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The Joffrey Ballet
Fri, Feb 01, 2013 @ 06:30 PM - 10:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Open to USC students only. Admission is free. Reservations required. Tickets will be distributed on a lottery basis. To sign up for the lottery, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897841 on Tuesday, January 15, between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. See below for details.*
*This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. Due to high demand, tickets will be distributed on a lottery basis. To sign up for the lottery, click on the link above on Tuesday, January 15, anytime between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 5:45 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 6:30 p.m. and return to campus at 10:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided at check-in.
The Joffrey Ballet, one of the worldâs finest dance companies and a leading artistic force since its founding in 1956, celebrates the 100th anniversary of danceâs most influential work, The Rite of Spring, with their groundbreaking recreation of the original Ballets Russes production. Igor Stravinskyâs score and Vaslav Nijinskyâs choreography for the 1913 Paris premiere sparked a riot that is said to have given birth to modern music and dance. It took over fifteen years of meticulous research to piece together original scores, paintings, reviews, notes and first-person accounts unearthing the alarming genius of the work.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Software Development and Programming
Mon, Feb 04, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
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Many BME students consider software development careers and are surprisingly qualified for a role on a dev team. Come find out more from Amazon, Google, and other companies!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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An Evening with Patti Smith A Visions and Voices Signature Event
Tue, Feb 05, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free. Seating is general admission. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Tuesday, January 8, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897839
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897839
Book signing and reception to follow.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of music, poetry and conversation featuring the seminal American artist Patti Smith, moderated by USC Annenberg professor Josh Kun.
A poet, singer, songwriter, photographer and fine artist, Patti Smith has produced a body of work whose influence branches out through generations, across disciplines and around the world. Emerging in the nascent cultural hotbed of mid-1970s New York City, Smith forged a reputation as one of the decadeâs first visionary artists, merging poetry and rock in vital new ways. Her 1975 debut album, Horses, is routinely ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2010, she won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Just Kids, a best-selling memoir about her early days in New York when she met and made art with her friend Robert Mapplethorpe. In 2011, Smith was listed amongst TIME magazineâs 100 most influential people in the world and Rolling Stoneâs 100 greatest artists.
Patti Smith and her band released eight studio albums on Arista Records from 1975 to 2002: Horses, Radio Ethiopia, Easter, Wave, Dream of Life, Gone Again, Peace and Noise and Gung Ho. In 2004, on Columbia, she released trampinâ, a critically acclaimed album whose varied subject matter includes motherhood and the preemptive strike on Iraq. Her 2007 release, Twelve, a collection of cover songs, was hailed by many as the best of the year. In 2010, Smith received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishersâ Founders Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Smithâs poetry collections include Auguries of Innocence. Additional books include Babel, Early Work, The Coral Sea and Complete. As a fine artist, Smith has exhibited at various galleries and museums. Her 2002 exhibition, Strange Messenger, containing drawings, silkscreens and photos from 1967 to 2002, showed at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh before traveling throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. A solo exhibition of drawings and photographs showed at the Fondation Cartier pour lâart contemporain in Paris. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded her the prestigious title of Commandeur of Arts and Letters. Smith has honorary doctorate degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago, Rowan University and Pratt Institute.
Photo: Patti Smith, 2007 © Edward Mapplethorpe
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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Electrical Engineering Research Festival hosted by MHI
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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3rd Annual Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Research Festival hosted by the Ming Hsieh Institute
The Research Festival is a day-long event that showcases EE Ph.D. student research through posters, demos and oral presentations. The entire USC Viterbi community, alumni and engineering industry representatives are invited to attend the event.
Note: Event time changed to 9:00am-5:00pm
Registration required: https://mhi.usc.edu/activities/research-festival/2013-program/Location: TBD
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Danielle Hamra
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Creating Art: History and Society as Inspiration
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free.
