Match your aquatic prowess against fellow Trojans — swim two or more miles for nine straight weeks and win prizes.

Register online September 1-14. The challenge ends on November 16.

1. Sign up online by going to www.usc.edu/recsports and selecting Wellness Programs.

2. Check in with a lifeguard at the McDonald's Swim Stadium or Physical Education Building pool before and after each swim. The use of swim equipment such as fins, paddles, kickboards, etc., is permitted in this challenge.

3. Your progress will be posted every Friday online and on the pool deck of the McDonald's Swim Stadium (Lifeguard Office).

Trojans, swim on!

Daily: Tuesday 09/01/2009 - Monday 11/16/2009; All day

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center

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In a weekly lunch series, students discuss national and state politics with experts from the worlds of government, policy and journalism.

Every Wednesday, 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.

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

Weekly: Wed 09/02/2009 - 11/18/2009; 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Senior Commons Room

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Raphael and Spada explore the intersections of astronomy, evolution, mythology and countless other subjects. Like latter-day alchemists, they transmute a diverse selection of visual materials into rich, multi-layered perspectives on the nature of the universe.

Last summer, Raphael and Spada began to explore the libraries' rare holdings in fields ranging from Kabbalism to geometry. Inspired by their discoveries, the Southern California artists created "From Zero to Infinity," a series of digital prints that confront the eternal principles — creation and destruction, harmony and strife, infinity and void — that define our existence.

"From Zero to Infinity: The Story of Everything" traces Raphael and Spada's creative journey in three exhibitions: the objects that inspired their work, the multi-layered digital prints of "From Zero to Infinity," and visual materials that continue the artists' explorations of these exotic mysteries. Complementing Raphael and Spada's digital artworks, the libraries present "Notes from the Story of Everything," an exhibition of rare books and other materials from the special collections that partly inspired their creative journey.

An opening reception is scheduled for September 3, 5:30-7 p.m. Please RSVP by going to www.usc.edu/esvp and entering the code ARTSCIENCE, or by calling (213) 740-1744.

Daily: Thursday 09/03/2009 - Sunday 12/13/2009; All day

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library

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An exhibit follows each step in the selection of a new justice, highlighting historical figures, famous incidents and recent events.

With the recent confirmation of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the USC Gould School of Law takes a closer look at the nomination and confirmation of new justices.

The exhibition “The Path to the Supreme Court: The Nomination and Confirmation Process of a Justice” explains each step of the process, using photographs, political cartoons, news clippings, and the official Supreme Court Justice bobbleheads.

Daily: Thursday 09/03/2009 - Friday 12/18/2009; All day

University Park Campus Musick Law Building Foyer

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Achieve specific weight-loss goals in an intimate group setting, with co-workers to help motivate and support your efforts.

An open house on September 3 will introduce the Weight Watchers at Work program

When you start losing weight and notice the difference in your health, appearance and energy, you will most likely become a strong supporter of the statement, "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels."

Fees and the length of series are dependent on the number of participants.

Call Nazeen Sayeed at (323) 442-8354 for information about the Health Sciences Campus Weight Watchers at Work program.

Weekly: Thu 09/03/2009 - 01/07/2010; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Gould School of Law, Room 2

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The exhibition will include pieces from the ongoing Space Field series, as well as work from Japan, Paris, Turkey, Mexico and Alaska. It will also feature work from several collaborations between Raphael and other artists.

Victor Raphael (born 1950) works in a wide range of media, spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel — through space or time — and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water and its protean and timeless qualities form an important part.

Raphael's photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf, earned his work inclusion among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, a 1996 international touring exhibition that commemorated the company's 50th anniversary.

Related Events

October 15
Songs in the Earth and Air, a concert of vocal improvisations inspired by Raphael's work.

October 23, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Artist talk. Raphael will discuss his body of work. Refreshments will be served.

October 29
Videos by Victor Raphael, a screening of six Raphael videos, and a discussion with the artist and David Wilson, director of the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Weekly: Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 09/09/2009 - 12/19/2009; 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art Harris Hall

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Through meditation, relationships improve, outlook brightens, and opportunities open up. Give it a try.

Loose clothing is recommended. Do not plan to attend immediately after dining. We will be sitting on the floor. Foam mats are provided; if you would like a softer mat, please bring your own.

Organized by the Zen Buddhist Association at USC

Weekly: Wed 09/23/2009 - 11/11/2009; 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

University Park Campus University Religious Center Fishbowl

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Children from the USC Family of Schools express themselves artistically using only one color.

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 "Color Me..."

Each exhibition kicks off with an opening reception honoring the forty students with the best artwork. The children have the opportunity to speak with family, friends and community members about their artwork. They are congratulated for their achievements during an award 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 10/27/2009 - Friday 12/04/2009; All day

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

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By Christopher Piehler
Directed by Jack Rowe

The Triangle Factory Fire Project is the first of two productions presented during the 2009-10 academic year that will showcase our second-year M.F.A. in Acting students.

Thursday, November 5, 7 p.m.
Friday, November 6, 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 7, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 8, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Thursday 11/05/2009 - Sunday 11/08/2009; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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A film fest examines the impact of the Bond series and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, the producer who brought it to life.

For more than 30 years, the name Albert “Cubby” Broccoli was synonymous with the most prolific and financially successful film franchise in American cinema, Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Beginning with Dr. No in 1962, Broccoli transformed Fleming’s novels into a groundbreaking and trendsetting pop culture phenomenon. The James Bond movies were responsible for reinventing the spy genre and helped redefine the popular construct of masculinity.

Presented in celebration of the Cubby Broccoli centennial, this three-day festival will feature screenings and discussions examining the impact of the Bond series and the producer who brought it to life. Panel discussions will feature key figures from the Bond franchise and from the Broccoli family. Additionally, an exhibit featuring a wide array of gadgets and props from the films will be on display during the festival.

Schedule

Friday, November 6

7 p.m. Dr. No (1962, 110 minutes)

9 p.m. Goldfinger (1964, 110 minutes)

Saturday, November 7

12 p.m. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969, 142 minutes)

2:40 p.m. Live and Let Die (1973, 121 minutes)

5 p.m. “James Bond Today”
Panel discussion featuring Barbara Broccoli, Michael Wilson, Rob Wade, Neal Purvis and Marc Forster

6:45 p.m. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, 125 minutes)

9 p.m. The Living Daylights (1987, 130 minutes)

Sunday, November 8

12:30 p.m. GoldenEye (1995, 130 minutes)

2:50 p.m. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997, 119 minutes)

5 p.m.: “Cubby Broccoli, Producer”
Panel discussion featuring Barbara Broccoli, Michael Wilson, Tom Mankiewicz, Richard Kiel and Maud Adams

6:30 p.m. Reception in Queens Courtyard 

8 p.m. Casino Royale (2006, 144 minutes)

Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts

Daily: Friday 11/06/2009 - Sunday 11/08/2009; All day

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Frank Sinatra Hall

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A chance for young scientists to network with academic and industry leaders in the pharmaceutical, biomedical and biological sciences.

Moving Targets is held this year in conjunction with the Annual AAPS Meeting and Exposition. This event promotes the interactions of young scientists in the pharmaceutical, biomedical and biological sciences with one another, as well as with academic leaders and members of the pharmaceutical industry.

This year's topic, "Drug Delivery and Therapeutics to the Tumor Microenvironment," will include presenters from industry, academia and medical health care.

The attendees will include academic and industry faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students from various national and international universities and colleges.

Speakers

• Hiroshi Maeda, M.D., Ph.D., Sojo University, Japan
• Neil Gibson, Ph.D., Pfizer, La Jolla
• Dai Fukumura M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University
• Jindrich Kopecek, Ph.D., D.Sc., University of Utah
• Francis C. Szoka, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
• Napoleone Ferrara, Ph.D., Genentech, San Francisco
• Walter Wolf, Ph.D., University of Southern California 
  

You must preregister to attend this event. Registration for the event is free and includes parking, a full day's meals and admission to Lucky Strike at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles in the evening. There will also be a poster competition with generous cash prizes.  Space is limited, so please register soon.

To download the Moving Targets 2009 program, click here.

Saturday 11/07/2009: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Midtown at USC 3540 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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USC's Nathalie Burle defines Francophonie and addresses its pedagogical implications in the learning of French.

This workshop will provide teaching strategies as well as classroom resources such as francophone literature, film, music, etc.

Burle is a lecturer in the USC Department of French and Italian. She received her doctorate in Educational Psychology, Learning, and Instruction from the USC Rossier School of Education. Her research interests are in cognitive language development, second-language acquisition and pedagogy, curriculum and faculty development, and photolanguage.

Saturday 11/07/2009: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Taper Hall of Humanities 320

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Professors Anderson, Bottjer and Pinkus lead a bus trip to observe the range of time around us in Los Angeles.

Tying in with the seminar Human Time, Geological Time: Discrepancies and Adaptations, the USC College’s Lawford Anderson (Earth Sciences), David Bottjer (Earth Sciences) and Karen Pinkus (French and Italian, and Comparative Literature) climb aboard to study the subject firsthand. Making stops at Silverado Canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains, the Laguna Beach area, and Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, visiting fossils and oil pumps, they will discuss geological change, energy sources and land use along the way.

To RSVP, use the event code "CC1106".

Saturday 11/07/2009: 9:00 AM

Multiple Locations Greater Los Angeles Area

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Graduate Upperclassmen and Family Housing celebrates Graduate Student Appreciation Week with a visit to the land of the grape.

Since 1917, The San Antonio Winery has added flair and flavor to celebrations of friends and families throughout Los Angeles and the West. Today, it is the last of more than 100 producing wineries that once lined the Los Angeles River Basin. It is a popular restaurant and legendary banquet location, a comprehensive tasting room, and an international wine shop with hundreds of domestic and imported labels. The winery is an oasis of good living in the heart of the city.

We plan to take our graduate student community on a tour of the winery, with complimentary wine tasting followed by a relaxing lunch in the winery dining hall.

To RSVP, please email Pallavi Sharma at erpallavisharma@gmail.com with "San Antonio Winery" in the subject line. A mandatory payment of $5 is required to reserve your place for the event.

Saturday 11/07/2009: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

San Antonio Winery 737 Lamar Street Los Angeles CA 90031

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The USC Fisher Museum of Art presents a fun-filled day for children and their families to explore art together. Activities will include a photographic portrait-making workshop, exhibition tours, face painting, prizes, live music, cotton candy, popcorn and hot dogs.

All ages are welcome!

Saturday 11/07/2009: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art Harris Hall

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The first performance will be at 3 p.m., with the second following at 7 p.m.

Sunday 11/08/2009: All day

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Gustavo Dudamel, the vibrant new music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducts one of Verdi’s greatest.

Gustavo Dudamel’s remarkable artistry and his unique ability to communicate and become one with an orchestra are only two of the characteristics that establish him as one of the leading figures in today’s music world. Join us in the spectacular Walt Disney Concert Hall as Dudamel conducts one of Verdi’s great works with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and featured artists Leah Crocetto, soprano; Ekaterina Gubanova, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Calleja, tenor; and John Relyea, bass.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Due to high demand, the tickets will be distributed on a lottery basis. One lottery entry per student will be allowed. The information entered must match a valid USC student ID. Students will be informed of their ticket status after the lottery closes.

