2021-2022

Monday, March 7, 2022
Christian Flow, USC Society of Fellows
“Philological Observation, or: A Short History of “Everything.”
Hybrid Event
USC

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Native American School Boards: Law, History, and Current Events
Preston McBride, USC
Heather White Man Runs Him, University of Arizona
Kelly Stewart, University of California, San Diego
Virginia Carmelo
USC Gould School of Law

Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Rethinking Early Modern Empire
USC Max Kade Institute

Organizer: Arthur Weststeijn, USC

Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside
“Honor, Deference, and (Dis)Respect in Indigenous Discourses”

Savannah Esquivel, University of California, Riverside
“Captive Images: Visual and Material Strategies of Nahua Christian Reconquest”

Anthony Pagden, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Challenges of the Comparative Intellectual History of Empire: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”

Patricia Seed, University of California, Irvine
“Sideways: Anthropology and Literary Theory Confront Empire Builders”

Chase Caldwell Smith, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Philippine Inquisition as a Transpacific Imperial Archive”

Sixiang Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Discourse of Diplomacy as an Epistemic Culture: Chosōn Korea and Ming Empire”

Arthur Weststeijn, USC
“Republican Empire: Liberty and Slavery between Curaçao and Amsterdam”

2020-2021

Thursday, November 5, 2020
Greg Anderson, The Ohio State University
“Ontological History: A Conversation”
Online 

Thursday, March 25, 2021
God’s Shadow: A Conversation about Writing Global Histories
Online 

Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Originalism Across Legal Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Online

2018-2019

Thursday, May 9, 2019
Toussaint Louverture Papers Project: A Workshop
Manuel Covo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robin Derby, University of California, Los Angeles
Aisha Finch, University of California, Los Angeles
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University, San Marcos
Susan Luftschein, University of Southern California
Joshua Piker, College of William & Mary
Huntington Library

2016-2017

Thursday, December 1-Friday, December 2, 2016
Early Modern Intellectual and Cultural History 2016, “Paper in the Early Modern Atlantic World”

Thursday, December 1, 2016
Letterlocking Practicum with Jana Dambrogio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USC

Friday, December 2, 2016
Paper in the Early Modern Atlantic World Colloquium
Huntington Library

Daniela Bleichmar, USC
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, USC
Katherine Smoak, Johns Hopkins University and McNeill Center for Early American Studies Fellow
Asheesh Siddique, USC
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College
Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside
Patricia Seed, University of California, Irvine
Deborah Harkness, USC