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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the Levan Institute for the Humanities' 
 “On Writing” series\, conversations aiming to answer questions about h
 ow writing matters\, now. This conversation will feature Daniel Immerwahr 
 (Northwestern University) and Antonio Coronel Elefano (USC)\, hosted by Sa
 rah Mesle (USC). Organized in partnership with the Consortium for Gender\,
  Sexuality\, Race and Public Culture. Registration is required. REGISTER\n
 \n \n\nDescription: We’re writing in a moment when clear standards of ev
 idence are more important than ever. But knowing that evidence matters doe
 sn’t mean it’s easy for writers to understand how to use it — especi
 ally when political and technological changes pit different kinds of argum
 ents and evidence against each other. So\, it’s more important than ever
  to ask: how do you know that a claim is true? How do you prove it? This e
 vent brings together writers with training in different fields — legal s
 tudies\, history\, creative writing\, journalism\, and literary studies 
 — to ask: for you\, what kinds of evidence count as proof? How do you ma
 ke your case in a courtroom\, in literary criticism\, in history scholarsh
 ip\, in a book review\, in a novel? We’ll talk about our own experiences
  of finding\, arranging\, and evaluating evidence — and we’ll share ou
 r ideas about explaining different forms of evidence to students.\n\n \n\n
 Antonio Elefano joined USC’s Writing faculty in the fall of 2014. Before
  coming to USC\, he was a corporate litigator in New York City and a writi
 ng fellow/visiting assistant professor at the University of Houston. A gra
 duate of Yale Law School and the author of Legal Writing for the Undergrad
 uate from Wolters Kluwer/Aspen\, he is the Writing Program’s legal writi
 ng specialist\, teaching WRIT 340: Moot Court\, WRIT 320: Competitive Moot
  Court (focused on oral argumentation)\, WRIT 340: Legal Writing and WRIT 
 440: Advanced Legal Writing. He is the faculty advisor for Southern Califo
 rnia Moot Court (which in 2024 was named the top school in the country in 
 appellate brief writing and in 2025 won the national championship in brief
  writing)\, Phi Alpha Delta (USC’s pre-law fraternity)\, and the Survivo
 r Support Community at USC. In 2024\, he was awarded the USC Associates Aw
 ard for Excellence in Teaching\, the highest honor for teaching given at U
 SC. That same year\, he received his second USC Mentoring Award for Mentor
 ing Undergraduates (his first was in 2019). Elefano is also a fiction writ
 er whose stories have been published in The Los Angeles Review\, 236 and T
 he Journal. In August 2014\, his story “Italy” was one of Buzzfeed’s
  “29 Short Stories You Need to Read in Your Twenties.”  \n\nDaniel Imm
 erwahr (Ph.D.\, Berkeley\, 2011) is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humaniti
 es and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. He is t
 he author of Thinking Small (Harvard\, 2015) and How to Hide an Empire (FS
 G\, 2019)\, both of which have won scholarly awards. Immerwahr is a contri
 buting writer for The New Yorker and his essays have also appeared in The 
 New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Atlantic\, the Washington Post\, Harpe
 r's\, The New Republic\, and the New York Review of Books\, among other pl
 aces. He is writing a fire history of the United States.\n\n \n\nOpen to a
 ttendants outside of USC. Registration before the event is required. To se
 e more events in this series\, including recordings of past events\, visit
  https://dornsife.usc.edu/levan-institute/programs/on-writing/.
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SUMMARY:Levan Institute Series: “On Writing”—With Evidence
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