{"id":155,"date":"2023-04-04T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:38:47","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n\n    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n            <div class=\"header-container\">\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Upcoming Events \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Prof. Stefan Esders <\/span>(Berlin)<\/p>\n<p>Date: April 1st<\/p>\n<p>Time: 02:00 p.m<\/p>\n<p>Location: MHP 203<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            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         \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n\n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/hell-hath-no-fury-gender-disability-and-the-invention-of-damned-bodies-in-early-christinaity-by-meghan-r-henning-phd\n  target=\"_blank\"    \n>\n     \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FCO\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\">Time:<\/span>\u00a0 12:00 P.M<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; direction: ltr; list-style-type: disc;\">\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.38; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0pt 0px 12pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\">Location: <\/span><span style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\">PED 130 Conference Room<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-21-at-2.10.58-PM-1080x0-c-default.png\"\n                  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EXPERIENCING MITHRAS IN DURA-EUROPOS<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"x_elementToProof\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.38; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0pt 0px 12pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\">Event Details:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"color: #242424; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', -apple-system, 'system-ui', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\n<li style=\"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; direction: ltr; list-style-type: disc;\">\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.38; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 12pt 0px 0pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\">Date:<\/span> Thursday, November 13th<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; direction: ltr; list-style-type: disc;\">\n<div style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.38; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\">Time:<\/span>\u00a0 3:30-5:00 P.M<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; direction: ltr; list-style-type: disc;\">\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.38; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0pt 0px 12pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\">Location: <\/span><span style=\"border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\">Doheny Memorial Library (DML) &#8211; 240<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n\n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/where-east-meets-west-experiencing-mithras-in-dura-europos\n  target=\"_blank\"    \n>\n     \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FCO\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-04-at-2.25.52-PM-1080x0-c-default.png\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Flyer: Where East Meets West. Experiencing Mithras in Dura-Europos\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-239959210\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Dealing with Distraction: The Struggles and Strategies of Early Christian Monks<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Professor, Jamie Kreiner (UCLA)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>April 17, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>12:30-2:00 PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>MHP 203<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Jamie Kreiner (UCLA), \u201cDealing with\u00a0Distraction: The Struggles and Strategies of Early Christian Monks\u201d:<br \/>\nWe are not alone in our distraction. Even early Christian monks \u2014 women and men who had given up nearly everything in order to concentrate on God \u2014 still found themselves struggling to concentrate. But rather than surrender in desperation, they devoted considerable creative energy to find ways to fight back. This lecture surveys the interlocking strategies that monks developed to deal with distraction, to come to grips with a complex world in which their minds couldn\u2019t stop moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/02\/Pshoi-1080x0-c-default.jpeg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Artwork depicting a monk\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-539796766\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Imperial Materialities and Political Transculturation in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-AchaemenId Iranian World<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div><strong>Matthew P. Canepa (UC Irvine)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>March 26th, 2025<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>3:30-5:00 PM<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>TCC 227<\/strong><\/div>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">This lecture considers luxury objects and commensal politics as a crucial tool by which political and personal identities were created and contested after Alexander. This lecture seeks to understand their roles as objects of political transculturation, creating and contesting elite bodily and practical states of being within a wider Afro-Eurasian context focusing on evidence from a number of interconnected and mutually antagonistic spheres emerging from the former Persian Empire. In reconstructing the formation of a new \u201cPerso-Macedonian\u201d tradition in the late fourth and early third centuries in the fledgling courts of Babylon, Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Lysimachia, and Alexandria and later developments in political centers in Iran, it puts the artistic evidence into dialogue with epigraphic and literary evidence and archaeological\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">assemblages in Egypt, the Balkans and Central and South Asia. While doing so, this lecture considers range of theoretical debates have the potential to provide tools for analyzing luxury material\u2019s impact from the point of view of an object in the hands of a single individual to an imperial system\u2019s orchestration of resources.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-13-at-1.17.34\u202fPM-1080x0-c-default.png\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Artifact\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-617195073\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Figures of Authority<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Assistant Professsor, Luke A. Fidler (USC)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday, 12 February 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>12:30 -2:30<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>SOS 250<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1179, Walter of Ch\u00e2tillon argued that Christ took form in Mary\u2019s womb\u00a0ut artifex in opere\u00a0(\u201clike an artist inside his own creation\u201d). His image construes the work of art as the privileged occasion for a powerful, paradoxical rescaling of cause and effect. This talk shows how high-medieval sculptors explored the capacity of aesthetic objects to make miniature worlds that embody and contain more expansive, world-shaping operations by nesting tiny scenes of figural drama in implements whose visual access and tactile manipulation were liturgically regulated. Across the German-speaking lands, narratives staged with figurines (all scaled to the human hand) were secreted in cross and candle bases, portable altars, and eucharistic containers. Attending to this understudied corpus has the potential to reshape disciplinary accounts of the twelfth-century \u2018rebirth\u2019 of monumental sculpture. But it also reveals the miniature figure as a philosophical device in period discourse, one that transacted anxieties about magic, sacred matter, and the proliferation of wild forms outside ecclesiastical control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/01\/download-1080x0-c-default.png\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-9110538\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>The Migrant, the Teacher, the Heretic. Early Christian Intellectual Networks in Rome beyond the Orthodoxy-Heresy Dichotomy.<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div>The Center for the Premodern World, Levan Institute for the Humanities, and the Religion Department presents:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/theo.kuleuven.be\/en\/research\/researchers\/00112235\">Andr\u00e1s Handl (Leuven \/ Bern)<\/a><\/div>\n<div>November 21, 2024<\/div>\n<div>5:00 PM<\/div>\n<div>SOS 250<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The world of early third-century Christians in Rome has traditionally been depicted as a battle (and victory) of orthodoxy over heretical groups. The most important written source of the era, an obscure heresiography called the Refutatio omnium haeresium, confirms this impression. It is well known that the anonymous author (formerly \u2018Hippolytus\u2019) invented connections between Greek philosophers and various heterodox Christian groups. He aimed to prove that these dissenting groups, most of them migrants, were more devoted to philosophical teachers than to Christ. While this list of \u2018heretics\u2019 is an obvious construction intended to separate, approaching the list as a network overcomes this separation and shed light on local interconnectedness beyond constructed reality. This talk has three aims. First, it tests this hypothesis by surveying evidence suggesting everyday encounters between heterodox Christian teachers. Second, it aims to map so far hidden connections among mainly migrant groups. Finally, it explores how network theory can help overcome the omnipresent but problematic orthodoxy-heresy dichotomy.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n\n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/the-migrant-the-teacher-the-heretic-early-christian-intellectual-networks-in-rome-beyond-the-orthodoxy-heresy-dichotomy\n  target=\"_blank\"    \n>\n     \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FCO\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2024\/09\/thumb-1080x0-c-default.jpeg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-613035342\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Rethinking Arabic Literary History Michael Cooperson (UCLA)<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n<div>October 30, 2024<\/div>\n<div>12:30 PM<\/div>\n<div>THH 309K<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abstract:<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">What did pre-modern authors writing in Arabic have to say about their own literary history? Many things, as it turns out, most of them non-linear. In this respect, their accounts differ from the rise-and-fall story later promulgated by European scholars\u2014a story which has now become the dominant one even in the Arab world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">What\u2019s next? One way forward, I propose, is to draw on non-linear approaches, both pre-modern and modern\u2014including, for example, the late-nineteenth century notion of Kulturgeschichte as applied to the cultural history of Arabic-speaking societies. A new literary history of Arabic\u2014or at least, the one I am trying to write\u2013\u2013should grant equal weight to all periods and regions; should foreground reception, especially translation, as a critical part of the story; and should embrace avowedly pedagogical elements such as commentary, digression, and above all, visual explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The talk will include a sneak preview of this work in progress; comments and criticism are welcome! I am also very interested in hearing from participants about the state of literary history in their fields of expertise.