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Call for Papers: “Contours of Pain: Perspectives from the Humanities”
The Reevaluating Care in the Global Economy Humanities Working Group invites proposals
for an interdisciplinary workshop, “Contours of Pain,” to be held at the University
of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) on February 18 and 19, 2027.
In collaboration with the Humanities Collaborative, this hands-on, in-person session
will help participants begin using the Library-licensed WordPress account to build
a website. We’ll focus on the practical work of shaping an author’s online presence:
defining the site’s purpose, identifying key audiences, organizing essential pages,
drafting core content, and making choices about design, platform, and maintenance.
Participants will leave with a clearer site plan, a draft homepage or About page,
and a practical next-step checklist for creating or revising their own author website.
Date: Friday, October 2, 2026 Time: 6–8 p.m. Location: All Good Books, 743 Harden St.
Join the Humanities Collaborative in celebrating recent books by humanities faculty.
Authors Monica Barra (Anthropology/SEOE), Agnes Mueller (languages, literatures, and
cultures), and Leland Spencer (WGST) will be reading from their new books, which will
also be available to purchase. Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public.
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Time: Noon Location: Gambrell 429
Join the Humanities Collaborative and USC Press Director Michael McGandy for a lunch-hour
discussion and Q&A on securing and negotiating book contracts. We will discuss related
issues such as advances, royalties, subventions, and permissions from the publisher’s
perspective. Bring your questions, too! Light lunch provided.
The Humanities Collaborative welcomes Prof. andré carrington, associate professor
of English at the University of California-Riverside and director of the graduate
emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science. carrington will discuss his
new book, Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination, which unearths how radio adaptations of Black speculative texts bring the cultural
politics of twentieth-century African American literature to the public through sound
and performance.
Explore Audiofuturism and Win a Free Book
Get ready for andré m. carrington’s Nov. 10 lecture! Explore the books, audio and
art behind Audiofuturism, then complete three squares on the tic-tac-toe board for a free copy. Open to USC
students, faculty and staff while supplies last.
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2026 Time: 5–6:30 p.m. Location: Lumpkin Auditorium, Close-Hipp Building, 8th Floor, 1705 College St.
Date and time: Thursday, September 24, 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Lumpkin Auditorium; 8th floor of Close-Hipp (1705 College St.)
Hahrie Han (Johns Hopkins) is a 2025 recipient of the MacArthur “genius grant.” Hahrie
Han is an SNF Agora Institute Professor of Political Science and Faculty Director
of the P3 Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University, where she also served as the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute from 2019-2026. She is an award-winning author of five books and numerous scholarly
articles. Her latest book (Knopf 2024), about faith and race in America with a focus on evangelical megachurches,
was named to the New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of the Year in 2024, and the New Yorker's list of Recommended Books for 2024. Han’s work examines organizational structures and tactics that encourage individuals
to interact across difference and work together for change. In Undivided, she tells the inspiring story of evangelicals in Cincinnati struggling to bridge
racial divides in their own church, their community, and across the nation. Lecture
and Q&A will be followed by a reception and book signing. Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation Grant on “Civic Engagement, Voting Rights, and
the Founding Documents at the University of South Carolina.”
Sept 25 - Faculty-Graduate Lunchtime Seminar with Hahrie Han
Experimental Critical Theory working group welcomes Jonathan Flatley, Professor of
English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Flatley will deliver
a public talk on W. E. B. Du Bois drawn from Flatley’s current book-in-progress, “Black
Leninism: How Revolutionary Counter-Moods Are Made.”
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026 Time: 2:30–3:45 p.m. Location: 104 Humanities Office Building (English Department Lounge)
The Experimental Critical Theory Group will host a seminar discussion of Flatley’s
“Like Trees,” which we will pre-circulate. For a copy of the essay, email Greg Forter. Free and open to the public.
