Black-and-white images culled from the USC Archives and the USC Digital Library celebrate the iconic architecture and traditions that have helped shape the university’s identity.

Among the nearly four dozen images are drawings of the now defunct USC Maclay College of Theology (since relocated and integrated into the Claremont Colleges) and the USC Chaffey College of Agriculture (now an independent institution that serves 18,000 students). Other highlights include the Tajo Building on First and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles that once housed the USC College of Law, and the College of Liberal Arts Building which occupied the space where the Taper Hall of Humanities stands today. (“Old College,” as it was affectionately referred to, was razed in 1949 when it was deemed seismically unsafe.)

A portion of the display is devoted to the history of the USC University Club and its numerous incarnations and renovations throughout its history. Next summer, the USC University Club will move into its new location in Stoops King Hall on the north side of campus.

The display can be viewed during normal hours of operation. Visit digitallibrary.usc.edu to browse images in the USC Digital Library.

Daily: Tuesday 10/04/2011 - Friday 05/11/2012; All day

University Park Campus University Club (FAC) Vestibule

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“Soft Machine: DNA” is part of an ongoing series entitled Soft Machine Project (SMP). SMP is an outgrowth of the ideas inspired by the “cut-up fold-in” method William S. Burroughs devised in his sci-fi novel Soft Machine. Burroughs confronts the roots of bureaucracy, drugs, hatred, hype, war, addiction, linguistics, and various forms of mind control. The book raises awareness as to where social order ends and social engineering begins.

Mike Saijo’s exhibit explores the process of mindful procuring of quantitative and qualitative data, using inclusive, noncompetitive, transparent and accountable protocols, employed by scientists, and draws comparisons to the process an artist employs when observing and mapping “social DNA” to accomplish an anthropological-historical perspective.

Saijo is acutely aware of the awakening which is now global in geographical scope, and comprehensive in social scale. He recognizes that it is a multigenerational demographic profile, receptive to rapid sociopolitical mobilization (i.e., the current Occupy movement). This awakening is transnational in sources of inspiration because of the cumulative impact of social media and the critical analysis of media itself. Saijo’s art is his method of observing and revealing new approaches to interface with the world and to build capacity through pattern recognition using the scientific process. Saijo is developing a body of work that travels to different communities, shifting and growing, to encompass a broader understanding of the complexity of human behavior, curiously related to recent discoveries in epigenetics.

Saijo has developed “Soft Machine: DNA” from his original idea of “program art,” hoping to influence young artists to become aware of patterns in nature which can serve as models for looking at and organizing a more multifaceted worldview.

“Human dignity,” Saijo states, “involves social justice and freedom to question authority. Above all, it must involve a respect for every human life, including all points of view, to enable utilizing mankind’s full potential. Representative democracy has devolved as America has gotten richer. Direct democracy has to be nurtured in small stages and fostered to grow from the ground up. Mankind’s challenge today is to find better ways of generating more efficient energy, communication, education, legal assistance, medical assistance, food distribution and general economic self-sufficiency to ensure the future of generations yet to be born.”

This exhibition shares its mission with the following organizations and individuals: OMG Global, Sister Cities International SoCal Chapter, L.A./Nagoya Sister Cities Affiliation, the Society for the Arts in Healthcare’s Arts + Healthcare Month, the USC Head and Neck Cancer Survivors Group, Bleicher Contemporary Art, Silk Trading Co. Los Angeles, Agua Puro, Picasso3, Catholic Workers, Libros Schmibros, Casa 0101, Corazon del Pueblo/TC’s Skate Shop, Ovarian Psychos, Emergency USA and Artangels.org.

Daily: Tuesday 11/08/2011 - Sunday 02/26/2012; 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Institute for Genetic Medicine Gallery

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Grade school students use their creativity to depict what it means to live a healthy life.

Art in the Village is a visual arts outreach program created to give students the opportunity to create art in the classroom. The artworks created by the students are submitted into a juried exhibition that the USC Fisher Museum of Art plans, curates and professionally installs at the University Village Shopping Center food court.

This academic year’s second Art in the Village exhibition, “A Healthy Imagination,” asks students to use their creativity to demonstrate healthy living. This show will consist of artwork from K-5 students who attend the USC Family of Schools (Alexander Science Center, 32nd Street/USC Magnet, Foshay Learning Center, John Mack, Norwood, Vermont and Weems) and two parish schools (St. Agnes and St. Vincent).

Each exhibition kicks off with an opening reception at which the student artists are the stars. The students have the opportunity to speak with family, friends and community members about their artwork and are recognized for their achievements during an awards ceremony.

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: Wednesday 12/14/2011 - Friday 02/17/2012; All day

University Park Campus University Village Shopping Center University Village, Food Court

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USC Workout offers some of the best yoga around. With more than 10 yoga slots throughout the week and multiple instructors, you’re sure to find something that fits your schedule and needs.

USC Yoga is one of the many one-hour group fitness classes available at the Lyon Center. For a one-time fee of just $75, you can take part in as many classes as you like until semester’s end.

Be sure to check out our free demonstration classes at the start of the semester.

Yoga Schedule

Sundays, 12 p.m.
Mondays, 12 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Tuesdays, 1 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Wednesdays, 11 a.m. (at USC Fisher Museum of Art) and 4 p.m.
Thursdays, 12 p.m.
Fridays, 12 p.m.
Saturdays, 11:15 p.m.

Schedule is subject to change. Visit www.usc.edu/recsports for updated information.

Daily: Monday 01/09/2012 - Tuesday 05/15/2012; All day

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

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For Southern California photographers, this organization was crucial to the fostering and well-being of a community, inspiring creative dialogue with respect to their art practice. Photography was sought as a medium used by artists to explore new ideas, spark creativity and rekindle communities through an artistic approach. The center is a site for innovative exhibitions that push the boundaries of photographic practice and reclaim a history that has been overlooked.

Curated by Tim B. Wride, “Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community” explores the personalities, programs and impact of the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies. The show includes photo-documentation as well as video oral histories that tell the story of how the organization has contextualized the history of photography in its region. Some of the photographs discuss the contemporary issues surrounding the photographic practice at the time in which it was created; others set the stage for the future of image-making within and beyond regional boundaries.

Daily: Wednesday 01/11/2012 - Saturday 04/07/2012; All day

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art

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Together they chart the birth of what was initially called “homophile” activism, the production of the nation’s first LGBT publications, and the rise of gay liberation and lesbian feminism.

Daily: Tuesday 01/24/2012 - Thursday 05/31/2012; All day

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Treasure Room

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The Employee Resource Network (ERN) Leadership Summit is designed to:

• Develop ERN leaders as business leaders
• Expose participants to new ideas and processes used by successful ERNs, and promote shared learning
• Support ERN members in better utilizing analytics for data-driven decision-making and leadership
• Promote understanding about ways to reduce identity conflict in the workplace and use diversity and inclusion best practices as a means of encouraging employees to bring all of themselves to work
• Share how organizations are globalizing their ERNs — including action steps, challenges, and strategies for overcoming barriers
• Help ERN leaders work on their own ERN plans, and incorporate new ideas for improvement and implementation

Daily: Wednesday 02/08/2012 - Thursday 02/09/2012; All day

Mattel Leadership Development Center 1955 East Grand Avenue El Segundo CA 90245

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Communications expert Tim Miller shares the basic rules of good poster design, and some effective tools and techniques for creating technical posters with quality and clarity.

One of the mainstays of technical communication, the scientific poster offers a compact and powerful format for sharing your work with your peers. Yet sometimes even the most brilliant results can be obscured by poor layout or design. In this session, numerous examples of good and bad poster design will be critically reviewed. You will leave armed with the skills to guarantee that your next scientific poster will stand out in a crowd.

Participants should contact the office to be put into a workshop group for one of the days.

Dates: 02/08/2012, 02/09/2012: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC)

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The last year has witnessed unprecedented revolutions and political transformations in many Arab countries.

As Tunisians and Egyptians mark the first anniversary of their revolutions, the Arab world enters the second year of what has been a dramatic period of uprisings and demonstrations against authoritarian regimes that have been in place for decades.

While Libya’s Gadhafi is gone, external military involvement was necessary to uproot his regime, and it’s unclear what type of government the future holds.

In Syria, the revolt is becoming increasingly militarized, as a brutal regime daily kills scores of its own people, and some inside Syria are calling for foreign intervention.

Yemen and Bahrain are still witnessing unrest, and it remains unclear whether the minor steps toward reform taken in Jordan and Morocco will end calls for further changes.

All of these developments have implications for other actors in the region, as well as for U.S. and European policy.

Speakers

• Dr. Laurie Brand, School of International Relations
• Dr. Fayez Hammad, School of International Relations and Department of Political Science
• Dr. Rym Kaki, Price School of Public Policy
• Dr. Jeff Nugent, Department of Economics

Thursday 02/09/2012: 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM

University Park Campus Taper Hall of Humanities (THH) 114

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The Interdisciplinary Research Working Group on Religion and Material Culture presents a program that includes a scholarly discussion of wine, wine casks, wine carriers and saints, and a sampling of the goods.

Refreshments will be provided (attendees must be 21 or older to be served alcohol).

Lester K. Little is Dwight W. Morrow professor emeritus and a senior fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College. He is a former director of the American Academy in Rome, a past president of the Medieval Academy of America, and a past president of the International Union of Institutes of Archaeology, Art History and History in Rome. From 2000 to 2005, he served on the board of directors of the Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange between Italy and the United States.

A specialist in the social history of religion and religious movements in the European Middle Ages, Little has published Nature, Man and Society: New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West (a translation of M.–D. Chenu, La Theologie au 12e Siecle) (1968); Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe (1978); Liberty, Charity, Fraternity: Lay Religious Confraternities at Bergamo in the Age of the Commune (1988); Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France (1993); and, with Barbara H. Rosenwein, Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings (1998). His most recent publication is Plague and the End of Antiquity: the Pandemic of 541–750 (Cambridge University Press, December 2006); it is a collection Little edited of essays by 12 scholars on the history, archaeology and epidemiology of the so–called Plague of Justinian, the first historically documented pandemic of bubonic plague in history.

To reserve a place and receive the paper, click here.

Thursday 02/09/2012: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250

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The session will be presented by Center for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Fellows Carson Lam, Joseph Go and Nadine Tan.

Thursday 02/09/2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library 233

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Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne and LACMA director Michael Govan discuss the interplay between architecture and public policy.

Architects are essential contributors — and often the actual shapers — of the environment in which we live. This event will examine how architecture and design influence how we interact socially, culturally, and within the new economy. It is not only the public use of buildings that makes architecture a social art; it is also the architect’s engagement with clients, communities, contractors and others whose participation is required to alter the environment. What kinds of communication are needed between the architect and client to develop the best possible designs? What is the role of public policy in developing architecture for the community? How do designs influence our environment for good or ill?

Thom Mayne, founder of Los Angeles–based architecture firm Morphosis, and Michael Govan, director and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), will discuss the design process and the interplay between architecture and public policy as a source of creativity and tension.

Mayne is an internationally renowned architect and recipient of the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor. Morphosis has been the subject of various group and solo exhibitions throughout the world, including a large solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2006.

Prior to joining LACMA in 2006, Govan was president and director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York. Under his leadership, Dia dramatically increased its outstanding program of exhibitions, interdisciplinary programs and scholarly and critical publications.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion with Qingyun Ma, dean of the USC School of Architecture, and Larry Gross, director of the School of Communication at the USC Annenberg School.

A reception will follow.

Organized by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Thursday 02/09/2012: 6:30 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg Auditorium (ASC)

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The annual New Music for Orchestra event has premiered more than 125 Thornton School student orchestral works over the past 25 years.

Thursday 02/09/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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The panelists will focus on services and agencies in the areas of prisoner reentry, social services and redevelopment.

Moderator

• Debbie Dillon, deputy executive director of Administration, Southern California Association of Governments
  

Panelists

• Laura Farinella, deputy chief of the Long Beach Police Department
• Dan Jordan, director of finance at the City of La Canada Flintridge, adjunct faculty member at the USC Price School
• Vincent Holmes, Los Angeles County CEO’s Service Integration Unit
• Stephen G. Harding, city manager for Jurupa Valley, adjunct faculty member at the University of La Verne, and adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University
• Dean Misczynski, adjunct policy fellow at PPIC

Friday 02/10/2012: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

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

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Brown is the composer of numerous Broadway musicals, including Parade, Songs For a New World and Urban Cowboy.

Presented by the Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts.

Friday 02/10/2012: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Buddhism offers meaningful perspectives for making sense of the circumstances of life, and accessible methods for cultivating attitudes and capacities to solve life’s problems. Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi will illuminate basic concepts of Buddhism and show their practical application in contemporary life. Inner steadiness to face life’s uncertainties, calmness, clarity and well-being can be found by putting these methods into practice.

