ACTIVITIES SPONSORED DURING THE
2001-2002 ACADEMIC YEAR
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FALL 2001 | |
| September 20 | Workshop Brook Thomas (English, UC Irvine), "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Political Independence, Mugwumpery, and Civil Rights" |
| September 21-24 | Visit/Workshop Leora Bilsky (Law, Tel Aviv University), "The Death and the Maiden: Between Trials and Truth Commissions" (co-sponsored by the USC Law Faculty Workshop Series) |
| September 26 | Workshop Adam Winkler (CLEO fellow, USC Law), "A Revolution Too Soon: Woman Suffragists and the 'Living Constitution,' 1869-1875" |
| October 10 | Workshop Ron Garet (USC Law), "Our Ancient Faith': A Translation of the Declaration of Independence" |
| October 11 | Workshop Nahum Chandler (Humanities Center, John Hopkins), "Originary Displacements" (co-sponsored by the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity) |
| October 18 | Workshop Timur Kuran (Economics, USC), "The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of the Delay in the Middle East's Economics Modernization" (co-sponsored by USC Center in Law, Economics and Organization) |
| October 19 | Lunch talk with graduate students Kim Scheppele (Law, University of Pennsylvania), "Comparative Judicial Activism" |
| November 6 | Workshop Hazel Lord (Law Librarian, USC), "Husband and Wife: English Marriage Law from 1750: A Bibliography Essay" |
| November 29 | Workshop Reuven Firestone (Hebrew Union College), "Jihad, Fighting and 'Holy War' in Islam: Text and Interpretation in Comparative Perspective" |
| December 7 | Workshop Ian Shapiro (Political Science & Law, Yale), "Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics, or What's Wrong with Political Science and What to do about it" (co-sponsored by USC Law School Faculty Workshop series) |
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Salem Witchcraft Trial | |
SPRING 2002 | |
| January 8 | Lecture Alan Dundes (Anthropology, Berkeley), "Sabbath Law" (co-sponsored by the Casden Institute, the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, and the Anthropology department) |
| January 25 | Book Talk Annelise Riles (Law, Northwestern), "The Network Inside Out" with commentaries by Doug Thomas (Annenberg, USC) and Nomi Stolzenberg (Law, USC) |
| February 14 | Lecture J. G. A. Pocock (History, Johns Hopkins), "Gibbon and the English Enlightenment" (co-sponsored by the USC Classics, English, and History Departments) |
| March 6 | Workshop Brenda Stevenson (History, UCLA), "LaTasha Harlins, Joyce Karlin and Soon Da Ju: A Case Study" |
| March 20 | Workshop Peggy Kamuf (French, USC), "Democracy's Fiction: Everything, Anything, and Nothing at All" |
| March 26 | Workshop Vicki Schultz (Law, Yale)(co-sponsored by USC Law School Faculty Workshop), "The Sanitized Workplace" |
| April 5 | Workshop Michael Klarman (Law, University of Virginia) (co-sponsored by the USC Law School Faculty Workshop), "Neither Hero, Nor Villain: The Supreme Court, Race, and the Constitution in the 20th Century" |
| April 19 | Special Event: "Twilight: Los Angeles," a theater piece by Anna Deveare Smith on film followed by Town Meeting: The LA Riots, 10 Years After, hosted by Warren Olney (co-sponsored by the USC Center for the Study of Law and Politics and the USC Center for Communication, Law and Policy) |
| May 13 | West Coast Law and Literature Conference Flyer and Conference Papers: Lorna Hutson's paper; Vicky Kahn's paper; Debora Shuger's paper |
| May 24 | Symposium: "September 11 as a Transformative Moment" |
| June 16-17 | Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Junior Scholars Workshop (co-sponsored by Columbia Law School and the Georgetown Law Center) |
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The Trial of Oscar Wilde | |
