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USC is proud to bring you Visions and Voices—the university’s newinitiative in the arts and humanities. Visions and Voices has beendesigned to use the arts and humanities to transform a student’sperspective, in a way that can only happen at USC.

We believe the USC experience is already unique within Americanhigher education: Nowhere else do top-quality scholars in the arts,humanities, sciences and professions interact in such mutuallybeneficial ways.

USC boasts the nation’s best overall arts program on its campus; inaddition, this campus is located within one of the world’s two orthree greatest cultural centers. USC intends to use these twodistinctions for maximum educational advantage.

USC’s core values—freedom of intellectual inquiry, appreciation ofdiversity, mutual respect and ethical conduct being among them—are timeless. Such timeless values help a person know what workswithin a changing world. They serve both as a sturdy foundation forlifelong decision-making and as an engine for successfulinnovation—regardless of field or discipline.

The arts and the humanities allow us to internalize such valueswithin our lives and our work. To paraphrase Emerson, art revealstruth that everyday reality tends to obscure. The arts andhumanities are our teachers, making our souls visible to us andillumining our way. They help us discern what it is to be fullyhuman, and to live in the society of other humans. They enable usto observe life’s challenges and opportunities with new eyes—andthis has never been more vital for a student than today.

Visions and Voices serves not merely to entertain or inspire, but tochallenge students at the core of their being. Each event includesan interactive or reflective component—allowing students toengage with artists and faculty and to explore how the eventexemplifies a timeless value. This approach to the arts andhumanities can make every future scientist a better scientist, everyfuture lawyer a better lawyer, every future business professional abetter business professional. And, as students from far-rangingdisciplines come together in dynamic encounters, this can makeevery future artist a better artist.

Science and technology are means toward an end. But real art isour true end as fully mature human beings living in society. Visionsand Voices will make this truth evident in life-changing ways.

Sincerely,

C. L. Max NikiasProvost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dear Friend of USC:Spark! A Visions and Voices Multimedia Showcase, p. 2Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth, p. 2Image and Text: Robert Pinsky and Michael Mazur, p. 3Eric Bentley’s Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?, p. 3Rwanda: Portraits of Survival and Hope, p. 4Oliver Sacks: Music, Healing and the Brain, p. 5Water and Power by Culture Clash at the Mark Taper Forum, p. 27Iona Rozeal Brown: Art, Hip Hop and Globalism, p. 6Photojournalism and the American Presidency, p. 7Building Value: USC’s Impact on the Built Environment of Los Angeles, p. 7Rebuilding Rwanda, Organizing for Darfur, p. 4Jazz, Public Diplomacy and Dizzy Gillespie with Quincy Jones, p. 8Narrative Ethics: Anna Deavere Smith, p. 9USC Thornton Symphony at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, p. 27The Politics of Rich and Poor: Asian Americans in the Global City, p. 10Doubt at the Ahmanson Theatre, p. 27The Glorious Burden, p. 11Getty Villa: Reconstructed and Deconstructed, p. 11Carlos Monsiváis: Myths and Realities, p. 6Melodramas of Change: USC’s First Indian Film Festival, p. 12Pop, Politics and Propaganda, p. 12Talk Talk: An Evening with T.C. Boyle, p. 13TransFormations: Remixing the Archive, p. 14God Sleeps in Rwanda, p. 4Voices from the List, p. 15In the Continuum at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, p. 27Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth, p. 2Looking Out/Looking In: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, p. 16Mandelstam’s Witness, p. 17World Press Photo 2006, p. 17Storytelling with Testimony, p. 1813 at the Mark Taper Forum, p. 28TransFormations: The Perception of Perception, p. 14A Virtual Experience of Ancient Jerusalem and Rome, p. 11The Mathematics in Music: Elaine Chew, p. 18Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo, p. 19USC Thornton Music Ensemble: Steve Reich at 70, p. 19South by Southeast: Indian and Vietnamese Artists in a Transnational Age, p. 10Mind and Behavior in Theater and Film: Peter Brook, p. 20Spike Lee: America through My Lens, p. 20Rita Charon: Narrative Medicine, p. 5Looking Out/Looking In: City of God, p. 16Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth, p. 2Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Ahmanson Theatre, p. 28Rap, Race and Redemption, p. 21Donal O’Kelly: Jimmy Joyced!, p. 22Donal O’Kelly: The Cambria, p. 22Music the Way It’s Sposed to Be, p. 23TransFormations: Fiction Science, p. 14The Moral Morass of Contemporary Life, p. 13Václav Havel’s Protest, p. 23The Conservatory as Exploratory, p. 23Viji Prakash and the Shakti Dance Company, p. 24East Meets West: Exploring Cultures through Music, p. 24Film across Borders: Dialogues between Mexican and Chicano Cinemas, p. 25Beauty and the Beast: A Symposium on Stalin and the Arts, p. 25Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth, p. 2 Looking Out/Looking In: Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, p. 16Miss Lonelyhearts Opera, p. 26TransFormations: Distributed Realities, p. 14Capturing Movement in Time and Space: Dance and Motion Capture, p. 26

