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			<title>Victor Raphael: Travels and Wanderings, 1979-2009</title>
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<![CDATA[			<p class='summary'>The artist&#39;s work from the last 30 years spans paintings, Polaroids, video and interactive technologies.</p>
			<p class='description'>The exhibition will include pieces from the ongoing Space Field series, as well as work from Japan, Paris, Turkey, Mexico and Alaska. It will also feature work from several collaborations between Raphael and other artists. <p><strong>Victor Raphael</strong> (born 1950) works in a wide range of media, spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel &mdash; through space or time &mdash; and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water and its protean and timeless qualities form an important part.</p><p>Raphael&#39;s photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf, earned his work inclusion among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography in <em>Polaroid 50: Art and Technology</em>,  a 1996 international touring exhibition that commemorated the company&#39;s 50th  anniversary.</p><p><strong>Related Events</strong></p><p>October 15<br /> <a href="http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/32/event/869772">Songs in the Earth and Air</a>, a concert of vocal improvisations inspired by Raphael&#39;s work.</p><p>October 23, 2:30-3:30 p.m.<br />Artist talk. Raphael will discuss his body of work. Refreshments will be served.</p> <p>October 29<br /><a href="http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/32/event/869892">Videos by Victor Raphael</a>, a screening of six Raphael videos, and a discussion with the artist and David Wilson, director of the Museum of Jurassic Technology.</p><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Weekly: Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 09/09/2009 - 12/19/2009; 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
USC Fisher Museum of Art
Harris Hall</p>
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			<title>Islam and Nationalism</title>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>The College Commons: Transnational Charisma and Traveling Spirits</h2>
			<p class='summary'>USC College&#39;s Laurie Brand and other Middle East scholars explore the meanings of charisma and liberation in the Muslim world.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>The Arabic word for charisma, <em>baraka</em> (the source of our president&#39;s name), refers to a god-given power to lead people on a holy struggle for liberation. While Islamic liberation has reached the West primarily as a war against &quot;American imperialism,&quot; it is also present in such disparate practices as Sufi dances and whirling dervishes, the spiritual quest for transcendence.</p><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Tuesday 12/01/2009: 12:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
University Club</p>
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			<title>Cultural Borderlands and Ambiguities of Empire</title>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>The College Commons: At the Edge of Empire</h2>
			<p class='summary'>A conversation about texts and power in the Ottoman, Habsburg, Holy Roman, French and Russian empires.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>Moderated by the USC College&rsquo;s <strong>Robert Englis</strong>h (International Relations) and <strong>Sarah Pratt</strong> (Slavic Languages and Literatures), this event offers a unique intra-USC colloquium that brings together faculty and graduate students from three different College departments. They will discuss texts and types of discourse that elucidate ambiguities of power and subordination involving the Ottoman, Habsburg, Holy Roman, French and Russian empires.<br /><br />How do these struggles continue to shape our world?<br /><br />Speakers will include <strong>Azade-Ayse Rorlich</strong> (associate professor of History and Slavic Languages and Literatures), <strong>Mehmet Sinan Birdal</strong> (International Relations graduate student), <strong>Antonia Szabari</strong> (assistant professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature) and <strong>Yuliya Ilchuk</strong> (Slavic Languages and Literatures graduate student).</p><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Tuesday 12/01/2009: 4:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
Social Sciences Building
250</p>
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			<title>China's Chronic Disease Transition</title>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>Global Health Lecture Series: Visions for Change</h2>
			<p class='summary'>Dr. Gonghuan Yang presents on China&rsquo;s new disease burden and the shift from infectious disease to a global chronic disease epidemic.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>Dr. Gonghuan Yang, deputy minister of Health at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, is a pioneer in China&rsquo;s work on tobacco control and its chronic disease transition. She earned her medical degree from West-China Medical University in 1982, and studied epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1987 to 1988. Yang has published more than 70 academic papers in international and national journals and has written more than 10 monographs and books. <br /><br />December 8<br />Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium<br /><br />December 9<br />University Park Campus, Davidson Conference Center</p><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Dates: 12/08/2009, 12/09/2009: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM</p>