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 5 p.m.

Lunch will be provided.

Sunday 11/08/2009: 12:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012

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Winners in the Western regional finals go on to compete in the national semifinals and the grand national finals in New York City.

About The Met Auditions

Designed to discover promising young opera singers and assist in the development of their careers, The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions are held annually in 15 regions of the United States and Canada. There are 45 districts within these regions, each providing an opportunity for talented singers to enter the auditions at the local level. The auditions are administered by National Council members and volunteers in each region.

Winners of the district auditions advance to their regional finals, where they compete to win a trip to New York to participate in the national semifinals, a competition held on the stage of The Metropolitan Opera. The semifinals are closed to the general public. Approximately 10 semifinalists will be selected as national finalists and will compete the following Sunday in a public concert, the Grand Finals Concert, accompanied by The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

The jury will award up to five Grand Winner awards of $15,000 each. The concert will be broadcast nationwide on The Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network. The remaining national finalists will receive $5,000 each, and those singers who were national semifinalists but who did not advance to the national finals will be given $1,500 to further their studies.

Many of the world’s foremost singers — including Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Ben Heppner, Jessye Norman, Samuel Ramey, Frederica von Stade, Deborah Voigt and Dolora Zajick — have received awards from the National Council. Approximately 100 former auditioners appear annually in Metropolitan Opera productions.

Sunday 11/08/2009: 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Meet and mingle with your fellow grad and undergrad students, while enjoying good old-fashioned hamburgers and (kosher) hot dogs.

In conjunction with the Second Annual Graduate Research Fair, join Graduate Upperclassmen and Family Housing for our annual BBQ.

Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week will commence with the traditional barbecue — a chance for students to discuss research and socialize while enjoying a bite to eat.

If you have questions, email either Vivi Tolani at btolani@usc.edu or Celso Delgado at celsodel@usc.edu.

Sunday 11/08/2009: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Parkside Residential College, Courtyard

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The USC Catholic Center presents a talk by philosopher and author Fr. Robert J. Spitzer.

Topics will include what science can and cannot establish, and the current status of the relationship between reason and faith.

All are welcome.

For more information, visit www.catholictrojan.org or call (213) 749-5341.

Sunday 11/08/2009: 8:10 PM - 9:30 PM

University Park Campus USC Catholic Center

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Guy Berger, dean of Journalism and Media Studies at South Africa's Rhodes University, speaks about identities in South African politics.

Professor Berger describes himself as a media activist who also masquerades as an academic, and he takes seriously the role of a university as a critical intellectual space in society. These motives led to two stints in apartheid jails and five years of exile, and a passion for contributing to media's role in democracy and development.

A light lunch will be provided.

Monday 11/09/2009: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Tyler Pavilion

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Join us for the premiere of Yoga@Fisher, a new monthly series incorporating spirituality and the visual arts.

The first class of every month will be taught by Cathie Baker of USC Physical Education. The second class will be taught by a yoga instructor from Rec Sports. The third class of the month will be a meditation series hosted by USC Religious Life.

Each session is open to the first 20 people to show up; the rest will be waitlisted for the next class. There is no RSVP for this event.

Co-sponsored by the USC Fisher Museum of Art, USC Student Life, USC Recreational Sports, USC Department of Physical Education, the USC Office of Religious Life, and Clif Bar.

Dates: 09/14/2009, 09/21/2009, 09/28/2009, 10/05/2009, 10/12/2009, 10/19/2009, 11/02/2009, 11/09/2009, 11/16/2009: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art Harris Hall

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Amy Gerstler, author of Dearest Creature, received her B.A. in psychology from Pitzer College in 1978 and her M.F.A. in nonfiction from Bennington College in 2000. Her other books of poetry include Ghost Girl; Medicine, finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds; Nerve Storm; Bitter Angel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The True Bride.

Kenneth Turan, author of Free For All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told, is film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and the director of the Times’ Book Prizes. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Turan has been the Times’ book review editor and a staff writer for The Washington Post and TV Guide. His other books include Never Coming To A Theater Near You and Now In Theaters. He is also on the board of directors of the National Yiddish Book Center.

Monday 11/09/2009: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Intellectual Commons, Room 233

Health economist Ruth Levine talks about designing and assessing social sector programs in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

Internationally recognized for her expertise on global health and health policy, Dr. Ruth Levine is vice president for Programs and Operations at the Center for Global Development. She leads the center's work on global health policy, and chairs a series of working groups on key policy and finance problems related to the effective use of donor funding for health programs in low-income countries.

Before joining the center, Levine designed, supervised and evaluated loans at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1997 and 1999, she served as adviser on the social sectors in the office of the executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank. Levine is the author of Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health and Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls.

November 9
Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium

November 10
University Park Campus, Town and Gown Ballroom

Hosted in partnership with the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development

Dates: 11/09/2009, 11/10/2009: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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In this romantic comedy, the love between an Arab Muslim man and a Jewish woman is tested when they reveal a complication to their traditional parents.

A discussion will follow the screening.

Refreshments will be served.

This is the first event in a Muslim-Jewish film series.

Monday 11/09/2009: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

University Park Campus Leavey Library Auditorium

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Since 1998, a brutal war has shaken the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than four million people have died. And there are the uncountable casualties: tens of thousands of women and girls kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. The world knows nothing of these women.

Join us for a viewing of The Greatest Silence, winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and inspiration for a 2008 U.N. resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war.

Sponsored by the the Graduate and Professional Students Senate, the University Residential Student Community, the Viterbi Graduate Student Association, the Chemistry Department, the Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy Department, and the USC Center for Women and Men

Monday 11/09/2009: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Waite Phillips Hall B27

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Asian religious practices have traveled to the United States, taking forms such as spirit possession ceremonies in Orange County.

This event highlights Asian religious practices in the U.S., including spirit possession ceremonies in Orange County, which feature juggling with flaming incense sticks; martial arts-inspired dances with swords, lances, and bow and arrow; cross-dressing mediums (women dressing as warriors, men as beautiful princesses); and the distribution of fruit, chocolate, scarves, costume jewelry and cakes.

Through video and reporting, the USC College’s Janet Hoskins (Anthropology) and Jane Iwamura (Religion, and American Studies and Ethnicity) consider the range of practices and beliefs and their migratory natures.

Tuesday 11/10/2009: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus University Club

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Rev. Wulf, pastor of the United University Church on campus, will reflect on the effects religion has traditionally had on the ways lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons come to grips with who they are and how they will live in the world. In many cases, religion has served a negative role, leading LGBT people to develop low self-esteem, to become self-condemning, to retreat into closets, and sometimes even to cause themselves harm.

Rev. Wulf offers an alternative model of religious practice for LGBT people that helps them integrate their sexual identities and find healthy ways of living in the world. Such a model is both critical and constructive and utilizes methodologies developed in liberation theology movements.

Lunch will be provided.

Tuesday 11/10/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Waite Phillips Hall 403

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Dr. Chen is associate professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacoeconomics Policy a Center for Excellence in Teaching Faculty Fellow.

When we think of a "university lecture," what most often comes to mind is an instructor speaking on a particular topic for several hours, with a short break between each hour. How effective is this traditional method of teaching? Maybe the telling question is: How much of these lectures do we remember today? For most of us, the answer is probably "very little." The key problem is that the traditional method of teaching is not consistent with what is known about adult learning.

The purpose of this seminar is to share proven teaching methods that will assist us in generating active participation, accelerated learning, and champions/leaders.

The session will focus on these questions: What makes the elements of national health care change collaboratives so powerful in accelerating the learning of participants? How can I use these elements to accelerate the actions of participants? What are examples of ways to integrate these elements into classroom lectures or small group discussions?

Dr. Chen will also talk about examples of teaching that incorporate "action learning," and "Ten Great Ways To Conduct Winning Breakouts."

Tuesday 11/10/2009: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Room 233

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Learn about image methods used in USC laboratories and identifying possible active groups at USC for collaboration.

The workshop will be lead by Susan Forsburg, professor of Molecular and Computational Biology and Center for Excellence in Research Fellow.

Diverse imaging methods — including confocal and deconvolution light microscopy and electron microscopy — are in use in labs at USC to investigate cellular structures and functions. The workshop will describe some of these methods and relevant instrumentation, and help identify possibilities for collaboration with currently active groups or units; it will also inform more experienced investigators of the diversity of approaches already in use. The session will serve as the founding meeting for an imaging super-group at the University Park Campus.

Tuesday 11/10/2009: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Credit Union Building, Room 329

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Robert Darnton, University Professor and director of the Harvard University Library, considers the importance of books in the electronic age.

Darnton’s own books include The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (2010), The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995) and The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984).

Tuesday 11/10/2009: 4:00 PM

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

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Hossein Jadvar, associate professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, presents aspects of molecular imaging in research.

We are currently witnessing an evolution from the current nonspecific imaging methods toward patient- and disease-specific imaging evaluation based on morphologic, physiologic, molecular and genetic markers of disease.

This molecular imaging evolution is stimulated through the use of multi-modality imaging systems and "smart" specific imaging agents for achieving the key tasks of accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, treatment response prediction and evaluation, surveillance and prognosis.

In this workshop, we will explore and discuss the expanding role of imaging in translational and clinical research.

Wednesday 11/11/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library East Conference Room

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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 11/11/2009: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Credit Union Building, Room 329

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Peter Guber is founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, professional sports and new media; as well as former chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. He currently holds the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development's Holt Visiting Professorship.

Wednesday 11/11/2009: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center Embassy Room

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In a liberal democracy, what fundamental moral convictions should govern decisions on capital punishment, abortion and physician-assisted suicide?

Should we (the citizens of a liberal democracy, acting through our elected representatives) retain capital punishment, or abolish it? Should we ban abortion or permit it? Should we ban physician-assisted suicide or permit it? Should we refuse to extend the benefit of law to same-sex unions, or should we create civil unions for same-sex couples... and should such unions be called "marriages"? What is the proper role of religiously grounded morality in a liberal democracy?

Michael John Perry specializes in three areas:

• American constitutional law and theory, with an emphasis on constitutional rights and on the courts' role — especially the U.S. Supreme Court's role — in protecting constitutional rights
• Law, morality and religion, with an emphasis on the role of religiously based morality in the law and politics of liberal democracy
• Human rights theory
  

Perry is the author of more than 60 articles and essays and 11 books, including Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy (Cambridge, 2003), Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts (Cambridge, 2007) and Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court (Cambridge, 2009). His 11th book, The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.

Since 2003, Perry has held a Robert W. Woodruff University Chair at Emory University, where he teaches in the law school. A Woodruff Chair is the highest honor Emory University bestows on a member of its faculty. Before coming to Emory, Perry was the inaugural occupant  of the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law at Northwestern University (1990-97), where he taught for 15 years (1982-97). Perry then held the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University (1997-2003).

During the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years, Perry is splitting his time between Emory University and the University of San Diego, where, as the University Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law and Peace Studies, he is teaching a course on the law and morality of international human rights to law students and to graduate students at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies.

