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Viterbi Career Expo (Career Fest)
Wed, Feb 01, 2012 @ 10:30 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Expo is free and open to all students in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Students do not need to register for this event, just show up! This casual, yet professional, environment allows students the opportunity to have brief conversations with recruiters about full-time employment, internships, and co-ops. Don't forget your resume!
Location: E-Quad
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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A Celebration of the Life of Professor Manbir Singh, Ph.D.
Thu, Feb 02, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
A Celebration of the Life of Professor Manbir Singh PhD
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
6:00 - 8:00 pm
The Vineyard Room
The Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center
University Park Campus
3415 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, 90089-0871
Click below for the campus map: http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/?id=8
Parking will be available at Parking Structure D Click below for Google Map directions: http://g.co/maps/whkjt
In lieu of flowers, the Manbir Singh Memorial Fund has been established for those wishing to contribute. Please make checks payable to Viterbi School of Engineering. On the checks memo line, please write "Manbir Singh Memorial Fund". We'll be accepting donations at the service, or you can send it to:
Jane Ong
University of Southern California
3650 McClintock Ave. OHE 500
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1451
For questions about contributing to the memorial fund, please call (213) 821-292Location: Charlotte S. & Davre R. Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center (DCC) - Vineyard Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Surviving the Intersections: Filmmakers Take on Race, Gender and Sexuality
Sat, Feb 04, 2012 @ 02:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
A day-long event featuring films and a discussion will examine the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. The films that will be screened are Tina Mabryâs Mississippi Damned, based on a true story of three poor, Black kids who reap the consequences of their familyâs cycle of abuse and addiction; Lydia Nibleyâs Two Spirits, a documentary about gender and sexuality in Native American culture and the brutal murder of a transgendered Navajo teenager; and Peter Brattâs La Mission, a powerful story about masculinity, family, redemption and community. A panel featuring filmmakers and scholars will critically reflect on family dynamics, cultures of violence and what it means to live at the intersections.
About the Films
Mississippi Damned
Directed by Tina Mabry
Wanting to escape was the easy part. Based on a true story, Mississippi Damned presents three poor, Black kids in rural Mississippi who reap the consequences of their familyâs cycle of abuse, addiction and violence. They independently struggle to escape their circumstances, forced to decide whether to confront whatâs plagued their family for generations or succumb to the same crippling fate.
Two Spirits
Directed by Lydia Nibley
The documentary Two Spirits tells a nuanced story of what it means to be poor, transgendered and Navajo. It examines the lives of Fred Martinez and those in the community who were most affected by his murder. Two Spirits also reaches beyond being an account of violence to explore issues of gender, sexuality and spirituality in compelling ways.
La Mission
Directed by Peter Bratt
Having grown up in San Franciscoâs Mission District, Che Rivera (former Law & Order star Benjamin Bratt) is a powerful man respected throughout the barrio for his masculinity and feared for his street smarts. Che worked hard to redeem his life and provide a good one for his son following the death of his wife. Cheâs path to redemption, however, is tested when he learns his son, Jess, is gay. To survive his neighborhood and preserve his relationship with his son, Che must embrace a side of himself heâs never known.
Organized by Ange-Marie Hancock (Political Science and Gender Studies), Kara Keeling (Cinematic Arts and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Vincent Vigil (LGBT Resource Center). Co-sponsored by El Centro Chicano.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Architecture as Communication
Thu, Feb 09, 2012 @ 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Reception to follow. Admission is free. To RSVP, go to http://annenberg.usc.edu/rsvp.
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 architectâs 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 the Los Angelesâbased architecture firm Morphosis, and Michael Govan, director and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 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, architectureâs 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. Their 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 USC Annenberg.
Organized by the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) - Annenberg Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community
Sat, Feb 11, 2012 @ 01:00 PM - 05:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reception to follow.
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 and how it set the stage for the future of image making within and beyond regional boundaries. In conjunction with the exhibition, a two-part symposium will explore the history, current state and future potential of artist-run and alternative spaces and organizationsâboth photocentric and non-media-specificâas a local, regional and national phenomenon and will engage contemporary artists about their relationship with the broader cultural community.
1 to 3 p.m.: Looking Back
Exhibition curator Tim Wride will moderate a panel with former members of LACPS to contextualize its importance as a cultural and community phenomenon. Panelists include Darryl Curran, Suda House, Deborah Irmas, Robert Glenn Ketchum and Howard Spector.
3:30 to 5:30 p.m.: Over the Edge
Rochelle Steiner, dean of the USC Roski School of Fine Arts, will moderate a panel featuring artists, cultural critics and arts administrators on the future of community within the arts. Panelists include Mark Allen, Edgar Arceneaux, Anne Bray, Evelena Ruether and Carol Stakenas.
Special reception to follow.
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.
Organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.
Image: Courtesy of John Divola
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduAudiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Performance and the Art of Piatigorsky
Wed, Feb 15, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Join us for a stimulating conversation and performance highlighting the life and work of Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. This multimedia event will feature historical video; a talk by USCâs 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, routines for practice and performance and the growing interdependence of these factors in the development of a successful career. The program will be presented in anticipation of the inaugural Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, which will be held in Los Angeles from March 9 through 18 and will bring together masters of the cello and young cellists from around the world.
Organized by the USC Thornton School of Music.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF) - Alfred Newman Recital Hall
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Wonderland and the Mathematical Imaginary
Wed, Feb 22, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
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 donât apply. This world has inspired filmmakers like Tim Burton and Jan Svankmajer, visual artists like Salvador Dalà 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. Join us for a multidisciplinary discussion featuring 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 where participants can make and play with absurd mathematical objects, such as the Möbius strip and the hyperbolic plane, dating from the mathematical revolution of Carrollâs time.