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2 Events2 Spark! A Visions and Voices Multimedia Showcase2 Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth3 Image and Text: Robert Pinsky and Michael Mazur3 Eric Bentley’s Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?4 Rwanda: Portraits of Survival and Hope5 Medical Humanities Speaker Series6 Global Culture: Contemporary Art in the World7 Photojournalism and the American Presidency7 USC’s Impact on the Built Environment of Los Angeles8 Jazz, Public Diplomacy and Dizzy Gillespie with Quincy Jones9 Narrative Ethics: Anna Deavere Smith

10 Asians in the Americas/Americans in Asia11 The Glorious Burden11 Envisioning the Past12 Melodramas of Change: Indian Film Festival12 Dialogues13 Talk Talk: An Evening with T.C. Boyle14 TransFormations15 Voices from the List16 Looking Out/Looking In17 Mandelstam’s Witness17 World Press Photo 200618 Storytelling with Testimony18 The Mathematics in Music: Elaine Chew19 Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo19 USC Thornton Music Ensemble: Steve Reich at 7020 Mind and Behavior in Theater and Film: Peter Brook20 Spike Lee: America through My Lens21 Rap, Race and Redemption22 Donal O’Kelly23 Music the Way It’s Sposed to Be23 Václav Havel’s Protest23 The Conservatory as Exploratory24 Viji Prakash and the Shakti Dance Company24 East Meets West: Exploring Cultures through Music25 Film across Borders: Dialogues between Mexican and

Chicano Cinemas25 Beauty and the Beast: Stalin and the Arts26 Miss Lonelyhearts Opera26 Capturing Movement in Time and Space

27 Experience L.A.—Performances andEvents around Los Angeles

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Contents13Friday, January 19 at 7 p.m.Having its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, 13is a wild musical comedy that takes the audience intothe middle of the fantastic and frightening experience ofadolescent America. Music and lyrics are by Jason Robert Brown, whom The New York Times calls “aleading member of a new generation of composers.”Following the play, there will be a discussion withMadeline Puzo, dean of the USC School of Theatre, aswell as Brown and members of the cast.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Friday, February 23 at 6:15 p.m.“... pulse-racing.” —The New York Times A dark comedy with gut-wrenching power, Who’s Afraidof Virginia Woolf? at the Ahmanson Theatre featuresperhaps the most memorable married couple in theatre.This modern classic by Edward Albee received six TonyAward nominations for its 2005 Broadway run.

Let’s Go for a Walk!Visions and Voices will partner with the Los AngelesConservancy to offer a variety of walking tours exploringthe city of Los Angeles. Learn about its history, art,architecture and culture by exploring the downtowntheater district, skyline and the Historic Core, spanningfour decades of Los Angeles history and featuring manyof the city’s architectural landmarks.

Organized by Aileen Adams, director of Arts and Culture Outreachand Madeline Puzo, dean of the School of Theatre.

VISIONS AND VOICES—Leadership

For more information or to RSVP, visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices. Also,check out the following Visions and Voices events for more off-campus opportunities:Rwanda: Portraits of Survival and Hope (p. 4), Building Value (p. 7) and Envisioning thePast (p. 11).