Wednesday 11/11/2009: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center TBA

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Master of conceptual architecture François Roche discusses the work of his Paris-based firm, R&Sie(n).

Roche, founder and principal of R&Sie(n), will discuss the organic, oppositional architectural projects of the practice, which are concerned with the bond between building, context and human relations. Roche will explain his concept of “spoiled climate’’ chameleon architecture, which links hybrids of the human body to the body of architecture by a re-scenarization on the rules of nature.

“Making with…” is Roche’s way of describing R&Sie(n)’s research into a critical experience of architecture through a mutation of contextual parameters. Scenarios of hybridization, grafting, cloning and morphing give rise to perpetual transformation of architecture, which strives to break down the antinomies of object/subject or object/territory. Experimental and inventive, the architecture of R&Sie(n) seeks to be profoundly critical — an architecture that is articulated as multiple narrative apparatuses and relationship strategy made of substances from each situation.
 
François Roche has taught at the Bartlett School in London; the Vienna University of Technology; Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona; École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris; the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; and Columbia University in New York. He has lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Harvard Graduate School of Design; the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

R&Sie(n)’s projects have been exhibited at Columbia University, New York, 1999-2000; the University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-2000; ICA, London, 2001; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004; the Pompidou Center, Paris, 2004; MAM/Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2005 and 2006; MIT’s Media Lab, Cambridge, 2006; the Tate Modern, London, 2006; the Orléans/ArchiLab International Architectural Conference, 1999, 2001 and 2003. R&Sie(n) was among those selected by France for the 1990, 1996, 2000 and 2002 Venice Architectural Biennale.

François Roche holds the AC Martin Visiting Professorship in Architectural Design Chair. This endowment stands as a lasting tribute to the Martin architectural legacy, and to their outstanding leadership. The endowment funds a distinguished visiting faculty member whose teaching will instill the philosophical leadership of the various design disciplines of the architectural team and will help young students uphold the ideals of the master builder.

The lecture is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1, off of Exposition Boulevard.

Wednesday 11/11/2009: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center

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QD3 Entertainment and the Annenberg School present Dean Ernest J. Wilson III, communication and journalism professor Josh Kun and renowned artist Quincy Jones III for a special screening of the modern documentary Tha Carter, about Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., aka Lil Wayne.

The documentary, executive produced by Jones along with Jared Freeman, was directed by Adam Bhala Lough and produced by Lough and Josh Krause.

Wayne, an internationally known rapper whose most recent album went platinum in one week, has been said to be “the voice of his generation.” Tha Carter is “an intoxicating, cinematic journey into the thoughts and world of an extremely complicated man whose creative force is something to behold.” Following him all over the country and to Amsterdam, Lough mixes fly-on-the-wall footage of Lil Wayne in his hotel room and on his bus with artfully composed concert footage, capturing “one of the most inspired (and eccentric) musicians of modern America.”

The screening will be followed by a student-led discussion with Jones and will feature an opportunity for student blog commentaries on the QD3 Web site.

RSVP is required. To RSVP, click here.

Wednesday 11/11/2009: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg Auditorium

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Wednesday 11/11/2009: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Chris Mason Johnson's first feature charts the lives of five New Yorkers, a mix of gay and straight best friends about to turn 30.

The New Twenty was written by Chris Mason Johnson and Ishmael Chawla and directed by Chris Mason Johnson. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Johnson.

Admission is free and open to all.

About The New Twenty

Chris Mason Johnson's award-winning feature introduces a group of friends on the verge of turning 30. Bound together since college, they find their tight relationship threatened when an older, charismatic man joins their ranks and lures the alpha of the pack into a new business venture. With emotionally vivid performances and nuanced characters, The New Twenty paints the portrait of a generation living the highs and lows of a Wall Street world destined to disappear overnight.

The year is 2006 and prosperity seems unending: Two of the five are investment bankers, another works in advertising, another does freelance database design, and only one of the five might be called a slacker. But they all suffer from, as loner Felix puts it, "a touch of existential malaise courtesy of late capitalism — you know, the usual." So if money isn't the root of their discontent, what is? Whatever they're searching for — love, meaning in work — they may not find it in each other. On TV, friendship lasts forever. But in real life...?

Starring Bill Sage, Terry Serpico, Nicole Bilderback, Colin Fickes, Ryan Locke, Thomas Sadoski, Karen Olivo.
 
Provided courtesy of Wolfe Releasing. Running time: 92 minutes.

Now available on DVD, Netflix and iTunes.

To learn more about the film and 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 8 p.m.

Wednesday 11/11/2009: 8:15 PM - 10:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building Room 112

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A comedy about a serpentine day in the life of 10 seemingly disparate women who have one thing in common.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer and director Sebastian Gutierrez.

Admission is free and open to all.

About Women in Trouble

From filmmaker Sebastian Gutierrez comes a film about 10 women — including a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, and a pair of call girls — who find themselves in trouble. Starring Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Connie Britton, Marley Shelton, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Simon Baker and Josh Brolin. 

Provided courtesy of Screen Media Films. Rated R. Running time: 92 minutes. Coming to theaters on November 13.

To learn more about the film and 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 8:55 p.m.

Wednesday 11/11/2009: 9:00 PM - 12:00 AM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building Room 112

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Christopher Cox is 28th chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a USC alumnus. Myron T. Steele, seventh Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, was named one of the most 100 influential people in corporate governance by Directorship magazine. They will be joined by more than 20 experts in various aspects of corporate governance, many of whom are sitting directors.

Organized by the USC Marshall School in 2006, the annual Corporate Governance Summit is designed to give directors and executives the information they need to meet the challenges of governance today. This program has been accredited by Institutional Shareholder Services and features experts from the USC Marshall School of Business and the Leventhal School of Accounting, and a wide range of speakers and panelists with hands-on experience.

In addition to Chairman Cox and Judge Steele, speakers will include:

• Warren Bennis, University Professor and distinguished professor of Business Administration and professor of Management and Organization at the USC Marshall School, and best-selling author
• Judith Blumenthal, professor of Clinical Management and Organization at the USC Marshall School, and director of Guess? Inc.
• Duke Bristow, professor at the USC Marshall School, and director of the Landec Corporation
• James Ellis, dean of the USC Marshall School, and director of Quiksilver Inc.
• Larry Harris, Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance and professor of Finance and Business Economics at the USC Marshall School; director of the Clipper Fund Inc. and Interactive Brokers Group Inc.; and former chief economist of the SEC
• Bill Holder, Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting at the USC Leventhal School of Accounting
• Ken Merchant, Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair in Accountancy and professor of Accounting at the USC Leventhal School of Accounting, and director of Entropic Communications Inc. and Universal Guardian Holdings Inc.
• Kevin Murphy, Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance at the USC Marshall School of Business, and special adviser to U.S. government on executive compensation
• Stephen Brown, director and senior counsel, Corporate Governance and Business Affairs, TIAA -CREF
• William F. Coffin, CEO, CCG Investor Relations
• Rich Corgel, executive director, Ernst & Young LLP
• Chris Crawford, senior vice president and regional practice leader, Willis Executive Risks
• Colleen Cunningham, global managing director, Resources Global Professionals
• Robert Deutschman, managing director, Cappello Capital Corp.
• Stanley Gold, president and CEO of Shamrock Holdings; director of The Walt Disney Company and Ansell Limited; chairman of Tadiran Communications Ltd.; and chairman of the USC Board of Trustees
• Joe Grundfest, W.A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
• Stephen Krasnow, managing partner and founder at APCO, The Appraisal Company
• Larry J. Livingston, music director of Thornton Orchestras and professor of Conducting, USC Thornton School of Music
• Simon M. Lorne, vice chairman and chief legal officer, Millennium Management LLC; director, Teledyne Technologies Inc.; and former general counsel to the SEC
• Ed Merino, CEO, Office of the Chairman
• M. Christian Mitchell, director of Special Value Opportunities Fund LLC, First Chicago Bancorp and Reis. Inc.
• David Robbins, partner, Bingham McCutchen
• Bob Rollo, partner, Heidrick & Struggles
• Walter Smiechewicz, senior managing director, Enterprise Risk Management, Countrywide Financial Corp.
• Les Sussman, managing director, Resources Audit Solutions
• Dean Yoost, managing partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• Richard Welch, managing partner, Bingham McCutchen

Most summit sessions are open only to registered event attendees. For information on speakers, panelists and the program, please visit www.marshall.usc.edu/summit. If you have any questions about the Corporate Governance Summit, please feel free to contact dbristow@usc.edu.

Dates: 11/12/2009, 11/13/2009: All day

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center

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Guest panelists will include:

• John Chiang, California state controller
• William T. Fujioka, chief executive officer, County of Los Angeles
  
• Daniel Mazmanian, professor and director of the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise
• Dowell Myers, professor and director of the USC Population Dynamics Research Group
• Bernard Parks, Los Angeles councilmember, District 8
• Fred Silva, senior fiscal policy adviser, California Forward

Thursday 11/12/2009: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

University Park Campus Galen Center Founders Room

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Products are brands. Services are brands. And, yes, people are brands. You are your own brand steward — you decide who you matter to and why. You control how you're perceived by those you know and those you've yet to meet.

Strauss will discuss how branding applies to individuals and how you can build your own, personal, influential identity. This seminar is presented annually at the world's most prestigious business schools and is right for audiences young and old — only an interest in branding yourself is required.

Clients, agencies, media and academic institutions have called upon Strauss' award-winning brand strategy forums, presented throughout East Asia, Europe and North America. NPR, ABC Radio and The Wall Street Journal continue to seek his expertise on branding everything from presidential candidates to innovative startups and Fortune 500s.

Strauss is the managing director at Innovation Protocol, a brand strategy consulting firm that exclusively serves innovators. The firm's clients include global market leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, Korn/Ferry International and PayPal. Ten percent of the company's brand strategy services are donated to nonprofits; $230,000 in philanthropic work was delivered in 2008 alone.

Thursday 11/12/2009: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Widney Alumni House

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Located in the intimate and casual setting of Ground Zero, USC Thornton’s Jazz Night series features a variety of student jazz ensembles, directed by some of the top names in the music industry. Styles range from classic New Orleans swing to up-tempo Bebop, from fusions of jazz, funk, and soul to the hippest modern jazz around the country.

Dates: 10/08/2009, 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009, 11/12/2009, 11/19/2009, 12/03/2009: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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French-Israeli filmmaker Nurith Aviv presents a screening and discussion of her film about Hebrew.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Hebrew, formerly used primarily in religious contexts in the Jewish diaspora, has become a daily spoken language. What has been preserved of it by its being thus changed? What has it lost? What are the tensions between the sacred and quotidian use of the language?

Award-winning French-Israeli filmmaker Nurith Aviv presents Sacred Language, Spoken Language, in which writers and artists born in Israel describe their relationship with the historical, political and religious facets of Hebrew. They explore issues of identity formation and the relationships between the secular and the religious, politics and language, and the Israeli Jewish community/nation and the Jewish diaspora. The film features Haim Gouri, Michal Govrin, Victoria Hanna, Ronit Matalon, Roy Greenwald, Etgar Keret, Yitzhak Laor, Shimon Adaf, Haviva Pedaya, Yehuda Ovadya Fetaya, Zali Gurevitch, Michal Naaman and Orly Castel-Bloom.

