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Map of Kings County, California, with an outline of Tulare Lake.
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The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, Liberated Futures along Phantom Shores

Wed., Oct. 16, 2024

Join Alison Hirsch, associate professor at USC and the Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow, who will explore the history and future of Tulare Lake, which reemerged after multiple atmospheric rivers hit California in March 2023.

A cyanotype imprint of leaves over a handwritten letter.
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Shapiro Center Webinar: Nineteenth-Century Nature and Contemporary Photography

Tue., Oct. 8, 2024

Contemporary voices in the exhibition “Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis” bring forward questions of environmental history to the present. The conversation will cover such topics as land extraction, human influence on plants, environmental injustice, immigration, photographic technologies, and reparative histories.

A cyan-tone book cover with an image of a rickshaw driver and a passenger posing for a photo in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, with white text that reads “Hollywood, tourism, and the making of a Chinese American community, Performing Chinatown, William Gow.”
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Performing Chinatown: A Conversation with William Gow & Bill Deverell

Tue., Sept. 10, 2024

Join Professor William Gow as he discusses his new book, “Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community,” with William Deverell, historian and founding director of ICW.

Faded black and white photo of train tracks running through a narrow canyon.
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Continental Reckoning: A Conversation with Elliott West and Megan Kate Nelson

Fri., May 24, 2024

Join author Elliott West in a conversation with historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Megan Kate Nelson about West’s sweeping new book, “Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion.”

The Alcatraz Island Prison exterior, with a lush succulent and cactus garden below.
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In the Gardens of California’s Prison Landscape

Thu., Nov. 9, 2023

Author and horticulturist Elizabeth Lara explores how horticulture has factored into the prison landscape, and the relationships between plants, people, and places defined by histories of violence.