Children from the USC Family of Schools artistically express ways in which they can make a difference.

Each academic year, the USC Fisher Museum of Art plans, curates and professionally installs four temporary student art exhibitions at the University Village Shopping Center food court, for the Art in the Village program.

For this year’s first exhibition, elementary school students belonging to the USC Family of Schools (32nd Street/USC Magnet, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, John Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary, St. Agnes Parish School, St. Vincent Parish School, Vermont Avenue Elementary and Weemes Elementary) were invited to create and submit artworks on the theme “Making a Difference.”

Each exhibition kicks off with an opening reception honoring the 40 students with the best work. The children have the opportunity to speak with family, friends and community members about their art. They are congratulated for their achievements at an awards ceremony, where they receive a certificate signed by Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard C. Parks.

Funded in part by a USC Neighborhood Outreach Grant, Art in the Village represents a partnership between the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the University Village Shopping Center and the USC Family of Schools.

Daily: Tuesday 12/08/2009 - Friday 02/12/2010; All day

University Village Shopping Center Food Court 3375 South Hoover Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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Every week, we’ll discuss one issue that dominates political debate in Washington and Sacramento. Students will participate as panelists and analysts, and our guest experts will answer questions and respond to comments from those in attendance.

The program will begin at 12 p.m. each Wednesday. Please note that the series will skip Wednesday, April 7.

Free lunch will be provided.

Co-sponsored by the Unruh Institute, the Department of Political Science, the Daily Trojan, the Political Student Assembly, College Democrats, and College Republicans.

Weekly: Wed 01/20/2010 - 04/21/2010; 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Intellectual Commons, Room 233

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Has it been too long since you had a grip on that red rubber ball? Sign up for the Kickball League and relive playground memories.

The Kickball League is sure to kick-start your new year.

Entries are due January 26, and league play begins on January 29.

Daily: Friday 01/29/2010 - Friday 02/12/2010; All day

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center

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A reception will be held February 8, 8-10 p.m.

Artist’s statement: “I am interested in places as sites of interaction, not just between people, but also between person and space. I study physical spaces as if they are record keepers of human history, and I am fascinated by their unassuming malleability and impermanence.     

When it rains in Los Angeles, the water drains through a system of pipes, each of which dumps its contents onto the beach and into the ocean. I am interested in the exposed nature of this unrefined system — so much of the ‘ugly’ in Los Angeles is out of sight and therefore out of mind. This series of work, entitled ‘(No) Dumping Drains To Ocean,’ documents each exposed pipe between the southern end of Santa Monica and the northern end of Malibu.  The photographs, taken in large format, visually celebrate the pipe’s existence and its physical relationship to the ocean.

Each photograph, printed twice and shown in a diptych, is numbered according to the pipe’s physical location on the coast. The series, as the title implies, both points out a physical reality (drains to ocean) and makes a demand (no dumping). Within the diptych, one photograph represents the reality, while the other imposes the demand. Although each stands alone as a distinct notion, they make the strongest impact when considered together.  This installation includes one diptych from the series, Number 2.”

Daily: Friday 01/29/2010 - Wednesday 02/17/2010; All day

University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building 3001 Gallery, Advanced Photography Lab

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Zen meditation improves physical and mental health and relieves stress. Regardless of your religious background, you are welcome to join.

Beginners are welcome for the first three weeks (after this, please contact organizers before attending, so we can make arrangements to review basics with you before the session). Loose-fitting clothing is recommended. Don’t plan to attend immediately after dining. We will be sitting on the floor. Foam mats are provided; if you prefer a softer mat, please bring your own.

Weekly: Wed 02/03/2010 - 03/10/2010; 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

University Park Campus University Religious Center Fishbowl Chapel

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Photographs document the American love affair with chrome and steel.

The cars rolling off the assembly lines of Detroit’s Big Three automakers were among the most memorable symbols of the future... as it was imagined during the 1950s. Their elongated tail fins and cockpit-like windshields drew inspiration from the U.S. space program and the aesthetics of jet aircraft, evoking the idealized lifestyle promised to Americans by Chrysler, Ford and General Motors.

Many of the photographs seen here were originally published in the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper and are now a part of the USC Libraries’ Special Collections.

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Monday 05/31/2010; All day

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Ground Floor Rotunda

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Literary accounts and artworks, memoirs and diaries offer snapshots of everyday life from journeys that reflect a range of human experience.

The exhibition brings together accounts by adventurers, steamboat captains, drifters, bohemians, documentarians, missionaries and tourists who set out to discover an unknown country. It investigates how their stories shaped lasting perceptions of the United States, its national identity, and the practice of travel and observation.

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Monday 05/31/2010; All day

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Treasure Room

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Graduating M.F.A. in Acting students perform the first of Shakespeare’s late romances, a strange and powerful tale of loss and recovery.

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Andrei Belgrader

Performances

Saturday, February 6, 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 7, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, February 17, 7 p.m.
Sunday, February 21, 2:30 p.m.
Friday, February 26, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 27, 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 8 p.m.

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Saturday 03/06/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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Graduating M.F.A. in Acting students perform Charles Mee’s play, which reinvents the classic Euripides work on a modern-day battlefield.

By Charles Mee
Directed by David Bridel

Euripides after-war play Orestes is reset in today’s world. Veterans return from the Trojan War, only to find that the disorder and nightmare of war has come home with them and rendered their homeland in ruins forever.

Performances

Saturday, February 6, 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 7, 2:30 p.m.
Friday, February 19, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 20, 8 p.m.
Thursday, February 25, 7 p.m.
Sunday, February 28, 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 3, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Saturday 03/06/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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A three-module online learning program highlights the skills and thought models necessary to be a persuasive, effective human resources leader.

Module One: Enhancing Your Persuasion Skills

In this session with leadership expert Jay Conger, you will learn how to improve your persuasive ability. Drawing on his research about the persuasion skills of highly effective leaders, Conger will discuss the tactics that are critical to successful persuasion. You will learn how to position your initiatives so that stakeholders are far more receptive to your ideas and requests. Specifically, you will learn about the four components that make for effective persuasion:

• Building your credibility through powerful substitutes
• Framing your initiative or request for common ground
• Devising more compelling positions in order to persuade
• Connecting on an emotional level

Module Two: The Content of the Persuasive Message

While human resources (HR) professionals spend a great deal of time and effort learning the process of persuasion, and how to become more trusted, respected and credible, the process of persuasion is only one part of success. A key component is the content of the persuasive message. In particular, John Boudreau will discuss how HR professionals can enhance their effectiveness by learning about the "mental models" already used by their clients, and how those proven models can be a powerful persuasive tool for HR-related issues.

Module Three: Roundtable

Ed Lawler will facilitate a discussion among Jay Conger, John Boudreau and HR executives. The panel will be filmed in front of a live audience of HR executives.

Key issues to be addressed:

• HR as a business partner: How can HR make it happen? What does this arrangement look like? What does HR need to bring to the table?
• How can HR pave the way to becoming a strategic partner?
• How do HR professionals interact with their clients? What are the ways in which the relationship can be defined?

Daily: Monday 02/08/2010 - Monday 03/01/2010; All day

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Join Annenberg School of Journalism director Geneva Overholser for a discussion with author Jack Hamilton.

Lunch will be served.

Tuesday 02/09/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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What does it take to be a healthy vegetarian? A nutrition session on the power of veggies.

Interested in becoming a vegetarian, or just want to learn more? Come to this session and see what is involved in taking the leap to a no-meat diet.

Tuesday 02/09/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center (LRC) Conference Room

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As the Supreme Court enters the second half of its term, the judges will rule on a variety of crucial cases that could change the nation’s legal climate. Savage will talk about the Roberts Court, Sonia Sotomayor, and what lies ahead. He will also discuss Citizens United v. FEC, a case that will fundamentally change the nature of political campaigns.

Lunch will be served.

The event is sponsored by the USC Gould School of Law and the USC student chapters of The American Constitution Society and The Federalist Society.

Tuesday 02/09/2010: 12:20 PM - 1:10 PM

University Park Campus Musick Law Building (LAW) Room 7

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Jacek Kugler of Claremont Graduate University argues against the concepts and policies of classical nuclear deterrence.

Nuclear weapons are the single most devastating tool of war that, if used, could literally destroy a viable society or even generate a global catastrophe. Classical deterrence, defined as the threat of unacceptable nuclear retaliation following an initial attack, was conceived to avert nuclear war. Since 1945, the terror generated by sequential deterrence postures is credited for the non-use of nuclear weapons. Classical deterrence policy is a success because under Massive Retaliation, and later under Mutual Assured Destruction, the international system has averted a nuclear war.

This success is not totally consistent with theory. Classical deterrence implies that nuclear proliferation and the buildup of nuclear arsenals ensures terror, and that in turn terror secures stability. Yet policymakers who adopted deterrence have universally rejected nuclear proliferation as a prescription for peace. Thus only half of the logical implications of deterrence have been implemented: Build nuclear arsenals to secure peace, but prevent the buildup of nuclear arsenals by third parties because they challenge peace. Moreover, this inconsistency reduces the credibility of deterrence arguments and limits anti-proliferation efforts. North Korea or Iran and the rising specter of a nuclear terrorist threat directly challenge classical deterrence’s stable view of the international system. Are these developments dangerous, or will they stabilize the Middle East and East Asia?

Kugler will present arguments showing that nuclear deterrence is tenuous. He will show that the original conception of classical nuclear deterrence is internally flawed and underspecified. Restructuring nuclear deterrence to include risk propensity and trust in the status quo shows the likely conditions for deterrence failure.

1. Nuclear war can be successfully deterred between nuclear powers when one has overwhelming asymmetric superiority.

2. Limited nuclear war is possible between a very week nuclear entity (i.e., a terrorist) facing overwhelming conventional asymmetry.

3. Major nuclear war is possible between powerful nuclear entities facing conventional parity.

The policy implications are profound. Mutual Assured Destruction is not stable. Terrorist nuclear attacks are not deterred by the buildup of nuclear arsenals.

What can be done? Technological breakthroughs make it impossible to unlearn how nuclear devices are made and to ensure that they can be eliminated from our environment. It is imperative therefore to limit, as much as possible, the likelihood of conflict. Kugler proposes a novel policy to insure stability: Create a Nuclear Security Council consisting of the few nuclear nations which have Global Massive Retaliation that can act independently to reduce the likelihood of nuclear war.

About the Speaker

Jacek Kugler is the Elisabeth Helm Rosecrans Professor of World Politics in the Department of Politics and Policy, School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He is the editor of International Interactions and past president of the International Studies Association and the Peace Science Society. He founded the Sentia Group Inc., dedicated to the formal study of decision-making, policy analysis and advice. He has been a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the State Department, the Department of Defense and a number of U.S agencies and private businesses. His research has been funded by the NSF, DARPA and the Ford Foundation, among other institutions. Through extensive publications on the causes and consequences of war, Kugler has forged a reputation for innovative formal modeling and empirical analysis.

Tuesday 02/09/2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) B40

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Sean Fisher discusses his family’s decades-long quest for the Nuestra Seniora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank in 1622.

Sean Fisher, grandson of the late Mel Fisher, now runs his family’s Historic Shipwreck Salvage business, which operates out of Key West, Florida. He will talk about his family’s adventure of searching for the Nuestra Seniora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon laden with gold and silver from the New World that sank in a hurricane in 1622, just 35 miles west of Key West.

In July 1985, Mel Fisher and his crew discovered the main cultural deposit of the Atocha, consisting of more than 37 tons of silver bars and coins. The search for her remaining treasure still continues today.

In this forum, Sean Fisher will discuss the many facets of the search and the technology used to make that search possible. Technology has always played a key role in historic shipwreck salvage, and over the years Fisher has seen the field move beyond simple mechanical innovation to GPS, anomaly location technology, and charting and mapping advances. These technological innovations have continually increased the efficiency of historic shipwreck salvors.

Fisher will be available after his presentation for a short Q&A and will have a number of authentic artifacts to show.

Tuesday 02/09/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library 240

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This special series is a collaboration among the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the USC Office of Religious Life, the USC Office of Student Life, the Department of Physical Education and Recreational Sports.

Each session’s exercises will be guided by the theme of the human connection to nature, which are inspired by the Hudson River School and French Barbizon paintings currently on view in the Fisher Museum’s exhibition Four Rooms and a View: USC’s Collection Highlights.

Class Times

February 17, March 31: 2-3:30 p.m.
February 10, February 24, March 10, April 7, April 14: 3-4:30 p.m.

Dates: 02/10/2010, 02/17/2010, 02/24/2010, 03/10/2010, 03/31/2010, 04/07/2010, 04/14/2010: All day

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art

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Wednesday 02/10/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Hahn Plaza At Tommy Trojan

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His books include Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (2002) and On the Museum’s Ruins (1993), both published by MIT Press. Crimp’s writing has appeared in a number of magazines and journals, including Artforum and Art in America, and he was an editor at October from 1997 to 1990. Crimp, who earned his Ph.D. at City University of New York, has received numerous awards for his work, including two Art Critics Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Lecture Forum

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Jane Jaquette of Occidental College explores the rights of women in Latin America.

Jaquette is teaching emerita professor of politics and diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College. A specialist in international relations and Latin America, she did her undergraduate degree in Political Science at Swarthmore College (1964) and her Ph.D. in International Relations at Cornell University (1971), writing her dissertation on the politics of development in Peru. She began teaching at Occidental College in 1969 and, shifting her focus to women’s issues, edited a comparative anthology on women and politics, while continuing to do research and publish articles on Peru. From 1979 to 1981, she worked as a policy analyst in the Women in Development Office at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she helped staff the U.S. delegation to the second World Conference on Women in Copenhagen.

Jaquette has received outstanding junior and senior faculty awards at Occidental, and she was named to the Bertha Harton Orr Chair in the Liberal Arts in 1996.

Jaquette has edited six books and published more than 50 articles on topics ranging from Peruvian politics to international feminism, with a special emphasis on women’s movements and democratization in Latin America. Her essays have appeared in World Politics, Foreign Policy, Signs, the Journal of Democracy, the International Feminist Journal of Politics and many collections. Her edited and co-edited books include The Women’s Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy (1989), The Women’s Movement and Latin America: Participation and Democracy (1994), Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe (1998), Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice (2006) and Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America (2009). She is writing a book on power and citizenship in Machiavelli and Hobbes. With her husband, USC’s Abraham Lowenthal, she has spent several months in Latin America from 2006 to the present, doing research on Latin America for a book on U.S.-Latin American relations.
 
About the Culture, Gender and Global Society Series

During this academic year, the Center for International Studies is celebrating USC’s leading role in research and teaching at the intersection of culture, gender and global society. This new domain of inquiry was officially launched 10 years ago at the School of International Relations when Culture, Gender and Global Society became a graduate field of concentration. More about this concentration can be found at college.usc.edu/poir/program/fields_culture.cfm.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus B40

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Madelyn Cain, author of Laffit: Anatomy of A Winner, holds a master’s degree from USC, where she was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. She has written for USA Today and the Utne Reader, as well as for stage and television. Currently she teaches nonfiction in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC. In addition to writing and teaching, Cain lectures on women’s issues and conducts writing seminars. She has been a guest on Anderson Cooper 360°, NPR, CNN, The Diane Rehm Show, The Other Half and NBC Evening News.

Ehrich Van Lowe, author of Never Slow Dance With A Zombie, is a writer of television, film and fiction. He was writer and co-producer of the Emmy Award-winning series The Cosby Show. Van Lowe has also produced shows for NBC, ABC and Fox, and has written pilots for CBS. While with Disney Studios, he wrote and sold pilots, including the camp sci-fi series Homeboys in Outer Space. In 2000, Ehrich developed and produced the Disney Channel’s first hit comedy series, Even Stevens, which was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Children’s Series. Van Lowe has also been nominated for numerous prestigious awards, including the DGA Diversity Award, the Academy Award and the NAACP Image Award. Most recently, he was executive producer of The Tom Joyner Show, a late night comedy/variety series currently airing on TV One. Van Lowe’s new novel, Never Slow Dance With A Zombie, was recently nominated for a Cyblis Award in the teen category. Van Lowe recently completed his third teen novel, Hollyweird. He is an alumnus of the USC Master of Professional Writing Program and has taught screenplay courses in the program.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

University Park Campus Los Angeles Central Library 630 West 5th Street Los Angeles CA 90071

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Prof. Tom Habinek leads a workshop for advanced grad students and junior faculty interested in ways to enhance their research.

Dr. Habinek, professor and chair of Classics, will discuss strategies for building larger audiences for scholarship — especially in the humanities and social sciences — and for reaching beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries.

Participants will be taken through a series of exercises tailored to their own work in progress.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Credit Union Building, Room 329

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Dr. Henri Ford, Haitian native and vice dean of medical education at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, joins fellow members of the USC/L.A. County Haiti Medical Aid Team to recount their surgical and medical work with survivors of the Haiti earthquake.

The event will include an opportunity for audience members to participate in a discussion, moderated by Keck School Dean Carmen A. Puliafito, M.D., about what the USC community can do to assist in efforts to restore and rebuild Haiti.

The event will include presentations from Dr. Ford and Dr. Ramon Cestero, trauma surgeon, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, about the devastating injuries that they and team members treated over the course of two weeks. Now that immediate medical needs for earthquake victims have been met, there is concern about what will happen to the hundreds of Haitians who have ongoing medical and rehabilitation needs, as well as how to rebuild structures in time for hurricane season and how to meet needs for safe food and water.

A reception will follow.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Salvatori Computer Science Center Room 101

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About The Colony

“The trade between China and Africa developed rapidly, with an annual increase rate of 30 percent in the past eight years, and the trade volume exceeded 100 billion U.S. dollars in 2008.”  — Xinhua News Agency

The Colony is a short documentary about China’s aggressive economic role in Africa, which many compare to colonization. It is one of the first films to provide a close-up view of the Chinese who are working and living in Africa. Through the personal stories of several Chinese entrepreneurs in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, The Colony examines the trend of China’s expansion in Africa, as well as the relationship between Chinese and African people.   

About Filmmaker Brent Huffman

Brent E. Huffman, assistant professor at Northwestern University, is an award-winning director, writer and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs. His work ranges from documentaries aired on The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel, to Sundance Film Festival winners, to films made for Frontline/World on PBS.  Huffman has been making social issue documentaries and environmental films for more than 12 years in Afghanistan, China, Africa, Haiti and Puerto Rico. These films have gone on to win numerous awards, including a Primetime Emmy, Best Conservation Film, two Cine Golden Eagle Awards, a College Emmy, a Student Academy Award, and a Grand Jury Award at  AFI’s Silverdocs 2004. Huffman was also an editor and shooter of Julia Reichert’s and Steven Bognar’s Primetime Emmy-winning PBS documentary series A Lion in the House, about children battling cancer. Huffman recently completed a book about his experiences in China called Life in the Heart of China: Diary from a Forbidden World. He recently covered Vortex 2, the world’s largest tornado research project, for NBC.

About The Women’s Kingdom

Keepers of one of the last matriarchal societies in the world, Mosuo women in a remote area of southwest China live beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese culture, enjoying great freedoms and carrying heavy responsibilities.

Beautifully shot and featuring intimate interviews, this short documentary offers a rare glimpse into a society virtually unheard of 10 years ago, and now often misrepresented in the media. Mosuo women control their own finances and do not marry or live with partners; they practice what they call “walking marriage.” A man may be invited into a woman’s hut to spend a “sweet night,” but must leave by daybreak. While tourism has brought wealth and 21st century conveniences to this remote area, it has also introduced difficult challenges to the Mosuo culture — from pollution in the lake, to the establishment of brothels, to mainstream ideas about women, beauty and family. This finely wrought film is a sensitive portrayal of extraordinary women struggling to hold on to their extraordinary society.

About Filmmaker Xiaoli Zhou

Xiaoli Zhou is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a strong journalism background. As a native Chinese and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Zhou specializes in international reporting and making documentaries about Asian cultures. Zhou’s work has aired on The Discovery Channel, PBS and Al Jazeera International. Her documentaries have screened at various film festivals around the world. For the past few years, she has been honored by the Foreign Press Association, American Women in Radio and Television, the Asian American Journalists Association and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Zhou’s film The Women’s Kingdom received a silver medal in the documentary category of 2006 Student Academy Awards and won the Best Editing Award from the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival. Zhou started a production company, German Camera Productions, with her husband, Brent E. Huffman.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Leavey Library (LVL) Auditorium

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The award, to be presented annually, was created to recognize those artists who have distinguished themselves not only in the exemplary quality, skill and innovation of their work but also in their public commitment to social responsibility, increasing awareness of global issues and events, and inspiring and empowering young people.

Although Redford has received some of the entertainment industry’s highest accolades, this is the first award named after the Santa Monica native. Proceeds from the event will provide scholarship support for the next generation of artists at the USC School of Theatre.

“The Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists honors an individual who has used his or her fame to increase public awareness of issues that are of vital importance to us all,” says Madeline Puzo, dean of the USC School of Theatre. “Robert Redford truly embodies all that an Engaged Artist represents. He is a distinguished actor, an Academy Award-winning director, an ardent conservationist, philanthropist and environmentalist, a man who stands for social responsibility and political involvement, and an artist and businessman who is a staunch supporter of uncompromised creative expression.”