Nurith Aviv was the first woman officially recognized as a director of photography in France. In addition to having been the director of photography for more than 50 films, including works by Agnès Varda, Amos Gitai and René Allio, she has directed several documentaries. In September 2008, a retrospective of her work was held in the Jeu de Paume in Paris, and in May 2009, she became the first filmmaker to be awarded the prestigious Prix Edouard Glissant.

Thursday 11/12/2009: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus School of Cinematic Arts 108

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Marie S. Torres of AltaMed Health Services Corporation analyzes the reform legislation before Congress and its benefits for underserved populations.

Designed for social workers and marriage and family therapists, this course will describe the principles underlying health care reform, encourage discussion among attendees about its impact to our communities, and derive strategies to communicate with elected officials.

Marie S. Torres, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., is senior vice president of Government Relations at AltaMed Health Services Corporation. With more than 30 years of experience in social work, gerontology, health services administration and legislative advocacy, she is a national speaker on integrated health, managed care, case management and public policy. Dr. Torres directed the expansion of senior services of the first Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly in Southern California, four new adult day health care centers, new case management programs targeting functionally impaired adults, and other home and community-based long-term care services in Latino and other multicultural underserved communities. A graduate of the USC School of Social Work, she is a founding member of the USC Latino Alumni Community Advisory Committee.

Proceeds will benefit the Margarita Mendez/Juan Ramos Endowed Fund in support of Latino research. Please make checks payable to the USC School of Social Work; in the memo portion of the check, please reference the Margarita Mendez/Juan Ramos Endowed Fund. Mail payment and registration form to: Casa Cardenas Senior and Family Counseling Center, P.O. Box 411141, Los Angeles, CA 90041. Payment must be received by November 6. Early registration with payment is strongly encouraged, since space is limited. Space permitting, same-day registration will be allowed beginning at 8:30 a.m. (only cash will be accepted).

Please arrive before the scheduled start time. Registrations are subject to cancellation after the scheduled start time. Registrants canceling up to 48 hours before a seminar will receive a refund, less a $10 administrative fee. A $20 service charge applies to each returned check. Nonpayment of tuition may, at the sponsor's discretion, result in the cancellation of CEU units issued.

Friday 11/13/2009: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Casa Cardenas Senior and Family Counseling Center 4141 Maine Avenue Baldwin Park CA 91706

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The University Park Campus Health Center, Residential Education and Recreational Sports offer presentations on living well.

Beyond Pizza: Eating Well at EVerybody's Kitchen and Parkside Restaurant
Just because it's "all you can eat" doesn't mean you have to!

SCuisine: Eating Well at USC
Making healthy food choices on campus and selecting snacks to energize you throughout your busy day

Energize Your Workout: Food to Fuel Your Inner Athlete
Understanding calories, proteins and carbs so that you can make healthy choices for your workout — all about sports drinks, energy bars and protein supplements

Eating for As: The Best Foods for Exams, Midterms and Finals
Choosing the foods for concentration, creativity and productivity — understanding the impact of coffee, tea, soda and energy drinks

Healthy Holiday Eating
One session about American holiday foods (international students welcome), and another about maintaining a healthy diet during the holidays

Dates: 10/09/2009, 10/12/2009, 11/13/2009, 11/20/2009, 11/23/2009, 11/30/2009, 12/14/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Careers outside academia can be rewarding intellectually and economically. Stephan Haas, Center for Excellence in Teaching fellow and professor of Physics and Astronomy, gathers a panel of former students and friends to discuss how to write a resume, prepare for an interview, negotiate a job offer, and avoid traditional pitfalls when looking for a job in industry.

The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A.

Refreshments will be served.

To RSVP, send an email to usccet@usc.edu, using "Job" in the subject line.

Friday 11/13/2009: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

University Park Campus Seaver Science Library Room 150

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According to Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin, we are in the process of losing the right to figure out things for ourselves.

"There is increasing talk about the disappearance of technical knowledge from the public domain, both because it is a security danger and because it is economically valuable," says Laughlin. "I argue that this development is not anomalous at all, but a great historic trend tied to our transition to the information age. We are in the process of losing a human right that all of us thought we had but actually didn't — the right to learn things as we can and better ourselves economically from what we learn. Increasingly, figuring out important things (as opposed to unimportant ones) for yourself will become theft and terrorism. Increasingly, reason itself will become a crime."

Prof. Robert B. Laughlin earned an A.B. in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1981. He served two years in the U.S. Army. Upon leaving MIT, he went to the Bell Labs theory group, and later to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he still consults. Laughlin joined the physics faculty of Stanford in 1984. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has won many prestigious awards, including the Oliver E. Buckley Prize, the Earnest O. Lawrence Award, the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Physics, and the Onsager Medal. He shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.

The keynote lecture is part of the Munushian Visiting Seminar Series, created by an endowment from the late Jack Munushian. Visit ee.usc.edu/munushian for more information.

Friday 11/13/2009: 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Andrus Gerontology Center Room 124

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Acclaimed conductor Helmuth Rilling directs the USC Thornton Choral Artists in this unparalleled musical contribution.

Helmuth Rilling leads the USC Thornton Choral Artists in Bach’s Mass in B Minor. The work explores the meanings of faith, religion and spirituality through Bach’s emotional, mathematical, musical and structural treatment of the Latin text. Renowned sacred-music scholar Dr. Nick Strimple will lead a pre-concert lecture on the historical importance and relevance of this colossal work. 

Helmuth Rilling’s self-described credo is: “Music should startle people and reach deep down inside them, forcing them to reflect. It should never be merely ‘comfortable,’ never fossilized, never soothing.” Born in 1933 in Stuttgart, Mr. Rilling is a conductor, educator and ambassador for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach worldwide. He founded the Gächinger Kantorei and later the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, serving as the choir’s regular orchestral partner. In 1981, Mr. Rilling founded the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, which was dedicated to furthering the music of J.S. Bach through public concerts, master classes, symposia and residencies throughout the world. Mr. Rilling is dedicated to encouraging young musicians; in 2001, he founded the Festivalensemble Stuttgart, consisting of a choir and orchestra that drew talented young musicians from 25 different countries. Furthering this tradition of excellence, the USC Thornton Choral Artists greatly anticipate the chance to perform with one of the world’s great conductors.

6:30 p.m. Pre-concert lecture by Dr. Nick Strimple
7:30 p.m. Concert

Organized by the USC Thornton School of Music

Friday 11/13/2009: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Please note that the barbecue will begin at 9:30 a.m., and kickoff is at 12:30 p.m.

SPPD Homecoming Barbecue - USC vs. Stanford

FOOTBALL TICKETS SOLD OUT - BBQ TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

Barbecue Tickets

Adults: $25 (includes 2 drink tickets)
Current SPPD students*: $15 (includes 2 drink tickets)
Future Trojans ages 5-12: $5
Future Trojans under 5: Free

>> Click here to purchase tickets

Contact: SPPD Development and External Relations office at sppdalum@usc.edu or call (213) 821-8182.

Saturday 11/14/2009: All day

University Park Campus Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall Garden Plaza Courtyard

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The program, cleverly united by the number 125, will also include early music and jazz works.

Program

Anonymous (Arr. Adam Gilbert), Psalm 125, Sung to a Letany
Rachelle Fox, soprano
Adam Gilbert, recorder
Rotem Gilbert, recorder
Scott Shubeck, chitaronne
Jason Yoshida, theorbo
 
Franz Schubert, Quartet in Eb (Opus Posthumous 125, No. 1)                             
Allegro moderato                                                                           
Scherzo. Prestissimo
Adagio
Allegro
Peter Marsh, violin
Armen Der Kevorkian, violin
John Stulz, viola
Alexander Suleiman, cello
 
Fryderyk Chopin, Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor (B. 125)                                 
Giorgi Latsabidze, piano
 
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Op. 125)                                    
Transcribed for two pianos by Franz Liszt (S.657)
II. Scherzo: Molto Vivace
Bernadene Blaha and Kevin Fitz-Gerald, duo-pianists
 
Intermission
 
Mauro Giuliani, Six Irish National Airs, with Variations for Guitar or Lyre Solo (Op. 125)   
Eveleen’s Bower                                                                                               
The Last Rose of Summer
Miss Baily
Robin Adair
My Lodging Is on the Cold Ground
Gary Owen
Brian Head, James Smith and Scott Tennant, guitar soloists
 
Bud Powell, Bud’s Bubble
Jerome Kern, All The Things You Are
Alan Pasqua, piano
Darek Oles, bass
Peter Erskine, drums

Sunday 11/15/2009: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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A lecture by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has dedicated her public life to working for the people of southern Florida.

For more than 15 years, Wasserman Schultz has served Florida's 20th Congressional District. The first Jewish Congresswoman ever elected from Florida, she brings to Congress her many years of service in the Florida Legislature. In Washington, she continues to expand on her reputation as a fighter for families, children, education, Israel, health care, Social Security, Medicare and the security of every American.

Rep. Wasserman Schultz serves on the House Committee on Appropriations. She also serves on the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, overseeing matters relating to the administration of justice in federal courts, administrative bodies and law enforcement agencies. Wasserman Schultz and Sen. Arlen Specter were the driving forces behind the resolution that declared every May to be Jewish American Heritage Month. The annual observance was created to recognize "the accomplishments of American Jews and the important role that members of the Jewish community have played in the development of American culture."

Rep. Wasserman Schultz has been recognized by numerous publications for her work in Congress. Campaigns and Elections Magazine named her one of "Five Women to Watch in Congress."

Sunday 11/15/2009: 4:45 PM - 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center Embassy Room

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Enjoy a dynamic performance that draws on the diverse talents of USC dance groups.

The evening, sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government, will feature the Alosus Contemporary Dance Company, Break on 2 Latin Fusion, Chaotic 3, USC Traditional Chinese Dance, Vanguards Crew and the USC Chamber Ballet Company.

Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.

Sunday 11/15/2009: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Liu is CEO of the Vanguard Foundation, a think tank, and deputy executive director of the Taiwan Health Reform Foundation, an advocate nonprofit organization. She also serves as a social welfare consultant to the Taiwan government on domestic violence/child protection and is a board member of the Taiwan Women's Rescue Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates and provides services for abused women.

Liu's research has focused on social service delivery — contracting social services, interagency collaboration and NPO management. Recent studies have included "Fatal Child Abuse and Filicide-Suicide in Taiwan: Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies" and "Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence."

In 2006, Liu earned an Outstanding Contribution in Protecting Domestic Violence Victims Award from the Ministry of Justice.

Lunch will be served, so please RSVP to chengjin@usc.edu.

Monday 11/16/2009: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

University Park Campus Social Work Center Room 106

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A session for assistant professors applying for one of five Department of Defense Young Investigator/Faculty Awards.

Four of the programs (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense Threat Reduction Agency) require candidates who have held their graduate degrees (Ph.D. or equivalent) for fewer than five years at roughly the time of application. Candidates for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award must be untenured assistant or associate professors within six years of appointment to a tenure-track position.

In all cases, the candidates must be U.S. citizens, nationals or permanent residents.