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2024\/09\/ucla_2-521-280x280-1-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-195531081\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Writing from exile: Greek pseudepigrapha in Ovid\u2019s Tristia and Ex Ponto<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/peiranogarrison\/home\">Irene Peirano Garrison (Harvard University)<\/a><\/div>\n<div>September, 20, 2024<\/div>\n<div>2:00 PM<\/div>\n<div>SOS 250<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2024\/09\/USC-Classics-Department-Writing-from-Exile-Updated-1080x0-c-default.png\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-243324430\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Disasters in Late Antiquity: Extraordinary and Everyday<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.osu.edu\/people\/sessa.3\"><strong>Kristina Sessa, Department of History, The Ohio State University) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday April 16, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center (KDC) 235<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As in other times and places, the people of the late Roman Empire (ca. 250-700 CE) experienced their share of sudden, violent, and destructive environmental disasters \u2013 phenomena such as earthquakes, tsunamis, epidemics, and volcanic eruptions \u2013 alongside longer-term climatic shifts that in some areas generated deleterious weather conditions, leading to periods of flooding and\/or drought. And while the Romans were no strangers to warfare, inhabitants of the late Empire arguably experienced the catastrophic impacts of organized military action on a scale unknown to many previous generations. Many scholars use these and similar observations to fashion declinist narratives about Late Antiquity, which present a range of disasters (e.g., warfare, climate change, disease) as the \u201ccauses\u201d of the empire\u2019s collapse. This presentation offers a wholly different set of interpretations of Late Antiquity\u2019s numerous natural and anthropogenic disasters. Rather than constructing a single grand narrative that explains what disasters \u201cdid\u201d to the late Roman Empire, I present readings that center the perspectives of the late Romans who experienced them along with the many different environmental contexts in which they took place. Drawing on a range of evidence (textual, archaeological, and natural proxy data), my talk will present some provisional answers the following questions: What did disasters mean to late Romans, and how did they typically talk about them? How did large-scale, materially destructive events differentially impact communities? And perhaps most importantly: did they, and thus should we, distinguish between extraordinary late ancient disasters and those that were more everyday?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Info for Image:<\/strong> Miniature by Pi\u00e9art dou Tielt in Gilles li Muisis, Antiquitates Flandriae: depiction of the plague at Tournai in 1349<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n\n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/history.osu.edu\/people\/sessa.3\n  target=\"_blank\"    \n>\n     \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FCO\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2024\/03\/gettyimages-535795241-50_custom-24857a8478a44a190d409bcd1b48148eb631dff7-s1600-c85-copy-1080x0-c-default.jpeg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-503070149\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>The shadow of the &#8216;people&#8217; (Italy, mid-14th c.)<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div>\n<p><strong>Igor\u00a0<span class=\"marksuf0ispgs\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Mineo<\/span>\u00a0(University of Palermo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Thursday March 7, 2024 at 5:00 p.m<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the late Middle Ages in Italy and Europe, the term &#8220;people&#8221; (populus \/ popolo) was of great importance in the political and social lexicon, a fundamental word in both the common and the learned language, and had been for a long time. In Italy in particular, certain political events in the first half of the 14th century demonstrate not only the richness of polysemy (which we have to take for granted in such a case), but also the uncertainties and fluctuations in the practical use of words such as this, and of all those (synonyms, but not only) that are connected to them, in specific contexts. Which contexts and cases are being referred to? &#8216;People&#8217; in Italian cities during this period, specifically in the north-central part of the peninsula known as the &#8216;regnum italicum&#8217;, often referred to an organized party, an association, and even an institution capable of seizing power. This fact, which greatly impressed contemporaries and later historians, coexisted with other representations and functions of &#8216;people&#8217; in the same cities and practices. How does this complex constellation operate? How are the boundaries between &#8216;people&#8217; and &#8216;non-people&#8217; defined and understood? I will focus on two fundamental cities, Rome and Florence, and exploit the views of Marsilio da Padova and Bartolo da Sassoferrato, particularly perceptive observers of their time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"en-GB\">E. Igor\u00a0<span class=\"marksuf0ispgs\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Mineo<\/span>\u00a0is a professor of medieval history at the University of Palermo. He is the editor of the journal &#8220;Storica\u201d (Viella editore) and serves on the editorial boards of &#8216;Storia del pensiero politico&#8217; and &#8216;Critica Marxista&#8217;.\u00a0His main areas of interest are the social and institutional history of the late Middle Ages, especially aristocracy and social stratification, and ideologies and political languages from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"fr\">His works on this subject include:\u00a0<i>State, orders, and social distinction<\/i>, in A. Gamberini \u2013 I. Lazzarini (ed.),\u00a0<i>The Italian Renaissance State<\/i>, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012, pp. 323-344;\u00a0<i>Le jeu du peuple avec le temps en Italie au milieu du XIVe si\u00e8cle<\/i>, in C. Moatti, M. Riot-Sarcey (ed.),\u00a0<i>Pourquoi se r\u00e9f\u00e9rer au pass\u00e9\u00a0?<\/i>, Editions de l\u2019Atelier, Paris 2018, pp. 39-58\u00a0;\u00a0<i>Le parti e il tutto.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><i><span lang=\"it\">La memoria dei Ciompi e la semantica del popolo<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"it\">, in\u00a0<i>Al di l\u00e0 del Repubblicanesimo. Modernit\u00e0 politica e origini dello Stato<\/i>, a<i>\u00a0<\/i>cura\u00a0\u00a0di G. G. Cappelli, con la collaborazione di G.De Vita, Napoli, Unior Press 2020, pp. 107-130.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2024\/02\/download-1080x0-c-default.png\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-603307589\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>\u201cThere Will Be Blood\u201d<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getty.edu\/visit\/cal\/events\/blood_symposium.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThere Will Be Blood\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">There Will Be Blood: A Symposium<\/div>\n<div>GETTY CENTER<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Friday, March 1, 2024, at 9 am<\/div>\n<div>Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 11 am<\/div>\n<div>USC and Getty Center<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tickets available January 19, 2024<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Delve into the cultural, religious, and symbolic significance of blood during the medieval period in this collaboration between the Getty Museum and USC\u2019s Center for the Premodern World. This two-day symposium brings together renowned international scholars, curators, and artists to explore the role of blood in the social, artistic, and scientific dialogues of the Middle Ages. It offers a forum for rigorous academic inquiry and lively discussions that will shed light on this vital aspect of medieval culture. Complements the exhibition Blood: Medieval\/Modern, on view at the Getty Center from February 27-May 10, 2024.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Participants include:<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia)<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Bettina Bildhauer (University of St Andrews)<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Heather Blurton (University of California-Santa Barbara)<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Mary Dzon (University of Tennessee)<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Jennifer Jahner (California Institute of Technology)<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Simon John (University of Swansea)<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago)<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Sarah Star (University of Toronto)<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Brett Whalen (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n\n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/www.getty.edu\/visit\/cal\/events\/blood_symposium.html\n  target=\"_blank\"    \n>\n     \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FCO\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2024\/01\/blood_symposium-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-577993519\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Thinking with Ecophysiology: Exploring New Approaches to Classical Landscapes and Ancient Plants<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n<h3><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Kate Birney (Wesleyan University)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Wednesday February 21, 12:30pm-2pm \u2013 THH 309K<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The idea that plants respond and adapt to different environmental conditions is as old as Theophrastus, but is taking on special resonance in this era of climate change.\u00a0 Ecophysiology, the study of how plants respond to the environment, illuminates specific mechanisms by which plants can survive challenges posed by biotic and abiotic stressors, whether by modifying their phytochemistry, physiology, or metabolism. Our lab is exploring the ways in which ecophysiological knowledge, and even lab or greenhouse experimentation, may be applied in the study of ancient Mediterranean plants. We present two case studies rooted in archaeology and classical sources, that demonstrate the potential (and the limitations) of this interdisciplinary approach to shed light on botanical commodities, ethnobotanical practices and cultivation histories, as well as their broader implications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesleyan.edu\/academics\/faculty\/kbirney\/profile.html\">About Speaker<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n\n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/www.wesleyan.edu\/academics\/faculty\/kbirney\/profile.html\n  target=\"_blank\"    \n>\n     \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FCO\" points=\"19.3,27.5 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November 29, 3:30 P.M at TCC 227<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">Jacopo Tabolli<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">Universit\u00e0 per Stranieri di Siena<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/Tabolli-1080x0-c-default.jpeg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1057705519\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3> &#8220;Praetexit nomine: Aeneid 4 as a Republican tragicomoedia&#8221;<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, October 25th, 3:00 P.M at THH 309K<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">Giuseppe Pezzini<span class=\"x_Apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">Corpus Christi College, Oxford<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/Pezzini-1080x0-c-default.jpeg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1814747754\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>\u201cThe Chinese Age of Exploration\u201d<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, April 19, 3:00 P.M at THH 309<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Valerie Hansen, Yale History Department, \u201cThe Chinese Age of Exploration\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/Hansen-Talk-e1680729884936-1080x0-c-default.png\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"\u201cThe Chinese Age of Exploration\u201d event image\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-2115210423\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>\u201cLooking for Alexandra in the Aeneid\u201d<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, April 26, 3:30 P.M\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Classics at NYU,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cLooking for Alexandra in the Aeneid\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/595740-e1680729835510-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Painting of a woman\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-953446312\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>&#8220;When Anglo-Saxon Pots Aren&#8217;t Anglo-Saxon Pots and Why Historians Should Care&#8221;<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, March 22, 3:15 P.M at\u00a0<\/strong><strong>SOS 250<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robin