{"id":5012,"date":"2024-02-09T21:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T21:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/?page_id=5012"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:46:02","slug":"past-special-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/past-special-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Co-Sponsored Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Past Co-Sponsored Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

April 15, 2026<\/strong>
\nChristopher P. Heuer, University of Rochester
\n“Antiquity without Humans: The Primordial Landscapes of Cornelis van Dalem”
\nUSC
\nOrganized by the USC Department of Art History and co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

February 27, 2026<\/strong>
\nBlack Technoscience: A Symposium
\nCecilio M. Cooper, Science History Institute
\n“Alchemical Nigredo: Rendering the Blackest Black via Early Modern Occult Science”
\nHenry Washington, Jr., UC Berkeley
\n“A Crime of Origin: Imag(in)ing Blackness’s Cultural Inheritance in ‘Talma Gordon’”
\nShelleen Greene, UCLA
\nKeynote lecture: “Slave to the Rhythm: Blackness, Prosthetics and Augmented Bodies”
\nwith discussants Naima Adams, USC, Corrine Collins, USC, and Mlondolozi Zondi, USC
\nUSC
\nThis symposium is presented by the USC Consortium for GSRPC and Black Visual Cultures Collective. 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

February 13, 2026<\/strong>
\nEverything You Wanted to Know about Publishing a Journal Article but were Afraid to Ask: A Workshop with Three Early Modern Journal Editors
\nAshley Cohen, editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation<\/em>
\nJoshua Piker, former editor of William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>
\nBrett Rushforth, editor of Huntington Library Quarterly
\n<\/em>The Huntington<\/p>\n

December 4, 2025<\/strong>
\nUSC Levan Institute for the Humanities Book Chat with Ketaki Pant
\nItinerant Belonging: Intimate Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
\nin conversation with Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
\nSunil Amrith, Yale University,
\nNayan Shah, USC (moderator)
\nVirtual event
\nOrganized 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

November 5, 2025<\/strong>
\nUSC Levan Institute for the Humanities Book Chat with Claire Farago, UC Boulder
\nWriting Borderless Histories of Art: Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis<\/em> (Routledge, 2025)
\nDaniela Bleichmar, USC
\nUSC, Doheny Memorial Library
\nOrganized 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 the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

May 8, 2025<\/strong>
\nLevan Institute for the Humanities Book Chat with Emily Hodgson Anderson<\/strong>
\nShadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life<\/em>
\nJulia Lee, Loyola Marymount University, and Anahid Nersessian, UCLA, discussants
\nDana Johnson, USC, moderator
\nOnline event
\nCo-sponsored by the Levan Institute for the Humanities, USC Department of English, and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

May 2, 2025<\/strong>
\nHuntington-USC Institute on California & the West 20th Anniversary Conference<\/strong>
\nDam Nation: The Fate & Future of Dams in the American West<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library
\nThis conference is sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

April 8, 2025<\/strong>
\nLevan Institute for the Humanities Book Chat with Lindsay O’Neill<\/strong>
\nThe Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery<\/em>
\nCatherine Molineaux, Vanderbilt University, and Asheesh Siddique, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, discussants
\nPeter Mancall, USC, moderator
\nOnline event
\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Levan Institute for the Humanities, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, and Van Hunnick History Department.<\/em><\/p>\n

March 28 & 29, 2025<\/strong>
\n“Russian Afterlives of the Early Modern”<\/strong>
\nUSC<\/p>\n

Conference organizers
\nKelsey Rubin-Detlev, USC
\nColleen McQuillen, USC<\/p>\n

Speakers
\nFrederic Clark, USC
\nErica Camisa Morale, Stanford University
\nLuba Golburt, UC Berkeley
\nOleg Lekmanov, Tashkent\/Princeton University
\nRebecca Lemon, USC
\nChloe Papadopoulos, USC
\nSasha Pchelintseva, USC
\nIgor Pilschchikov, UCLA
\nEllina Sattarova, USC
\nThomas Seifrid, USC
\nIlya Vinitsky, Princeton University
\nErik Zitser, Duke University<\/p>\n

This event is co-sponsored by the USC Department of Slavic Literature and Languages; the USC Van Hunnick History Department; the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute; the USC Visual Studies Research Institute; the USC Center for International Studies; and the USC Levan Institute for the Humanities.<\/em><\/p>\n

November 14, 2024<\/strong>
\nLegend of Destruction<\/em> Screening<\/strong>
\nOnline event
\nThis event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, USC Department of History, and USC Department of Jewish Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n

October 28 – December 18, 2024<\/strong>
\n“Josephus, Translated and Transformed: From the 1st Century to the 21st Century”<\/strong>
\nExhibition in USC Libraries Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library
\nThis event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, USC Department of History, and USC Department of Jewish Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n

October 4, 2024<\/strong>
\nNova Forum Symposium with Peter Harrison, University of Queensland<\/strong>
\n“Nature after Disenchantment: New Histories of Religion and Science”
\nUSC<\/p>\n

