{"id":5840,"date":"2025-02-07T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/?page_id=5840"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:26:08","slug":"2025-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/2025-events\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen113035130_36=\"107\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen113035130_36=\"107\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time113035130_36=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired113035130_36=\"1\">Mining for the Renewable Energy Transition Threatens Endemic Plant Diversity in Nevada<\/h2>\n<p>December 12, 2025<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1161194680?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Password: <strong>USC2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Special Event with Dr. Naomi Fraga, hosted by The Huntington and ICW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-mjoRcMqasd\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-mjoRcMqasd\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Naomi Fraga<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-mjoRcMqasd\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-mjoRcMqasd\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Dr. Naomi Fraga is Director of Conservation Programs at California Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA. Her research interests include plant geography, conservation biology, rare plants of western North America, and taxonomy of monkeyflowers (Phrymaceae). Naomi hold a Ph.D. in Botany from Claremont Graduate University. In 2023, she received the Peter Raven Award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. In 2021 she was awarded the Center for Biological Diversity E.O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science in Biodiversity Conservation and the Center for Plant Conservation Star Award. Naomi serves on the board of the Southern California Botanists, Treasurer for the Amargosa Conservancy, and is chair of the Public Policy Committee of the Botanical Society of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Dornsife Diagloue:\u00a0California\u2019s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From Gold Rush to Gigabytes California\u2019s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i3ZECU2wAUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>October 23, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we commemorate California\u2019s 175th anniversary by exploring defining moments that have shaped the Golden State \u2014 from its 1850 admission to the Union to today\u2019s tech-fueled transformation. Moderated by historians William Deverell and Elizabeth Logan of USC Dornsife\u2019s Institute on California and the West, this conversation with guest scholars will spotlight the forces that shaped significant eras.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alice Baumgartner, Associate Professor of History, USC Dornsife<\/li>\n<li>Dan Lewis, Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science &amp; Technology, The Huntington<\/li>\n<li>Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History, USC Dornsife<\/li>\n<li>Jill Sohm, Professor of Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife<\/li>\n<li>Peter Westwick, Professor of the Practice of Thematic Option and History, USC Dornsife<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Worshiping in the West<br \/>\nFrom Pews to Power: Black Religion and the Remaking of Democracy in Los Angeles, In Conversation with Cori Tucker-Price<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1126006850?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>October 9, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Explore how Black Angelenos used their religious imagination to envision Los Angeles as a space of freedom and belonging, focusing on the development of a democratic religious tradition rooted in People\u2019s Independent Church of Christ. \u00a0Dr. Tucker-Price is joined in conversation with Dr. Bill Deverell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-So_jqL5p2A\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-So_jqL5p2A\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Cori Tucker-Price<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-So_jqL5p2A\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-So_jqL5p2A\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Dr. Cori Tucker-Price is an Assistant Professor of the African American Religious Experience and Benjamin Banneker Faculty Fellow at UC Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching focus on nineteenth and twentieth century African American religious history, religion and the U.S. West, religion and media, digital humanities, and migration studies. She is currently an ACLS Fellow completing her first book project, <em>Righteous Citizens: A History of Race and Religion in Los Angeles, 1903-1953<\/em>, which traces the historical and social forces that shaped African American religious institutions in southern California. Her work has been supported by various funding bodies, including the Huntington Library, and has appeared in the <em>Pacific Historical Review<\/em>, The <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, and the Crossroads Project at Princeton University. Prior to her appointment at UCSB, she held postdoctoral fellowships at USC and Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Worshiping in the West<br \/>\nJesus Springs: In Conversation with William Schultz<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1124038871?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>October 2, 2025<\/p>\n<p>In ICW&#8217;s fourth episode of the Fall 2025 Worshiping in the West series, we welcome Dr. Schultz to explore the impact of Christian Evangelicalism on the development of Colorado Springs and, by extension, the American West. \u00a0Dr. Schultz discusses some of his research from his work, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City,<\/span> along with Dr. Bill Deverell, who shares his own insights as a native of Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-GKodduOHpV\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-GKodduOHpV\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">William Schultz<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-GKodduOHpV\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-GKodduOHpV\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Dr. Will Schultz is an assistant professor of American religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His work focuses on the intersection of religion, politics, and economics in the modern United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Worshiping in the West<br \/>\nMormonism in the West: In Conversation with Jared Farmer<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1122034685?