Fleming, Boston College History Department, &#8220;When Anglo-Saxon Pots Aren&#8217;t Anglo-Saxon Pots and Why Historians Should Care&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/duvoboge-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Anglo-Saxon Pot\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1829747917\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>\u201cMusic in the Apocalyptic Mode\u201d<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div><strong>Thursday, February 16<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>3:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Taper Hall (THH) 309<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speakers:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vapa.uccs.edu\/index\/music\/faculty\/mcallister\">Colin McAllister<\/a>, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs<\/p>\n<p>Revelation, Apocalypse, the End Times\u2014ideas that embody humanity\u2019s deepest hopes and darkest terrors\u2014have also provided inspiration around which musicians, poets, and composers have crafted some of their most profound creations. Colin McAllister, himself a renowned<br \/>\nguitarist as well as a music historian, will take the CPW community on an intellectual and auditory tour of the ways in which apocalyptic thought and musical expression have interacted over the centuries, from medieval poetic meditations on God\u2019s Judgment to Heavy Metal visions of post-apocalyptic hellscapes, and in the process cast light<br \/>\none of our most widely shared if little understood cultural<br \/>\ntouchstones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/lytyxezu-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Post-apocalyptic art work\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-351479578\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Star-Gazers from the Mount of Victory: The Magi and Astrology in the Later Middle Ages<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div><strong>Tuesday, February 21<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>3:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Taper Hall (THH) 309<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speakers:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/his\/people\/faculty\/smoller_laura\/index.html\">Laura Ackerman Smoller<\/a>, University of Rochester<\/p>\n<p>The gospel story of the Magi (Matthew 2:1-12) was a source of trouble for medieval Christian readers. Who were the Magi and what was the source of their knowledge? Were they, as some opined, descendants of the prophet Balaam, watching atop the Mount of Victory for the mysterious star that he had predicted would arise out of Jacob (Numbers 24:19)? Or were these wise men in fact astrologers? Although the church fathers had advocated against astrology, a wave of translations from the Arabic in the twelfth century brought western Europeans into contact with astrological theories according to which the stars were capable of demonstrating Christian truths. This talk will examine how preachers talked about the magi and their relationship to astrology. Whether citing a planetary conjunction or comet, linking the Magi to Old Testament prophecy, or simply turning a blind eye to their star gazing, medieval preachers were contributing to an ongoing conversation about astrology as it rose in prominence\u2014and came increasingly under suspicion\u2014in the years between 1100 and 1600.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/gifupywo-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Art work from the Middle Ages\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-900279729\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Searching for Magdalena (or, Why a Medieval Historian is Reading Saidiya Hartman and Other Notes from the Archive).<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div><strong>Wednesday, November 16<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>3:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Doheny Library (DML) 240<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speakers:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/smail\/home\">Daniel Smail<\/a>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Two decades ago, the author, while working in the archives of the city of Marseille, stumbled across a lawsuit from 1406 setting a woman named Magdalena Coline against a shipwright named Peire Huguet. Magdalena was a Berber woman who had been enslaved to Peire for more than a decade and was now suing her former enslaver over a small debt. This paper describes the author\u2019s subsequent efforts to use the fragmentary clues available in the archives to piece together Magdalena\u2019s life history and that of her enslaver. This process invites the question that lies at the heart of this paper: does the moral duty to tell the histories of marginalized peoples authorize the use of imaginative reconstructions of those histories?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/kuhycajy-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Calligraphy\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-345529638\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Assessing the Impact of the Justinianic Plague across Time and Space<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div><strong>Thursday, November 10<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>5:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOS 250<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speakers:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cas.okstate.edu\/department_of_history\/faculty_bios\/eisenberg.html\">Merle Eisenberg<\/a>, Oklahoma State University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assessing the Impact of the Justinianic Plague across Time and Space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Justinianic Plague (c. 540-751 CE) has become a pivotal dividing event between the ancient and medieval worlds. The pandemic\u2019s significant mortality and various other secondary effects are said to transform the Eurasian world. This talk will investigate the impact of the Justinianic Plague at two levels. First, it will explore the scale of the plague\u2019s impact from an individual, burial archaeology level up to states and empires. Second, the talk will discuss the impact of the plague from the years immediately after its late antique outbreak to how living with Covid has shaped the histories we write about pandemics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/doxiwury-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Art work from the Middle Ages\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-342947249\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Art beyond the Plateaus: Tibet in the Artistic and Religious Exchanges across the Himalayas, Central Asia, and China<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div><strong>Friday, November 4<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>4:00pm to 6:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOS B40<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<p>Mariachiara Gasparini, University of Oregon<\/p>\n<p>David Pritzker, Pritzker Art Collaborative<\/p>\n<p>Discussant:<\/p>\n<p>Yoonah Hwang, University of Southern California<\/p>\n<p>This workshop aims to reevaluate the role of the Tibetan Empire (also known as Tubo) in the transmission of visual and religious cultures across the Himalayas, Central Asia, and China. Focusing on art as a vehicle of cultural exchange, the speakers will examine a range of artistic media such as painting, metalwork, and textile that developed with great sophistication and prevalence between the 7th and 10th centuries, while considering how specific religious concepts and practices were represented and disseminated through material culture across multiple regions. The workshop will also explore both human (political, military, social, economic) and non-human (climatic and the environmental) factors in the development of artistic materials and production methods that took place amid the power struggles between the Tibetans, Iranians, Turks, Arabs, and the Chinese in Medieval Asia.<\/p>\n<p>This workshop is part of the Art, Religion, History Collaborative Group sponsored by the USC Office of Research Initiatives and Facilities. It is co-organized by the Department of Art History and East Asian Studies Center in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Image:<\/p>\n<p>Silk Shirt with Senmurws. 670-900 CE. Possibly Tubo.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Carlo Cristi\u2013\u2013Asian Arts Company<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/jyvyragi-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Clothing from the Tibetan Empire\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-924934739\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday, October 28<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10:00am to 5:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In-person: ACB 238<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1003109\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lisa Bitel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;Stuck in the Iron Age: The Buried Otherworld of Early Ireland&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respondent: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hss.caltech.edu\/people\/jennifer-jahner\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jennifer Jahner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/hist\/people\/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1091824\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jay Rubenstein<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;Raiders of the Lost Patriarchs.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respondent: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ciapps.csuci.edu\/directory\/Details\/alison.perchuk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alison Perchuck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/princeton.academia.edu\/CarolynLaferriere\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carolyn Laferriere<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Paper: &#8220;Making a Case for Caves: The Cult of Pan in Athens.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respondent: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1008194\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ann Marie Yasin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/history.northwestern.edu\/people\/faculty\/core-faculty\/dyan-elliott.html%20\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dyan Elliott<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;Grave Events: Exhumation in the Early Middle Ages.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respondent: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1016452\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Albertson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucr.edu\/app\/home\/profile\/jhughes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jennifer Hughes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;Paying Tribute for the Dead: Religion and Spectral Labor in Sixteenth-Century Mexican Epidemics&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respondent: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cla.csulb.edu\/departments\/history\/faculty\/kelleher\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marie Kelleher<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durham.ac.uk\/staff\/s-j-semple\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Semple<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 &#8220;Early Medieval Conceptions of Sacred Space and Place: Holes, Hollows, Caves and Hellmouths in Early Medieval Practice and Imagination&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respondent: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1080707\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maya Maskarinec<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advance Registration is required. Please register at the following <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/PcoCdABmCUFiBqA8A\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/vazupowe-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Building\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1505017870\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Carolingian Weather Events and the Climatic Longue Dure\u00e9.<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>October 17, 2022 5:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOS 250<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker: David J. Patterson\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/div>\n<div>Davis Center for Historical Studies<\/div>\n<div>Princeton University<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In a modern context, there are multiple ways of defining and differentiating the closely related concepts of \u2018weather\u2019 and \u2018climate.