An inspiring conversation will address womenâs voices in society and the arts with performer Haerry Kim, director Natsuko Ohama, playwright Velina Hasu Houston, performing-arts critic Meiling Cheng and visual artist Chang-Jin Lee. They will address contemporary and historical issues related to Asian and Asian American women and the power of the arts in giving voice to social issues.
About the Panelists:
Meiling Cheng has taught a variety of courses at USC in theatre history, dramatic literature, contemporary kinesthetic theatre and live art and visual and cultural studies. Cheng is a noted performance-art critic and poet and has published widely in both English and Chinese. Her first book, In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art, received a Junior Faculty Award from the Southern California Studies Center and the Zumberge Individual Research Grant from USC. She received a Guggenheim fellowship for her current book project, Beijing Xingwei. Since 2004, Cheng has published a series of groundbreaking articles in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, on performance art (translated as xingwei yishu) and installation (zhuangzhi yishu) in Chinaâs post-Mao era. She has also presented numerous talks on Chinese experimental art in Singapore, London, Boston, Providence, Chicago, Toronto and New York. (Bio)
Velina Hasu Houstonâs most popular work is her critically acclaimed play Tea. It and many of her other works have been presented internationally, garnering more than three dozen writing awards. Her other acclaimed plays include Asa Ga Kimashita, Kokoro, The Matsuyama Mirror, Hula Heart, Ikebana (Living Flowers), Shedding the Tiger and Waiting for Tadashi. She has been recognized three times by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and twice selected as a Rockefeller Foundation playwriting fellow. She was a recipient of a Japan Foundation fellowship and a Lila Wallace-Readerâs Digest Foundation grant. She was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Remy Martin New Vision Award from Sidney Poitier and the American Film Institute. Houston is also a published poet and essayist and writes for film, radio and television. She edited the anthologies The Politics of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women and But Still, Like Air, Iâll Rise: New Asian American Plays. She is a professor in the USC School of Dramatic Arts. (Official website)
Haerry Kim is a founding member and the artistic director of ETS Theater Company (established in 2009) and a full-time lecturer at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea. She received an MFA in acting from Columbia University. With ETS (Eye to Soul), she has created three full-length original plays: FACE, Serve God: Sounds of Nightingales and Bathtub Play. Her one-woman play FACE has been presented at the 2011 World Festival of National Theaters at the National Theater of Korea (Seoul), HERE Arts Center (New York), the sixth soloNOVA Festival (New York), the Berkshire Fringe Festival (Massachusetts) and the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Scotland) to critical acclaim.
Chang-Jin Lee is a Korean-born conceptual artist who lives in New York City. Her recent work includes the multimedia installation Comfort Women Wanted, for which she interviewed comfort women from South Korea, China, Indonesia, Taiwan and the Netherlands. She has exhibited extensively, including at the Incheon Women Artistsâ Biennale (Korea), Bo Pi Liao Contemporary (Taiwan) and the Queens Museum of Art (New York). She is a recipient of numerous awards including the New York State Council on the Arts Grant, the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant, the Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, the Asian Women Giving Circle Award and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fiscal Sponsorship Award. (Official website)
Natsuko Ohama is one of the premier voice teachers in the country. She is a founding member and permanent faculty of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has taught at numerous institutions, including New York University, the California Institute of the Arts, the Wooster Group, Columbia University, the Sundance Institute, the New Actors Workshop, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario and the National Arts Centre of Canada. She is also a Drama Desk Awardânominated actress. She is a recipient of the Playwrightsâ Arena Award for Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theatre and appears in the recent publication Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium (Conversations with Master Teachers) by Nancy Saklad. She heads the voice progression for the MFA Acting Program at USC. (Official website)
Related Events:
FACE: A Performance by Haerry Kim
Friday, February 8, 7 p.m.
24th Street Theatre
1117 24th Street, Los Angeles
For more info, click here.
