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  • Rumi’s Discoveries and Magical Prescription for World Peace: A Lecture by Dr. Majid Naini

    Rumi’s Discoveries and Magical Prescription for World Peace: A Lecture by Dr. Majid Naini

    Mon, Oct 01, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 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 Thursday, September 6, at 9 a.m.

    USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=369

    General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=370

    The University Club at King Stoops Hall will offer a prix-fixe dinner prior to this event. For information and to make reservations, click here: http://bit.ly/VVprixfixe

    Love transformed Rumi, a conservative theologian, into a liberated, euphoric mystic poet and teacher who fervently fell in love with the Divine Creator and the whole universe. When Rumi threw off his turban and robe and started to dance jubilantly, the most beautiful and meaningful poetry poured from his lips. A thirteenth-century Persian mystic poet, Rumi has become a best-selling poet in the United States. On Rumi’s 805th birthday, Dr. Majid Naini, one of the world’s foremost Rumi scholars, will present a brief history of Rumi’s life, teachings and wisdom through recitation of Rumi’s poetry in Farsi with English translations and interpretations. The event will also include a performance of Persian classical and fusion music by the Sibarg Ensemble. Established in 2008 by Hesam Abedini, Sibarg was the first fusion ensemble in Tehran Music School.

    From the dawn of human civilization numerous types and forms of organizations and governments have been tried, but none have been successful in bringing peace and tranquility to the world. Peace and harmony, Dr. Naini maintains, is more dependent on each individual and his/her state of mind and attitude toward himself/herself and others than any particular system.

    Organized by Hossein Hashemi (Electrical Engineering) and the Persian Academic & Cultural Student Association (PACSA).

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • Corporate Meet & Mingle with GE Healthcare

    Tue, Oct 02, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    Interested in industry? The Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering is looking forward to an informative info session with Kelly Mettler about internship and career opportunities with GE Healthcare. Panda Express will be provided at the meeting!

    Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering

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  • Networking Etiquette Info Session with ASBME, ASME & SWE

    Wed, Oct 03, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    Before VINE and the Career Fair, it is important to have a polished elevator pitch. Come to the Networking Etiquette Info Session with ASBME, ASME and SWE. This is an event you won't want to miss.

    Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 158

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering

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  • ASBME @ LA Food Bank!

    Sat, Oct 06, 2012 @ 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    Looking for a great way to get involved in LA and hang out with all your fellow BMEs? Come serve with us in LA!

    Location: LA Food Bank

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering

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  • Repeating EventNSBE General Body Meeting

    Mon, Oct 08, 2012 @ 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    During our first meeting, we will discuss the current state of affairs of USC NSBE, discuss our upcoming academic success tutorials, and help members prepare for the Regional & National Conferences. Food will be provided. **Please bring your academic schedule, as we will be making a calendar of our events.

    Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 118

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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    Contact: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)

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  • ASBME Discussion: Is BME a Worthwhile Branch of Engineering?

    Wed, Oct 10, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 07:50 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    How do you feel about the BME curriculum at USC? Come share your thoughts, questions, and suggestions with the BME department chair (Dr. Grzywacz) and other faculty and staff in this open discussion!

    Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 146

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering

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  • A State of the Union Conversation: An Evening with Frank Rich and Fran Lebowitz

    A State of the Union Conversation: An Evening with Frank Rich and Fran Lebowitz

    Mon, Oct 15, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 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, September 18, at 9 a.m.

    USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=371

    General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=372

    Book signing and reception to follow.

    The University Club at King Stoops Hall will offer a prix-fixe dinner prior to this event. For information and to make reservations, click here: http://bit.ly/VVprixfixe

    No topic will be off limits when distinguished authors and journalists Frank Rich and Fran Lebowitz come together for a rare and stimulating conversation exploring our pre-election state of the union. Hear their thoughts on everything from the economy to gay marriage to foreign policy in what promises to be a smart, lively and entertaining look at the 2012 presidential election.