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			<title>Invictus</title>
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<![CDATA[			<p class='summary'>A benefit screening of the new Warner Bros. movie, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa&#39;s rugby team to help unite their country.</p><p>Newly elected President Mandela knows that his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa&#39;s rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.<br /><br />Guests are invited to a reception prior to the screening.</p><p>Proceeds benefit the USC School of Social Work.</p><p>To receive an invite, contact <a href="mailto:swevents@usc.edu">swevents@usc.edu</a> or call (213) 821-1297.</p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Tuesday 12/08/2009: 6:30 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>Warner Bros. Studio
4000 Warner Boulevard
Burbank
CA
91522</p>
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			<title>The Global Tobacco Epidemic: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly</title>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>Global Health Lecture Series: Visions for Health</h2>
			<p class='summary'>Dr. Judith Mackay discusses the epidemic&#39;s challenges, successes and future direction as they apply to emerging world health threats.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>Dr. Judith Mackay, visiting USC as part of the Provost Distinguished Visitors Program, is known for her personal charm and fervor. She was named one of <em>Time</em>&rsquo;s 100 People Who Shape Our World for her tireless efforts on the global crusade against smoking. Dr. Mackay is senior adviser to the World Lung Foundation/Bloomberg Initiative To Reduce Tobacco Use; director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, and senior policy adviser to the World Health Organization. She earned her degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and has lived in Hong Kong since 1967, initially working as a hospital physician and later concentrating on broader issues of public health, especially tobacco control. Dr. Mackay has authored and published atlases on tobacco, cancer, and human sexual behavior, among other works.</p><p>January 19<br />Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium</p><p>January 20<br />University Park Campus, Town and Gown</p><p><em>Hosted in partnership with the USC U.S.-China Institute and the School of Social Work&nbsp; </em></p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Dates: 01/19/2010, 01/20/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM</p>
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			<title>Dreaming of Peace: Vietnamese Filmmakers Move from War to Reconciliation</title>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative</h2>
			<p class='summary'>A moving and provocative event explores the legacy of the Vietnam War, through two new Vietnamese films.</p>
			<p class='description'><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Schedule</strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong><br /></strong>2 p.m. Screening of <em>Don&rsquo;t Burn!<br /></em>4 p.m. Panel Discussion<br />4:45 p.m. Reception<br />5:15 p.m. Screening of <em>Oh, Saigon!<br /></em>6:15 p.m. Discussion with filmmakers <strong>Doan Hoang</strong> and <strong>Dang Nhat Minh</strong> and author <strong>Andrew X. Pham</strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Join us for a screening and discussion of two new Vietnamese films, <em>Don&rsquo;t Burn!</em> by Vietnam&rsquo;s most acclaimed filmmaker, Dang Nhat Minh, and <em>Oh, Saigon!</em> by award-winning documentary filmmaker Doan Hoang.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><em>Don&rsquo;t Burn!</em> is based on the Vietnamese best-seller <em>Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram</em>, written by a young female doctor from North Vietnam who was killed during the war. The film tells the moving story of her personal experiences as well as the tale of how her diary, discovered by an American serviceman, narrowly escaped burning and was eventually returned to Vietnam, where it became an international publishing sensation. This is the first Vietnamese film shot in part in the United States.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>Oh, Saigon!</em> tells another side of the war story, focusing on a Vietnamese family who fled Saigon on the last civilian airplane to leave in 1975. After 30 years in the United States, the family returns to visit relatives, some of whom fought on the other side of the conflict, and to make amends with one daughter left behind. </p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">A discussion about the legacy of the Vietnam War will feature filmmakers Dang Nhat Minh and Doan Hoang and author Andrew X. Pham. Minh, Vietnam&rsquo;s premier film director, has made more than a dozen films, featured at festivals throughout the world. Hoang is a Vietnamese-born filmmaker whose film <em>Oh, Saigon!</em> won the Best Documentary award at the Asian Pacific Film Festival in Los Angeles. Pham is the Vietnamese-born author of two acclaimed memoirs, <em>Catfish and Mandala</em> and <em>The Eaves of Heaven</em>, and translator of <em>Last Night I Dreamed of Peace</em>.&nbsp; </p><p><em>Organized by Janet Hoskins (Anthropology) and Viet Nguyen (English and American Studies and Ethnicity). Co-sponsored by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Asian American Studies, the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Center for Trans-Pacific Studies.</em></p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Saturday 01/23/2010: 2:00 PM - 6:45 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre
Frank Sinatra Hall</p>
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			<title>In the Wake of Progress: An Evening with Edward Burtynsky</title>
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			<p class='summary'>Burtynsky is one of Canada&rsquo;s most respected photographers, and an advocate for sustainable living practices.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>Burtynsky&rsquo;s remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of more than 50 museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliot&egrave;que Nationale in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His numerous distinctions include the TED Prize, the Outreach Award at the Rencontres d&rsquo;Arles, three honorary doctorate degrees, and Canada&rsquo;s highest civil honor: Officer of the Order of Canada.</p><p>Burtynsky takes us around the world in photographs, revealing places rarely seen. He makes beautiful yet terrifying images that illustrate a vital discussion about the colossal effects of economic and industrial growth upon our planet. </p><p>&ldquo;During the course of my work &mdash; as the years have turned to decades &mdash; it has become clear to me that the plant, animal and mineral resources of the earth are overwhelmed by the robust wheels of economic progress. Cheap fuel in the form of oil, coupled with the internal combustion engine, has begun to tear at the edges of nature&rsquo;s envelope. As my ideas have evolved, I&rsquo;ve looked at railcuts, mines, quarries, oil fields and refineries, homesteads, farms, animal husbandry, taxidermy &mdash; all in search of images that describe our changing and complex relationship to nature.&rdquo; &mdash; Edward Burtynsky</p><p><em>Organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art</em></p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Thursday 01/28/2010: 7:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
Harris Hall
Gin D. Wong FAIA Conference Center</p>
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			<title>The Role of Business in Global Health</title>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>Global Health Lecture Series: Visions for Change</h2>
			<p class='summary'>A lecture by Dr. Derek Yach, who has spearheaded several major efforts to improve global health.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>Throughout his career, Dr. Yach has worked to place tobacco control, nutrition and chronic diseases prominently on the agenda of governments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector. He currently serves as senior vice president of Global Health Policy at PepsiCo, where he leads the internal Global Human Sustainability Task Force responsible for engagement with major international policy, research and scientific groups. Dr. Yach holds a degree in medicine from the University of Cape Town Medical School and a Master of Public health from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.</p><p>During his visit, Dr. Yach will outline his vision of the role of corporations in global health.&nbsp; Prior to joining PepsiCo, he had headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation and was an executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO). While at WHO, Dr. Yach led development of WHO&#39;s first treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the development of the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health.<br /><br />February 9<br />University Park Campus, Town and Gown, Ballroom<br /><br />February 10<br />Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium</p><p><em>Hosted in partnership with the Marshall School of Business</em> </p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Dates: 02/09/2010, 02/10/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM</p>
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			<title>Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values</title>
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			<p class='summary'>How can museums attract the public today? Join us for an important conversation  featuring several star museum professionals.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>With multimillion-dollar blockbuster shows a dying species due to the economic  crisis, how can museums attract the public? Who will go to them, and why  should they bother?</p><p>This talk will delve into the subject of the new book <em>Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for  Museums and Sustainable Values</em>, edited by <strong>Selma Holo</strong> and <strong>Mari-Tere Alvarez</strong>.  Three museum professionals will join Holo and Alvarez to discuss the crisis  in museums today and the opportunities to rise above it.