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>September 25, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Farmer discusses the role of music, verse, and silence in the development of the Mormon Church, bringing in research from his latest work, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Sound of Mormonism: A Media History of Latter-day Saints<\/span>. \u00a0Dr. Farmer is joined in conversation with Dr. Bill Deverell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-Y4HW9ZEW2H\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-Y4HW9ZEW2H\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jared Farmer<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-Y4HW9ZEW2H\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-Y4HW9ZEW2H\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Dr. Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Chair of the Department of History. Farmer\u2019s temporal expertise is the long nineteenth century; his regional expertise is the North American West. He is the author of five books, including <em>Trees in Paradise: A California History<\/em> (2013). His recent work has turned to climate history, energy history, science and technology studies, and media studies. Originally from Utah, Farmer earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University and began his academic career as a postdoctoral fellow with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Worshiping in the West<br \/>\nAimee Semple McPherson: In Conversation with Claire Hoffman<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1119966662?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>September 18, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Claire Hoffman, as part of the Fall 2025 Series <em>Worshiping in the American West<\/em>, discusses her latest work, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple-McPherson<\/span>. \u00a0Dr. Hoffman is joined in conversation with Dr. Bill Deverell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-So0CWwy5UM\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-So0CWwy5UM\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Claire Hoffman<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-So0CWwy5UM\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-So0CWwy5UM\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Dr. Claire Hoffman works as a journalist and author, reporting for national magazines, covering culture, religion, celebrity, business and whatever else seems interesting. She was formerly a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, and has a masters degree in religion from the University of Chicago, a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and an MFA from NYU. She serves on the board of her family foundation, the Goldhirsh Foundation, as well as the Columbia Journalism School and ProPublica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Worshiping in the West<br \/>\nChristian Nationalism: In Conversation with Bradley Onishi<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6085 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/Onishi-9.11.25-Webinar-Intro-Slides-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Poster in brown with portrait and book cover with image of church and statehouse\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/Onishi-9.11.25-Webinar-Intro-Slides-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/Onishi-9.11.25-Webinar-Intro-Slides-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/Onishi-9.11.25-Webinar-Intro-Slides-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/Onishi-9.11.25-Webinar-Intro-Slides-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/Onishi-9.11.25-Webinar-Intro-Slides-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/Onishi-9.11.25-Webinar-Intro-Slides.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>September 11, 2025<\/p>\n<p>A conversation with Dr. Bradley Onishi and ICW Co-Director Dr. Elizabeth Logan, part of the Fall 2025 Series\u00a0<em>Worshiping in the American West<\/em>.\u00a0In this session, we explore the rise of White Christian Nationalism and its impact on the past, present, and future of the West.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The Video recording on this webinar failed. Here are links to the <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/husc-icw\/worshipping-in-the-west-christian-nationalism-with-bradley-onishi?si=f6f8d56ee2124481986ee6bc303f7cc6&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing\">audio<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/Onishi-Webinar-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-BNfdKPGuTj\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-BNfdKPGuTj\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Bradley Onishi<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-BNfdKPGuTj\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-BNfdKPGuTj\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Dr. Bradley Onishi is President of the Institute for Religion, Media, and Civic Engagement and the Founder of Axis Mundi Media. In 2023 he published, Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism &#8211; And What Comes Next, which was chosen by the \u201cChristian Science Monitor\u201d as a Best Read for 2023. He is also faculty in Religion and Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. A TEDx speaker, he has written for the New York Times, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Huffpost, Religion &amp; Politics, The LA Review of Books, The Conversation US, Rewire.News, among other outlets. Onishi appears regularly on NPR-affiliate programs and nationally ranked podcasts. His first monograph, The Sacrality of the Secular, appeared from Columbia University Press in 2018; his scholarship has been published in journals such as JAAR, Sophia, Religions, and The American Book Review. He is the co-host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast, a religion and politics show, which has been downloaded over ten million times since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>L.A. Coroner: In Conversation with Anne Choi<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1086454270?h=e61c498aaa&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>May 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anne Choi talks about her research into the life and work of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the Chief Medical Examiner\u2013Coroner of Los Angeles County from 1967 to 1982. Her book, <em>L.A. Coroner<\/em>, featuries never-before-published details about Noguchi\u2019s most controversial cases, set against the backdrop of the social and racial politics of the 1960s and 1970s, postwar Japanese American experience, and Hollywood celebrity culture. \u00a0Anne Choi is in conversation with ICW Co-Director Bill