Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for February
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A Reading by Nguyen Qui Duc
Thu, Feb 01, 2007 @ 12:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Journalist, memoirist and radio show host Nguyen Qui Duc will read from his work. Lunch will be provided. http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861414&active_category=Upcoming
Location: Troyland Apartments (TAP) - er Hall 420
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Dinh Q. Lê: Artist Talk and Discussion
Thu, Feb 01, 2007 @ 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
For more information, visit: http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861414&active_category=Upcoming
Location: Troyland Apartments (TAP) - er Hall 420
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Narrative Medicine: The Healing Power of Stories
Thu, Feb 08, 2007
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
As part of the Medical Humanities Speaker Series, Dr. Rita Charon, internist and literary scholar, will engage students and faculty in dialogue about some of the core issues facing the health of individuals and society. She will present two talks, one on the University Campus and one on the Health Sciences Campus.Rita Charon is professor of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and director of the program in narrative medicine. She is a general internist in practice in the Associates of Internal Medicine in Presbyterian Hospital. For more information on this event, please visit:http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861435&active_category=Upcoming
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Narrative Medicine: The Healing Power of Stories
Fri, Feb 09, 2007
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
As part of the Medical Humanities Speaker Series, Dr. Rita Charon, internist and literary scholar, will engage students and faculty in dialogue about some of the core issues facing the health of individuals and society. She will present two talks, one on the University Campus and one on the Health Sciences Campus.Rita Charon is professor of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and director of the program in narrative medicine. She is a general internist in practice in the Associates of Internal Medicine in Presbyterian Hospital. For more information on this event, please visit:http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861435&active_category=Upcoming
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Looking Out/Looking In: City of God
Fri, Feb 09, 2007 @ 06:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
A screening of "City of God" will be followed by a discussion with USC social work professor Kristin Ferguson. Dinner will be provided."City of God" (directed by Fernando Meirelleres and Katia Lund, Brazil, 2002) is about a housing project built in the 1960s that in the early '80s became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. This film captures one of the primary social-work concepts of person-in-environment while also demonstrating the failure of the government to reduce poverty, crime and substandard living conditions. USC social work professor Kristin Ferguson will lead a discussion following the film and will examine the latest research regarding social development in Latin American countries.Using the dynamics of film characters and plots as metaphors for both unhealthy and transforming behavior, fluid mental states and deep rooted social problems, the Looking Out/Looking In series will help the audience understand the internal world of people who seek counseling, types of group behavior and community assets and pathology to dispel myths and enlarge our understanding of the disenfranchised.
Location: George Lucas Instructional Building Room 108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth: Point of View
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 07:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Point of View will focus on the limitations and opportunities afforded by the necessary use of multiple points of view in a variety of perhaps surprising contexts. USC anthropologist Amy Parish will discuss how point of view has been central to her research into relationships among female bonobos. From a journalistic perspective, Victor Navasky, author of the recently published A Matter of Opinion, will draw on his experience as an editor at Monocle, "a leisurely quarterly of political satire" (it came out twice a year), The New York Times and The Nation to speak about objectivity, subjectivity, ideology and opinion. Victor is currently chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review. Finally, Jon Boorstin, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author of Making Movies Work, will talk about how making movies, and enjoying them, relies upon the mysteries of point of view.For more information, please visit:http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861401&active_category=Upcoming
Location: Gin Wong Conference Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Race, Rap and Redemption
Tue, Feb 27, 2007 @ 07:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Race, Rap and Redemption will take rap music seriously as a source of penetrating commentary on the nature of blame and punishment, guilt and innocence and, ultimately, of spiritual transcendence. Where can we look for change, and which things always remain the same? What is redeemable, and what lies beyond redemption? How do we bring ourselves to brotherhood and sisterhood with one another? This event will bring together contemporary recording artists, USC students and faculty to explore the way that rap artists--functioning as griots, poets, prophets and pundits--engage these questions and the debates surrounding them. At evening's end, each of us will have joined in the questioning and debating, and lifted our voices in and through the music.For more information, please visit:http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861438&active_category=Upcoming
Location: Bovard Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Jimmy Joyced! A Performance by Donal OKelly
Wed, Feb 28, 2007 @ 07:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Prominent Irish actor Donal O'Kelly performs a hilarious monologue that takes us on a journey from Joyce's fraught 22nd birthday in February 1904 to his departure from Ireland with Nora Barnacle in October of that same year. The performance will be preceded by a roundtable discussion featuring several James Joyce specialists.Jimmy Joyced! examines the events leading up to James Joyce's departure from Ireland in 19. This energetic and colorful production is a punchy combination of physical performance and vocal delivery. The performance will be preceded by a roundtable discussion featuring several James Joyce specialists.
Location: Ground Zero Coffeehouse
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