\u2019 In general, if weather is\u00a0<em>\u00e9v\u00e9nement,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>climate may be\u00a0<em>longue dur\u00e9e<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(to borrow terms from Braudel). Unsurprisingly, early medieval thinkers\u2014whose thought was greatly shaped by the agrarian society of which they were part\u2014frequently pondered both weather and climate. The latter category included Aristotelian climate zones as well as something closer to our modern conception of a \u2018long-term norm\u2019 (and deviations from it).\u00a0This talk will explore Carolingian interpretations of weather as well as situations resembling our modern definition of climate change, in which a worsening political situation could mean worsening weather trends, and in which a meteorological golden age (that of Charlemagne) could give way to one of climatic chaos amid the internecine conflicts of his grandsons.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Image: BSB Clm 14300, from an 8th c. ms. of Isidore\u2019s De natura rerum<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/dyjureve-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Medieval art work\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-781080214\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Hiding the Plain Sight: The Vicissitudes of Interfaith-Sex Prosecution in the Medieval Crown of Aragon<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Monday, April 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:30pm to 3:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>in-person: SOS 250<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.edu\/cas\/directory\/biography.php?profile_id=83\">Thomas Barton\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>(University of San Diego, History &amp;\u00a0USD\u2019s Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program)<\/p>\n<p>While ecclesiastical and secular\u00a0laws throughout the pluralistic medieval Iberian Peninsula universally\u00a0condemned interfaith sexual relationships, especially those involving\u00a0Christian\u00a0women and non-Christian men, scholars have long noticed inconsistencies in\u00a0their application by royal, seigniorial, and municipal authorities alike. This\u00a0article\u00a0explores this phenomenon by reconstructing the socio-political circumstances\u00a0that could lead authorities to turn a blind eye towards such illicit intimate\u00a0relationships, on the\u00a0one hand, and identifying circumstances that could\u00a0trigger sensitivity among authorities and prompt vigorous prosecutions, on the\u00a0other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/capicyho-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  alt=\"Thomas Barton\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-674902257\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Borrowed Recipes: Migrant Food Worlds of the Silk Roads<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Thursday, April 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2:00pm &#8211; 5:00pm PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Friends of the USC Libraries Lecure Hall, DML 240, and Alumni Park<\/p>\n<p><strong>2\u20133:15 p.m<\/strong>.: Panel discussion at Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, DML 240<br \/>\n<strong>3:30\u20135 p.m<\/strong>.: Food tastings and cooking demos at Alumni Park<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADMISSION:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAdmission is free. Reservations required.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/borrowed-recipes-migrant-food-worlds-of-the-silk-roads-registration-220511595117\">\u00a0RSVP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the foods we enjoy in Los Angeles arrived via long journeys along the ancient Silk Roads, and are the result of countless exchanges between cultures in East and Central Asia, Persia, Western Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean. Join us for a conversation about these often hidden\u2014and delicious\u2014culinary histories moderated by science writer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicolatwilley\"><strong>Nicola Twilley<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of the podcast\u00a0<i>Gastropod<\/i>, chef\u00a0<strong>Bughra Arkin<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladolans.com\/about\"><strong>Dolan\u2019s Uyghur Cuisine<\/strong><\/a>, food archaeologist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tavolamediterranea.com\/2020\/12\/05\/about-us\/\"><strong>Farrell Monaco<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of the blog\u00a0<i>Tavola Mediterranea<\/i>, food historian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medieval.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/joseph-nagy\"><strong>Joseph Nagy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of Harvard University, and\u00a0<i>LAist<\/i>\u00a0food critic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/people\/elina-shatkin\"><strong>Elina Shatkin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the discussion, see\u2014and taste\u2014Silk Road food histories for yourself. Dolan\u2019s Uyghur Cuisine and other L.A.-area restaurants will provide food tastings and live cooking demonstrations of Armenian, Ethiopian, Uyghur, and other culinary favorites from the ancient Silk Roads.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the panel and tastings, the USC Libraries will present an exhibition during Spring 2022 in Doheny Memorial Library tracing the long history of cultural exchanges on the ancient Silk Roads, which were an important forerunner to globalization as we conceive of it today. The exhibition was developed collaboratively by the USC Libraries and faculty from the history and archaeology departments at USC Dornsife.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by the USC Libraries,\u00a0USC Center for the Premodern World, USC Archaeology Research Center, and USC East Asian Studies Center at USC Dornsife College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/visionsandvoices.usc.edu\/eventdetails\/?event_id=37458745396289&#038;s_type=&#038;s_genre=\n  target=\"_blank\"    \n>\n    Learn more  \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FCO\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/587d3c9fb89f77cf67ca83711a7e286fee690e29-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-877495728\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Holy War\u2014 War &#038; Religion in Medieval Europe and Japan, a Symposium<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p align=\"center\"><strong>Tuesday, March 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>10:00am &#8211; 12:30pm &amp;\u00a02pm &#8211; 4:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>in person | Social Sciences Building SOS 250| RSVP at cpw@usc.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>on-line | Please register\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJcsc-iprj4jGdLRtMXudlMAJYqoDMwrn99I\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Center for the Premodern World and the Project for Premodern Japan Studies are delighted to welcome to campus Professor Philippe Buc of Leiden University to discuss his latest research \u2014 a comparative analysis of the cultures of religion and violence in premodern Europe and Japan. Professor Buc is well known for his work on topics as varied as biblical exegesis, the history of anthropological thought, and the cultures of religious violence in the West, from Antiquity to the present. Building on the last project, he is seeking to draw together two cultures, premodern\u00a0Europe and Japan, to see what each can reveal about the other. Our one-day symposium will consider his recent work and draw into the conversation Thomas Conlan, Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University and Dan Sherer, Professor of East Asian Studies at Hebrew University (both of whom will be participating remotely), as well as Joan Piggot, Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at USC-Dornsife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenters &amp; Discussants:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professors\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.asia.huji.ac.il\/people\/dan-shrer\">Dan Sherer<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/history.princeton.edu\/people\/thomas-donald-conlan\">Tom Conlan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ucris.univie.ac.at\/portal\/en\/persons\/philippe-buc(a6b01847-89ec-482f-a9cf-dfcc19f63982).html\">Philippe Buc<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Organizer: Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1003604\">Joan Piggott<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:00 AM\u00a0 Introductions, Prof. Joan Piggott, USC<\/p>\n<p>10:10 AM\u00a0 Prof. Philippe Buc, University of Vienna<br \/>\nWhy this project? Beginning the discussion<\/p>\n<p>11:00 AM\u00a0 Prof. Dan Sherer, Hebrew University<br \/>\n\u201cDefending the Lotus, Offending the Lotus: Rise and Fall<br \/>\nof Nichirenist Military Power 1532-1536\u201d<\/p>\n<p>12:00 PM\u00a0 General Discussion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2:00 PM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prof. Tom Conlan, Princeton University<br \/>\nComments\u00a0 &amp; Questions<\/p>\n<p>3:00 PM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prof. Philippe Buc, Response<\/p>\n<p>3:30 PM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 General Discussion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For further information, contact<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Joan Piggott, USC History Department &amp;<\/p>\n<p>The Project for Premodern Japan Studies at USC<\/p>\n<p>Center for the Premodern World, USC<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Please RSVP by the EOD Friday, March 18 at cpw@usc.edu to attend in-person and to reserve a lunch box<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/malufeto-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1838137750\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Prospective and Current Graduate Student Reception<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, March 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2:00pm \u2013 3:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Via Zoom:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/j\/96904962804\"><strong>https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/j\/96904962804<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>(no registration needed)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please join us to learn about the CPW community, upcoming seminars and other events.<\/p>\n<p>Please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cpw@usc.edu\">cpw@usc.edu<\/a>\u00a0if you have any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/gajeqene-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-257116295\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>The Silk Roads: Connecting Communities, Markets, and Minds Since Antiquity<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Lecture by Peter Frankopan, author of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>The Silk Roads: A New History of the World<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, March 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4:00pm -5:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>in-person:\u00a0Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Friends of the USC Libraries Lecure Hall, DML 240<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Silk Roads were networks that have played a crucial role in world history over many millennia. In this talk, Peter Frankopan will explain how to understand the connections that helped enable exchange, spread religions and ideas, and facilitate the spread of pathogens and disease from antiquity to the present day \u2013 and will talk about how to move away from Eurocentric readings of history.