    About Lebowitz and Rich:

    Purveyor of urban cool, witty chronicler of the “me decade” and the cultural satirist whom many call the heir to Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz remains one of the foremost advocates of the extreme statement. She offers insights on timely issues such as gender, race, gay rights and the media as well as her own pet peeves, including celebrity culture, tourists and strollers. Lebowitz’s first two classic books of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, have been collected in the Fran Lebowitz Reader. Lebowitz is forthright, irascible and unapologetically opinionated. Lebowitz is also the subject of Public Speaking, an HBO documentary film directed by Martin Scorsese. (Lebowitz on Facebook)

    Frank Rich joined New York magazine in 2011 as writer-at-large, writing monthly on politics and culture, and editing a special monthly section anchored by his essay. He is also a commentator on nymag.com, engaging in regular dialogues on the news of the week. Rich joined the magazine following a distinguished career at the New York Times, where his Sunday Op-Ed column helped inaugurate the expanded opinion pages that the paper introduced in 2005. Among other honors, Rich received the George Polk Award for Commentary and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University. His best-selling books include The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush’s America and Ghost Light: A Memoir. Rich is also a creative consultant at HBO and an executive producer of two HBO projects: Veep, a new satirical comedy about Washington starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and a forthcoming documentary about Stephen Sondheim. (Rich at New York magazine and the New York Times)

    Co-sponsored by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Interfraternity Council.

    Photo (Frank Rich): Danny Kim

    Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • ASBME Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering

    Tue, Oct 16, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    Interested in orthopedic and rehabilitation engineering? Come to ASBME's event where Dr. Christopher Powers, an Associate Professor in the USC Division of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy, will be speaking about how he got involved in this field, his research, and how undergraduate students can prepare themselves for this kind of career! Dessert will be provided for ASBME members.

    Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering

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  • The origins, development, and neural bases of language impairments in ASD, Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D.

    The origins, development, and neural bases of language impairments in ASD, Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D.

    Wed, Oct 17, 2012 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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    Title: The origins, development, and neural bases of language impairments in ASD

    Speaker: Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D., Boston University

    Abstract
    Impairments in language and communication are among the core symptoms of ASD. In children there is enormous variability in the language phenotypes associated with ASD ranging from highly fluent to the absence of any communicative speech. Studies of high risk infants have highlighted the early onset of differences in brain organization and communicative impairment associated with language development. In toddlers diagnosed with ASD there is considerable variability in language ability are already evidence. At this stage differences in the social, cognitive, and motor skills that are important factors in language acquisition predict divergent developmental pathways for children with ASD into the preschool years. By middle childhood neuroimaging studies have found significant differences in brain structure, functional organization and connectivity that are associated with some of the varied language phenotypes in ASD, as well as the parallels between ASD and other language disorders.

    BIO: Helen Tager-Flusberg received her Bachelors in Science in Psychology from University College London, and her doctorate from Harvard University. From 1978 through 2001 she was a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts –Boston and from 1996 – 2001 she also held the position of Senior Scientist at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center/UMass Medical Center. Since 2001 Dr. Tager-Flusberg has been at Boston University initially with primary appointments in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and now as Professor of Psychology at Boston University, where she was the Director of the Developmental Science Program from 2009 to 2012. Dr. Tager-Flusberg conducts research on autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, investigating developmental changes in language and social cognition using behavioral and brain imaging methodologies. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and private foundations, including Autism Speaks, The Simons Foundation, the Autism Consortium, the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation and March of Dimes. Dr. Tager-Flusberg is currently the President of the International Society for Autism Research, serves on the editorial board of several professional journals and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

    In conjunction with the 9/28 Engineering and Autism: A national workshop https://mhi.usc.edu/engineering-and-autism-workshop/

    Organized by Professor Shri Narayanan, shri@sipi.usc.edu

    More Information: Helen Tager-Flusberg speaker flyer 10.17.12.pdf

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Danielle Hamra

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  • The Book of Mormon

    Wed, Oct 17, 2012 @ 06:30 PM - 11:45 PM

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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    *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. Check-in for the event will begin at 5:15 p.m. on campus. There will be a pre-show talk at 6 p.m. in Davidson Conference Center. Buses will depart at 6:30 p.m. and return to campus at 11:45 p.m. Dinner will be provided at check-in.