Gala Chair Richard Weinberg, who is also chair of the USC School of Theatre’s Board of Councilors, adds: “Many awards in our society bear the names of the great men and women who inspired them: Alfred Nobel, John Heisman, Eleanor Roosevelt and John Templeton, to name a few. With the new Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists, honoring this remarkable gentleman and creating an award that will forever bear his name, USC has joined in recognizing the best that the human spirit has to offer.  I am honored that this good friend of mine, and good friend of so many, has once again displayed what it means to be a leader... a leader dedicated to the preservation and betterment of our world.”

Redford — who received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1980 Best Director Academy Award for Ordinary People, and the 2005 Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime contribution to American culture — is somewhat of an anomaly in the entertainment industry. Though he has been world-famous for some 30 years, he remains a very private individual. He is recognized the world over for the roles he has played and the projects he has directed or produced throughout a distinguished stage and film career. His lifelong passion for nature and issues of justice has resulted in his being widely acknowledged as a highly effective and dedicated political and environmental activist.  His passion remains to make films of substance and social/cultural relevance, as well as to encourage others to express themselves through the arts. Believing that it is the unexpected and uncommon that ultimately enliven the cultural ecology of a society, Redford has nurtured more than a generation of innovative voices in independent film through his nonprofit Sundance Institute and Film Festival.

Tickets to the gala are $375 per person. For tickets and information, please call (213) 821-4262 or visit theatre.usc.edu.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 6:30 PM - 11:00 PM

Beverly Wilshire Hotel 9500 Wilshire Boulevard Beverly Hills CA 90212

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USC Center on Public Diplomacy Fellow Rob Asghar discusses the lifetime he has spent attempting to please people and make peace among people and cultures, only to find that happiness comes from letting people down and allowing them to scuffle, within good reason.

Asghar is a Pakistani American political writer whose essays and commentaries have appeared in more than 30 newspapers around the world, including The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the Denver Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jordan Times and the Japan Times. Asghar has also been a columnist for Creators Syndicate and is currently a regular blogger for The Huffington Post and the Los Angeles Daily News. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240

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A riveting yarn about a Copenhagen police officer who moves to a small town and becomes entangled with a married femme fatale.

About Terribly Happy

The official Danish selection for this year’s Academy Awards and winner of seven Robert Awards (Danish Oscars) — including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay

Terribly Happy follows Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren), an officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated marshal position. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople.

Quickly spiraling into an intense fable, this film by director Henrik Ruben Genz displays a unique and sometimes macabre vision of the darkest depths to which people will go to achieve a sense of security and belonging.

Opens at select Los Angeles theaters on February 12.

Provided courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories. Not rated. Running time: 102 minutes. In Danish, with English subtitles.

For more information about the film, click here.

About Outside the Box (Office)

Outside the Box (Office) is a weekly showcase for upcoming releases, highlighting world cinema, documentary and independent film titles. Recognizing a need for greater diversity on campus, the series will draw from around the globe to present movies that may challenge, inspire or simply entertain. The weekly screenings will be on Wednesday nights (and other select dates, as they arise) in the School of Cinematic Arts Complex, George Lucas Building.

To view the calendar of screenings, click here.

About Check-In and Reservations

The theater will be overbooked to ensure capacity, and the RSVP list will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis, with no reserved seating. Please bring a photo ID or printout of your reservation confirmation, which will automatically be sent to your email account after you successfully RSVP through the Web site. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building (LUC) Room 112

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Writer/directors Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner give a Q&A and screen their tale of a jilted man adrift in Jamaica.

Max (Sean Bones) lives in Brooklyn. He enjoys playing soccer, skateboarding and drinking with his friends at local bars. Last summer, he and his girlfriend, Willow (Norah Jones), won a free cruise to Jamaica; but two days before the trip, she dumps him cold. When his friends flake, Max winds up alone on the high seas, navigating through crowds of grey-haired cruisers. Over the course of several days, he flirts with the staff photographer, drinks cocktails with the boat’s celebrity juggler, and has several strange encounters with the only other loner (Kevin Bewersdorf).

When the cruise liner docks in Jamaica, Max quickly escapes the tourist zone. At a local jerk stand, he meets a charming Rasta who offers to show him a secret beach. Feeling irie as he lounges on the tropical sand with his new friends, Max loses track of time and his personal belongings. In his pathetic attempt to do something about it, he finds that the cultural divides he thought he could transcend are not so simple. Naked and broke in a foreign country, where he stands out like a sore thumb, Max begins to make his way towards the American Embassy in Kingston. Along the road, Jamaica is waiting to meet him.

For further details and to RSVP, click here.

Wednesday 02/10/2010: 8:45 PM - 11:15 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building (LUC) Room 112

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The exhibition is open during USC athletic events or by appointment.
 
Reception
Wednesday, February 24, 12-1 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
 
The Roski School of Fine Arts and the Athletics Department at USC are pleased to present the fifth annual Louis Galen Artletics Exhibition. Artletics is organized by Karen Koblitz, head of the ceramics area at the Roski School, and juried by Koblitz, Tad Beck, Donna Heinel and Ron Rizk. The 18 artists included in this year’s show work in a variety of media, including ceramics, design, drawing, painting, and digital and traditional photography.
 
Participating student-athletes:

• Marlena Adamska (rowing)
• Dina Hegazy (swimming)
• Victoria Curti Alimonda (golf)
• Matt Kecki (tennis)
• Iskra Angelova (rowing)
• Rebecca Lett (cross country)
• Tri Bourne (volleyball)
• Vanni Mangoni (swimming)
• Ashley Corral (basketball)
• Katalin Mate (field)
• Robert Erickson (football)
• Dalilah Muhammad (track)
• Robert Farah (tennis)
• Mitch Mustain (football)
• Brett Giery (water polo)
• Valeria Pulido (tennis)
• Sophie Gosper (swimming)
• Scott Stephens (football)
  

The exhibition is named in honor of USC alumnus Louis Galen, who graduated from the USC Gould School of Law in 1951 and passed away in 2007. Galen was a strong supporter of the USC Athletics Department and, along with his wife Helene, established the Galen Ceramics Studio, the Galen Ceramics Lecture Series, and the Helene V. Galen Intermedia Lab at the Roski School of Fine Arts.

Daily: Thursday 02/11/2010 - Monday 03/22/2010; All day

University Park Campus Galen Center Hall of Fame

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A comparative look at international laws that protect or restrict the civil liberties of individuals within the LGBT community.

Shafiqa Ahmadi, J.D., faculty member at the Rossier School of Education, will discuss the cultural and religious views which inform recent anti-gay laws that have been proposed and passed in some countries. These include the infamous “kill the gays” bill in Uganda and the recent sentencing of a gay couple in Malawi.  

Ahmadi is a faculty member at the Rossier School of Education and has taught at the Gould School of Law. Most recently, she worked for the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, where she investigated alleged violations of civil rights and discrimination in areas such as employment, housing, and access to state and state funded services.

Her area of research include: the legal protection of and services provided for underrepresented student populations in the institutions of higher education, such as Muslim students, students from the LGBT community, student veterans, and students with disabilities. She is also interested in researching and writing on Shariah or Islamic law, the historical effects of Shariah on Muslim women, the status of women in Islam today, the portrayal of women in classical Persian literature, and Title IX and its impact on women on college campuses.
 
Ahmadi received her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Indiana University School of Law.

Lunch will be provided.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Waite Phillips Hall (WPH) 403

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In college, finding time to date and meet the right person can be tough. Learn what you can do to fit a love life into a healthy lifestyle.

Dating at USC can seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. It can be fun! Learn successful strategies to determine what you’re looking for, your “dating deal breakers,” and how to date with confidence.

This program is designed to target one’s social wellness. Open to both male and female students.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center (LRC) Conference Room

Professors and students from across USC host an interactive forum on the use of PowerPoint in teaching and communication.

Students shuffle quietly into the darkened room, past the figure of the professor who, head down, is preparing his presentation. The students notice the pile of slide printouts and dutifully take one. The harried professor finally seems to have solved his technical problems and has located his presentation. He opens it up, and fumbles his way over to the “start presentation” icon. Collective dread and resignation settle over the room, as professor and students embark on slide 1 of 76. This is Death by PowerPoint.

How and why does this happen? What are the alternatives?

Geoffrey Spedding, Doe Mayer, Jeanine Yutani, Bryan Susman, and teaching and undergraduate fellows for the Center for Excellence in Teaching will question and deconstruct some all-too-popular current practices. They will then construct some ways to manage the situation. For overworked professors and students alike.

The discussion will be hosted on... PowerPoint.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Leavey Library (LVL) Auditorium

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Prof. Horne, speaking at USC in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, will explore how definitions of race shifted as various parties moved over the border, sometimes for, sometimes against and sometimes outside of the aims and interests of the U.S. racial state.

Along with discussant Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore, he will challenge us to consider the legacy of the Mexican Revolution in the context of ongoing anti-racist struggles for freedom and dignity.

Dr. Gerald Horne is one of the most prolific and respected historians of global struggles against racism and colonialism. He currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. In more than 30 books and a multitude of articles, Horne’s work has spanned the globe from rebellions in Watts (Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s) to struggles in the Pacific (The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War) to anti-imperialism in Kenya and Harlem (Mau Mau in Harlem?: The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya). His Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 was a finalist for the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award in 2005.

Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a geographer who teaches in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC. She is the author of numerous articles about race, uneven development, social movements, prisons and political economy. Her path-breaking Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California received the 2008 Laura Romero Best First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association. She is a founding and active member of the California Prison Moratorium Project and Critical Resistance; a co-founder and past president of the Central California Environmental Justice Network; and president-elect of the American Studies Association.

A light lunch will be provided. For more information, please contact Michael Cucher at cucher@usc.edu or Christina Heatherton at heathert@usc.edu.

Please be on the lookout for additional upcoming events related to the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, including a talk by internationally renowned scholar Dr. Friedrich Katz on February 16.

This talk is sponsored by the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the USC Graduate Professionalization Initiative, and Chicano/a and Latino/a American Studies at USC.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Second Floor, Intellectual Commons

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A hands-on workshop (consisting of three sessions)on directly and effectively meeting the requirements of RFPs and grant program applications.

The three-session workshop will be led by Bonnie Kilgore Lund, professional grant writer and director, The Writing Company. It is targeted to faculty who are currently writing or resubmitting a proposal. The workshop covers writing strategies that show participants how to persuasively address funder requirements and highlight research innovations and merits. Topics include developing a research plan, drafting proposal sections (selecting, organizing, and summarizing key points), revising drafts (using passive/active voice, sentence-level editing), and developing effective graphics.

The workshop features short lectures on writing strategies, analysis of sample proposal sections, writing practice and peer review. Participants are asked to submit a questionnaire and proposal summary prior to the first session and to attend all three sessions.

Dates: 01/28/2010, 02/04/2010, 02/11/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library East Conference Room

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Are there actually any long-term effects from all those years of slouching? A wellness expert explains how posture fits into a healthy lifestyle.

For years you have been told to straighten up. Whether we are seated (“Don’t slouch!”) or out walking (“Shoulders back!”), we are encouraged to have good posture. But why?

Whether you sit at a desk, lift weights, or play sports, bad posture an lead to injuries and pain. The wellness expert will describe how bad posture affects the body.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center (LRC) Conference Room

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Schudson was co-author, with former Washington Post Editor Len Downie, on a controversial 2009 report calling for limited government funding for the news.

This is the first event in the series “Entrepreneurship and the Future of News,” sponsored by Dean Ernest J. Wilson.

RSVP is requested. For more information and to RSVP, click here.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 6:30 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg Auditorium (ASC)

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How can museums attract the public today? Join us for an important conversation featuring several star museum professionals.

With multimillion-dollar blockbuster shows a dying species due to the economic crisis, how can museums attract the public? Who will go to them, and why should they bother?

This talk will delve into the subject of the new book Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values, edited by Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Alvarez. Three museum professionals will join Holo and Alvarez to discuss the crisis in museums today and the opportunities to rise above it.

Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and one of our most dynamic and creative art museum leaders, will discuss the transformation he is leading to make LACMA more relevant to a vital contemporary life in Los Angeles. Donny George Youkhanna, who served as director of the Baghdad Museum during the American invasion of Iraq and was witness to the looting of some of civilization’s keystone culture monuments, will share his thoughts about archaeology collections and their future in an ever more globalized world. Dr. Jorge Wagensberg, scientific director of the Foundation “la Caixa” and creator of CosmoCaixa in Barcelona, one of the world’s most exciting science museums, will contribute his idea that, unlike any other institution, museums can provide an experience of authenticity — a way of learning that emanates not from the word, but from the world.

The event will be moderated by Selma Holo, director of USC’s Fisher Museum and its new International Museum Institute. It will also include remarks by Mari-Tere Alvarez, project specialist in the department of education at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Holo and Alvarez’s new book, Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values, examines what museums — whether devoted to art or science or history — must do to be indispensable to society today and in the future. Their book is changing the conversation in the museum world from “How many came to the show, and how much money did we make today?” to “How did our museum serve and change society today? How did it help to make society better, smarter, more tolerant and more creative?”

Please join us and be a part of this new conversation.

A reception and book signing will follow.

Thursday 02/11/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Room 240

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This annual event, directed by Thornton faculty member Donald Crockett, features new works by Thornton composition students.

Larry Livingston, music director, USC Thornton orchestras
Sharon Lavery, resident conductor
Donald Crockett, guest conductor

Elbert Liu: Argosy
Francis Kayali: Astronomies of the Mind
Sarah Gibson: And It's Spring When the World Is Puddle-Wonderful, Concerto for Left-Hand Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Zhou Tian: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Isaac Schankler: SPLI NTE RI NG

Thursday 02/11/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Your friendly census-takers visit campus to distribute information to USC students, faculty and staff. 

The U.S. census counts every resident in the United States, and is required by the Constitution to take place every 10 years. The 2010 census will help communities receive more than $400 billion in federal funds each year for things like hospitals, emergency services, job training centers, schools, senior centers, bridges and tunnels, and public works projects.

The data collected by the census also help determine the number of seats a state has in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Friday 02/12/2010: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Trousdale Parkway Near the Von KleinSmid Center

Friday 02/12/2010: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Ahn House

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USC’s Judith Halberstam and Karen Tongson will serve as moderators.

Friday 02/12/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Taper Hall of Humanities (THH) 420

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USC faculty and graduate students host a new Native American Studies workshop series this semester, drawing together academics who work on Native American material.

The workshop will meet on selected Fridays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the American Studies Conference Room.

Attendees are encouraged to read the papers before attending. In future, the speakers’ essays will be published online prior to the meetings. For the first session, please email one of the workshop coordinators (Jonathan Berliner at berliner@usc.edu or Tok Thompson at  thompst@earthlink.net) for a copy of the essay.

February 5
“Disease, Culture and Transnationalism in the Americas”
John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates Chair in Humanities and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity
 
February 12
“Native Americans and the Confederate States of America: A Model for Indigenous/State Relations in the 21st Century”
Walter Williams, professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and History, USC
 
March 5
“Written in the Birch Bark: The Linguistic-Material Worldmaking of Simon Pokagon”
Jonathan Berliner, lecturer in English, USC

March 26
“Alternative Images? Urban Indians as Reel Indians”
Laura Fugikawa, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
 
April 2
“Speaking with the Elder Brothers: Interspecial Communication in Native American Traditions”
Tok Thompson, assistant professor of teaching in Anthropology, USC

April 16
“Telling Paula Starr”
Joan Weibel-Orlando, associate professor emerita of Anthropology, USC; and Paula Starr, executive director of the Southern California Indian Centers

April 23
“Those Long, Lonely Nights at the Diner: Specificity of Home and Place in Arigon Starr’s The Red Road”
Carolyn Dunn, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC

Dates: 02/05/2010, 02/12/2010, 03/05/2010, 03/26/2010, 04/02/2010, 04/16/2010, 04/23/2010: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Waite Phillips Hall (WPH) 303

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A lecture by Dr. Louise McReynolds, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. McReynolds is a specialist on the popular press in Russia before the Revolution. Her current project is a book on sensational murder in the late imperial period, in which she explores the limits of positive law.

Friday 02/12/2010: 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Taper Hall of Humanities 271

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Family physician Dr. Howard Brody discusses the ethical implications of the widespread implementation of electronic medical records.

Touted as a prime tool to prevent medical error and cut health care costs, the electronic medical record (EMR) has been attacked by some as cumbersome and likely to cause — rather than prevent — errors. Professionalism requires that physicians put the interests of their patients ahead of profit-making. Dr. Brody, a bioethicist, considers how the EMR may enhance or detract from the physician-patient relationship.

Dr. Brody is director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and author of The Future of Bioethics. Previously, he was the University Distinguished Professor of Family Practice, Philosophy, and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Dr. Brody has written numerous articles on medical ethics, family medicine and the philosophy of medicine. His current research interests include the importance of an interdisciplinary humanities base for bioethics, ethical issues in primary care, community engagement in bioethics, and professional integrity in both medical practice and clinical research.

A reception will follow in the Hoyt Gallery.

Friday 02/12/2010: 3:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Mayer Auditorium

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A film by Taiwanese director Leon Dai, about a poor harbor worker struggling to raise his young daughter alone.

No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti reaches into the grayer shades of contemporary Taiwanese society with its rich story.

Dai’s sharp, emotional second feature is a deeply moving tale of family bonds that resolutely refuse to break. Li Wu-hsiung is a poor single father working high-risk jobs aboard boats in the harbor zone, where he lives in an illegal shack with his young daughter, abandoned at birth by her mother. Father and daughter live happily together until she reaches school age, but when the authorities intervene, it leads to a showdown that becomes a worldwide media event.

Thoughtful and gently paced, this astute drama delivers a tense, riveting narrative that belies its quiet tone. It has won multiple prizes at international festivals, including top honors at the 2009 Taipei Film Festival and Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards.

Actor-turned-director Leon Dai wrote the screenplay together with lead actor Wen-Pin Chen, drawing on a real incident that occurred in Taiwan in 2003. Dai was inspired by his surprise at how quickly the story was forgotten after being broadcast live throughout Taiwan.

Leon Dai (Dai Li-Ren) is a well-known actor and director in Taiwan. After graduating from the directing course at the National University of the Arts in Taipei, he made the short film Summers (2001), which was selected for competition in Clermont-Ferrand. In 2002, he was invited by Teddy Chen to direct the feature film Twenty Something Taipei, which went on to become the second-highest grossing film of the year in Taiwan. As an actor, Dai has starred in more than 30 films since 1993 and has been awarded several prizes for his work.

35mm print provided courtesy of Atom Cinema. Not rated. Running time: 92 minutes.
In Hakka, Min Nan and Mandarin, with English subtitles.

To view the trailer, click here.

About Outside the Box (Office)

Outside the Box (Office) is a weekly showcase for upcoming releases, highlighting world cinema, documentary and independent film titles. Recognizing a need for greater diversity on campus, the series will draw from around the globe to present movies that may challenge, inspire or simply entertain. The weekly screenings will be on Wednesday nights (and other select dates, as they arise) in the School of Cinematic Arts Complex, George Lucas Building.

To view the calendar of screenings, click here.

About Check-In and Reservations

The theater will be overbooked to ensure capacity, and the RSVP list will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis, with no reserved seating. Please bring a photo ID or printout of your reservation confirmation, which will automatically be sent to your email account after you successfully RSVP through the Web site. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Friday 02/12/2010: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building (LUC) Room 108

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Sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the Thornton School’s Early Music program, the performance will explore the texts of the Canticum Canticorum. The beautifully sensual texts were often set to music in the 17th century, both inside and outside the convent walls. The nuns, eternally married to Christ with or without their consent, identified strongly with the florid imagery of the bride and her beloved.

Friday 02/12/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus United University Church (UMC)

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A concert pairs Thornton faculty violinist Henry Gronnier with guest artist pianist Rina Dokshitsky.

The program will include Mozart's Sonata in B-flat Major, KV 454; Beethoven's Sonata in G Major, Op. 96; and Paderewski's Sonata in A Minor, Op. 13.

Henry Gronnier is a founding member of the Rossetti String Quartet. As a soloist, he has performed worldwide in recital, including at Carnegie's Weill Hall and at Wigmore Hall in London. He has performed at many of the leading international music festivals as an orchestral soloist and as a collaborator in chamber music ensembles, including Spoleto (Italy and Charleston), Festival Mediterranean and Zino Francescatti Festival in France, and San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

Born in Saint-Quentin, France, Gronnier began his musical studies at the Conservatoire in Saint-Quentin, where he was awarded a Premier Prix in both violin and piano. He later studied with Madeleine Thuillier-Deverge at the Conservatoire National de Region de Versailles, where he received a Gold Medal. He continued his studies with Michele Auclair at the Conservatoire National in Paris and was awarded a full scholarship to Tulsa University, where he became a student of the renowned French violinist Nell Gotkovsky.