Finding Voice: From Story to Performance
Saturday, February 9, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Parkside Performance Café, International Parkside Residential College
For more info, click here.
Organized by Natsuko Ohama (Dramatic Arts). Co-sponsored by Kookmin University (Seoul, South Korea).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Doheny Memorial Library 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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ASBME 17th Annual Corporate Dinner
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 @ 05:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
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Interested in industry? Looking for jobs or internships? ASBME cordially invites you to attend our 17th Annual Corporate Dinner, an amazing opportunity to meet and mingle with corporate representatives from all types of biomedical engineering companies. Dinner will be provided. Don't forget to bring your resumes and dress for success in business casual attire.
Companies Attending: Abbott Vascular, Accenture, Alfred Mann Institute, Amgen, Baxter, Beckman Coulter, Calhoun Vision, Chromologic, Covidien, Edwards Lifesciences, Genefluidics, Medtronic, MEIRxRS, Neomedix, St. Jude Medical.Location: Town & Gown
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed
Thu, Feb 07, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free.
Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed is an award-winning documentary that tells the shocking, inspiring and extraordinary life story of Vertus Hardiman. The film will be screened, followed by a discussion with writer/producer Wilbert Smith, writer/director Brett Leonard and USC associate professor of social work Karen D. Lincoln.
Vertus Hardiman was the victim of a horrifying medical experiment at the age of five. The tragic experiment compelled Hardiman to conceal a painful and rare deformity under a wig and beanie for over 70 years. After twenty years of friendship with writer/producer Wilbert Smith, Hardiman revealed his secret to his friend and fellow church-choir member. Encouraged by his friendâs determination to share his story, Hardiman shares what happened during the 1920s when he and nine other young children attending the same elementary school in Lyles Station, Indiana, were severely irradiated during a medical experiment conducted at the local county hospital. The film draws attention to the forgotten and reticently discussed history of human experimentation in the United States during the early to mid-twentieth century and raises questions about the ethics of research and the abuses that have occurred in the name of research. The film is also a testament to the power of the human spirit and the ability to endure without anger in the face of injustice. Veteran Hollywood actor Dennis Haysbert narrates the film, which was directed by Brett Leonard, one of Hollywoodâs most innovative directors.
Organized by Karen D. Lincoln (Social Work). Co-sponsored by the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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FACE: A Performance by Haerry Kim
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 @ 07:00 AM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Thursday, January 17, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897845
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897845
Reception to follow.
âThe writing and performance is flawless and elegant . . . she captures the transition between ages, time periods and characters with effortless precisionââThe British Theatre Guide
âCan change your view of the world . . . superb performance . . . A must-see show at the FRINGEââThreeWeeks (Edinburgh)
âViscerally intense theatre experience, featuring an exceptional performanceââThe Epoch Times (New York)
Written and Performed by Haerry Kim
Directed by Natsuko Ohama
Based on testimonies of Korean comfort women, FACE is a powerful one-woman show about a rural girl who survived two wars. Written and performed by Haerry Kim, artistic director of ETS Theater Company in Seoul, Korea, FACE superbly and elegantly reveals suppressed histories and creates a space for reclaiming memories.
It is estimated that some 200,000 women were abducted by the Japanese military; historians and researchers have stated that the majority of these women were from Korea, China, Japan and the Philippines but also account for a number of women from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia and other Japanese-occupied territories. Young women were reportedly abducted from their homes and, in some cases, recruited with offers of work in military factories and hospitals. It is estimated that only 25 percent of âcomfort womenâ survived, most of them unable to have children as a consequence of multiple rapes (25 to 35 times per day) and/or due to the diseases they contracted. To this day, the matter is still highly political in Japan and the rest of East Asia. There have been more than 1,000 demonstrations in twenty years as Korean comfort women continue their fight to receive an official apology. The Japanese government continues to deny claims, despite having been found guilty by the UN Human Rights Commission and being urged by parliaments across the world to formally acknowledge, apologize for and accept historical and legal responsibility for their actions. There are only 61 Korean survivors today, and their number is declining rapidly due to their age.