Deverell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-4w-iSkw0RB\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-4w-iSkw0RB\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Anne Soon Choi<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-4w-iSkw0RB\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-4w-iSkw0RB\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Anne Soon Choi, author of <i>L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood <\/i>(Third State Books), is a historian and professor of Asian American Studies and university administrator at California State University, Northridge. Her essay \u201cThe Japanese American Citizens League, Los Angeles Politics, and the Thomas Noguchi Case,\u201d on which this book is based, won the 2021 Francis Wheat Prize from the Historical Society of Southern California. Choi has previously served on the faculty of Swarthmore College and the University of Kansas and is an Andrew Mellon Fellow and an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Ethnic Studies Fellow. She lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen113035130_36=\"89\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen113035130_36=\"89\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time113035130_36=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired113035130_36=\"1\">Dam Nation: The Fate &amp; Future of Dams in the American West<\/h2>\n<p>Conference session recordings are available through ICW&#8217;s YouTube Channel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"20th Anniversary Conference: Dam Nation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLSu4wfa-pWEgN1mwBMAiK-fCC3r3dWVUR\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>May 2, 2025<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West\u2019s 20th anniversary, this full day conference explored the past, present, and future of dams in the American West. Expert speakers and panels examined the impact of dams across the region and addressed debates swirling around dam removal. From the Klamath to Glen Canyon, this day served as a dive deep into the complex world of dam management, removal, and environmental conservation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/dam-nation\/\">More information about the conference is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen113035130_36=\"90\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time113035130_36=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired113035130_36=\"1\">Freedom and Unfreedom in the American West<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1078808061?h=3c8bf905d1&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>April 24, 2025<\/p>\n<p>An ICW conversation between Professors Alice Baumgartner and Katria Jagodinsky, moderated by Prof. Julian Lim, about their current research projects on the legal ramifications of freedom and unfreedom in the American West from the late 19th into the early 20th centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n      \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-t9nriYcYEv\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-t9nriYcYEv\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Alice Baumgartner<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-t9nriYcYEv\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-t9nriYcYEv\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Alice Baumgartner is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern California. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and an M.Phil in Latin American Studies from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Her first book, <i>South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War<\/i>, was selected as an Editor\u2019s Choice by the <i>New York Times<\/i> Book Review and as a finalist for the <i>LA Times <\/i>Book Prize in History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-t9nriYcYEv\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-t9nriYcYEv\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Katrina Jagodinsky<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-t9nriYcYEv\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-t9nriYcYEv\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Katrina Jagodinsky is Associate Professor of History at University of Nebraska Lincoln and founder of the Digital Legal Research Lab, a hub for critical legal research applying digital tools to chronicle and measure marginalized people\u2019s use of the law in the United States. Dr. Jagodinsky recently launched <i>Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924<\/i>, a database of legal cases featuring the efforts of petitioners to challenge their wrongful confinement and coercive detention:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu\/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!skZ3duca5LLHYWDSBnYIa2H9sFLhhujAcGkAzYVTD8O-O0pkcFte3uRM55WW7R_ttfpqq0KI9UYnUvj1Kg52wA$\">https:\/\/petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-t9nriYcYEv\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-t9nriYcYEv\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Julian Lim<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-t9nriYcYEv\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-t9nriYcYEv\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Julian Lim is the Arthur Eisenberg and Susan Engel Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Lim\u2019s work explores connections between Asian, Latinx, African American, and Indigenous histories and how laws shape notions of belonging within the U.S. and across national boundaries. Lim\u2019s first book, <i>Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands<\/i>, examined the history of diverse immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the development of immigration policy and law on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen113035130_36=\"77\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen113035130_36=\"77\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time113035130_36=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired113035130_36=\"1\">A Machine to Move Ocean &amp; Earth: A Discussion with James Tejani<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1073694912?h=7aabf35156&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>April 4, 2025<\/p>\n<p>A discussion with James Tejani about his new work, <i>A Machine to Move Ocean &amp; Earth<\/i>.\u00a0 This groundbreaking work dives into the history of the Los Angeles Port, charting the port\u2019s rise out of the mud and salt marsh of San Pedro estuary and showing how the story of the port is the story of modern, globalized America itself.