Venerable Priyadarshi is president of the Prajinopaya Institute and Foundation, a worldwide humanitarian organization. He is also founding director of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values and Buddhist chaplain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is his spiritual mentor, and has received instruction and training under several great Buddhist teachers. Venerable Priyadarshi teaches in the spirit of the nonsectarian Rime tradition. He has taught around the world, including recently in Russia, Mongolia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Japan and Mexico.

Friday 02/10/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Taper Hall of Humanities (THH) 102

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An esteemed artist and beloved pedagogue, Peter Marsh presents an intimate recital with colleagues.

Friday 02/10/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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In 1513 Florence, Machiavelli has been exiled from his beloved city and is desperately trying to find a way back in. Will it be through political prose, or should it perhaps be a play? Either way, his strategy must include the women in his life and the ultimate persona of female power, Fortuna.

Dates: 02/11/2012, 02/12/2012, 02/16/2012, 02/18/2012, 02/22/2012, 02/25/2012, 03/02/2012, 03/04/2012: All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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A one-day symposium highlights the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies and its impact on image-making within and beyond regional boundaries.

“Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community,” curated by Tim Wride, will explore the personalities, programs and impact of the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS) and how it set the stage for the future of image-making within and beyond regional boundaries.

In conjunction with the exhibition, this one-day symposium will explore the history, current state, and future potential of artist-run and alternative spaces and organizations — both photocentric and non-media-specific — as a local, regional and national phenomenon. The event will engage contemporary artists regarding their relationship with the broader cultural community.

“Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community” is part of Pacific Standard Time. This unprecedented collaboration initiated by the Getty brings together more than 60 cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months (beginning October 2011) to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.

A reception will follow.

Organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC Roski School of Fine Arts

Saturday 02/11/2012: 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM

University Park Campus USC Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center (HAR) Room 101

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Proceeds will benefit Trojan Kids Camp, After School Sports Connection and Troy Camp. Get involved by joining the Planning Committee, registering a team or promoting team registration, or volunteering before, on the day of, or at the event or become a tournament sponsor.

For further information, contact trojanhoops@uschillel.org.

Saturday 02/11/2012: 6:30 PM

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center (LRC) Basketball Courts

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The concert will also include Shostakovich’s Prelude in E-flat Minor; John Mackey’s Hymn to a Blue Hour; Bolcom’s Concerto Grosso; Mozart’s Serenade No. 12 in C Minor, K. 388; and Gould’s Marches from Symphony for Band.

Sunday 02/12/2012: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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The Hellions of Troy is a collegiate women’s ultimate frisbee team representing USC. This young team competes at both regional and national level tournaments, and since its formation in 2003 has grown in number and in competitive success.

The Hellions and its coaching staff are dedicated to furthering individual skill, team strategy and the spirit of the game for women’s ultimate frisbee on campus.

Spring Schedule

January 22-24
Santa Barbara Invite

February 13-15
President’s Day Invitational

March 6-7
Stanford Invite

March 27-28
Women’s College Centex

Dates: 01/22/2012, 01/23/2012, 01/24/2012, 02/13/2012, 02/14/2012, 02/15/2012, 03/06/2012, 03/07/2012, 03/27/2012, 03/28/2012: All day

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Join Annenberg students and faculty for a presentation by Lewis A. Friedland of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Friedland, professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and affiliated professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded and directs the Center for Communication and Democracy.
 
From Professor Friedland: “The concept of media or communication ecology has had a major revival in recent years, but most often it is still used as a general metaphor, conveying the idea that all media is connected. But there are formal communication ecological theories — most prominently Monge’s organizational and Ball-Rokeach’s community frameworks — linked to specific and (relatively) bounded social systems. Further, sociological work on communication networks, from Wellman to Castells, is implicitly ecological. This talk presents a framework for understanding the range of communication ecological theories as they relate to the bounded domain of communities of place and space, arguing that understanding the structure and flow of communication in the macro-dimension of the metropolis requires a more precise theory of networks as environments that are both bounded and embedded.”

Monday 02/13/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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

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From Harris: “The D-Wave One is a prototype computing platform that harnesses a physical process referred to as quantum annealing. The technology is built on a superconducting chip composed of analog devices that enable a quantum annealing algorithm and digital components that apply programmable on-chip flux biases. This lecture will provide a high-level introduction to the D-Wave One processor architecture and a discussion of the promises and challenges that have been encountered. I will conclude with a brief glimpse of a second-generation processor currently in development.”

Monday 02/13/2012: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Stauffer Science Lecture Hall 102

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As President Clinton’s ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Cambodia, and which resulted in the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court.

Scheffer will discuss his new book, All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, which reveals the truth behind Washington’s failures during the Rwanda genocide and the 1995 Srebrenica massacres. Scheffer’s book takes readers from the killing fields of Sierra Leone to the political back rooms of the U.N. Security Council, providing candid portraits of major figures including Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, and Wesley Clark.

The event is presented by the USC Gould School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.

 

Tuesday 02/14/2012: 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Musick Law Building 101

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A lecture by Dr. Jared L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University.

Last year, Dr. Cohon chaired the U.S. National Academies committee that produced the report “The Hidden Costs of Energy” (The National Academies Press, 2010). Using the most advanced economic methodology and the best available data, the committee estimated a lower bound of $120 billion per year in non-climate damages to Americans from producing and using energy in America. Conservatively, taking into account impacts of climate change would double this number. This was just damages to Americans from energy use in America; the estimate did not include a wide range of ecological and other impacts. The world is incurring enormous uncompensated and largely unrecognized damages from its production, distribution and use of energy.

Dr. Cohon believes that sustainability in energy — and anything else — will not and cannot be attained until external effects are internalized. Doing so is relatively straightforward in a conceptual sense, via taxes or other policy measures. Cohon doesn’t know of a single economist who would dispute this; however, he believes that no Republican members of Congress and relatively few Democrats would publicly support a carbon tax or cap and trade. We clearly have a political and governance problem, or at least a disconnect between what we know to be correct and what we’re able to achieve in national policy.

The Albert Dorman Distinguished Lecture Series honors Albert Dorman, an architect and civil engineer who is a USC alumnus and the founding chairman of AECOM Technology Corporation. He was the first person to become both a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the winner of the ASCE Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Leadership.

Please RSVP by January 25 to usc.edu/esvp using the event code 2012. Seating is limited; please arrive early.

Tuesday 02/14/2012: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Tutor Hall 526

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Bach composed six solo works for violin in 1720, while serving in the court of Prince Leopold of Cothen. This set of sonatas and partitas is considered by violinists to be the pinnacle of solo literature for the instrument. Certainly no other work poses such a challenge to the player for its technical, intellectual and artistic integrity. Any one of these sonatas or partitas can be considered as a base for all musical endeavors that follow.

A light reception will precede the performance at 5:30 p.m. The performance will begin promptly at 6 p.m.

Tuesday 02/14/2012: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Intellectual Commons

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The merchant, who grew up as a serf on her property, now understands money but not love.

Dates: 02/04/2012, 02/05/2012, 02/15/2012, 02/19/2012, 02/24/2012, 02/25/2012, 03/01/2012, 03/03/2012: All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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Please join Geoffrey Baum, managing director of the USC Annenberg School’s Center on Communication Leadership and Policy (CCLP) for an insightful conversation with two influential publishers: Andrew Breitbart, founder and publisher of Breitbart.com, BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com; and Jon Fleischman, founder and publisher of FlashReport.org. Lizzy Breiter from the USC College Republicans will also join the conversation, which will be led by Jonathan Wilcox, CCLP instructor and former speechwriter for Gov. Pete Wilson.

Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m., with the discussion following at 12 p.m. For more information or to RSVP, please email commlead@usc.edu.

Road to the White House 2012: Politics, Media and Technology is presented in partnership with USC Dornsife College’s Unruh Institute of Politics and the USC Price School’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and Public Enterprise.

Wednesday 02/15/2012: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 450

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Randolph Hall, Vice President of Research, leads a workshop on creating funded research programs.

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

Wednesday 02/15/2012: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library NML East Conference Room

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A stimulating conversation and performance highlight the life and work of Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.

This multimedia event will feature historical video; a talk by USC’s Piatigorsky Endowed Chair in Cello, Ralph Kirshbaum; and eclectic selections of music performed by USC Thornton students. Participants will be introduced to the keys to instrumental performance, including preparation, confidence-building, and routines for practice and performance, and the growing interdependence of these factors in the development of a successful career.

The program is presented in anticipation of the inaugural Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, which will be held in Los Angeles March 9-18 and will bring together masters of the cello and young cellists from around the world.

Organized by the USC Thornton School of Music

Wednesday 02/15/2012: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Sarah Whiting, dean at Rice University School of Architecture in Houston and partner at WW Architecture, discusses the politics and architectures of the public realm.

Whiting possesses an indefatigable curiosity about how individuals constitute a public and, more specifically, through what forms (architecture and urbanism) that public manifests itself and is in turn formed. Her teaching, writing and practice focus on the politics and architectures of this public realm. In addition to her position as William Ward Watkin Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice, Whiting is a partner of the Houston-based architecture office WW and an architectural critic. She is currently completing a book, Superblock City: Chicago’s Elastic Grid, and is the founding editor of a new architectural book series with Princeton University Press, entitled Point.

Whiting received her B.A. from Yale, her M.Arch. from Princeton and her Ph.D. from MIT. Before coming to Rice, Whiting taught at Princeton, Harvard, IIT, the University of Kentucky and the University of Florida. Prior to founding WW, she worked with OMA in the Netherlands, where she was a principal designer on the Euralille project, and for Peter Eisenman in New York.

Wednesday 02/15/2012: 6:00 PM

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

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Johnson is the writer of numerous works of poetry, fiction, plays and essays, including The Man Among the Seals, Inner Weather, The Incognito Lounge, The Veil, Angels, Already Dead: A California Gothic, The Name of the World, Train Dreams, Tree of Smoke, Nobody Move, Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames, Soul of a Whore, Purvis and Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond. His volume of stories Jesus’ Son was published to much acclaim, and was later adapted for the screen. Johnson’s honors include a 1993 Lannan Fellowship in Fiction, a Whiting Writer’s Award and the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from the Paris Review. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.

Wednesday 02/15/2012: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus University Club (FAC) Banquet Room

Since then, social work students, faculty and community leaders have gathered each year to celebrate diversity through an exchange of ideas and to learn how to better communicate across differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, social class and disability. This year, we look at the implications of immigration reform on civil liberties and the social work profession.

Several states have passed local immigration reform acts aimed at identifying, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants. The laws make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime, and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally simply based on appearance. Critics of the legislation say it encourages racial profiling, while supporters say the law prohibits the use of race as the sole basis for investigating immigration status. The National Association of Social Workers strongly opposes such laws, which criminalize immigrants, endanger human rights and threaten the civil liberties of citizens and immigrants. The current political context of immigration makes the job of social workers much harder. We must present a united front to ensure equal protection from discrimination for all immigrants who come to live in the United States.

To do nothing is to ignore the core of who we are and what our profession stands for.
 
Keynote Speakers

• Gil Cedillo, California state assembly member
• Manuel Pastor, professor of American studies and ethnicity at USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

• Niels Frenzen, clinical professor of law at USC Gould School of Law
• Ange-Marie Hancock, associate professor of political science and gender studies at USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• Angelica Salas, director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

Schedule

8:15 a.m.
 Check-In


9 a.m. 
All School Day


12 p.m. 
Lunch

1 p.m.
 Student activity

Thursday 02/16/2012: 8:15 AM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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The session will be led by Center for Excellence in Teaching teaching assistant fellows.

Thursday 02/16/2012: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library 240

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Thursday 02/16/2012: 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Intellectual Commons

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Thursday 02/16/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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The Onion is an award-winning satirical news organization, delivering unrivaled journalism and reaching millions of fans through print, broadcast, radio, online and mobile outlets. Founded in 1988 as a student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the weekly paper now has a devout following of four million readers per week and has been described as “arguably the most popular humor periodical in world history” by The New Yorker. Its 21-time Webby Award-winning Web site, TheOnion.com, described by Time as “the funniest site on the Internet,” averages 40 million page views per month.

The Onion brings humor and intellect into every live engagement. A typical presentation features two members of the creative staff offering the audience an intimate glimpse inside the writers’ room of “America’s Finest News Source.” The talented writers and editors walk the audience through the history of the satirical news behemoth, taking them behind the scenes of the most famous headlines, and — provided the proper headset mics — they dance. Topics can range from an overview of the year in news to a harsh analysis of today’s corporate landscape to what new media means for the publishing industry.