Friday 02/12/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Graduating M.F.A. in Acting students perform Don Nigro’s play about Arthurian legends reborn in the Civil War era.

By Don Nigro
Directed by Andrew J. Robinson

Fisher King earned Don Nigro a Playwriting Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Performances

Saturday, February 13, 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 14, 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 18, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 20, 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 24, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 27, 8 p.m.
Friday, March 5, 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Saturday 02/13/2010 - Sunday 03/07/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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A jam-packed night featuring capoeira performers, samba dancing, a drag revue and much more.

The USC Carnival will feature:

• A drag revue sponsored by the LGBTA and LGBT Center
• Capoeira performers practicing the art of Brazilian fight dance
• Samba dancers
• Mock gambling
• A raffle drawing, with chances to win amazing prizes
• A DJ and dance floor
• A photo booth

Admission and food are free.

Dress to impress; this is a semi-formal event. And bring a date.

Bring cash to purchase extra raffle tickets and extra gambling chips.

All proceeds will go to Pete Carroll's charity, A Better L.A.

Saturday 02/13/2010: 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM

University Park Campus Town and Gown

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Relax, stretch out and ease your mind at USC Workout’s yoga sessions.

The classes draw on ancient forms of yoga that focus on movement, balance, stretching, strength, flexibility and relaxation. Style varies with instructor.

The sessions are offered daily in the Lyon Center Group Exercise Room. Check out the full schedule at usc.edu/recsports.

Daily: Sunday 02/14/2010 - Saturday 05/15/2010; All day

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center (LRC) Group Exercise Room

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Break a sweat and stay in shape with USC Workout’s SCycling sessions at the Lyon Center.

This is USC’s version of spinning or power pacing — an instructor-directed indoor stationary cycling class utilizing cycling techniques, music and visualization to create a no-impact workout.

Sign up to reserve a bike at the front desk of the Lyon Center.

Daily: Sunday 02/14/2010 - Saturday 05/15/2010; All day

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center (LRC)

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The Thornton Wind Ensemble performs two works by Dzubay — Fanfare for Ray and Shadow Dances — and Daugherty’s Red Cape Tango.

Also on the program are works by two Thornton faculty members: Frank Ticheli’s Angels in the Architecture and Bob Mintzer’s Go.

Sunday 02/14/2010: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Children from the USC Family of Schools artistically express how they can contribute to a greener environment.

Each academic year, the USC Fisher Museum of Art plans, curates and professionally installs four temporary student art exhibitions at the University Village Shopping Center Food Court for the Art in the Village program.

For this year’s first exhibition, elementary school kids belonging to the USC Family of Schools (32nd Street/USC Magnet, Alexander Science Center School, Foshay Learning Center, John Mack Elementary, Norwood Elementary, St. Agnes Parish School, St. Vincent Parish School, Vermont Avenue Elementary and Weemes Elementary) were invited to create and submit artwork fitting the theme “Going... Going... Green!”

Each exhibition kicks off with an opening reception honoring the 40 students with the best artwork. The children have the opportunity to speak with family, friends and community members about their work. They are congratulated for their achievements during an awards ceremony, at which they receive a certificate signed by Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard C. Parks.

Funded in part by a USC Neighborhood Outreach Grant, Art in the Village represents a partnership between the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the University Village Shopping Center and the USC Family of Schools.

Daily: Tuesday 02/16/2010 - Friday 03/19/2010; All day

University Village Shopping Center Food Court 3375 South Hoover Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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Tuesday 02/16/2010: 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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A riveting documentary examining masculinity, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture.

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens in 2007. Delivering a self-described “loving critique” of rap music, director Byron Hurt — a star quarterback in college, longtime hip-hop fan, and now a gender violence prevention educator — pays tribute to the power and creativity of hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive stereotypes of manhood in general and perpetuating negative myths about African American males in particular.

Critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race and racism, gender violence, and the corporate exploitation of youth culture, this prophetic film is as entertaining as it is educational, as bold as the bravado it exposes.

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, produced and directed by Byron Hurt, is a co-production of God Bless the Child Productions Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). It was executive produced by Stanley Nelson and Sally Jo Fifer, and co-produced and edited by Sabrina Schmidt Gordon.

The LGBT Resource Center and Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs are proud to sponsor this screening. For more information, email lgbt@usc.edu or visit www.usc.edu/lgbt or www.usc.edu/cbcsa.

Tuesday 02/16/2010: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240

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Learn how USC employees, academic units and outreach programs can obtain grants to fund university-community partnerships.

February 1, March 11, 9-10 a.m.
University Park Campus, Leavey Library, Auditorium

February 17, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Health Sciences Campus, Norris Medical Library, West Conference Room

February 18, 2-3 p.m.
University Park Campus, Leavey Library, Auditorium

March 5, 2-3 p.m.
Health Sciences Campus, Norris Medical Library, West Conference Room

USC Neighborhood Outreach is a nonprofit grant-making organization funded by USC faculty and staff contributions to the Good Neighbors Campaign.

We welcome applications for grants from USC employees, academic units and outreach programs. Proposals are reviewed by a committee representative of staff and faculty from the Health Sciences and University Park campuses.

Proposals are selected based on community impact, cost-effectiveness, volunteer involvement, and measurable progress toward achieving one or more of the university’s community objectives.

Applicants to USC Neighborhood Outreach grants should realize that this is a competitive process and that not all requests will be satisfied. The demand is such that past-funded projects cannot assume that they will continue to be funded.

The number of applications for grants and the total amount of money requested by proposed projects and programs is substantially greater than capacity. In 2009, USC Neighborhood Outreach received 56 proposals totaling $1.6 million and was were able to fund 37 projects for a total of $850,000. Grants ranged from $3,550 to $52,925.

For more information on eligibility and the application process, click here.

Dates: 02/01/2010, 02/17/2010, 02/18/2010, 03/05/2010, 03/11/2010: All day

Multiple Locations Leavey Library (LVL)

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What issues arise when it comes to RCR, and how can such topics be integrated into existing courses and taught to students?

This workshop will provide lively discussion of ways that USC faculty can teach and mentor students on the ethical conduct of research. The workshop leaders will draw from their own experiences teaching Responsible Conduct of Research courses, and engage participants in discussion on the core values of research ethics, as well as the modalities by which these values can be taught.

The workshop is targeted at faculty who teach students about research methods, provide research assignments or engage students in research projects — whether in the classroom or through individual projects.

Wednesday 02/17/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Credit Union, Room 329

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Antunes studied Sculpture at the Fine Arts University of Lisbon, and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Karslruhe. Her previous exhibitions include shows at Credac in Ivry, Paris; the Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery in Berlin; Galeria do Lago, Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Chiado 8, Fidelidade Seguros, Culturgest, Lisbon.

She is currently working on an outside project at Knokke in Belgium, for the Bienal Beaufort 03.

Wednesday 02/17/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Lecture Forum

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What exactly do people mean when they refer to your “carbon footprint”? How do you measure your own carbon footprint?

Calculate just how green you are, and discuss ways to be more green from here on out.

Wednesday 02/17/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center (LRC) Conference Room

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It will examine how the nation’s best college and university professors utilize this concept, and how teaching-centered methods have a role during this paradigm shift of college teaching. New teaching and older successful methods will also be reviewed.

The program concludes with a review of speaker Lawford Anderson’s tutelage of undergraduate students performing research at Yosemite.

Wednesday 02/17/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Keith Administration Building B21/23

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A workshop on identifying corporate funding opportunities and developing industry partnerships.

The course, led by Dennis Atkinson, director of Corporate Advancement, Office of Research Advancement, is designed for all USC investigators and specialists interested in working with corporate research sponsors.

The objective is to educate investigators and directors on the particular issues associated with obtaining corporate sponsorship for research at USC. Included will be discussions on corporate business and research processes as they apply to academic collaborations, as well as methods for identifying potential funding sources; setting appropriate expectations; building long-term relationships; leveraging USC strengths and resources; and ensuring academic integrity and legal compliance in working with corporate sponsors.

Wednesday 02/17/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library West Conference Room

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Dr. Dan Lainer-Vos delivers the sixth annual Burton J. Lewis Lecture, on the identity politics of kids and counselors at Jewish summer camps.

Dan Lainer-Vos, Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies and assistant professor of sociology, presents his inaugural lecture on how the development of comradeship among the members of a nation is one of the most puzzling and paradoxical aspects involved in the creation of national identity.

Unlike traditional village communities, a nation is much too large to be founded on the basis of firsthand acquaintance. But the sheer size of nations is only part of the problem. Modern nations are also inherently heterogeneous; thus, stratification due to issues of class, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality can — and usually do — create social distances that alienate one group from another. Yet, somehow, national membership is claimed to be grounded on a close — even intimate — camaraderie.

The aim of this lecture is to consider this curious paradox from a particularly Jewish perspective, by closely examining the encounter between Jewish Americans and native Israelis at Massad, a Jewish American summer camp that operated in the Pocono Mountains between 1941 and 1981. The encounter between American and Israeli Jews in this camp serves as a prism through which the national paradox of intimacy among strangers can be better understood.

The educators in charge of Massad camp wanted their young American charges to think of themselves as part of a greater Jewish nation, closely connected to Israel. In order to facilitate this goal, they brought in Israeli youngsters to work as counselors at this summer camp. Their desire was to manufacture a kind of “mini-Israel,” out of which would emerge a new generation of American Jews, who would be bonded — through establishing friendship with their Israeli counselors — to a faraway Zionist homeland. Their Israeli comrades were supposed to imprint upon the campers the unity of the nation and inspire campers to admire and emulate the authenticity of their counselors as both Jews and Israelis. Yet, to the educators’ surprise, instead of promoting spontaneous camaraderie, this mixing of Americans and Israelis generated tensions, conflicts and alienation. The Israeli counselors accused the Jewish American campers of being selfish and spoiled, while the campers and even the American Jewish staff complained that the Israelis were too rigid, narrow-minded and militaristic.

Yet despite these conflicts, neither the Israelis nor the Americans questioned the vision of a Jewish nation. Somehow, the educators in Massad managed to create an interpretive framework within which camp conflicts were treated as irrelevant to the greater ideal of Jewish national identity.

This lecture will explore the elements of the camp experience that allowed campers and counselors to maintain their belief in the unity of the nation despite the immediate experience of internal conflict and hostility. Beyond this, Lainer-Vos will further analyze what sociological lessons can be learned from the Massad experience, regarding the way national movements generate a sense of closeness among disparate constituencies. Finally, this lecture will consider the question: How can the Massad case contribute to our understanding of the American Jewish identity?

Wednesday 02/17/2010: 4:45 PM - 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center Board Room

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C.E.B. Reas gives a lecture and workshops exploring the history of Processing, the programming language he co-developed.

Lecture
Wednesday, February 17, 6 p.m.
Kerckhoff Hall

Workshops
February 19, February 26, March 5, 12-3 p.m.
Egg Company Building, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, Blue Lab
Reservations are required.

In 2001, C.E.B. Reas and Ben Fry developed a free, easy-to-use programming language called Processing, which allows artists and designers with little background in coding to experiment with the programming of images, animation and interactivity. The result has been an explosion of moving-image artworks and a community devoted to Processing’s use.

This series will explore the history and development of Processing with a presentation by Reas and several workshops designed to allow USC students and faculty to explore Processing as a kind of software sketchbook.

Based in Los Angeles, C.E.B. Reas focuses on defining processes and translating them into images. He is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Design and Media Arts at UCLA. Reas has exhibited his work internationally at institutions, independent venues, galleries and festivals, including LAboral (Spain); the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (New York); the National Museum for Art, Architecture, and Design (Oslo); Telic Arts Exchange (Los Angeles); <>TAG (The Hague); Egopark (Oakland); Bitforms (New York); [DAM]Berlin; Sónar (Barcelona); Ars Electronica (Linz); and Microwave (Hong Kong). With Ben Fry, Reas published Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, a 736-page comprehensive introduction to programming within the context of visual media.

Wednesday 02/17/2010: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus

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Food for Thought’s ongoing “Jesus at the Movies” series screens and discusses the 1989 Quebecois film.

Jesus of Montreal will be screened on Wednesday, February 17 and Monday, February 22. On Wednesday, February 24, Father James Heft will lead a discussion based on the film.

After finishing his doctoral studies in historical theology at the University of Toronto, Father Heft spent many years at the University of Dayton, a Catholic university founded by the Marianists. There he served as chair of the Theology Department for six years, provost of the university for eight years, and chancellor for 10 years. He left the University of Dayton in the summer of 2006 to work on the foundation of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC, where he is currently Alton Brooks Professor of Religion, and president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies.

Dates: 02/17/2010, 02/22/2010, 02/24/2010: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus United University Church (UMC) Peace Center

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An award-winning doc about the 92nd Buffalo Division, the African American combat unit that fought in Italy during WWII.

This 60-minute feature film recounts a critically important piece of black history and places it squarely within the context of Civil Rights history. The “Buffalo Soldiers” were men who valiantly fought two wars at the same time: one against the Nazis, the other against racial discrimination. Those who survived found that their contributions went unnoticed upon their return to United States.

Director Fred Kuwornu, an Italian filmmaker of African heritage, searches out little known aspects of the story, including details of the friendships forged between African American soldiers and the Italian partisan fighters and villagers they liberated from fascist rule. It was a 2008 meeting with Spike Lee — who was shooting Miracle at St. Anna on location in Tuscany — that inspired Kuwornu to start this very personal voyage of discovery, culminating in the powerful documentary. Vernon Baker, the last living African American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, recounts vividly his wartime experiences and the heroism of his unit. The film also includes a special courtesy appearance by President Barack Obama. Inside Buffalo is a patchwork of stories that history almost forgot to tell... until now.

Not rated. Running time: 55 minutes. In English and Italian, with English subtitles.

About Outside the Box (Office)

Outside the Box (Office) is a weekly showcase for upcoming releases, highlighting world cinema, documentary and independent film titles. Recognizing a need for greater diversity on campus, the series will draw from around the globe to present movies that may challenge, inspire or simply entertain. The weekly screenings will be on Wednesday nights (and other select dates, as they arise) in the School of Cinematic Arts Complex, George Lucas Building.

To view the calendar of screenings, click here.

About Check-In and Reservations

The theater will be overbooked to ensure capacity, and the RSVP list will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis, with no reserved seating. Please bring a photo ID or printout of your reservation confirmation, which will automatically be sent to your email account after you successfully RSVP through the Web site. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday 02/17/2010: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building (LUC) Room 112

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Wednesday 02/17/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Annenberg School of Journalism director Geneva Overholser chats with ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Paul Steiger.

For more information on Steiger, click here.

Lunch will be served.

Thursday 02/18/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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Dr. Michel Baudry lectures for the Biological Sciences Inter-Section Seminar.

Thursday 02/18/2010: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Ray R. Irani Hall 101

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Three scholars consider the relationship of ideas to property, and the enormous changes that are shaking the fields of media, entertainment and science.

One of the most significant ways we have of mapping the world is according to the boundaries of individual property. But what happens when that boundary meets the “free exchange of ideas”?

Join Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and author of The Wealth of Networks; Michael B. Eisen, professor of computational and evolutionary biology at the University of California at Berkeley and the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-founder of the Public Library of Science; and Jennifer Urban, professor and co-director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law, for a wide-ranging conversation.

To RSVP, click here and enter the event code “CC218”.

Thursday 02/18/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library 240

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Built in 1969 and renovated in 2002, the Viceroy has 162 rooms and suites.

We’ll enjoy a nice evening under the stars, mingling and networking. Bring plenty of business cards. Come scout a new hangout spot, or enjoy our happy hour (details TBD). Don’t forget to spread the word. Also enjoy our special for the evening: a Trojan Cocktail.

Guests may valet at the hotel at $10 per car for up to four hours. Alternately, there is street parking on Ocean Avenue.

Thursday 02/18/2010: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Viceroy 1819 Ocean Avenue Santa Monica CA 90401

A look at filmic works from Japan, by some of the most creative and accomplished filmmakers working today.

The resurgence of Japanese cinema in the 1990s dramatically reconfigured the aspirations, practices and reception of one of the largest and most continuous film cultures outside of the United States. This three-day event features films by three contemporary Japanese filmmakers whose work has crossed national borders and been viewed outside of Japan, elsewhere, in the world.

In the wake of the classical cinemas of the 1930 and ’40s, the colonial cinemas of the period, and the New Wave cinemas of the 1950s and ’60s, the Japanese cinema of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has entered into the world and been received internationally in unprecedented ways.

“Contemporary Japanese Cinema: Outside, Elsewhere, In the World” features the work of some of Japan’s most active filmmakers of the new generation — Shinji Aoyama, Shunji Iwai and Ryuhei Kitamura — as well as commentary by one of Japan’s most active film scholars and critics, the widely published Keisuke Kitano, who completed his graduate studies in the United States.

In different ways, each filmmaker has established complex relations to the national cinema of Japan, while also moving outside of national confines. Aoyama, also an acclaimed novelist, is the internationally renowned director of Eureka (2000) and Sad Vacation (2007), both of which will be screened in this festival. Iwai, who began his career as a visual artist and a maker of music videos, has enjoyed tremendous popularity throughout Asia, in his native Japan as well as in South Korea, China and Taiwan. Among Iwai’s remarkable films are Love Letter (1995) and his dark reflection on adolescence, All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001). Kitamura, who also began his career as a visual artist, studied in Australia before becoming a prominent member of the film industries of both Japan and Hollywood with films such as Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) and an adaptation of Clive Barker’s Midnight Meat Train (2008). Iwai and Kitamura now reside in the United States, where they work across genres, languages and cultures.

Festival screenings include Shunji Iwai’s eccentric comedy Hana and Alice (Hana to Arisu, 2004); Baton (2009), a short animated feature written by Iwai and directed by Ryuhei Kitamura; Air Doll (Kûki Ningyô, 2009), the most recent film by Hirokazu Kore-eda, the director of After Life and Nobody Knows; Kitamura’s female-ninja thriller, Azumi (2003), which is based on a manga; and two grippingly meditative dramas by Shinji Aoyama, Eureka (2000) and Sad Vacation (2007).

Keisuke Kitano, one of Japan’s most energetic new film critics and scholars, will offer illuminating commentary throughout the festival. Kitano is a professor of film and media studies at the School of Image Arts and Sciences at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, where he also serves as associate dean. Joining the discussion of Kore-eda’s Air Doll will be Youngmin Choe, a professor of East Asian languages and cultures at USC who specializes in Korean film and transnational visual cultures.

For a full schedule of events, click here.

Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Programmed by Akira Mizuta Lippit, professor and chair of critical studies in the School of Cinematic Arts; and co-directed by Nicky Schildkraut, poet and Ph.D. candidate in literature and creative writing at USC. Reception hosted by the East Asian Studies Center.

Daily: Friday 02/19/2010 - Sunday 02/21/2010; All day

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Frank Sinatra Hall

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Join students and faculty from the Department of Comparative Literature for a dynamic discussion of new media and the vanishing of the material.

In the morning, keynote speaker Timothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and English at Cornell University and author of Digital Baroque: New Media and Art and Cinematic Folds, will lead a roundtable discussion of papers by USC graduate students. (These papers will be available for online reading on the USC Comparative Literature Web page in the weeks before the symposium.)

In the afternoon, Professor Murray will give a lecture related to the themes of the symposium, followed by a question and answer session.

The USC Comparative Literature Symposium is an annual event organized by the graduate students of the USC Department of Comparative Literature. In the past, it has been funded by several USC College departments and centers and the USC College Graduate Professionalization Initiative. The format changes somewhat each year, but one constant is that distinguished symposium guests — among them Giorgio Agamben, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida and Samuel Weber — respond to students’ lectures. The USC Department of Comparative Literature has a rich and successful tradition of hosting both emerging and established scholars for symposia, to the great benefit of the campus community.

Lunch will be provided. All faculty and students are welcome to attend.

Friday 02/19/2010: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building B40

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Start out the New Year on the right financial footing by attending this extremely timely and informative seminar.

In partnership with the USC Credit Union, the USC Emeriti Center designed this seminar to help both retirees and pre-retirees obtain tools that will help them navigate their financial and legal future.

Join an interdisciplinary group of USC retirees, faculty, staff and alumni in this Financial Wellness Forum. Three panels of experts will discuss “Financial Facts,” “Legal Lessons” and “Tax Tips.”

While the seminar is free, reservations are required for lunch.

Friday 02/19/2010: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) Auditorium

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The recital will feature selections from the Magelone song cycle by Johannes Brahms, three songs by Francis Poulenc, Ten Blake Songs for voice and oboe by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and three songs each by John Musto and Ricky Ian Gordon.   

