• CHARM and EMSI social hour at USC’s Moreton Fig

    Morton Fig at USC campus 3607 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    CHARM and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) will co-host a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow social hour at Moreton Fig. This event is intended to facilitate community and collaboration. All are welcome. RSVP directly to ldodds@usc.edu

  • EMSI Seminar: Big Paper in Small Pieces, Large Design in the Renaissance

    Hungtington Library 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, United States

    Join speakers:  Arnold Nesselrath, Vatican Museums, "On the Functions of Raphael's Cartoons" Dario Donetti, Università di Verona, "Using, Storing, and Archiving Renaissance Drawings for New Saint Peter's" Respondent: Tracy Cosgriff, College of Wooster

  • CHARM Asynchronous Reading: Summer Book Reading

    zoom and Coffee Bean at USC Cinematic Arts building 900 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Adam Jasienski’s new book, Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Penn State, 2023). An asynchronous social reading site is open now at perusall.com with course code: PON-WJVWQ

  • CHARM and Homeboy Art Academy visit Forest Lawn Art Museum

    Forest Lawn Art Museum 1712 S Glendale Ave., Glendale, CA, United States

    CHARM and Homeboy Art Academy visit Fair Lawn Art Museum to discuss art, memory, and commemoration with museum director, Dr. James Fishburne.

  • CHARM 2023-24 zooming ahead meeting

    zoom and Coffee Bean at USC Cinematic Arts building 900 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    with optional lunch to follow

  • CHARM hybrid in-person/online discussion of Adam Jasienski’s new book Praying to Portraits

    USC Mark Taper Hall (THH 30) and zoom University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Collaborations in History, Art, Religion, and Music (CHARM) hosts a hybrid in-person/online discussion of Adam Jasienski’s new book, Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Penn State, 2023).  An asynchronous social reading group is open now at perusall.com with course code: PON-WJVWQ . Register for attendance by Zoom here.

  • CHARM & Casden Institute: The Warner Brothers: Hollywood’s Most Outspoken Jews

    zoom

    This virtual event will feature Dr. Chris Yogerst in conversation with Dr. Tom Doherty, moderated by Dr. Steven Ross. Their discussion will focus on a new biography of the Warner Brothers, which showcases the significant role Warner Bros. played in the origins of Hollywood. Warner Bros. films were always a reflection of the brothers’ social […]

  • CHARM partners Nova Forum: Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation. Daily until Oct. 28th.

    Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study (DML 241) 3550 Trousdale ParkwayLos Angeles, CA, 90089

    Come experience The Lord of the Rings from a new point of view and learn about the deepest meaning of Tolkien’s literary achievement! Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, a leading classics scholar at Oxford, explores Tolkien’s sophisticated and innovative literary theory in six lectures drawing on his forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press – the first academic study of […]

  • CHARM Grad Student/Postdoc Happy Hour

    Greenleaf Kitchen & Cocktails 929 W Jefferson Blvd. Ste 1650, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Collaborations in History, Art, Religion, and Music (CHARM) invites graduate students and postdocs to a happy hour at Greenleaf in USC Village, with CHARMing graduate student hosts Theodor Hamstra (English) and Monica Mitri (Religion). https://www.eatdrinkgreenleaf. com/menu/social-hour

  • CHARM partners Nova Forum: Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation

    Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study (DML 241) 3550 Trousdale ParkwayLos Angeles, CA, 90089

    Come experience The Lord of the Rings from a new point of view and learn about the deepest meaning of Tolkien’s literary achievement! Professor Giuseppe Pezzini, a leading classics scholar at Oxford, explores Tolkien’s sophisticated and innovative literary theory in six lectures drawing on his forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press – the first academic study of […]