{"id":11,"date":"2022-11-02T18:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:48:55","slug":"book-chats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/programs\/book-chats\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Chats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n        \n          \n          \n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--editorial-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--editorial-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Upcoming Events\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"cards-container\">\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/Albertson_BC-768x432.png\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/Albertson_BC-1280x720.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/Albertson_BC-768x432.png 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Book Chat<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    David Albertson, <em>The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure without Measure<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2025)\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>April 17, 2026, 11am\u201312pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/levan-book-chatdavid-albertson-the-geometry-of-christian-contemplation\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">More<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Amy Hollywood (Harvard University) and Alexis Torrance\u00a0(University of Notre Dame), moderated by Arjun Nair (USC). Organized in partnership with the School of Religion and the School of Philosophy. Registration is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/Meeker_BC-768x432.png\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/Meeker_BC-1280x720.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/Meeker_BC-768x432.png 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Book Chat<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    Natania Meeker, <em>Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France<\/em> (Fordham University Press, 2026)\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>April 28, 2026, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/levan-book-chatnatania-meeker-illusive-materialisms\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">More<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Andrew H. Clark (Fordham University) and Jessie Hock (Vanderbilt University), moderated by Neetu Khanna (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of French and Italian, the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, and the Department of Comparative Literature. Registration is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/bodyandsenses-768x432.png\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/bodyandsenses-1280x720.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2025\/10\/bodyandsenses-768x432.png 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Book Chat<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    Afroditi Angelopoulou, <em>The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2025)\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>May 7, 2026, 1pm\u20132pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/levan-book-chatafroditi-angelopoulou-the-body-and-the-senses-in-greek-tragedy\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">More<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Ella Haselswerdt (UCLA) and Peter Meineck (New York University), moderated by Susan Lape (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of Classics and the Center for the Premodern World. Registration is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\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      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Past Events\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Alice Echols, <em>Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>March 31, 2026, 1pm\u20132pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>| <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-mKJYgC4pZw\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Ula Y. Taylor (UC Berkeley) and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (UC Irvine), moderated by Hajar Yazdiha (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Van Hunnick History Department. Registration is required.<\/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-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Ann Marie Yasin, <em>Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World: Architectural Restoration and Temporality from Augustus to Justinian<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>March 12, 2026, 1pm\u20132pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZXeWGBONbOg\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Darlene Brooks Hedstrom (Brandeis University) and Felipe Rojas Silva (Brown University), moderated by Frederic Clark (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of Art History and the Department of Classics. Registration is required.<\/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-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Sarah Mesle, <em>Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>February 27, 2026, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> RECORDING FORTHCOMING<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Emily Ogden (University of Virginia) and Tina Post (University of Chicago), moderated by Karen Tongson (USC). Organized in partnership with the USC Writing Program and the Department of English. Registration is required.<\/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-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jessica X. Zu, <em>Just Awakening: Yog\u0101c\u0101ra Social Philosophy in Modern China<\/em> (Columbia University Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>February 6, 2026, 1\u20132pm\u00a0 | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6D2TQSGUkW0\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Joy Brennan (Kenyon College) and Brook A. Ziporyn (University of Chicago), moderated by David Albertson (USC). Organized in partnership with the School of Religion, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Center for Religion and Civic Culture<\/span>. Registration is required.<\/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-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-5-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Ketaki Pant, <em>Itinerant Belonging: Intimate Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-5-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-5-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>December 4, 2025, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uSX0SvRu0AA\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Sunil Amrith (Yale University), moderated by Nayan Shah (USC). Organized in partnership with the Van Hunnick History Department, the Early Modern Studies Institute, and the Center for Feminist Research. Registration is required.<\/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-1-6-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-6-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Alaina M. Morgan, <em>Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora<\/em> (The University of North Carolina Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-6-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-6-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>November 10, 2025, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vPjJggoYjbA\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Minkah Makalani (Johns Hopkins University), moderated by Taj Frazier (USC). Organized in partnership with the Van Hunnick History Department, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, and Black Studies Center. Registration is required.