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Fronteras Alternativas: Queer Latina/o Visibilities and Insurgencies
Thu, Nov 01, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free.
Explore the intersections of queer and Latina/o art, aesthetics and performance through a dialogue with Dino Dinco, an artist, filmmaker and curator whose work has been exhibited internationally; Raquel Gutiérrez, a writer, performer and founder of several queer-women-of-color, community-based art and literary projects; scholar Robb Hernandez, whose dissertation focused on queer Chicano art and aesthetics in East Los Angeles; and artist Joey Terrill, a formative figure in the Chicano art movement and AIDS cultural activism. Addressing often obscured or omitted histories of queer and Latina/o cultural production in Los Angeles, the speakers will consider how such legacies affect contemporary art practice and their relation to âthe archive.â
About the Panelists:
Dino Dinco is an independent curator, filmmaker, theatre director and multidisciplinary artist. Dinco recently completed a year-long residency at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) as performance-art curator from 2011 to 2012. Dincoâs visual and curatorial work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Paris, Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as in group shows in London, Paris, São Paulo, Bilbao, Antwerp, Hasselt (Belgium), Mexicali, New York and Hamburg. Images from his photographic series Chico were featured at Salon Paris Photo at the Louvre. His work has appeared in publications such as Artillery, i-D (UK), Revista Espacio (Mexico) and Vogue Brasil (Brazil). His experimental short play Real Women Have Periods was presented at REDCAT, and his award-winning short film El Abuelo premiered at the Tate Modern in London. In 2011, he completed his first feature-length documentary, Homeboy, which profiles gay Latino men who were in gangs. (Vimeo)
Raquel Gutiérrez cut her teeth on Los Angeles performance art when she interned and house managed at Highways Performance Space in the year 2000. Raquel is a performance writer, playwright and cultural organizer who has studied in university settings and performed in a variety of locations, like the Salvadoran countryside, cabarets, galleries, San Antonio, universities and Pico-Union. Gutiérrez cofounded the performance ensemble Butchlalis de Panochtitlan (BdP), a community-based and activist-minded group aimed at creating a visual vernacular around queer Latinidad in Los Angeles. She has published work in Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing, LA Weekly, make/shift, Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies and Izote Vos: Salvadoran American Literary and Visual Art. Currently, Gutiérrez is in the community scholars program through the UCLA School of Urban Planning and is the manager of community partnerships for Cornerstone Theater Company, a leader in community-based theatre-making in the United States. (Blog)
Robb Hernandez is the Carlos E. Castañeda Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is revising his manuscript on the queer visual aesthetics of the Chicano avant-garde in East Los Angeles. He received his PhD from the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he cofounded the first U.S. Latina/o studies program in the mid-Atlantic and coordinated the Latino museum studies program for the Smithsonian Latino Center. His book The Fire of Life: The Robert LegorretaâCyclona Collection, 1962â2002 was published by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press and earned an International Latino Book Award in 2010. His work has appeared in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals and Mixed Race Hollywood.
Joey Terrill is a formative figure in the Chicano art movement and AIDS cultural activism and is a former board member of VIVA!, the first gay and lesbian Latino art organization in Los Angeles. Born in 1955 and raised in Highland Park, Terrill has been influenced by sources as diverse as pop art, Mexican retablos, twentieth-century painters ranging from Romaine Brooks to Frida Kahlo and the energy, politics and creative synergy of Chicano and queer art circles in Los Angeles. Over the last 30 years, Terrill has created seminal portraits of everyday queer life in the barrios. His work has been included in such exhibitions as Gronk and Joey at Score Bar (1984), Alex Donis/Joey Terrill: Two Points of View at Echo Park Gallery (1991) and, most recently, Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972â1987 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011). (Official website)
Organized by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries.
Photo: Kerry Ramirez
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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Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen
Fri, Nov 02, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Reception to follow.
Admission is free. Tickets required.
Free tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at the event check-in, located in the School of Cinematic Arts Courtyard beginning at 5:30 p.m. Doors will open at 6 p.m.