Jonathan Mack, lecturer in vocal arts, earned degrees in French horn and voice at the Thornton School. His career as a lyric tenor has taken him throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia, as a recital, concert and opera singer. He was the leading lyric tenor for the opera houses of Kiel and Dortmund in Germany for four years. Now in his 13th season with the Los Angeles Opera, Mack has performed more than 30 roles. He has also appeared with the Netherlands, Utah, Vancouver and Columbus opera companies. Mack has performed solo recitals throughout the country under the auspices of the National Federation of Music Clubs and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. His concert work includes engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Chautauqua Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra. He is featured as soloist on several recordings — most recently on John Biggs’ Songs of Laughter, Love and Tears (Crystal CDs). Mack can also be heard on the soundtracks of numerous films, including Jurassic Park, Amistad, Anastasia and Men in Black.

Friday 02/19/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The High School Choral Invitational begins at 10 a.m., and the Community College Chamber Choir Festival follows at 6 p.m.

Saturday 02/20/2010: All day

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The 2010 keynote event will focus on the active roles entrepreneurs are taking to address many of the pressing social and environmental challenges in their local communities and around the world. At a time when the labor market remains difficult, many individuals are launching nonprofit or for-profit business ventures and social enterprises whose social mission is as significant or more significant than the financial bottom line.

Three panels will empower entrepreneurs in finance, business branding and social responsibility. A key component of this all-day event is giving attendees specific insights to more effectively run their businesses.

Each panel will include a distinguished group of social entrepreneurs with demonstrated leadership in promoting social responsibility. Two panels of branding and finance professionals will provide expert advice on financing and marketing the socially responsible enterprise.

Recent economic events and lagging job markets have provided the motivation and opportunity for thousands of Southern Californians to launch their own businesses. This event will equip attendees with insights about how a company can have a vision for a “double bottom line.”

This entrepreneurship forum continues USC’s long tradition of leadership in entrepreneurial education. The Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC is among the nation’s leaders in entrepreneurship education and research and has consistently ranked among the top national programs.

For a full conference schedule, go to marshall.usc.edu/alumni/chapters/losangeles/keynote2010.htm.

Saturday 02/20/2010: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Junior Achievement Finance Park 6250 Forest Lawn Drive Los Angeles CA 90068

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Distinguished Hollywood executives, agents and producers discuss the factors that contribute to the realization of creative goals in the movie industry.

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at a movie studio? Former Senior VP of William Morris Agency Arthur Axelman headlines a panel of creative executives, agents and producers as they they discuss how stable financial backing can turn a script into a greenlit project.

In an industry in which the financing, packaging and distribution of a film can be just as important as the creative decisions made within the film itself, the business of Hollywood is now more important and impactful than ever.

This panel is open to the public and will begin with a seminar portion conducted by our moderator, followed by an audience Q&A segment and concluding with a short networking session with the guests.

“How Films are Really Made: Film Financing and Packaging” is just one part of the third annual Southern California Business Film Festival, a weeklong business-themed short film competition that runs February 16 through February 21. Sponsored by the USC Marshall School of Business and the Center for Investment Studies, the festival combines business and film to create a series of cast- and crew-hosted screenings and panels, culminating in an exciting student film competition.

Saturday 02/20/2010: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC)

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A native of Illinois, Bird is an accomplished singer-songwriter, violinist and guitarist also known for his other signature talents, from whistling to playing glockenspiel.

He’s what every independent music artist strives to be — a musician with a truly unique sound who has earned the enthusiasm and respect of each fan one at a time.

Trained by the Suzuki method from a young age, Bird released his first solo album, Music of Hair, in 1996. In the midst of the swing craze that swept the U.S. music industry in the mid-1990s, Bird began doing collaborative work with the band Squirrel Nut Zippers. He then took on the role of band leader in 1997 with his group Bowl of Fire, which released three albums — Thrills, Oh! The Grandeur and The Swimming Hour — before it disbanded in 2003.

Bird’s early work, which echoed gypsy jazz, blues, swing and traditional folk, has led to his current sound, which mixes rock with more broad compositions. Bird released two solo albums, Weather Systems (2003) and The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005), both distributed through the label Righteous Babe Records. He switched to Fat Possum for 2007’s Armchair Apocrypha and 2009’s Noble Beast.

Bird has performed in a variety of venues, from major music festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo to barns, churches and grand theaters. USC Spectrum welcomes Andrew Bird for his first performance at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.

Saturday 02/20/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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The Southern California Business Film Festival celebrates the work of top collegiate filmmakers.

The current economic climate has nurtured conversations about the ways in which financial decisions shape the world we live in, from the steps of Capitol Hill to the dorm rooms of college students nationwide. As those conversations spark artistic creations, the Southern California Business Film Festival (SCBFF) seeks to provide a forum for and celebration of the role of financial decisions and the powerfully evocative medium of film.  

With a week of panel discussions, lectures, networking events, and a student film competition offering up to $20,000 in prizes, the third annual SCBFF is a film festival you can’t afford to miss.

SCBFF culminates with this student film competition. Four judges will vote on selected films in more than a dozen prize categories.

The judges are:

• Screenwriter Allan Loeb (Wall Street 2, Things We Lost in the Fire, 21)
• Randi Chugerman, executive director, ABC Primetime Casting
• Producer Teddy Zee (The Pursuit of Happyness, Hitch)
• Richard Fowkes, former executive vice president of Paramount Pictures and current business affairs executive at Legendary Pictures

Student films will be screened in Bovard from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Guests will be invited outside for a short reception, before returning to the theater for the Grand Awards Ceremony to see the festival’s remarkable prizes given out.

For a complete prize list and list of award categories, visit www.scbff.com.

Sunday 02/21/2010: 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Music from Thornton faculty members Veronika Krausas, Kristy Morrell (French horn) and Dennis Trembly (bass).

The performance will feature writer André Alexis, actor John Payne, dancers Bianca Sapetto and Daniel Passer, and the photos of James Jacobsen and Thaddeus Holownia. Also featured will be Thornton School D.M.A. students Debra Penberthy (voice), Nick Terry (percussion) and Laura Odegaard (clarinet).
 
Veronika Krausas’ works have been described as possessing an “organic, lyrical sense of storytelling [which is] supported by a rigid formal elegance [that] give her audiences a sense that nature’s frozen objects are springing to life” (The Globe and Mail, Canada).

Sunday 02/21/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Colin Wight worked as a professional musician and a journalist before turning to academic life. He was awarded his Ph.D. from the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1997. His dissertation dealt with the agent-structure problem in international relations theory. Wight was a member of the staff at Aberystwyth from 1998 to 2003 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2001. In 2006 he was appointed professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Exeter. His primary research interests lie in the relationships among international relations theory, social theory, political theory and the philosophy of social science. Although institutionally based within a politics department, he considers himself to be a global social theorist. His most recent book is entitled Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as Ontology (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

For information on the European Journal of International Relations, click here.

Organized by USC Politics and International Relations Ph.D. candidates Eric Hamilton and Mariano Bertucci.

Monday 02/22/2010: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) B40

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Diana Thater is best known for her site-specific installations in which she manipulates architectural space through forced interaction with projected images and tinted light, such as knots + surfaces (2001).

Thater’s primary interest lies in exploring the relationship between humans and the natural world and the distinctions between untouched and manipulated nature. She has focused her lens on a wide variety of animals, including zebras, tigers, bees, dolphins, wolves, horses, and, most recently, birds of prey (for her exhibition in New York).

Monday 02/22/2010: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building Lecture Forum

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A lecture by Manoj Kaplinghat of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine.

Kaplinghat will discuss astrophysical observations that aim to uncover the nature of the dominant form of matter in the universe and the theoretical motivations behind these efforts.

Refreshments will be served at 4 p.m.

Monday 02/22/2010: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) 102

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A workshop for graduate students, post-doctoral students, experienced researchers and anyone else who needs to get familiar with SAS quickly.

Topics covered will include importing data from Excel, basic data management and statistics.   

The workshop will offer an in-depth introduction to the SAS system for data analysis. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to import data from Excel; create a permanent SAS data set; sort and combine data sets; create new variables, tables and graphs; and conduct descriptive and inferential statistical analyses.

Users should have a basic understanding of statistics. Univariate statistics (means, frequencies, standard deviation), chi-square, regression, t-tests, one and two-way Analysis of Variance will be covered.

Tuesday 02/23/2010: 11:00 AM - 1:50 PM

University Park Campus Salvatori Computer Science Center 128

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Morales is the executive director of Radio Bilingue, and Benavidez is president of Public Communications Strategies.

Lunch will be served.

Tuesday 02/23/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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Wild’s exceptional contributions have been celebrated in exhibitions and through numerous awards. In 1998, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibited “Lorraine Wild: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” a display of work acquired as part of its collection of significant design produced in California. In 2001, Wild was one of three finalists for the Communication Award of the National Design Awards, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Her work was also included in the Cooper-Hewitt’s 2003 National Design Triennial. In 2006, Wild was the recipient of the AIGA medal.

Tuesday 02/23/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus

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Victoria Schofield has been reporting as a writer and broadcaster on Pakistan and South Asia for 30 years. She is the author of Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia (2003 and 2009), Kashmir in Conflict (2000, 2003, 2009), Bhutto: Trial and Execution (1979 and 1990) and Old Roads, New Highways (1998). She has also written a biography of Field Marshal Earl Wavell and is currently writing the history of The Black Watch. Schofield has traveled widely in South Asia and is a frequent commentator on BBC World TV and BBC World Service and contributor to numerous journals and publications. She has an M.A. (Hons.) degree from the University of Oxford and was president of the Oxford Union (1977).

Co-sponsored by the USC Center for International Studies and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. 

Tuesday 02/23/2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) Lecture Hall Room 240

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The talk with the two writers will be moderated by Brighde Mullins, director of the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC.

John D’Agata is an associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. Next fall, he will begin directing the Center for the Essay, an organization dedicated to celebrating the artful nature of the essay, at Iowa. In 2006, D’Agata founded The Essay Prize, an annual literary award given to a favorite essay from the previous year. Nominees for the prize come from a committee of 15 writers, editors, producers, filmmakers and artists. D’Agata is the author of Halls of Fame and editor of The Next American Essay and The Lost Origins of the Essay.

Verlyn Klinkenborg graduated from Pomona College and received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University. He is the author of Making Hay (1986), The Last Fine Time (1991), The Rural Life (2003) and Timothy: Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (2006). Klinkenborg is a visiting professor at Bard College and the visiting writer in residence at Pomona College. He is also the recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a member of the editorial board of The New York Times since 1997.

Brighde Mullins’ plays have been produced in New York, London and San Francisco. Titles include: Monkey in the Middle, Fire Eater, Topographical Eden and Pathological Venus. Mullins has received a Whiting Foundation Award and an NEA Fellowship. She has taught at Harvard University and at Brown University, and for 15 years she curated the Reading Series at the Dia Art Foundation in New York.

Tuesday 02/23/2010: 7:00 PM

Los Angeles Central Library 630 West 5th Street Los Angeles CA 90071

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In a phenomenal show, America’s most acclaimed tap dancer reveals the essence of tap.

The trailblazing Savion Glover will present Bare Soundz, “a remarkable explosion of steel on wood” (The Washington Post). Glover and two additional dancers perform without musical accompaniment; the dancers themselves become the musicians, creating a thrilling and hard-hitting performance of music through dance.

Savion Glover is a Tony-winning winner, hoofer, choreographer and producer who has danced on stages throughout the world. His numerous credits include the Broadway shows The Tap Dance Kid; Black and Blue; Jelly’s Last Jam; and Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk, and the films Tap with Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr.; Bamboozled by Spike Lee; and Happy Feet, an Academy Award winner choreographed by Glover.

Tuesday 02/23/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Tuesday 02/23/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Martha Rosler received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1965 and her M.F.A. from University of California San Diego in 1974. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally. Her work in the public sphere ranges from everyday life (often with an eye to women’s experience) and the media to architecture and the built environment.

Rosler has published several books of photographs, texts and commentary on public spaces ranging from airports and roads to housing and homelessness. Her work has been seen in the “Documenta” exhibition in Kassel, Germany; several Whitney Biennials; the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and the Dia Center for the Arts in New York.

A retrospective of Rosler’s work has been shown in five European cities, and in New York at the New Museum and the International Center of Photography. An accompanying book was published by MIT Press. Her writing has been published widely in catalogs and magazines such as Artforum, Afterimage and NU.

Rosler has 10 published books. She has produced numerous other “word works” and photo/text publications — now exploring cookery in a mock dialogue between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, now analyzing imagery of women in Russia or exploring responses to repression, crisis and war.

Wednesday 02/24/2010: 12:00 AM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Lecture Forum

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Everyone has his or her own way of dealing with stress. Can you ever have enough tools to manage pressure? Why not draw on your creative impulses for help?

For faculty and staff wanting to learn an innovative approach to stress management, the Center for Work and Family Life is sponsoring a free, one-hour workshop designed to teach simple skills; these include a brief relaxation technique, a five-minute writing task, and an exercise in compassionate listening.

Participants will learn how to write quickly and easily without censoring or criticizing, listen compassionately to themselves and others, and create an island of calm amid life’s demands.

The presenter, Jackie Parker, leads workshops in writing as a vehicle for well-being in New York and Los Angeles. A novelist and poet, she has developed courses for the UCLA Arts and Healing program, for schools and counseling centers, and for artists, therapists, and community leaders. She is a teacher of kundalini yoga meditation.

February 24, University Park Campus, Montgomery Ross Fisher Building, Hamovitch Research Center

March 3, Health Sciences Campus, McKibben Addition, Room 249

Dates: 02/24/2010, 03/03/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Multiple Locations

Randolph Hall, Vice Provost for Research Advancement, leads a workshop on creating funded research programs.

This course is designed for new USC investigators, and for investigators who are new to the process of creating a funded research program. The objective is to educate investigators in this process, including identifying funding sources, building relationships with funding agencies, and targeting research capabilities to requests for proposals.

Wednesday 02/24/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library East Conference Room

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Dean Qingyun Ma leads a conversation with city planners and administrators from four landmark cities: L.A., London, Mexico City and Shanghai.

As the world moves toward a global urbanism and centers issues of sustainability and international collaboration, cities are not so much planned as re-planned and reborn.

Qingyun Ma, dean of the USC School of Architecture, will talk with Gail Goldberg from Los Angeles, Jesus Arturo Aispuro Coronel from Mexico City, Jiang Wu from Shanghai and Richard Burdett from London. They will discuss the present and future of urban planning in the flux of unpredictable, migrant forces and the shaping of iconic, livable cities. From the density of London to the sprawl of Los Angeles and the expanding megacities of Mexico City and Shanghai, the juxtapositions of cultural, political and spatial differences will demonstrate how creative agents can transform a city physically and socially.

Gail Goldberg is director of the Los Angeles City Planning department. She was appointed in 2006 by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to help achieve his vision of a denser, pedestrian-friendly city with a reliance on public transportation. Prior to her arrival in Los Angeles, Goldberg served as planning director for the city of San Diego, where she worked for 17 years. Her accomplishments in San Diego include the creation of a long-term strategic framework plan, known as the “City of Villages.” This neighborhood-focused growth strategy views the city not as a homogenized whole, but as a collection of distinct, high-density, pedestrian-friendly communities interrelated by a web of mass transit.

Jesus Arturo Aispuro Coronel has been the minister of urban development and housing of the federal district of Mexico City since 2006. He has 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors and has assumed positions of high responsibility in the areas of urban administration, urban planning, and architectural design and construction. Aispuro Coronel has conducted studies of urban and environmental impacts for numerous projects in Mexico City. He is a founding partner and CEO of Aispuro-Martinez Architects, which provides urban and architectural design services, construction administration and supervision, and environmental impact and urban management studies. He is also a founding partner and president of Grupo Solvi, a company that specializes in housing, education and health for Latin American immigrants.

Jiang Wu is the deputy director general of the Shanghai Municipal Urban Planning Administration Bureau. Over the past 20 years, Wu has published more than 10 books and more than 60 articles in his research fields. He taught the history and theory of architecture, urban design and historical preservation at Tongji University and was a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He also served as the deputy dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University. From 2001 to 2003, he was the assistant president of Tongji University.

Richard Burdett, Centennial Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the London School of Economics, is chief adviser on architecture and urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics. Previously, he was architectural adviser to the mayor of London, a member of the Greater London Authority’s Architecture and Urbanism Unit, and part of the City of Barcelona’s Quality Committee. Burdett is founder of the 9H Gallery and the Architecture Foundation in London. He was director of the 2006 Architecture Biennale in Venice on Cities. He is editor of the book The Endless City, published by Phaidon in 2008.

Wednesday 02/24/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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The Orange County Distinguished Speaker Series presents Howard Gillman, dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Join us for the second installment of the 2010 Orange County Distinguished Speaker Series, presented by the Alumni Club of Newport Beach/Irvine.

Howard Gillman is dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences and professor of political science and history. He is a nationally recognized scholar, longtime faculty member and leader in university and community affairs. Dean Gillman has received numerous scholarly awards and has been recognized repeatedly for his teaching, service and mentorship. He will discuss efforts to prepare the College to address the changing nature of undergraduate education, graduate training and academic scholarship.

Please note: If the USC Orange County Center parking lot is full when you arrive, overflow parking is available at the Von Karman Corporate Plaza, located at 18551 Von Karman, the next driveway past the center.

Wednesday 02/24/2010: 7:00 PM

USC Orange County Center C 2300 Michelson Drive Irvine CA 92612

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Rose is most known as the cornerstone of the Beautiful Losers art movement, which has featured and helped promote the work of artists such as Barry McGee and Shepard Fairey. Rose was co-curator of the “Beautiful Losers” touring art exhibit, and edited the collected art book featuring the work and artists of the tour. The exhibition toured the world through 2009. Rose is also the director of the documentary film Beautiful Losers, which began its U.S. theatrical run in 2008.

In 2005, Rose co-published Young Sleek and Full of Hell. In 2009, he was hired by Wieden+Kennedy to help create WKE (WKEntertainment), a content-driven entertainment channel and production house. At WKE, Rose is the producer of numerous television projects, including Califunya, D.I.Y. America, and Don’t Move Here, which he also directs.

Wednesday 02/24/2010: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

University Park Campus Harris Hall (HAR) Gin D. Wong Auditorium

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Wednesday 02/24/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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A book sale and signing will follow the discussion.

Jim Wallis is a best-selling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher and international commentator on religion, public life, faith and politics. He is president and CEO of Sojourners, where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. He regularly appears on radio and television, including on shows like Meet the Press, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The O’Reilly Factor, and is a frequent guest on the news programs of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox and National Public Radio. Wallis has taught at Harvard’s Divinity School and Kennedy School of Government on faith, politics and society. He has written eight books, including Faith Works, The Soul of Politics, Who Speaks for God? and The Call to Conversion. Visit Jim Wallis and Sojourners at www.sojo.net, and read his daily blog at www.godspolitics.com.

Thursday 02/25/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus University Religious Center Fishbowl Chapel

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Annenberg Dean Ernest J. Wilson talks to the three scholars behind “Metamorphosis and Intersections: The South Los Angeles Report.”

Dean Wilson welcomes communication professor and Metamorphosis director Sandra Ball-Rokeach, journalism associate professor Bill Celis, and journalism lecturer and Intersections director Willa Seidenberg, along with members of their staffs, to talk about the challenges and successes of their work “Metamorphosis and Intersections: The South Los Angeles Report.” Together they work at the community level to foster engagement between the media and members of underserved and overlooked working class and poor communities, including South Los Angeles, Alhambra, Glendale and elsewhere in the Greater Los Angeles area.

The programs use community organizing, new media, education, journalistic and research methods to create interaction between communities and the media, and coverage of under-reported neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

Lunch will be served. RSVP is requested. To RSVP, click here.

The USC Annenberg School’s Dean’s Series on Sustainable Innovation hosts leading innovators and scholars for an ongoing dialogue on the communication challenges of individual, organizational and societal responses to the fast-changing technological transition toward a post-industrial networked society. For a full list of events and to RSVP, visit annenberg.usc.edu/innovation.

Thursday 02/25/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) Geoffrey Cowan Forum, Room 207

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Deborah Burke of Pomona College lectures for the Spring 2010 Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging.

Deborah Burke, Ph.D., is W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and professor of Psychology at Pomona College.

Thursday 02/25/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

University Park Campus Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) Room 224

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Dr. Gloria Arjona leads a discussion on the Mexican Revolution and its impact on Mexican society today.

Dr. Gloria Arjona of the USC College exposes the causes of the Mexican Revolution, the active participation of women soldiers, and the impact of this conflict on the Mexican society.

The lecture will be interspersed with some corridos (revolutionary ballads).

Gloria Arjona received her Ph.D. on Mexican Literature at USC.

In celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the bicentennial of Mexican Independence, the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC Libraries’ Beockmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies present the work of two major contemporary Mexican Artists: Marta Palau and Demian Flores.

Marta Palau, born 1934, fled Spain at age six as a result of the Spanish Civil War. She and her family found refuge in Mexico. The series of prints that will be presented, Homenaje Artistico a Lazaro Cardenas (Artistic Homage to Lazaro Cardenas) is Palau’s personal homage to Mexican President General Lazaro Cardenes, who granted refuge to thousands of exiles fleeing Spain.

Demian Flores, born 1971, examines in his work the confluence of contemporary and ancestral themes in Mexican identity. His paintings and prints comprise multilayered webs of meaning, exploring sociocultural phenomena.