Deans’ Council Chaired by Madeline Puzo, School of TheatreGeoffrey Cowan, Annenberg School for CommunicationRobert Cutietta, Thornton School of Music Elizabeth Daley, School of Cinema-Television Selma Holo, Fisher Gallery Peter Starr, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Ruth Weisberg, Roski School of Fine Arts Yannis Yortsos, Viterbi School of Engineering Ex-Officio:Aileen Adams, Director, Arts and Culture OutreachPatrick Bailey, Assistant Dean, Student Life and Involvement

Faculty CommitteeChaired by Tara McPherson, School of Cinema-Television

DirectorsBarry Glassner, Executive Vice Provost Dennis Cornell, Associate Vice President, University RelationsDaria Yudacufski, Managing Director, Visions and Voices

For additional information on committees and staff, pleasevisit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices

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Friday, August 18 at 4 p.m.Bovard AuditoriumBe the first to experience Visions and Voices:The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative! Provost C. L. Max Nikias welcomes students at thismultimedia program featuring a DJ, nationalpoetry-slam champion Javon Johnson, cutting-edge independent film and live music.

Spark!A Visions and VoicesMultimedia Showcase

Science, Serendipityand the Search for TruthAugust 31, November 16, February 15 and April 12

Science is on stage in this informal series of conversations and performances presented alongsidemusic, theater, journalism, religion, film, dance and other disciplines. The series will feature adiverse array of critically acclaimed and award-winning scholars and artists. See whatserendipitous connections bubble up as we play with ideas and make discoveries.

Two interconnected subjects will be explored during our adventures in interdisciplinarysightseeing: Uncertainty and Point of View. These programs will expand our horizons, addperspective, allow new connections to be explored and bring the central themes into sharperfocus. We invite the presenters and audience to take risks, seek connections and, above all,enjoy the delight that comes from the free exchange of ideas.

UncertaintyOn Thursday, August 31 at 7 p.m., joinus for a conversation in the AnnenbergAuditorium with science writer K.C. Cole,physicist Clifford Johnson, religioushistorian Jonathan Kirsch and actressChloe Webb.

Annenberg’s Larry Pryor, climatologistStephen Schneider, composer Veronika Krausas and engineer Farzad Naeim continue the conversationon Thursday, November 16 at 7 p.m. inthe Annenberg Auditorium.

Point of ViewAnthropologist Amy Parish, author Victor Navasky and Oscar-nominatedfilmmaker and writer Jon Boorstin, willbe featured on Thursday, February 15 at7 p.m. at the Gin Wong ConferenceCenter.

The series concludes with relativist Don Marolf, poet and author Michael Datcher and choreographerRosanna Gamson on Thursday, April 12at 7 p.m. at the Gin Wong ConferenceCenter.

Organized by K.C. Cole (journalism), Clifford Johnson (physics) and the Annenberg School for Communication.

Water and PowerA Performance by Culture ClashFriday, September 15 at 6 p.m.Water and Power, a potent story of contemporary Los Angeles written and performed by Culture Clash, willhave its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. Theplay deftly captures the pulse of a city in constantevolution, a city in which no amount of sunlight canilluminate the shadows, where urgent questions areasked about who runs the streets of L.A. Before the play,there will be a discussion with leading political figuresand experts about L.A. power and politics.

USC Thornton Symphony at the Walt Disney Concert HallSunday, October 15 at 6:30 p.m.

Larry Livingston, music director, Thornton orchestrasCarl St. Clair, principal conductorMichelle Kim, violin

USC Thornton Symphony participates in the Los AngelesPhilharmonic’s “Sounds About Town” series with musicby Thornton’s faculty composer Frank Ticheli (ShootingStars), Joan Tower (Violin Concerto) and Gustav Mahler(Symphony No. 1).

DoubtThursday, October 19 at 7:15 p.m.“An extraordinary experience: enthralling, vibrant andsizzling.” —New York PostDoubt, winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play, is agripping mystery about a nun who harbors doubts aboutthe charismatic parish priest and his relationship withan altar boy. Following the play at the AhmansonTheatre, USC students will participate in a livelydiscussion regarding ethical dilemmas with the star-studded cast and ethicists.

In the ContinuumWednesday, November 15 at 7 p.m.“In the Continuum leaves behind a warm afterglow ofhuman struggles explored, illumined and embraced.” —The New York TimesIn the Continuum, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, is a powerfulnew play and critically acclaimed off-Broadway hit thatpresents a humanizing view of the devastating problemof AIDS among African and African American women.