    “The best musical of this century.”—New York Times

    “The perfect Broadway musical.”—Entertainment Weekly

    USC students will take a trip to the historic Pantages Theatre in Hollywood to see The Book of Mormon, a Broadway musical from the creators of South Park and the composer of Avenue Q. One of the most acclaimed and in-demand shows on Broadway, The Book of Mormon won nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical. A gleefully profane, irreverent and blasphemous tribute to the magic of Broadway, The Book of Mormon suggests that sometimes faith is all you need.

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: Pantages Theatre, Hollywood

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

    The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

    Mon, Oct 22, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

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    Admission is free.

    Refreshments will be provided.

    Since this project was first performed at Dispatch Bureau in New York in 2009, The New York Times Feminist Reading Group has met periodically to discuss current events and feminist issues raised by that day’s issue of the New York Times. Participants are welcome regardless of whether they have read, skimmed or even just glanced at that day’s paper. The discussion begins informally with news items or questions raised by participants, and ranges widely from investigations of specific articles or images, to editorial choices and ad placements, to the larger questions of the business of newspapers and contemporary media in general. The New York Times Feminist Reading Group is organized and facilitated by writer Jen Kennedy and artist Liz Linden, who have been collaborating on projects that investigate contemporary usages of the word feminism since 2008. Their projects include town-hall meetings, feminist book swaps, video and sound works and pilot press, their DIY feminist publishing house.

    About the Artists:

    Jen Kennedy is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including C Magazine, Image [&] Narrative, FUSE and the Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society. Kennedy attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009, and is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow at Binghamton University. She received her BA and MA in visual arts from the University of Western Ontario.

    Liz Linden also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009. She received her BA from Yale University and studied photography at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Linden has been awarded several grants and international residencies, including a DaNY grant from the Danish Arts Council and residencies at Capacete in Rio de Janeiro, Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne and unitednationsplaza in Berlin. (Official website)

    Kennedy and Linden have been collaborating since 2009 on a multidisciplinary project that explores the semantics of contemporary feminism. They have received grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs/Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. Their work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art, as well as at numerous other venues.

    Organized by the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum Room, 4th Floor

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • GAME NIGHT

    Mon, Oct 22, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    NSBE is hosting a Game Night for all students. FIFA 13, Charades, Taboo, Apples to Apples & more!

    Prizes for winners!

    Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 118

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: NSBE National Society of Black Engineers

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  • Repeating EventNSBE General Body Meeting

    Mon, Oct 22, 2012 @ 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    During our first meeting, we will discuss the current state of affairs of USC NSBE, discuss our upcoming academic success tutorials, and help members prepare for the Regional & National Conferences. Food will be provided. **Please bring your academic schedule, as we will be making a calendar of our events.

    Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 118

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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    Contact: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)

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  • The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

    The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

    Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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    Admission is free.

    Refreshments will be provided.

    Since this project was first performed at Dispatch Bureau in New York in 2009, The New York Times Feminist Reading Group has met periodically to discuss current events and feminist issues raised by that day’s issue of the New York Times. Participants are welcome regardless of whether they have read, skimmed or even just glanced at that day’s paper. The discussion begins informally with news items or questions raised by participants, and ranges widely from investigations of specific articles or images, to editorial choices and ad placements, to the larger questions of the business of newspapers and contemporary media in general. The New York Times Feminist Reading Group is organized and facilitated by writer Jen Kennedy and artist Liz Linden, who have been collaborating on projects that investigate contemporary usages of the word feminism since 2008. Their projects include town-hall meetings, feminist book swaps, video and sound works and pilot press, their DIY feminist publishing house.

    About the Artists:

    Jen Kennedy is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including C Magazine, Image [&] Narrative, FUSE and the Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society. Kennedy attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009, and is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow at Binghamton University. She received her BA and MA in visual arts from the University of Western Ontario.

    Liz Linden also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009. She received her BA from Yale University and studied photography at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Linden has been awarded several grants and international residencies, including a DaNY grant from the Danish Arts Council and residencies at Capacete in Rio de Janeiro, Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne and unitednationsplaza in Berlin. (Official website)

    Kennedy and Linden have been collaborating since 2009 on a multidisciplinary project that explores the semantics of contemporary feminism. They have received grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs/Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. Their work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art, as well as at numerous other venues.

    Organized by the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

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    Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum Room, 4th Floor

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • David Treuer- Rez Life: An Indian's Journey through Reservation Life The Provost's Writers Series

    David Treuer- Rez Life: An Indian's Journey through Reservation Life The Provost's Writers Series

    Tue, Oct 23, 2012 @ 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, September 26, at 9 a.m.

    To RSVP: http://bit.ly/VVTreuer

    Book signing and reception to follow.

    The University Club at King Stoops Hall will offer a prix-fixe dinner prior to this event. For information and to make reservations, click here: http://bit.ly/VVprixfixe

    David Treuer, a professor of English at USC, is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the author of three novels and a collection of essays. He will give a presentation on his most recent book, Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey through Reservation Life. In this powerful and illuminating book, Treuer brings his skill for storytelling and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. USC Provost Elizabeth Garrett will introduce the evening, followed by a conversation with Treuer moderated by Peter C. Mancall, the academic domain vice dean of USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

    David Treuer is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award and fellowships from the NEH, the Bush Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. His essays and stories have appeared in Esquire, TriQuarterly, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Slate.com. The son of Robert Treuer, an Austrian Jew and Holocaust survivor, and Margaret Seelye Treuer, a tribal-court judge, David Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation. After graduating from high school he attended Princeton University, where he wrote two senior theses—one in anthropology and one in creative writing—and where he worked with Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon and Joanna Scott. Treuer graduated in 1992 and published his first novel, Little, in 1995. He received his PhD in anthropology and published his second novel, The Hiawatha, in 1999. His third novel, The Translation of Dr Apelles, and a book of criticism, Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual, were published in 2006. The Translation of Dr Apelles was named Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Time Out and City Pages.

    The Provost’s 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.

    Photo: Jean-Luc Bertini

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: University Club (KSH)

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

    The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

    Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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    Admission is free.

    Refreshments will be provided.

    Since this project was first performed at Dispatch Bureau in New York in 2009, The New York Times Feminist Reading Group has met periodically to discuss current events and feminist issues raised by that day’s issue of the New York Times. Participants are welcome regardless of whether they have read, skimmed or even just glanced at that day’s paper. The discussion begins informally with news items or questions raised by participants, and ranges widely from investigations of specific articles or images, to editorial choices and ad placements, to the larger questions of the business of newspapers and contemporary media in general. The New York Times Feminist Reading Group is organized and facilitated by writer Jen Kennedy and artist Liz Linden, who have been collaborating on projects that investigate contemporary usages of the word feminism since 2008. Their projects include town-hall meetings, feminist book swaps, video and sound works and pilot press, their DIY feminist publishing house.

    About the Artists:

    Jen Kennedy is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including C Magazine, Image [&] Narrative, FUSE and the Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society. Kennedy attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009, and is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow at Binghamton University. She received her BA and MA in visual arts from the University of Western Ontario.

    Liz Linden also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009. She received her BA from Yale University and studied photography at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Linden has been awarded several grants and international residencies, including a DaNY grant from the Danish Arts Council and residencies at Capacete in Rio de Janeiro, Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne and unitednationsplaza in Berlin. (Official website)

    Kennedy and Linden have been collaborating since 2009 on a multidisciplinary project that explores the semantics of contemporary feminism. They have received grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs/Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. Their work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art, as well as at numerous other venues.