</p><p><strong>Michael Govan</strong>, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and one of our most dynamic and creative art museum leaders, will discuss the transformation he is leading to make LACMA more relevant to a vital contemporary life in Los Angeles. <strong>Donny George </strong><strong>Youkhanna</strong>, who served as director of the Baghdad Museum during the American invasion of Iraq and was witness to the looting of some of civilization&rsquo;s keystone culture monuments, will share his thoughts about archaeology collections and their future in an ever more globalized world. Dr. <strong>Jorge Wagensberg</strong>, scientific director of the Foundation &ldquo;la Caixa&rdquo; and creator of CosmoCaixa in Barcelona, one of the world&rsquo;s most exciting science museums, will contribute his idea that, unlike any other institution, museums can provide an experience of authenticity &mdash; a way of learning that emanates not from the word, but from the world.</p><p>The event will be moderated by Selma Holo, director of USC&rsquo;s Fisher Museum and its new International Museum Institute. It will also include remarks by Mari-Tere Alvarez, project specialist in the department of education at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Holo and Alvarez&rsquo;s new book, <em>Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values</em>, examines what museums &mdash; whether devoted to art or science or history &mdash; must do to be indispensable to society today and in the future. Their book is changing the conversation in the museum world from &ldquo;How many came to the show, and how much money did we make today?&rdquo; to &ldquo;How did our museum serve and change society today? How did it help to make society better, smarter, more tolerant and more creative?&rdquo;</p><p>Please join us and be a part of this new conversation. </p><p>A reception and book signing will follow.</p><p>&nbsp;</p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Thursday 02/11/2010: 7:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
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			<title>Contemporary Japanese Cinema</title>
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			<p class='summary'>A look at filmic works from Japan, by some of the most creative and accomplished filmmakers working today.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>The recent Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for <em>Departures</em>, directed by Yojiro Takita, has given new international visibility to the rich and dynamic history and tradition of Japanese cinema. Often overshadowed by the celebrated directors of the past, such as Ozu Yasujiro and Akira Kurosawa, contemporary Japanese filmmakers in fact are among the most creative and accomplished practitioners of the art. Filmmakers like Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shinji Aoyama, Nobuhiro Suwa and Takashi Miike have established themselves as unique within a highly diverse film culture, reflecting changes in Japanese art, culture and society.</p><p>This festival will showcase a selection of these works and will include discussions with invited scholars and filmmakers.</p><em>Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts</em></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Daily: Friday 02/19/2010 - Sunday 02/21/2010; All day</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre
Frank Sinatra Hall</p>
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			<title>Cross-Urban Creativity</title>
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			<p class='summary'>Dean Qingyun Ma leads a conversation with city planners and administrators from four landmark cities: L.A., London, Mexico City and Shanghai.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>As the world moves toward a global urbanism and centers issues of sustainability and international collaboration, cities are not so much planned as re-planned and reborn.</p><p>Qingyun Ma, dean of the USC School of Architecture, will moderate a conversation with city planners and administrators in which they discuss the present and future of urban planning in the flux of unpredictable, migrant forces and the shaping of iconic, livable cities. From the sprawl of Los Angeles&nbsp;to the expanding megacities of Mexico City and Shanghai, the juxtapositions of cultural, political and spatial differences will demonstrate how creative agents can transform a city physically and socially.</p><em>Organized by the USC School of Architecture</em></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Wednesday 02/24/2010: 7:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
Bovard Auditorium</p>
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			<title>Global Advocacy, Policy and Change</title>
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			<p class='summary'>Alumnus Joe Cerrell returns to campus to share his experiences and views as a leader in global health policy and advocacy.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>Cerrell is the director of Global Health Policy and Advocacy for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world&#39;s leading funders for global health work in low- and middle-income countries. At the foundation, Cerrell oversees the foundation&#39;s work in global health communications, public policy and international finance. In this capacity, he manages a policy and advocacy grant-making portfolio, and oversees relations with governments, NGOs, the private sector, multilateral organizations, and other foundations. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, he served as assistant press secretary to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore; Cerrell was a senior member of a team responsible for advising the vice president on energy and environmental issues, and was a White House liaison to the media, elected officials, and industry, environmental, religious and labor leaders.<br /><br />March 2<br />University Park Campus, Town and Gown, Ballroom<br /><br />March 3<br />Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium</p><p><em>Hosted in partnership with Hollywood, Health and Society</em> </p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Dates: 03/02/2010, 03/03/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM</p>