\u00a0 Interweaving the natural history of San Pedro into this all-too-human history, Dr. Tejani will share with us how a wild coast was made into the engine of American power. \u00a0In Discussion With Elizabeth Logan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-A_TZrgy53R\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-A_TZrgy53R\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">James Tejani<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-A_TZrgy53R\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-A_TZrgy53R\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>James Tejani is associate professor at California State University in San Luis Obispo.\u00a0 After growing up in Long Beach, he studied at the University of California, San Diego, and Columbia University.\u00a0 His writings have appeared in <i>Western Historical Quarterly<\/i>, <i>Southern California Quarterly<\/i>, <i>Dispatches Magazine<\/i>, and the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>. His debut book <i>A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth<\/i> was published by W. W. Norton in July 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen113035130_36=\"3110\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen113035130_36=\"3110\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time113035130_36=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired113035130_36=\"1\">Up In the Air: A Dodger Stadium Gondola?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1059147850?h=37c0a36243&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>February 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">ICW explores the history <\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">of Los Angeles transit and a community-<\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">based response to the Los Angeles <\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Aerial Rapid Transit proposal. \u00a0Panelists will include UCLA Professor Eric Avila, Urban writer Alissa Walker, and Founder and Executive Director of the Southeast Asian Community Alliance Sissy Trinh.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-vCDWGd2Kl8\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-vCDWGd2Kl8\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Eric Avila<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-vCDWGd2Kl8\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-vCDWGd2Kl8\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Eric Avila is a professor in the History, Chicana\/o Studies, and Urban Planning departments at UCLA. He is a twentieth-century U.S. urban historian and the author of three books: <i>Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles <\/i>(University of California Press, 2004), <i>The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City <\/i>(University of Minnesota Press, 2014), and <i>American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction <\/i>(Oxford University Press, 2018). Over the years, he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in History at the University of California Berkeley. His current book project is on the cultural history of late twentieth-century Los Angeles, titled <i>On the Verge: Los Angeles Between Watts and Rodney King<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-vCDWGd2Kl8\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-vCDWGd2Kl8\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">James D. Newland<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-vCDWGd2Kl8\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-vCDWGd2Kl8\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>James D. Newland is a historian, project manager, and planner for the California State Parks Department. \u00a0 He is currently serving as the Division Chief for the Strategic Planning &amp; Recreation Services Division of California State Parks, where he has been employed for over 28 years. He has been professionally involved in cultural resources, land use planning, community history and historic preservation since 1991. \u00a0 With State Parks, Jim has served as historian and project manager for the initial planning efforts at Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP) as well as leading preservation projects at Will Rogers State Historic Park, Pio Pico State Historic Park, Malibu Lagoon State Beach, Los Encinos State Historic Park, Topanga State Park and Crystal Cove State Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-vCDWGd2Kl8\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-vCDWGd2Kl8\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Sissy Trinh<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-vCDWGd2Kl8\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-vCDWGd2Kl8\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Sissy Trinh is the founder and Executive Director of the Southeast Asian Community Alliance (SEACA) in Los Angeles. SEACA engages in innovative organizing with youth on land use policy and equitable development campaigns and a new wave of gentrification slated for Chinatown that was proceeding with no meaningful input from residents. Under SEACA\u2019s mentorship, the youth learn about how decisions are made within City Hall and how abstract concepts such as zoning impact rent, racial justice, and their community\u2019s overall quality of life in order for them to become powerful advocates to advance a comprehensive vision of social, economic and racial justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-4-vCDWGd2Kl8\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-vCDWGd2Kl8\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Alissa Walker<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-vCDWGd2Kl8\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-vCDWGd2Kl8\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Alissa Walker is a writer based in Los Angeles where she has covered transportation, housing, urban design, public space, and environmental policy for two decades. She edits the newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.torched.la\/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!rh6Hq1Ityf5ivFLmspxJ20iTdrmOeRLiwwl0ISciqHVMV9JhB5mwjoijN6XN6A2bkOhvreUlnuJPxiDPrFJW$\">Torched<\/a>, which tracks the legacy improvements that LA is making for its megaevent era, including the 2026 World Cup, 2027 Super Bowl, and the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Alissa is the 2021 recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary for her writing on design and urbanism, and played herself on the traffic safety episode of Adam Conover\u2019s show <i>Adam Ruins Everything<\/i>, \u201cAdam Ruins a Murder.\u201d She lives in L.A.