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0event\u00a0is being held in conjunction with the opening of the Doheny Memorial Library exhibition &#8220;The Silk Roads: Connecting Communities, Markets, and Minds Since Antiquity,\u201d which will be on view on the first floor of the library through May 31. This exhibition is the collaborative product of many people in departments, museums, and institutions at USC and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>About the speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.ox.ac.uk\/people\/professor-peter-frankopan\">Peter Frankopan\u00a0<\/a>is Professor of Global History at Worcester College, University of Oxford and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, as well as Senior\u00a0Research Fellow. He works on the history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia, Central and Southern Asia, and on relations\u00a0between Christianity and Islam, focusing on connections and exchange. He is the author of\u00a0<i>The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the\u00a0World Order<\/i>\u00a0(2019), T<i>he Silk Roads: A New History of the World<\/i>\u00a0(2016) as well as\u00a0<i>The First Crusade: The Call from the East<\/i>\u00a0(2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/jyzapiku-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-435773950\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Comparing Premodern Empires: Methodology and Challenges<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Thursday, February 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2pm-3:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a hybrid event:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>in-person: SOS 250 | on-line: register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwufu6sqjorGtKiEOMgem312VB8erWaHCee\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iufrance.fr\/les-membres-de-liuf\/membre\/1995-laetitia-graslin-thome.html\"><strong>Laetitia Graslin-Thome\u0301<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(University of Lorraine, France; USC visiting scholar in Classics, 2021-22)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Respondent:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.ox.ac.uk\/people\/professor-peter-frankopan\"><strong>Peter Frankopan<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(University of Oxford, Professor of Global History, Worcester College)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Modern scholarship<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>sometimes creates divisions between political structures or regions that were closely connected in the past. In order to try to understand why and how to overcome this tendency, this talk will present a research project focusing on the Hellenistic world during the second century. The Ptolemaic and Seleukid empires are often studied separately. However, comparing the two main kingdoms that emerge from Alexander\u2019s conquest opens new perspectives. In the second century BC, after more than a century of existence, both empires were confronted with comparable problems: dynastic divisions, secessionist tendencies, challenges to the ideal of the victorious king. The<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>solutions their kings found were<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>sometimes similar, and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>sometimes not, because of their geographies, the political structures they inherited, and the variety of reactions of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>local<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>populations to the Greco-Macedonian conquest. Comparing how those two kingdoms faced the new challenges of the second century BC is a way to understand their respective organizations better. It also<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>invites us to think further about the way scholars can\u00a0work on historical questions over vast areas that were interconnected in ancient times and that scholarship tends to divide into pieces.<\/p>\n<p>About the speaker: Laetitia Graslin-Thom\u00e9 was trained at the Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure (Paris) and Tours University (France), where she studied ancient history, Assyriology and economics. She is now an Associate Professor in ancient history at the Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine, Nancy, France. She is currently on leave provided by the Institut Universitaire de France to support a five-year project called &#8220;Zeus in Marduk\u2019s shadow: a study of the Hellenistic world in light of Near-Eastern evidence.&#8221; She is a visiting scholar at USC for the academic year 2021-2022. Her current work focuses on Hellenistic history, with a special interest in cuneiform sources. She coordinates the \u201cGroupe d&#8217;\u00e9tude des mondes hell\u00e9nistiques&#8221; (GEMH), that gathers scholars working on the Hellenistic period. The group currently prepares a book on the changes experienced by Hellenistic states during the second century BCE. Professor Graslin-Thom\u00e9 has also organized four international conferences on Hellenistic political history and co-edited five books on this topic. In addition to her interest in Hellenistic political history, she also published a book and several articles on the economic history of ancient Mesopotamia.<\/p>\n<p>About the respondent: Peter Frankopan\u00a0is Professor of Global History at Worcester College, University of Oxford and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, as well as Senior\u00a0Research Fellow. He works on the history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia, Central and Southern Asia, and on relations\u00a0between Christianity and Islam, focusing on connections and exchange. He is the author of<span class=\"x_xapple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the\u00a0World Order<\/i>\u00a0(2019), T<i>he Silk Roads: A New History of the World<\/i><span class=\"x_xapple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(2016) as well as<span class=\"x_xapple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>The First Crusade: The Call from the East<\/i><span class=\"x_xapple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(2012).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the current restrictions prevent us from offering food during this event. However, we are able to provide a boxed lunch to\u00a0anyone who is attending in person at 1:00pm in SOS 250 for pick up to enjoy it outside.\u00a0Please RSVP to The Center for the Premodern World\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cpw@usc.edu\">cpw@usc.edu<\/a>\u00a0by Tuesday, February 22\u00a0if you would like to order a boxed lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/napymuqi-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-337996526\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>China\u2019s Relations with the Outside World: From Silk Roads to Today  <\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, February 23\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2:00pm &#8211; 3:30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>on-line event, please register<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN__Ok5hJaJRjKfFQmOEX2dcw\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. China relations have been continually redefined over recent decades, but these periodic transformations are only the latest version of a centuries-long learning process that has involved countless cultures from around the globe. Participants will enter into this fascinating and often bewildering dialogue to understand how current U.S.-China relations have reached a point as adversarial as it is interdependent.<\/p>\n<p>This discussion is a partnership between the USC Dornsife Center for the Premodern World and the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Peter Frankopan<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Professor of Global History, Oxford University and Associate Director, Programme for Silk Roads Studies at King&#8217;s College, Cambridge<\/li>\n<li><strong>Valerie Hansen<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Professor of Chinese and World History, Yale University; Author, &#8220;The Silk Roads: A New History&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Kang\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Maria Crutcher Professor in International Relations and Professor of International Relations and Business<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mike Murphy\u00a0<\/strong>(Moderator) &#8211; Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Swaine\u00a0<\/strong>Director, East Asia Program, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/xonevapa-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-356855295\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Why the Roman Imperial Accession Speech?<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Monday, November 15 1:00 &#8211; 2:30pm PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>in-person:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3502+Trousdale+Pkwy,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90089\/@34.0215151,-118.2842202,19.25z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2c7e38e70bd6d:0x6cae7f8201d11ef!8m2!3d34.0215692!4d-118.283752?hl=en\"><strong>SOS 250<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 | on-line: please register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJUkd-murz0iHtC4py6e__LMHeWXZoSiEZKB\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/clas\/clas_faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1091828\"><strong>Brandon Bourgeois<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(USC, Classics)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/coin.png\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The accession speeches of new Roman emperors constituted a species of oratory that was commonplace in imperial transition and the polity\u2019s rhythms of renewal. Despite or perhaps because of their reliability as political phenomena, detailed literary depictions of these addresses are relatively rare in our extant sources. Thus, the very existence of Roman imperial accession speeches in our sources calls for commentary. This talk unpacks the question posed by its title\u2014\u201cWhy the Roman imperial accession speech?\u201d\u2014in three primary ways. First, why do depictions of Roman imperial accession speeches survive at all; that is, what historiographical or textual functions do these speeches serve when they happen to appear in our sources? Second, why did new emperors feel compelled to deliver these speeches; more specifically, what political functions did these introductory addresses serve for fledgling emperors? Finally, why study the accession speeches of emperors? In other words, what can we gain from viewing Roman history through the lens of imperial accessions and the speeches by which emperors introduced themselves to various segments of the citizen body?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/janixyno-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-69777463\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>&#8220;A prophet in his own country&#8221;: Varro&#8217;s Sacred Spaces  <\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Monday, November 8\u00a02:00 &#8211; 3:30pm PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>in-person:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3502+Trousdale+Pkwy,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90089\/@34.0215151,-118.2842202,19.25z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2c7e38e70bd6d:0x6cae7f8201d11ef!8m2!3d34.0215692!4d-118.283752?hl=en\"><strong>SOS 250<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| on-line: please register\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJIqduusqjgoHNwBmyAZbLmWQB76XKfE7R0z\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/history.uconn.edu\/faculty-by-name\/joseph-mcalhany\/\">Joseph McAlhany<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0University of Connecticut<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/clas\/clas_faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1091828\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In praising the intellectual achievements of his contemporary Marcus Terentius Varro, Cicero emphasized that Varro\u2019s writings allowed Romans, who previously experienced the physical landscape of their city as nothing more than tourists, to finally know where and who they were. But if Cicero viewed these compilations of antiquarian information as a guidebook of sorts to the city and its sacred spaces, for Varro they were the creation of an alternative Eternal City he could inhabit, beyond the corruption and decay of Rome. Throughout his mostly fragmentary and wide-ranging corpus, including his major scholarly works on the Latin language and Rome\u2019s religious and historical traditions, Varro fashioned a second life in letters not as savior of the city\u2019s past, but prophet of its doom, culminating in his odd swan-song to his homeland, the pseudo-agricultural treatise\u00a0<i>De re rustica<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/cateputa-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-966288859\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Quackeries born of heathen and hellish folly: Translating polemic across the Mediterranean<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Monday, October 25\u00a02:00 &#8211; 3:30pm PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In-person at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3502+Trousdale+Pkwy,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90089\/@34.0215151,-118.2842202,19.25z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2c7e38e70bd6d:0x6cae7f8201d11ef!8m2!3d34.0215692!4d-118.283752?hl=en\">SOS 250<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On-line via Zoom, please register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJ0qcOmhqjosG92FQe8o1HBRhcQ8g5IPVYg-\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fresnostatecah.com\/2019\/08\/19\/travel-scholarship-community-inspire-dr-la-porta-in-his-interim-associate-dean-role\/\"><strong>Sergio La Porta<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Fresno State University<\/p>\n<p>The almost certainly apocryphal exchange of letters between the Byzantine Emperor Leo III (r. 717-741CE) and the Umayyad Caliph \u02bfUmar b. \u02bfAbd al-\u02bfAz\u012bz (r. 717-720CE) has survived in a set of texts that span a range of places, times, and languages. Preserved in Armenian, Arabic, Castilian, and Latin, the different versions of this royal, religious-polemical correspondence not only bear witness to the irreducible connectedness of the societies that produced them, but testify to the enduring reality and relevance of religious disputation in all of them. Although each of these linguistic iterations differs from the other, they share a set of central concerns that revolve around the nature of scripture and its interpretation, and of who has the authority to validate Truth. This talk will untangle the threads that intersect these texts and the complicated questions they raise about textual transmission, enduring relevance, and religious pluralism.