University of Southern California

CRCC Interdisciplinary Research Group

IRG Annual Seminar

Organized by Lisa Bitel and Lynn Swartz Dodd

Seminars take place once a month over lunch. All interested scholars are welcome to attend seminar meetings. Our aim is to create a regular group that meets repeatedly throughout the year to consider a set of related and developing questions, think through different approaches and methods, and collectively generate some answers. Doctoral students who present papers and regularly attend the seminar are eligible for funding to present their revised papers at major national or international conferences.

Feb. 27, 2013

"Animal Spirits: A Comparative View of Western and Native American Traditions"
Tok Thompson, USC

"Otherworlds of the Earliest Middle Ages"
Lisa Bitel, USC

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March 13, 2013

"Revolution from Above: Spiritual Warfare, Territorial Spirits, and Social Transformation in the new Pentecostalism"
Brad Christerson, Biola University
Dick Flory, USC

"The Irish-American Culture of Mourning"
Ann Schofield, University of Kansas

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April 16, 2013

"Miraculous images in Latin America in the 20th and 21st Centuries"
Frank Graziano, Connecticut College

"St Mildred’s Millennium"
Ericka Swensson, USC

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For more information contact organizers: 

bitel@usc.edu or swartz@usc.edu

or contact CRCC: crcc@usc.edu