The Onion repeatedly tackles the important stories that lesser media companies fail to cover, such as “Drugs Win Drug War,” “Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job” and “Time Announces New Version of Magazine Aimed at Adults.’”

In recent years, The Onion expanded into radio and video, extending its presentation to new audiences. Today, The Onion Radio News is regularly rated a top five podcast by iTunes. The Onion News Network, which won a Peabody Award in 2009, is producing two broadcast television shows which will kick off in early 2011 on Comedy Central and IFC.

The Onion’s first original book, Our Dumb Century, was a New York Times No. 1 best-seller and won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In 2007, Our Dumb World — a complete world atlas — followed. In 2009, Our Front Pages, a collection of the finest Onion covers, was released. All three have been critical and commercial hits.

In April 2010, The Onion began its foray into mobile applications with the launch of its first official iPhone app. Today, between two iPhone applications and one now available on Android, The Onion can count more than one million downloads.

From the weekly paper to video, radio, online, apps, books and stage, Onion staffers strive toward the same goal: To mercilessly mock the left and the right, the powerful and the weak, the deserving and the utterly innocent.

Thursday 02/16/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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The Tempest begins with the storm that gives it its title. A ship has blown off course, and a number of noblemen have washed up on the shore of a mysterious island. What they don’t know is that the master of the island, Prospero, is a man they deposed from the dukedom of Milan many years before. With his magical powers, he has conjured up the storm that has brought his enemies under his power. He proceeds to dazzle and dismay the survivors with his art as he orchestrates his triumphant return home.

Dates: 02/04/2012, 02/05/2012, 02/17/2012, 02/18/2012, 02/23/2012, 02/26/2012, 02/29/2012, 03/03/2012: All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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USC faculty members share how they implemented their Learning Environments grants.

During fall 2011, several USC faculty members teaching in recently upgraded classrooms received competitive grants that provided technology and instructional support for implementing a student presentation assignment. Learn how they leveraged student multimedia presentations in ways that helped students reflect upon their understanding of course concepts and content, while encouraging collaboration and feedback between and among students and the instructor.

The Center for Scholarly Technology will highlight the current research and evaluation data from the TEL Learning Environments grant program at the event, including upcoming grant cycles.
 
Featured in this session will be Tracy Poon Tambascia, associate professor of clinical education at the Rossier School; Kevin Egan, associate professor at the Dornsife College Writing Program; and Chad Walker, assistant lecturer in the Dornsife College East Asian Languages and Cultures department.

Friday 02/17/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) 100

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Issues discussed will include the importance of cultural preservation to religious thought, the existence and construction of a pan-Hindu identity, and interfaith dialogue and service.

Saturday 02/18/2012: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus University Religious Center Fishbowl Chapel

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This third annual event is open to the public. People from all across California will attend to have their spirits lifted in song and dance through gospel music.

Saturday 02/18/2012: 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium Auditorium

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Established in 1988 and presented annually by the Friends of the USC Libraries, the Scripter celebrates with its 24th annual black-tie gala.

The festivities will 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.

At Scripter 24, screenwriter Paul Haggis will be presented with the USC Scripter Literary Achievement Award. Filmmaker and USC alum Taylor Hackford (’67) and Academy Award winning actress Helen Mirren return as honorary dinner chairs for the second year.

To RSVP, go to www.usc.edu/esvp and enter the code “Scripter2012”.

Saturday 02/18/2012: 6:30 PM - 12:00 AM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Times Reference Room

This event will expose audiences to cultural elements of being Asian, Chinese, and Chinese American.

The original musical will be primarily directed and produced by CASA members.

Sunday 02/19/2012: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Roseann Mulligan of the Ostrow School of USC explores an alternative approach to the traditional primary care model.

What if most primary care providers were not physicians, but clinicians and non-clinicians who served as patients’ first contact with the health care system? What if these providers offered screenings, treatments, referrals and disease prevention education?

Could such a model have an impact on reducing health disparities in this country? This presentation, hosted by the Immigrant Health Initiative, will invite you to consider an alternative to the traditional approach to primary care.

Roseann Mulligan, D.D.S., M.S., is Charles M. Goldstein Professor of Community Dentistry, associate dean of Community Health Programs and Hospital Affairs, and chair of the Division of Dental Public Health and Pediatric Dentistry at the Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC.

Tuesday 02/21/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 227

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This special event at the USC Fisher Museum of Art is curated by David St. John.

St. John will be joined by the poetry faculty of USC’s Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing program: Professor Carol Muske-Dukes, Associate Professor Mark Irwin and Professor Susan McCabe.

Tuesday 02/21/2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art (HAR)

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The Mitt Romney candidacy has put his Mormonism under a microscope. Notre Dame’s David Campbell examines what reaction to Romney’s religion says about U.S. religious tolerance.

How far have we come since John F. Kennedy faced similar questions about his Catholicism in 1960?

David Campbell is the John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and founding director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy. He is the co-author (with Robert Putnam) of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which has been described by The New York Times as “intellectually powerful,” by America as “an instant classic” and by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the most successfully argued sociological study of American religion in more than half a century.”

This event is part of the Elizabeth and Robert Plumleigh Lecture Series.

Tuesday 02/21/2012: 5:00 PM - 6:45 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC) Club Room

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Faculty member Andrew Shulman, joined by pianist Bernadene Blaha, violinist Margaret Batjer and clarinetist Michele Zukovsky, will perform Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time and other works.

Tuesday 02/21/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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“Through the Lens” asks grade school students to a create work of art as though they were a camera, trying to capture a moment in time.

Art in the Village is a visual arts outreach program created to give students the opportunity to create art in the classroom. The artworks created by the students are submitted into a juried exhibition that the USC Fisher Museum of Art plans, curates and professionally installs at the University Village Shopping Center food court.

This third exhibition of Art in the Village consists of artwork from K-5 students who attend the USC Family of Schools (32nd Street/USC Magnet, Foshay Learning Center, John Mack, Norwood, Vermont and Weems) and two parish schools (St. Agnes and St. Vincent).

Each exhibition kicks off with an opening reception at which the student artists are the stars. The students have the opportunity to speak with family, friends and community members about their artwork, and are recognized for their achievements during an awards ceremony.

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: Wednesday 02/22/2012 - Friday 03/30/2012; All day

University Park Campus University Village Shopping Center University Village, Food Court

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Participants will learn from case studies and from applying systems diagnostics and models to challenges in their own organizations. Upon returning to their organizations, participants will be able to:

• Recognize situations in which analytical decision-making and deep-dive diagnostics can be applied effectively to improve organizational performance
• Better apply analytics to increase data-based insights for decision-making
  

The program will start at 1 p.m. on February 22 and conclude around lunchtime on February 24.

Daily: Wednesday 02/22/2012 - Friday 02/24/2012; All day

Manhattan Beach Marriott 1400 Parkview Avenue Manhattan Beach CA 90266

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Join Visions and Voices for a multidisciplinary discussion exploring a new side of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland.

Along with the Mad Hatter, the Rabbit, the Mock Turtle and other beloved characters from Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll created a surprising world in which the normal rules don’t apply. This world has inspired filmmakers like Tim Burton and Jan Svankmajer, visual artists like Salvador Dali, and the creators of numerous graphic novels, video games and works of science fiction. A polymath and inventor with an eclectic mind, Carroll also taught math at Oxford. He drew inspiration from his pioneering studies of logic and geometry while creating the fictional world of Alice.

This multidisciplinary discussion will feature science writer Margaret Wertheim, mathematics professor Francis Bonahon and English professor Jim Kincaid. Following the discussion, Wertheim and Bonahon will lead an experimental play/workshop in which participants can make and play with absurd mathematical objects — such as the Mobius strip and the hyperbolic plane — dating from the mathematical revolution of Carroll’s time.

About the Speakers

Margaret Wertheim is the author of Pythagoras’ Trousers, a history of the relationship between physics and religion, and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Sciences, New Scientist, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Salon and Wired. In 2003, Wertheim and her twin sister, Christine, founded the Institute For Figuring, an innovative Los Angeles–based organization devoted to enhancing public engagement with the aesthetic and poetic dimensions of science and mathematics.

Francis Bonahon is a professor of mathematics at the USC Dornsife College. His research focuses on topology and geometry, with an emphasis on two- and three-dimensional spaces. His work includes publications on hyperbolic geometry and quantum topology, and his research is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Jim Kincaid is the Aerol Arnold Chair in English and a professor of English at the USC Dornsife College. He researches critical theory, American studies and queer studies. He teaches classes in criminality, lunacy and perversion, age studies and censorship, as well as other areas of literary, political and cultural studies.

Organized by the USC Academy for Polymathic Study and the USC Libraries, which present the Wonderland Award, a multidisciplinary competition that encourages new scholarship and creative work related to Lewis Carroll. More information about the Wonderland Award is available online at www.usc.edu/libraries/wonderland.

Wednesday 02/22/2012: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240

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Jennifer Scheper Hughes presents “Weeping Virgins and Perspiring Christs: The Religious Image as Agent and Subject in Latin American Religion.” Hughes is assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research and teaching focuses on Latin American and Latino religions, religion and art (including especially religious images), the role of religion in colonialism and decolonization, Christianity in the Southern hemisphere, and comparative liberation theologies. Hughes’ first book, Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2010), is a history of popular devotion to artistic images of the suffering Christ in Mexico.

Domino Torres presents “Transnational Connections Across Borders: Depictions of Irish and Chicana Iconography in Contemporary Works of Art.” Torres is a Ph.D. candidate in English at USC. Her research interests include theater, culture, performance, Irish drama, contemporary Irish theater and Irish and Chicana dramaturgy.

These lectures are part of Religion on the Move: Crossing Borders, Setting Boundaries, which is sponsored by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture’s Interdisciplinary Research Group. The seminar explores how the notion of diaspora has been reinvented in the 21st century, how tourists have revitalized certain forms of spirituality, and the significance of the explosion of Pentecostal Christianity in the developing world.

To reserve your seat and to receive the papers in advance of the seminar, RSVP by clicking here and completing the form.

Wednesday 02/22/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 232

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As a young poet in the late 1960s, Nikki Giovanni gave voice to the passions of the Black Power movement. Over the past 40 years, her outspoken writing and lecturing have kept her firmly at the intersection of art and politics. One of the most widely read poets, Giovanni prides herself on being a “Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English.” Her focus is on the individual — specifically, the power one has to make a difference in oneself, and thus in the lives of others.

Over a distinguished career, Giovanni has received the NAACP Image Award for Literature and the Langston Hughes Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters. She has also received some 25 honorary degrees, and has been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle, Ladies’ Home Journal and Ebony. The prolific author’s recent books include The 100 Best African American Poems, Rosa and Bicycles: Love Poems. Giovanni is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Wednesday 02/22/2012: 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) The Forum

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The USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging honors the late Rep. Edward R. Roybal, a visionary leader in establishing aging services and a champion for civil rights and equal justice. This year’s speaker is Henry G. Cisneros, executive chairman of CityView and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

After the lecture, awards will be presented to the recipients of the Pearmain Prize for Excellence in Research on Aging and the USC Roybal Institute Community Partnership Award. The 2012 honorees are: Laura Trejo, Los Angeles Department of Aging, USC Roybal Institute Community Partnership Award; and Ronald J. Angel, University of Texas at Austin, Pearmain Prize for Excellence in Research on Aging.

Named for late Congressman Edward R. Roybal, the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging is dedicated to improving the health and mental health of older persons and their families, particularly those from low-income and multiethnic backgrounds.

To learn more about the event, please contact uscroybal@usc.edu or (213) 740-1887.
Please RSVP by February 17 at usc.edu/esvp (code: ROYBAL) or (213) 740-1744.

Wednesday 02/22/2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Town and Gown (TGF)

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Wednesday 02/22/2012: 7:30 PM - 12:00 AM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Each year, the Interdisciplinary Research Group offers fellowships for members of the USC scholarly community to do advanced scholarship in religion. Join Prof. Lisa Bitel, chair of the group, and past and present fellows for a luncheon and presentation.

In 2011, six faculty members received fellowships:

• Darnell Cole and Shafiqa Ahmadi, USC Rossier School of Education
• Matthew Gainer, USC Libraries
• Jane Iwamura, Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity
• Macarena Gomez-Barris, Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity
• Jason Glenn, History
  

The Interdisciplinary Research Group awarded advanced doctoral fellowships to the following:

• Rebecca Cerling, History
• Jeremy Glatstein, Art History
• Bradly Nabors, Sociology

• Thien-Huong Ninh, Sociology

• Tasneem Siddiqui, American Studies and Ethnicity

• Mohamed Saleh, Economics
  

More information is available at crcc.usc.edu/irg.