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			<title>Kourtrajmé: A New New Wave in French Urban Cinema</title>
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			<p class='summary'>Gritty short films, music videos and docs from Kourtrajm&eacute;  Productions, a Paris-based collective of emerging visual artists, filmmakers,  actors and musicians.</p>
			<p class='description'>&ldquo;Beautiful women, ugly illegal immigrants, Romanian sneaker pimps, coked-up fashion babes, down-and-out thugs eating shish kebab at 3 a.m. Welcome to our Paris.&rdquo; &mdash; Kourtrajm&eacute; Productions, as quoted in <em>Anthem</em> magazine<br /><br />Kourtrajm&eacute; Productions is a collective of emerging French and Francophone visual artists, filmmakers, actors and musicians. The brainchild of internationally acclaimed directors Mathieu Kassovitz and Vincent Cassel, this production house and artist collective has garnered increasing attention and acclaim after getting millions of hits on online sites like Dailymotion and YouTube. Founded by Kim Chapiron, Romain Gavras and Toumani Sangar&eacute;, Kourtrajm&eacute; produces playful innovations and cutting interventions in popular culture and society that represent the cultural dreams, lives and crises of transnational urban and peri-urban French youth today.<br /><br />This is a chance to explore the short films, music videos and documentaries that represent what legendary French filmmaker Chris Marker calls a &ldquo;<em>nouvelle nouvelle vague</em>&rdquo; of French cinema. Directors from the collective, including <strong>Ladj Ly</strong> and <strong>Toumani Sangar&eacute;</strong>, will be on hand to answer questions and discuss the group&rsquo;s history and work.<br /><br /><em>Organized by Edwin Hill (French and Comparative Literature). Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and French Cultural Services, Los Angeles.</em></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Friday 03/05/2010: 6:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
School of Cinematic Arts, Room 108</p>
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			<title>Follow the Money: Covering the Surge of Funds for HIV/AIDS</title>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>Global Health Lecture Series: Visions for Change</h2>
			<p class='summary'>Reporter Jon Cohen discusses his work documenting international disease funding and the role of investigative journalism in addressing global epidemics.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>Award-winning journalist Jon Cohen has covered infectious diseases for 15 years, traveling extensively through the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa and Mexico. In addition to reporting on a wide range of scientific and medical topics for <em>Science</em>, Cohen has done in-depth, investigative stories about the National Institutes of Health, bio defense, tobacco industry funding of science, the vaccine industry, credit battles, the genomics revolution, and the science press itself. He has also written for <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>Atlantic Monthly</em>, <em>Talk</em>, <em>Discover</em>, <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em>, <em>Smithsonian</em>, <em>Slate</em>, <em>The New Republic</em>, <em>Surfer</em> and other publications.<br /><br />April 6<br />University Park Campus, Davidson Conference Center<br /><br />April 7<br />Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium</p><p><em>Hosted in partnership with the Annenberg School for Journalism and the Center for Health and Medical Communication</em> </p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Dates: 04/06/2010, 04/07/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM</p>
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			<title>An Evening with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer</title>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative</h2>
			<p class='summary'>A dynamic multimedia  presentation explores the exciting  possibilities for using art and technology to explore humanity and create  community.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>The extraordinary work of internationally acclaimed electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is engaging, provocative and beautiful. Born in Mexico City and currently living in Montreal, Lozano-Hemmer develops large-scale interactive installations in public space, usually deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using robotics, projections, sound, Internet and cell phone links, sensors and other devices, his installations aim to provide, in his words, &ldquo;temporary anti-monuments for alien agency.&rdquo; His kinetic sculpture, responsive environments, video installations and photography have been shown in more than 30 countries, and his work has been commissioned for such events as the United Nations&rsquo; World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the celebration of the expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the 40th anniversary of the Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City (2008), and the Vancouver Olympics (2010).</p><p>In this multimedia event, Lozano-Hemmer will discuss his award-winning work.<br /><br /><em>Organized by Visions and Voices. Co-sponsored by the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.</em></p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Wednesday 04/14/2010: 7:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