Program Schedule:
7 p.m.: Opening Remarks and Performance by Angeles Chorale, Amber Kim and Morten Lauridsen
7:30 p.m.: Screening of Shining Night
9 p.m.: Panel and Q&A
Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen is a new documentary that celebrates the life and work of Morten Lauridsen. Americaâs most frequently performed choral composer, Lauridsen is a 2007 National Medal of Arts recipient and a distinguished professor of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. He has been named an American Choral Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. Musicologist and Thornton faculty Nick Strimple describes Lauridsen as âthe only American composer in history who can be called a mystic.â Shining Night premiered in Palm Springs in 2012 as a prelude event to the American Documentary Film Festival and received the Best Documentary Award at the DC Independent Film Festival. Filmed in California, Washington and Scotland from 2010 to 2011, Shining Night commemorates the 15th anniversary of the premiere of Lauridsenâs Lux Aeterna and the 25th anniversary of the premiere of Madrigali.
Following a screening of the film, Lauridsen will be joined in conversation by the filmâs director, Michael Stillwater, and Dana Gioia, the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at USC and adjunct professor of musicology at Thornton.
To watch a trailer for the film, click here.
Organized by the USC Thornton School of Music.
Photo: Philip Channing
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Student Seminar Series
Mon, Nov 05, 2012 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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The Student Seminar Series will allow students to practice their research talks by presenting to one another. Ph.D. students will present their research to fellow Ph.D. students at each seminar session, and each student will be able to gain feedback from their peers.
The MHI Ph.D. Scholars will give presentations at the 1st Student Seminar Series event on 11/5 and explain the structure. Then students could sign up for student seminars, which will be bi-weekly.
Invited: Electrical Engineering Ph.D. students (student organized event)
11/5 Presentation:
Speaker: Osonde Osoba, Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student
Talk Title: Noisy Expectation-Maximization and Some Applications
Talk Abstract: The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is an iterative maximum-likelihood estimation scheme for corrupted data. Many generic statistical estimation methods are EM algorithms in disguise. I will talk about the Noisy Expectation-Maximization (NEM) algorithm. This is a modification of the EM scheme that achieves faster average convergence times than the regular EM algorithm. I will describe the theory behind the NEM algorithm. Then I will talk about some of the applications of the NEM algorithm.
Refreshments will be provided
https://mhi.usc.edu/events/event-details/?event_id=899645
More Information: 11 5 12 seminar (2).pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: EE PhD students & postdocs
Contact: Danielle Hamra
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NSBE General Body MeetingMon, Nov 05, 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
Contact: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
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ASME Super SolidWorks Month
Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
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We will be hosting a series of Solidworks workshops in the month of November. Join us for our first event and strengthen your modeling skills while learning how to make a watch! This will be a great introduction and review for those of you interested in getting more comfortable with this software. Anyone, from incoming freshman to graduating senior or grad student, is invited to join us!
*Food provided*
You can use what you learned in these workshops for personal projects or our upcoming projects including the Human Powered Vehicle, Van De Graaf generator, and a Hovercraft!Location: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - B36
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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The Knotted Line
Wed, Nov 07, 2012 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Reception to follow.
Admission is free.
Join artists Evan Bissell and Erik Loyer as they discuss their digital project, The Knotted Line, and its relationship to activism, art and new media. The Knotted Line is an interactive, tactile laboratory for exploring the historical relationship between freedom and confinement in the United States. With miniature paintings of over 50 historical moments from 1495-2025, The Knotted Line asks: how is freedom measured? Just as importantly, The Knotted Line imagines a new world through the work of grassroots movements for self-determination. Erik and Evan will discuss their collaborative process, its connections to the digital and public humanities, and the role of activism in the arts.
Sponsored by the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and the Center for Transformative Scholarship.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - Kaprelian Hall 445
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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An Evening with David Henry Hwang A Visions and Voices Signature Event
Thu, Nov 08, 2012 @ 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 Thursday, October 11, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here.
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://bit.ly/VVHwang
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/VVHwang
Join us for an evening with one of the countryâs most accomplished and preeminent playwrights. Throughout his career, David Henry Hwang has explored the complexities of forging Eastern and Western cultures in contemporary America. Over the past 30 years, his extraordinary body of work has been marked by a deep desire to reaffirm the common humanity in all of us.
He is best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which won Tony, Drama Desk, John Gassner and Outer Critics Circle awards, and was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The play enjoyed a one-year run on Londonâs West End and has been produced in over four dozen countries to date. His play Golden Child, a book that President Nikias has identified as essential reading for all USC students, received an OBIE Award before moving to Broadway, where it received three Tony nominations, including Best New Play. His play Yellow Face won an OBIE Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent play, Chinglish, a comedy about an American businessman in China, was named Best New American Play of 2011 by TIME magazine.
