Murals of Diego Rivera”— illustrated lecture, October 30, San Francisco Public Library |
| 1998 |
Film series, “Commemorating the Great War”— Barbed Wire, Westfront 1918, and The Dawn Patrol, introduced by Institute members, November 14, 21, and 28, San Francisco Public Library |
| 1997 |
Conference, “The Scholarly Imperative: What Inspires Independent Scholars?” Co-sponsored by the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, October 18, San Francisco Public Library |
| 1996 |
Symposium, “Outsiders in the Golden State: Immigration and Americanization in California,” co-sponsored with International House, October 17, International House, Berkeley |
| 1995 |
Symposium, “Women Leaders at the Early United Nations: a Fiftieth Anniversary Appraisal,” co-sponsored by The Institute for Research on Women and Gender and The Women’s Heritage Museum, March 25, Fort Mason Center |
| 1994 |
National Coalition of Independent Scholars conference, “Independent Scholars: Finding an Audience,” hosted by the Institute for Historical Study, October 21-23, Mills College |
| 1993 |
Film series, “Literary San Francisco”— Greed and The Sea Wolf, co-sponsored by the California Historical Society and the San Francisco Historical Society, June 19 and June 26, Bank of America Center |
| 1991 |
Symposium on German Unification, co-sponsored by the School of Liberal Arts, St. Mary’s College, January 26, St. Mary’s College |
| 1991 |
Film series, “Hollywood and the Myths of the West”: Stagecoach, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Little Big Man, High Noon, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and Heartland, introduced by members of the Institute, April, May, and June, De Anza College, Cupertino |
| 1991 |
Lecture, “On Becoming an Historian”— guest speaker, UCB history professor Leon Litwak; co-sponsored by the California Historical Society, May 22, First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco |
| 1989 |
Series of programs for the bicentennial of the French Revolution, including: |
| 1989 |
“Views of the French Revolution”— Exhibit of Materials in the Bancroft Library, June–August, Doe Library, UC Berkeley; reception held on June 15, Morrison Room, Doe Library
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| 1989 |
Film series at the Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum: A Tale of Two Cities; Danton; La Nuit de Varennes; and Marat/Sade (each film introduced by an Institute member) |
| 1989 |
Symposium on Film and History, “Imagining the Past,” with guest speaker Thomas Laqueur, September 9, Legion of Honor Museum |
| 1988 |
Panel Discussion, “Independent Scholarship for Love and Money,” December 3, Mills College |
| 1987 |
Lecture series, “Berlin in the Twenties,” held at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco over four weeks in the spring, on political, social, and economic background of the Weimar Republic; fiction of Alfred Doeblin; contemporary art; new and experimental theater; F. W. Murnau’s film, Der letzte Mann; political culture of the Weimar years, including cabaret. |
| 1986 |
Bay Area Labor History Workshop: “Using Your Archives” (co-sponsored by Labor Archives and Research Center), December 7, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco |
| 1985 |
“Dance for Life” exhibition and events, May 25, 26; June 1, Oakland Museum of California |
| 1984 |
“World War II Documentary Films from Eastern Europe: The Use of Film in History,” October 29, Mills College |
| 1983 |
Publications workshop, October 29, Diamond Branch Library, Oakland |
| 1983 |
Conference on independent scholarship, September 25, World Affairs Council Rooms, San Francisco |
| 1983 |
“Independent Scholars in the 1980s: Making Connections,” March 18-19, San Francisco State University |
| 1982 |
“Clio and the Law,” co-presented by the Northern District of California Historical Society, December, United States District Court for the Northern District |
| 1981 |
“Historians, History, and Historical Resources in the State Capital of California,” March 14, Big Four Building, Sacramento |
| 1981 |
Grants Workshop (all day program), November 14, Faculty Club, Berkeley |
| 1980 |
“The Chinese of America, 1785–1980,” November 21, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco |
