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Words in Your Face: Poetry, Performance and Politics
Thu, Mar 03, 2011 @ 06:30 AM - 08:00 AM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Join us for an evening of captivating performances by internationally recognized spoken-word poets Shihan, Mayda del Valle, Gina Loring and Rudy Francisco. The soundtrack to the evening will be provided by Los Angelesâbased DJ Brutha Gimel. Their energizing performances will be followed by a discussion exploring the role of the arts and artists in politics, education, community building and the public sphere.
For bios of the artists, visit the event page: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873362
Admission is free.
Organized by Javon Johnson (American Studies and Ethnicity).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Contemporary Middle Eastern CinemaFri, Mar 04, 2011
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reservations required. Check the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873369 for festival schedule and reservation information.
This three-day film festival will present and explore a panorama of emerging and established cinemas from the Middle East, from the nascent film industries of the Arabian Peninsula to the historically rich film cultures of Egypt and Iran. The festival will highlight unifying themes in Middle Eastern cinemas, as well as discuss the idiosyncratic identities and complex construction and definition of national cinemas in countries that are abounding with cultural diversity.
Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Betrayal of Trust: Critical Issues in Global Healthcare A Lecture by Laurie Garrett
Fri, Mar 04, 2011 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow in Hoyt Gallery.
Laurie Garrett is one of Americaâs most eloquent and forceful speakers on global healthcare, infectious disease and disease prevention. She will deliver a multimedia talk that uncovers the reality of healthcare in the United States, Europe, Russia and Africa, providing a new understanding of both the challenges and the opportunities of delivering quality healthcare globally.
The only person to win the three âPâs of journalismâthe Pulitzer, the Polk and the PeabodyâGarrett makes plain the science behind the new threats to public health, both natural and manmade. She is particularly adept at navigating the politics that help and hinder how we prepare, treat and respond to these threats. A senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Garrett is the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. She has written for Foreign Affairs, Esquire and the Washington Post and appears frequently on television shows such as Nightline, Charlie Rose and Oprah. Garrett is former president and now a member of the National Association of Science Writers and has been awarded three honorary PhDs, the latest from Georgetown University.
Organized by Pamela Schaff (Pediatrics and Keck Educational Affairs), Erin Quinn (Family Medicine and Keck Admissions) and Lyn M. Boyd-Judson (Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicineâs Program in Medical Humanities, Arts and Ethics; the USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics; and the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Health Sciences Campus, Mayer Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Contemporary Middle Eastern Cinema
Sat, Mar 05, 2011
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reservations required. Check the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873369 for festival schedule and reservation information.
This three-day film festival will present and explore a panorama of emerging and established cinemas from the Middle East, from the nascent film industries of the Arabian Peninsula to the historically rich film cultures of Egypt and Iran. The festival will highlight unifying themes in Middle Eastern cinemas, as well as discuss the idiosyncratic identities and complex construction and definition of national cinemas in countries that are abounding with cultural diversity.
Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Contemporary Middle Eastern Cinema
Sun, Mar 06, 2011
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reservations required. Check the event page http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/873369 for festival schedule and reservation information.
This three-day film festival will present and explore a panorama of emerging and established cinemas from the Middle East, from the nascent film industries of the Arabian Peninsula to the historically rich film cultures of Egypt and Iran. The festival will highlight unifying themes in Middle Eastern cinemas, as well as discuss the idiosyncratic identities and complex construction and definition of national cinemas in countries that are abounding with cultural diversity.
Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Suburban/Structure: Films by Sharon Lockhart and Charlie White
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Join us for a screening and discussion with acclaimed artists and USC fine-arts faculty Sharon Lockhart and Charlie White. Filmed in a secondary school in suburban Japan, Lockhartâs Goshogaoka at first seems to be about the drills of a girlsâ basketball team. The film consists of six ten-minute takes in which the various cadences of chanting voices and bodily movements digress into distinct studies. Whiteâs American Minor is a meditation on the suburban American teenage girl and a world defined by products, objects and perpetual consumption.
Lockhart has exhibited at museums around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Kunsthalle in Zurich. White has exhibited internationally at museums including the Shanghai Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum in Austria.
Organized by the USC Roski School of Fine Arts in conjunction with the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: The Ray Stark Family Theatre, School of Cinematic Arts 108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Life After Man: Art in the Age of the Post-Human: An Evening with Michael Ondaatje
Mon, Mar 21, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Join us for an evening with one of the worldâs foremost writers, Michael Ondaatje, author of Anilâs Ghost and The English Patient. Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje also writes memoir, poetry and film, revealing a passion for defying conventional form. In his transcendent novel The English Patientâlater made into the Academy Awardâwinning filmâhe explores the stories of people history fails to reveal, intersecting four diverse lives at the end of World War II. From the memoir of his childhood, Running in the Family, to his Governor Generalâs Awardâwinning book of poetry, Thereâs a Trick with a Knife Iâm Learning to Do, to his novel The English Patient, Ondaatje casts a spell over his readers. And having won the British Commonwealthâs highest honor, the Booker Prize, he has taken his rightful place as a contemporary literary treasure.
âEach of [Ondaatjeâs] books is filled with passages of such finesse and vividness that they become part of us. He is a writer whose best paragraphs hover just over the page, then fly into the mind.ââThe New Yorker
Organized by the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsored by the College Commons.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Mar 23, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Mar 23, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Seminar: Dr. Nasser Karam
Wed, Mar 23, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Receptions & Special Events
Seminar Title:
High Efficiency Multijunction Solar Cells for Low-Cost Energy Generation
Speaker:
Dr. Nasser H. Karam
Vice President, Advanced Technology Products
BOEING - SPECTROLAB, Inc.
Location: HNB100
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 2:00 PM
Dr. Karam and his Advanced Technology Products (ATP) team are world recognized in the development of advanced space solar cells for satellites, as well as terrestrial concentrating solar cells, and other optoelectronic devices.
For the last decade, his team has developed, demonstrated and held nearly all the world records for high efficiency concentrating multijunction PV solar cells under concentration. In 2001-2002, Dr. Karam and his ATP Team won the âR&D 100â and the âScientific American 50â awards for contributions in the field of terrestrial energy generation and demonstration of concentrating multijunction terrestrial photovoltaic cell with 34% efficiency. In 2007, Dr. Karamâs group at Boeing Spectrolab demonstrated a world record of 40.7% efficient metamorphic
terrestrial solar cell under concentration; the team has been recognized with âR&D 100â award for this accomplishment. In 2009, his team asserted the US leadership as the current world record holder of the highest efficiency concentrator
solar cell at 41.6% under concentration. Spectrolab is currently in production of terrestrial concentrator solar cells with average efficiency of 38.5% at 500x concentration, and is gearing up to introduce a 40% efficient cell in 2011.
Today, Boeing - Spectrolab is in production with the most efficient space solar cell in the world at an average efficiency of 28.3% AM0 and recently introduced a 30% average AM0 efficiency space solar cell in 2011.
Host: PEEEPS (Phd Electrical Engineering ElectroPhysics Students organization) and CENT (Center for Energy Nanoscience and Technlogy)Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Satsuki Takahashi
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Ballet for the 21st Century: Wendy Whelan and the Choreography of Christopher Wheeldon
Thu, Mar 24, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Join us for a thrilling evening of dance and discussion as Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall of the New York City Ballet perform two masterworks of the 21st century, Christopher Wheeldonâs After the Rain and Liturgy. One of the leading choreographers of his generation, Wheeldon created these breathtakingly beautiful and innovative dances in collaboration with his muse, the incomparable Wendy Whelan, whom the New York Times calls âone of the great ballerinas of our time.â Following the performance, Whelan and her dance partner, Craig Hall, will talk about ballet and how these works evolved through collaboration. The works are already being performed by dance companies around the world, inviting audiences to experience a multifaceted art that Wheeldon calls âsculpture in motion.â
Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet. She has danced featured roles in ballets such as George Balanchineâs Concerto Barocco, âRubiesâ and âDiamondsâ from Jewels, The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Nightâs Dream, Mozartiana, Orpheus, Swan Lake, Stravinsky Violin Concerto and Symphony in C; Jerome Robbinsâs Dances at a Gathering, Glass Pieces and In G Major; Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharpâs Brahms/Handel; Peter Martinsâs Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake; and William Forsytheâs Behind the China Dogs. She was nominated for an Olivier Award for her fall 2007 performances with Morphoses at Sadlerâs Wells, and she has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
Craig Hall is a soloist with the New York City Ballet. He has danced featured roles in George Balanchineâs Agon, The Four Temperaments, The Nutcracker, Serenade and La Sonnambula; Jerome Robbinsâs Afternoon of a Faun, The Cage and Fanfare; Peter Martinsâs Romeo + Juliet, Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake; Christopher Wheeldonâs After the Rain; and Angelin Preljocajâs La Stravaganza. Hall has won several awards, including a National Foundation for the Advancement in Arts scholarship.
Organized by William Handley (English).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Mar 25, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Annual Research Review 2011: USC Computer Science
Fri, Mar 25, 2011 @ 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Annual Research Review 2011
The review is an all-day event that showcases current research in the Computer Science department at USC. It will feature short research talks and posters by USC Computer Science faculty, postdocs, and PhD students.
Please visit http://www.cs.usc.edu/researchreview2011/ for more details.
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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The Lupton Sisters
Fri, Mar 25, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
While pundits worry about the increasing amount of time young people spend online in dematerialized virtual spaces, we have also witnessed an explosion of practices and devices that return our attention to the hand. From the online craft vendor Etsy to the tactile interfaces of our iPhones, the body and the digital are deeply interlaced. The Touch of the Hand in the Digital Era is a two-part series that will consider the particular roles that touch and the emotions play in our sense of self and the world.
Sisters Ellen and Julia Lupton will offer a wide-ranging exploration of the D.I.Y. impulse of the past decade. The do-it-yourself movement, which signals the resurgence of craft and the handmade in contemporary life, exists in interesting tension with the widespread use of digital media. The Lupton sisters are ideally poised to address this seeming paradox. Ellen Lupton is an award-winning graphic designer, curator and critic, and Julia Lupton is a noted Shakespearean scholar. Together, they have published a series of popular books focused on design and everyday life, including Design Your Life, D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself and D.I.Y. Kids. The Lupton sisters will also engage the audience in a hands-on D.I.Y. experience.
Organized by Philip Ethington (History and Political Science) and Tara McPherson (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by the Center for Transformative Scholarship.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Inciting Images: War in Film, Television and New Media
Sun, Mar 27, 2011 @ 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Makers of film, television and new media often create works that address issues of social change. Contemporary filmmakers are particularly interested in examining the subject of war. What motivates these artists and what is the impact of cinematic media? A panel of acclaimed artists and media makers will discuss their work and how they encourage dialogue and action. Panelists will include Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Awardâwinning director of The Hurt Locker; Robert Greenwald, director/producer of the acclaimed documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers; Susana Ruiz, producer of the groundbreaking game Darfur: Play Your Part; and Albert âSkipâ Rizzo, associate director for medical virtual reality at the Institute for Creative Technologies.
Organized by Jeremy Kagan (Cinematic Arts), Doe Mayer (Cinematic Arts), Dave OâBrien (Cinematic Arts) and the USC Change Making Media Lab.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Mar 28, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Privacy and Identity in the Age of Facebook
Mon, Mar 28, 2011 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Have we given up our privacy to maintain a public identity? How have the lines between our public and private lives blurred with the rise of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social-networking sites that have made it so easy to inform the world of our every move, from daily banalities to emotional breakups? A panel discussion moderated by Johanna Blakley, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center at USCâs Annenberg School, will examine whether we can control our unique identities when the Internet makes it so easy for others to participate in how we communicate about ourselves to the world. The discussion will feature danah boyd, a
social-media researcher for Microsoft; Henry Jenkins, the provostâs professor of communications, journalism and cinematic arts at USC; and new-media artist Nathan Ruyle, an adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts.
Organized by the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.
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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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit http://usconnect.usc.edu/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Musical Patois: Reflections of Language in Music
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 @ 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
A unique collaboration among a neuroscientist, a composer, a performer/engineer and a computer scientist, this event will boldly explore and transgress the boundaries between science, music, technology and art. The event is inspired by the research of neuroscientists Aniruddh Patel and John Iversen and composer Jason Rosenberg, which demonstrated that the instrumental music of British and French composers reflects the rhythm and intonation of their native languages. Patel, along with composer Peter Child, pianist-engineer Elaine Chew and computer scientist Alexandre François, will examine the influence of language on music through an evening of scientific presentation, musical performance, interactive visualization and lively conversation.
Organized by Elaine Chew (Engineering) and Alexandre François (Engineering).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