Thursday 02/25/2010: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art

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Wertheim, a science writer and artist, is co-creator with her sister Christine of the Crochet Coral Reef project, a collective artwork involving collaborators from New York, Chicago and other cities around the world.

RSVP at www.usc.edu/esvp using the code “ESSENTIAL”.

Thursday 02/25/2010: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Friends of USC Libraries Lecture Hall

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Learn about current problems and best practices in charter school authorizing, and how federal policies can strengthen the quality and performance of charters.

President Obama has said he supports increasing quality charter schools nationally, but who decides which ones are good and which ones are not?

Charter school authorizers are the gatekeepers of quality, with the responsibility to decide which charter schools are approved, how they will be monitored and overseen, and which schools will be renewed or revoked. However, state policies vary on which organizations can serve as authorizers — these range from local school boards and state departments of education to special authorizing boards and public universities.

Research has emerged showing that states featuring multiple authorizers tend to have more, higher quality charter schools. The same studies argue that the existence of multiple authorizing bodies helps to insulate authorizing from any one particular political influence.  Still more needs to be done to share best practices amongst authorizers, and to provide guidance for those states in the process of revising their existing charter school legislation or creating new legislation in response to President Obama’s charge.

The model charter law developed by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools calls for states to provide each applicant at least two viable routes to obtaining a charter, and stresses transparency about the performance of each authorizer’s portfolio of schools.  Although each state determines who can authorize and how (or whether) authorizers are held accountable, there is growing federal interest in this work. The Race to the Top competition scores points for strong authorizing, and the forthcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act might include new incentives for authorizers to do a conscientious job of approval, oversight and renewal.

This discussion will be led by Dr. Priscilla Wohlstetter, a renowned researcher in charter school governance, along with nationally recognized charter school experts Nelson Smith, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; Jonas S. Chartock, executive director of the SUNY Charter Schools Institute; and Nina Gilbert, founder and director of the Ivy Preparatory Academy.

Friday 02/26/2010: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Cannon House Office Building 121 Washington DC 20515

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Levan Coffeehouse Conversations on Practical Ethics explores the checks and balances of teenage risk.

Our society often complains that teenagers waste their time with idle, senseless distractions. We like to see teenagers push themselves, strive to achieve great things, and take risks. And we turn those who are the youngest-ever to accomplish anything of significance into celebrities.

But taking risks can mean putting themselves in dangerous situations, particularly when it comes to extreme sports and nature expeditions. The question was recently brought to a head, as Dutch authorities struggled with whether to allow 13-year-old Laura Dekker (now 14) to attempt to become the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the world without assistance. Dekker’s father approved of the voyage. But what of society’s interest in protecting its minors from harm? How dangerous is too dangerous? How old is old enough? What principles should guide us when determining when to allow minors to put themselves in dangerous situations?

To RSVP, click here.

A light lunch will be served.

Friday 02/26/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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A panel on USC’s five-year plan to deliver high quality, supportive and appropriate learning environments for students and faculty.

As part of an international movement considering the totality of settings and circumstances in which education occurs, USC has launched an ambitious five-year plan. The first phase of the plan — which encompasses technology, furnishings and infrastructure — will be operational in fall of 2010.

This event provides the USC community with a context for, overview of and suggestions on how to utilize these dynamic new spaces. Learning environments and their impact will be a focus of this discussion, but so too will people, processes and places.

Panelists

• Joseph Cevetello, director of Learning Environments, Technology-Enhanced Learning; assistant professor of Clinical Education
• David Dwyer, Katzman/Ernst Chair in Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology and Innovation, Rossier School of Education
• Geoffrey Middlebrook, associate teaching professor, College Writing Program

Moderator

• Lawford Anderson, director, Center for Excellence in Teaching; professor, Earth Sciences

Friday 02/26/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) 100

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Magician Ricky Jay and USC professor Howard A. Rodman come together for a dialogue on deception in magic, film and real life.

They will entertainingly explore many of the themes of Mr. Jay’s work, including the selective unreliability of memory; the ways in which the mechanisms of perception allow us to misperceive; and the cognitive and psychological bases of con artistry and magic.

One of the larger foci of the conversation will be what Mr. Jay calls “The Big Con” — the ways in which our own agendas create conditions of non- and misperception. This con is at the heart of most magic tricks, much governance and every Ponzi scheme, and is also the perceptual and narrative basis for cinema.

Mr. Jay and Prof. Rodman will explore the ways in which the human capacity for self-deception is at the heart of much that is enjoyable and essential in modern life (literature, cinema), and much that is execrable (e.g., Bernie Madoff). It is not always possible to know, in the moment, which of our self-deceptions are salutary and which are malign. More often than not, we are unaware of our own self-deception or, worse, eager participants in it.

This delightful and compelling conversation will parse these various cons, illuminating the fields of magic and screenwriting and some of the more bizarre and omnipresent aspects of contemporary life.

While Ricky Jay has long been considered one of the world’s great sleight-of-hand artists, his career is further distinguished by a remarkable variety of accomplishments as an author, actor, historian and consultant. His one-man show Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants was directed by David Mamet and garnered Lucille Lortel and Obie awards for outstanding achievement. His most recent show, Ricky Jay: On the Stem, also directed by Mamet, just closed a seven-month, critically acclaimed run in New York. As an actor, Mr. Jay debuted in the Joseph Papp production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the New York Shakespeare Festival. He has appeared in the David Mamet films House of Games, Homicide, Things Change, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main and Heist. He can be seen in many other films, including Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Tomorrow Never Dies. He has contributed to many publications and written several books, including Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women and Jay’s Journal of Anomalies, both of which were named “Notable Books of the Year” by The New York Times. He has hosted television specials for CBS, HBO and the BBC, and was the host and narrator of the first documentary miniseries on conjuring, The Story of Magic, for A&E.

Howard A. Rodman is a screenwriter, novelist and educator. He is a professor and former chair of the writing division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His films include Savage Grace, starring Julianne Moore, and August, with Josh Hartnett, Rip Torn and David Bowie. His work on Savage Grace was nominated for a 2009 Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay. Rodman also wrote Joe Gould’s Secret, and his original screenplay F. was selected by Premiere magazine as one of Hollywood’s 10 best unproduced screenplays. He has worked with numerous filmmakers, including David Lynch, John McTiernan, Rodrigo García, Errol Morris, Clive Barker, Peter Bogdanovich, Maurice Sendak, Michael Lehmann, Chantal Akerman and Steven Soderbergh (who repaid the favor by giving the name Mr. Rodman to two of the sleazier characters in The Underneath and Traffic). His numerous publications include the novel Destiny Express and articles in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles magazine and The Village Voice (for which he was a monthly columnist). He currently blogs for The Huffington Post.

Friday 02/26/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus School of Cinematic Arts, Room 108

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Complete with a light show and great energy, this event brings diversity and fun to campus.

Friday 02/26/2010: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

University Park Campus McCarthy Quad

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February 26

7 p.m. Beyond the Years, directed by Im Kwon-taek, 98 minutes

9 p.m. My Dear Enemy, directed by Lee Yoon-ki, 99 minutes

February 27

7 p.m. Rough Cut, directed by Jang Hoon, 97 minutes

9 p.m. For Eternal Hearts, directed by Hwang Kyoo Deok, 102 minutes

February 28

7 p.m. Dream, directed by Kim Ki-duk, 90 minutes

9 p.m. My Friend & His Wife, directed by Sin Dong-il, 96 minutes

Dates: 02/26/2010, 02/27/2010, 02/28/2010: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT)

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Davis leads a lecture and workshop on an alternative firing method to that of traditional Japanese wood-fired kilns.

Lecture: “Kazegama: An Alternative to Wood-Fired Ceramics,” January 25

Workshop: “Kazegama: Firing the Wind Kiln,” February 27 and 28

The lecture will cover the  basics of wood-firing and the development and construction of the Kazegama. A demonstration will accompany the lecture to instruct students in the preparation of ceramic objects for the Kazegama firing.

During the firing, time will be spent viewing a film on the life of painter Sueo Serisawa (Davis’ stepfather) and a collection of Japanese ceramics from his travels to Japan.

Dates: 01/25/2010, 02/27/2010, 02/28/2010: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Watt Hall (WAH) Galen Ceramics Studio, Room 107

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Join USC Traditional Chinese Dance for an evening of rich culture, dance and history!

“Dance to a New Year” will feature exciting new choreography and old favorites. The story of Mulan, a legendary Chinese heroine, will be presented with a variety of dance styles and a guest performance by Wushu Nation.

Saturday 02/27/2010: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Lester Barrie will serve as host.

Sunday 02/28/2010: 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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A film follows legendary Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, the most powerful and polarizing figure in fashion.

Hidden behind her trademark bob and sunglasses, Wintour has never allowed anyone to scrutinize the inner workings of her magazine. Until now. With unprecedented access, filmmaker R.J. Cutler’s new film The September Issue does for fashion what he did for politics in The War Room, taking the viewer inside a world they only think they know. 

Every August a record-breaking number of people can’t wait to get their hands on the September issue of Vogue. The 2007 issue was and remains the biggest ever, weighing more than four pounds, reaching an audience of 13 million people, and impacting the $300 billion global fashion industry more than any other single publication.

An intimate, funny and surprising look at Anna Wintour and her team of larger-than-life editors as they create this must-have bible of fashion, The September Issue explores the untouchable glamour of Wintour’s Vogue to reveal the extraordinarily passionate people at its heart. Cutler takes us behind the scenes at Fashion Week, to Europe, on shoots and reshoots, and into closed-door staff meetings, bearing witness to an arduous, entertaining and sometimes emotionally demanding process.

At the eye of this annual fashion hurricane is the two-decade relationship between Wintour and Grace Coddington, incomparable creative director and fashion genius. They are perfectly matched for the age-old conflict between creator and curator. Through them, we see close up the delicate creative chemistry it takes to remain at the top of the ever changing fashion field.

Provided courtesy of Roadside Attractions.
Not PG-13. Running time: 88 minutes.
To learn more about the film and to view the trailer, click here.

About the School of Cinematic Arts Alumni Screening Series

During spring 2010, the series will host a wide array of film screenings and filmmaker Q&As, highlighting recent work by School of Cinematic Arts alumni. All screenings are free to the public but will require an electronic reservation, which can be made through the Web site for each individual screening. Many screenings will be overbooked to ensure that capacity is met in the theater. Some screenings will be run from digital sources.

To view the calendar for the Alumni Screening Series, click here.

About Check-In and Reservations

The theater will be overbooked to ensure capacity, and the RSVP list will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis, with no reserved seating. Please bring a photo ID or printout of your reservation confirmation, which will automatically be sent to your email account once you have successfully made an RSVP through the Web site. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.

Sunday 02/28/2010: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building (LUC) Room 108

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Arnay is an active and highly regarded pianist, composer, music teacher and consultant in the Los Angeles area. A member of the jazz studies faculty at the USC Thornton School and Pasadena City College, he devotes most weekday hours to his students, while performing several nights each week leading his own jazz group, as soloist, or as sideman with guitarist Phil Upchurch, reedman Bennie Maupin and others.

Sunday 02/28/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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A presentation by Dan Schiller, professor of library and information science and professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

From Dr. Schiller: “During the half-century following World War I, activist state public utility commissioners allied with newly empowered federal regulators in an effort to subject corporate capital in telecommunications to a measure of social responsibility. Substantive — though limited — public service policies were established, beginning with the assertion of an overarching federal regulatory role. Primary achievements, unfolding after World War II, included both a general extension of residential network access and the creation of an open regime for intellectual property in telecommunications. Drawing on government documents, archival resources, and Freedom of Information Act requests, my presentation begins to unearth this hidden history.”

Monday 03/01/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) Room 207

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The daughter of Chinese parents who survived the Japanese occupation of China during World War II and later immigrated to the United States, Chang grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin. She received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, an M.P.A. from Harvard University, and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University, an Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, and a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of Creative Writing at Harvard University. Chang has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book of fiction, Hunger: A Novella and Stories, won the PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Southern Review Book Award. Her second, the novel Inheritance, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and won the PEN Beyond Margins Award. Her third book, the novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, will be published in fall 2010.

Monday 03/01/2010: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Intellectual Commons, Room 233

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Garibaldi’s performances are high-energy and inspirational. During his shows, he creates six-foot portraits of various pop figures, including Kanye West, Beyonce, Michael Jackson and Elvis. An onstage DJ serves as musical accompaniment.

Monday 03/01/2010: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Alumnus Joe Cerrell returns to campus to share his experiences and views as a leader in global health policy and advocacy.

Cerrell is the director of Global Health Policy and Advocacy for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world's leading funders for global health work in low- and middle-income countries. At the foundation, Cerrell oversees the foundation's work in global health communications, public policy and international finance. In this capacity, he manages a policy and advocacy grant-making portfolio, and oversees relations with governments, NGOs, the private sector, multilateral organizations, and other foundations. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, he served as assistant press secretary to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore; Cerrell was a senior member of a team responsible for advising the vice president on energy and environmental issues, and was a White House liaison to the media, elected officials, and industry, environmental, religious and labor leaders.

March 2
University Park Campus, Town and Gown, Ballroom

March 3
Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium

Hosted in partnership with Hollywood, Health and Society

Dates: 03/02/2010, 03/03/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Multiple Locations

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Once again it's time to give up summer fun and hit the books. Learn good study habits and ways to manage stress.

Lifestyle Balance
Wednesday, January 27, 12-1 p.m.
Too much time spent with school activities? Not enough? Redesign your life to achieve a balance between school, social events, physical health, and fun.

Time Management
Wednesday, February 3, 12-1 p.m.
Learn techniques to help you make the most of your time. Get organized.

Procrastination
Wednesday, March 3, 12-1 p.m.
Avoiding schoolwork? Feeling distracted? Learn how to eliminate distractions and improve motivation.

Study Skills
Wednesday, March 24, 12-1 p.m.
Identify study strategies that match your learning style, and learn how to create the most effective study environment.

Stress Management: Part I
Wednesday, April 7, 12-1 p.m.
Identify your stress triggers. Learn how to manage your stress effectively.

Stress Management: Part II
Wednesday, April 14, 12-1 p.m.
Participate in deep breathing, meditation, progressive relaxation, and other powerful relaxation exercises.

To register online, click here.

Dates: 03/03/2010, 03/24/2010, 04/07/2010, 04/14/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center Conference Room

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Join "What Matters To Me and Why" to find out.

Adlai Wertman is a professor of clinical management and organization at the USC Marshall School of Business. In this position, he spearheads the Marshall School’s efforts in the growing field of business and society. Wertman also the founding director of the Society and Business Lab at Marshall, a center focused on creating new opportunities for civic engagement by the for-profit sector.

Prior to joining the faculty at USC, Wertman spent seven years as president and CEO of Chrysalis, the only nonprofit in Los Angeles devoted solely to helping the homeless change their lives through employment.

A light lunch will be served.

Wednesday 03/03/2010: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of interdisciplinary projects for over 15 years. His work has been shown at SFMOMA, the de Young Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area; the Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Sculpture Center, the Wrong Gallery and Smackmellon in New York; DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston; PICA in Portland; CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle; Signal in Sweden; Domain de Kerguehennec in France; and The Royal College of Art in London. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher has work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, SFMOMA, the Berkeley Art Museum, the De Young Museum, and the FRAC Brittany, France. In 2002, Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory Web site with Miranda July. A book version, LTLYM, was published in 2007 by Prestel. Fletcher is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His exhibition “The American War” originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, and traveled to Solvent Space in Richmond, White Columns in New York, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, PICA in Portland, and LAXART in Los Angeles. Fletcher is a professor of art and social practice at Portland State University in Portland.

Wednesday 03/03/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Lecture Forum

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In particular, they will draw on the American and European landscapes currently being exhibited.

Eva Beneke was born in Berlin, Germany, where she took her first guitar lesson at the age of nine and also started learning the piano. At age 14, she founded a pop/jazz band with her friends that remained active for six years. Beneke has won numerous prizes, including first prize at the International Guitar Festival “Chittarrissima” in Saluzzo, Italy; and second prize at the International Guitar Competition in Zwolle, The Netherlands. in 2008, she was a finalist in the International Guitar Competition in Culiacan, Mexico, and winner of the Donald Miller Concerto Competition in Los Angeles.

Jane Grothe was born in Berlin. At the age of 10, she was enrolled in the Julius-Stern-Institute for gifted young students at the University of Arts, Berlin. Later she attended the Academy of Music “Hans Eisler” Berlin. She received her master’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts in 2006. Grothe is currently a doctorate candidate and teaching assistant at USC. She has received many scholarships and prizes and has worked with several celebrated musicians on stages worldwide.

Wednesday 03/03/2010: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art (HAR)

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Leora Rosen, director for Social Sciences at USC's D.C. Office of Research Advancement, discusses federal grant opportunities within the social sciences.

The course provides an overview of the types of federal grant opportunities that exist in the social sciences, with a focus on research, but including programmatic grants. It will delve into differences in the interests, missions and goals of the main federal agencies that fund social science, and how this impacts social science research.

We will review steps to take in preparing a grant proposal, including how to be responsive to the goals of solicitation, how to establish collaborations, and how the Office of Research Advancement can help.

Wednesday 03/03/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Credit Union Building, Room 329

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Based on the novel by John Steinbeck
Adapted by Frank Galati
Directed by Stephanie Shroyer

This epic tale of the Joad family's fated trip from the dust bowls of Oklahoma to the "promised land" of California captures Steinbeck's feeling that the generosity of spirit he saw in a brutal country was not so much lost as waiting to be rediscovered.
 
Thursday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Friday, March 5, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2:30  p.m.

Daily: Thursday 03/04/2010 - Sunday 03/07/2010; All day

University Park Campus McClintock Building

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By Lanford Wilson

Directed by Dan Bonnell 

In rural Missouri just after the Vietnam War... A group of friends who spent their college years together as activists, joined in the idealistic fight for a more peaceful and better world, are now grown up and must reconcile real life with their dreams.

Performance Times:
Thursday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Friday, March 5, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Thursday 03/04/2010 - Sunday 03/07/2010; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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Dr. Bourke is the author of Studies in the Cult of Saint Columba and Patrick: The Archaeology of a Saint, which includes illustrations of metalwork discovered in the river Blackwater.

The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture; the Working Group on Cultural Life of Objects; the Institute for British and Irish Studies; the USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute; and USC’s Department of History, School of Religion, and Department of Art History.

Thursday 03/04/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) 252

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The Wende Museum, home to ephemera from East Germany, is the venue for a roundtable discussion of life and consumer culture under Communism.

The speakers will include Justinian Jampol, director of the Wende Museum; and Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and professor of History at the USC College.

Thursday 03/04/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Wende Museum 5741 Buckingham Parkway Suite E Culver City CA

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Gritty short films, music videos and docs from Kourtrajmé Productions, a Paris-based collective of emerging visual artists, filmmakers, actors and musicians.

“Beautiful women, ugly illegal immigrants, Romanian sneaker pimps, coked-up fashion babes, down-and-out thugs eating shish kebab at 3 a.m. Welcome to our Paris.” — Kourtrajmé Productions, as quoted in Anthem magazine

Kourtrajmé Productions is a collective of emerging French and Francophone visual artists, filmmakers, actors and musicians. The brainchild of internationally acclaimed directors Mathieu Kassovitz and Vincent Cassel, this production house and artist collective has garnered increasing attention and acclaim after getting millions of hits on online sites like Dailymotion and YouTube. Founded by Kim Chapiron, Romain Gavras and Toumani Sangaré, Kourtrajmé produces playful innovations and cutting interventions in popular culture and society that represent the cultural dreams, lives and crises of transnational urban and peri-urban French youth today.

This is a chance to explore the short films, music videos and documentaries that represent what legendary French filmmaker Chris Marker calls a “nouvelle nouvelle vague” of French cinema. Directors from the collective, including Ladj Ly and Toumani Sangaré, will be on hand to answer questions and discuss the group’s history and work.

Organized by Edwin Hill (French and Comparative Literature). Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and French Cultural Services, Los Angeles.

Friday 03/05/2010: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus School of Cinematic Arts, Room 108

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The Thornton Baroque Sinfonia presents a concert of sacred music by Ludiwg Senfl, Heinrich Schutz, Johann Vierdanck and Hermann Schein.

Also included are Virtuoso Fireworks for viola d’amore by Heinrich Biber, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s Wassermusik, “Hamburger Ebb und Flut”.

Music director: Adam Gilbert

Friday 03/05/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Topics will include interface navigation, basic editing, creating a score, etc.

The application deadline is February 16. Email ering@thornton.usc.edu for an application.

Saturday 03/06/2010: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Music Practice and Instructional Center,

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The Los Angeles Conservancy takes USC students on a walking tour of the city’s ever shifting center.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited, and advance registration is required. RSVP beginning Thursday, February 11, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 9:30 a.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 10 a.m. and will return to campus at 1:30 p.m.

Breakfast will be provided.