Thursday 02/23/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240

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A hands-on workshop (consisting of 3 sessions) on directly and effectively meeting the requirements of RFPs and grant program applications.

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

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

Dates: 02/23/2012, 03/08/2012, 03/22/2012: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library West Conference Room

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The session will be led by Center for Excellence in Teaching undergraduate and teaching assistant fellows.

Thursday 02/23/2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Ahmanson Center, Room 238

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Thursday 02/23/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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The four virtuosos of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet join forces with comedy legend Phil Proctor of Firesign Theatre to present a new experience of the Don Quixote story.

This theatrical presentation is a unique mix of dramatic storytelling and intricate chamber music, resulting in a hybrid performance piece rich with humor and expressive depth. Proctor, a master of voices and dialects, will portray a dozen different characters as he traces the dramatic arc of Cervantes’ masterpiece. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet will accompany him with colorful arrangements of musical gems from the Spanish Golden Age.

Following the performance, a discussion will illuminate the frivolity, nobility and humanity of the words and music from the time of Cervantes.

Fascinating and entertaining, the performance draws audience members into the world of 17th century Spain, and brings them along for all the hilarity and tragedy of Don Quixote’s infamous adventures. The narration explores the comedy, pathos and surrealism of Cervantes’ text. The music is not a mere background score to the narration, but serves as an equal partner in the unfolding story. The brilliant guitar arrangements explore a wide range of colors made famous by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, while staying true to medieval and Renaissance sensibilities. The intricate synchronization of text and music creates an atmosphere of dramatic excitement that brings the Knight of La Mancha’s quixotic struggle for immortality to life.

Organized by William Kanengiser (Music). Co-sponsored by the USC Thornton School of Music.

Thursday 02/23/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Thursday 02/23/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Post-Production Building, Auditorium

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In two hands-on workshops, participants remix and remake everyday objects and software and alter the ways we think about technology, culture and the environment.

Reuse. Recycle. Reconfigure. Throughout this weeklong series, artifacts from the workshops will be featured in a gallery show that is part art exhibition and part interactive junkyard. The series will showcase reuse and sharing as fundamental to the design and creation of hybrid media work.

Even if you are unable to attend the workshops, please come by the gallery during the week to see the results of the first workshop, or join Visions and Voices for a reception and presentation by participants following each workshop.

Schedule

February 24, 12-4 p.m. Scrapyard Challenge
Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki of Scrapyard Challenge will guide an afternoon of repurposing junk and refurbished electronics to create machines and robots. A reception will follow.
To RSVP, click on USC students, staff and faculty or general public beginning Wednesday, February 1, at 9 a.m.

March 2, 2-4 p.m. Still Water: What Networks Need To Thrive
Still Water co-founders Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais from the University of Maine will demonstrate how to hack software into unique virtual environments. A closing reception will follow.
To RSVP, click on USC students, staff and faculty or general public beginning Tuesday, February 7, at 9 a.m.

Organized by Craig Dietrich (Cinematic Arts) and Steve Anderson (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by iMAP (Ph.D. Program in Media Arts and Practice) and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.

Daily: Friday 02/24/2012 - Friday 03/02/2012; All day

University Park Campus USC School of Cinematic Arts Building (SCA)

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Faculty pianist Kevin Fitz-Gerald, joined by violinist Irina Tseitlin and cellist Ronald Leonard, presents a concert of Prokofiev and the music and visual art of Michael Tseitlin.

Friday 02/24/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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This seventh annual conference will feature an exciting and stimulating program with outstanding conference workshops, plenary speakers, research papers and cool ideas seeking collaborators.

Conference Goals

• To discuss, assess and report on educational innovations and discoveries in the health professions
• To develop skills in specific areas of teaching, educational leadership and personal effectiveness
• To interact and collaborate with other health professions educators interested in educational reform in academic medicine and health professions education
  

The Keck School of Medicine of USC is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Keck School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 11.5 AMA PRA Category One Credits. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The California State Board of Registered Nursing accepts courses approved for Category One Credit as meeting the continuing education requirements for license renewal.

Dates: 02/25/2012, 02/26/2012: All day

Pasadena Hilton 168 South Los Robles Avenue Pasadena CA 91101

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A weekend of screenings and discussions investigates how Latin American and Spanish cinema have documented and constructed collective and personal memory.

The audience will engage our relationship to the past by viewing three films: Guillermo del Toro’s internationally acclaimed Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain, 2006), Natalia Almada’s award-winning documentary El General (Mexico/USA, 2008) and German Berger’s My Life with Carlos (Chile, 2010).

The festival will also feature screenings and announcements of the winning entries from the student video contest Los Angeles: Making Memory Visible.

Schedule

Saturday, February 25

4 p.m. El General (Mexico/U.S., 2008), directed by Natalia Almada
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
The past and the present collide as filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather Plutarco Elias Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. In his time, Calles was called “El Bolshevique” and “El Hefe Maximo” (The Foremost Chief). Today, he is remembered as “El Quema-Curas” (The Priest-Burner) and as a dictator who ruled through puppet presidents until he was exiled in 1936. Through his daughter’s recordings, El General moves between the memories of a daughter grappling with history’s portrait of her father and the weight of his legacy on the country today. Time is blurred in this complex and visually arresting portrait of a family and country living under the shadows of the past.

6 p.m. Reception
Queen’s Courtyard

7 p.m. Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain, 2006), directed by Guillermo del Toro; Q&A and roundtable discussion
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined epic — a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain. Del Toro’s sixth and most ambitious film combines historic and moral themes with visual creativity. It is a timeless tale of good and evil, bravery and sacrifice, love and loss.

Sunday, February 26

2 p.m. My Life with Carlos (Chile, 2010), directed by German Berger; Q&A with director
School of Cinematic Arts, Ray Stark Family Theatre
My Life with Carlos is the voyage of a son in search of the memory of his assassinated father. It is also the emotional history of a country that refuses to remember. It is the intimate diary of a broken family struggling to overcome tragedy. It is the minimal story of a group of men and women as told by themselves.

4 p.m. Los Angeles: Making Memory Visible
School of Cinematic Arts, Ray Stark Family Theatre
The finalists from the student video contest will be screened before an awards ceremony.

Organized by Sherry Velasco (Spanish and Gender Studies), Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla (Spanish and Comparative Literature), Macarena Gomez-Barris (Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Laura Isabel Serna (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by El Centro Chicano and the Latina/o Student Assembly.

Daily: Saturday 02/25/2012 - Sunday 02/26/2012; All day

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT)

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Interested in making a movie for a USC film festival? You and your friends have 24 hours to pull it off.

On February 25, the 16th annual Ed Wood Film Festival 24-hour shoot begins! The fest is a long-running tradition at USC, open to all students (freshmen through seniors).

What makes the festival unique is that the filmmaking teams are limited to a mere 24 hours in which to conceive, write, shoot and edit.

Ed Wood was a B-movie director of the 1950s and ’60s, notorious for making particularly bad horror and sci-fi flicks. What The Ed Wood Film Festival seeks to prove is that even in 24 hours, USC film students can outperform “a professional.”

Films that make the cut will be screened in the Campus Ballroom for a big audience, and have the chance to win awards! Screenings will take place on March 2.

For more information, join the Facebook Group or contact us at EdWood2012@gmail.com.

Dates: 02/25/2012, 02/26/2012: All day

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Ballroom

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The USC Thornton Outreach program hosts this popular event, featuring the use of drums in a variety of musical styles, presented by members of the renowned Thornton faculty.

Sunday 02/26/2012: 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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The Southern California Business Film Festival is a weeklong business-themed film festival held at the beginning of March. Sponsored by the USC Marshall School of Business and the School of Cinematic Arts, the fest combines two of the world’s most powerful aspects in film and business, for a film extravaganza that includes extensive cast- and crew-hosted screening series, networking events, speaker panels, and a student film competition with cash and prizes. The festival gives students a chance to network with other up-and-coming filmmakers and showcase their works to industry professionals.

Early Bird Deadline: Monday, November 21, 2011 (student/standard fee $20, WithoutABox fee $15)
Regular Deadline: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 (standard fee $25, WithoutABox fee $20)
Late Deadline: Sunday, January 29, 2012 (standard fee $25, WithoutABox fee $20)

Daily: Monday 02/27/2012 - Sunday 03/04/2012; All day

University Park Campus USC Venue TBA

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Water, essential to humankind’s existence, is increasingly unavailable because of pollution, failure to develop conservation programs, and mismanagement of water resources. In the near future, water shortages could lead to conflict in many parts of the world. Water-related problems are global in scope, and although international bodies actively support initiatives to conserve and fairly allocate water, not enough is being done to address this critical topic.

The Center on Public Diplomacy’s Water Diplomacy Initiative includes research and programming that will contribute to the following three objectives: achieving a greater understanding of the impact of water diplomacy on the recipients of current and future programs; assessing best practices in the field; and developing technological and policy recommendations for governments and organizations conducting water diplomacy.

Monday 02/27/2012: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC) Board Room

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Monday 02/27/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Father James Heft and Rev. Dagmar Grefe lead a conversation about the promise and the limits of interfaith cooperation and dialogue.

The discussion will be followed by time for signing and sale of their books.

Father Heft is director of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies and professor of religion at USC, as well as author of the new book Catholicism and Interreligious Dialogue. Rev. Dr. Dagmar Grefe directs the Department of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and is author of the new book Encounters for Change: Interreligious Cooperation in the Care of Individuals and Communities.

A light lunch will be served.

Tuesday 02/28/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus University Religious Center Fishbowl Chapel

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Aquila Theatre, a New York–based company dedicated to reinventing classical theater, performs Herakles, one of Euripides’ finest and most challenging plays.

Aquila Theatre has been called a “classically trained, modernly hip troupe” by The New York Times.

Herakles is in the underworld performing one of his famous labors, bringing back the three-headed dog Cerberus. In his absence, Lycus, the illegitimate and tyrannical king of Thebes, has determined to kill Herakles’ father, wife and three sons. Herakles returns just in time to prevent their deaths, and to kill Lycus instead. However, Lyssa (madness personified) appears and causes Herakles to murder his wife and children.

The Athenian tragedy raises critical questions about the world: What is legitimate violence? How can we be human in a world that can seem inhuman? Can we accept catastrophes that happen to us for no justifiable reason? How do we make a place in our lives for these disasters? The play also shows the need for compassion and community in the face of vulnerability and misfortune.

Following the performance, USC classics professor William Thalmann will engage the audience in conversation with Aquila Artistic Director Peter Meineck.

A reception will follow.

Organized by the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsored by USC Dornsife College Commons.

Tuesday 02/28/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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With humor, tenderness and honesty, The Book of Mormon Girl reveals what it’s like to grow up in a world where angels stand at our bedsides and ancestors know our names, where Coca-Cola is forbidden fruit and Marie Osmond is a style icon. This is a story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith.

Joanna Brooks is a national voice on Mormon life and politics and an award-winning scholar of religion and American culture. She covers Mormonism, faith and politics for ReligionDispatches.org and was named one of “50 Politicos To Watch” by Politico.com. A 20-year veteran of the Mormon feminist and LGBT equality movements, Brooks grew up in a conservative Mormon home among the last great orange groves of Orange County, California. She attended Brigham Young University and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Wednesday 02/29/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus University Religious Center Fishbowl Chapel

Wednesday 02/29/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Wednesday 02/29/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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The USC Center on Public Diplomacy is pleased to welcome Martin Davidson, CEO of U.K. cultural relations organization the British Council.

This discussion with Davidson, moderated by Center on Public Diplomacy Director Philip Seib, will address how the British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the U.K. and other countries, and builds trust between them worldwide.

RSVP is requested. To RSVP, click here.

Thursday 03/01/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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

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Zachary Zimmer, Ph.D., is professor in the School of Nursing, Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.

Thursday 03/01/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

University Park Campus Andrus Gerontology Center Room 224

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Center for Excellence in Teaching Faculty Fellow Ed Finegan and faculty member Lyn Boyd-Judson discuss cultivating wisdom and moral discernment among USC students.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.

Thursday 03/01/2012: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library 240

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Join Visions and Voices for a series of live performances and video projects inspired by the collections at the One National Gay and Lesbian Archives.

A series of events is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945–1980” at the One National Gay and Lesbian Archives. The events will foster discussions about LGBT histories, queer art and aesthetics, and archival practices in contemporary art.

Artists Heather Cassils, Zackary Drucker, Wu Tsang and Chris Vargas will present a series of live performances and video projects inspired by the collections at One. These artists explore trans content in their multidisciplinary work and are interested in a discussion about LGBTQ archives and the “Ts” and “Qs” that are often missing from historical records. The performance will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dean Spade, assistant professor at the Seattle University School of Law.