<\/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-1-7-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-7-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Maya Maskarinec, <em>Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome<\/em> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-7-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-7-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>October 27, 2025, 1pm\u20132pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>| <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gn1FEdHYxwo\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by William North (Carleton College) and Carrie Bene\u0161 (New College of Florida), moderated by Sonya Lee (USC). Organized in partnership with the Van Hunnick History Department, the Department of Classics, and the School of Religion. Registration is required.<\/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-1-8-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-8-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Viet Thanh Nguyen, <em>To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-8-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-8-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>October 17, 2025, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>| <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/h_ecFaC_mGA\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Saree Makdisi (UCLA) and Richard Rodriguez (UC Riverside), moderated by Natalia Molina (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of English, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. Registration is required.<\/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-1-9-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-9-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Brittany Friedman, <em>Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons<\/em> (The University of North Carolina Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-9-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-9-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>September 29, 2025, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yjEzjWaYUf0&amp;t=1s\">RECORDING<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Maris Curran (independent filmmaker) and Saleem Holbrook (Abolitionist Law Center), moderated by Hajar Yazdiha (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of Sociology and the Charlotta Bass Journalism &amp; Justice Lab.<\/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-1-10-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-10-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Michael A. Messner, <em>The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-10-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-10-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>September 18, 2025, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WUcoJrlFLn8\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">RECORDING<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by CJ Pascoe (University of Oregon) and Jeffrey Montez de Oca (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), moderated by Alice Echols (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of Sociology and the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies.<\/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-1-11-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-11-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Emily Hodgson Anderson, <em>Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life<\/em> (Columbia University Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-11-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-11-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>May 8, 2025, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DqU1kRhQwt8\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Julia Lee (Loyola Marymount University) and Anahid Nersessian (UCLA), moderated by Dana Johnson (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of English and the Early Modern Studies Institute. Registration is required.<\/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-1-12-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-12-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Admire Mseba, <em>Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560\u20131960<\/em> (Ohio University Press, 2024)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-12-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-12-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>April 22, 2025, 11am\u201312pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6zSQi9ntB6E\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Mariana Candido (Emory University) and David Hughes (Rutgers University), moderated by Lindsay O\u2019Neill (USC). Program partners: Van Hunnick History Department and Department of Anthropology. Registration is required.<\/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-1-13-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-13-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Lindsay O&#8217;Neill, <em>The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery<\/em> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-13-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-13-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>April 8, 2025, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6JbblbF8s1w\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Catherine Molineux (Vanderbilt University) and Asheesh Siddique (University of Massachusetts Amherst), moderated by Peter Mancall (USC). Program partners: Van Hunnick History Department and Early Modern Studies Institute. Registration is required.<\/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-1-14-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-14-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Natalie Lauren Belisle, <em>Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 2025)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-14-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-14-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>March 24, 2025, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=swi4ntntaeE\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Jossianna Arroyo-Mart\u00ednez (University of Texas) and Yolanda Mart\u00ednez-San Miguel (University of Miami), moderated by Nayan Shah (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures. Registration is required.<\/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-1-15-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-15-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Lisa Bitel, <em>Otherworld: Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2024)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-15-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-15-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>March 11, 2025, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6PsUfMUYFs0\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Eric Falci (UC Berkeley) and Siobh\u00e1n McElduff (University of British Columbia), moderated by Daniela Bleichmar (USC). Program partners: Van Hunnick History Department and School of Religion. Registration is required.<\/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-1-16-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-16-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Andrew Lakoff, <em>Planning for the Wrong Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge<\/em> (Polity Press, 2024)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-16-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-16-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>February 27, 2025, 11am\u201312pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-HCnNAodM70\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by David Jones (Harvard University) and Manjari Mahajan (The New School), moderated by Laura Ferguson (USC). Program partners: Department of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life, and the Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. Registration is required.<\/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-1-17-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-17-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Christina Cecelia Davidson, <em>Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2024)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-17-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-17-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>February 10, 2025, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CiXWII-rVD4\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Leslie Alexander (Rutgers University) and Millery Polyn\u00e9 (New York University), moderated by Oneka LaBennett (USC). Program partners: Van Hunnick History Department, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, and USC Black Studies Initiative. Registration is required.