USC’s 2026 Summer Bookpacking class is underway.

Over the next four weeks a group of USC students will be on location in London and Paris, bookpacking two classic historical novels, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens, and ‘Les Misérables’ by Victor Hugo. We’ll explore the locations of these epic stories, tracing their trajectories - to the guillotine, to the barricades - and we’ll discover how these tales of Revolution still resonate in our own fractured age.

Follow along as we blog our experiences.