Monday 11/16/2009: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Credit Union, Room 329

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The USC Annenberg School's Joe Saltzman shares his work in this new and neglected field of study.

"The Image of the Gay Journalist in Popular Culture: A Brand New Field of Research for Students and Faculty Alike."

Join students and faculty for a presentation by Joe Saltzman, journalism professor at the USC Annenberg School and director of the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC), a project of the Norman Lear Center.

There has been virtually no research done on the image of the gay journalist or public relations practitioner in popular culture. Saltzman will discuss the potential for research in this field, and share his research on the image of the gay journalist in movies and television, fiction, comic books and other aspects of popular culture. He will also show a 14-minute excerpt from the groundbreaking three-disc set The Image of the Gay Journalist in Movies and Television, 1929 to 2009.

Free copies of the three-disc set and the 2009 IJPC Database will be available.

Lunch will be served.

Monday 11/16/2009: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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A discussion of this work by Brian Catlos of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

This event is part of the College Commons series "Mapping the Pre-Modern Mediterranean."

Monday 11/16/2009: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building 250

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Hear from one of the most powerful media executives in the world, News Corp. President and COO Peter Chernin.

Chernin, who was formerly chairman and CEO of the Fox Entertainment Group, has gained a reputation as an executive with a unique mastery of both the creative and corporate sides of the business.

With annual revenues of more than $30 billion, News Corporation is one of the largest, most diversified media companies in the world, bringing world class entertainment, news, sports and information to a global audience across multiple distribution platforms. Chernin’s strategic guidance has driven News Corporation’s successful expansion into the broadband and mobile markets, through the creation of Fox Interactive Media (home to MySpace), Hulu and other digital properties. Under Chernin’s leadership, the Fox Entertainment Group continues to break record operating profits and serve as a leading supplier of broadcast news and entertainment programming domestically and around the globe.

Chernin sits on the boards of American Express, The Paley Center and the Friends of the Global Fight. He is also chairman of Malaria No More.

Chernin will participate in a conversation with Geoffrey Cowan, USC University Professor and director of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, followed by Q&A with students. USC Marshall School Dean Jim Ellis and USC Annenberg School Dean Ernest Wilson will also make remarks.

Monday 11/16/2009: 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Get a great workout and improve your stroke with the help of our on-deck coaches.

Sign up online at usc.edu/recsports, or just come and check in with the lifeguard.

Dates: 10/01/2009, 10/27/2009, 11/17/2009, 12/01/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center McDonald's Swim Stadium

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Economist, author and social entrepreneur Elena Panaritis addresses the effects of informal property rights on real estate markets.

She will tackle scenarios from around the world and highlight the internationally acclaimed success story of Peru.

Elena Panaritis, author of Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), is an acclaimed economist and social entrepreneur. Her ideas are particularly timely, especially in the context of the current global economic crisis and the ongoing efforts to eliminate illiquid/informal property markets around the world.

“It is no accident that this crisis has originated in the United States,” Elena explains. “The property system is built on a false assumption: that the property is valued correctly. Unless that’s fixed, the risk will always be far greater than necessary.”

Panaritis is the founder of a prototype triple-bottom-line investment advisory firm, Panel Group, and is a former World Bank economist. She has played a direct, hands-on role in creating stable property markets and preventing mortgage crisis such as ours. She created a new methodology and used it to spearhead property rights reform in Peru, with enormous and internationally recognized success. Some nine million people benefited from the reforms in about three years.

Robert Litan of the Brookings Institute and The Kauffman Foundation of Entrepreneurship calls Panaritis’ work a “real contribution.”

Panaritis is an expert on property rights, illiquid real estate assets, and public sector management. In addition, she teaches economic development, housing finance and property markets reform at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; INSEAD; and the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. In more than a decade as an economist at the World Bank, she spearheaded several institutional reforms, including the property rights reform in Peru. She currently blogs at www.prosperityunbound.com/blog.

Tuesday 11/17/2009: 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall Room 101

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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.

Tuesday 11/17/2009: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Credit Union Building, Room 329

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A film by novelist Russell Banks and filmmaker Atom Egoyan probes questions of memory and guilt.

This award-winning collaboration between Banks and Egoyan examines the effects on a small town of a terrible accident, and the lawsuit that follows. It asks how we know where the truth lies. Haunting and deeply moving, it also raises fascinating questions about adaptations of novels into film.

To RSVP, visit www.usc.edu/esvp and enter the event code "CC1117".

Tuesday 11/17/2009: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Seeley G. Mudd Building Room 123

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Literary legend Isabel Allende takes the stage for a Visions and Voices signature event.

“A genius.” — Los Angeles Times

Social activist and feminist icon Isabel Allende — now in the third decade of a career like no one else’s — has sold more than 51 million books worldwide in more than 32 languages. Her novels and memoirs have established her as one of the most respected writers the world has ever known. At this signature event, Allende will translate the famous magical realism of her prose into an astonishing presentation that weaves together her family history, her literary trailblazing and her uniquely forged insights on social justice, feminism and political and personal freedom. Allende talks with humor, wisdom and passion about the heart-stirring beauty of the human condition.

A reception and book signing will follow.

A native of Chile, Isabel Allende was forced into exile following the assassination of her uncle, President Salvador Allende. Since then, she has written 17 books, including The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune (an Oprah pick) and Inés of My Soul. Her nonfiction work includes Paula and The Sum of Our Days. She is also the founder of the Isabel Allende Foundation, which promotes and preserves the fundamental rights of women and children to be empowered and protected.

Tuesday 11/17/2009: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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From a survivor of the Columbine High School tragedy comes a dramatized retelling of one of the nation's largest school shootings.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer/director Andrew Robinson.

Admission is free and open to all.

About April Showers

In this film, writer/director Andrew Robinson shares what it was like to be a survivor of a major school shooting. Based largely on actual events, April Showers follows the story of Sean Ryan (Kelly Blatz) as he attempts to make sense of the horrors he's just witnessed and to cope with the loss of his friend April (Ellen Woglom).

April Showers stars Blatz, Daryl Sabara, Janel Parrish and Woglom, with Illeana Douglas and Tom Arnold rounding out the cast. It features breathtaking cinematography by Independent Spirit Award Nominee Aaron Platt.

Provided courtesy of IndieFlix. Rated R. Running time: 94 minutes.

Now available through Amazon, Netflix and iTunes.

To learn more about the film and 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.

Tuesday 11/17/2009: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building Room 110

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Donald Crockett, music director

A special evening in honor of Steven Stucky, resident composer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than 20 years. The program will include Stucky's signature works for new music ensemble, Boston Fancies and Ad Parnassum.

Tuesday 11/17/2009: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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USC's Center for Effective Organizations holds a seminar for leaders in HR, organization effectiveness, and talent management.

Every organization recognizes the importance of competing for talent and organizing that talent once acquired. Yet research shows that most organizations still lack a deep and logical understanding of how decisions about human capital, talent, and organization design and effectiveness connect to business and strategic success.

Learn how to build that deep, logical understanding through a proven approach to analyze your business strategy and discover specific, actionable implications for your talent and organization, with clear strategic results.

Where will talent and organization investments make the biggest difference in your strategic success?

This seminar provides a proven framework that helps business, HR and organization leaders 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 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 shares many of the same principles of decision sciences like 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.

This program will provide:

• 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, with the goal of 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 specific organizations, and you will learn about other organizations through discussion and break-out work.
 
Who Should Attend

This event is for any leaders wishing 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 will be particularly valuable for HR generalists, business partners, strategists, functional leaders, leaders outside of the HR function, or those with non-HR backgrounds who have recently taken HR leadership positions.

Dates: 11/18/2009, 11/19/2009, 11/20/2009: All day

Exelon Corporation Headquarters Chase Towers 10 South Dearborn Street 48th Floor Chicago IL 60603

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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, September 9, 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, September 23, 12-1 p.m.
Learn techniques to help you make the most of your time. Get organized.

Procrastination
Wednesday, September 30, 12-1 p.m.
Avoiding schoolwork? Feeling distracted? Learn how to eliminate distractions and improve motivation.

Study Skills
Wednesday, October 7, 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, November 4, 12-1 p.m.
Identify your stress triggers. Learn how to manage your stress effectively.

Stress Management: Part II
Wednesday, November 18, 12-1 p.m.
Participate in deep breathing, meditation, progressive relaxation, and other powerful relaxation exercises.

To register online, click here.

Dates: 09/09/2009, 09/23/2009, 09/30/2009, 10/07/2009, 11/04/2009, 11/18/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center Conference Room

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How do immigrants remain attached to their place of origin while becoming involved in American civic life?

Are the two attachments incompatible, or do they spur each other on?

Hometown Associations (HTAs), organizations for immigrants who share the same place of origin, may serve to increase the civic capacity of immigrants from across the globe. Beyond hosting social and cultural events for their members, HTAs often serve as mechanisms to raise money for their hometowns and, more informally, help immigrants navigate civic and political systems in their new hometowns.

Our panel brings together representatives from several Los Angeles HTAs — some of America’s largest — with academics who have researched HTAs to discuss the role these organizations play in the economic, political and social integration of immigrants in the U.S.

Join us as we explore this facet of immigrant integration in Los Angeles.

Moderator

• Ricardo Ramirez, USC professor of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity
  

Speakers

• Sara Zapata-Mijares, president and founder of Federación de Clubes Yucatecos-U.S.A.
• Omar Corletto, president of Comité de Festejos Centroamericanos
• Jules Boyele, president of the Congolese Community of Southern California
• Chancee Martorell, executive director, Thai Community Development Center
• Luis Escala Rabadán, professor of Social Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
  

Wednesday 11/18/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Leavey Library Auditorium

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Interesting speakers will highlight a wide range of issues and perspectives that affect Korea.

Wednesday 11/18/2009: 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center Vineyard Room

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James Murday, director of Physical Sciences in USC's D.C. Office of Research Advancement, guides participants.

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 course objectives will be to instruct participants on 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.

Wednesday 11/18/2009: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Bishop Medical Teaching & Research Room 407

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Meet Marc Simmons of Front Inc., responsible for some of the most exciting façades in today’s architecture.

Many buildings are recognized by their façades more than their spatial qualities, and this highlights the obvious role of a façade beyond its purpose of keeping out the elements of nature. As Marc Simmons puts it, “Beyond its functional role, the façade is a signifier that evokes thoughts about what the building is about.”

Front is a cross-disciplinary group of creative individuals with professional backgrounds in architecture, structural engineering and mechanical engineering. The firm provides design and technical consulting services through intensive collaboration to realize innovative projects and responsible design. Front has been involved in a series of innovative projects, including the Seattle Central Public Library with OMA; the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art with Sejima Nishizawa Associates; the Walker Art Center expansion with Herzog de Meuron; and the Morgan Library and Museum expansion with Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Simmons is a faculty member at the Princeton University School of Architecture, and holds both Bachelor of Environmental Studies and Bachelor of Architecture degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada. His specialist façade knowledge and experience in custom curtainwall and hybrid cladding system design is built upon previous work at Foster and Partners, Meinhardt Façade Technology, and the structural gall and façade consulting group at Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners in New York.