Haerry Kim is a founding member and the artistic director of ETS Theater Company (established in 2009) and a full-time lecturer at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea. She received an MFA in acting from Columbia University. With ETS (Eye to Soul), she has created three full-length original plays: FACE, Serve God: Sounds of Nightingales and Bathtub Play. Her one-woman play FACE has been presented at the 2011 World Festival of National Theaters at the National Theater of Korea (Seoul), HERE Arts Center (New York), the sixth soloNOVA Festival (New York), the Berkshire Fringe Festival (Massachusetts) and the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Scotland) to critical acclaim.
Related Events:
Creating Art: History and Society as Inspiration
Wednesday, February 6, 7 p.m.
Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
For more info, click here.
Finding Voice: From Story to Performance
Saturday, February 9, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Parkside Performance Café, International Parkside Residential College
For more info, click here.
Organized by Natsuko Ohama (Dramatic Arts). Co-sponsored by Kookmin University (Seoul, South Korea).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: 24th Street Theatre: 1117 24th Street, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Finding Voice: From Story to Performance
Sat, Feb 09, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Tuesday, January 22, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897969
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897969
As part of a series of events on women, society and the arts, writer/performer Haerry Kim will lead a workshop on how to transform personal stories into performance. The workshop will include ways to create characters, observation of voices and bodies and using the imagination to investigate the literal. Participants will also consider the many sites and places where inspiration can be foundâdiaries, news events, family historiesâand what it is that makes one want to tell a story. Participants from all backgrounds and levels of experience should come with a story to tell and be ready to explore.
Haerry Kim is a founding member and the artistic director of ETS Theater Company (established in 2009) and a full-time lecturer at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea. She received an MFA in acting from Columbia University. With ETS (Eye to Soul), she has created three full-length original plays: FACE, Serve God: Sounds of Nightingales and Bathtub Play. Her one-woman play FACE has been presented at the 2011 World Festival of National Theaters at the National Theater of Korea (Seoul), HERE Arts Center (New York), the sixth solo NOVA Festival (New York), the Berkshire Fringe Festival (Massachusetts) and the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Scotland) to critical acclaim.
Related Events:
Creating Art: History and Society as Inspiration
Wednesday, February 6, 7 p.m.
Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
For more info, click here.
FACE: A Performance by Haerry Kim
Friday, February 8, 7 p.m.
24th Street Theatre
1117 24th Street, Los Angeles
For more info, click here.
Organized by Natsuko Ohama (Dramatic Arts). Co-sponsored by Kookmin University (Seoul, South Korea).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Internationally Themed Residential College (IRC) - Parkside Performance Cafe
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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The Interpreters: Technologies and Experiments at the Natural History Museum
Tue, Feb 12, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free.
From insects to dinosaurs and gems to edible gardens, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County presents a wealth of objects and environments to the public. In addition to exhibiting displays, the museum employs a team of technologists, educators and performers to animate the objects in the museumâs collection. This process of designing narrativesâthe field of gallery interpretationâwill be demonstrated by Natural History Museum staff, including experimental exhibit designers and performance artists. They will showcase the dynamic ways they are using technology to expand interpretation and education, including interactive multimedia displays, laser sensors and full-sized robotic dinosaurs, making natural history exciting and accessible for a new generation of audiences of all ages.
About the Presenters:
Ilana Turner is the program coordinator for the performing arts department at the Natural History Museum. In addition to her own performance creations, including her female clown duo, Duckbits, she has been an arts-integration educator for the past ten years.
Chris Weisbart is a senior media technician at the Natural History Museum. He has helped pioneer the institutionâs implementation of open-source technologies to add interpretive layers to exhibits.
Liam Mooney has been an exhibit technician at the Natural History Museum since 2006. With a background in experimental noisemaking, Mooney combines sound, light and electronics to enhance visitor interactions with museum collections.