<\/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-1-18-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-18-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Ellen Wayland-Smith, <em>The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self<\/em> (Milkweed Press, 2024) <\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-18-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-18-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>January 31, 2025, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oZNurxA96Hg&#038;t=9s\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Eula Biss (author of <em>On Immunity<\/em>) and Lochlann Jain (Stanford University), moderated by Maggie Nelson (USC). Program partners: The Writing Program, Department of English, and HEAL program at the Keck School of Medicine. Registration is required.<\/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-1-19-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-19-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Roberto Ignacio Diaz, <em>Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Fragments of a Transatlantic Discourse<\/em> (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024) <\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-19-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-19-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>November 7, 2024, 1pm\u20132pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bkjvA_kvMrs\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Michelle Clayton (Brown University) and Gustavo P\u00e9rez Firmat (Columbia University), moderated by Natania Meeker (USC). Program partners: Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Department of Comparative Literature. Registration is Required.<\/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-1-20-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-20-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Ant\u00f3nia\u00a0Szabari, <em>Agents without Empire: Mobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France<\/em> (Fordham University Press, 2024)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-20-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-20-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>October 24, 2024, 11am\u201312pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IO3haKXJzXQ\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University) and Alani Hicks-Bartlett (Brown University), moderated by Edwin Hill (USC). Program partners: Department of French and Italian and Department of Comparative Literature. Registration is required.<\/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-1-21-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-21-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Maggie Nelson, <em>Like Love: Essays and Conversations<\/em> (Graywolf Press, 2024)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-21-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-21-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>October 14, 2024, 1\u20132pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LhZDQ8ZUTSU\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by David Kishik (Emerson College) and Michel Chaouli (Indiana University), moderated by Jane Hu (USC). Co-organized by the Department of Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies and the Department of English. Registration is required.<\/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-1-22-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-22-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, <em>The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It<\/em> (Basic Books, 2024)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-22-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-22-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>September 30, 2024, 11am\u201312pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong> | \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UtQPRBAN5yg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by David Armitage (Harvard University) and Marlene Daut (Yale University), moderated by Bob Shrum (USC). Co-organized by the Early Modern Studies Institute, the Department of French and Italian, and the Van Hunnick History Department. Registration is required.<\/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-1-23-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-23-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jill Hicks-Keeton, <em>Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves<\/em> (Fortress Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-23-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-23-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>September 14, 2024, 10am\u201311am<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong> | \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kABYGromoZo\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Jennifer Quigley (Emory University) and Daniel Vaca (Brown University), moderated by Richard Flory (USC). Co-organized by the USC School of Religion. Registration is required.<\/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-1-24-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-24-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Thomas Seifrid, <em>Staging the Absolute: Ritual in Russia\u2019s Modern Era<\/em> (University of Toronto Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-24-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-24-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>May 6, 2024, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong> | \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PTTMF_mw--o\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University of London) and Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburgh), moderated by Colleen McQuillen (USC). Co-organized by the USC Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Registration is required.<\/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-1-25-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-25-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Christopher Hepburn, <em>Defining Waka Musically: Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan<\/em> (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-25-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-25-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>April 29, 2024, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong> | \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Auhb1AHVKLQ\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford) and Stacey Jocoy (Library of Congress), moderated by Kerim Yasar (USC). Co-organized by the USC East Asian Studies Center and the Center for the Premodern World. Registration is required.<\/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-1-26-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-26-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Wolf Gruner, <em>Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler&#8217;s Germany<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-26-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-26-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>April 17, 2024, 1\u20132pm | \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ziMZzxeHbyA\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Avinoam Patt (New York University) and Wendy Lower (Claremont McKenna College), moderated by Steve Ross (USC). Co-organized by the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. Registration is required.