Co-Sponsored Events

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Book Chat with Claire Farago, University of Colorado, Boulder

Writing Borderless Histories of Art: Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis
Routledge, 2025

moderated by Daniela Bleichmar, USC

USC, University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library, DML 121
5:00 – 7:00 pm (PT)

Organized by the USC Levan Institute Environmental Humanities Working Group in partnership with the Department of Art History, Visual Studies Research Institute, Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability, and USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Book Chat with Ketaki Pant, USC, EMSI Faculty Fellow, 2024-2025

Itinerant Belonging: Intimate Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
Cambridge University Press, 2025

in conversation with
Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sunil Amrith, Yale University
Nayan Shah, USC (moderator)

Register in advance for this virtual event.
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm (PT)

Organized by the Levan Institute of the Humanities in partnership with the Van Hunnick History Department, the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, and the Center for Feminist Research.

Friday, February 13, 2026

The Huntington
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Ahmanson Classroom
1:00 – 3:00 pm (PT)

Panelists:
Ashley Cohen, editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Joshua Piker, former editor of William & Mary Quarterly
Brett Rushforth, editor of Huntington Library Quarterly

Publishing an article in a peer-reviewed academic journal can feel like a daunting undertaking. For many graduate students and early career scholars, especially, the peer review and editorial process remain shrouded in mystery. This panel is designed to pull back the curtain on journal publishing through a conversation with three present and former journal editors. Panelists will walk you through the editorial process of each journal, from desk rejection to peer review, revise and resubmit, acceptance, and publication. They will discuss what they are looking for in submissions and revisions. And they will answer all of your questions about how to choose a publication venue, how and when to pitch your essay to editors, how to respond to challenging or conflicting readers’ reports, and how to navigate delays or extended timelines. Participants will have the opportunity to workshop article ideas in breakout groups.

Friday, February 27, 2026

USC Max Kade Institute
2714 S. Hoover Street
Los Angeles, California 90007
1:00 – 5:30 pm (PT)

Cecilio M. Cooper, Science History Institute
“Alchemical Nigredo: Rendering the Blackest Black via Early Modern Occult Science”

Henry Washington, Jr., UC Berkeley
“A Crime of Origin: Imag(in)ing Blackness’s Cultural Inheritance in ‘Talma Gordon’”

Shelleen Greene, UCLA
Keynote Lecture: “Slave to the Rhythm: Blackness, Prosthetics and Augmented Realities”

with discussants Naima Adams, USC, Corrine Collins, USC, and Mlondolozi Zondi, USC

This symposium is presented by the USC Consortium for GSRPC and Black Visual Cultures Collective. Scholars will discuss how visual cultures of blackness constitute and are mediated by science, social science, and technology.

This event is made possible with generous support from the Mellon Foundation, and cosponsorship from the Black Studies Center, Center for Science, Technology, and Public Life, Department of Comparative Literature, Division of Cinema and Media Studies, Levan Institute for the Humanities, Media as Sociotechnical Systems, and USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.