Speaker Bios
Margaret Wertheim is the author of Pythagorasâ 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 Magazine, 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 Angelesâbased 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, censorship and other areas of literary, political and cultural studies.
Organized by the USC Academy for Polymathic Study and the USC Libraries, which present the Wonderland Awardâa 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.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote: Words and Music from the Time of Cervantes
Featuring the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Phil Proctor
Thu, Feb 23, 2012 @ 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Monday, January 30, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=195
General Public: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=195
The four Grammy-winning virtuosos of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet will join forces with comedy legend Phil Proctor of Firesign Theatre to present an entirely new experience of the story of the Knight of La Mancha. This theatrical presentation is a unique mix of dramatic storytelling and intricate chamber music, creating 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 Cervantesâs masterpiece. LAGQ 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 will draw the audience into the world of 17th-century Spain, and bring them along for all the hilarity and tragedy of Don Quixoteâs infamous adventures. The narration explores the comedy, pathos and surrealism of Cervantesâs 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 LAGQ, while staying true to medieval and Renaissance sensibilities. The intricate synchronization of text and music creates an atmosphere of dramatic excitement that brings the knightâs quixotic struggle for immortality to life.
Organized by William Kanengiser (Music). Co-sponsored by the USC Thornton School of Music.
Images: Marc Rouve
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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The Politics of Memory on Screen: 21st-Century Latin America and SpainSat, Feb 25, 2012
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Join us for a weekend of screenings and discussions that will investigate 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 four films: Guillermo del Toroâs internationally acclaimed Panâs Labyrinth (Spain, 2006), Natalia Almadaâs award-winning documentary El General (Mexico/USA, 2008), Cao Hamburgerâs The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazil, 2006) and Germán Bergerâs 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 of Events:
Saturday, February 25
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
4 p.m.: El General
Directed by Natalia Almada (Mexico/USA, 2008)
The past and the present collide as filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather Plutarco ElÃas Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. In his time, Calles was called âEl Bolsheviqueâ and âEl hefe máximoâ (the foremost chief). Today, he is remembered as âel quema-curasâ (the priest-burner) and as a dictator who ruled through puppet presidents until he was exiled in 1936. Through his daughterâs recordings, El General moves between the memories of a daughter grappling with historyâs 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, Queenâs Courtyard
7 p.m.: Panâs Labyrinth
Directed by Guillermo del Toro (Spain, 2006)
Q&A and roundtable discussion to follow.
Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined epicâa gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Francoâs Spain. Del Toroâs 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
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, School of Cinematic Arts 108
2 p.m.: My Life with Carlos
Directed by Germán Berger (Chile, 2010)
Q&A with director to follow.
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
The finalists from the student video contest Making Memory Visible contest will be screened before an awards ceremony.
Organized by Sherry Velasco (Spanish and Gender Studies), Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla (Spanish and Comparative Literature), Macarena Gómez-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.
El General Image: Courtesy of FAPECFT
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - and the Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA 108)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Alumni Dinner with Dean Yortsos
Sat, Feb 25, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
A special evening for alumni in India with Dean Yannis Yortsos and senior members of the USC, Viterbi School of Engineering at ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru, India. For more information, please contact Sudha Kumar india@mapp.usc.edu
Audiences: By invitation
Contact: Sudha Kumar
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The Politics of Memory on Screen: 21st-Century Latin America and Spain
Sun, Feb 26, 2012
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Join us for a weekend of screenings and discussions that will investigate 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 four films: Guillermo del Toroâs internationally acclaimed Panâs Labyrinth (Spain, 2006), Natalia Almadaâs award-winning documentary El General (Mexico/USA, 2008), Cao Hamburgerâs The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazil, 2006) and Germán Bergerâs 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 of Events:
Saturday, February 25
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
4 p.m.: El General
Directed by Natalia Almada (Mexico/USA, 2008)
The past and the present collide as filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather Plutarco ElÃas Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. In his time, Calles was called âEl Bolsheviqueâ and âEl hefe máximoâ (the foremost chief). Today, he is remembered as âel quema-curasâ (the priest-burner) and as a dictator who ruled through puppet presidents until he was exiled in 1936. Through his daughterâs recordings, El General moves between the memories of a daughter grappling with historyâs 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, Queenâs Courtyard
7 p.m.: Panâs Labyrinth
Directed by Guillermo del Toro (Spain, 2006)
Q&A and roundtable discussion to follow.
Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined epicâa gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Francoâs Spain. Del Toroâs 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
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, School of Cinematic Arts 108
2 p.m.: My Life with Carlos
Directed by Germán Berger (Chile, 2010)
Q&A with director to follow.
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
The finalists from the student video contest Making Memory Visible contest will be screened before an awards ceremony.
Organized by Sherry Velasco (Spanish and Gender Studies), Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla (Spanish and Comparative Literature), Macarena Gómez-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.
El General Image: Courtesy of FAPECFT
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - and the Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA 108)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Aquila Theatre in Euripides’s Herakles
Tue, Feb 28, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Thursday, February 2, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=197
General Public: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=197
Reception to follow.
Dedicated to reinventing classical theatre, Aquila Theatre has been called a âclassically trained, modernly hip troupeâ by the New York Times. They will perform Herakles, one of Euripidesâs finest and most challenging plays. 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 Heraklesâs 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.
Organized by the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsored by USC Dornsife College Commons.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