Bovard Auditorium</p>
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			<title>From Nietzsche to Star Wars</title>
			<link>http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/156/event/869363</link>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>The Wagnerian Power of The Ring</h2>
			<p class='summary'>Scholars, musicians and musicologists describe how Wagner&#39;s Ring Cycle influences the way we think, feel and imagine the 21st century world.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>How have The Ring themes and symbols permeated literature, philosophy, psychology, and even movies and cartoons? In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, the USC College&nbsp;of Letters, Arts and Sciences presents a panel that will take on the idea of the hero, violence and the cult of masculinity, &quot;the mythic,&quot; the development of fascist theories (and governments), the power of the unconscious, the allure of death, and the mob.</p><p>No singing required. Mind-opening insights guaranteed. </p><p>Moderator</p><ul><li><strong>James R. Kincaid</strong>, USC Aerol Arnold Professor of English</li></ul><p>Speakers</p><ul><li><strong>Leo B. Braudy</strong>, University Professor, Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, professor of English</li><li><strong>Roberto Ignacio Di&aacute;z</strong>, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature</li><li><strong>John P. Nuckols</strong>, vice president, Advancement, L.A. Opera</li><li><strong>John Carlos Rowe</strong>, USC Associates Chair in Humanities, professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity<br /></li></ul><p>Registration will open in Spring 2010.</p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Thursday 04/15/2010: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus</p>
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			<title>Asia/Pacific Business Outlook 2010 Conference</title>
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<![CDATA[			<p class='summary'>An essential event for professionals who want to develop and improve trade and investment opportunities in the Asia/Pacific region.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>Produced by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the USC Marshall School of Business and the U.S. Commercial Service, this conference will provide exceptional access to the information and people who will help you operate profitably in Asia.<br /><br />Two hundred and fifty participants, 50 sessions, 15 economies, two days, in one event. Asia/Pacific Business Outlook (APBO) is an extraordinary opportunity to meet the people with the clout and contacts essential to your company&#39;s success. Meet one-on-one with Asia business experts, and have private appointments with senior commercial officers from American embassies/consulates in 15 economies.<br /><br />Access a wealth of timely information in two days. APBO offers the latest, relevant information, all focused, organized and distilled. You&#39;ll get current intelligence on trade and investment opportunities in each country, and learn which sectors are hot, who&#39;s who, and how to navigate the different cultural, social and administrative barriers in each of the 15 economies. You will also get practical solutions to your logistical, legal, financial, marketing, planning and human resource needs from the experts who have been there... and succeeded.<br /><br />Whether you&#39;re an experienced exporter to Asia, new to export, or new to the region, you can customize your conference experience by choosing the seminars, outlooks and workshops you want. More than 50 concurrent sessions let you focus on the topics that matter most to your business.<br /><br />Some of the topics to be covered:</p><ul><li>Devising market entry strategies and building distribution networks; financing your operation in Asia/Pacific</li><li>Refining communication and negotiation techniques; exporting to Asia for the first time</li><li>Launching products and services in new markets</li><li>Understanding cultural sensitivities and contexts</li><li>Learning of opportunities in new sectors and industries<br /></li></ul><p>Go to <a href="http://www.apbo2010.com">www.apbo2010.com</a> for the latest details.</p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Dates: 04/19/2010, 04/20/2010: All day</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
Davidson Conference Center</p>
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			<title>Pride, Prejudice, Bigotry and Genius: Richard Wagner's World</title>
			<link>http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/156/event/869824</link>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative</h2>