<\/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-1-27-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-27-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Karen Tongson, <em>Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us<\/em> (NYU Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-27-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-27-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>March 25, 2024, 12\u20131pm\u00a0 | \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9LRV0Mby5Dg\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Scott Poulson-Bryant (University of Michigan) and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro (co-creator of UnREAL), moderated by Tara McPherson (USC). Co-organized by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies and the English Department. Registration is required.<\/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-1-28-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-28-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Diane Winston, <em>Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan\u2019s Evangelical Vision<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-28-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-28-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>March 18, 2024, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0| \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0gn8IN1HVkE\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Darren Dochuk (University of Notre Dame) and Lerone Martin (Stanford University), moderated by Kamy Akhavan (USC). Co-organized by the USC Center for the Political Future. Registration is required.<\/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-1-29-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-29-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Rena Heinrich, <em>Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-29-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-29-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>February 14, 2024, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gvXlTSg7LPQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by SanSan Kwan (UC Berkeley) and Rebecca Chiyoko King-O&#8217;Riain (Maynooth University), moderated by Duncan Williams (USC). Co-organized by the USC School of Dramatic Arts and the USC East Asian Studies Center.<\/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-1-30-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-30-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jonathan Leal, <em>Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-30-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-30-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>January 22, 2024, 2\u20133pm<\/strong> \u00a0| \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZBlUbtwbHaM\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Daphne A. Brooks (Yale University) and Walton Muyumba (Indiana University), moderated by Josh Kun (USC).<\/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-1-31-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-31-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Cristina Mejia Visperas, <em>Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory<\/em> (NYU Press, 2022)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-31-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-31-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>December 7, 2023, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipC0vUb6UPc&amp;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (NYU) and Anthony Hatch (Wesleyan University), moderated by Nayan Shah (USC). Co-organized by the Institute for Diversity &amp; Empowerment @ Annenberg and the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life. Registration is required.<\/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-1-32-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-32-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">William G. Thalmann, <em>Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-32-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-32-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>November 14, 2023, 12\u20131pm \u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RGVa2iXlJzA\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Frederick T. Griffiths (Amherst College) and Susan Stephens (Stanford University), moderated by Vincent Farenga (USC). Co-organized by the USC Department of Classics and the USC Retired Faculty Association and Emeriti Center. Registration is required.<\/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-1-33-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-33-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Olivia C. Harrison, <em>Natives against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France<\/em> (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-33-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-33-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>October 27, 2023, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/feMu3Pq1_LU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Abdellali Hajjat (Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles) and C\u00e9cile Alduy (Stanford University), moderated by Hajar Yazdiha (USC). Co-organized by the USC Equity Research Institute, USC Francophone Research and Resource Center, and USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies.<\/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-1-34-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-34-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">John Carlos Rowe, <em>Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture<\/em> (Routledge, 2022)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-34-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-34-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>September 18, 2023, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mIjWFRZgT2U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Beverly Haviland (Brown University) and David McWhirter (Texas A&amp;M), moderated by Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus (USC). Co-organized by the USC Department of English.<\/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-1-35-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-35-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Joan Flores-Villalobos, <em>The Silver Women: How Black Women\u2019s Labor Made the Panama Canal<\/em> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-35-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-35-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>May 8, 2023, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LD1CcYdW9Yc&amp;t=16s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project\u2019s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women.\u00a0<em>The Silver Women\u00a0<\/em>shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who traveled to Panama, inviting readers to place women\u2019s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Sueann Caulfield (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (Harvard University), moderated by Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as (USC).\u00a0Co-sponsored by the\u00a0USC Center for\u00a0Latinx and Latin American Studies and USC\u00a0Van Hunnick History Department.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/9781512823639\/the-silver-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/9781512823639\/the-silver-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MORE<\/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-1-36-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-36-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Christina Dunbar-Hester, <em>Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2023)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-36-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-36-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>April 24, 2023, 12\u20131pm\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Tk9qb2Wh2MM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years\u2014a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Ashley Carse (Vanderbilt University) and Deborah\u00a0Cowen (University of Toronto), moderated by Juan De Lara (USC). Co-sponsored by the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life and the Wrigley\u00a0Institute for Environmental Studies.