2025-2026
USC Levan Institute for the Humanities Book Chat with Claire Farago
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.
Wednesday, 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.
Image: Detail from “Vallard Atlas,” (1547) HM 29 f.1, chart 9, North America, east coast. Portolan atlas. Courtesy of the Huntington Library.