			<p class='summary'>Preeminent conductor James Conlon explores Wagner&rsquo;s controversial personality in relation to bigotry, racism and prejudice.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>James Conlon, the music director of L.A. Opera, will look at these issues as they relate to Wagner&rsquo;s time and ours. The event will be presented in conjunction with the USC Thornton production of the Wagner opera <em>Das Liebesverbot</em>. </p><p>James Conlon has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire and has developed enduring relationships with the world&rsquo;s most prestigious symphony orchestras and opera houses. Since his New York Philharmonic debut in 1974, Conlon has appeared as a guest conductor with virtually every major North American and European orchestra and has frequently been a guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to serving as the music director of L.A. Opera, he is the music director of the Ravinia Festival (the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and the Cincinnati May Festival. </p><p>In an effort to raise awareness of the significance of works of composers whose lives and compositions were suppressed by the Nazi regime, Conlon has also been devoted to extensive programming of this music in North America and Europe. At both the Ravinia Festival and the L.A. Opera, he continues to program works by these composers, including Alexander von Zemlinsky, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, Kurt Weill, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Erwin Schulhoff and Ernest Krenek.</p><p>In 2009, Conlon won two Grammy Awards (Best Classical Recording and Best Opera Album) for conducting L.A. Opera&rsquo;s production of Kurt Weill&rsquo;s <em>Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny</em>. During the 2009&ndash;10 season at the L.A. Opera, Mr. Conlon will conduct Wagner&rsquo;s <em>Ring</em> cycle, beginning this season with the first two installments of the cycle, <em>Das Rheingold</em> and <em>Die Walk&uuml;re.</em> It will be Conlon&rsquo;s first time conducting this work in the United States.</p><em>Organized by the USC Thornton School of Music. </em></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Tuesday 04/20/2010: 7:00 PM</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
Bing Theatre</p>
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			<title>Crocodile Seeking Refuge</title>
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<![CDATA[			<p class='summary'>Sonja Linden&#39;s play weaves together the lives of five people, including emigres from Darfur and Iraq, who seek refuge in the U.K.</p>
			<p class='description'>Finding themselves in situations that veer from the comic to the tragic, they try to make sense of the British way of life.<br /><br />Thursday, April 22, 7 p.m.<br />Friday, April 23, 7 p.m.<br />Saturday, April 24, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.<br />Sunday, April 25, 2:30 p.m.</p>
			<p class='date_time'>Daily: Thursday 04/22/2010 - Sunday 04/25/2010; All day</p>
			<p class='location'>University Park Campus
McClintock Building</p>
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			<title>Meeting the Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People</title>
			<link>http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/156/event/870100</link>
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<![CDATA[			<h2>Global Health Lecture Series: Visions for Change</h2>
			<p class='summary'>Acclaimed scholar and lawyer Larry Gostin considers the ethical issues surrounding the health needs of the planet&rsquo;s poorest citizens.</p>
			<p class='description'><p>Professor Gostin teaches Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and directs the O&rsquo;Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He holds multiple faculty appointments, including professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and director of the Center for Law and the Public&rsquo;s Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities &mdash; a collaborating center of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gostin is visiting professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and research fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University. Professor Gostin is the Health Law and Ethics editor and contributing writer for the<em> Journal of the American Medical Association</em>. In 2007, the director general of the World Health Organization appointed Gostin to the International Health Regulations Roster of Experts and the Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health. Gostin currently chairs the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Health Informational Privacy, and has chaired committees on genomics and on prisoner research. The IOM awarded Professor Gostin the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal for distinguished service to further its mission of science and health. Gostin&rsquo;s recent books include <em>Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint</em> (University of California Press, 2nd ed., 2008); <em>Biosecurity In The Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law</em> (Stanford University Press, 2008); <em>Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy and Practice</em> (Oxford University Press, 2007); and <em>The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations</em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).<br />&nbsp;<br />May 11<br />Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium<br /><br />May 12<br />University Park Campus, Town and Gown, Ballroom</p><p><em>Hosted in partnership with the Gould School of Law and the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences</em></p></p>
			<p class='date_time'>Dates: 05/11/2010, 05/12/2010: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM</p>
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