The lecture is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1, off of Exposition Boulevard.

The Nabih Youssef Lecture on Structural Design Innovation endowment, funded by USC Architectural Guild Life Member Nabih Youssef, provides support in perpetuity for a lecture to be given by a distinguished structural designer.

Wednesday 11/18/2009: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus

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Film, dance and discussion mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

November 9, 2009, is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. While many have forgotten the impact of living with the wall for a quarter of a century, it was a constant reminder of the Cold War and the threat of atomic war.

Choreographer Nejla Yatkin was a teenager in Berlin living with the reality of the divided city. She experienced the threat of imminent conflict in the battle between East and West, and saw the world open up when the wall went down. For the first time in decades, people had a chance to communicate, share, move and get to know each other, without feeling the oppressive threat.

This event will draw on these observations and experiences, exploring the role that physical and political boundaries play in society.

The event will include a screening and a short performance of a contemporary dance piece by Yatkin that reflects, embodies and subverts the interaction between individuals, movement and the emotional impact of barriers. Following the presentation, Carola Weil, Annenberg associate dean for planning and strategic initiatives, will moderate a discussion with Yatkin and Annenberg faculty members Sandy Tolan, Josh Kun and Roberto Suro. They will link the Berlin Wall to other physical borders, such as the U.S.-Mexican border and the fence between Israel and Palestinian territories. While these boundaries can act as national or international assets, they can also act as impediments that restrict the flow of resources, commerce and intellectual property, isolating people and dividing nations.  

Wednesday 11/18/2009: 6:30 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg Auditorium

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Wednesday 11/18/2009: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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In this comedic chamber opera, the Thornton Opera takes an affectionate look at a cast of characters in a small English town.

The townsfolk struggle to pull off their annual May Festival, befuddled by the changing mores of their young people.   

Ken Cazan, resident stage director
Brent McMunn, conductor

November 19, 20 and 21, 8 p.m.
November 22, 2 p.m.

Daily: Thursday 11/19/2009 - Sunday 11/22/2009; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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This American classic, rich in language and bold of vision, is adapted by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Anita Dashiell-Sparks.

Thursday, November 19, 7 p.m.
Friday, November 20, 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 21, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 22, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Thursday 11/19/2009 - Sunday 11/22/2009; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre

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In recognition of the National Geographic Society's National Geography Awareness Week, the School of Social Work welcomes Adrienne Perry, geographic information systems (GIS) coordinator for the Health and Human Services Agency in San Diego County, to talk about how GIS can be used in the real world to make map data interactive and more useful in problem-solving.

Since they were first developed in the 1960s, geographic information systems have been used by corporations, urban planners and public health officials to determine new business locations, to make infrastructure decisions, and to track the spread of disease. But the sophisticated mapping software — which organizes and displays geospatial, demographic, socioeconomic and other data — is just beginning to be widely embraced by the social work profession as a powerful tool for research, planning and effective delivery of services to those in need.

For example, GIS software is used extensively throughout the medical community to study epidemiology, to look at health care facilities, and to map any system that is visual or spatial, including the inside of a patient's body. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the world's premier disease-tracking organization, uses GIS to study how toxic substances affect people's health. California's Kaiser Permanente uses GIS to decide how much funding to allocate to certain centers and where to situate new facilities.

This event will take place on the University Park Campus and will be teleconferenced to the Orange County Academic Center, Room A, so that Orange County participants may take part from their location.

Thursday 11/19/2009: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

University Park Campus Social Work Center 106

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Sandra K. Erickson, Ph.D., is professor, Medicine/Endocrinology and Metabolism, VAMC, University of California, San Francisco.

Her research focuses specifically on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). As with most common diseases, both genetic predisposition and environmental factors play a role in NAFLD. Dr. Erickson's group is studying both aspects by making use of mouse strain differences in susceptibility and identifying genes involved in the development and progression of NAFLD.

Pizza will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Thursday 11/19/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Hoffman Hall, Hastings Auditorium

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Haufler will lead a discussion of the public diplomacy involved in governing corporations in zones of conflict, based on her chapter “Governing Corporations in Zones of Conflict: Issues, Actors, and Institutions” in the forthcoming book Who Governs the Globe?

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

Thursday 11/19/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building B40

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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?

Thursday 11/19/2009: 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Intellectual Commons

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USC Lecturer Cecilia Woloch and the English 404 course "The Writer in the Community" have teamed up again with the 32nd Street School to mentor young writers. Over the course of the semester, the USC students work with the children on poetry theory and the writing of actual pieces.

At the end of each term, Woloch's students, the 32nd Street School poetry writers and their parents come to USC campus for an evening of poetry reading and reflection of the past semester.

It is always a fantastically entertaining event!

Thursday 11/19/2009: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

University Park Campus Seeley G. Mudd Building 123

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The Viterbi School pairs engineering students with inner-city youth to compete in an engineering design challenge.

Presented by Viterbi's Engineers as Teachers, sponsored by local nonprofit Iridescent and USC Neighborhood Outreach, this exciting competition pairs engineers with fifth graders from local schools. It is a unique opportunity to prototype innovative engineering solutions while mentoring and inspiring children.

The competition will take place from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Registration will begin at 10:30 a.m., and lunch (for all teams) will be served at 12 p.m.

Register online before November 10 to get your T-shirt.

To learn more about the competition, visit iridescentlearning.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=25, call (310) 309-0766 or email Tara@IridescentLearning.org.

Friday 11/20/2009: 11:00 AM

University Park Campus Engineering Quad

Is there anything wrong with paying an executive an amount that dwarfs salaries at the bottom of the corporate ladder?

For those who find themselves at the top of the corporate heap, it has become both accepted and expected to receive a salary based on very favorable terms that can bear little resemblance to those offered other employees. While this is perfectly legal, is it moral? Must executive compensation depend on the standard metrics of performance, merit or contribution? And what about payment incentive structures that lead to risky behavior which could lead (as it has in the past) to economic disaster?

When is it not okay to pay in a particular way?

Friday 11/20/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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With fellow Trojans, learn how to navigate and leverage LinkedIn for networking and job search opportunities.

This event will include an interactive computer-based training session.

The agenda will include the following topics:

• LinkedIn 101
• Ways LinkedIn can help you
  

Attire is business casual. Please note that Career Planning & Placement Center alumni events have filled very quickly in the past. Reservations are on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you have questions regarding this event or need special accommodation for the event, please call (213) 821-6289 or email alumniCS@usc.edu.

Friday 11/20/2009: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

University Park Campus Waite Phillips Hall Room B36

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Find out how Native American students see their world and yours at a screening featuring the next generation of filmmakers.

Did you know that Los Angeles has the second-largest concentration of Native Americans of any U.S. city? Or that USC sits on what was once Native American land?

Presented as the opening night of the 2009 L.A. Skins Fest, this event will feature films made by Native youth from the United States, Canada and Mexico. Produced by Native high school, undergraduate and graduate students, the films range from serious documentaries to animated comedies, and offer great insight into today’s Native American youth. The works explore the students’ own environments and cultures while challenging them to draw difficult conclusions about who they are and where they come from.

The screenings will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and festival organizers Ian Skorodin and Patricia Gomes (USC, class of 2011) and a reception with live Native music.

Organized by John Carlos Rowe (English and American Studies and Ethnicity). Co-sponsored by the 2009 L.A. Skins Fest and USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and Department of American Studies and Ethnicity.

Friday 11/20/2009: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Frank Sinatra Hall

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The triumphant return of action-cinema master John Woo, who reunites with international superstar Tony Leung.

Written by John Woo, Khan Chan, Lup Cheng and Sheng Heyu
Directed by John Woo

Admission is free and open to all.

About Red Cliff

Red Cliff pairs John Woo with Tony Leung for the first time since the 1992 classic Hard Boiled. A breathtaking war epic, Red Cliff brings to the screen the legendary tale of the Battle of Red Cliff, which took place in China in 208 A.D.
 
The film opens with power hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) seeking permission from the Han dynasty emperor to organize a southward-bound mission designed to crush two troublesome warlords that stand in his way: Liu Bei (You Yong) and Sun Quan (Chang Chen). As the expedition gets underway, Cao Cao's troops rain destruction on Liu Bei's army, forcing the latter to retreat. Liu Bei's military strategist, Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro), knows that their only hope for survival is to form an alliance with rival warlord Sun Quan, and reaches out to Sun Quan's trusted adviser, war hero Zhou Yu (Tony Leung). Vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao's fast approaching, brutal army, the rebel warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign unrivaled in history, one that will change the face of China forever.

The Battle of Red Cliff was first immortalized in the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Although written more than seven hundred years ago, the novel is still widely read all over Asia and has spawned more than a dozen video games and numerous comic books. Thus John Woo created two versions of the film: a two part, five-hour version for Asian audiences, and a single, two-and-a half hour version for other territories. When the first part was released in Asia in July 2008, it went on to gross more than $124 million and broke the box office record previously held by Titanic in mainland China. With an estimated budget of $80 million, Red Cliff is the most expensive Asian-financed film to date.

"We wanted to make a Hollywood blockbuster in Chinese that would appeal to non-Asian audiences as well. We worked very hard to create a version of the film that maintains the integrity of the action and character development of the story, while excising some of the cultural details that could be considered unnecessary for Western audiences not intimately familiar with the historical mythology," notes Producer Terence Chang, Woo's longtime collaborator. 

Provided courtesy of Magnet Releasing.

Rated R. Running time: 146 minutes. In Mandarin with English subtitles.

Opening at select Los Angeles theaters on November 25.

To learn more about the film and 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 11/20/2009: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building Room 108

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Latsabidze has pursued an ambitious performance schedule, appearing in master classes and concert performances throughout Eastern Europe, Asia, South America and the United States. While at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, and following an audition with noted Georgian conductor Jansug Kakhidze (nicknamed "the Slavic Karajan"), Latsabidze was resident soloist at the Tbilisi Center for Music and Culture from 2000 through 2003, performing an extensive series of works for both solo piano and piano with orchestra. During this period, he was recognized for giving an exceptional performance of the 24 Etudes of Chopin in Tbilisi to an enthusiastic audience. In 2005, Latsabidze gave solo concerts throughout Austria, following which Governor Franz Voves of Styria, Austria, invited him to perform a series of private salon concerts in the historic and famous Schloss Eggenberg, Graz. In additional subsequent appearances in Austria, Latsabidze performed Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with orchestras in Vienna, Salzburg and Lienz. In June 2008, he performed all 12 Transcendental Etudes of Liszt in Hawaii (Honolulu Convention Center); shortly thereafter he repeated the same program in Nice, France, with the latter performance broadcast live on one of the leading music channels in Europe.

This concert will be filmed by Onward Entertainment for an upcoming DVD.

Friday 11/20/2009: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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USC students visit the Broad Stage in Santa Monica for the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre production of the romantic classic.

“Dominic Dromgoole’s zestful production succeeds in captivating the audience to a degree that I would not have thought possible ... . It’s a treat.” — The Independent

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company, direct from London, will perform Love’s Labour’s Lost. Shakespeare’s celebration of young love is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright’s comic arsenal — from excruciating cross-purposes to silly impersonations, drunkenness, bust-ups and pratfalls. It’s also his most joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parody.