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/levan_institute_for_the_humanities_book_chatschristina_dunbar-hester_oil_beach_how_toxic_infrastructure_threatens_life_in_the_ports_of_los_angeles_and_beyond#.Y7O8AuzMJAc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; MORE<\/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-1-37-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-37-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Evelyn Alsultany, <em>Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion<\/em> (New York University Press, 2022)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-37-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-37-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>January 25, 2023, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/w2Jl3K0W4YQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMtdeCuqj0uH9f6fbMSEpEKcvvJ1jGq6_k3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of Donald Trump\u2019s first actions as President was to sign an executive order to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, a step toward the \u201ccomplete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States\u201d he had campaigned on. This extraordinary act of Islamophobia provoked unprecedented opposition: Hollywood movies and mainstream television shows began to feature more Muslim characters in contexts other than terrorism; universities and private businesses included Muslims in their diversity initiatives; and the criminal justice system took hate crimes against Muslims more seriously. Yet\u00a0<i>Broken<\/i>\u00a0argues that, even amid this challenge to institutionalized Islamophobia, diversity initiatives fail on their promise by only focusing on crisis moments.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Su\u2019ad Abdul Khabeer (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and Alex Lubin (The Pennsylvania State University), moderated by Sarah Banet-Weiser (USC). Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity and the\u00a0Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/levan_institute_for_the_humanities_book_chats_evelyn_alsultany_broken_the_failed_promise_of_muslim_inclusion?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=USC+Event+Calendar#.Y7O6YuzMJAc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; MORE<\/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-1-38-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-38-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">USC Center for Law, History and Culture Book Talk\u2014Jessica Marglin, <em>The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2022)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-38-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-38-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>November 30, 2022, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0USC Gould School of Law, Faculty Lounge, Room 433<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an in-person event<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Drawing from a wealth of correspondence, legal briefs, rabbinic opinions, and court rulings,\u00a0<i>The Shamama Case<\/i>\u00a0reimagines how we think about Jews, the Mediterranean, and belonging in the nineteenth\u00a0century.\u00a0Sponsored by the Center for Law, History and Culture. Co-sponsored by the Casden Institute and Levan Institute for the Humanities.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/book_talkjessica_marglin_the_shamama_case_contesting_citizenship_across_the_modern_mediterranean?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=USC+Event+Calendar#.YwfPc5PMJAc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; MORE<\/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-1-39-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-39-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Nayan Shah, <em>Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes<\/em> (University of California Press, 2022)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-39-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-39-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>November 2, 2022, 12\u20131pm\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/22gtUdGV2G0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMtdeCuqj0uH9f6fbMSEpEKcvvJ1jGq6_k3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Refusal to Eat<\/i>\u00a0is the first book to compile a global history of this vital form of modern protest, the hunger strike.\u00a0In this ambitious book, Nayan Shah observes how hunger striking stretches and recasts to turn a personal agony into a collective social agony in conflicts and contexts all around the world, laying out a remarkable number of case studies over the last century and more.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Lisa Hajjar (University of California, Santa Barbara), moderated by Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro (USC).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/levan_institute_for_the_humanities_book_chatsnayan_shah_refusal_to_eat_a_century_of_prison_hunger_strikes?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=USC+Event+Calendar#.YwfQypPMJAc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; MORE<\/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-1-40-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-40-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jennifer Petersen, <em>How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2022)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-40-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-40-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>October 11, 2022, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iqSlhD4pAks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMtdeCuqj0uH9f6fbMSEpEKcvvJ1jGq6_k3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech<\/i>\u00a0explores how changes in media technologies, from silent film to computer code, have transformed the way that legal practitioners understand communication, ultimately enabling the inclusion of diverse objects and actions within the legal guarantee of freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Xiaochang\u00a0Li\u00a0(Standford University) and Siva Vaidhyanathan\u00a0(University of Virginia), moderated by Nitin Govil (USC). Co-sponsored by the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication, the Center for Law, History and Culture, and the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/levan_institute_for_the_humanities_book_chatsjennifer_petersen_how_machines_came_to_speak_media_technologies_and_freedom_of_speech?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=USC+Event+Calendar#.YwfQ5JPMJAc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; MORE<\/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-1-41-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-41-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff, <em>The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2021)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-41-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-41-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>April 8, 2022, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/h9fWuz385hU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMtdeCuqj0uH9f6fbMSEpEKcvvJ1jGq6_k3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials approach them in common terms: as future events that threaten to disrupt the vital, vulnerable systems upon which modern life depends.\u00a0<i>The Government of Emergency<\/i>\u00a0tells the story of how this now taken-for-granted way of understanding and managing emergencies arose.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0authors will be joined in conversation by\u00a0Rebecca Lemov\u00a0(Harvard University) and Sven Opitz (Philipps University of Marburg), moderated by Andrea Ballestero (USC). Co-sponsored by the\u00a0USC Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/the-government-of-emergency\/\" target=\"_self\">&gt;MORE<\/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-1-42-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-42-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Sonya Lee, <em>Temples in the Cliffside: Buddhist Art in Sichuan<\/em> (University of Washington Press, 2021)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-42-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-42-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>March 9, 2022, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aD1sLzykg5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMtdeCuqj0uH9f6fbMSEpEKcvvJ1jGq6_k3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This far-ranging study of cave temples in Sichuan shows that they are part of the world\u2019s sustainable future, as their continued presence is a reminder of the urgency to preserve culture as part of today\u2019s response to climate change.