Experience L.A.Many stimulating opportunities will be available for USC students to experienceLos Angeles’s world-class cultural landscape. You must be a USC student toparticipate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. For moreinformation or to RSVP, please visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

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Thursday, September 7 at 6 p.m.Alfred Newman Recital HallRobert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate andtranslator of “The Inferno of Dante” will be joined byartist Michael Mazur, whose illustrationsaccompanied Pinsky’s award-winning English versionof the famous poem. Mazur and Pinsky will discusstheir collaboration—its challenges, discoveries andsuccesses.

This event is presented in conjunction with theexhibition “The Inferno of Dante by Michael Mazur” onview at the USC Fisher Gallery (September 6–October 28). Information about the exhibition may befound at www.usc.edu/fishergallery.

Organized by the Fisher Gallery and supported by the RoskiSchool of Fine Arts, English and Spectrum.

Image and TextA Dialogue withRobert Pinskyand Michael Mazur

Wednesday, September 13 at 6 p.m.Scene Dock TheatreRSVP RequiredJoin us for a staged reading of Are You Now orHave You Ever Been?, written by Eric Bentley in1972 based on transcripts of the House Un-American Activities Committee’s investigation ofthe entertainment industry. Humorous, but alwayschilling and gripping, Are You Now or Have YouEver Been? uses the words of interrogators andwitnesses to dramatize what has been describedas one of the most damaging assaults on personalliberties in U.S. history. Among the well-knownactors summoned to testify were John Garfield,Larry Parks, Adolph Menjou and Zero Mostel, aswell as writers and directors, including Elia Kazan,Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., Lillian Hellmanand Dalton Trumbo.

Organized by the School of Theatre.

Eric Bentley’s Are You Nowor Have You Ever Been?The Investigation ofShow Business by theUn-American Activities Committee 1947–1956

Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 21 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.Sunday, April 22 at 2 p.m.Bing Theatre RSVP Required

Brent McMunn, conductorKen Cazan, stage director

With libretto by J.D. McClatchy, Miss Lonelyhearts is based on the 1930snovel of the same name by Nathaniel West and deals with thought-provoking,dark and highly personal issues of life, death, god and sexuality. The operawas commissioned from Lowell Liebermann, one of today’s foremost composers.Miss Lonelyhearts has been made into a Broadway play and two movies.This is the first musical setting of the novel and was commissioned by theJuilliard School of Music for their 100th anniversary in 2006 with USC’s Ken Cazan as stage director. The concept, however, has been developedcooperatively with the Juilliard, the USC Thornton School of Music and theCollege-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

The composer and librettist will be on campus to discuss the creation ofthis work with students.

Organized by the Thornton School of Music.

Miss Lonelyhearts Opera

Thursday, April 26–Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m.Bing TheatreRSVP RequiredThe theme of the USC Repertory Dance Company’s annualspring concert is dance and technology, featuring a mergerof motion capture and robotics with modern dance.

Modern dance is increasingly evolving towardincorporating elements from other technologies toenhance the observer’s experience. This event will bringtogether USC’s strengths in engineering research as wellas dance, and will be developed through collaborationwith world-renowned artist Mark Morris, who will workwith USC faculty and students to produce a danceperformance using motion-capture technology.

Organized by Margo Apostolos (theater/dance) and Maja Mataric´(computer science).

Capturing Movement in Time and SpaceDance and Motion Capture

In the spring semester, a workshop for USC studentswill be presented by internationally acclaimedchoreographer and dancer MARK MORRIS. Visit ourwebsite at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices for details.

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In a period of 100 days in 1994, at least 800,000people were killed in the small country of Rwanda,located in the Great Lakes region of central Africa.These events scarred the nation and challengedwestern countries to consider the results of theirinaction. The Center for Religion and Civic Culturepresents an exhibition, film and discussions thatexplore the genocide and the powerful stories ofRwandan survivors.

Exhibition OpeningThursday, September 14 at 5 p.m. California African American MuseumExposition Park“Rwanda: Portraits of Survival and Hope” opens atthe California African American Museum. The exhibitfeatures photographs by Jerry Berndt that focus ontwo populations of survivors: orphans who areheading households of their surviving siblings andwidows who are struggling to care for their children.

