Initiatives

A collective of theorists and philosophers who identify as cis or trans women or as non-binary. While some focus on gender, queer, feminist, or trans theory, the majority works in areas that tend to be male dominated (deconstruction, Marxism, Black studies, Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, political theory, classical philosophy, media theory, Latin American studies).

A working group for faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students who are interested in experimenting within and outside of conventional academic genres, including journalistic writing, auto-theory, and forms made possible by digital publishing platforms. 

Inspired by Michael J. Love’s notion of “(Rhy)pistemology,” this initiative brings together faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students within and outside of USC who are theorists, critics, and/or practitioners of music and dance in order to pose the questions: how does rhythm (and its attendant art forms) allow us to produce conceptual thought? What concepts (ethical, political, aesthetic, or otherwise) emerge from rhythm, motion, sound, and vibration? 

A series featuring work by theorists and practitioners of the experimental arts, including literature, theater and performance, music, dance, film, and other visual media, as well as scholars who are experimenting within and outside of conventional academic genres.

This public-facing arts and humanities series at Soho House stages vital conversations about the nature of adapting literary works into film and television. What ethical and creative questions does adaptation pose? How does this relationship between mediums potentially transform the way we “read” the original text? How can the relationship between literary and film/tv be facilitated and nurtured in a way that benefits and expands the possibilities in both genres? In a series of salon-style events, we pair a TV/screenwriter with a fiction writer upon whose work the film or show is based.