About the Performers and Speakers

Heather Cassils is a bodybuilder who uses her exaggerated physique to intervene in various contexts in order to interrogate systems of power, control and gender. Employing many of the same strategies used by Fluxus and Guerrilla Theatre, her method is multidisciplinary and crosses a spectrum of performance, film, video and photography. Cassils is also a founding member of the Los Angeles–based performance group Toxic Titties.

Zackary Drucker is a Los Angeles–based artist who is interested in obliterating language obstacles, pulverizing identity disorders, and revealing dark subconscious layers of outsider agency. Drucker disarms audiences using live performance, film, video and photography.

Dean Spade is an assistant professor at the Seattle University School of Law, teaching law and social movements, poverty law, and administrative law. His book Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law is forthcoming from South End Press.

Wu Tsang is a Los Angeles–based visual artist and performer whose projects have been presented at X-Initiative (New York), Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros (Mexico City), Oberhausen (Germany), REDCAT (Los Angeles) and the California Biennial 2010. In 2008, Tsang’s short film The Shape of a Right Statement was included in Artforum’s Best of the Year (Film). Tsang is currently directing his first feature documentary, Wildness, which is in postproduction.

Chris Vargas is a video-maker based in Oakland. With collaborator Greg Youmans, he creates the sitcom series Falling in Love ... with Chris and Greg, and with Eric Stanley he is the co-director of the movie Homotopia and the feature-length sequel Criminal Queers.

Related Events

September 23, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Getting Graphic: A Lecture and Workshop on the History of Graphic Design in Queer Activism
Institute for Multimedia Literacy; and One National Gay and Lesbian Archives, 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007

January 24, 7 p.m. Queer Aesthetics and Archival Practices
Doheny Memorial Library, Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240

Organized by Joseph Hawkins, Mia Locks, David Frantz, Onya Hogan-Finlay and the One National Gay and Lesbian Archives. Co-sponsored by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Initiative.

Thursday 03/01/2012: 6:00 PM

One National Gay and Lesbian Archives 909 West Adams Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90007

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Thursday 03/01/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Dates: 03/01/2012, 03/02/2012, 03/03/2012, 03/04/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Bing Theatre (BIT)

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Music director Adam Knight Gilbert leads the sinfonia in a night of chamber music of the German Baroque.

Friday 03/02/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Friday 03/02/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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A fascinating walking tour of the Broadway Historic Theatre and Commercial District explores the social, cinematic and architectural history of this unique street.

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, February 8, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 9 a.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 9:45 a.m. and will return to campus at 2 p.m.

Breakfast will be provided at check-in.

Home to an astonishing 12 movie palaces built between 1910 and 1931 and nearly two dozen major department and clothing stores, Broadway was once the entertainment epicenter of Los Angeles. Although the theaters no longer regularly show films, their elegant presence remains, revealing the glitz and glamour of a bygone era.

Saturday 03/03/2012: 9:45 AM - 2:00 PM

Downtown Los Angeles

Join the Fisher Museum of Art for an afternoon filled with music, live entertainment and art-making activities, plus free food and refreshments.

Saturday 03/03/2012: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art (HAR)

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A provocative multimedia performance features actress Vanessa Bell Calloway as Zora Neale Hurston.

Written by Gabrielle Pina and directed by Anita Dashiell-Sparks, the production features live music composed by Ron McCurdy and archival images collected by Rebecca Houston. The performance will illuminate Hurston’s prose, her life, her distinctive array of friends and foes, and her unique view of a Jazz Age world.

Through the analysis and dramatization of approximately 25 letters and selected excerpts from Zora Neale Hurston’s impressive body of work, Letters from Zora will explore Hurston’s controversial views on integration, segregation and social justice, and will showcase a life that was filled with artistic and literary triumphs as well as abject poverty and self-doubt. Additionally, the letters and corresponding narrative will examine Hurston’s delicate financial and artistic dance with her patron Charlotte Osgood Mason and her relationships with other notable luminaries such as Richard Wright, Countee Culllen, Alain Locke and Langston Hughes. The piece will also reflect on Hurston’s fall from grace and her untimely death in 1960. Archival footage will showcase the events, places and icons referenced in many of Hurston’s letters, and McCurdy’s original score will serve as a live soundtrack, with music performed by students from the USC Thornton School.

Organized by Ron McCurdy (Jazz Studies)

Saturday 03/03/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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

Sunday 03/04/2012: All day

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Following a pre-opera discussion, a satellite broadcast from The Metropolitan Opera will feature Wagner’s Gotterdammerung.

With its cataclysmic climax, The Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. The tale of star-crossed lovers doomed by fate stars Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde and Gary Lehman as Siegfried. James Levine conducts.

12 p.m. Pre-Opera Discussion Hosted by Dr. James Kincaid
1 p.m. Opera Presentation 

The broadcast will be presented in spectacular HD digital projection and 5.1 surround sound.

Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts in conjunction with The Metropolitan Opera and the USC Thornton School of Music.

Sunday 03/04/2012: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT)

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Baylor College of Medicine’s Peter Hotez addresses neglected tropical diseases in the developing world.

More than one billion people suffer from one or more neglected tropical diseases, almost exclusively in rural areas of poverty in the developing world. At least six of the seven neglected tropical diseases coexist in some fashion in more than 75 percent of countries in Africa.

Peter Hotez is a professor of pediatrics, molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as the founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine.

Lunch will be provided.

The lecture is co-hosted by the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Tuesday 03/06/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Soto Street Building, Room 105

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This group will use the work of psychotherapist Jeremy Taylor to analyze the dreams of participating students.

Participants are asked to commit to attend all four sessions, to keep a dream journal, and to maintain confidentiality about what is shared in the group.

To sign up for the group, email Burklo@usc.edu by February 28.

Dates: 03/06/2012, 03/20/2012, 03/27/2012, 04/03/2012: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus University Religious Center 103

Jaikumar came to the U.S. in 1991, with a background in Indian broadcasting and print journalism. She studies the media (particularly cinema) in relation to the colonial pasts and global presents of India and Britain. Jaikumar teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate level on international sound cinema, historical genre films, global media space and cinema, and Bollywood. Her writings include the book Cinema at the End of the Empire (Duke, 2006) and various essays on film policies, transnational feminism and post-colonial cinema. Jaikumar is currently working on a book on location cinematography and places that become visual icons, titled Where Histories Reside: Filming India as Location.

Wednesday 03/07/2012: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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Phil Taylor, Executive Director of Research Advancement and Federal Relations,leads a workshop on the best strategies for preparing and submitting NSF proposals.Phil was a Program Officer at NSF.

Wednesday 03/07/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Credit Union Building, CUB 329

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Dr. David Jason Gerber of the USC School of Architecture will discuss his recent projects.

Gerber is an assistant professor of architecture at USC. He concurrently works as an executive at Gehry Technologies Inc., a leading Building Information Modeling consultancy and technology company. He has worked as an architect in the U.S., Europe and Asia, for the Steinberg Group, Moshe Safdie and Gehry Technologies, and as a project architect for Zaha Hadid. Gerber has held appointments at MIT’s Media Lab as a research fellow, as well as holding numerous teaching and research fellowships at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and serving as Harvard University’s Frederick Sheldon Fellow. He has been an instructor at the southern California Institute of Architecture, the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory in London, Innsbruck University and the EPFL Switzerland, and has been a guest speaker and critic at Harvard and MIT.

At Zaha Hadid Architects, Gerber worked on a number of the recently built projects, including the contemporary art museum in Cincinnati, the Phaeno Science Museum in Wolfsburg Germany, the Hoenheim terminus in Strasbourg. He was project architect and project manager for the One North Masterplan in Singapore.

At SCI-Arc and USC, Gerber has taught courses in the applied sciences and studios in design, design computation, AEC technologies and fabrication, emphasizing associative parametric design strategies and Building Information Modeling as a means of design exploration and realization.

Gerber’s doctoral work, “Parametric Practices: Models for Design Exploration in Architecture,” focuses on associative parametric design technology and its effect on design, theory, processes and contemporary practice. Publications of his design work and research have been included in Young Blood (AD, 2001), Corporate Fields (AA Publications, 2005) and, most recently, Interactive Cities (Hyx Publications, 2006). He is currently publishing a Harvard University book The Parametric Affect: Computation, Innovation and Models for Design Exploration in Contemporary Architectural Practice (2009).

Gerber earned his B.Arch. at UC Berkeley, an M.Arch from the Architectural Association, and a Master of Design Studies and Doctorate in Design from Harvard GSD.

Wednesday 03/07/2012: 6:00 PM

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

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When her world is turned upside down by the discovery of a monstrous crime, Mija finds that her unique and touching poetry allows her to defy the weight of shame and distance herself from a painful proximity to violence.

“With an understated visual style and perfectly paced narrative, [writer-director Lee Chang-dong’s] Poetry has created a portrait of a woman who has, by the end, become an extraordinary vision of human empathy.” — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Wednesday 03/07/2012: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

University Park Campus George Lucas Instructional Building (LUC) Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre

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Maestro James Conlon is music director of the L.A. Opera. The Dvorak piece will feature cellist Han Bin Yoon, winner of the Thornton School’s Strings Concerto Competition.

Wednesday 03/07/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Come hear the winner of DownBeat’s 2011 Student Music Award for Large Jazz Ensemble.

Wednesday 03/07/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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A fascinating evening of performance and conversation explores issues raised by blindness.

The event will feature the West Coast premiere of Do You Dream in Color?, composed by Bruce Adolphe; sung by blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin, who is also the author of the text; and accompanied by acclaimed pianist Marija Stroke. Following the performance, Rubin and Adolphe will participate in a conversation with USC University Professor and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio; and Mark Humayun, a distinguished professor of ophthalmology at USC and pioneer of retinal transplants.

About the Artists and Speakers

Laurie Rubin has been praised by The New York Times for her “compelling artistry” and “communicative power.” The Los Angeles Times wrote that “Rubin seems to have an especially acute intuition about the power and subtleties of sound” and is a “charismatic, multi-textured performer.”

Recently named composer-in-residence at the USC Brain and Creativity Institute, Bruce Adolphe has composed music for Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Sylvia McNair, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Brentano String Quartet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Miami Quartet, Chicago Chamber Musicians and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Pianist Marija Stroke has performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Russia and Hong Kong, in chamber music festivals and in solo performances.

Antonio Damasio is University Professor and David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. Damasio, who has made seminal contributions to the understanding of how the brain generates mind and behavior, has described his discoveries in books such as Descartes’ Error and Looking for Spinoza. Damasio’s newest book is Self Comes to Mind. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Honda Prize and the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology.

Mark Humayun is a professor of ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute and a leader in the treatment of the most challenging eye diseases through advanced engineering. Humayun is focused on developing therapies for retinal degenerations, macular degenerations, retinovascular diseases, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.

Organized by Antonio Damasio (Neuroscience). Co-sponsored by Classical KUSC.

Thursday 03/08/2012: 7:00 PM

AT&T Center Theatre 1150 South Olive Street Los Angeles CA 90015

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Meet the authors at a breakfast reception.

Friday 03/09/2012: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC) Embassy Room

As stated by the New Media Consortium, game-based learning has engaging and appealing suitability for supporting, in a variety of learning contexts, the increasingly important competencies of collaboration, problem-solving and communication.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and the center for Scholarly Technology, this event will open with a framework for game-based learning, and then turn to the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ alternate reality game, which was launched last fall. Members of the audience will be encouraged to consider ways in which a game-based approach could be implemented in their programs or courses.

Panelists

• Henry Jenkins, Provost’s Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, School of Cinematic Arts
• Holly Willis, director, Institute for Multimedia Literacy; research assistant professor, School of Cinematic Arts
  

Moderator

• Geoffrey Middlebrook, associate teaching professor, Dornsife College Writing Program; Center for Excellence in Teaching Faculty Fellow

Friday 03/09/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Leavey Library Auditorium

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This opening event of the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival will feature cellists Antonio Lysy, Peter Stumpf, Jian Wang, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Thomas and Patrick Demenga, and Jean-Guihen Queyras in a wide-ranging evening of concertos.

Friday 03/09/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Thomas Tweed presents “Following the Flows: Studying Religion in Motion.” Tweed is Shive, Lindsay and Gray Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Tweed’s historical, ethnographic and theoretical research, which includes six books and a six-volume series of historical documents, has been supported by several grants and fellowships, including three from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His research interests include religion in the Americas, Catholicism in America, Asian religions in the U.S., Latino/a religion, religion and trans-nationalism, religion and geography, and method and theory in the study of religion.