Rebuilding Rwanda, Organizing for DarfurMonday, October 9 at 6 p.m.Annenberg AuditoriumMark Hanis, CEO of Genocide Intervention Network,and USC scholars will discuss the ongoinghumanitarian crisis in Darfur and the currentsituation in Rwanda.

God Sleeps in RwandaWednesday, November 8 at 5:30 p.m.Leavey Library AuditoriumJoin filmmaker and photojournalist KimberleeAcquaro for a screening of her Academy Award-nominated film, God Sleeps in Rwanda, aboutcourageous Rwandan women rebuilding their livesafter the genocide, redefining their roles in societyand bringing hope to a wounded nation.

Organized by Donald Miller (religion), Jon Miller (sociology)and the Center for Religion and Civic Culture’s Brie Loskotaand Timothy Sato.

Rwanda: Portraits ofSurvival and Hope Friday, March 30–Saturday, March 31

A variety of films will be featured exploring therelationship between Mexico and MexicanAmerica. In light of recent U.S. debates overMexican immigration and nationwide pro-immigrant protests involving millions, such afestival is especially timely. Although Chicanosand Mexicanos have often worked together onfilms, Mexican and Chicano films are too oftenscreened and discussed in isolation from oneanother. The festival will include three featurefilms and two programs of short films anddiscussions with scholars, students,filmmakers and audience members. Numerousissues will be addressed, with particularemphasis on immigration from both Chicanoand Mexican perspectives.

For updated festival information, please visitour website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

Organized by the School of Cinema-Television.

Film across Borders:Dialogues between Mexicanand Chicano CinemasA Transborder Film Festival

Thursday, April 5 from 10 a.m.–6 p.m.Leavey Library AuditoriumThe symposium will explore the idea that culture practiced under a politicaldictatorship suffers and declines as a result of ideological interference. We willalso touch upon the counter-argument that ideological interference may bringinspiration and aesthetic benefit. Additionally, we will celebrate the recentdonation of the Ferris Collection of Soviet Material Culture to the College ofLetters, Arts and Sciences and the renovation of the USC Institute of ModernRussian Culture.

For the symposium schedule, please visit our website atwww.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

Organized by Slavic languages faculty members John Bowlt (Institute of Modern RussianCulture), Marcus Levitt, Sarah Pratt, Boris Wolfson and Tatiana Akishina; Selma Holo (arthistory, Fisher Gallery); and Mark Konecny (Institute of Modern Russian Culture).

Beauty and the BeastA Symposium on Stalin and the Arts

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Oliver SacksMusic, Healing and the BrainFriday, September 15 at 4 p.m.Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences CampusWorld-renowned professor of neurology and author, Dr. Oliver Sacks,discusses the role of the humanities in medicine. A professor atthe Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at the NYU School ofMedicine, Sacks is concerned above all with the ways in whichindividuals survive and adapt to different neurological diseasesand conditions, and what this experience can tell us about thehuman brain and mind. He is the author of nine award-winningbooks that have sold several million copies worldwide. He isperhaps best known for his book Awakenings, which inspiredthe Oscar-nominated movie starring Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro.

Rita CharonNarrative Medicine: The Healing Power of StoriesThursday, February 8 at 4 p.m.Doheny Memorial Library, Room 240

Friday, February 9 at 3 p.m.Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences CampusDr. Rita Charon, internist and literary scholar, will discuss someof the core issues facing the health of individuals and society.Charon is professor of clinical medicine at the College ofPhysicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and director ofthe program in narrative medicine. She has designed anddirected Columbia’s teaching programs in medical interviewing,humanities and medicine and narrative medicine, and herteaching methods and curricular designs have been replicatedin many medical schools internationally. She is editor-in-chiefof the journal Literature and Medicine and the author ofnumerous publications, including Narrative Medicine: Honoringthe Stories of Illness.

Organized by Pamela Schaff (family medicine), Erin Quinn (Keckadmissions), Hilary Schor (English) and Clive Taylor (pathology).