    Organized by the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum Room, 4th Floor

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • A Night with Professor Spedding

    Wed, Oct 24, 2012 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    Geoffrey Spedding, professor and chair of the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, will be talking about his varied academic interests and adventures, which range from zoology to aerospace engineering, and how they may fit together. Come enjoy some free food and get to know Professor Spedding and how he came to be at USC. This is an event you won't want to miss! All interested are welcome :) the more the merrier!

    Location: Robert Glen Rapp Engineering Research Building (RRB) - 208 (Laufer Library)

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: SGT Sigma Gamma Tau

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  • The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

    The New York Times Feminist Reading Group With Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

    Thu, Oct 25, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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    Admission is free.

    Refreshments will be provided.

    Since this project was first performed at Dispatch Bureau in New York in 2009, The New York Times Feminist Reading Group has met periodically to discuss current events and feminist issues raised by that day’s issue of the New York Times. Participants are welcome regardless of whether they have read, skimmed or even just glanced at that day’s paper. The discussion begins informally with news items or questions raised by participants, and ranges widely from investigations of specific articles or images, to editorial choices and ad placements, to the larger questions of the business of newspapers and contemporary media in general. The New York Times Feminist Reading Group is organized and facilitated by writer Jen Kennedy and artist Liz Linden, who have been collaborating on projects that investigate contemporary usages of the word feminism since 2008. Their projects include town-hall meetings, feminist book swaps, video and sound works and pilot press, their DIY feminist publishing house.

    About the Artists:

    Jen Kennedy is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including C Magazine, Image [&] Narrative, FUSE and the Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society. Kennedy attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009, and is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow at Binghamton University. She received her BA and MA in visual arts from the University of Western Ontario.

    Liz Linden also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2008 to 2009. She received her BA from Yale University and studied photography at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Linden has been awarded several grants and international residencies, including a DaNY grant from the Danish Arts Council and residencies at Capacete in Rio de Janeiro, Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne and unitednationsplaza in Berlin. (Official website)

    Kennedy and Linden have been collaborating since 2009 on a multidisciplinary project that explores the semantics of contemporary feminism. They have received grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs/Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. Their work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art, as well as at numerous other venues.

    Organized by the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum Room, 4th Floor

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • Repeating EventNikkatsu at 100

    Nikkatsu at 100

    Fri, Oct 26, 2012

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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    Admission is free.

    For a complete festival schedule and to RSVP, go to: http://cinema.usc.edu/Nikkatsu.

    On September 10, 2012, Japan’s Nikkatsu Film Studio will celebrate its 100th anniversary. One of Japan’s oldest and most acclaimed film studios, the Nikkatsu libraries contain approximately 3,300 film titles, including some of the most important Japanese films from the silent era to the classical period, from the postwar era to the new wave, and up to the current renaissance of Japanese cinema. Nikkatsu’s collection includes period pieces, samurai films, melodramas, youth films, gangster films, “pink” movies, horror films and contemporary blockbusters, with major critical and box-office successes in each of those areas. This three-day event will draw from Nikkatsu’s library to celebrate 100 years of Japanese cinema, and will include screenings and discussions with filmmakers, scholars and critics on Nikkatsu’s enduring legacy in Japan and its historical place in the film world.

    Schedule of events:

    Friday, October 26:

    7 p.m.: Opening remarks by Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Naoki Sato, President and CEO of Nikkatsu Corportation.

    7:20 p.m.: Surprise film premiere from director Hideo Nakata (Ringu, Dark Water), co-presented by The Cinefamily, followed by Q&A with the director.

    10 p.m.: Reception

    Saturday, October 27

    11 a.m.: The Burmese Harp (1956) 116 minutes, directed by Kon Ichikawa.

    1:15 p.m.: The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957) digitally restored version, 110 minutes, directed by Yuzo Kawashima.

    3:30 p.m.: Rusty Knife (1958) 90 minutes, directed by Toshio Masuda.

