Place Settings
“Place Settings” is an experimental lecture series taking place in studio sets and other unconventional locations around Los Angeles. At each event, artists and academics give short talks inspired by the location.
Organizers:
Laura Nelson, USC Mellon Humanities and the University of the Future Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024)
Anya Ventura, Getty Research Institute
no. 6: “Deconstructing Fandom”
Emma Kemp, Otis College of Art & Design
Aaron Trammell, UC Irvine
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Film Set, Hollywood, LA
7 pm (PT)
Space is limited. Complete the RSVP form to attend and receive the exact location.
no. 5: “future infrastructure”
Jonathan Leal, USC
Carlos Agredano, artist
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Studio Set, El Sereno, LA
7 pm (PT)
Space is limited. Complete the RSVP form to attend and receive the exact location.
no. 4: “Shorelines”
Ayasha Guerin, World Arts & Cultures/Dance, UCLA
Maya Weeks, California Sea Grant State Fellow
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
no. 3: “Ascension”
Sean Fraga, Environmental Studies & History, USC
Sara Suárez, Filmmaker and Artist
Monday, November 6, 2023
no. 2: “Communal Luxury”
Agnes Borinsky, Writer, Performer, Theater-maker
Natania Meeker, French & Comparative Literature, USC
Ethan Philbrook, Cellist, Artist, Writer
Thursday, September 28, 2023
no. 1: “Explorations in Space”
Lois Rosson, USC Berggruen Fellow, Huntington Library
Alice Yuan Zhang, Artist and Program Designer
Monday, May 22, 2023
Studio Set, Lincoln Heights, LA
7–9 pm (PT)
Space is limited to 20 participants. Complete the RSVP form to attend and receive the exact location.
Public Lecture and conversation with Jim English, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanities
Monday, March 7, 2022
In-person event
USC, Doheny Memorial Library
DML 240
3–5 pm (PT)
For more information, contact Mollie Eisenberg.
Registration is required for IN-PERSON events at USC. Attendees must complete Trojan Check, wear a medical-grade mask, and show proof of vaccination against Covid 19.
A professionalization workshop with Laura Goode, Director, Humanities Public Writing Program, Stanford University
Monday, February 7, 2022
In-person event
USC, Doheny Memorial Library
DML 241, Harman Academy for Polymathic Study
2–4pm (PT)
For more information, contact Mollie Eisenberg.
Registration is required for in-person events at USC. Attendees must complete Trojan Check, wear a medical-grade mask, and show proof of vaccination against Covid 19.
September 29–October 29, 2020
Tuesdays, 1–3 pm (PT)
Thursday, 9–11 am (PT)
This series of workshops introduces participants to digital mapping with a humanities focus. Participants gain hands-on experience with methods and approaches for developing, building, and sustaining their own digital mapping projects. Theory and practice will be interwoven as participants are exposed to a variety of software (such as Excel, QGIS, RStudio, Palladio, GitHub, and others) alongside projects that will help form a solid foundation for thinking about how to use spatial and GIS methods within their own academic research, ethically and critically. At the end of the workshop series participants will come away with an online portfolio, featuring their individual projects that can be shared with the broader academic community.
This Humanities and the University of the Future workshop series is co-sponsored by USC Libraries and USC Dornsife.