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\n Writing (in) Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America and Africa<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Friday, October 2, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organizers:<\/em>
\nMlondi Zondi<\/strong>, Comparative Literature, USC
\nRomi Wainberg<\/strong>, Latin and Iberian Cultures, USC<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>about\u00a0this crisis within the humanities.<\/p>\n

University of Southern California,
\n3501 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA
\nTHH 309
\n9:00 am \u2013 5:00 pm<\/p>\n

Register<\/a> to participate. See the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Levan Institute Book Chat with Mengxiao Wang<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Virtual event
\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon (PT)
\nRegistration is required<\/a>.
\nAn excerpt of the book will be made available to registered attendees.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Mass Violence, Genocide, and Their Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples – The Americas<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Monday-Thursday, November 23-26, 2026<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Universidad Nacional de R\u00edo Negro
\nBariloche, Argentina, Territorio Mapuche-Tehuelche<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Organizers:
\nMelisa Cabrap\u00e1n Duarte, Mapuche, National University of Comahue & CONICET
\nLorena Ca\u00f1uqueo, Mapuche, National University of R\u00edo Negro
\nWalter Delrio, National University of R\u00edo Negro & CONICET
\nDorota Glowacka, University of Kings College, Halifax
\nWolf Gruner, USC
\nPilar P\u00e9rez, National University of R\u00edo Negro & CONICET
\nAndrea Pichilef, Mapuche, National University of La Pampa & IIDyPCa-CONICET-UNRN
\nLorena Sekwan Fontaine, Cree-Anishinabe, University of Manitoba
\nMartha Stroud, USC Center for Advanced Genocide Research<\/p>\n

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<\/em> the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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