Rebecca Kim presents “Saving the Whites: Korean Missionaries in America.” Kim is associate professor of sociology and the director of the Ethnic Studies program at Pepperdine University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles. She has published on topics related to immigration, religion and the second generation. Kim is the author of God’s New Whiz Kids? Korean American Evangelicals on Campus (NYU Press, 2006). She is currently conducting research on Korean missionaries.

These lectures are part of Religion on the Move: Crossing Borders, Setting Boundaries, which is sponsored by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture’s Interdisciplinary Research Group. The seminar explores how the notion of diaspora has been reinvented in the 21st century, how tourists have revitalized certain forms of spirituality, and the significance of the explosion of Pentecostal Christianity in the developing world.

To reserve your seat and to receive the papers in advance of the seminar, RSVP by clicking here and completing the form.

Wednesday 03/21/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 232

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Professor Achim Menges of Stuttgart University lectures as part of the second annual Top Fuel: Design Performance Workshop, a series of sustainability events.

Menges is an architect and professor at Stuttgart University, where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design. He also is visiting professor in architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Menges taught at the AA School of Architecture as studio master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Program from 2002 to 2009, and as unit master of Diploma Unit Four from 2003 to 2006. From 2005 to 2008, he was professor for Form Generation and Materialization at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design in Germany. In addition, he has held visiting professorships in Europe and the United States.

Menges’ practice and research focus on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of evolutionary computation, algorithmic design, biomimetic engineering and computer-aided manufacturing that enables a highly articulated, performative built environment. His work is based on an interdisciplinary approach in collaboration with structural engineers, biomimetic engineers, computer scientists, material scientists and biologists, and his institute is part of the German Competence Network for Biomimetics and the German Competence Network of Computer Science in Architecture.

Menges’ research projects have been published and exhibited worldwide and have received numerous international awards. Menges has lectured widely and published more than 100 papers and articles and 10 books on his research.

Wednesday 03/21/2012: 6:00 PM

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

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Based on personal interviews, this collaborative documentary theater piece tells the stories of seven incredible women who are campaigning for human rights around the globe.

“Riveting, explosive and inspiring drama ... starkly emotive ... reaffirm[s] the belief that one person could indeed make a difference.” — The Huffington Post

“It was impossible not to be inspired by the widely varying examples of courage that the project corralled.” — The Washington Post

Seven is a collaborative documentary theater piece written by seven award-winning female playwrights. Based on personal interviews, it tells the stories of seven incredible women from around the world who have faced risks to themselves and their families to take on human rights abuses in their countries. One of the women set up the first domestic-violence crisis center in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, even as the government denied the existence of such abuse. Another woman, in Pakistan, refused to remain silent after she was raped, demanding justice; she later opened a school so that young girls would no longer be victimized because of illiteracy. Still another returned to Cambodia after her parents had been killed by the Khmer Rouge to work against human trafficking. In the interwoven stories, what emerges is a connection of common purpose, determination and courage.

The groundbreaking play was written by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith and Susan Yankowitz.

Related Event

March 19, 3-5:30 p.m. Theater for Social Change Workshop
Doheny Memorial Library, Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Join us for an introductory workshop in applied theater arts and learn how to use theater techniques to explore social justice issues that matter to you. The workshop will be led by Rebecca Struch (M.A., Applied Theater Arts, USC 2011).

Organized by Lora Zane (Theatre), Paula Cizmar (Theatre), Brent Blair (Theatre), Ange-Marie Hancock (Political Science and Gender Studies) and Michael Messner (Sociology). Co-sponsored by El Centro Chicano, the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles, the Latina/o Student Assembly, Take Back the Night, the Women’s Student Association and the Black Entertainment and Theatrical Association.

Wednesday 03/21/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Wednesday 03/21/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Friday, March 23, 8 p.m. Somewhere Very Else: The Polish-Lithuanian Connection
Thornton School faculty pianist Aron Kallay will perform a faculty recital of Polish and Lithuanian music. The concert will include premieres by Vykintas Baltakas and Thornton faculty Veronika Krausas and Marek Zebrowski as well as works by Joanna Bruzdowicz, Mikalojus Ciurlionis, and Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki.

Saturday, March 24, 4 p.m. Imaginary Variations & Beyond
In this concert, violinist Janet Packer and pianist Anthony Padilla will present the California premiere of a newly commissioned work by Krzysztof Meyer, as well as the music of Wieniawski and Debussy.

Dates: 03/23/2012, 03/24/2012: All day

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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The USC Emeriti Center hosts a lecture presenting academic and practical information on keeping the brain healthy.

The speakers are Helena Chui, M.D., director of the USC Memory and Aging Center, and Kathy Martelli, M.S., coordinator of the center’s new study “The Aging Brain — a Study for 70+ Seniors” (funded by the National Institute on Aging).

Lunch is included.

Friday 03/23/2012: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) Auditorium

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Explore the unique contributions of African Americans to the literature of classical music, focusing on orchestral works by black composers past and present.

A discussion led by Ndugu Chancler, adjunct professor of jazz studies and popular music at USC, will feature Hansonia Caldwell, professor of music emeritus at California State University, Dominguez Hills; and Robert Watt, who served as assistant principal horn for the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1970 through 2007. The event will also include performances of orchestral compositions by African American composers, including William Grant Still and Patrice Rushen, performed by the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles under the leadership of Maestro Charles Dickerson.

About the Speakers

Hansonia Caldwell is professor of music emeritus at California State University, Dominguez Hills. A distinguished accompanist and church organist, she is founding conductor of the Dominguez Hills Jubilee Choir, a town-and-gown multi-ethnic ensemble that specializes in the performance of music from African American culture.

Ndugu Chancler is a drummer, percussionist, producer, composer, clinician and educator. As a studio musician, he has recorded with such greats as Frank Sinatra, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. As a songwriter, Chancler co-wrote hits for Santana, George Duke and the Dazz Band. His production credits include Flora Purim, Bill Summers, Toki and his own solo recordings.

Charles Dickerson is founder, music director and conductor of the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (which made its world debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2010), director of music at Rolling Hills United Methodist Church and former director of the Southeast Symphony.

Multi-Grammy-nominated artist Patrice Rushen is a composer, producer and international recording artist. She was the first woman to serve as musical director for the Grammy Awards, the first woman in 43 years to serve as head composer/musical director for the Emmy Awards, and the first woman musical director of the NAACP Image Awards. A classically trained pianist, Rushen is one of the music industry’s most versatile and sought-after artists.

Robert Watt served as assistant principal horn for the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1970 through 2007. Watt has been a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony and many community orchestras in the Los Angeles area.

Organized by Ndugu Chancler (Jazz Studies and Popular Music)

Friday 03/23/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Independent publishers, writers, artists and designers come together for a unique, vital and historically charged event that pushes the boundaries of popular culture.

What is the role of independent publishers? What is the impact and potential benefit of digital media for today’s small publishers? Who will control what we read and see? To address these and many other questions, the event will feature dynamic speakers including Chip Kidd, a publishing design veteran with a career spanning 25 years. Described as a “rock star” book designer, he has created innovative, award-winning book and comic designs, and his work has taken the comic and graphic novel industry to new levels. Gary Panter is an artist and cartoonist who works in painting, design, comics and commercial imagery. He is a publisher, the artist of the Jimbo comic series, an Emmy Award winner for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, and a musician. Byron Coley is a music critic who wrote for Forced Exposure, NY Rocker, Boston Rock and Take It! One of the first writers to extensively document indie rock, Coley was a contributing writer to Spin in the 1980s and ’90s. He currently writes for Wire and Arthur.

Additionally, a series of hands-on DIY workshops will be led by writers and artists in zine publishing, e-publications, blogging and bookbinding — including Amir Fallah, artist and creator of Beautiful-Decay magazine; artist and critic Doug Harvey; and publisher Bruce Caen.

Throughout the day, independent publishers, artists and designers will showcase their wares at a festive bazaar. The bazaar will include free food and a DJ.

Organized by Ewa Wojciak and Haven Lin-Kirk (Fine Arts)

Saturday 03/24/2012: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Harris Hall (HAR)

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Monday 03/26/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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The USC Department of English is pleased to present a poetry reading by Gjertrud Schnackenberg.

Schnackenberg is the author of six collections of poetry: Portraits and Elegies (1982), The Lamplit Answer (1985), A Gilded Lapse of Time (1992), The Throne of Labdacus (2000), Supernatural Love: Poems, 1978-1992 (2000) and Heavenly Questions (2010). She received the 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry for The Throne of Labdacus, the 1998 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2004 Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, the 1984 Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy in Rome, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Radcliffe Institute and the Guggenheim Foundation. Schnackenberg has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1996.

Wednesday 03/28/2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240

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Clayton M. Christensen delivers the 34th annual Pullias Lecture.

Clayton M. Christensen is the architect of and an authority on disruptive innovation, a framework which describes the process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves “up market,” eventually displacing established competitors. Consistently acknowledged in rankings and surveys as one of the world’s leading thinkers on innovation, Christensen is widely sought after as a speaker, adviser and board member. His research has been applied to national economies, start-up and Fortune 50 companies, and early- and late-stage investing.

Thursday 03/29/2012: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC) Embassy Room

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Marsha Kinder, USC University Professor and founding director of the Labyrinth Project, moderates a panel on “Participatory History and the Value of Home Movies.”

Join the USC Casden Institute and the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the Los Angeles inaugural debut of “Jewish Homegrown History: Immigration, Identity and Intermarriage,” an interactive cultural history of Jews in America. The Skirball Cultural Center is host to the Los Angeles premiere of the traveling museum installation, which seeks to explore the cultural value of home movies and give the community and exhibit viewers an opportunity to participate in producing an archival cultural history.

Panelists will include documentary filmmaker Isaac Artenstein; Rosemary Comella, media artist and creative director of “Jewish Homegrown History”; William Deverell, professor of history at USC; Lisa Leeman, documentary filmmaker and USC instructor in Cinematic Arts; and Ava Kahn, scholar of Jewish Studies.

Thursday 03/29/2012: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Skirball Cultural Center 2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90049

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Thursday 03/29/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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A festival devoted to Hollywood icon and international legend Dino De Laurentiis, one of the most prolific and respected producers in film history.

De Laurentiis, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 91, had a career spanning 73 years in the film industry. It ranged from his early neorealist masterpieces, Bitter Rice and Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria and La Strada, for which De Laurentiis received an Academy Award, to big-budget spectaculars like Barbarella, King Kong, Dune, Conan the Barbarian and his reinvention of the Hannibal Lecter franchise.

With the support and guidance of the De Laurentiis family, Visions and Voices will pay homage to the exceptional variety and longevity that marked the producer’s career, with screenings of his films and discussions featuring his friends, family, scholars and colleagues.

Films that to be screened include Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro, 1949), The Great War (La Grande Guerra, 1959), Barbarella (1968), Serpico (1973), Death Wish (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), King Kong (1976), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Manhunter (1986), Blue Velvet (1986), Army of Darkness (1992) and Hannibal (2001). Additional screenings will take place in the weeks prior to the festival.

Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts

Daily: Friday 03/30/2012 - Sunday 04/01/2012; All day

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT)

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This USC Recreational Sports workshop helps participants get certified to serve as lifeguards.

The three-day event covers skills and techniques for lifeguarding, including CPR and first aid. Swim skills test is required, and swimming is required on all three days. Certification is awarded after the test.

Dates: 03/30/2012, 03/31/2012, 04/01/2012: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus USC McDonald's Swim Stadium (MAC)

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Friday 03/30/2012: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Highlights will include a South African apartheid protest song, Rachmaninoff’s Six Pieces for Female Choir, Three Graduals for Men by Carl Czerny, and works by Vaughan Williams, Ola Gjeilo and Brahms.

Friday 03/30/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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The USC Thornton Wind Ensemble presents a concert highlighting the work of contemporary women composers.

The program will feature the work of two USC composers, Veronika Krausas and Erica Muhl, as well as several other distinguished composers, including Jennifer Higdon (2010 Pulitzer Prize winner), Joan Tower, Kathryn Salfelder and Susan Botti.

Organized by the USC Thornton School of Music

Sunday 04/01/2012: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Starting with the sacred — Lotti, Willaert, Bruckner, Schubert, Mozart and Argento — the program moves on to music from Venezuela, Germany, Australia, Brazil and Canada.

Sunday 04/01/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Celebrate the arrival of Kaya Press at USC with award-winning authors Brian Castro (Australia), Sia Figiel (Samoa) and Shailja Patel (Kenya).

From South Asian Kenyans struggling under the threat of expulsion, to Samoan girls on the cusp of womanhood, to a word-obsessed multiracial Aussie piecing together his family’s past through fragments of letters and half-forgotten stories, the characters found in Kaya Press books are as provocative and nuanced as the writers who give them voice. Celebrate the arrival of Kaya Press at USC with readings and conversations with award-winning authors Brian Castro (Australia), Sia Figiel (Samoa) and Shailja Patel (Kenya). Performance meets poetry meets experimental fiction in this exploration of the creative forces behind the next wave of cutting-edge transnational literature from the Asian and Pacific Island diasporas.