From its architecture to public art to public space, downtown’s business district is a microcosm of the growth and development of Los Angeles. From the 1880s, when Victorian mansions crowned Bunker Hill, to today, when sleek skyscrapers dominate the downtown skyline, Bunker Hill’s built environment has constantly evolved, reflecting the tastes, aspirations and economics of the city.

Presented by the Los Angeles Conservancy, this walking tour will allow students to experience the skyscrapers, plazas and public art that define the bustling financial district today, and discover how they relate to both the past and future of Los Angeles.

Saturday 03/06/2010: 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Downtown Los Angeles

Come to the museum for food, games, art workshops, and special yoga sessions for kids and families.

All ages are welcome.

Saturday 03/06/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art

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The recitals will take place at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Sunday 03/07/2010: All day

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Learn strategies for passing the licensed clinical social worker written exam.

Content areas will include biopsychosocial assessment, diagnostic formulation, treatment plan development, resource coordination and therapeutic application. Attendees will also take practice exams and review test-taking strategies.

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Written Examination Preparation Workshop is a four-part series, offering an intensive review of essential content from the LCSW Written Examination Part I. Particular emphasis will be placed on the development of a personalized grasp of content needed for successful completion of the examination.

Objectives

• To enhance test-taking strategies to facilitate successful completion of the LCSW Written Examination Part I.
• To enhance knowledge of major content areas such as assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
• To provide a forum for discussion, review and integration of key concepts related to the LCSW Written Examination Part I.
  

Day One

• Overview of the major components of the LCSW Written Examination Part I
• Assessment of individual test-takers’ needs
• Test-taking strategies
• The learning styles of adult learners
  

Day Two

• Review of major content areas of the LCSW Written Examination Part I
• Biopsychosocial assessment
• Theory review
• Clinical assessment
• Treatment planning
  

Day Three

• Clinical interventions
• Focus on specific population groups emphasized in the exam
• Crisis intervention
  
• Short-term treatment models
• Clinical practice with children and adolescents
  
• Clinical practice with adults
  
• Clinical practice with couples
  
• Clinical practice with families
  
• Groups
  

Day Four

• Mock examinations
• Review of test-taking strategies

The instructor, Estela Andujo, Ph.D., brings more than 28 years of clinical experience in the field of mental health to her adjunct faculty positions at the USC School of Social Work and California State University, Long Beach. She is also director of the outpatient program at the Intercommunity Child Guidance Center in Whittier and a contract trainer for the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health and the Child Welfare Training Academics. Dr. Andujo has taught LCSW licensing courses for the past 20 years and has assisted hundreds of social workers in preparing for licensure.

To register, please visit www.regonline.com/usclcswprep2010.

Dates: 03/07/2010, 04/11/2010, 05/02/2010, 06/06/2010: 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Montgomery Ross Fisher Building

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Monday 03/08/2010: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Watt Hall (WAH) Galen Ceramics Studio, Room 107

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This two-hour class covers three topics; overcoming common data problems, SAS programming for inferential statistics and statistical analysis WITHOUT programming.

Such functions will include SUM, MEAN, SUBSTR and TODAY(). The application of these techniques to cleaning and scoring data will be used in hands-on exercises.

T-tests, cross-tabulations, chi-square, correlation, regression and analysis of variance using SAS will be reviewed briefly. More advanced statistical techniques such as factor analysis and cluster analysis will be demonstrated.

Participants will get experience combining SAS coding with SAS Enterprise Guide: for example, creating a subset of student records that can then be used to compute descriptive statistics and create progress charts.

This class is for faculty, staff and students who already use SAS for statistical analysis and wish to learn more advanced tips and tricks. It is assumed that participants understand basics of SAS (i.e., have taken an "Introduction to SAS" workshop and understand the LIBNAME statement and DATA step).

Monday 03/08/2010: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library Computer Classroom, Second Floor

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Brown is the director of several companies, including EMC Corporation, VMware, Administaff Inc., Pipeline Financial Group Inc., FatKat Inc., 360networks and Thomas Weisel Partners.

Lunch will be served.

Tuesday 03/09/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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A doc about the long, dramatic struggle to control the Barnes Foundation, a Post-Impressionist and early Modern art collection valued at more than $25 billion.

About The Art of the Steal

In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes created the Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, five miles outside of Philadelphia. He formed this remarkable collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern art to serve as an educational institution.

Dr. Barnes built his foundation away from the city and cultural elite, who scorned his collection as “horrible, debased art,” and set it on the grounds of his own home, an arboretum in the leafy suburbs. Tastes changed, and soon the very people who belittled Barnes wanted access to his collection.

When Dr. Barnes died in a car accident in 1951, he left control of his collection to Lincoln University, a small African American college. His will contained strict instructions, stating that the foundation should always be an educational institution and that the paintings could never be removed. Such strict limitations made the collection safe from commercial exploitation. But was it really safe?

More than 50 years later, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court to take the art — recently valued at more than $25 billion — and move it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way are a group of former students who seek to block the move. Will the students succeed, or will a man’s will be broken and one of America’s greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?

Opens in select Los Angeles theaters on March 12. Available through video-on-demand on February 24.

Provided courtesy of IFC Films and Sundance Selects. Not rated. Running time: 101 minutes.

To learn more about the film and view the trailer, click here.

About Outside the Box (Office)

Outside the Box (Office) is a weekly showcase for upcoming releases, highlighting world cinema, documentary and independent film titles. Recognizing a need for greater diversity on campus, the series will draw from around the globe to present movies that may challenge, inspire or simply entertain. The weekly screenings will be on Wednesday nights (and other select dates, as they arise) in the School of Cinematic Arts Complex, George Lucas Building.

To view the calendar of screenings, click here.

About Check-In and Reservations

The theater will be overbooked to ensure capacity, and the RSVP list will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis, with no reserved seating. Please bring a photo ID or printout of your reservation confirmation, which will automatically be sent to your email account after you successfully RSVP through the Web site. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday 03/10/2010: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building (LUC) Room 112

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Wednesday 03/10/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Dean Ernest Wilson welcomes Douglas Thomas, who led the Annenberg School to become one of the first scholarly explorers of emerging virtual worlds like Second Life.

Examining everything from tweens and reproductive health to the role of foundations in virtual worlds, an interdisciplinary group of collaborators came together under the aegis of the Network Culture Project. The USC Annenberg School became a hub for applied research on games and culture and the future of learning in the 21st century that has helped organizations ranging foundations to the U.S. State Department formulate their own “virtual” strategies.

Join Doug Thomas, associate professor of communication, for a journey through the challenges of working on and in virtual environments.

Lunch will be served. RSVP is requested. To RSVP, click here.

The USC Annenberg School’s Dean’s Series on Sustainable Innovation hosts leading innovators and scholars for an ongoing dialogue on the communication challenges of individual, organizational and societal responses to the fast-changing technological transition toward a post-industrial networked society. For a full list of events and to RSVP, visit annenberg.usc.edu/innovation.

Thursday 03/11/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) 207

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A workshop on the unique funding opportunities, proposal requirements and review process within DoD funding agencies.

The course will focus on the unique S&T requirements and review processes in the various Department of Defense funding agencies with basic research interests — the Air Force, the Army, the Navy, DARPA and DTRA.

The goal is to instruct participants in how to identify opportunities within those agencies, determine their funding priorities, build relationships with the appropriate program officer(s), prepare applications for the various solicitations, and advocate effectively for funding of the application. An extensive “how to” compendium has been developed as reference material.

Thursday 03/11/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library West Conference Room

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LinkedIn Incorporated holds its first interactive Webinar customized for USC alumni and friends living in the U.S. and abroad.

The USC Career Planning and Placement Center, in partnership with the USC Alumni Association and LinkedIn Incorporated, is pleased to present “LinkedIn 101: Leveraging Your Online Brand and Building Your Network Through LinkedIn.”

USC alumni and friends of Trojans are welcome to attend this first national and international alumni career services event. Whether you live in the West, Northwest, Southwest, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic Northeast, Southeast or abroad, take advantage of this interactive career event leveraging technology.

• Do you really know how to use LinkedIn to get networking contacts?
• How important for potential employers is a completed profile?
• How can you use this social media resource to conduct a strategic job search?
  

Alumni and friends will learn how to leverage social media to network and gain connections. They will also learn how to manage their online brand directly from the experts at LinkedIn.

This event will be lead by an expert trainer from LinkedIn. The Webinar is powered by WebEx. Stay tuned for more information on technical requirements, Webinar times based on time zones, and registration information.

Note: All participants will need to have created a LinkedIn profile prior to registering for this event.

Thursday 03/11/2010: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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The changing landscape of publishing, media and entertainment is rife with both challenges and opportunities for all involved. For writers, the architecture and manner of delivery may be different, but the art of storytelling and the fundamental human need for communication remain constant.

A panel of experts who have transitioned successfully from the old world to the new will share their experiences and address questions.

• Tom Lutz, author; editor-in-chief, Los Angeles Review of Books; associate professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside; director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Writing for Performance at UCR Palm Desert
• Johanna Blakley, deputy director of the Annenberg School’s Norman Lear Center, a think tank that studies the convergence of entertainment, commerce and society; a researcher in the fields of global entertainment, cultural diplomacy, celebrity culture, digital media and intellectual property law; former Web producer and digital archivist at Vivendi-Universal Games; member, board of directors of Les Figues Press, a venue for literary experimentation
• James Rainey, media columnist, Los Angeles Times
• Otis Chandler, CEO and founder, Goodreads.com, a social network for book lovers; former software engineer and product manager at Tickle.com, in charge of online dating service LoveHappens.com
• Zuade Kaufman, co-founder and publisher, Truthdig.com; former reporter for Westside Weekly, a Los Angeles Times publication

Thursday 03/11/2010: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

University Park Campus TBA

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Fri, Jan. 29, 2010 (8:15am-12pm)

Fri, Mar. 12, 2010 (8:15am-12pm)

Sign up for classes online at www.usc.edu/recsports. Payment is due at the Lyon Center by the Wednesday prior to the class. The minimum number of participants is six, and the maximum is 20. Participants register for the class by Monday prior to class to reserve a space. Additional individuals will be placed on a waiting list.

This class will teach the basics of adult CPR. Participants must attend the entire class to become certified.

Wear comfortable clothing.

Friday 03/12/2010: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center Cardinal Room

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Dr. Ira Byock, an expert in hospice and palliative care, discusses the responsibilities and challenges of life’s final stages.

Death is central to the meaning and value of human life as experienced by individuals and by communities. While death does not give meaning to life, it does provide a backdrop against which life is lived. Acting on behalf of society, the clinical professions bear critical responsibilities for caring for those who are dying and bereaved. However, over-reliance on professionals as a means of distancing ourselves from death and grief can diminish the fullness and richness of living. Individuals and communities have the capacity to respond to the ultimate problem of death in a creative manner that can reflect and advance values of human work, dignity and enduring connection. Clinical professionals can lead by setting standards for excellence and providing care that is not only competent but unabashedly loving.

These issues will be explored by Ira Byock, M.D., director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and author of Dying Well and The Four Things That Matter Most.

Dr. Byock has been involved in hospice and palliative care since 1978. At that time, he helped found a hospice-home-care program for the indigent population served by the university hospital and county clinics of Fresno, California. He is a past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. During the 1990s, he was a co-founder and principal investigator for the Missoula Demonstration Project, a community-based organization in Montana dedicated to research about and transformation of the end-of-life experience. Dr. Byock has authored numerous articles, and his first book, Dying Well, has become a standard in the field. His most recent book, The Four Things That Matter Most, is used widely as a counseling tool by palliative care and hospice programs, as well as within pastoral care.

Following the talk, there will be a reception in the Hoyt Gallery.

Organized by Pamela Schaff (Pediatrics and Keck Educational Affairs), Erin Quinn (Family Medicine and Keck Admissions) and Hilary Schor (English and Law). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicine’s Program in Medical Humanities, Arts and Ethics; the USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics; and the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.

Friday 03/12/2010: 3:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Mayer Auditorium

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This Italian film turns a dark page in history, one ignored in the official biography of Benito Mussolini.

There is a secret in the life of Mussolini: a wife and a son, Benito Albino, who was born, acknowledged and then denied. The secret bears a name: Ida Dalser.

When Ida meets Mussolini in Milan, he is the editor of Avanti! and an ardent Socialist who intends to guide the masses towards an anti-clerical, anti-monarchical, socially emancipated future. She has already had a fleeting encounter with him in Trento, and she remains thunderstruck. Ida truly believes in Benito and his ideas. In order to finance Il Popolo d’Italia, a newspaper Mussolini has founded and the nucleus of the forthcoming Fascist Party, Ida sells everything she has.

When the First World War erupts, Mussolini enrolls in the Army and disappears. When Ida finds him again in a military hospital, he is tended to by Rachele, whom he has just married. Ida lashes out at her rival furiously, demanding her rights as Mussolini’s true wife and the mother of his first-born son. She is led away by force.

For more than 11 years, she is locked away in an insane asylum (with her son similarly hidden in an institute). There she is put under physical restraint and tortured, never to see her son again. But Ida will not give up without a fight...

For further details and to RSVP, click here.

Friday 03/12/2010: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building (LUC) Room 108

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Go past collecting data to coaching managers. A workshop on using data to tell stories, influence behavior and drive results.

Today, the best leaders win with data. Learn to fuel your organization by combining data, dialogue and understanding to soar ahead of the competition.

Data coaches help leaders and organizations use data from and about employees to drive action that leads to measurable results. Data coaching will take your metrics to the next level.

Objectives:

• Understand the measurement map — a tool that allows participants to audit their current employee and human resources data
• Walk away with a deep understanding of the conditions under which data do or don't drive action
• Develop strategies to refine data and dialogue or to readjust which types of data are being used
• Learn how optimal data strategies drive results
• Obtain tools that are immediately applicable to your organization

This program is focused on building skills. You will be given a pre-work assignment and will use a special tool to learn, practice and build your data coaching skills during the workshop. Participants will take part in team coaching and will actively practice the skills they learn with their peers in the program.

The course will be taught by Theresa Welbourne and Lacey Leone McLaughlin.

Daily: Tuesday 03/16/2010 - Thursday 03/18/2010; All day

Portofino Hotel 260 Portofino Way Redondo Beach CA 90277

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Roland and Almita Vamos are among the leading viola and violin teachers in the world. Their students have become prominent soloists, members of world renowned chamber groups and orchestras, and laureates of prestigious international competitions. The Vamoses have been recognized at the White House numerous times and were named Distinguished Teachers by the National Endowment for the Arts. They have been honored by the American String Teachers Association with the Distinguished Service Award, and showcased on CBS’ Sunday Morning News.

Monday 03/22/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The event is hosted by Brighde Mullins, director of the Master of Professional Writing Program. Daum will be introduced by the program’s Dinah Lenney.

Meghan Daum writes a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times, which appears on the op-ed page every Saturday. She has contributed to public radio’s Morning Edition, Marketplace and This American Life and has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, Vogue, New York, Travel & Leisure, The Village Voice and The New York Times Book Review. Daum’s work is included in dozens of college textbooks and anthologies, including The KGB Bar Reader, Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times and The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence.

Equal parts reporter, storyteller, and satirist, Daum frequently gives public lectures and readings around the country. Known for her humor and acute cultural observations, she has inspired controversy on a range of topics, including social politics, class warfare and the semiotics of shag carpet. She has been widely praised in the press and elicits particular enthusiasm from Amazon.com customer reviewers, who have hailed her work as everything from “brilliant and outrageously funny” to “obnoxious, arrogant, rambling dribble [sic].”

Daum is a graduate of Vassar College and the M.F.A. writing program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Monday 03/22/2010: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Intellectual Commons, Room 233

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Lunch will be served.

Tuesday 03/23/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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How do material objects and spaces communicate and create knowledge about the divine?

The USC College’s James McHugh (Religion) and Lisa Bitel (History and Gender Studies) join Yale University’s Milette Gaifman (Classics and History of Art) in a discussion that moves beyond the strictly visual study of sacred images to investigate how the sacred is perceived by a wide range of bodily senses and understood through the material world of things.

Tuesday 03/23/2010: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library 240

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Roland and Almita Vamos are among the leading viola and violin teachers in the world. Their students have become prominent soloists, members of world renowned chamber groups and orchestras, and laureates of prestigious international competitions. The Vamoses have been recognized at the White House numerous times and were named Distinguished Teachers by the National Endowment for the Arts. They have been honored by the American String Teachers Association with the Distinguished Service Award, and showcased on CBS’ Sunday Morning News.

Tuesday 03/23/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Jeanette MacDonald Recital Hall

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Using screen printing as form of analogue reproduction, Brannon’s images carry both the suggestion of mass replication and the aura of original artworks. Directly challenging the void between language and actuality, Brannon often combines text and image to illustrate the potential for dysfunction. In Police Officer Giving Up, he juxtaposes a neutral symbol of a houseplant with a statement of desperation. Exuding the inadequate sentiment of greeting cards, Brannon offers decoration as a feeble mask for emotional depletion.

Wednesday 03/24/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building Lecture Forum

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The Center for Feminist Research and the Gender Studies Program at USC Women present speaker Diana Nyad.

Nyad, the special guest at this 11th annual Women in Higher Education luncheon, is an American swimmer and world record holder. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1986 and the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2003.

Every week she does a five-minute sports-themed radio piece called The Score for KCRW and National Public Radio, as well as for the American Public Media show Marketplace.

In addition to Nyad’s presentation, the luncheon will feature networking opportunities.

This incredibly popular luncheon is open to all members of the faculty, staff, student and administration community. It has sold out each of the past four years.

Thursday 03/25/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC) Embassy Room

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Launched in 2001, the Creativity, Commerce and Culture project (CCC) embraces artful combinations of scholarship, artistic work and performance as it explores the creative, legal and ethical issues facing authors, artists and creators of all types in the age of entertainment and digital revolution. The CCC project has brought together copyright attorneys, government officials, filmmakers, fashion designers, media activists, actors, music industry vets, remix artists and academics to hash out issues surrounding the ownership of creative content. This semester, Kaplan and Blakley are incorporating lessons learned from the CCC project into a series of workshops about creativity and collaboration in the academy for USC faculty in the sciences, medicine, arts, humanities and social sciences.

RSVP is requested. To RSVP, click here.

The USC Annenberg School’s Dean’s Series on Sustainable Innovation hosts leading innovators and scholars for an ongoing dialogue on the communication challenges of individual, organizational and societal responses to the fast-changing technological transition toward a post-industrial networked society. For a full list of events and to RSVP, visit annenberg.usc.edu/innovation.

Thursday 03/25/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) Room 207

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Seilaff will perform Debussy’s Première Rapsodie with principal conductor Carl St. Clair. Also on the program is music by Ravel and Tchaikovsky.

Larry Livingston, music director, USC Thornton orchestras
Sharon Lavery, resident conductor
Carl St. Clair, principal conductor
Sonia Sielaff, clarinet

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Debussy: Première Rapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

Thursday 03/25/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Cornelius Schnauber’s play imagines composer Richard Wagner in the final hours of his life, conversing with the ghost of Felix Mendelssohn.

Richard Wagner at the window along the Canale Grande. The final hours of his life. He hears the music of Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn, dead since 1847, appears from the other side. A dramatic dialogue ensues. Cosima Wagner enters the conversation.  In an erotically bold scene, Wagner’s last lover appears. Once more, Wagner meditates on his life and that terrible knowledge Mendelssohn seemed to have about the future: Hitler, the Nazis? Wagner begins another revision of Tannäuser… and dies.

Performances will take place Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.

Dates: 03/26/2010, 03/27/2010, 03/28/2010, 04/02/2010, 04/03/2010, 04/04/2010, 04/09/2010, 04/10/2010, 04/11/2010, 04/16/2010, 04/17/2010, 04/18/2010, 04/23/2010, 04/24/2010, 04/25/2010: All day

MET Theatre 1089 North Oxford Avenue Hollywood CA 90029

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Flex your racquetball skills at the annual intramural singles tournament.

Want to challenge yourself and take your game to the next level? Sign up for USC Recreational Sports’ intramural racquetball tournament.

Be sure to register at the Lyon Center front desk before March 9.

Friday 03/26/2010: All day

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center (LRC)

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What does it mean to “map the brain”? A USC College symposium gathers scientific minds to probe the question.

Despite the intuitive explanatory power behind maps as a basic functional neural unit and the proposition that they “underlie the derivation of the computational principles that govern sensory processing and the generation of perception,” we still don’t know if the topographic maps of the brain are incidental or functionally essential to brain organization in health and disease. This symposium, organized by USC College’s Tansu Celikel (Neuroscience), gathers scientists to discuss the proposition that topographical organization of the brain is essential to brain organization.