    6 p.m.: Panel discussion: Nikkatsu and the World of Japanese Entertainment, with Sandy Climan, CEO of All Nippon Entertainment Works Inc. (ANEW); Akira Mizuta Lippit, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts; Hideo Nakata, Director of Ringu and Dark Water; Naoki Sato, President and CEO of Nikkatsu Corporation. The panel will look at the rich history of Nikkatsu's one hundred years and uses the occasion to both reflect on Nikkatsu's contributions to Japanese film culture and to assess the place of Japanese entertainment today in Japan and abroad. Panelists include key members of the Japanese film and entertainment communities who can best speak to the rich history of Nikkatsu and Japanese cinema as well as look forward to new horizons in Japanese film and media.

    8 p.m.: Lovers are Wet (1973) 76 minutes, directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro.

    Sunday, October 28

    12 p.m.: The Insect Woman (1963) 123 minutes, directed by Shohei Imamura.

    2:15 p.m.: Retaliation (1968) 94 minutes, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe.

    5 p.m.: Panel discussion: The Global Studio at 100 with Richard B. Jewell, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Other panelists TBA. This panel discussion will feature key figures from the global film-studio community as they reflect on how the studio system shaped global cinema throughout the 20th century and how it has changed.

    7 p.m.: Suzaki Paradise: Red Light (1956) 81 minutes, directed by Yuzo Kawashima.

    8:30 p.m.: Tattooed Life (1965) 87 minutes, Directed by Seijun Suzuki.

    Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Co-sponsored by Nikkatsu Corporation, the Japan Foundation Los Angeles, the Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles, Japan Film Society, the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture and the East Asian Studies Center. Nikkatsu at 100: A Centennial of Japanese Cinema is produced by Akira Mizuta Lippit, Alessandro Ago and Mike Dillon for the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • Nikkatsu at 100

    Fri, Oct 26, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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    Admission is free.

    For a complete festival schedule and to RSVP, go to: http://cinema.usc.edu/Nikkatsu.

    On September 10, 2012, Japan’s Nikkatsu Film Studio will celebrate its 100th anniversary. One of Japan’s oldest and most acclaimed film studios, the Nikkatsu libraries contain approximately 3,300 film titles, including some of the most important Japanese films from the silent era to the classical period, from the postwar era to the new wave, and up to the current renaissance of Japanese cinema. Nikkatsu’s collection includes period pieces, samurai films, melodramas, youth films, gangster films, “pink” movies, horror films and contemporary blockbusters, with major critical and box-office successes in each of those areas. This three-day event will draw from Nikkatsu’s library to celebrate 100 years of Japanese cinema, and will include screenings and discussions with filmmakers, scholars and critics on Nikkatsu’s enduring legacy in Japan and its historical place in the film world.

    Schedule of events:

    Friday, October 26:

    7 p.m.: Opening remarks by Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Naoki Sato, President and CEO of Nikkatsu Corportation.

    7:20 p.m.: Surprise film premiere from director Hideo Nakata (Ringu, Dark Water), co-presented by The Cinefamily, followed by Q&A with the director.

    10 p.m.: Reception

    Location: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • 2nd Annual Electrical Engineering Retreat

    2nd Annual Electrical Engineering Retreat

    Sat, Oct 27, 2012

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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    SAVE THE DATE - Saturday, October 27 - Sunday, October 28, 2012
    2nd Annual Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Retreat hosted by the Ming Hsieh Institute

    Invited: Electrical Engineering faculty, post docs, research assistants & PhD students

    tickets, location & program details coming shortly

    2011 Retreat information, photos and video: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/retreat/

    For questions please contact Danielle Hamra
    hamra@usc.edu 213-740-2694

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Danielle Hamra

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  • Repeating EventNikkatsu at 100

    Nikkatsu at 100

    Sat, Oct 27, 2012

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

    University Calendar


    Admission is free.

    For a complete festival schedule and to RSVP, go to: http://cinema.usc.edu/Nikkatsu.