\u2019s Historic Filipinotown neighborhood, where she is the co-host of LA Podcast, an avid ice cream consumer, and a mom to the city\u2019s two most enthusiastic public transit riders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen113035130_36=\"130\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen113035130_36=\"130\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time113035130_36=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired113035130_36=\"1\">Writing the Golden State: A New Literary Terrain<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1058700800?h=d91d45d7a2&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>February 13, 2025<\/p>\n<p>A discussion about California\u2019s past and present with Jennifer Carr, David Ulin, David Helps, and Wendy Cheng, contributors to the new book Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California, along with editor <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romeo Guzm\u00e1n<\/span>. Writing the Golden States explores California through twenty-five essays that look beyond the clich\u00e9s of the \u201cCalifornia Dream,\u201d portraying a state that is deviant and recalcitrant, proud and humble, joyful and communal. Join us for a multi-faceted and exciting dialogue as we explore the individuals, communities, and events that have made California a richly diverse state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n          \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jennifer Carr<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-OXdzicM_Zt\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-OXdzicM_Zt\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jennifer Carr is a writer from San Pedro, California, and is a USC alumna (class of 2001). Her fiction and nonfiction grapple with what life in a globalized, automated world means for union towns like San Pedro, where immigrant families have come to live and work and stay for generations. Aside from her essay in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing the Golden State<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Jennifer&#8217;s work has appeared in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Z\u00f3calo Public Square<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boom California<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baltimore Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, among others. She teaches creative writing at Chapman University.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Wendy Cheng<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-OXdzicM_Zt\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-OXdzicM_Zt\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wendy Cheng is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. She is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Island X: Taiwanese Students, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(University of Washington Press, 2023)<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Changs Next Door to the D\u00edazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(University of Minnesota Press, 2013), and coauthor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A People\u2019s Guide to Los Angeles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (University of California Press, 2012). Her creative nonfiction essays have been published in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cincinnati Review, Boom: A Journal of California, Z\u00f3calo Public Square,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los Angeles Review of Books<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and have been nominated for the University of Iowa Krause Essay Prize and the Pushcart Prize, as well as selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays and for inclusion in the Best Spiritual Literature anthology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Romeo Guzm\u00e1n<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-OXdzicM_Zt\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-OXdzicM_Zt\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romeo Guzm\u00e1n is a historian, editor, and cultural worker from the San Gabriel Valley. He is the co-director of the South El Monte Arts Posse and ran C.A.S.A Zamora from 2023-24. From 2019 to 2022, he co-edited Boom California; he is currently an editor-at-large at Z\u00f3calo Public Square. You can find his writing in the Journal of American History, Journal of American Ethnic History, The History of the Family, KCET, Tropics of Meta, and Air\/Light. He co-edited Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California (Angel City Press: 2024) and East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Rutgers, 2020). Guzm\u00e1n is currently as assistant professor at Claremont Graduate University. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-4-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">David Helps<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-OXdzicM_Zt\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-OXdzicM_Zt\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Helps is an urban historian and writer from Southwestern Ontario, Canada and the territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples. His research has been published in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Urban History<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Quarterly <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and his essays and reportage have appeared in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public Books<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LA Review of Books<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, among other places. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California, he is writing his first book: a people\u2019s history of global Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-5-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-controls=\"section-1-5-OXdzicM_Zt\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">David Ulin<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-5-OXdzicM_Zt\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-5-OXdzicM_Zt\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>David Ulin is Professor of the Practice of English, and editor of the journal <em>Air\/Light<\/em>. He is the author or editor of nearly 20 books, including the novel <em>Thirteen Question Method;<\/em>\u00a0<em>Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles<\/em>, shortlisted for the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay; and <em>Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology<\/em>, which won a California Book Award. The former book editor and book critic of the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, he has written for <em>The Atlantic Monthly<\/em>, <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>; his essay \u201cBed\u201d was selected for <em>The Best American Essays 2020<\/em>. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and Ucross Foundation, as well as a COLA-IMAP Master Artist Grant from the City of Los Angeles. 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