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 Tuesday, October 27, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 4:45 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 5:30 p.m. and will return to campus at 11 p.m.

Dinner will be provided.

Saturday 11/21/2009: 5:30 PM - 11:00 PM

The Broad Stage 1310 11th Street Santa Monica CA 90401

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Join students and faculty for a presentation by James Fowler of the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems and UC San Diego.

Fowler is associate professor in the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems at CALIT2 and the political science department at the University of California, San Diego.

From Dr. Fowler: “I present intriguing evidence to show that our social networks drive and shape virtually every aspect of our lives. How we feel, whom we marry, whether we fall ill, how much money we make, and whether we vote all depend on what others around us — even those distantly connected to us — are doing, thinking and feeling. I show that these connections have an ancient evolutionary past, and describe how this will affect our new life as technology moves our networks online.”

Lunch will be served.

Monday 11/23/2009: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg School for Communication 207

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Author Russell Banks and filmmaker Atom Egoyan discuss the challenges and excitement of using history as a subject for literature and film.

Russell Banks is a novelist whose work spans the bleakest of contemporary stories (The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction) and a dazzling piece of historical recreation, Cloudsplitter, his novel recounting John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. Banks’ novels turn on the understandings and misunderstandings brought by time, as characters challenge each other’s versions of the truth. Atom Egoyan’s films powerfully evoke the treachery of memory. His eerie and haunting visual style, particularly in his stunning adaptation of The Sweet Hereafter, uses our confidence in what we see to make us doubt what we know. Where Banks plays with the voices of four narrators, each undoing what came before, only to be deconstructed in turn, Egoyan, in films like Calendar, Exotica and Ararat, obsessively transforms vibrant images into memories before our eyes, moving us in and out of time, bringing the dead back and making the old young, just for a moment. 

Bringing these two geniuses of time construction together will open a new conversation about how we learn, forget and lie in time — and how history returns only to mock and mourn for us all.

The two will speak about their individual work, and then we will open a larger conversation about the particular challenges and excitement of using history as a subject for both literature and film and moving between the two media.

Organized by the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Monday 11/23/2009: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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In this holiday race, the participant with the finish closest to his or her estimated time wins a prize pie donated by the University Club.

The race categories will be: Male Student, Female Student, Male Staff/Faculty, Female Staff/Faculty.

Walkers are welcome. All walkers who complete the 1.5-mile walk will be eligible for an opportunity drawing.

Tuesday 11/24/2009: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center

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On November 24, 1859, the world changed. With the publication of a small volume, the modern world unfurled its banner.

Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species sold out instantly, and it has never been out of print since. It is that rare book to be celebrated in everything from T-shirts to bumper-stickers to "monkey trials."

Join USC College faculty and graduate students to celebrate the publication of The Origin of Species with cake, speeches, poems. Perhaps read your own favorite passage from Darwin, or your own favorite modern rewriting. And by all means, wear your Darwin T-shirts!

To RSVP, visit www.usc.edu/esvp and enter the event code "CC1124".

Tuesday 11/24/2009: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library LiteraTea Teahouse

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Daily: Monday 11/30/2009 - Wednesday 12/02/2009; 5:30 PM - 12:00 AM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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USC College's Laurie Brand and other Middle East scholars explore the meanings of charisma and liberation in the Muslim world.

The Arabic word for charisma, baraka (the source of our president's name), refers to a god-given power to lead people on a holy struggle for liberation. While Islamic liberation has reached the West primarily as a war against "American imperialism," it is also present in such disparate practices as Sufi dances and whirling dervishes, the spiritual quest for transcendence.

Tuesday 12/01/2009: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus University Club

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New faculty members are invited to reflect on the delights and challenges they have faced in their first 100 days at USC.

The discussion will be led by Sarah Banet-Weiser (School of Communication), Margaret Rosenthal (French and Italian) and Stephan Haas (Physics).

Have you already been here three months? Now that you've settled into some kind of routine, it's a good time to reflect and share your experiences as a new faculty member at USC.

What have been the most rewarding moments for you so far? Have your colleagues been helpful in getting you started? Are there issues you wish someone had told you about in advance? It’s not too late! A team of diverse and experienced faculty members is ready to discuss the challenges you are currently tackling, ranging from teaching to getting grants to preparing for the tenure process.

RSVP to usccet@usc.edu with "100 Days" in the email subject line.

Tuesday 12/01/2009: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Room 233

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A conversation about texts and power in the Ottoman, Habsburg, Holy Roman, French and Russian empires.

Moderated by the USC College’s Robert English (International Relations) and Sarah Pratt (Slavic Languages and Literatures), this event offers a unique intra-USC colloquium that brings together faculty and graduate students from three different College departments. They will discuss texts and types of discourse that elucidate ambiguities of power and subordination involving the Ottoman, Habsburg, Holy Roman, French and Russian empires.

How do these struggles continue to shape our world?

Speakers will include Azade-Ayse Rorlich (associate professor of History and Slavic Languages and Literatures), Mehmet Sinan Birdal (International Relations graduate student), Antonia Szabari (assistant professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature) and Yuliya Ilchuk (Slavic Languages and Literatures graduate student).

Tuesday 12/01/2009: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building 250

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Featuring a panoply of characters who speak with abandon, Michael Kearns’ landmark piece is theater that will rock you.

Twenty years ago, Michael Kearns, an openly gay and publicly HIV-positive theater artist and activist, wrote and performed Intimacies. Join us this World AIDS Day for the 20th anniversary production of this groundbreaking theatrical piece.

In Intimacies, we meet Fernando, a macho flamenco dancer; Big Red, a black female street hooker; Patrick, a Hollywood pretty boy; Phoenix, a homeless man living under the freeway; Marilyn (as in Monroe); and Father Anthony, a Catholic priest who confesses and then some.

In 2002, Kearns received the prestigious Playwrights’ Arena Award for Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theatre, which acknowledged three decades of work as an actor, writer, producer, director and teacher.

Organized by David Román (English and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Richard Meyer (Art History). Co-sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center.

Tuesday 12/01/2009: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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Dr. Larabee oversees student organizations, leadership programs, the GPSS, the USG, the Program Board, and campus traditions like Conquest!, Homecoming, and the Order of the Torch. She has spent more than half of her career at USC, where she earned her doctorate in educational leadership. Larabee's extraordinary dedication to USC earned her the Student Affairs division award for Outstanding Dedication and Service.

Wednesday 12/02/2009: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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A lecture by Rudi G.J. Westendorp, M.D., Ph.D., professor at the Netherlands' Leiden University Medical Center.

Wednesday 12/02/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

University Park Campus Andrus Gerontology Center Room 224

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The program will feature carols and tunes from around the world. The festivities will culminate in memorable arrangements of Ding! Dong! Merrily on High; Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella; and O Holy Night! — sung by the combined choirs of the USC Thornton School with brass, piano four-hands, and percussion.

Wednesday 12/02/2009: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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While traditional lecturing methods dominate in most classrooms, passive student learning has been shown to be far less effective than "active learning." But what is "active learning," and how can you use it in your classroom?

Research shows that students learn best when they actively participate in the learning process. Active learning methods include a variety of strategies which make the student responsible for creating and applying knowledge, rather than simply being a vessel receiving material from the instructor; they acknowledge that learning is an active process, and that different students learn in different ways. In a traditional classroom, teachers are typically expected to lecture and give out assignments and exams, and students are expected to listen to the lecture and take notes. In an "active learning" environment, on the other hand, multilayered, thought-provoking and challenging methods are introduced so that students participate in more interactive, nontraditional ways.

While Active learning techniques can be extremely beneficial for students, they present some challenges for instructors — from creating collaborative activities, to managing students through projects, to designing exercises that encourage students to think critically and analytically. Other challenges include knowing when to employ Active learning techniques, and when a traditional lecture style may be more suitable.

Join us for a workshop to help you develop your own active methods for creating excitement in the classroom.

Lunch will be provided.

October 28, 12-1 p.m.
University Park Campus, Ahmanson Center, Room 238
RSVP to usccet@usc.edu with "Active Learning UPC" in the email subject line.

December 3, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Health Sciences Campus, Keith Administration Building, B21/23
RSVP to usccet@usc.edu with "Active Learning HSC" in the email subject line.

Dates: 10/28/2009, 12/03/2009: All day

Multiple Locations

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The performance, directed by Miranda Garrison, will range from celluloid classics to some current flicks that you've never imagined as dance films.

Daily: Thursday 12/03/2009 - Friday 12/04/2009; 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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Thursday 12/03/2009: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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The performance will take advantage of the beautiful acoustics of St. John's Episcopal Church, just beyond USC's main campus.

Friday 12/04/2009: 7:30 PM

St. John's Episcopal Church 514 West Adams Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90007

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The Thornton Baroque Sinfonia presents an evening of sacred music from 17th century Italy.

Friday 12/04/2009: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Dr. Gonghuan Yang presents on China’s new disease burden and the shift from infectious disease to a global chronic disease epidemic.

Dr. Gonghuan Yang, deputy minister of Health at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, is a pioneer in China’s work on tobacco control and its chronic disease transition. She earned her medical degree from West-China Medical University in 1982, and studied epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1987 to 1988. Yang has published more than 70 academic papers in international and national journals and has written more than 10 monographs and books.

December 8
Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium

December 9
University Park Campus, Davidson Conference Center

Dates: 12/08/2009, 12/09/2009: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country.

Newly elected President Mandela knows that his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

Guests are invited to a reception prior to the screening.

Proceeds benefit the USC School of Social Work.

To receive an invite, contact swevents@usc.edu or call (213) 821-1297.

Tuesday 12/08/2009: 6:30 PM

Warner Bros. Studio 4000 Warner Boulevard Burbank CA 91522

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Hossein Jadvar, associate professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, weighs the expanding role of imaging in translational and clinical research.

This workshop will identify new research opportunities and techniques. It will detail the resources available at USC to foster imaging studies and ways to develop collaborative relationships to advance imaging research. It will survey various funding sources and assess elements of successful proposals for imaging-related awards in clinical and translational sciences.

Wednesday 12/09/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library East Conference Room

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It will also be a chance to learn more about the School of Social Work's new military social work program. Meet Dean Marilyn Flynn, faculty, veterans and students in this exciting new specialization. Experience simulated wartime scenarios in virtual reality settings created by USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. Network with fellow Trojans and enjoy a taste of San Diego aboard the USS Midway.

Proceeds from the night will support scholarships for students in the military social work program.

Ahoy, Trojans!

Thursday 12/10/2009: 6:30 PM

USS Midway Museum 901 North Harbor Drive San Diego CA 92101

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For more information, please call the Thornton Development Office at (213) 740-6474 or visit www.usc.edu/music/giving.

Friday 12/11/2009: 7:30 PM

Millennium Biltmore Hotel 506 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90071

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Sunday 12/13/2009: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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Dr. Judith Mackay discusses the epidemic's challenges, successes and future direction as they apply to emerging world health threats.