About the Speakers

Brian Castro was born in Hong Kong in 1950 of Portuguese, Chinese and English parents, and arrived in Australia in 1961. His novels include Birds of Passage (1983), which shared the Australian/Vogel Literary Award; Double-Wolf (1991), winner of the Age Fiction Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction; After China (1992), which also won the Victorian Premier’s Award; and Stepper (1997), for which Castro received the National Book Council Banjo Award. Shanghai Dancing (republished by Kaya Press in the United States) won the Christina Stead Fiction Prize and the New South Wales Premier’s Book of the Year Award. Castro’s books have been translated into German and French. He is currently the chair of creative writing at the University of Adelaide.

Sia Figiel was born in Matautu Tai, Samoa, and grew up amid traditional Samoan singing and poetry, which heavily influenced her writing. An author of novels, plays and poetry, she has traveled extensively in Europe and the Pacific Islands and has had residencies at the University of Technology in Sydney, the East-West Center in Hawaii, the Pacific Writing Forum at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, and Logoipulotu College in Savaii. Figiel’s poetry won the Polynesian Literary Competition in 1994, and her first novel, Where We Once Belonged, was awarded the 1997 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Fiction, South East Asia/South Pacific region. Figiel’s work has been translated into French, German, Catalan, Danish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Portuguese.

Shailja Patel was born and raised in Kenya, has lived in London and San Francisco, and now divides her time between Nairobi and Berkeley. She honed her poetic skills in performances that have received standing ovations throughout Europe, Africa and North America. She has been described by the Gulf Times as “the poetic equivalent of Arundhati Roy” and by CNN as “the face of globalization as a people-centered phenomenon of migration and exchange.” She has appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR and Al Jazeera, and her poems have been translated into 12 languages. She is a recipient of a Sundance Theatre Fellowship, the Fanny-Ann Eddy Poetry Award from IRNAfrica, the Voices of Our Nations Poetry Award, a Lambda Slam Championship and the Outwrite Poetry Prize.

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April 3, 12:30 p.m. At a writing workshop with the three authors, participants will have an opportunity to discuss writing techniques, present their own writing for feedback from the authors, and get guidance on the process of publishing their work. Lunch will be served.

Organized by Viet Nguyen (English and American Studies and Ethnicity), Sumun Pendakur (Asian Pacific American Student Services) and Sunyoung Lee (Kaya Press)

Monday 04/02/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240

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Dates: 04/02/2012, 04/03/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Tuesday 04/03/2012: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library 240

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A workshop on identifying funding opportunities, preparing proposals, and building relationships with program officers.

The course, led by Linda Zukowski, director of Foundation Relations, University Advancement, is designed for investigators who already understand the basics of writing proposals but have not previously prepared proposals for a foundation.

The workshop focuses on the steps needed in developing a relationship with a foundation that can lead to funding, and the process of formulating a proposal for a foundation audience.

Wednesday 04/04/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Norris Medical Library West Conference Room

Terriquez received a Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA. Her research focuses on educational inequality, immigrant integration and organized labor. Her work is linked to education justice and immigrant rights organizing efforts in Los Angeles. Terriquez has also worked as a community organizer on school reform and other grassroots campaigns.

Terriquez is currently working on a study of parental engagement in Los Angeles County. Drawing on survey and semi-structured interview data, she seeks to understand how individual parents acquire the confidence, cultural capital and problem-solving skills to actively participate in school affairs. She is particularly interested in examining how labor and community organizations support various forms of school-based civic participation among Latino immigrants and other racially diverse parents.

Terriquez is also the principal investigator of the California Young Adult Study, a mixed-methods investigation of youths’ access to post-secondary education, employment and civic engagement opportunities.

Wednesday 04/04/2012: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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Edward Mazria, founder and executive director of Architecture 2030, discusses the 2030 Challenge.

Mazria is an internationally recognized architect who reshaped the national and international dialogue on energy and climate change by bringing the building sector — the largest energy consumer and contributor to global warming — to center stage. Mazria’s research showed conclusively that buildings are responsible for almost half of all U.S. energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, and that any viable solution to global warming must run through the building sector.

As an award-winning architect with more than 35 years of experience in low energy and passive solar energy design, and the author of numerous published works, including The Passive Solar Energy Book, Mazria is preeminently qualified to develop a method for transforming the building sector from the greatest contributor to climate change to its leading solution. Based on his experience and research, Mazria developed and issued the widely adopted 2030 Challenge, a measured and achievable strategy to dramatically reduce global GHG emissions and fossil fuel consumption by the year 2030.

Wednesday 04/04/2012: 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Seeley G. Mudd Building 123

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Wednesday 04/04/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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All ages are welcome.

Saturday 04/07/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art (HAR)

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Martinez, a new assistant professor at Boise State, received her Ph.D. from USC in ’08. Learn from her as you begin your journey down a similar path.

Monday 04/09/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library 240

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Accomplished actor LisaGay Hamilton presents a solo performance addressing her struggles and triumphs as an African American woman working in the visual and performing arts.

The theater, film and television actor is best known for her role as attorney Rebecca Washington on the ABC drama The Practice and for her critically acclaimed performance as young Sethe in Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Hamilton has also worked with some of the most accomplished playwrights of the late 20th century, including Athol Fugard, August Wilson and Adrienne Kennedy. Her leading roles on film and on stage include Isabella in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, opposite Kevin Kline; and Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, opposite Campbell Scott.

Hamilton will perform excerpts from her remarkable career and will share autobiographical and historical anecdotes related to her work.

Organized by David Roman (English and American Studies and Ethnicity)

Tuesday 04/10/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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How does this affect our ability to defend our political affiliations on rational grounds?

Please visit the Web site of the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics for more information and details on panelists.

This event is part of the Levan Coffeehouse Conversations. The Levan Coffeehouse Conversations on Practical Ethics aim to promote discourse at USC by bringing together students and faculty from across schools to discuss ethical issues of practical importance. Come share your opinions about ethical questions that matter. Free lunch and open dialogue.

Wednesday 04/11/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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Structural engineer Hanif Kara delivers the Nabih Youssef Lecture on Structural Design Innovation.

Kara is design director and co-founder of London-based structural engineering practice Adams Kara Taylor (AKT II). He has taught design internationally, is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Architecture Foundation, and was a commissioner on the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) from 2008 to 2011. He is currently a visiting professor of Architectural Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the Pierce Anderson Lecturer in Creative Engineering at the Harvard GSD.

Kara was born in Bombo, Uganda. Following his graduation in 1982, Kara worked for a structural engineering company Allot and Lomax, where he designed tension structures, roller coasters, offshore platforms and power stations. Kara then joined Anthony Hunt in London, before launching AKT in 1996 with Albert Williamson-Taylor and Robin Adams. In 2008, Kara was appointed commissioner for British government watchdog the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, becoming the first structural engineer to be appointed to this position. At CABE, he has chaired the design review panels and been instrumental in raising the importance of engineering through chairing the Inclusion by Design Group and the Energy for Waste Facilities Group. Kara was also a member of design for the London Advisory Group to the mayor of London from 2007 to 2008, and currently serves on the Design Surgeon Panel for the London Development Authority. In 2010, he was appointed as a trustee of the Architecture Foundation. Kara has a quarterly column in the RIBA Journal on issues that affect the industry, and has written in many technical journals and books relating to engineering and design.

Kara was the first structural engineer to be selected for the Master Jury for the 2004 cycle of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. He is a fellow member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Institute of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Structural Engineers and the Royal Society of Arts. Kara was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004. In 2009, he was curator for the first solo exhibition of AKT work at the Architectural Association in London. In May 2011, the Association of Consulting Engineers gave him the Engineering Ambassador award for his contribution to design consultancy and engineering.

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

Wednesday 04/11/2012: 6:00 PM

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

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Ahn and Roach, master’s candidates in instrumental conducting, guide a unique ensemble of students, staff, faculty, and members of the surrounding community.

Wednesday 04/11/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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In addition to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21, the evening will include Mozart’s Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, and selections from Joseph Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne featuring Thornton School vocal students.

Thursday 04/12/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Scholars, journalists and musicians come together for a daylong symposium commemorating Guthrie’s life, legacy and impact on American politics, music and culture.

Born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in 1912, Woody Guthrie became the nation’s most recognizable and important folk singer before the folk revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. To mark the centennial of his birth and his lasting significance, a series of events is presented in partnership with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and the Grammy Museum. Scholars, journalists and musicians will come together for a daylong symposium featuring discussions and performances that will commemorate Woody Guthrie’s life, legacy and impact on American politics, music and culture. Following the symposium, in a concert at L.A. Live, some of the nation’s most celebrated musicians will pay tribute to Guthrie.

Organized by William Deverell (History)

Saturday 04/14/2012: All day

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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The mission of the event is “to provide financial resources for advanced education that pave the way for physically challenged athletes to overcome their tragedies and realize their full potential.”

Highlights will include:

• Olympian Swim Clinic
• Walk, Run ’n’ Roll
• Participant Goodie Bags
• Celebrities
• Live Entertainment
• Raffle and Silent Auction
• Barbecue
• Massage Tent
• Kids’ Corner

Saturday 04/14/2012: All day

University Park Campus General William Lyon University Center (LRC) McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium

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Saturday 04/14/2012: 2:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Sunday 04/15/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Monday 04/16/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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This session is open only to individuals who have already attended one of CEO’s Strategic Organization Design Workshops.

The Advanced Topics workshop entails pre-reading, a project requiring participant design case preparation, and peer and faculty consultation about company projects.

Daily: Tuesday 04/17/2012 - Friday 04/27/2012; All day

Portofino Hotel 260 Portofino Way Redondo Beach CA 90277

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Information for students, faculty and staff on how to be prepared for quakes.

Know what to do before, during and after an earthquake, whether you’re at work, at home or in another location.

The session is presented by the office of Career and Protective Services.

Tuesday 04/17/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 AM

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) The Forum

Jim Folsom, director of the Botanical Gardens at The Huntington, discusses the Japanese Garden’s recent makeover.

The Huntington Library-USC Emeriti Center College lecture series on Japanese gardens convenes in the Friends’ Hall at The Huntington.

The lecture is free. Partial support for this lecture series is provided by the USC Emeriti Center’s Norboru Inamoto Endowment Fund.

Tuesday 04/17/2012: 7:30 PM

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens Friends' Hall 1151 Oxford Road San Marino CA 91108

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Maja Mataric leads this Center for Excellence in Research workshop for academia-bound postdoctoral students/researchers/fellows in the sciences.

The workshop panel will cover topics including: how to best spend one’s postdoc time, assemble a research statement and teaching statement, acquire and prepare reference letter writers, apply for academic jobs, prepare for an academic job interview, follow up after the interview, and select a position.

The workshop will be presented by a panel of faculty members, and moderated by Prof. Mataric, who coordinates a similar event each semester at the Viterbi School of Engineering. After faculty briefly present their insights and advice, there will be ample time for questions, answers and examples.

Wednesday 04/18/2012: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Room 350/351

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Xu Weiguo, head of the architecture department at Tsinghua University, discusses the recent work of his Beijing-based firm, XWG.

Weiguo studied architecture at Tsinghua University, and then started teaching at the same institution, before moving to Japan to work for Murano Mori Architects. Upon returning to China, he established his own architectural practice, XWG, in Beijing, and was appointed professor of architecture at Tsinghua, where he now heads the architecture department. Weiguo received his doctorate from Kyoto University in Japan. He was a visiting scholar at MIT in 2007 and a visiting professor at SCI-Arc in 2010. He is the recipient of many awards, and his work has been published in many journals.

Weiguo is author of The Way of Architectural Design Thinking (China Architecture and Building Press, 2001), Architecture/Non-Architecture (China Architecture and Building Press, 2006) and Studio Works of Tsinghua Architecture Students (Tsinghua University Press, 2006). He is also co-author of Fast Forward >> (MAP Books, 2004); Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies (China Architecture and Building Press, 2006); (Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture, (China Architecture and Building Press, 2008); and Machinic Processes (China Architecture and Building Press, 201).

Weiguo was included in the Exhibition of Young Chinese Architects at UIA Congress XX in 1999 and was selected as one of the architects to represent China in the A1 pavilion at ABB2004. He was one of the curators of Architecture Biennial in Beijing in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010. He has lectured and exhibited in many countries, including the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Russia and Japan.

