2024-2025
Events are listed in reverse chronological order.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
A discussion of Emily Hodgson Anderson’s new book
Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life (Columbia University Press, 2025)
The author will be joined in conversation by Julia Lee (Loyola Marymount University) and Anahid Nersessian (UCLA), moderated by Dana Johnson (USC).
Online Zoom event. Registration is required.
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm (PT)
An excerpt of the book will be made available to registered attendants.
This event is co-sponsored by the Levan Institute for the Humanities, USC Department of English, and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
Friday, May 2, 2025
“Dam Nation: The Fate & Future of Dams in the American West”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Expert Presentations & Panel Discussions:
Stewart R. Smith Boardroom
9:30 am – 3:00 pm (PT)
Keynote Speaker
Rothenberg Hall and Roy C. Ritchie Auditorium
7:00 – 8:30 pm (PT)
Complete the RSVP form to attend.
This conference is sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
A discussion of Lindsay O’Neill’s new book
The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025).
The author will be joined in conversation by Catherine Molineaux (Vanderbilt University) and Asheesh Siddique (University of Massachusetts Amherst), moderated by Peter Mancall (USC).
Online Zoom event. Registration is required.
An excerpt of the book will be made available to registered attendants.
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm (PT)
This event is co-sponsored by the Levan Institute for the Humanities, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, and Van Hunnick History Department.
Friday & Saturday, March 28 & 29, 2025
USC, University Park Campus
Taper Hall 309K
See the conference programme for the full schedule.
Flickering elusively or persisting durably across centuries and geographic borders, an idea or a cultural artefact takes on different meanings across time. These inflections are tied to hermeneutic practices and the contexts in which they emerge, as well as vagaries of taste, politics, and human folly. Understood and manifested variously as influence, legacy, intertext, citation, or copy, an afterlife can have material and conceptual consequences that haunt or invigorate readers and writers. Inextricably tied to the passage of time, an afterlife is a resurgence, rediscovery, or reconstruction of cultural patrimony, which can trigger excitement, confusion, or resistance. This symposium aims to stir reflection on how practices of re-reading, re-writing, and otherwise making meaning anew–commonly grouped under the rubric of reception studies–have operated in Russophone culture.
Organizers
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, USC
Colleen McQuillen, USC
Speakers
Frederic Clark, USC
Erica Camisa Morale, Stanford University
Luba Golburt, UC Berkeley
Oleg Lekmanov, Tashkent/Princeton University
Rebecca Lemon, USC
Chloe Papadopoulos, USC
Sasha Pchelintseva, USC
Igor Pilshchikov, UCLA
Ellina Sattarova, USC
Thomas Seifrid, USC
Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University
Erik Zitser, Duke University
This event is co-sponsored by the USC Department of Slavic Literature and Languages; the USC Van Hunnick History Department; the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute; the USC Visual Studies Research Institute; the USC Center for International Studies; and the USC Levan Institute for the Humanities.
An online screening by Feuchtwanger Memorial Library
Thursday, November 14, 2024
4:00 – 6:00 pm (PT)
Register for free at EngageSC
This film screening is organized as part of the “Josephus, Translated and Transformed” exhibit by Feuchtwanger Memorial Library.
This event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, USC Department of History, and USC Department of Jewish Studies.
“Josephus, Translated and Transformed: From the 1st to the 21st Century”
October 28 – December 18, 2024
View rare books from USC Special Collections of works by and about Flavius Josephus, Jewish scholar most famous for his history on the Jewish revolt of 66–70 CE. This small exhibit explores the readership, interpretation, translation and adaptation of Josephus’ works from antiquity to the present.
Exhibition in USC Libraries Special Collections
USC, University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
This event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, USC Department of History, and USC Department of Jewish Studies.
Friday, October 4, 2024
“Nature after Disenchantment: New Histories of Religion and Science”
Participants:
Peter Harrison, University of Queensland
David Albertson, USC Religion & Nova Forum
Alexandre Roberts, USC Classics
Jessica Zu, USC Religion
Susanna Berger, USC Art History & Philosophy
Fred Clark, USC Classics
Janet Hoskins, USC Anthropology & Religion
USC, University Park Campus
Tutor Campus Center 227
9:30 am – 5:00 pm (PT)
RSVP to attend and receive lunch.
See the full schedule.
This event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, USC School of Religion, and Religious Ecologies Project, Nova Forum, and CHARM.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
“The Battle of Science and Religion? New Perspectives on a Troubled Relationship”
USC, University Park Campus
Tutor Campus Center, TCC 227
12:30 noon – 1:50 pm (PT)
Lunch provided with registration.
Monday, September 30, 2024
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal will discuss his new book, The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It (Basic Books 2024) with David Armitage (Harvard University) and Marlene Daut (Yale University). Bob Shrum (USC) will moderate the conversation.
Online Zoom event. Registration is required.
An excerpt of the book will be made available to registered attendants.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT)
This event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Department of French and Italian, and the Levan Institute for the Humanities.
Monday-Wednesday, June 19-21, 2024
The Omohundro Institute’s 27th Annual Conference was held this summer in France, at the University of Poitiers, in order to facilitate transcontinental conversation about the relations between Vast Early America, Europe, and Africa.
This conference was co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, MIMMOC (Mémoires, Identités, Marginalités dans le Monde Occidental Contemporain), and MSHS Poitiers.