    On September 10, 2012, Japan’s Nikkatsu Film Studio will celebrate its 100th anniversary. One of Japan’s oldest and most acclaimed film studios, the Nikkatsu libraries contain approximately 3,300 film titles, including some of the most important Japanese films from the silent era to the classical period, from the postwar era to the new wave, and up to the current renaissance of Japanese cinema. Nikkatsu’s collection includes period pieces, samurai films, melodramas, youth films, gangster films, “pink” movies, horror films and contemporary blockbusters, with major critical and box-office successes in each of those areas. This three-day event will draw from Nikkatsu’s library to celebrate 100 years of Japanese cinema, and will include screenings and discussions with filmmakers, scholars and critics on Nikkatsu’s enduring legacy in Japan and its historical place in the film world.

    Schedule of events:

    Friday, October 26:

    7 p.m.: Opening remarks by Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Naoki Sato, President and CEO of Nikkatsu Corportation.

    7:20 p.m.: Surprise film premiere from director Hideo Nakata (Ringu, Dark Water), co-presented by The Cinefamily, followed by Q&A with the director.

    10 p.m.: Reception

    Saturday, October 27

    11 a.m.: The Burmese Harp (1956) 116 minutes, directed by Kon Ichikawa.

    1:15 p.m.: The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957) digitally restored version, 110 minutes, directed by Yuzo Kawashima.

    3:30 p.m.: Rusty Knife (1958) 90 minutes, directed by Toshio Masuda.

    6 p.m.: Panel discussion: Nikkatsu and the World of Japanese Entertainment, with Sandy Climan, CEO of All Nippon Entertainment Works Inc. (ANEW); Akira Mizuta Lippit, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts; Hideo Nakata, Director of Ringu and Dark Water; Naoki Sato, President and CEO of Nikkatsu Corporation. The panel will look at the rich history of Nikkatsu's one hundred years and uses the occasion to both reflect on Nikkatsu's contributions to Japanese film culture and to assess the place of Japanese entertainment today in Japan and abroad. Panelists include key members of the Japanese film and entertainment communities who can best speak to the rich history of Nikkatsu and Japanese cinema as well as look forward to new horizons in Japanese film and media.

    8 p.m.: Lovers are Wet (1973) 76 minutes, directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro.

    Sunday, October 28

    12 p.m.: The Insect Woman (1963) 123 minutes, directed by Shohei Imamura.

    2:15 p.m.: Retaliation (1968) 94 minutes, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe.

    5 p.m.: Panel discussion: The Global Studio at 100 with Richard B. Jewell, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Other panelists TBA. This panel discussion will feature key figures from the global film-studio community as they reflect on how the studio system shaped global cinema throughout the 20th century and how it has changed.

    7 p.m.: Suzaki Paradise: Red Light (1956) 81 minutes, directed by Yuzo Kawashima.

    8:30 p.m.: Tattooed Life (1965) 87 minutes, Directed by Seijun Suzuki.

    Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Co-sponsored by Nikkatsu Corporation, the Japan Foundation Los Angeles, the Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles, Japan Film Society, the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture and the East Asian Studies Center. Nikkatsu at 100: A Centennial of Japanese Cinema is produced by Akira Mizuta Lippit, Alessandro Ago and Mike Dillon for the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • 2nd Annual Electrical Engineering Retreat

    2nd Annual Electrical Engineering Retreat

    Sun, Oct 28, 2012

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    University Calendar


    SAVE THE DATE - Saturday, October 27 - Sunday, October 28, 2012
    2nd Annual Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Retreat hosted by the Ming Hsieh Institute

    Invited: Electrical Engineering faculty, post docs, research assistants & PhD students

    tickets, location & program details coming shortly

    2011 Retreat information, photos and video: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/retreat/

    For questions please contact Danielle Hamra
    hamra@usc.edu 213-740-2694

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Danielle Hamra

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  • Repeating EventNikkatsu at 100

    Nikkatsu at 100

    Sun, Oct 28, 2012

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering

    University Calendar


    Admission is free.