<\/p>\n<p>About the speaker: Dr. Sergio La Porta is the Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and the Haig and Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies at California State University, Fresno. He received his Ph.D. in Armenian and Near Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 2001. Prior to coming to Fresno, Dr. La Porta taught Armenian and Religious Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include medieval Armenian intellectual and social history, philology, and apocalyptic literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/hewapode-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1099048906\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Empire Surrounded by Seas: Carolingian Images and Perceptions of the Sea<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, April 28 5pm PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMlc-uvrjgpGdLeid70A5KDKgrlqCFcsXke\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0<strong>Shigeto KIKUCHI<\/strong>, Associate Professor<\/p>\n<p>Department of History, College of Literature<\/p>\n<p>Aoyama Gakuin University<\/p>\n<div class=\"html-content\">The Carolingian empire of the eighth and ninth centuries has traditionally been studied as a polity based essentially on the lands over which kings and emperors ruled. However, some excellent recent work has treated the empire as one which was situated in maritime networks of people, goods and information, as a kingdom connected to the outside world by the Mediterranean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the North Sea. The study of these networks are revealing, but little work has been done on the ways that people living in that empire and shaping this network perceived the maritime world(s) around them (and further away) or how they place their empire in the maritime network. This paper offers textual study of images and perceptions of seas and maritime worlds of the eighth and ninth century and pays particular attention to the ways different seas are imagined. It represents part of an ongoing project funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) \u201cMaritime Networks, Islands, and Political Powers in Premodern Europe\u201d (KAKENHI 19H00546, 2019-2024).About the speaker: Shigeto Kikuchi is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo\/Japan. He is Co-Investigator on the \u201cMaritime Networks, Islands, and Political Powers in Premodern Europe\u201d project and Principal Investigator of another project international funded by JSPS: \u201cThe formation and transformation of European legal culture(s): Contextualizing normative sources from the Frankish period (5th-10th century)\u201d (KAKENHI 19KK0014, 2019-2024). His book on missi dominici of Carolingian rulers (Herrschaft, Delegation und Kommunikation in der Karolingerzeit. Untersuchungen zu den Missi dominici (751-888)) is forthcoming.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/rojokyze-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1129578880\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Capturing Northern River Goddesses for Deccan India<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div id=\"divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Friday, April 16 at 1pm PDT\/ 4pm EDT<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Please register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJEldOqorj8qGtAaG2vm6qof8E4dgesu9TZP\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Speaker:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fas.yale.edu\/book\/new-ladder-faculty-2018-19\/humanities\/subhashini-kaligotla\">Subhashini<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Kaligotla<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>Assistant Professor, Indian and South Asian Art,\u00a0Department of the History of Art, Yale University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>From as early as the seventh century CE, the northern Indian rivers, Ganga and Yamuna, featured in the political discourse of peninsular Indian kings. For the imperial Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, and Cholas, capturing Ganga and Yamuna signified at once their conquest of north India and their status as transregional powers. This lecture examines the material record\u2014specifically, the sculptural representations of these northern rivers, who were personified as beautiful goddesses at the thresholds of Deccan temples and monasteries. Looking at wider medieval practices involving the looting of images and iconoclasm, I ask how closely Deccan river goddess imagery can be associated with the rhetoric of political violence.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Subhashini Kaligotla&#8217;s\u00a0research focuses on sacred architecture\u2014Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain\u2014with emphasis on the ancient and medieval periods. Her forthcoming book,\u00a0<i>Shiva\u2019s Waterfront Temples: Architects and their Audiences in Medieval India<\/i>\u00a0(Yale University Press, 2022), examines the creative resources of Deccan architects in dialogue with the response of their contemporary audiences. The book is an account of the shared cultural and aesthetic values that shaped built space in the medieval Deccan. A second book project, provisionally titled\u00a0<i>Seeing Ghosts<\/i>, is interested in the iconographies of death and the afterlife in early Indian Ocean worlds. Kaligotla is also a practicing poet and author of the poetry collection,\u00a0<i>Bird of the Indian Subcontinent<\/i>(2018).<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0<i>Yamuna<\/i>, late 7th century, Lad Khan Temple, Aihole, Karnataka, India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/votaxiji-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-75422932\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Cancel Culture in Antiquity: Confronting the Monumental Legacy of Rome\u2019s \u201cBad\u201d Emperor<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, March 31 at 5pm PDT\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwqd-GrpzkvHdFReXDJUCOfaVxd1p6UrxpL\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arthistory.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/varner.html\"><strong>Eric R. Varner Ph. D.<\/strong><\/a>, Assosiate Professor<\/p>\n<p>Art History Department, Emory University<\/p>\n<p>Ancient Rome developed its own form of cancel culture to deal with the monuments of condemned emperors whose memories were subjected to post mortem sanctions.\u00a0 Beginning in the first century CE strong traditions emerged for destroying, defacing, erasing and recycling the representations of overthrown rulers like Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus and others.\u00a0\u00a0 Mutilated and altered images were transformed on a widespread scale across media into powerful anti-monuments and counter-monuments within the memorial landscape of the ancient city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/biqomode-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-864299468\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Conspiracies Then and Now | Day 1 | March 18 9am to 12pm<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Day 1 | March 18 9am to 12pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9:00 a.m. to 9:10 a.m. PST- Welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. PST &#8211; Comparing the Politics and History of Conspiracy Theories from the Middles Ages to the Modern<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This panel will explore how beliefs in conspiracies shaped the politics and psychology of the medieval world and our current political climate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Elizabeth A. R. Brown<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Author, Professor Emerita of History at Brooklyn College, of the City University of New York<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dallas Denery\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Author, Professor of History at Bowdoin College<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sara Gorman<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Mental Health Expert; Author<\/li>\n<li><strong>Norbert Schwarz<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Provost Professor, Department of Psychology &amp; Marshall School of Business; Co-director, USC Dornsife Mind &amp; Society Center<\/li>\n<li>Moderated by\u00a0<strong>Kamy Akhavan<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Executive Director at the USC Center for the Political Future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10:00 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. PST &#8211; Conspiracies around Judaism: Anti-Semitism from the Medieval Era to George Soros<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This panel will discuss how conspiracy theories regarding Judaism have perpetuated anti-Semitism and the treatment of Jewish people over the course of history. The Middle Ages witnessed the creation of some of the most pernicious stereotypes about Jews as well as accusations\u00a0of ritual child murder and well poisoning. A reflexive intolerance toward Jews born of the same irrational antipathy continues to shape extremist activity in our own world.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sara Lipton<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Professor of History at Stony Brook University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miri Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0-Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steve Ross<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Professor of History, Myron and Marian Casden Director of the Casden Institute for the Study of Jewish Role in American Life and Professor of History at the University of Southern California<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roz Rothstein<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Founder and CEO of StandWithUs<\/li>\n<li>Moderated by\u00a0<strong>Bret Stephens<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Pulitzer Prize-Winning\u00a0Journalist; Author;\u00a0Op-Ed Columnist at The New York\u00a0Times; Former Editor in Chief of The Jerusalem Post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PST &#8211; The Spread of Conspiracies: Heretical Groups to Social Media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This panel will discuss how conspiracy theories are born, grow, and reach mass audiences. Some historical experts say heretical groups are described in source materials as vast secret conspiratorial movements that spread verbally through fear and fevered imaginations.\u00a0 Modern scholars contemplate the roles of television, search engine algorithms, online advertising, bulletin boards, and social media for their contribution to the vast speed and reach of conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christine Caldwell Ames<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Professor of Medieval European History at University of South Carolina<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karen Douglas<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Professor of Social Psychology at University of Kent, United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Pegg<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sinan Aral &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Author, David Austin Professor of Management, IT, Marketing and Data Science at MIT, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE)<\/li>\n<li>Moderated by\u00a0<strong>Marc Ambinder<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Executive Fellow in Digital Security, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_IhLeCVr9SdSOS0OAheTUkg\">CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0to register in advance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This event is a partnership with the USC Center for the Political Future and the USC Center for the Pre-Modern World.