Michael Wilson is an education-technology specialist at the Natural History Museum, designing, developing and maintaining media-based experiences at the museum for the past six years. He has programmed a robotic pelican to tell the story of flight, vibrated a light pen to shake the matrix off of a hologram fossil and developed an interactive Flash-based scientific journey to 2,000 feet below sea level.
Organized by Craig Dietrich (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
Photo: Tim Hale
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - School of Cinematic Arts Gallery
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Deborah Harkness- The All Souls Trilogy: A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night The Provost's Writers Series
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Wednesday, January 23, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897847
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897847
Book signing and reception to follow.
Deborah Harkness is a professor of European history and the history of science at USC. Her books include two works of nonfiction: John Deeâs Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature and The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. She began writing fiction in 2008 and in 2011 published A Discovery of Witches, which debuted at number two on the New York Times Best Sellers list. This was the first title in her All Souls Trilogy, a rich and compelling tapestry of alchemy, magic and history. Join us as Harkness reads from A Discovery of Witches and the second title in the trilogy, Shadow of Night.
For the past 28 years, Harkness has been a student and scholar of history, and has researched the history of magic and science in Europe, especially from 1500 to 1700. She has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the National Humanities Center. In 2006, she entered the world of blogging and Twitter, creating, among other things, a wine blog, Good Wine Under $20. Her career in fiction began when she wondered, âIf there really are vampires, what do they do for a living?â A Discovery of Witches is the unexpected answer to that question. The book was a best seller in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. A Discovery of Witches is the first title in Harknessâs All Souls Trilogy, which continues with Shadow of Night.
The Provostâs Writers Series highlights the extraordinary talents of USC authors. The series provides opportunities for students and the community to engage with USC authors, learn about the incredible diversity of their work and celebrate the written word.
Related Events:
David TreuerâRez Life: An Indianâs Journey through Reservation Life
Tuesday, October 23, 7 p.m.
University Club
For more info, click here.
Steven J. RossâHollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Wednesday, November 14, 7 p.m.
University Club
For more info, click here.
Carol Muske-DukesâTwin Cities
Wednesday, April 10, 7 p.m.
University Club
For more info, click here.
Photo: Vania Stoyanova
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Faculty Center-university Club (FAC) - University Club
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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ASBME Cardiovascular Medicine with Dr. Leslie Saxo
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 @ 07:15 PM - 08:15 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
In celebration of Valentines Day, ASBME has invited an expert in heart health and cardiovascular medicine! Leslie Saxon, M.D., is a Professor of clinical medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias in patients with congestive heart failure. In addition to using state-of-the-art resynchronization devices such as modified pacemakers and implantable defribrillators, Dr. Saxon collaborates with medical device companies to evaluate the latest, most innovative interventional gadgets for patients with difficult-to-treat heart failure. Pizza will be served for dinner!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Truth in Interactive Storytelling An Evening with Artist-Writer Phoebe Gloeckner
Tue, Feb 19, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
Phoebe Gloeckner is best known as the author of groundbreaking comics stories about young girls in early-1970s San Francisco. Her comics have appeared in legendary underground publications like Weirdo and Wimmenâs Comix as well as in book-length collections, drawing accolades from popular and scholarly audiences. During the last decade, Gloeckner has been experimenting with new content and new media, performing intensive research in and creating multimedia artworks about the border city of Ciudad Juárez, where, amidst larger waves of political, economic and drug-related violence, thousands of girls and women have been murdered or gone missing. Gloeckner will present portions of the new project, in which she recreates Juárez-based streetscapes, domestic spaces, crime scenes and prison cells in a series of scale-model environments populated by digitally manipulated dolls with which the viewer can interact. Gloecknerâs exploration of the relationship between fact and fiction, between digital and physical media, and between art and activism, represents an important response to the violence in Juárez, while raising questions about the role of artists in investigating politically charged issues.
Phoebe Gloecknerâs collection of comics A Childâs Life and Other Stories comprised a gathering of her earlier work and was followed by The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Gloeckner has produced illustrations and cover images for volumes in the RE/Search series (Angry Women,The Atrocity Exhibition and Dangerous Drawings) and for childrenâs books, including Weird Things You Can Grow. In 2003, Utne Reader listed Gloeckner among âForty Artists Who Will Shake the World.â A medical illustrator as well as a writer and artist, Gloeckner provided drawings for Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity and for the third edition of The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex. Gloeckner is on the faculty of the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of her Ciudad Juárez project.
Organized by Alice Gambrell (English).
Image: Phoebe Gloeckner
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Doheny Memorial Library 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony)
Thu, Feb 21, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
Over the past 30 years, feminist lesbian performance artist Holly Hughes has influenced a generation of artists and scholars with her provocative performances. She will perform The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony), her first full-length solo piece in ten years, in which she poignantly and hilariously pairs incisive commentary on identity and politics with insights on aging, community and belonging. Written and performed by Hughes and directed by Dan Hurlin, the show offers a touching and comical look at the nature of relationships and intimacy through a loosely linked series of autobiographical narratives, the subject matter of which ranges from the legacy of feminism to the unique characters found at a Michigan dog show. The performance will be followed by a Q&A moderated by professor David Román.
Since she began performing at the New York City womenâs art cooperative the WOW Café in the early 1980s, Holly Hughes has established herself as one of the most important figures in feminist performance. She has written and performed such plays as The Well of Horniness and Let Them Eat Cake and the solo shows Clit Notes and Preaching to the Perverted. She has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others, and has won a Lambda Book Award as well as two OBIE Awards. Hughesâs innovative work in both solo and group performance has been foundational for performance artists and for performance studies as an academic field.
Related Event:
Autobiographical Performance Workshop with Holly Hughes
Friday, February 22, 2 to 4 p.m.
Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
For more info, click here.
Organized by David Román (English and American Studies and Ethnicity).
Photo: Lisa Guido
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Grand Ballroom
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Autobiographical Performance Workshop with Holly Hughes
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Wednesday, January 30, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897958
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897958
Focusing on shaping oneâs own stories into theatre, pioneering feminist performance artist Holly Hughes will lead a hands-on workshop designed to give participants the tools to create performances using personal experience and the transformative power of the imagination.
Since she began performing at the New York City womenâs art cooperative the WOW Café in the early 1980s, Holly Hughes has established herself as one of the most important figures in feminist performance. She has written and performed such plays as The Well of Horniness and Let Them Eat Cake and the solo shows Clit Notes, Preaching to the Perverted and The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony). She has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others, and has won a Lambda Book Award as well as two OBIE Awards. Hughesâs innovative work in both solo and group performance has been foundational for performance artists and for performance studies as an academic field.
Related Event:
The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony)
A Performance by Holly Hughes
Thursday, February 21, 7 p.m.
Grand Ballroom, Ronald Tutor Campus Center
For more info, click here.
Organized by David Román (English and American Studies and Ethnicity).
Photo: Lisa Guido
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Doheny Memorial Library 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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WiC Windows 8 Workshop
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Location: TBA
Come learn how to make an app for windows8 in a short, interactive workshop lead by an Academic Evangelist from Microsoft.
Skills gained from this workshop will help you in the WiC hackathon starting the next day (if you choose to participate), and/or you can qualify for a $100 gift-card if you submit an app to the app-store by certain dates in March and April. Great way to acquire a new skill and impress recruiters!
The details about the $100 gift-card and such will be announced during the workshop. No programming experience required! We hope to see you there!
