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Events for February 06, 2013
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USC's Homeland Security Center (CREATE) Monthly Seminar Series
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John Mueller, Ralph D. Mershon Senior Research Scientist at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies of Ohio State University
Talk Title: ââ¬ÅTerrorism and Counterterrorism: Threat, Capacity, Risk, Cost, Benefitââ¬Â
Series: CREATE Monthly Seminar Series
Abstract: An examination of the degree to which terrorism presents a threat and an assessment of counterterrorism measures. The key question from which analysis should spring is not "are we safer?" but "how safe are we?" Some measures do seem to be cost-effective--reducing risk at a reasonable cost--but other fail rather impressively to do so.
Biography: John Mueller is the Ralph D. Mershon Senior Research Scientist at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies of Ohio State University. He is also adjunct professor of Political Science at Ohio State and a Cato Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
He is currently working on terrorism and particularly on the reactions (and costly over-reactions) it often inspires. His book, Terrorism, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security, written in collaboration with engineer and risk analyst Mark Stewart, applies cost-benefit analysis to issues of homeland security and was published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. Information about this book. His 2010 book, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda (Oxford University Press), suggests that atomic terrorism is highly unlikely and that efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation frequently have damaging results. Information about this book. He has also written Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (Free Press, 2006). The New York Times called the book "important" and "accurate, timely, and necessary." Information about this book. Another book, War and Ideas: Selected Essays was published in May 2011 by Routledge. Information about this book. He is also the editor of a set of case studies, Terrorism Since 9/11: The American Cases, published as a webbook in 2011 and 2012 by the Mershon Center. Information about this book.
Before coming to Ohio State in 2000, Mueller was on the faculty at the University of Rochester for many years. From 2000 to 2011, he held the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio Stateââ¬â¢s Mershon Center and was a professor of political science. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also received several teaching prizes, and in 2009 received the International Studies Association's Susan Strange Award that "recognizes a person whose singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and intellectual and organizational complacency in the international studies community." In 2010, he received Ohio State University's Distinguished Scholar Award. He was also selected for the Playboy Honor Roll of 20 Professors Who Are Reinventing the Classroom in the October 2010 issue of the magazine.
For a full bio please visit: http://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/MUELLER.BIO.htm
To ensure that I order your lunch, please RSVP no later than Friday, February 1, 2013. Please advise if you require a vegetarian option.
Hope to see you there!
Best Regards,
Erin Calicchio
Administrative Assistant
University of Southern California
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - National Center for
Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
3710 McClintock Ave, RTH 313
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2902
213-740-3863
calicchi@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/create
Host: Homeland Security Center @ USC (CREATE)
More Information: Mueller Invite_2-6-13.docx
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 306
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kelly Buccola
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Creating Art: History and Society as Inspiration
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 @ 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Admission is free.
An inspiring conversation will address womenâs voices in society and the arts with performer Haerry Kim, director Natsuko Ohama, playwright Velina Hasu Houston, performing-arts critic Meiling Cheng and visual artist Chang-Jin Lee. They will address contemporary and historical issues related to Asian and Asian American women and the power of the arts in giving voice to social issues.
About the Panelists:
Meiling Cheng has taught a variety of courses at USC in theatre history, dramatic literature, contemporary kinesthetic theatre and live art and visual and cultural studies. Cheng is a noted performance-art critic and poet and has published widely in both English and Chinese. Her first book, In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art, received a Junior Faculty Award from the Southern California Studies Center and the Zumberge Individual Research Grant from USC. She received a Guggenheim fellowship for her current book project, Beijing Xingwei. Since 2004, Cheng has published a series of groundbreaking articles in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, on performance art (translated as xingwei yishu) and installation (zhuangzhi yishu) in Chinaâs post-Mao era. She has also presented numerous talks on Chinese experimental art in Singapore, London, Boston, Providence, Chicago, Toronto and New York. (Bio)
Velina Hasu Houstonâs most popular work is her critically acclaimed play Tea. It and many of her other works have been presented internationally, garnering more than three dozen writing awards. Her other acclaimed plays include Asa Ga Kimashita, Kokoro, The Matsuyama Mirror, Hula Heart, Ikebana (Living Flowers), Shedding the Tiger and Waiting for Tadashi. She has been recognized three times by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and twice selected as a Rockefeller Foundation playwriting fellow. She was a recipient of a Japan Foundation fellowship and a Lila Wallace-Readerâs Digest Foundation grant. She was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Remy Martin New Vision Award from Sidney Poitier and the American Film Institute. Houston is also a published poet and essayist and writes for film, radio and television. She edited the anthologies The Politics of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women and But Still, Like Air, Iâll Rise: New Asian American Plays. She is a professor in the USC School of Dramatic Arts. (Official website)
Haerry Kim is a founding member and the artistic director of ETS Theater Company (established in 2009) and a full-time lecturer at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea. She received an MFA in acting from Columbia University. With ETS (Eye to Soul), she has created three full-length original plays: FACE, Serve God: Sounds of Nightingales and Bathtub Play. Her one-woman play FACE has been presented at the 2011 World Festival of National Theaters at the National Theater of Korea (Seoul), HERE Arts Center (New York), the sixth soloNOVA Festival (New York), the Berkshire Fringe Festival (Massachusetts) and the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Scotland) to critical acclaim.
Chang-Jin Lee is a Korean-born conceptual artist who lives in New York City. Her recent work includes the multimedia installation Comfort Women Wanted, for which she interviewed comfort women from South Korea, China, Indonesia, Taiwan and the Netherlands. She has exhibited extensively, including at the Incheon Women Artistsâ Biennale (Korea), Bo Pi Liao Contemporary (Taiwan) and the Queens Museum of Art (New York). She is a recipient of numerous awards including the New York State Council on the Arts Grant, the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant, the Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, the Asian Women Giving Circle Award and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fiscal Sponsorship Award. (Official website)
Natsuko Ohama is one of the premier voice teachers in the country. She is a founding member and permanent faculty of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has taught at numerous institutions, including New York University, the California Institute of the Arts, the Wooster Group, Columbia University, the Sundance Institute, the New Actors Workshop, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario and the National Arts Centre of Canada. She is also a Drama Desk Awardânominated actress. She is a recipient of the Playwrightsâ Arena Award for Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theatre and appears in the recent publication Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium (Conversations with Master Teachers) by Nancy Saklad. She heads the voice progression for the MFA Acting Program at USC. (Official website)
Related Events:
FACE: A Performance by Haerry Kim
Friday, February 8, 7 p.m.
24th Street Theatre
1117 24th Street, Los Angeles
For more info, click here.
Finding Voice: From Story to Performance
Saturday, February 9, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Parkside Performance Café, International Parkside Residential College
For more info, click here.
Organized by Natsuko Ohama (Dramatic Arts). Co-sponsored by Kookmin University (Seoul, South Korea).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Doheny Memorial Library 240
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