Participants
\nPeter Harrison, University of Queensland
\nDavid Albertson, USC Religion & Nova Forum
\nAlexandre Roberts, USC Classics
\nJessica Zu, USC Religion
\nSusanna Berger, USC Art History & Philosophy
\nFrederic Clark, USC Classics
\nJanet Hoskins, USC Anthropology & Religion<\/p>\n

This event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, USC School of Religion, and Religious Ecologies Project, Nova Forum, and CHARM.<\/em><\/p>\n

October 3, 2024<\/strong>
\nNova Forum Science & Religion Series with Peter Harrison, University of Queensland<\/strong>
\n“The Battle of Science and Religion? New Perspectives on a Troubled Relationship”
\nUSC<\/p>\n

September 30, 2024<\/strong>
\nLevan Institute for the Humanities Book Chat with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal<\/strong>
\nThe Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It
\nDavid Armitage, Harvard University, and Marlene Daut, Yale University, discussants
\nBob Shrum, USC, moderator
\nOnline event
\nThis event is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Department of French and Italian, and the Levan Institute for the Humanities.<\/em><\/p>\n

June 19-21, 2024<\/strong>
\n“Vast Early America: A Transcontinental Conversation”<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Poitiers
\nThis conference was co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, MIMMOC (M\u00e9moires, Identit\u00e9s, Marginalit\u00e9s dans le Monde Occidental Contemporain), and MSHS Poitiers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Past Special Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May 3 & 4, 2024<\/strong>
\n“Craft and Crafting in the Early Modern World”<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Conference Organizers
\nAnne Goldgar, USC
\nEthan Matt Kavaler, University of Toronto<\/p>\n

Presenters
\nFrederic Clark, USC
\nAdam Knight Gilbert, USC
\nLaura Hutchingame, UCLA
\nRichard Ibarra, USC
\nEthan Matt Kavaler, University of Toronto
\nAlexander Mazzaferro, UCLA
\nMarina Nye, UCLA
\nAmy Powell, USC
\nEyal Sagie Pundik, University of Toronto
\nWenyi Qian, University of Toronto
\nJohn Rogers, University of Toronto
\nSean Silvers, Rutgers University
\nPaul Stevens, University of Toronto
\nMisha Teramura, University of Toronto
\nAndrea Walkden, University of Toronto
\nDeanne Williams, York University, Toronto<\/p>\n

November 10 & 11, 2023<\/strong>
\n“Women in Art and Science in the Early Modern World”<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Conference Co-organizers
\nDaniela Bleichmar, USC
\nNicole LaBouff, LACMA<\/p>\n

Presenters
\nElaine M. Ayers, New York University
\nJanet Browne, Harvard University
\nMargaret Carlyle, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan
\nJessica C. Linker, Northeastern University
\nLaura Mitchell, University of California, Irvine
\nCarole Nataf, Courtauld Institute of Art
\nSarah Waheed, University of South Carolina
\nWinnie Wong, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n

November 29 & 30, 2018<\/strong>
\n“Libertine Botany”\u00a0<\/strong>
\nUSC<\/p>\n

Conference Co-organizers
\nNatania Meeker, USC French
\nAnt\u00f3nia Szabani, USC Comparative Literature<\/p>\n

Presenters
\nJustin Begley, University of Helsinki
\nSarah Benharrech, University of Maryland
\nDominique Brancher, University of Basel
\nAmanda Jo Goldstein, UC Berkeley
\nPauline Goul, Vassar College
\nDevin Griffiths, USC
\nBlanca Miss\u00e9, San Francisco State University
\nVin Nardizzi, The University of British Columbia
\nJessica Rath, Art Center College of Design
\nJessica Rosenberg, University of Miami
\nSherry Velasco, USC<\/p>\n

December 2, 2016<\/strong>
\n“Paper in the Early Modern Atlantic World”<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Colloquium organizer: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, USC<\/p>\n

Participants
\nDaniela Bleichmar, USC
\nJana Dambrogio, MIT
\nAlejandra Dubcovsky, UC Riverside
\nDeborah Harkness, USC
\nPatricia Seed, UC Irvine
\nSylvia Sellers-Garc\u00eda, Boston College
\nAsheesh Siddique, USC
\nKatherine Smoak, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

May 11, 2012<\/strong>
\n“Portraits of the Traveler: The Art of Mediating Between East & West”<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Mich\u00e8le Longino, Duke University
\n“Jean de Th\u00e9vonot: Travels, Adventures, and Observations of a Voyager to the Levant”<\/p>\n

Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College
\n“The Wordly Traveler: Salons and Les Indes orientales in 17th-Century France”<\/p>\n

Amy Landau, The Walters Art Museum
\n“The Bashi in Breeches: Portrayals of Cosmopolitan Communities in 17th-Century Safavid Oil Painting”<\/p>\n

Margaret Rosenthal, USC
\n“The Serenissima and Sublime Porte: Cesare Vecellio’s Admiration of the Ottoman Empire”<\/p>\n

Ann R. Jones, Smith College
\n“Pietro della Valle in the East: Dressing Up for Egypt, Persia, and India”<\/p>\n

