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A discussion of Natalie Lauren Belisle's new book, Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home (Rutgers University Press, 2025). The author will be joined in conversation by Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez (University of Texas) and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (University of Miami), moderated by Nayan Shah (USC). Organized in partnership with the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures. About the Author: Natalie Lauren Belisle is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her research is interested, broadly, in the centrality of the Caribbean to the formation and ordering of the modern world, post 1492, and the development and articulation of Western modernity and its attendant concepts. Open to attendants outside of USC. An excerpt of the book will be made available to registered attendants. Registration before the event is required. This event is part of the Levan Institute for the Humanities' “Book Chats” series, conversations about new books published by USC scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. To see more events in this series, including recordings of past events, visit https://dornsife.usc.edu/levan-institute/book-chats/. Questions? Contact the Levan Institute at usclevan@usc.edu