USC Levan Institute for the Humanities
The Levan Institute for the Humanities serves as a hub for the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the University of Southern California, connecting faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students across disciplines, departments, programs and institutes. It complements and coordinates other efforts across the humanities broadly conceived, and develops new initiatives that support research and teaching. The institute’s activities include scholarly meetings, public events, visiting scholars, and research projects.
Levan Guest Lecture: Claire Farago, Writing Borderless Histories of Art
Susan Zieger: Criminal Supply Chains and Logistical Power
Levan Book Chat—Brittany Friedman, Carceral Apartheid
Levan Book Chat—Emily Hodgson Anderson, Shadow Work
Levan Book Chat—Admire Mseba, Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960
Levan Book Chat—Lindsay O'Neill, The Two Princes of Mpfumo
Levan Book Chat—Natalie Lauren Belisle, Caribbean Inhospitality
Levan Book Chat—Lisa Bitel, Otherworld
Levan Book Chat—Andrew Lakoff, Planning for the Wrong Pandemic
Levan Book Chat—Christina Cecelia Davidson, Dominican Crossroads
Levan Book Chat—Ellen Wayland-Smith, The Science of Last Things
Levan Book Chat—Roberto Ignacio Diaz, Latin America and the Transports of Opera
Levan Book Chat—William G. Thalmann, Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire
Levan Book Chat—Diane Winston, Righting the American Dream
Levan Book Chat—Wolf Gruner, Resisters
Levan Book Chat—Christopher Hepburn, Defining Waka Musically
Levan Book Chat—Jill Hicks-Keeton, Good Book
Levan Book Chat—Antónia Szabari, Agents without Empire
Levan Book Chat—Maggie Nelson, Like Love
Levan Book Chat—Thomas Seifrid, Staging the Absolute
Book Chats—Karen Tongson, Normporn
Book Chats—Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, The Age of Revolutions
Book Chats—Jonathan Leal, Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop
Book Chats—Rena Heinrich, Race and Role
Book Chats—Cristina Mejia Visperas, Skin Theory
Book Chats—Olivia C. Harrison, Natives Against Nativism
Book Chats—John Carlos Rowe, Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture
Book Chats—Joan Flores-Villalobos, The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal
Book Chats—Christina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach