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Events for March

• Mar

  07

  PhD Ice Cream Social

  Fri, Mar 07, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

  Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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  At the event we will be serving ice cream to help you cool off from a long week's work. This event is also being held in conjunction with the prospective student visit day. This will be a great opportunity for the visiting students to talk to current PhD students, and a great opportunity for all of you to get free ice cream!

  Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - SAL Lanw

  Audiences: CS Phd students, Faculty and Staff

  Contact: Lizsl De Leon

  

• Mar

  11

  Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight An Evening with Alexandra Fuller A Visions and Voices Signature Event

  

  Tue, Mar 11, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM

  USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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  RSVP TO: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/list/limit/0-9
  
  Join us for a powerful and intimate exploration of war, family, love and death with acclaimed author Alexandra Fuller, who has documented her childhood in Rhodesia during a time of intense struggle for independence. Her debut book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, which is featured on President Nikias's 2013 summer reading list, was a New York Times Notable Book, a finalist for the Guardian's First Book Award and winner of a Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. "War was like an episode of awful, non-stop weather to us" Fuller has said. Her four non-fiction books, at once anti-war stories and love stories, are rooted in the belief that "everything we do is political, from the decision we make to wake up in the morning, to the clothes we put on our bodies, to the words we have the courage to speak." Fuller's other books include Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier, winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage; The Legend of Colton H. Bryant; and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.

  Location: Town & Gown (TGF) -

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Visions and Voices

  

• Mar

  12

  Truth Values: One Girl's Romp Through M.I.T’s Male Math Maze Written and Performed by Gioia De Cari, Directed by Miriam Eusebio

  

  Wed, Mar 12, 2014 @ 07:00 AM - 09:00 PM

  USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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  RSVP TO: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/903805
  
  Nonbinary algorithms and sexism collide in Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze, a painfully funny show about navigating the elite boys’ club of higher mathematics. In 2005, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, suggested that women are less represented than men in the sciences because of innate gender differences. Truth Values is one woman’s brilliant—and entertaining—response. Writer/performer and “recovering mathematician” Gioia De Cari brings to life more than 30 characters in a true tale that offers a humorous, scathing, insightful and ultimately uplifting look at the challenges of being a professional woman in a male-dominated field. Truth Values won the award for Outstanding Solo Show at the New York International Fringe Festival.

  Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Grand Ballroom

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Visions and Voices

  

• Mar

  13

  Implicit Bias: How Default Assumptions Hurt Science, Skew Journalism and Send Innocent People to Jail

  

  Thu, Mar 13, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

  USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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  RSVP TO: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/903815
  
  A panel of experts from diverse fields will explore how the assumptions we don’t know we make lead to unconscious racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination—and as a result severely damage careers, scientific progress, the arts and justice. Panelists will include writer/actor and “recovering mathematician” Gioia De Cari; director, producer and writer Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, whose film Blowin’ the Roof Off Women Horn Players explored gender bias in jazz; Carol Tavris, author of The Mismeasure of Woman and Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me); Jody Armour, the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at USC and author of Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America; and USC Annenberg professor K.C. Cole. The discussion will be presented in conjunction with De Cari’s performance, Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze, on March 12.

  Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - 240

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Visions and Voices

  

• Mar

  26

  Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics

  

  Wed, Mar 26, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM

  USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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  RSVP TO: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/903806
  
  What are the relationships between feminism, poetry and power? In a reading and performance, five American poets will define, discuss, question, subvert, celebrate and explode their varied feminist poetics.
  
  Arielle Greenberg is co-author of Home/Birth: A Poemic and co-editor of Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics. Dawn Lundy Martin won the Cave Canem Prize for A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering. Danielle Pafunda’s The Dead Girls Speak in Unison was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Carmen Giménez Smith, the author of a memoir and four poetry collections, is an American Book Award winner as well as editor of the journal Puerto del Sol and publisher at Noemi Press. Stacey Waite is the author of Love Poem to Androgyny and Butch Geography.

  Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - Room 108- The Ray Stark Family Theatre

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Visions and Voices

  

• Mar

  27

  DEN@Viterbi Information Session

  Thu, Mar 27, 2014

  DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission

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  The USC Viterbi School of Engineering Distance Education Network (DEN@Viterbi) strives to meet the needs of engineering professionals, providing the opportunity to advance your education while maintaining your career and other commitments. By breaking down geographical and scheduling barriers, DEN allows you to take your classes anytime and anywhere.
  
  Join this information session to learn more about the 40+ graduate level programs and continuing education offerings available completely online.
  
  11:00AM Session - Click to RSVP
  6:00PM Session - Click to RSVP

  Audiences: RSVP Required

  Contact: Viterbi Professional Programs

  

• Mar

  27

  BODYTRAFFIC and the Work of Barak Marshall

  

  Thu, Mar 27, 2014 @ 07:00 PM - 07:00 PM

  USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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  RSVP TO: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/903816
  
  In a unique and inspiring collaboration, Los Angeles–based dance company BODYTRAFFIC will present the award-winning choreography of Barak Marshall, one of Israeli dance’s most innovative and unique voices. “Marshall’s work possesses a formidable joie de vivre, an enchantment, which pulls us into a magical world,” wrote La Republique. The first-ever house choreographer of the Tel Aviv–based Batsheva Dance Company, Marshall has performed and won awards in venues all over the world, including the Bagnolet International Choreographic Competition and the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris, the Bienale de la danse in Lyon, the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Dance Umbrella UK and Los Angeles’s Disney Hall. BODYTRAFFIC, a nonprofit company with a mission to bring world-class contemporary dance to Los Angeles while supporting and fostering Jewish art, was named one of Dance magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2013. BODYTRAFFIC, in collaboration with Marshall, won first prize at The A.W.A.R.D. Show in 2011. In September 2012, they made their Walt Disney Concert Hall debut together at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s opening-night gala performance.

  Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Visions and Voices

  

• Mar

  28

  ClimatePalooza 2014

  

  Fri, Mar 28, 2014 @ 03:00 PM - 09:00 PM

  USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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  RSVP TO: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/903807
  
  USC and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will come together to present a vibrant multimedia festival featuring entertainment and dynamic opportunities to learn about the latest science defining climate change—and what we can do about this complex and crucial issue. Browse environment-themed art and design projects and technical exhibits created by students as well as nonprofit, governmental and industry-based organizations. Hear and engage with climate scientists and policy experts as they discuss the latest research. Enjoy informative and insightful performances of music, theatre, film and comedy by environmentally concerned artists. The festival will be topped off by scientifically incorrect sketches by comedy troupe The Lollygaggers in the event's Climate Lounge. The challenge of climate change affects us in multiple ways. By bringing art and science together, we gain new information and perspective about our values around rationality, nature and the planet we share.

  Location: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) -

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Visions and Voices