\u00a0<i>Temples in the Cliffside<\/i>\u00a0brings art history into close dialogue with current discourse on environmental issues and contributes to a new understanding of the ecological impact of artistic monuments.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0author will be joined in conversation by Wendi Adamek (University of Calgary) and Tamara Sears\u00a0(Rutgers University), moderated by Joshua Goldstein (USC). Co-sponsored by the\u00a0USC East Asian Studies Center and the USC Center for the Premodern World.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/temple\/\" target=\"_self\">&gt; MORE<\/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-1-43-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-43-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Cavan Concannon, <em>Profaning Paul<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2021)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-43-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-43-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>February 8, 2022, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/40z3jYkLYCM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMtdeCuqj0uH9f6fbMSEpEKcvvJ1jGq6_k3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the lead of feminist, queer, and minoritized scholarship,\u00a0<i>Profaning Paul\u00a0<\/i>asks what would happen if we stopped recycling Paul\u2019s writings. By profaning the status of his letters as sacred texts, we might open up new avenues for imagining political figurations to meet our current and coming political, economic, and ecological challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Richard Newton (The University of Alabama) and Jorunn \u00d8kland (University of Oslo), moderated by Kelsey Moss (USC). Co-sponsored by the USC Center for the Premodern World.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/profaning\/\" target=\"_self\">&gt;MORE<\/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-1-44-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-44-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">James McHugh, <em>An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2021)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-44-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-44-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>January 26, 2022, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8uVMd5as8C0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMtdeCuqj0uH9f6fbMSEpEKcvvJ1jGq6_k3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India,\u00a0<i>An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions<\/i>\u00a0uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0author will be joined in conversation by Harshita Kamath\u00a0(Emory University) and Miriam\u00a0Kingsberg Kadia\u00a0(University of Colorado Boulder), moderated by Varun Soni (USC). Co-sponsored by the USC Center for the Premodern World.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/an-unholy-brew\/\" target=\"_self\">&gt;MORE<\/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-1-45-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-45-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Paul Lichterman, <em>How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2021)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-45-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-45-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>November 9, 2021, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-jXSoQ9d088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMtdeCuqj0uH9f6fbMSEpEKcvvJ1jGq6_k3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<i>How Civic Action Works<\/i>, Paul Lichterman presents the ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective action.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Florence Faucher (Sciences Po) and Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University), moderated by Patricia Riley (USC). Co-Sponsored by the USC Equity Research Institute.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/how-civic-action-works\/\" target=\"_self\">&gt;MORE<\/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-1-46-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-46-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Lisa Cooper Vest, <em>Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish<\/em> (University of California Press, 2020)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-46-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-46-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>April 15, 2021, 12\u20131pm\u00a0<\/strong> |\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/esfhs64_qFo\" target=\"_self\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMtdeCuqj0uH9f6fbMSEpEKcvvJ1jGq6_k3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<i>Awangarda<\/i>, Lisa Cooper Vest explores how the Polish postwar musical avant-garde stood in stark contrast to its Western European counterparts. Rather than representing a rejection of the past, the Polish avant-garde movement emerged as a manifestation of national cultural traditions stretching back into the interwar years and even earlier, into the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Joy Calico (Vanderbilt University) and Peter Schmelz (Arizona State University), moderated by Paul Lerner (USC).\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/awangarda\/\" target=\"_self\">&gt; MORE<\/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-1-47-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-47-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Henry Jenkins, <em>Comics and Stuff<\/em> (New York University Press, 2020)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-47-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-47-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>March 11, 2021, 12\u20131pm<\/strong> \u00a0| \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i5s7G30gjm0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Comics and Stuff<\/em>\u00a0illustrates\u00a0how comics depict stuff and exposes the central role that stuff plays in how we curate our identities, sustain memory, and make meaning.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by Hillary Chute (Northeastern University) and Daniel Miller (University College London), moderated by Tara McPherson (USC).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/comics-and-stuff\/\" target=\"_self\">&gt; MORE<\/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-1-48-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-controls=\"section-1-48-oBkY-9_2MZ\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Ellen Wayland-Smith, <em>The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2020)<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-48-oBkY-9_2MZ\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-48-oBkY-9_2MZ\" 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><strong>February 11, 2021, 12\u20131pm<\/strong> \u00a0|\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YH-f2cwojfE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>T<em>he Angel in the Marketplace<\/em>\u00a0is a nuanced portrayal of a complex woman, one who both shaped and reflected the complicated cultural, political, and religious forces defining femininity in America at mid-century.<\/p>\n<p>The author will be joined in conversation by\u00a0Maggie Doherty (Harvard University) and Elaine Tyler May (University of Minnesota), moderated by Alice Echols (USC).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/the-angel-in-the-marketplace\/\" target=\"_self\">&gt; 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