Dr. Judith Mackay, visiting USC as part of the Provost Distinguished Visitors Program, is known for her personal charm and fervor. She was named one of Time’s 100 People Who Shape Our World for her tireless efforts on the global crusade against smoking. Dr. Mackay is senior adviser to the World Lung Foundation/Bloomberg Initiative To Reduce Tobacco Use; director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, and senior policy adviser to the World Health Organization. She earned her degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and has lived in Hong Kong since 1967, initially working as a hospital physician and later concentrating on broader issues of public health, especially tobacco control. Dr. Mackay has authored and published atlases on tobacco, cancer, and human sexual behavior, among other works.

January 19
Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium

January 20
University Park Campus, Town and Gown

Hosted in partnership with the USC U.S.-China Institute and the School of Social Work 

Dates: 01/19/2010, 01/20/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Explore the music of the African diaspora in this entertaining, informative evening of music and conversation.

Scholars, students and celebrity guests will come together to present the historical evolution of bebop, doo-wop and hip-hop, three genres that emerged from the black experience.

Take a musical journey as students perform compositions from the three genres, including songs by the fathers of bebop, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie; the vocal-based R&B stylings of doo-wop; and contemporary selections of hip-hop.

Discussions will be interspersed throughout the night, exploring the unique and powerful history of these musical traditions. The evening will culminate in a rousing performance of an original composition incorporating aspects of all three genres.

Thursday 01/21/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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The fifth annual symposium will include three student speakers and two poster sessions, with free breakfast and lunch.

Dr. Tad Blair of UCLA will be giving the keynote address.

Friday 01/22/2010: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center

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A moving and provocative event explores the legacy of the Vietnam War, through two new Vietnamese films.

Schedule

2 p.m. Screening of Don’t Burn!
4 p.m. Panel Discussion
4:45 p.m. Reception
5:15 p.m. Screening of Oh, Saigon!
6:15 p.m. Discussion with filmmakers Doan Hoang and Dang Nhat Minh and author Andrew X. Pham

Join us for a screening and discussion of two new Vietnamese films, Don’t Burn! by Vietnam’s most acclaimed filmmaker, Dang Nhat Minh, and Oh, Saigon! by award-winning documentary filmmaker Doan Hoang. 

Don’t Burn! is based on the Vietnamese best-seller Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram, written by a young female doctor from North Vietnam who was killed during the war. The film tells the moving story of her personal experiences as well as the tale of how her diary, discovered by an American serviceman, narrowly escaped burning and was eventually returned to Vietnam, where it became an international publishing sensation. This is the first Vietnamese film shot in part in the United States. 

Oh, Saigon! tells another side of the war story, focusing on a Vietnamese family who fled Saigon on the last civilian airplane to leave in 1975. After 30 years in the United States, the family returns to visit relatives, some of whom fought on the other side of the conflict, and to make amends with one daughter left behind.

A discussion about the legacy of the Vietnam War will feature filmmakers Dang Nhat Minh and Doan Hoang and author Andrew X. Pham. Minh, Vietnam’s premier film director, has made more than a dozen films, featured at festivals throughout the world. Hoang is a Vietnamese-born filmmaker whose film Oh, Saigon! won the Best Documentary award at the Asian Pacific Film Festival in Los Angeles. Pham is the Vietnamese-born author of two acclaimed memoirs, Catfish and Mandala and The Eaves of Heaven, and translator of Last Night I Dreamed of Peace. 

Organized by Janet Hoskins (Anthropology) and Viet Nguyen (English and American Studies and Ethnicity). Co-sponsored by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Asian American Studies, the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Center for Trans-Pacific Studies.

Saturday 01/23/2010: 2:00 PM - 6:45 PM

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Frank Sinatra Hall

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Learn about the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, which is responsible for consumer protection through the regulation of Marriage and Family Therapists (M.F.T.s), Licensed Clinical Social Workers (L.C.S.W.s), Licensed Educational Psychologists (L.E.P.s), M.F.T. Interns, and Associate Clinical Social Workers (A.S.W.s) in the state of California.

Attendees will hear how to apply for registration as an A.S.W., the requirements to become a L.C.S.W. and exam preparation strategies, as well as the USC M.S.W. courses that meet CEU requirements.

Monday 01/25/2010: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

USC San Diego Academic Center 16870 West Bernardo Drive San Diego CA 92127

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The acclaimed performance artist offers his newest show, a saucy, sharp-knifed look at the queer state of the union during a time of trial.

In Lay of the Land, Miller takes on the fight for marriage equality, charting the reality of gay folks’ being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu! The performance is a fiercely funny and emboldening exploration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered identity lived out loud.

Tim Miller’s work explores the artistic, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a gay man. Hailed for his humor and passion, Miller has performed all over North America, Australia and Europe, in such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the author of the books Shirts & Skin, Body Blows, and 1001 Beds (which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Drama/Theater). His solo theater works have been published in the play collections O Solo Homo and Sharing the Delirium. Miller has taught performance at UCLA, NYU, the School of Theology at Claremont, and universities all over the United States. He is a co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica.

Organized by David Román (English and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Richard Meyer (Art History). Co-sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center.

Wednesday 01/27/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

Burtynsky is one of Canada’s most respected photographers, and an advocate for sustainable living practices.

Burtynsky’s remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of more than 50 museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His numerous distinctions include the TED Prize, the Outreach Award at the Rencontres d’Arles, three honorary doctorate degrees, and Canada’s highest civil honor: Officer of the Order of Canada.

Burtynsky takes us around the world in photographs, revealing places rarely seen. He makes beautiful yet terrifying images that illustrate a vital discussion about the colossal effects of economic and industrial growth upon our planet.

“During the course of my work — as the years have turned to decades — it has become clear to me that the plant, animal and mineral resources of the earth are overwhelmed by the robust wheels of economic progress. Cheap fuel in the form of oil, coupled with the internal combustion engine, has begun to tear at the edges of nature’s envelope. As my ideas have evolved, I’ve looked at railcuts, mines, quarries, oil fields and refineries, homesteads, farms, animal husbandry, taxidermy — all in search of images that describe our changing and complex relationship to nature.” — Edward Burtynsky

Organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art

Thursday 01/28/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Harris Hall Gin D. Wong FAIA Conference Center

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The USC arts schools offer an exciting array of hands-on workshops in art, photography, theater, dance, music, architecture and film.

In response to popular demand, the USC arts schools team up once again to present a daylong festival, an exciting opportunity to get your hands dirty with the arts. Learn how to salsa dance, make a sculpture, play guitar or take architectural photos. Join us, get your hands dirty, and experience the creativity and thrill of making art!

Organized by the USC arts schools

Saturday 01/30/2010: All day

University Park Campus

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The graduating M.F.A. in Acting students from the USC School of Theatre take on these works:

Pericles
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Andrei Belgrader

Orestes 2.0
By Charles Mee
Directed by David Bridel

Fisher King
By Don Nigro
Directed by Andrew J. Robinson

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Sunday 03/07/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre

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Established in 1988 and presented annually by the Friends of the USC Libraries, the Scripter celebrates with its 22nd annual black-tie gala, to take place in the historic Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.

Eligible written works and films are reviewed by a committee consisting of Writers Guild of America members, Academy Award-winning and -nominated screenwriters, authors, film industry executives, faculty and select members of the Friends of the USC Libraries. This selection committee narrows down the year's eligible films to five nominees and then chooses the year's best cinematic adaptation.

Past Scripter winners have included the authors and screenwriters of Slumdog Millionaire, No Country for Old Men, Million Dollar Baby, The Hours, A Beautiful Mind, L.A. Confidential, The English Patient and Schindler's List.

Saturday 02/06/2010: 6:30 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Times Reference Room

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A lecture by Dr. Derek Yach, who has spearheaded several major efforts to improve global health.

Throughout his career, Dr. Yach has worked to place tobacco control, nutrition and chronic diseases prominently on the agenda of governments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector. He currently serves as senior vice president of Global Health Policy at PepsiCo, where he leads the internal Global Human Sustainability Task Force responsible for engagement with major international policy, research and scientific groups. Dr. Yach holds a degree in medicine from the University of Cape Town Medical School and a Master of Public health from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

During his visit, Dr. Yach will outline his vision of the role of corporations in global health.  Prior to joining PepsiCo, he had headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation and was an executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO). While at WHO, Dr. Yach led development of WHO's first treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the development of the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health.

February 9
University Park Campus, Town and Gown, Ballroom

February 10
Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium

Hosted in partnership with the Marshall School of Business

Dates: 02/09/2010, 02/10/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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

The recent Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Departures, directed by Yojiro Takita, has given new international visibility to the rich and dynamic history and tradition of Japanese cinema. Often overshadowed by the celebrated directors of the past, such as Ozu Yasujiro and Akira Kurosawa, contemporary Japanese filmmakers in fact are among the most creative and accomplished practitioners of the art. Filmmakers like Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shinji Aoyama, Nobuhiro Suwa and Takashi Miike have established themselves as unique within a highly diverse film culture, reflecting changes in Japanese art, culture and society.

This festival will showcase a selection of these works and will include discussions with invited scholars and filmmakers.

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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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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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 moderate a conversation with city planners and administrators in which they discuss the present and future of urban planning in the flux of unpredictable, migrant forces and the shaping of iconic, livable cities. From the sprawl of Los Angeles to 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.

Wednesday 02/24/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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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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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

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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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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.

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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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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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 and the USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics.

Friday 03/12/2010: 3:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Mayer 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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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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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, movies and museums 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; longtime Time movie reviewer Richard Schickel; 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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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.

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

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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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)

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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.

Thursday 04/01/2010: 7:00 PM

24th Street Theatre 1117 West 24th Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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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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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? A panel of USC scholars, musicians and musicologists takes 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.

The panel will be preceded at 6:30 p.m. by a USC Master of Liberal Studies Program admissions open house.

Moderator

• James R. Kincaid, USC Aerol Arnold Professor of English

Speakers

• Judith Halberstam, USC professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies
• Edwin McCann, USC professor of Philosophy
• John P. Nuckols, vice president, Advancement, L.A. Opera
• Paul Stein, violinist, Los Angeles Philharmonic
  

Speakers are subject to change.

Registration will open in Spring 2010.

Tuesday 04/06/2010: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus

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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
McCarthy Quad

3 p.m. Panel Discussion
Doheny Memorial Library, Intellectual Commons, Room 233

Throughout the day, stop by McCarthy Quad to check out a display of historic automobiles from the golden era of California car culture, including space age concept cars and vintage hot rods.

In the afternoon, join us for a panel discussion with Curtis Marez, professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Cinematic Arts at USC; Leslie Kendall, curator at the Petersen Automotive Museum; and Beth Werling, collections manager of Material Culture at the Museum of Natural History.

In addition, the USC Libraries will present an exhibition of historic photographs showing the influences of futurist design and lowrider, hot-rod and street-racing subcultures on Southern California car culture, immortalized in such films as American Graffiti.

Wednesday 04/07/2010: All day

University Park Campus

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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.

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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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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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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Finding themselves in situations that veer from the comic to the tragic, they try to make sense of the British way of life.

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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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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An exciting evening of dance by the award-winning School of Theatre Repertory Dance Company.

Daily: Thursday 04/29/2010 - Friday 04/30/2010; 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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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

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