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This discussion will be live-streamed to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USCPolFuture\">CPF Facebook page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Email\u00a0cpw@usc.edu\u00a0for questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/medycyga-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1678986946\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Conspiracies Then and Now | Day 2 | March 19 10am &#8211; 12pm<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Day 2 | March 19 10am to 12pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conspiracy theories have captured the attention of people throughout history, and they have become especially influential in current politics. Some recent conspiracists have deliberately adopted the language of the Middle Ages to advance their agenda. In this conference we will break down the history of conspiracy theories dating back to the Middle Ages and compare them to contemporary beliefs. We\u2019ll also discuss how the Deep State and QAnon theories influenced political messaging in the age of Trump. Each panel will conclude with an audience Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. PST &#8211; Templars and the Deep State<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Templars were accused of worshipping Satan, witchcraft, and sodomy. They were one of the Latin West&#8217;s most trusted institutions, and then suddenly were condemned and accused of sodomy, witchcraft, and Satan worship, among other sins. Modern observers will explore how similar trends target America\u2019s civic institutions, drawing on events from McCarthyism to the Kennedy assassination to 9\/11.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sean L. Field<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Professor of History at the University of Vermont<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kristin Pichaske<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Award-winning Filmmaker, &#8220;Pulling The Thread;&#8221; Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College Chicago<\/li>\n<li><strong>Julien Th\u00e9ry<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Professor of History, Universit\u00e9 Lyon II Louis Lumi\u00e8re<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Shermer<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Author; Presidential Fellow at Chapman University<\/li>\n<li>Moderated by\u00a0<strong>Robert M. Shrum<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Director of USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future and Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>11:05 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. PST &#8211; Apocalypse Then and Now: Millenarian Cults to QAnon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apocalypse doesn&#8217;t just mean destruction. It can also mean a world remade\u2014peaceful, prosperous, but born of social upheaval and torrential bloodshed. This panel will discuss these aspects of Apocalyptic and Millenarian cults in the Middle Ages and compare them to modern religious extremism and the contemporary conspiratorial mindset from Y2K to QAnon.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jay Rubenstein<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Director, USC Center for the Pre-Modern World; Professor of History at the University of Southern California<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sylvain Piron<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Author, Director of Studies and Chair of Intellectual History of Medieval Societies at The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, France<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_IhLeCVr9SdSOS0OAheTUkg\">CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0to register in advance.<\/p>\n<p>This event is a partnership with the USC Center for the Political Future and the USC Center for the Pre-Modern World.<\/p>\n<p>This discussion will be live-streamed to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USCPolFuture\">CPF Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Email cpw@usc.edu\u00a0for questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/medycyga-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1108826258\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Prospective and Current Graduate Student Reception<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Tuesday, March 16 at 4:30pm \u2013 5:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Via Zoom:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/j\/94955110903\"><strong>https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/j\/94955110903<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>(no registration needed)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please join us to learn about CPW community, upcoming seminars and other events.<\/p>\n<p>Please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cpw@usc.edu\">cpw@usc.edu<\/a>\u00a0if you have any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/mytepoty-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-437183933\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Etiologies of Women\u2019s Suffering: Doctrinal Engagement with the Blood Bowl Hell in Late Medieval Japan<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Friday, February 19 at 3:00pm (PT)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwqcuyvqzIrE9BhCSXTOs6THcrfcxBscIBP\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1003524\">Lori R. Meeks<\/a>\u00a0Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">The apocryphal Buddhist Sutra<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>Xuepen jing<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(\u201cBlood Bowl Sutra\u201d)<i>,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i>produced in China during the eleventh or twelfth century, was imported to Japan by the early fifteenth century, where\u00a0it came to be known\u00a0as the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>Ketsubonky\u014d.<\/i><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>This short text\u2014only about 420 Chinese characters long\u2014taught that women were bound for a special, purgatorial hell comprised of uterine blood. They were to be punished there for having polluted the earth with the blood of childbirth and menses. Cults to the sutra spread widely in Japan and became the basis of many devotional practices aimed both at saving women from the hell and at providing protection during the travails of female embodiment, especially childbirth.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">Many have claimed that the Blood Bowl Sutra was always regarded as a \u201cpopular\u201d text and that it was never taken seriously by the orthodox tradition; after all, it is short, clearly apocryphal, and lacking in doctrinal sophistication. This paper challenges that stance, demonstrating the degree to which Japanese monastic scholars, especially those of the Tendai establishment (which was widely acknowledged as the intellectual hub of premodern Japanese Buddhism), presented the ideas of the Blood Bowl Sutra as consistent with mainstream Buddhist doctrine. I also argue that these same priests were at least partially responsible for popularizing the sutra\u2019s contents in vernacular literature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">The paper will be pre-circulated for registrants to read prior the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/quhyredi-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1774789546\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Toward a Religio-Environmental Ethics through Heritage Conservation in Postsocialist China<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1003447\">Sonya S. Lee<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Associate Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages &amp; Cultures, and Religion | Director of East Asian Studies Center)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 4 at 4:00PM | Please register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwqd-mopjIiHNd8-RH7-nXjnrcWG21EVzBL\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, several high-profile restorations of centuries-old Buddhist monuments in southwest China have raised questions about the value and method of preserving religious icons in a society that reveres tradition but also has a long history of heritage destruction. Focusing on the case of the Laitan Buddha in Hechuan, this lecture brings a sustainability perspective to the debate by discussing how conservation practices and community involvement can contribute to a religio-environmental ethics that encompasses both nature conservancy and cultural preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/Screen_Shot_2021-01-05_at_2.03.35_PM-1080x0-c-default.png\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-225924650\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>&#8220;Moving through Sacred Ground: Dance and Gesture in Relief Sculpture.&#8221;<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>By CPW Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr.\u00a0Carolyn M. Laferri\u00e8re<\/p>\n<p>Monday, November 16 &#8211; 4:00pm (Pacific)<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE REGISTER\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwodemurzIjH9Lqmme5P7z9VHvBbXPeXLs-\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Going beyond the conventional association of sacred ground with religious sanctuaries and their landscapes, first-century BCE Neo-Attic reliefs from ancient Greece challenge us to locate sacred ground in the visual planes in which stylized mythological scenes occur. Current scholarship on this corpus of reliefs has focused on establishing typologies, chronologies, and iconographies; the reliefs\u2019 theological and aesthetic significance, however, has been largely overlooked. How might we understand the significance of the distinctive visual style used in these images of divine and mythological subjects? Do the archaizing scenes attempt to recapture an idealized, yet lost and remote, religious landscape? Or do they draw upon Archaic and Classical religious imagery that visually established connections between human and divine beings, in order to elaborate new aesthetic modes of experiencing the divine? Dr. Laferri\u00e8re will argue that the gods\u2019 interconnected gestures and postures depicted on Neo-Attic reliefs determine the boundaries of the sacred ground that surrounds them, even as their expressive movements expand the limits of that space, offering their viewers an immersive experience of sacred ground as mediated through visual representation, music, and dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/coxujuno-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1925220479\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>&#8220;What can natural archives tell us about the history of Hellenistic Egypt and Babylon\u201d<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Monday, November 9, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1pm-2:30pm lecture<strong>\u00a0|Register for this virtual event\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJEtdeytqTwqEtQ7o9jlIrQ_kTlq7XA0SaZk\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This paper examines the ways in which the\u00a0ongoing development of natural archives can be brought to bear to advance and\u00a0complement existing understandings of human history. Here, we will specifically\u00a0study the examples of polar ice cores and Ptolemaic Egypt of 305-30 BCE, with\u00a0additional consideration of Babylon in the same period. Polar ice-cores have\u00a0long been used to extend our histories of climate-altering volcanic eruptions,\u00a0which often took place in periods and regions for which little well-dated\u00a0written evidence is available before the early modern period, e.g. many regions\u00a0of the tropics. These ice-cores reveal past volcanic events by capturing the\u00a0atmospheric fallout of anomalous levels of sulphate in annually forming layers\u00a0of polar ice. But it is only since 2015 that the counting of these layers has\u00a0been\u00a0achieved with enough accuracy\u00a0and\u00a0precision for the Ancient period\u00a0to be of use to historians. By reading this new archive in\u00a0combination with written\u00a0records, it is possible to first show the impact of major eruptions on the\u00a0economically critical summer flooding of the Nile and Euphrates, and to trace\u00a0these economic impacts (as well as potential psychological and\u00a0religious\u00a0impacts) on Egyptian and Babylonian societies, in the form of changing\u00a0commodity prices, sales of land, increased conflict, the issuance of priestly\u00a0decrees, royal edicts and petitions for relief and redress following failed\u00a0harvests or\u00a0acts of theft and violence. With multiple large eruptions occurring\u00a0in this period, these findings suggest that volcanically induced \u201chydroclimatic\u00a0shocks\u201d should be seen as recurrent influences on society, but should also be seen\u00a0as acting via\u00a0pre-existing vulnerabilities that reduced social resilience.