For more info, visit our facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/539825816040347/?ref=ts&fref=ts
Or contact us: uscwomenincomputing@gmail.comLocation: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 105
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Dipanwita Maulik
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Queer Zines: Doin' It in Print
Wed, Feb 27, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
A conversation will address a broad range of issues related to zines, queer aesthetics, independent publishing and the ways in which zines are distributed, archived and exhibited. Because of their DIY production, displaying and archiving queer zines, as well as queer culture more generally, requires creative and inventive practices. Panelists include Amos Mac, creator of transman zine Original Plumbing; Milo Miller and Chris Wilde, founders of the online Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP); and Mimi Thi Nguyen, assistant professor of gender and womenâs studies and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and creator of the compilation zine ...Race Riot. Also, the Oakland/Los Angelesâbased Miracle Bookmobile will distribute used and DIY publications.
About the Panelists:
Amos Mac is the New Yorkâbased creator, editor in chief, photographer and publisher of Original Plumbing, a celebrated female-to-male trans quarterly that was named Best Zine of 2010 in the San Francisco Bay Guardianâs yearly readersâ poll. Macâs voyeuristic, snapshot-style photographs have been exhibited at galleries and events internationally, and his work has been published extensively in magazines, books, newspapers and ad campaigns. (Official website, Tumblr)
Milo Miller and Chris Wilde founded the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) in 2003. QZAP is a digital archive of LGBTQ+ zines and print ephemera. The online collection at www.qzap.org currently contains over 400 documents while the archive as a whole has upwards of 1,200. While the collection is predominantly in English, at least ten languages and fifteen countries are represented. The zines in QZAP represent a vast range of self-published queer experiences, often documenting the lives of folks who fly under the radar of more mainstream gay and lesbian media formats. QZAP itself is collectively run and exists not only to preserve zines but also to educate, entertain and encourage new generations of queer zine makers and self-publishers.
Mimi Thi Nguyen is assistant professor of gender and womenâs studies and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her forthcoming book, The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages, focuses on the promise of âgivingâ freedom concurrent and contingent with waging war and its afterlife. She is also coeditor, with Fiona I.B. Ngo and Mariam Lam, of a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique on Southeast Asians in diaspora (winter 2012). With her second project on the obligations of beauty, she continues to pursue her scholarship through the frame of transnational feminist cultural studies. Nguyen is also coeditor, with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, of Alien Encounters: Pop Culture in Asian America and publishes on queer subcultures and punk feminisms. Nguyen has published zines since 1991, including the compilation zine ...Race Riot. (Official website)
Organized by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives: 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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East West Players: Christmas in Hanoi
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 07:15 PM - 11:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Open to USC students only. Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click here beginning Wednesday, February 6, at 9 a.m. See below for details.*
*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 at the link above beginning Wednesday, February 6, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 7:15 p.m. and return to campus at 11 p.m. Dinner will be provided at check-in.
The world premiere of Christmas in Hanoi follows a mixed-race family as they return to Vietnam for the first time since the war. One year after the death of their strong-willed mother, siblings Winnie and Lou travel with their Irish-Catholic father and Vietnamese grandfather to reconnect with their roots in Vietnam. Whether they embrace that past or reject it, they are haunted by their familyâs ghosts and by the phantoms of Vietnamâs long history. Christmas in Hanoi is the winner of East West Playersâs Face of the Future playwriting competition, highlighting writer Eddie Boreyâs emerging talent for exploring the complexities in a family history that spans multiple cultures and generations.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Union Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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ASBME presents Eva Nemeth on Stress Management
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 @ 07:15 PM - 08:15 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Stressed out? Are you finding it difficult to balance out a heavy workload and remain active? Want some tips on managing a healthy lifestyle? Come see physiotherapist & stress management expert Eva Nemeth talk about how simple tweaks to your everyday life can impact your future health. Eva's focus is on practical, take-home movements which provide healthy new behaviors, that allow you to function far more effectively at every level of your life. You will not want to miss the Eva Movement! Food will be provided!
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 223
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
