{"id":2633,"date":"2023-07-03T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/emsi\/?page_id=2633"},"modified":"2025-04-04T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:42:09","slug":"distinguished-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/seminar-series\/distinguished-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Lorraine Daston, University of Chicago & Katharine Park, Harvard University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Public Lectures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, April 10, 2025
\nHuntington Library
\nAhmanson Classroom
\n4:00 – 6:00 pm (PT)<\/p>\n

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Lorraine Daston<\/strong>, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

“Observing the Aurora Borealis in Early Modern Europe”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Katharine Park<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n

“Broadening the Focus: Wonders between Europe and the Lands of Islam”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Master Class<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Friday, April 11, 2025
\nHuntington Library
\nAhmanson Classroom
\n10:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT)<\/p>\n

Seats are limited.<\/em>\u00a0RSVP by April 4<\/a> to attend.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Past Distinguished Lectures\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n \n
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\n Ada Ferrer, New York University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “Havana, 1812: Impossible & Necessary Histories”
\nApril 19, 2024
\nThe Huntington Library<\/p>\n

Master Class: Cuba: An American History
\n<\/em>April 18, 2024
\nThe Huntington Library<\/p>\n

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\n Tiya Miles, Harvard University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley\u2019s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake”<\/i>
\nApril 12, 2022
\nOnline Zoom Event<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Jean E. Howard, Columbia University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “‘I was a stranger’: Hospitality in\u00a0The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/em>”
\nApril 5, 2019
\nThe Huntington Library<\/p>\n

Master Class: “Communities of Practice and the Creation of Early Modern English Tragedy”
\nApril 5, 2019
\nThe Huntington Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “American Democracy and its Discontents: History’s Hold on the Present Moment”
\nApril 19, 2018
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDoheny Memorial Library<\/p>\n

Master Class: “‘Most Blessed of the Patriarchs’: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination”
\n<\/i>April 20, 2018
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nSocial Science Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus History, Yale University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “Travels with Satan: A Look Back at Fifty Years as a Witchcraft Historian”
\nMarch 2, 2017
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDoheny Memorial Library<\/p>\n

Master Class: “The Rebirth of Narrative History: Review and Appraisal”
\nMarch 3, 2017
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDoheny Memorial Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Bear McCreary, Composer\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “Scoring the Past with Bear McCreary: The Alchemists Tell All”
\nNovember 18, 2015
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDoheny Memorial Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “Protests against the Sea: Climate, Trade, and Languages in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
\nNovember 6, 2014
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDoheny Memorial Library<\/p>\n

Master Class: “Deconstructing the Royal Entry: Festive Traditions in Early Modern Europe”
\nNovember 7, 2014
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nHistory Conference Room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “Making and Unmaking Borders in the Misnamed War of 1812”
\nJanuary 31, 2013
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDoheny Memorial Library<\/p>\n

Master Class: “Virginia’s Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in the Early Republic”
\nFebruary 1, 2013
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nUniversity Park Campus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n John Brewer, CalTech\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “The Spectacle of Vesuvius: Travel, Sentiment, and Science in the Age of Revolutions”
\nApril 7, 2011
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDoheny Memorial Library<\/p>\n

Master Class: “Microhistory: Problems of Scale, Distance, and Narrative”
\nApril 8, 2011
\nUniversity of Southern California
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\n Robert Darnton, Harvard University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “Old Books and E-Books”
\nNovember 10, 2009<\/p>\n

Master class
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\n Leonard Barkan, Princeton University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “Words on Pictures”
\nThursday, October 16, 2008<\/p>\n

Master class: “Making a Name”
\nFriday, October 17, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Rolena Adorno, Yale University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “The Polemics of Possession in Early Latin American Narratives”
\nMarch 22, 2007<\/p>\n

Master Class: “The Polemics of Possession: Fray Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas, Juan Gin\u00e9s de Sep\u00falveda, and the Historians of Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s”
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\n Anthony Grafton, Princeton University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2006\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Early Modern Lives: Writing Biography, Then and Now
\nPublic Lecture: “The Many Lives of Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516)”
\nApril 13, 2006<\/p>\n

Master Class: “Writing Biography”<\/p>\n

Catherine M. Soussloff, UC Santa Cruz
\n“Falling in Love: Early Modern Lives of Leonardo da Vinci”<\/p>\n

Malcolm Baker, USC
\n“An Ivory Carver’s Life and Works: Illustrating Artistic Biography in 18th-Century Amsterdam”<\/p>\n

Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University
\n“Turning Lives into Things”<\/p>\n

Greg Sullivan, Gunnis Dictionary of British Sculptors\/Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
\n“Writing the Lives of British Sculptors, 1660-1851 and Today”<\/p>\n

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\n Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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EMSI Distinguished Lecturer, 2004<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Lecture: “The New Contours of Atlantic History”<\/p>\n

Master Class: “Dead Ends: The Dustbins of History”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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