<\/p>\n<p>About the speaker:\u00a0<strong>Francis Ludlow\u00a0(Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin)\u00a0<\/strong>Principal Investigator of the\u00a0IRC Laureate Award-funded project &#8220;Climates of Conflict in Ancient Babylonia&#8221; (2018-2022)\u00a0and Co-PI of the U.S. National Science\u00a0Foundation-funded project &#8220;Volcanism, Hydrology and\u00a0Social Conflict: Lessons from Egypt &amp; Mesopotamia&#8221; (2018-2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/nozikusi-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-2070098000\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>&#8220;Classicism and the Statue Crisis in the age of Black Lives Matter&#8221;<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, October 28\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:00PM Lecture |\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwvfu6qqz0vEtDdycLtcE5IcKNg6_QCyvwk\">Register for this virtual event here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.cornell.edu\/verity-platt\">Professor Verity Platt, Cornell University<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are living in an age of \u201cFallism\u201d, in which the destruction or removal of statues of discredited historical figures has come to play a vital role in decolonizing and social justice movements. Classics scholars have been keen to draw parallels with iconoclasms of the past, from Roman\u00a0<em>damnatio<\/em>\u00a0<em>memoriae<\/em>\u00a0to the Protestant Reformation. But what good do such parallels and genealogies serve at a time when the academy is also facing a reckoning with its own institutional racism? When the foundations of western monumentality are being so profoundly challenged or egregiously appropriated, what might scholars of that tradition contribute to the debate? Drawing on recent events \u2013 from the felling of Edward Colston\u2019s statue in Bristol, UK, to Trump&#8217;s recent Executive Order for \u201cMonuments to American Heroes\u201d \u2013 this lecture explores the ethics and limitations of classical art history at a moment of political and disciplinary crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/zojorigu-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-301686222\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>&#8220;Setting the Scene and Referring to the Script: Aristocratic Performance and the Eastern Theater of Crusading Conflict&#8221;<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, October 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:30PM (PST) |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJcqcuGvrDwjHNYu_XztX8I_G6FyK0EzOsdn\">Zoom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/info\/20762\/faculty\/6422\/nicholas_paul\">Nicholas L. Paul, Assosciate Professor of History; Director, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>What function did the sacred ground around Jerusalem, conquered by European crusaders in the eastern Mediterranean, play for the elites who expended their blood and treasure to sustain them? Answers to this question have traditionally sought recourse either to\u00a0materialist, proto-colonial expansion or to\u00a0Catholic religious zeal. Adopting a new perspective based on the specific prerogatives and requirements of the European aristocracy, Professor Paul will suggest that the eastern Mediterranean &#8220;theater of war&#8221; was precisely that: a stage for the performance of status. It will be argued that some of the most famous cultural monuments of the French-speaking crusader aristocracy of Syria, Palestine, and Cyprus reveal how this stage was set, and how visiting players from the European courts were invited to perform their parts.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/cifopoqy-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1010114887\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Forging Antiquity: Dares the Phrygian, \u201cFirst Pagan Historian\u201d<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Wednesday, September 23, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2pm-3:30pm lecture<strong>\u00a0|<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJcocOqpqT0rG9FTr205ZsdBr0hnTj5v_vh2%20\">Zoom<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frederic Clark (USC Classics and Stanford Humanities Fellow 2020-2021) shows how different cultures have remembered the greatest war story ever told.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><i>The First Pagan Historian<\/i>\u00a0traces the reception history of a text that is now largely neglected but once occupied a central role in the ancient canon\u2014the\u00a0<i>History of the Destruction of Troy\u00a0<\/i>of one Dares the Phrygian. Although Dares claimed to have been an eyewitness observer of the Trojan War, in reality he was an ingenious forger, who mimicked the tropes of ancient historiography and fabricated his connection with the remote past. Through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment, I chart the surprising twists and turns in the afterlife of an author long labeled the first of the pagans to write history. In this talk I will highlight some of the principal episodes and arguments of the book. In particular, I examine the subversive challenge that Dares posed to other ancient canonical traditions (especially Virgil), and the manner in which Dares\u2019 bold rewriting of the Troy story enabled centuries of readers\u2014both premodern and modern\u2014to reimagine the relationship between fact and myth, history and fiction.<\/p>\n<p>About the speaker:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"about Prof. F. Clark\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/clas\/clas_faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1080378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Clark\u00a0<\/a>(Classics, USC) is a cultural and intellectual historian who specializes in the afterlife of classical antiquity in medieval and early modern Europe. His\u00a0research examines how the reception of the ancient past has informed\u2014and continues to inform\u2014practices of humanistic scholarship. His book on the first pagan historian is coming up with Oxford University Press later this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/sohixobu-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-654313806\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>&#8220;Medieval Indigeneity: Alexander the Great in Ethiopia&#8221;\u2014A Lecture by Suzanne Akbari<\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p class=\"description\"><strong>Thursday,\u00a0February 27, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">5:00 PM lecture<br \/>\nDoheny Memorial Library (DML)<br \/>\n2nd Floor, Room DML 241<\/div>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/scholars\/akbari\">Suzanne Conklin Akbari\u00a0<\/a>(Institute for Advanced Study)\u00a0has expanded the range and methods of exploring texts from the Middle Ages, pushing the boundaries of traditional readings and exploring shared histories. Her research has traced the evolving relationship between sight and knowledge as manifested in a range of poetic texts, explored the relationship between Islam and Christianity, challenged the notion of medieval European literature\u2019s insularity, and highlighted the influence of Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/04\/qecafele-1080x0-c-default.jpg\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n                <div id=\"photo-1137157395\" class=\"photo-lightbox lity-hide\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n                      <h3>Pre-history of the Book: A collaboration between the USC Center for the Premodern World and USC Libraries&#8217;  <\/h3>\n          \n                          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Pre-history of the Book: A collaboration between the USC Center for the Premodern World and USC Libraries&#8217;\u2014A Lecture by Gregory Clark (University of the South) on The Book of Hours, the Best Seller of the Middle Ages: Two Southern Netherlandish Manuscript Exemplars of the 15th Century at the University of Southern California.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Center for the Premodern World at USC creates space and offers resources for the study of cultures and civilizations, beginning with the earliest historical eras up to the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern world. The Center aims to have a truly global reach in terms of areas of research and as such has the potential to involve over forty faculty on campus in its activities. The USC Libraries\u2019 possesses quite a number of invaluable and rare Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts from the 13th century to the\u00a015th Century.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Clark is an expert on medieval Books of Hours, one of the most popular genres in the Middle Ages, of which the Special Collections Department at the University of Southern California holds two examples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\"><strong>Wednesday,\u00a0February 5, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">3:00 PM lecture, followed by discussion and manuscript viewing<br \/>\nDoheny Memorial Library (DML)<br \/>\n2nd Floor, Room DML 206<br \/>\nLocated in the Special Collections Unit<\/div>\n<div class=\"description\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/forms.gle\/dhL1cu2U3hjP23fu7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP<\/a>Professor Clark will deliver the following lecture:\u00a0&#8220;The Book of Hours, the Best Seller of the Middle Ages: Two Southern Netherlandish Manuscript Exemplars of the 15th Century at the University of Southern California.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 6,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3:00 PM<br \/>\nDoheny Memorial Library (DML)<br \/>\n2nd Floor, Room DML 206<br \/>\nLocated in the Special Collections Unit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/forms.gle\/dhL1cu2U3hjP23fu7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP<\/a><\/p>\n<div>Professor Clark will lead a discussion of USC&#8217;s manuscript, particularly its books of hours. RSVPs are required for the discussion.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sewanee.edu\/academics\/art\/facstaff\/clark.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Clark<\/a>\u00a0received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1975; his M.A. from Queens College, City University of New York, in 1978; and his M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981 and 1988, respectively. Before arriving at the University of the South in 1989, he worked for six years at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, first as a curatorial assistant (1983-88) and then as an Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (1988-89). Professor Clark&#8217;s scholarly specialty is manuscript illumination in northern France and the southern Netherlands in the fifteenth century. In addition to numerous articles, he has published four books since 1997. The first was a commentary on the Book of Hours made in Bruges, Belgium, around 1455 that was later owned by Isabel la Cat\u00f3lica, Queen of Spain. Three years later, Clark published a monograph on the Ghent Privileges Master, a book painter active in the southern Netherlands from around 1440 to 1460. His study on the Spitz Hours, a manuscript made in Paris around 1420, was published in 2003 by the J. Paul Getty Trust. In 2010 Clark saw to press a commentary volume to accompany the complete facsimile produced by ADEVA of Graz, Austria, of the Da Costa Hours, a masterpiece of about 1515 by the celebrated book painter Simon Bening of Ghent and Bruges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n          \n                  <\/div>\n\n        \n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-the-premodern-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-1.46.06\u202fPM-1080x0-c-default.png\"\n                    \n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n      \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":329,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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