Speakers will include:

• Michael Arbib, USC
• Jose Carmena, UC Berkeley
• Tansu Celikel, USC
• Daniel Feldman, UC Berkeley
• Ron Frostig, UC Irvine
• Judith Hirsch, USC
• David Kleinfeld, UC San Diego
• Stefan Leutgeb, UC San Diego
• Fritz Sommer, UC Berkeley
• Charles Stevens, Salk Institute

Friday 03/26/2010: 8:30 AM - 4:15 PM

University Park Campus Hedco Neurosciences Building Auditorium

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As part of Visions and Voices’ new museum series, USC students visit the Norton Simon in Pasadena.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited, and advance registration is required. RSVP beginning Wednesday, March 3, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 11:15 a.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 12 p.m. and will return to campus at 5 p.m.

Lunch will be provided.

Los Angeles has a rich tapestry of museums with extraordinary collections, from the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Norton Simon in Pasadena to MOCA and LACMA in the heart of Los Angeles. The Museum Series — an exciting new take on the Visions and Voices experience — will offer students the opportunity to explore Los Angeles through its museums’ remarkable collections and the philosophies behind each world class institution.

The Norton Simon Museum is known around the world as one of the most remarkable private art collections ever assembled. Over a 30-year period, Norton Simon (1907–1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years. Among the most celebrated works he collected are Branchini Madonna, 1427, by Giovanni di Paolo; Madonna and Child with Book, c. 1502–03, by Raphael; Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633, by Francisco de Zurbarán; Portrait of a Boy, c. 1655–60, by Rembrandt van Rijn; Mulberry Tree, 1889, by Vincent van Gogh; Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878–81, by Edgar Degas; and Woman with a Book, 1932, by Pablo Picasso. Highlights from the Asian collection include the Buddha Shakyamuni, c. 550, India; Shiva as King of Dance, c. 1000, India; and Indra, 13th century, Nepal. Throughout the year, approximately 1,000 works from the permanent collection of 12,000 objects are on view in the museum’s galleries and sculpture garden.

Friday 03/26/2010: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Norton Simon Museum of Art 411 West Colorado Boulevard Pasadena CA 91105

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We all know that parents have to take care of their children. But does there come a time when we have to start taking care of our parents?

What if it costs us serious time and serious money? What if they fight us and tell us to go away and leave them alone? Should we respect their autonomy as we watch them deteriorate, or should we force them to do what we think best for them? How should we parent our parents? The Levan Coffeehouse Conversations on Practical Ethics series explores these questions.

For reservations, click here.

Friday 03/26/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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A satellite broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera’s unforgettable new production of Hamlet, starring Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay.

This event is part of an ongoing series of broadcasts presented in spectacular HD digital projection and 5.1 surround sound.

Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

Conducted by Louis Langrée. Presented in French with English subtitles.

The opera will be preceded by a discussion hosted by the USC Thornton School of Music.

The opera is presented as a rebroadcast of a live performance taking place at The Metropolitan Opera in New York at 10 a.m. that day.

Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts in association with The Metropolitan Opera.

Saturday 03/27/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Frank Sinatra Hall

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The performers will include USC faculty, students and selected guest artists.

Saturday 03/27/2010: 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The Thornton Wind Ensemble performs Copeland’s Fanfare, Salfelder’s Cathedrals, Kramer’s Mimetic Variations and other works.

The program will include Thornton faculty member Jim Self’s Tour de Force and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, featuring faculty pianist Kevin Fitz-Gerald.
 
H. Robert Reynolds, principal conductor
Sharon Lavery, resident conductor
Kevin Fitz-Gerald, piano

Sunday 03/28/2010: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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By the year 2020, will the seductions of virtual worlds triumph over our desires for communal forms of entertainment?

A panel discussion moderated by Martin Kaplan, director of the USC Annenberg School’s Norman Lear Center, will ask whether people will still go to the theater and movies as home entertainment becomes more sophisticated. In turn, how will this affect the business of entertainment and our culture as a whole?

The discussion will feature Mark Murphy, executive director of REDCAT, an interdisciplinary arts center housed at Walt Disney Concert Hall; Richard Schickel, film critic, historian and documentary-maker; and Tracy Fullerton, associate professor in interactive media at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab.

Organized by the USC Libraries and the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities

Monday 03/29/2010: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Room 233

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For those who want to learn more about SPSS, a workshop offering examples and practice in data management and more advanced data analysis.

This is a hands-on workshop held in a university computer lab, designed for anyone who is regularly involved in research and data analysis. Data management topics covered include: merging data sets, concatenating data sets, subsetting data sets, creating new variables, creating formats, and using functions to create new variables.

Data analysis procedures covered include:

• Analysis of Variance — one-way, two-way and repeated measures Analysis of Variance, interaction effects, post hoc tests and plots
• Regression analysis — simple and multiple regression, standardized beta-weights, partial r-squared, diagnostic plots
• Non-parametric statistics — chi-square, odds-ratio and logistic regression

Tuesday 03/30/2010: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library Computer Classroom, Second Floor

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Lee is the library system’s vice president of communications.

Lunch will be served.

Tuesday 03/30/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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Pae White has been exhibiting her work since the early 1990s. She received her B.A. from Scripps College in Claremont and her M.F.A. from Art Center in Pasadena. She also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine.

White’s recent solo exhibitions include “Smoke Knows” at 1301PE in Los Angeles, “Too Much Night” at Neugerriemschneider in Berlin, and “Get Well Soon” at Greengrassi in London. Her work was included in “Fare Mondi/Making Worlds” at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and she will participate in the Whitney Biennial in 2010.

White has work in museum collections all over the world, including those of MoMA, LACMA, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Tate Modern. Last year, White was awarded a Getty Fellowship.

Wednesday 03/31/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Lecture Forum

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The Alumni Club of Newport Beach/Irvine welcomes Gerard Tellis, professor of marketing at the Marshall School of Business.

Join us for the third installment of the 2010 Orange County Distinguished Speaker Series: “Do Innovations Really Pay Off?”

Gerard Tellis, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Global Innovation, the Neely Chair of American Enterprise, and a professor of marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business. He specializes in the areas of innovation, global strategy, market entry, new product growth, advertising, promotion and pricing. He has published more than 100 articles and four books.

To purchase tickets, click here.

Please note: In the event that the USC Orange County Center parking lot is full, overflow parking is available at the Von Karman Corporate Plaza, located at 18551 Von Karman, the next driveway past the center.

Wednesday 03/31/2010: 7:00 PM

USC Orange County Center Room C Irvine CA 92612

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Wednesday 03/31/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Jason Robert Brown

Written in the tradition of early Greek tragedies, The Alcestiad tells the story of Admetus, King of Thessaly; his wife, Alcestis; and the triumphs and tragedies they endure as favorites of the god Apollo.

Daily: Thursday 04/01/2010 - Sunday 04/04/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre

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Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by John Rubinstein

A childless couple goes in search of the materials necessary to lift a witch's curse. A seamless fusion of fairy tale characters and what happens after "happily ever after," Into the Woods is a music lover's delight from start to finish, featuring songs such as Children Will Listen and No One Is Alone. What begins as a lively, irreverent fantasy becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children.

Performance Times:

Thursday, April 1 at 7:00 PM
Friday, April 2 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 3 at 2:30 PM & 8:00 PM
Wednesday, April 7 at 7:00 PM
Thursday, April 8 at 7:00 PM
Friday, April 9 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 10 at 2:30 PM & 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 11 at 2:30 PM
 

Daily: Thursday 04/01/2010 - Sunday 04/11/2010; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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University of Michigan’s Alexandra Stern discusses some preliminary findings from her current work in progress.

In the paper “Eugenic Sterilization and the Politics of Diagnosis and Classification in 20th Century California,” Stern, associate professor of American studies, history and medicine, explores the relationship between eugenic sterilization, psychiatric diagnosis and mental classification in California’s state institutions during the 20th century. Her work reveals that patients of Mexican origin were disproportionately sterilized in California, above all in homes for the “feeble-minded.” Stern situates this history of radicalized and medicalized discrimination within the broader framework of Chicana/o studies and borderlands history.

Aiming to generate an interdisciplinary discussion on these topics, several USC College professors from history, anthropology, biology, and American studies and ethnicity — including Philippa Levine (History) and Roberto Delgado (Anthropology and Biological Sciences) — will prepare comments and participate in the discussion.

Thursday 04/01/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building 250

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Dean Ernest Wilson talks with Josh Kun, Annenberg professor and director of the Popular Music Project at the Norman Lear Center.

We’ll hear about Kun’s research on the Regional Mexican music scene in California and what the songs of artists like Los Tigres del Norte and Joan Sebastian tell us about issues of immigration, cultural identity, transnational media and U.S.-Mexico border politics.

RSVP is requested. To RSVP, click here.

The USC Annenberg School’s Dean’s Series on Sustainable Innovation hosts leading innovators and scholars for an ongoing dialogue on the communication challenges of individual, organizational and societal responses to the fast-changing technological transition toward a post-industrial networked society. For a full list of events and to RSVP, visit annenberg.usc.edu/innovation.

Thursday 04/01/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) Room 207

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USC students visit the Ahmanson Theatre to see Dreamgirls, a powerful story of heartbreak and success in show business.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited, and advance registration is required. Due to high demand, tickets will be distributed on a lottery basis. Check-in for the event will begin at 5:30 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 6:15 a.m. and will return to campus at 11:15 p.m.

Dinner will be provided.

The dynamic production Dreamgirls has won six Tonys, two Oscars and two Grammys since its Broadway premiere in 1981. Drawing inspiration from such R&B acts as The Supremes and James Brown, the show follows the tumultuous career of Motown girl group The Dreamettes as it climbs to the top of the charts, revealing the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune. This revival of the show, launched at Harlem’s Apollo Theater in November 2009, will include new costumes, innovative set design, and new and revised songs.

Friday 04/02/2010: 6:15 PM - 11:15 PM

Ahmanson Theatre 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012

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David Allen Moore, adjunct assistant professor and member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, graduated from USC in 1993, where he studied with Dennis Trembly, Paul Ellison and John Clayton. Moore continued his studies in Boston, working privately with Edwin Barker. From 1996 through 1999, he was a member of the Houston Symphony bass section under maestro Christoph Eschenbach.

Friday 04/02/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The recital will feature a new work from Bill Douglas co-commissioned by the group, and a sneak preview of Tomas Svoboda’s Trio for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon, before its official premiere in August 2010 at the National Flute Association convention in Anaheim.

Saturday 04/03/2010: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Conference co-chairs:

• Alison Dundes Renteln, Ph.D., J.D., professor of political science and
  anthropology, USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• Jonathan M. Samet, M.D., M.S., director of the USC Institute for Global Health, professor and Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine
  

How do the laws and policies of a nation-state affect women’s health? Is the state invested in these issues because women are seen to be bearers and nurturers of future citizens? Or are there are other concerns — such as economic development, human welfare or religious ideology — that shape this engagement? What are the current and historical responsibilities of the state in addressing women’s health issues? How can they be measured and improved upon, and how do we approach the underlying ethical issues in practical and useful ways for women around the globe?

Panels:

• “The Role of Global Norms, State Policies and International Organizations in Reproductive Health”
• “The Gendered Consequences of Violence and War on Women’s Health”
• “Economic Empowerment, Development and Women’s Health”
• “Medical and Social Advances in Women’s Health”

For the call for papers, click here.

For reservations, click here.

Monday 04/05/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC)

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Welling has also used experimental shutterless cameras, digital cameras and vintage view cameras to create these images. His works challenge the technical and conceptual bounds of photography, but employ simple materials like crumpled aluminum foil, wrinkled fabric and pastry dough. For Torsos (2005-2008), Welling cut screening (much like that used for windows) to follow bodily contours, and placed it on chromogenic paper before exposing it.

Monday 04/05/2010: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building Lecture Forum

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Erik Forrester, director

Monday 04/05/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Stone is writer and editor of My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times, a memoir of the Times’ first black managing editor, Gerald M. Boyd.

Lunch will be served.

Tuesday 04/06/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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An afternoon with Daston, director of Berlin’s Max Planck Institute, historian of science and cultural critic, and author of several influential works.

Lorraine Daston has done consistently groundbreaking and challenging work on the history of probability and statistics, wonders in early modern science, the emergence of the scientific fact, scientific models, objects of scientific inquiry, the moral authority of nature, and the history of scientific objectivity. Most recently, she has begun to think deeply about “things that talk” and “moral and natural orders.”

In this lecture, she brings her laser-like intelligence to the idea of mapping and measuring, drawing out the ideas implicit in such central volumes as Wonders and the Order of Nature and Biographies of Scientific Objects, writing a kind of “biography” of our moment in intellectual history.

To RSVP, click here and enter the event code “CC406”.

Tuesday 04/06/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus TBD

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Reporter Jon Cohen discusses his work documenting international disease funding and the role of investigative journalism in addressing global epidemics.

Award-winning journalist Jon Cohen has covered infectious diseases for 15 years, traveling extensively through the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa and Mexico. In addition to reporting on a wide range of scientific and medical topics for Science, Cohen has done in-depth, investigative stories about the National Institutes of Health, bio defense, tobacco industry funding of science, the vaccine industry, credit battles, the genomics revolution, and the science press itself. He has also written for The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Talk, Discover, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Slate, The New Republic, Surfer and other publications.

April 6
University Park Campus, Davidson Conference Center

April 7
Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium

Hosted in partnership with the Annenberg School for Journalism and the Center for Health and Medical Communication

Dates: 04/06/2010, 04/07/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Hope has toured the world as a virtuoso soloist for many years, and has been the youngest-ever member of the Beaux Arts Trio during its last six seasons. He is renowned for his musical versatility and creativity, and for his dedication to humanitarian causes. Hope performs as soloist with the world’s major orchestras and conductors, directs many ensembles, and plays chamber music in a wide variety of traditional and new venues. Born in South Africa and raised and educated in England, Hope earned degrees at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with renowned Russian pedagogue Zakhar Bron.

Tuesday 04/06/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Explore the utopian aspirations — and dreams of transcendence — in ’50s and ’60s automotive design and youth car-mod subcultures.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Car Show
Trousdale Parkway

3 p.m. Panel Discussion
Alumni Park

A display of historic automobiles from the golden era of California car culture will feature space-age concept cars and vintage hot rods.

In the afternoon, join us for a panel discussion with Petersen Automotive Museum Curator Leslie Kendall; Dr. Denise Sandoval, professor of Chicana/o studies at California State University, Northridge, and author of Arte y Estilo: The Lowriding Tradition; and Beth Werling, collections manager of material culture at the Museum of Natural History.

In addition, the USC Libraries present “The Space Age Hits the Road: Visionary Car Designs in America,” an exhibition of historic photographs showing the influence of futurist design on U.S. automakers during the 1950s and 1960s.

Organized by William Dotson, Tyson Gaskill, Dace Taube and Andrew Wulf (USC Libraries)

Wednesday 04/07/2010: All day

University Park Campus

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We invite all USC graduate and professional students to present their work on a 4' x 3' poster. A panel of esteemed USC faculty members will select the best overall poster, and the winners will receive a generous cash prize. There is $2,400 to be given out in total.

Open to students from all disciplines. Submissions are due March 5. Email postersymposium@gmail.com.

Wednesday 04/07/2010: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus von KleinSmid Center (VKC) Courtyard

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As director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, Schnur works to motivate students to become active in the world of politics and encourage public officials to participate in the daily life of USC.

He worked for years as one of California’s top political and media strategists, participating in four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns. He served as the national director of communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain and spent five years as chief media spokesman for California Governor Pete Wilson.

Wednesday 04/07/2010: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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Siegel has organized more than 80 exhibitions, including “The Lodz Film School of Poland: 50 Years” (for which he was awarded the Amicus Poloniae from the Polish government), “Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures,” “To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation” and retrospectives devoted to artists and filmmakers including Jeanne Moreau, Don Siegel, Nicholas Ray, Oskar Fischinger, Ken Jacobs, Killer Films, James Wong Howe, John Frankenheimer, Jean Painlevé, Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman.

Siegel’s lecture will serve as an introduction to a screening of Wiseman’s Meat (1976), which traces the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer products.

Wednesday 04/07/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building Lecture Forum

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BrandSpace, an interdisciplinary project steered by a working group of faculty members from across USC’s campus, examines the way in which new practices, imaginations and politics are being created within the parameters of commercial brand culture. The group discusses youth culture, commodity activism, new forms of marketing, and new media and branding. Banet-Weiser will discuss these issues in relation to her current research on brand culture and political possibility.

RSVP is requested. To RSVP, click here.

The USC Annenberg School’s Dean’s Series on Sustainable Innovation hosts leading innovators and scholars for an ongoing dialogue on the communication challenges of individual, organizational and societal responses to the fast-changing technological transition toward a post-industrial networked society. For a full list of events and to RSVP, visit annenberg.usc.edu/innovation.

Wednesday 04/07/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) Room 207

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Jack Rowe, M.D., of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, lectures for the Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging.

Thursday 04/08/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) Room 224

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In a networked global culture, sophisticated multimedia is quickly becoming the worldwide currency. A longtime staple in the industries of advertising and entertainment, multimedia has now carved a new niche for itself: academia.

The Digital Studies Symposium is designed to introduce us to diverse scholarly media-based production. The speakers in this series are artists, programmers, scholars and designers, and their projects include cutting-edge gestural interfaces, mobile media experiments, innovative Web sites and augmented reality pieces.

The presentations will be moderated by Anne Bray, the executive director of L.A. Freewaves. Freewaves is a nonprofit organization that facilitates cross-cultural dialogues by inventing dynamic new media exhibition forms at experimental and established venues throughout Los Angeles.

Mirjam Struppek is based in Berlin and works internationally as urbanist, researcher and consultant. With a background in urban and environmental planning, she has internationally lectured and published essays with a special focus on the livability of urban space, the public sphere, and that sphere’s transformation and acquisition through new media. She is currently working on further implementing this concept of utilizing outdoor screens for a sustainable urban society.

For further information, please contact the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at (213) 743-4421 or visit dss.usc.edu.

Thursday 04/08/2010: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Robert Zemeckis Digital Arts Center (RZC) 111

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Marshaling the gifts of three student soloists, Thornton faculty member Lucinda Carver conducts the USC Thornton Symphony.

The annual Concerto Night concert features three great standards of the solo repertoire: Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Walton’s Cello Concerto and Koetsier’s Concertino for Tuba and Strings.

Larry Livingston, music director, USC Thornton orchestras
Sharon Lavery, resident conductor
Lucinda Carver, conductor
Ying Huang, piano
Peter Myers, cello
Zee-Woong Munn, tuba

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 83 (first and second movements)
Walton: Cello Concerto (first and second movements)
Koetsier: Concertino for Tuba and Strings, Op. 77

Thursday 04/08/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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A screening of two episodes from the Ken Burns PBS series on our country’s protected wild spaces.

The episodes to be screened are “The Scripture of Nature” and “The Morning of Creation.”

“The Scripture of Nature” details the life of John Muir, for whom preservation became a spiritual calling; the Congressional passing of the act in 1864 protecting Yosemite from commercial development; and the passing of the act in 1871 protecting Yellowstone.

“The Morning of Creation” details the inundation of the parks after World War II, as 62 million visitors flocked to see them. This episode also focuses on Adolph Murie, a biologist; Lancelot Jones, grandson of a slave and property owner; and Jimmy Carter’s protection of 56 million acres of land in Alaska.

Friday 04/09/2010: 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art

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Saturday 04/10/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Magen Solomon leads the Thornton Concert Choir in works by Monteverdi, Brahms, Lechner, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Hopkins and Schütz.

Magen Solomon, conductor

Sunday 04/11/2010: 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Romero is celebrated internationally for his thrilling interpretations and flawless technique.

Dates: 04/12/2010, 04/13/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Dan Schnur, director of Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics and School of Journalism adjunct professor, talks with guests Reed Galen and Sarah Leonard.

Galen is managing director of Mercury Public Affairs, and Leonard is a vice president in The Glover Park Group’s Los Angeles office.

Lunch will be served.

Tuesday 04/13/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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Her working methods are quite complex, as layers of paper are intricately cut out and collaged on top of one another. This process involves the breaking down of an image through color and then reconstructing that image through layering. These layers create a depth and perspective that is both painterly and sculptural. Gabbiani directs the material — colored paper — to have dramatic effects. She is constructing memory in the most literal sense, piecing together images that are full of desire and suspense.

Wednesday 04/14/2010: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building Lecture Forum

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An introductory workshop for faculty interested in learning about foundation types, research methods and proposal content.

It will be headed by Linda Zukowski, director of Foundation Relations in University Advancement.

This is an introductory course, designed for faculty, development officers and staff with little or no experience with private or corporate foundations. It will cover types of foundations, research methods, cultivation, letters of inquiry, proposal content, formatting and general dos and don’ts. Presidential foundations and the university clearance process will also be discussed.

This course will cover proposal writing basics, and is not designed for senior researchers or faculty members who have written successful proposals to government agencies. (A subsequent workshop will explore the differences between proposal writing to foundations and to government agencies.)

Wednesday 04/14/2010: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library East Conference Room

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A dynamic multimedia presentation explores the exciting possibilities for using art and technology to explore humanity and create community.