Hwangâs Broadway musicals include his new book for Rodgers & Hammersteinâs Flower Drum Song, which earned him his third Tony nomination, for Best Book of a Musical. He cowrote the book for Disneyâs international hit Aida, with music and lyrics by Elton John and Tim Rice, and was the book writer of Disneyâs Tarzan, with songs by Phil Collins. He has written four works with composer Philip Glass, and, according to Opera News, Hwang is Americaâs most-produced living opera librettist. He penned the screenplays for M. Butterfly, a 1993 Warner Brothers release starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone, directed by David Cronenberg; Golden Gate, starring Matt Dillon and Joan Chen, directed by John Madden; The Lost Empire, a four-hour NBC television miniseries; and Possession (cowriter), starring Gwyneth Paltrow, directed by Neil LaBute.
Links:
David Henry Hwang: Twitter, Wikipedia
Photo: Lia Chang
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Town & Gown (TGF) - Town and Gown
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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The Metropolitan Opera in HD: Giuseppe Verdi's Otello
Sun, Nov 11, 2012 @ 12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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12 p.m.: Pre-Opera Discussion
1 p.m.: HD Opera Broadcast
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/897822
The USC School of Cinematic Arts will host a series of satellite broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera presented in spectacular HD digital projection and 5.1 surround sound.
Following a pre-opera discussion hosted by Elizabeth Hynes, chair of vocal arts and opera in the USC Thornton School of Music, a satellite broadcast will feature the Metâs production of Verdiâs Otello. This Shakespearean masterpiece returns to the Met with Johan Botha in the title role opposite the acclaimed Desdemona played by star soprano Renée Fleming. Semyon Bychkov conducts.
Related Event:
Giuseppe Verdiâs Rigoletto
Saturday, February 23
12 p.m.: Pre-Opera Discussion
1 p.m.: HD Opera Broadcast
Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
For more info, click here.
Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts in conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera and the USC Thornton School of Music.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall\
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Fit for Society A Performance by the Veterans Center for the Performing Arts
Mon, Nov 12, 2012 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
Presented in recognition of Veterans Day, Fit for Society is a compelling and unflinching play about the trials and anecdotes of the military experience during a time of war. Honest, funny, moving, poignant and awe-inspiring, Fit for Society is told from the perspective of actual soldiers, survivors and family members. Experience these stories presented without pity, apology or political agenda. The play was produced by the Veterans Center for the Performing Arts and written by Brian Monahan, the son of a Navy officer, and Stephan Wolfert, a U.S. Army veteran. Wolfert, who also directed the play, was the military director of the Tony Awardâwinning Broadway production Movinâ Out! The LA Weekly states that Wolfert âshapes the performances of his excellent cast well, inspiring an authentic, gripping tone throughout.â
In an interactive reception following the performance, several USC veterans will share how their military experiences have shaped their lives in a conversation moderated by Anthony Hassan. Hassan is a clinical associate professor at the USC School of Social Work and serves as the director of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families. He is a retired Air Force officer with 25 years of experience in military social work and leadership development.
Organized by Syreeta Greene (Transfer and Veteran Student Programs) and Anthony Hassan (Social Work). Co-sponsored by the Office of Campus ActivitiesâTransfer and Veteran Student Programs, USC School of Social Work, Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families and Office of Religious Life.
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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ASBME How BME Students Spend Their Summers
Tue, Nov 13, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
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What should you do in Summer 2013?! Come find out what many upperclassmen have done in their summers during these precious undergrad years. We will cover everything from how to get involved with: Summer Study Abroad, Internships, Research, and Summer Classes. Moreover, we will specifically be going over some cool programs out there that you can apply too. Many of these applications open up soon, so it is important to start planning NOW! You don't want to miss this! Also, this meeting is where we'll be accepting donations for the canned food drive! Bring in cans or monetary donations (and we'll go buy cans with them!)
Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 301
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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Steven J. Ross- Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics The Provost's Writers Series
Wed, Nov 14, 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 Thursday, October 18, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here.
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://bit.ly/VVRoss
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/VVRoss
Steven J. Ross is a professor of history at USC and co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of several books, including Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 1998) and Movies and American Society. He will talk about his most recent book, Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, which received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesâ Film Scholars Award (the academic equivalent of an Oscar) and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. USC Provost Elizabeth Garrett will introduce the evening, followed by a conversation with Ross moderated by Marty Kaplan, the Norman Lear Chair in Entertainment, Media and Society and Director of the Norman Lear Center.
