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Digital Humanities "Flavor as Data: Digitizing the Lived Experience of Flavor in Brazilian National Cuisine (1840-1945)"
Helen B. Kampmann Marodin, who holds a PhD in History with a specialization in Latin American history and an MA in Art History from the University of South Carolina, examines how embodied culinary practices, including physical, sensory, affective, and cognitive processes, shape the production of knowledge and historical meaning. Focusing on Brazilian history, her research combines historical analysis, digital humanities methods, and insights from neuroscience to investigate culinary texts, taste, and the formation of national identity from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Is it possible to translate flavor, a multisensory and deeply emotional experience, into data? How can computational methods engage embodiment, memory, and affect without flattening them into abstraction? This talk explores how a corpus of nearly 33,000 recipes drawn from fifty-three Brazilian cookbooks published between 1840 and the mid-twentieth century can illuminate shifting racial and social hierarchies embedded in…
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
Thomas Cooper Library L204.
Comic Book Bag and Board
Be a preservation Superhero at our Bag & Board party! Help the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections bag and board rare and vintage comic books. Take a break from studying and see some rare comic books, vote on your favorite cover art, and help preserve comic history!
Admission Cost: Free.
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Hollings Special Collections Library Program Room.
The Good, the Bad & the Naked of USC History: Historic Horseshoe History Tour
Have you ever been strolling along the Historic Horseshoe bricks and found yourself wondering about the history of Carolina and its traditions? Well, you're in luck! Meet University Archivist Elizabeth West in front of the Caroliniana for a Horseshoe history tour. Learn the origins of the Tiger Burn and what national record Gamecock students set in 1974! Free and open to the public.
Admission Cost: Free.
Thursday, May 14, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
South Caroliniana Library 910 Sumter Street.