    For a complete festival schedule and to RSVP, go to: http://cinema.usc.edu/Nikkatsu.

    On September 10, 2012, Japan’s Nikkatsu Film Studio will celebrate its 100th anniversary. One of Japan’s oldest and most acclaimed film studios, the Nikkatsu libraries contain approximately 3,300 film titles, including some of the most important Japanese films from the silent era to the classical period, from the postwar era to the new wave, and up to the current renaissance of Japanese cinema. Nikkatsu’s collection includes period pieces, samurai films, melodramas, youth films, gangster films, “pink” movies, horror films and contemporary blockbusters, with major critical and box-office successes in each of those areas. This three-day event will draw from Nikkatsu’s library to celebrate 100 years of Japanese cinema, and will include screenings and discussions with filmmakers, scholars and critics on Nikkatsu’s enduring legacy in Japan and its historical place in the film world.

    Schedule of events:

    Friday, October 26:

    7 p.m.: Opening remarks by Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Naoki Sato, President and CEO of Nikkatsu Corportation.

    7:20 p.m.: Surprise film premiere from director Hideo Nakata (Ringu, Dark Water), co-presented by The Cinefamily, followed by Q&A with the director.

    10 p.m.: Reception

    Saturday, October 27

    11 a.m.: The Burmese Harp (1956) 116 minutes, directed by Kon Ichikawa.

    1:15 p.m.: The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957) digitally restored version, 110 minutes, directed by Yuzo Kawashima.

    3:30 p.m.: Rusty Knife (1958) 90 minutes, directed by Toshio Masuda.

    6 p.m.: Panel discussion: Nikkatsu and the World of Japanese Entertainment, with Sandy Climan, CEO of All Nippon Entertainment Works Inc. (ANEW); Akira Mizuta Lippit, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts; Hideo Nakata, Director of Ringu and Dark Water; Naoki Sato, President and CEO of Nikkatsu Corporation. The panel will look at the rich history of Nikkatsu's one hundred years and uses the occasion to both reflect on Nikkatsu's contributions to Japanese film culture and to assess the place of Japanese entertainment today in Japan and abroad. Panelists include key members of the Japanese film and entertainment communities who can best speak to the rich history of Nikkatsu and Japanese cinema as well as look forward to new horizons in Japanese film and media.

    8 p.m.: Lovers are Wet (1973) 76 minutes, directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro.

    Sunday, October 28

    12 p.m.: The Insect Woman (1963) 123 minutes, directed by Shohei Imamura.

    2:15 p.m.: Retaliation (1968) 94 minutes, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe.

    5 p.m.: Panel discussion: The Global Studio at 100 with Richard B. Jewell, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Other panelists TBA. This panel discussion will feature key figures from the global film-studio community as they reflect on how the studio system shaped global cinema throughout the 20th century and how it has changed.

    7 p.m.: Suzaki Paradise: Red Light (1956) 81 minutes, directed by Yuzo Kawashima.

    8:30 p.m.: Tattooed Life (1965) 87 minutes, Directed by Seijun Suzuki.

    Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Co-sponsored by Nikkatsu Corporation, the Japan Foundation Los Angeles, the Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles, Japan Film Society, the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture and the East Asian Studies Center. Nikkatsu at 100: A Centennial of Japanese Cinema is produced by Akira Mizuta Lippit, Alessandro Ago and Mike Dillon for the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

    For further information on this event:
    visionsandvoices@usc.edu

    Location: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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    Contact: Daria Yudacufski

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  • ASBME Corporate Meet and Mingle with Medtronic (Tim Nayar)

    Tue, Oct 30, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations

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    Interested in industry? The Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering is looking forward to an informative info session with Tim Nayar, a Mechanical Engineering Intern in New Product Production at Medtronic Diabetes. An alum of USC, Mr. Nayar is excited to talk to us about internship and career opportunities available at Medtronic. Food will be provided and we look forward to seeing you there!

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering

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