February 8, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deborah Harkness, USC
\nA Discovery of Witches<\/em>, A Novel
\nUSC<\/p>\n

September 17, 2010<\/strong>
\n“Alchemy and Economy Workshop: Circulations of Value in Early Modern Europe”<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Vera Keller, USC
\n“Perfecting the State: Alchemical Views of Progress in Politics, 1575\u20131625”<\/p>\n

Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College
\n“Alchemy and Credit: The Quest for Infinite Improvement”<\/p>\n

Ted McCormick, Concordia University
\n“The Economics of Alchemy and the Alchemy of Economics”<\/p>\n

Margaret Garber, CSU Fullerton
\n“Curious Commodities: Routes of chymical exchange in the Holy Roman Empire, 1670\u20131700”<\/p>\n

Lydia Barnett, Stanford University
\n“The Theology of Improvement: Natural and Sacred Histories of the Earth”<\/p>\n

Andre Wakefield, Pitzer College
\n“Matter, Mechanism and Monads: The Leibnizian Challenge”<\/p>\n

April 10, 2008<\/strong>
\n“The Spiritual Life of Plants”<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Organizers:
\nNatania Meeker, USC
\nAntonia Szabari, USC<\/p>\n

Dominique Brancher, University of Geneva
\nTom Conley, Harvard University
\nFran\u00e7oise Delaporte, Universit\u00e9 de Picardie
\nEleanor Kaufman, UCLA
\nPierre Saint-Armand, Brown University<\/p>\n

February 28, 2006<\/strong>
\n“Veronica Franco’s Renaissance from Honest Courtesan to Dangerous Beauty”
\n<\/strong>USC<\/p>\n

Margaret Rosenthal, USC
\nRandolph Starn, UC Berkeley
\nMarshall Herskovitz, Director and Producer
\nJeannine Dominy, Screenwriter
\nSuzi Dietz, Musical producer<\/p>\n

February 10, 2006<\/strong>
\n“Different Natures: Hermaphrodites & Pregnant Men in the Early Modern World”
\n<\/strong>USC<\/p>\n

Tamer El-Leithy, Harvard Society of Fellows
\n“Transgender, Transgenre: Anomalous Sexuality in the Medieval Middle East”<\/p>\n

Sherry Velasco, University of Kentucky
\n“The Politics of Male Pregnancy in Early Modern Spain”<\/p>\n

Leah M. Devun, Texas A&M University
\n“Jesus as Hermaphrodite: Alchemy & Sex Difference in Pre-Modern Europe”<\/p>\n

Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University
\n“The Hermaphrodite & the Sexual Politics of Alchemy in Early Modern France”<\/p>\n

October 8, 2005
\n“The Body’s Secrets Unlocked: Early Modern Anatomy and Anatomies”
\n<\/strong>Huntington Library<\/p>\n

Mary Fissel, Johns Hopkins University
\nAnita Guerrini, UC Santa Barbara
\nCindy Klestinec, Georgia Institute of Technology
\nKatherine Park, Harvard University
\nCharlotte Furth, USC<\/p>\n

May 28, 2005
\n“Family Matters: Geneaology & History in the Early Modern World”\u00a0<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Organizer: Karen Halttunen, USC<\/p>\n

Andres Resendez, UC Davis
\n“Genetics, Population Movements, and Family Matters in Mexico and the American Southwest”<\/p>\n

Michael Szonyi, University of Toronto
\n“The Multiple Uses of Chinese Genealogy, or, How to Dodge the Draft, Cheat on Your Taxes, and Forge a New Identity in Sixteenth-Century South China”<\/p>\n

Deborah Harkness, USC
\n“Scientific Dynasties in Early Modern England”<\/p>\n

Karin Wulf, College of William and Mary
\n“The Practice of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-America”<\/p>\n

May 21, 2005<\/strong>
\n“Visibility and Genre in the Americas”<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Thomas Cummins, Harvard University
\nSabine MacCormack, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n

April 16, 2005<\/strong>
\n“Cartography and Empire”<\/strong>
\nUSC<\/p>\n

Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
\nBarbara Mundy, Fordham University
\nRicardo Padron, University of Virginia
\nNicolas Wey-Gomez, Brown University<\/p>\n

March 19, 2005<\/strong>
\n“Beasts of Land and Sea in the Early Modern Atlantic World”\u00a0<\/strong>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Virginia Dejohn Anderson, University of Colorado
\n“Animals and Empire in Seventeenth-Century English America”<\/p>\n

Jon T. Coleman, University of Notre Dame
\n“Angry Farmers and Cringing Wolves: Brutality, Biology, and the American Conquest of the Northeastern Woods”<\/p>\n

D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University
\n“Is a Whale a Fish? Cetaceans and the Order of Nature”<\/p>\n

Peter C. Mancall, USC
\n“Monsters of the Atlantic World”<\/p>\n

May 8, 2004<\/strong>
\nThe Institute Seminar<\/strong>
\nDavid Goldstein, Stanford University<\/strong>
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