The Scripting of Time
Author Russell Banks and filmmaker Atom Egoyan discuss the excitement of using history as a subject for literature and film.
November 23
Author Russell Banks and filmmaker Atom Egoyan discuss the excitement of using history as a subject for literature and film.
November 23
Classical KUSC Radio
Filling the airwaves with music and arts programming, KUSC is the largest nonprofit classical station in the country.
Twenty-four hours a day at 91.5 FM
Filling the airwaves with music and arts programming, KUSC is the largest nonprofit classical station in the country.
Twenty-four hours a day at 91.5 FM
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES
Clay Tablets to Cameras: Objects That Transform
The College Commons: The Cultural Life of Objects

Thursday, November 19, 2009 : 3:00pm
University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
Room 240
Free
What do ancient tablets and camera phones have in common?
This event focuses on objects that record — objects that have, since the beginning of history, accomplished a plurality of purposes, one of which, paradoxically, is the recording of objects. What is the relationship between this duality and its consequences, from the invention of writing as way of ordering the universe to currently evolving forms of communicative technologies? How do the worlds of “writing about objects” and “objects that write” overlap?
Jennifer Cabibbo
(213) 740-5746



