Co-Sponsored Events

Friday, October 2, 2026

Organizers:
Mlondi Zondi, Comparative Literature, USC
Romi Wainberg, Latin and Iberian Cultures, USC

This one-day conference brings together up-and-coming scholars of Latin American and African literatures, cultures, performance, and the arts to reimagine the act of writing at this moment of crisis, and to rethink how we might collaboratively write about this crisis within the humanities.

University of Southern California,
3501 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA
THH 309
9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Register to participate. See the program.

This event is hosted by the USC Dornsife Experimental Humanities Lab, with support from the Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies, Center for Feminist Research, Black Studies Center, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Public Culture, and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Virtual event
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon (PT)
Registration is required.
An excerpt of the book will be made available to registered attendees.

Mengxiao Wang (EMSI Faculty Fellow, Fall 2023) will discuss her new book, Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2026). The author will be joined in conversation by Shih-shan Susan Huang (Rice University) and Wilt L. Idema (Harvard University), moderated by Lori Meeks (USC).

This event is part of the Levan Institute for the Humanities “Book Chats” series. This event is organized in partnership with the USC Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the USC East Asian Studies Center, and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

Monday-Thursday, November 23-26, 2026

Universidad Nacional de Río Negro
Bariloche, Argentina, Territorio Mapuche-Tehuelche

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. Co-organized and hosted by Instituto de Investigaciones en Diversidad Cultural y Procesos de Cambio

Organizers:
Melisa Cabrapán Duarte, Mapuche, National University of Comahue & CONICET
Lorena Cañuqueo, Mapuche, National University of Río Negro
Walter Delrio, National University of Río Negro & CONICET
Dorota Glowacka, University of Kings College, Halifax
Wolf Gruner, USC
Pilar Pérez, National University of Río Negro & CONICET
Andrea Pichilef, Mapuche, National University of La Pampa & IIDyPCa-CONICET-UNRN
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Cree-Anishinabe, University of Manitoba
Martha Stroud, USC Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Sponsored by Margee and Douglas Greenberg, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. With support from the Latin American Program, Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.