The extraordinary work of internationally acclaimed electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is engaging, provocative and beautiful. Born in Mexico City and currently living in Montreal, Lozano-Hemmer develops large-scale interactive installations in public space, usually deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using robotics, projections, sound, Internet and cell phone links, sensors and other devices, his installations aim to provide, in his words, “temporary anti-monuments for alien agency.” His kinetic sculpture, responsive environments, video installations and photography have been shown in more than 30 countries, and his work has been commissioned for such events as the United Nations’ World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the celebration of the expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the 40th anniversary of the Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City (2008), and the Vancouver Olympics (2010).

In this multimedia event, Lozano-Hemmer will discuss his award-winning work.

A reception will follow.

Organized by Visions and Voices. Co-sponsored by the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

Wednesday 04/14/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Scholars, musicians and musicologists describe how Wagner's Ring Cycle influences the way we think, feel and imagine the 21st century world.

How have The Ring themes and symbols permeated literature, philosophy, psychology, and even movies and cartoons? In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences presents a panel that will take on the idea of the hero, violence and the cult of masculinity, "the mythic," the development of fascist theories (and governments), the power of the unconscious, the allure of death, and the mob.

No singing required. Mind-opening insights guaranteed.

Moderator

• James R. Kincaid, USC Aerol Arnold Professor of English

Speakers

• Leo B. Braudy, University Professor, Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, professor of English
• Roberto Ignacio Diáz, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature
• John P. Nuckols, vice president, Advancement, L.A. Opera
• John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates Chair in Humanities, professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity
  

Registration will open in Spring 2010.

Thursday 04/15/2010: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus

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USC students attend the first production in the Western hemisphere of an opera by Franz Schreker, whose career was suppressed in Nazi Germany.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited, and advance registration is required. RSVP beginning Thursday, March 25, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 11:30 a.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 12:15 p.m. and will return to campus at 6:15 p.m.

Lunch will be provided.

The groundbreaking Recovered Voices project, led by L.A. Opera music director James Conlon, unearths and features works unheard since their suppression by Nazi Germany. Franz Schreker, creator of The Stigmatized, was a well known and respected composer throughout Germany before National Socialist pressure ended his career. The story of this late-Romantic tragedy follows Alviano, deformed but possessing a beautiful soul; beautiful Carlotta, whom he loves; and handsome but predatory Tamare, who offers Carlotta the possibility of a more perilous affair.

Prior to the opera, James Conlon will present a preshow lecture.

Sunday 04/18/2010: 12:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012

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Sunday 04/18/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Produced by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the USC Marshall School of Business and the U.S. Commercial Service, this conference will provide exceptional access to the information and people who will help you operate profitably in Asia.

Two hundred and fifty participants, 50 sessions, 15 economies, two days, in one event. Asia/Pacific Business Outlook (APBO) is an extraordinary opportunity to meet the people with the clout and contacts essential to your company's success. Meet one-on-one with Asia business experts, and have private appointments with senior commercial officers from American embassies/consulates in 15 economies.

Access a wealth of timely information in two days. APBO offers the latest, relevant information, all focused, organized and distilled. You'll get current intelligence on trade and investment opportunities in each country, and learn which sectors are hot, who's who, and how to navigate the different cultural, social and administrative barriers in each of the 15 economies. You will also get practical solutions to your logistical, legal, financial, marketing, planning and human resource needs from the experts who have been there... and succeeded.

Whether you're an experienced exporter to Asia, new to export, or new to the region, you can customize your conference experience by choosing the seminars, outlooks and workshops you want. More than 50 concurrent sessions let you focus on the topics that matter most to your business.

Some of the topics to be covered:

• Devising market entry strategies and building distribution networks; financing your operation in Asia/Pacific
• Refining communication and negotiation techniques; exporting to Asia for the first time
• Launching products and services in new markets
• Understanding cultural sensitivities and contexts
• Learning of opportunities in new sectors and industries
  

Go to www.apbo2010.com for the latest details.

Dates: 04/19/2010, 04/20/2010: All day

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center

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The Norman Lear Center hosts scholar Robert W. McChesney and journalist John Nichols, who will discuss their new book.

In The Death and Life of American Journalism, they argue that the crisis in American journalism precedes the Internet, and that the current economic turbulence stems from the hollowing out of journalism under corporate control, which has increased dramatically since the late 1970s.

According to McChesney and Nichols, the problem with American journalism is rooted in the longstanding tension between advertising-supported, profit-making media and democracy-sustaining journalism.

The authors debunk the notions that old media firms can successfully migrate to the Web, or that the blogosphere will magically meet our journalism needs.

Monday 04/19/2010: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) Room 207

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Join us for a reading and book signing with Robert Pinsky, a world renowned poet, literary critic and translator.

Pinsky’s translation of Dante’s Inferno is among the most praised poetical reimaginings of our time, and his own poetry, including such prize-winning volumes as An Explanation of America, The Figured Wheel and Sadness and Happiness, continues to inspire a wide range of readers. In the book-length essay Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town, Pinsky travels seamlessly from personal history to literary analysis to film. The works of Preston Sturges and Alfred Hitchcock meet up with dazzling insouciance with such writers as William Faulkner, Willa Cather and Thornton Wilder. In his work as U.S. poet laureate and as creator of the Favorite Poem project, Pinsky makes us take literature more seriously and see the way the artistic imagination creates, recreates and transforms the world around us.

In this reading and book signing, Pinsky will bring together his work as a poet and essayist, just as he brings together the very different media of poetry and film, helping us to map the literary terrain of the contemporary world.

Organized by the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsored by The College Commons.

Monday 04/19/2010: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Room 240

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Sloane-Pinel is director of communications for EMI Music.

Lunch will be served.

Tuesday 04/20/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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The USC College holds a tribute to its own Carol Muske-Dukes, poet laureate of California.

Poet Robert Pinsky joins the USC College’s Carol Muske-Dukes (English) in a reading and celebration of the vast diversity of California in language, images and objects, as The College Commons concludes its year of “mapping the world.”

We return to the Natural History Museum to add the rich language of poetry to its other dazzling riches, as these brilliant writers open up the world of the West, from migration to the millennium and beyond — the fantasy of Hollywood, the lure of the endless horizon, and the promise of (literary) transformation.

To RSVP, click here and enter the event code “CC420”.

Tuesday 04/20/2010: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90007

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Preeminent conductor James Conlon explores Wagner’s controversial personality in relation to bigotry, racism and prejudice.

James Conlon, the music director of L.A. Opera, will look at these issues as they relate to Wagner’s time and ours. The event will be presented in conjunction with the USC Thornton production of the Wagner opera Das Liebesverbot.

James Conlon has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire and has developed enduring relationships with the world’s most prestigious symphony orchestras and opera houses. Since his New York Philharmonic debut in 1974, Conlon has appeared as a guest conductor with virtually every major North American and European orchestra and has frequently been a guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to serving as the music director of L.A. Opera, he is the music director of the Ravinia Festival (the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and the Cincinnati May Festival.

In an effort to raise awareness of the significance of works of composers whose lives and compositions were suppressed by the Nazi regime, Conlon has also been devoted to extensive programming of this music in North America and Europe. At both the Ravinia Festival and the L.A. Opera, he continues to program works by these composers, including Alexander von Zemlinsky, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, Kurt Weill, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Erwin Schulhoff and Ernest Krenek.

In 2009, Conlon won two Grammy Awards (Best Classical Recording and Best Opera Album) for conducting L.A. Opera’s production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. During the 2009–10 season at the L.A. Opera, Mr. Conlon will conduct Wagner’s Ring cycle, beginning this season with the first two installments of the cycle, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. It will be Conlon’s first time conducting this work in the United States.

Tuesday 04/20/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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Tuesday 04/20/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The talented students of the Thornton Opera Program and the Thornton Chamber Orchestra present their spring production.

Presented as part of Ring Festival L.A., a citywide cultural festival celebrating the first-ever presentation in Los Angeles of the four-opera drama The Ring of the Nibelung.
   
April 21, 6 p.m.
Pre-concert talk with Ken Cazan, conductor, and James Kincaid, resident stage director

April 21 and 23, 8 p.m.
April 25, 2 p.m.
Performances

Join us for a fun, funny, sexy, colorful and bright evening of Italian opera. Wagner’s second opera, Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love), is based on Shakespeare’s thoughtful comedy Measure for Measure.

The West Coast premiere of Das Liebesverbot will be set in 1930s Sicily as a desperately needed Depression era party. Friedrich, the German interim governor of Palermo, has declared a ban on lovemaking, under penalty of death. As if that weren’t bad enough, it is Carnival, the wild, anything goes time of year in Italy! The young, upper class Claudio is the first to suffer under love’s ban, sentenced to death for getting his lover, Julia, pregnant. His sister, Isabella, leaves her life in the convent to try to persuade the adamant Friedrich to forgive her brother and repeal the love law. Isabella cleverly traps Friedrich in his own snare, and all ends up happily as the Italians resume their pre-Lenten festivities.
 
The April 21 performance is presented by Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative. USC students, staff and faculty can reserve tickets through Visions and Voices by clicking here. For all performances, general public tickets will be available for purchase at the USC Ticket Office. To purchase tickets, go to www.usc.edu/tickets or call (213) 740-4672.

Daily: Wednesday 04/21/2010 - Sunday 04/25/2010; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the English logician, mathematician, photographer and nonsense poet, is especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass (1871).

Wednesday 04/21/2010: 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Friends of USC Libraries Lecture Hall

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Wednesday 04/21/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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By Sonja Linden

Directed By: Robert Bailey

Finding themselves in situations that veer from the comic to the tragic, they try to make sense of the British way of life.

Performance Times:

Thursday, April 22, 7 p.m.
Friday, April 23, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 24, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 25, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Thursday 04/22/2010 - Sunday 04/25/2010; All day

University Park Campus McClintock Building

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Soprano Christina Linhardt joins composer William Roper and his band in solo chamber works inspired by his stay in Bavaria and the music of Richard Wagner.

The evening will feature several unusual instruments associated with the era and motifs of Wagner’s Ring, including the Wagner tuba, the helicon, the cimbasso, the harp and the saxhorn.

Thursday 04/22/2010: 7:30 PM

Goethe Institut 5750 Wilshire Boulevard, No. 100 Los Angeles CA 90036

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This festival will present a wide selection of Corman’s work, interspersed with discussions between directors, producers and actors.

In an extraordinarily prolific career spanning more than five decades, Los Angeles–based independent filmmaker Roger Corman has produced more than 380 motion pictures and television programs and directed more than 50 films. Now in his 80s, he continues to be an active producer, having completed four projects in 2008 alone. Often called the “King of the Bs,” Corman prefers the term “exploitation” to describe his films. Shot quickly with very low budgets and themes ranging from horror to science fiction, nearly all of Corman’s films, he proudly notes, have made money.

In this festival, directors, producers and actors Corman nurtured at the beginning of their careers, along with others from the entertainment industry, will discuss his influence as an independent producer, as well as his successful business model of producing and distributing films throughout the world.

Screenings may include: Little Shop of Horrors (starring Jack Nicholson), House of Usher, Death Race 2000, Piranha, Boxcar Bertha (directed by Martin Scorsese), Caged Heat (directed by Jonathan Demme), Grand Theft Auto (directed by Ron Howard), The Trip (written by Jack Nicholson and starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper), X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes (starring Oscar-winning actor Ray Milland) and Dementia 13 (directed by Francis Ford Coppola).

Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts

Daily: Friday 04/23/2010 - Sunday 04/25/2010; All day

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Frank Sinatra Hall

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David Schweizer directs a darkly satiric musical based on Melville’s last novel, The Confidence-Man.

The richly imaginative work of the great American novelist Herman Melville has inspired numerous contemporary adaptations, from the opera of Benjamin Britten to the performance art of Laurie Anderson. At this event, USC students will perform a work-in-progress by USC professor Joseph Boone and composer Benjamin Boone, based on Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. This tale unfolds on a Mississippi riverboat on All Fools’ Day, just before the War Between the States threatens to explode and expose the empty promises that lie at the heart of the American Dream.

The play will be directed by David Schweizer, who has won widespread acclaim for his productions in New York City and Los Angeles.

Organized by Joseph Boone (English)

Related Event
September 10-11, 7 p.m. And God Created Great Whales. Rinde Eckert reprises his 2000 Obie Award–winning performance as a monomaniacal composer desperately attempting to complete an opera based on Melville’s Moby-Dick.

Friday 04/23/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Village Gate Theatre

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Saturday 04/24/2010: 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Saturday 04/24/2010: 7:30 PM

St. John's Episcopal Cathedral 514 West Adams Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90007

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Daily: Monday 04/26/2010 - Wednesday 04/28/2010; 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The last installment of the 2010 Orange County Distinguished Speaker Series features Bob Murrin, architect of the new Ronald Tutor Campus Center.

Bob Murrin ’74, M.Arch. ’76, is a licensed architect and a principal with the Los Angeles architectural firm of AC Martin, an industry leader in innovation and artistry, where he has practiced for more than 33 years. Murrin is a member of USC’s Board of Governors and served as president of the USC Architectural Guild. He is the principal architect in charge of designing USC’s new student center.

In the event that the USC Orange County Center parking lot is full when you arrive, overflow parking is available at the Von Karman Corporate Plaza, located at 18551 Von Karman, the next driveway past the Orange County Center.

Wednesday 04/28/2010: 7:00 PM

USC Orange County Center Room C 2300 Michelson Drive Irvine CA 92612

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An exciting evening of dance by the award-winning School of Theatre Repertory Dance Company.

Artistic Advisor: Miranda Garrison

Performance Times:

Thursday, April 29 at 7:00 PM
Friday, April 30 at 7:00 PM
 

Daily: Thursday 04/29/2010 - Friday 04/30/2010; 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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The Thornton Baroque Sinfonia performs divinely with members of Musica Angelica.

This concert, led by Music Director Adam Gilbert, is jointly sponsored by The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

Thursday 04/29/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Friday 04/30/2010: 10:00 AM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The Thornton Chamber Singers perform Tarik O’Regan’s Ecstasies Above, Badings’ Trois Chansons Bretonnes, and music by Brahms, Des Pres and Jannequin.

Jo-Michael Scheibe, music director

Friday 04/30/2010: 7:30 PM

St. John's Episcopal Cathedral 514 West Adams Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90007

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The Fiesta of the Horse Spectacular is dedicated to raising awareness and much needed funds for cancer research. 

The fiesta also honors the rich history between horses and people. The event features an entertaining, educational, multicultural Broadway-style equestrian and musical spectacular — a dazzling display of the magnificence, elegance and agility of the equestrian community, copmlete with Latin, Mariachi and other music, as well as flamenco and folkloric dancing.

The evening will include USC equine mascot Traveler, celebrities, vendors, foods, a silent auction, horse raffles and the raffle of a Yamaha Golf Cart.

Many local and national organizations have benefited from funds raised at the fiesta, including the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, the American Cancer Society, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. 

Gates open and the festivities begin at 3 p.m. The extravaganza begins at 6 p.m.

Sponsorship and advertising opportunities are available.

Saturday 05/08/2010: 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Los Angeles Equestrian Center 480 Riverside Drive Burbank CA 91506

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Join USC’s Max Kade Institute for two days of Richard Wagner-themed discussion, theater and song.

• Wotan’s Ring Parable (street ballad). Text, Cornelius Schnauber. Music, Tom Schnauber. Performance by Christina Linhardt, soprano, and Yulia Levin, piano.
  
• Stage reading: Die Nibelungen Saga. Richard Wagner’s original story of his Ring tetralogy, read by Eric Braeden.
  
• Lectures: “Inventing Germany: Wagner and the National Imagination” by Michael Meyer, CSUN, and “How Anti-Semitic was Richard Wagner?” by Cornelius Schnauber, USC. A panel discussion will follow.
  
• Fasold and Fafner Paint the Town, Ring Rhapsody for Two Wagner Tuben and Piano by Tom Schnauber. Performed by Yulia Levin, piano, and Wagner Tuben players to be announced.

Dates: 05/09/2010, 05/17/2010: 7:30 PM

Max Kade Institute 2714 South Hoover Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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Acclaimed scholar and lawyer Larry Gostin considers the ethical issues surrounding the health needs of the planet’s poorest citizens.

Professor Gostin teaches Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He holds multiple faculty appointments, including professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and director of the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities — a collaborating center of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gostin is visiting professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and research fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University. Professor Gostin is the Health Law and Ethics editor and contributing writer for the Journal of the American Medical Association. In 2007, the director general of the World Health Organization appointed Gostin to the International Health Regulations Roster of Experts and the Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health. Gostin currently chairs the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Health Informational Privacy, and has chaired committees on genomics and on prisoner research. The IOM awarded Professor Gostin the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal for distinguished service to further its mission of science and health. Gostin’s recent books include Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press, 2nd ed., 2008); Biosecurity In The Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law (Stanford University Press, 2008); Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2007); and The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
 
May 11
Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium

May 12
University Park Campus, Town and Gown, Ballroom

Hosted in partnership with the Gould School of Law and the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Dates: 05/11/2010, 05/12/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Multiple Locations

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This seminar will provide a proven framework that helps leaders in business, human resources (HR) and organization answer this key question.

You will learn and apply the framework featured in Beyond HR (Harvard Business School Publishing) by John Boudreau and Pete Ramstad. Using that framework, Boudreau and Ramstad will show you how to analyze your own strategy to uncover hidden, vital pivot points where your HR and talent management will make their biggest strategic contribution.

The seminar is built on Boudreau and Ramstad's unique "decision science" for talent, which uses many of the same principles of decision sciences, such as finance and marketing. This framework has enabled organizations to achieve true line-of-sight between HR investments and their sustainable strategic success. This framework and the talentship decision science are based on 10 years of research, application and work with leading organizations.

Benefits

• Unique focus on the integration between business strategy, HR strategy, and talent and organization implications
• Hands-on experience with the proven framework featured in the Harvard Business School Publishing book Beyond HR, using developing and analyzing strategies to discover unique strategic value in human and organizational capital
• A guided learning process with a proprietary array of rigorous and practical tools that have been used by organizations such as Allstate, Corning, Deluxe, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, PepsiCo and The Toro Company
• A workshop-learning approach that is based on leading research in strategy, economics, organizational behavior and psychology

This is a highly interactive workshop. Participants work directly with tools to analyze organizational strategy at all levels. You will use tools to identify the "lenses" that reveal where talent and organization decisions most affect strategic and business success, and the implications for human resource and organization practices. You will practice by applying these tools to available information from organizations, and you will learn about other organizations through discussion and breakout work.

Who Should Attend

This event is for any leaders who want to help their organization find unique strategy opportunities in their talent management strategy and how it is organized and deployed. This includes leaders in human resources, HR strategy, organization effectiveness and talent management. This workshop is particularly valuable for HR generalists, business partners, strategists, functional leaders, leaders outside the HR function, or those with non-HR backgrounds who have recently taken HR leadership positions.

Daily: Wednesday 06/02/2010 - Friday 06/04/2010; All day

Portofino Hotel 260 Portofino Way Redondo Beach CA 90277

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Professor James Kincaid and guest speakers will lead discussions, small-group work and hands-on activities to explore questions such as: the origin of the Ring cycle story; the operas' political backdrop; literary influences upon Emerson, Whitman, Joyce, T.S. Eliot and others; and Wagnerian intersections with issues of gender, melodrama, anti-Semitism and popular culture.

Guest speakers will include USC faculty members in philosophy, art history, English, comparative literature, Italian and music, as well as representatives from the Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other cultural institutions.

There will be four sessions:

Monday, June 7, 7-9:30 p.m.
University Park Campus, Taper Hall

Saturday, June 12, Time TBA
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Backstage

Monday, June 14, 7-9:30 p.m.
University Park Campus, Taper Hall

Monday, June 21, 7-9:30 p.m.
University Park Campus, Taper Hall

Register online at:  https://www.regonline.com/WagnerRingCycle

Dates: 06/07/2010, 06/12/2010, 06/14/2010, 06/21/2010: All day

University Park Campus Multiple Locations

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This seminar will show you how to go beyond simple benchmarking to a more strategic and uniquely functional approach to talent management. The focus of the course is designing and implementing a world class talent management system. Drawing upon a broad range of organizations and the latest thinking, participants will learn about best practices and pitfalls across the full spectrum of components — high-potential pools, linchpin or pivot roles, metrics, tracking systems, and talent strategies. Participants will examine out-of-the-box approaches that challenge conventional wisdom.

The seminar will be a pragmatic, application-oriented experience focused on designing and implementing talent management processes.

Presenters will include Jay Conger, John Boudreau and Ed Lawler.

Dates: 09/21/2010, 09/22/2010: All day

Portofino Hotel 260 Portofino Way Redondo Beach CA 90277

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Participants will learn from best-practice examples about the critical design features of well constructed leadership development systems, including action learning, coaching, 360-degree feedback, executive education and on-the-job learning. A central feature of the course will be effectively deploying and implementing these interventions.

This workshop will employ a hands-on, application-oriented approach to leadership development, resulting in a highly interactive and case-based experience.

Presenters will include Jay Conger.

Dates: 09/22/2010, 09/23/2010: All day

Portofino Hotel 260 Portofino Way Redondo Beach CA 90277

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