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From Nietzsche to Star Wars
Thursday, April 15, 2010 : 7:30pm to 9:00pm
University Park Campus
Free
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.