In Hollywood Left and Right, Ross tells a story about the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsize influence on American politics. Through a discussion of compelling larger-than-life figures in American cinema, like Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hollywood Left and Right reveals how the film industryâs engagement in politics has been longer, deeper and more varied than most people would imagine.
âHollywood Left and Right is nonfiction at its best: entertaining and engaging, probing and provocative, detailed and comprehensive in coverage, multifaceted and far-ranging in its treatment, objective and balanced, appropriately paced in covering a complex, big story.ââStephen Roulac, New York Journal of Books.
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.
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Tuesday, October 23, 7 p.m.
University Club
For more info, click here.
Deborah HarknessâThe All Souls Trilogy: A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night
Wednesday, February 13, 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: Phil Channing
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 BMEStart Break Off Meeting
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
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Come out to BMEstart's break off update meeting. We will be presenting the ideas that each team has been working on so far this semester, as well as providing feedback on what would be the best idea to continue with for the semester. So if you have ever been interested about BMEstart, or just want to see my neat biomedical innovation, please stop by!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 227
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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ASBME CANstruction Competition with NOBE/MOVE
Fri, Nov 16, 2012 @ 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Weâve collected cans, now itâs time to build something awesome out of them! Come over and help! Weâll send out the location asap. Hereâs some examples of what weâre talking about: http://tinyurl.com/canstruction-images
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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ASBME Broomball with SWE, NOBE and IIE
Sat, Nov 17, 2012 @ 10:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Looking for an exhilarating night of fast-paced fun with other awesome engineers? Come participate in our late night Broomball at the Pasadena ice rink along with SWE, NOBE, IIE, and of course ASBME. No experience necessary, this is a friendly competition great for veterans and novices alike!
Location: Meet at RTH
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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NSBE General Body Meeting
Mon, Nov 19, 2012 @ 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
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
Contact: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
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ASBME Thanksgiving Dinner!
Tue, Nov 20, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
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Join your ASBME executive board for a family-style feast and board games before the official Thanksgiving holiday! Whether youâre flying home the next morning or staying in Los Angeles all week, weâd love to share your company. Please RSVP if you are planning to attend so we know how much food to buy!
Location: Parkside Performance Cafe
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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ASME Super SolidWorks Month
Tue, Nov 27, 2012 @ 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
We will be hosting a series of Solidworks workshops in the month of November. Join us for our first event and strengthen your modeling skills while learning how to make a watch! This will be a great introduction and review for those of you interested in getting more comfortable with this software. Anyone, from incoming freshman to graduating senior or grad student, is invited to join us!
*Food provided*
You can use what you learned in these workshops for personal projects or our upcoming projects including the Human Powered Vehicle, Van De Graaf generator, and a Hovercraft!Location: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - B36
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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ASBME Sophomore Slump/Junior Jitters
Wed, Nov 28, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
University Calendar
Going through sophomore slump or having junior jitters? Thinking of switching majors? Find out
what to switch to or if the grass just looked greener on the other side. Weâll have unbiased upperclassmen from every engineering discipline for you to ask questions like:
âHow well did you major prepare you to get jobs and internships?â
âDid you ever want to switch majorsâ
âWhat is your favorite or least favorite part of your major?â
âWere your senior year classes worth going through your early classes for?â
Dinner will be served to ASBME members, but all are welcome!Location: SGM 124
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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The Interrupters
Fri, Nov 30, 2012 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Admission is free. Reservations required.
To RSVP, click here: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/899040 beginning Thursday, November 1, at 12 p.m.
Critically acclaimed director and USC School of Cinematic Arts alum John Singleton will introduce a screening of The Interrupters, an incredibly moving and surprising documentary that follows three âviolence interruptersâ who work to protect their communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and best-selling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year, The Interrupters captures a period when Chicago became a national symbol for urban violence. During that time, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a high-school student whose death was caught on videotape.
The filmâs main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire. It was founded on the theory that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. One of the cornerstones of the organization is the Violence Interrupters program, involving people whose personal histories on the streets give them credibility to intervene in conflicts before they explode into violence.
Following the screening, USC School of Cinematic Arts Vice Dean Michael Renov will moderate a fascinating conversation with two of the subjects in the film, violence interrupters Eddie Bocanegra and Ameena Matthews, along with the filmâs director, Steve James.
Organized by 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
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
