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Congratulations to our EMSI 2024-2025 Fellows
Anne Goldgar
Garrett and Anne Van Hunnick Chair in European History, USC
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025
Project Title:
The Nova Zembla Expedition & Dutch Identity
Ketaki Pant
Assistant Professor of History, USC
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025
Project Title:
Gender, Debt, and Decolonization in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands
Daisy Reid
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, USC
EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow, 2024–2025
Dissertation Title:
On Vegetables and Vermin: The Politics of Insect-Plant Encounters from the Early Modern to the Anthropocene
Early Modern Book-of-the-Month
This new feature highlights books from USC Libraries Special Collections with an emphasis on new acquisitions.
Maître C. Coturier, Paris 1632
USC Special Collections GV1303.C68 1632
Le Throsne du destin is a seventeenth-century game book on vellum. Players cast dice to learn which of the game’s one hundred and sixty-four bawdy and scandalous fortunes – divided in half by sex (women’s fortunes on the recto side, men’s on the verso) – would be their fate. USC’s newly acquired copy of this remarkably unique manuscript includes the original bone dice necessary to play the game.
For more information, contact Derek Christian Quezada Meneses, USC Libraries Rare Book Librarian.
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The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) exists on the ancestral lands of the Gabrielino-Tongva and Kizh Nation peoples who continue to call this region home. EMSI respectfully acknowledges these Indigenous peoples as the traditional caretakers of this landscape, as the direct descendants of the first people. EMSI recognizes their continued presence and is grateful to have the opportunity to work and learn on this land.
Image: Vallard Atlas, detail of chart 3, 1547. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