Wednesday 04/18/2012: 6:00 PM

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

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Highlights will include Mozart’s ecstatic Regina Coeli and the premiere of a new folk song arrangement by Houston.

Wednesday 04/18/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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The heir to a vast fortune and a family history of great war heroes, Owen chooses the divergent path of pacifism and is disowned. Challenged by his fiancee and closest friend, Kate, to spend the night in a mysterious room in the family mansion, where there is a past filled with death and murder, Owen accepts and faces disastrous consequences.

Thursday April 19–Saturday, April 21, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 22, 6 p.m.

Dates: 04/19/2012, 04/20/2012, 04/21/2012, 04/22/2012: All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre (BIT)

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University of Chicago Professor John Comaroff considers the relation of law enforcement and sovereignty in post-apartheid South Africa.

Walter Benjamin famously insisted that modern police wielded a “ghostly,” all-pervasive violence, called upon at points at which the state was unable to govern by legal means. Yet many African post-colonies are haunted by a different specter: the waning efficacy of enforcement, the ambiguity of authority, and the apparent abandonment of subjects by the state.

This lecture, part of a larger work titled “The Truth About Crime,” examines the relation of law enforcement and sovereignty in post-apartheid South Africa. It focuses on the “metaphysics of disorder” palpable in popular culture there, and the kinds of forensic fetishes that are conjured in its wake.

Thursday 04/19/2012: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Town and Gown (TGF)

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The English logician, mathematician, photographer and nonsense poet wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass (1871).   

The primary purpose of the award is to promote and encourage the use of the G. Edward Cassady, M.D., and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N., Lewis Carroll Collection, held in Doheny Library at USC.

This collection was established in 2000 with a gift of more than 100 books and ephemera by George Cassady, M.D., which was named in honor of his parents. The following year, Dr. Cassady established an endowment to expand the collection and to bring national attention to the high level of interest in Carroll’s works on the USC campus. The Cassady Family Endowment for Lewis Carroll Studies at the University of Southern California has hosted an annual meeting of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America and co-sponsored with the Huntington Library a symposium on Carroll’s studies and their influence on modern society.

The Carroll Collection has now grown to contain more than 3,000 rare books, early pamphlets, letters and other items related to the work of Lewis Carroll. Included in the collection are early works Carroll inscribed to friends, books from Carroll’s own library, many copies of Carroll’s work from Alice’s library, limited collectors’ editions, and most works by major illustrators of the Alice stories. Important bibliographic and biographical works and first editions of early translations into German, French and Italian stand side by side with signed copies of early movie scripts, playbills from early stage adaptations, Victorian era playing cards, and pop-up books. More recently, comic books, graphic novels, manga editions, literary parodies, computer games, movies and original artwork related to Carroll and his Alice books have joined the collection.

Previous Wonderland winners include music industry graduate student Veronique Van Pelt, specialized journalism graduate student Brandon Reynolds, critical studies doctoral candidate Ghia Godfree, biomedical engineering major Arvind Iyer, English doctoral candidates Natasha Alvandi and Jonathan Hamrick, undergraduate theatrical design major Lauren Tyler and creative writing major Charles Mallison.

Thursday 04/19/2012: 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Intellectual Commons

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Thursday 04/19/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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Thursday 04/19/2012: 7:30 PM

The Grammy Museum at L.A. Live 800 West Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90015

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“The Best Of” exhibition showcases the top student artworks from the year’s three shows: “Natural Beauty,” “A Healthy Imagination” and “Through the Lens.”

Art in the Village is a visual arts outreach program created to give students the opportunity to create art in the classroom. The artworks created by the students are submitted into a juried exhibition that the USC Fisher Museum of Art curates and professionally installs.

Throughout the 2011-12 academic year, Art in the Village receives hundreds of works from K-5 elementary school students who attend the USC Family of Schools (Alexander Science Center, 32nd Street/USC Magnet, Foshay Learning Center, John Mack, Norwood, Vermont and Weemes) and two parish schools (St. Agnes and St. Vincent).

The year’s final show will be installed and on display at the USC Fisher Museum of Art.

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: Friday 04/20/2012 - Friday 05/11/2012; All day

University Park Campus USC Fisher Museum of Art (HAR)

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Friday 04/20/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Health Sciences Campus Keith Administration Building B21/23

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Anthony Everitt, best-selling author of Cicero, delivers a President’s Distinguished Lecture based on his forthcoming book The Rise of Rome.

On the eve of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC, join USC President C. L. Max Nikias for an enlightening evening with Anthony Everitt, the best-selling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus and Hadrian.

Everitt will give a talk based on his forthcoming book The Rise of Rome, a remarkable and riveting story of the unlikely rise of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Historians have long pondered the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, but how was the empire won? Everitt will present a galvanizing and erudite account of the emergence of antiquity’s greatest power and the remarkable personalities that led to a position of greatness unmatched in history. From its founding as a small market town in the eighth century B.C. to Caesar’s victory in the Civil War that defeated the republic and marked the beginning of the empire, the story of Rome is rich with extraordinary moments and lasting lessons. Everitt will discuss the influence Rome has had on our world, from art to the arts of government, and vividly illustrate how every Western power since — including the United States — has sought to be “the new Rome.”

Everitt, visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture and is the bestselling author of Cicero, Augustus and Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome. He has served as secretary general of the Arts Council for Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester, England’s first recorded town, founded (of course) by the Romans.

Friday 04/20/2012: 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Grand Ballroom

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Dates: 04/23/2012, 04/24/2012, 04/25/2012: 5:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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The London School of Tropical Medicine’s Kelley Lee looks at the WHO’s struggle for continued relevance, and how the global health reform agenda might be taken forward.

Amid scholarly policy debates about the need to strengthen global health governance, the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) is invariably called into question. The WHO, the U.N. specialized agency for health, was created in 1948 to protect and promote health worldwide. However, the world has changed immensely over the past six decades, shaped foremost by forces of globalization. Within the health field, the transnational nature of a growing range of health determinants, as well as their resultant health outcomes, presses the world to find new and effective means of collective action known as global health governance. In this lecture, Kelley Lee, associate dean of research and director of global health at the London School of Tropical Medicine, will review how the WHO fits within these efforts (which have resulted in a proliferation of global health institutions and initiatives), the key issues facing the WHO’s struggle for continued relevance, and how the global health reform agenda might be taken forward.

Lunch will be provided.

Tuesday 04/24/2012: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) The Forum

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Created by composer Donald Crockett and poet David St. John, The Face is a multidisciplinary chamber opera featuring music, film and choreography.

Set in Venice Beach, The Face tells a deeply compelling story about the price of fame, desire and creativity. The central character, a poet named Raphael, struggles with the recent loss of his lover/muse while juggling the demands of a movie being made about his life and his increasing notoriety. The narrative is both passionate and raw in its candor, offering an insightful view of the human condition.

The artistic team for the production includes the innovative Parisian stage director/filmmaker Paul Desveaux and renowned European choreographer Yano Iatrides. An exceptional international cast includes acclaimed British tenor Daniel Norman as Raphael; American lyric baritone Thomas Meglioranza as the movie producer, Memphis; American mezzo-soprano Janna Baty as the director, Infanta; and young Australian soprano Jane Sheldon as the actress, Cybele.

The event will include an introduction by composer Donald Crockett, followed by a semi-staged performance of selected scenes accompanied by the USC Thornton Contemporary Music Ensemble. Short readings from the original novella in verse by eminent poet and USC professor David St. John will be interspersed between scenes. A Q&A with members of the creative team and the cast will follow.

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From Poem to Stage: The Face is a multi-event residency that will offer a rare behind-the-scenes look into the process of transforming an idea (in this case a novella in verse) into a 21st century multidisciplinary chamber opera.

April 23, 6 p.m. Lloyd Sound Stage
Open musical rehearsal with an introduction by composer Donald Crockett.

April 24, 5 p.m. Bovard Auditorium
Open dance/movement rehearsal with an introduction by choreographer Yano Iatrides.

April 24, 6:15 p.m. Bovard Auditorium
Open stage rehearsal with an introduction by stage director Paul Desveaux.

April 26, 11 a.m. Location TBA
A panel discussion will explore a variety of aspects related to the development of this multidisciplinary production. Panelists will include poet-librettist David St. John, composer Donald Crockett, director Paul Desveaux, choreographer Yano Iatrides, producer Kate Vincent, USC Thornton School faculty members Chris Sampson and Brian Head and USC School of Theatre faculty member Sharon Carnicke.

Organized by the USC Thornton School of Music

Wednesday 04/25/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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Wednesday 04/25/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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A conference marks the 20th anniversary of the 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles, charting a city on the rise.

On April 29, 2012, it will be 20 years since the beginning of that tumult. And just as the media missed much of the real story then — portraying it as a black-white or black-Korean conflict, downplaying the pervasive economic distress that drove the unrest, and focusing on divisive racial politics in the immediate aftermath — reporters are likely to swoop into the city as they have on previous anniversaries, trekking to the communities hardest hit in search of continued conflict, tension and poverty.

What they will likely leave out are the everyday efforts of grassroots organizers and ordinary residents to better their lives, and the flowering of a set of vibrant, multiracial social movements that have brought the city and the region a living wage, a better transportation system, college prep in all our schools, a more welcome stance toward immigrants, and a set of community benefits agreements that have become a model for progressive America. It is that story — how we rose as a region from contradictions to coalitions, from growing apart to standing together — that is relevant for a country still reeling from the deepest economic and political crisis in modern times.

Join us on Thursday, April 26, for a look back and, more importantly, a look forward at what the lessons of social movement organizing in Los Angeles might mean for a national agenda and the emerging social movement possibilities symbolized by (but not limited to) Occupy Wall Street.

Thursday 04/26/2012: 9:00 AM - 5:00 AM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center (DCC)

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Thursday 04/26/2012: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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The evening will feature selections from Leonard Bernstein’s The Lark, faculty composer Morten Lauridsen’s Midwinter Songs, and works by Samuel Barber, Eric Whitacre, Mack Wilberg, James Erb and many others.

Thursday 04/26/2012: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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Friday 04/27/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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Giasone features heroes behaving badly... who knew?

Friday 04/27/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

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In collaboration with the Huntington Library the BeFit.BeWell Wellness program hosts a morning of yoga. Space is limited. 

This relaxing and strengthening yoga class is open to USC students, faculty and staff. You must provide your own transportation. Some exercise mats will be provided, but it is preferred that you bring your own mat. No previous experience is required.

Saturday 04/28/2012: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road San Marino CA 91108

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Saturday 04/28/2012: 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Tommy's Place

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Why think about your HR data differently? We know from neurological research that the brain does not respond positively to numbers. Providing leaders and managers with more and more bar charts and pie charts — whether in dashboards, research reports or presentations — is unlikely to drive results, because numbers do not lead to the emotional connection needed for people to take action. Action requires an emotional connection to the story in the data.

A goal of this data-coaching workshop is to learn to tell stories with HR data or create power stories — stories powered with data. Data coaching skills are used to transform your HR data meetings from one-way conversations to highly interactive, action-focused sessions.

Daily: Wednesday 09/19/2012 - Friday 09/21/2012; All day

Manhattan Beach Marriott 1400 Parkview Avenue Manhattan Beach CA 90266

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The ability to design organizations that are efficient enough to drive performance and flexible enough to sustain advantage is a fundamental capability in today’s dynamic and competitive environment. Dynamic strategies call for new organizational forms that pose complex new design challenges at all levels and in all subsystems of the organization.

This workshop will provide core principles, models, tools and examples of organization design, for those who wish to develop a deeper understanding of this topic and learn usable organization design frameworks. It will address the core building blocks of design, and how to put them together to support strategy, including customer-focused organization and organizational approaches to facilitate innovation and reconfigurability around opportunities and strategies. It will provide a foundation of knowledge to guide organization design and of tools to use in leading the design process.

Daily: Tuesday 10/09/2012 - Friday 10/12/2012; All day

Center for Leadership Excellence 6777 Rockledge Drive Room 240 Bethesda MD 20817

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This seminar will help maximize business acumen through strategy analysis, providing an actionable framework and set of tools to help business, human resources, and organization leaders. You will learn and apply the framework featured in Beyond HR, Retooling HR and Investing in People. John Boudreau will show you how to analyze your own strategy to uncover hidden vital pivot-points at which HR and talent management can make their biggest strategic contribution. The framework has been applied in many leading organizations for more than 15 years.

The seminar uses many of the same principles as decision sciences such as finance and marketing. This framework for enhanced HR impact and business acumen has enabled organizations to achieve true line-of-sight between HR investments and their sustainable strategic success.

Daily: Wednesday 10/24/2012 - Friday 10/26/2012; All day

Manhattan Beach Marriott 1400 Parkview Avenue Manhattan Beach CA 90266

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