Medical Humanities Speaker Series

FeaturingOliver Sacks and Rita Charon

“The poet laureate ofmedicine.” —The New York Times

Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m.Bovard AuditoriumArtistic director Viji Prakash founded the ShaktiDance Company to introduce young South AsianAmericans to the ancient art of Bharata Natyamdance. A virtuoso in this ancient classical danceform, Prakash is an internationally acclaimed dancer,choreographer and teacher. Her dynamic stagepresence and her rhythmic command over thecomplex foot patterns and striking facial expressionsbring to life the beauty and grandeur of this art form.

Additional events include a workshop, film screeningand discussion. For more information, please visitour website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

Organized by Nancy Lutkehaus (anthropology/gender studies),Priya Jaikumar (cinema), Dorinne Kondo (anthropology/Asianstudies), Gelya Frank (occupational therapy), Doe Mayer(cinema) and Anita Kumar (anthropology).

Dancing with ShaktiA Performance by Viji Prakash and the Shakti Dance Company

Tuesday, March 27–Thursday, March 29Alfred Newman Recital Hall and Thornton School of Music ClassroomsThis series of events will feature compellingdiscussions and demonstrations on the power of thearts to bridge racial, cultural and political differences.A select number of faculty and students from theJerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (JAMD) inIsrael have been invited to participate in this programand will visit the Thornton School of Music as part ofan ongoing partnership between the two institutions.Their participation will enhance the discussion on whatroles art can play in relationships of peoples of diversecultures who have traditionally been in conflict. Theweek of cultural and musical exchange will culminatein a concert featuring an eclectic program, tiedtogether by the theme “East Meets West,” with theJAMD faculty and students and Thornton performers.


East Meets WestExploring Culturesthrough Music

Events at the Health Sciences and University Park campuses

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Iona Rozeal BrownArt, Hip Hop and GlobalismFriday, September 29 at noonDoheny Memorial LibraryIntellectual Commons, Room 233Contemporary artist Iona Rozeal Brown, an AfricanAmerican artist who has lived in Tokyo, Yokohamaand Washington, D.C., stages a creative dialoguebetween traditional Japanese art forms and HipHop. Brown has had solo shows in Los Angeles,San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., andher work was featured in the influential exhibitionBlack Belt at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Thepresentation will be followed by a discussion withUSC English professor Richard Meyer.

Carlos MonsiváisMyths and Realities: Frida, the Border, Lucha Libreand You Name ItThursday, October 26 at noonDoheny Memorial LibraryIntellectual Commons, Room 233Carlos Monsiváis is arguably Latin America’sforemost cultural critic—an award-winningessayist and journalist whose writings investigatethe artistic and sociopolitical life of Mexico, with aspecial focus on the strange, chaotic and vibrantmegalopolis of Mexico City. Loving and satirical butconsistently intelligent and ethical, Monsiváis’sgaze seems to take in virtually everything, fromhistory and politics to the rich diversity and dignityof popular urban culture. Daniela Bleichmar,Roberto Diaz and Selma Holo will moderate adiscussion after Monsiváis’s presentation.

Global CultureContemporary Art in the WorldThis series explores the role of the arts in responding to contemporary social conditions in Japan,Mexico and the United States. The work of Iona Rozeal Brown and Carlos Monsiváis representsthe power of the creative process. Their visits will inspire students to engage with contemporaryart and visual culture in new and exciting ways.

Friday, March 2 at 8 p.m.Alfred Newman Recital Hall

USC Thornton Baroque SinfoniaAdam Gilbert, director

Is it ethical for us to impose our tastes and value systemson masterpieces from the past? Would Bach agree that amodern performance of his work is “better” than the oneshe had available to him? This concert will be dedicated tofinding answers to these and other questions.

Like other ensembles that study the performancepractices of music written before the advent of recording

technology, the Thornton Baroque Sinfonia will discuss thekind of historical knowledge necessary to perform thisrepertory and demonstrate how these early instruments areplayed, showing their different sounds and playingtechniques, while contrasting them with modern instruments.The concert will be preceded by a conversation with aprominent performer and musicologist, Victor Coelho, anexpert in early music performance and in rock/blues guitar.


Music the Way It’s Sposed to Be

From celebrated Czech playwright Václav Havel, a keyfigure in Czech public life for the past half century,comes one of his wittiest one-acts that raises importantquestions about the role of artists in a political context.Written in 1978, Protest deals with the travails of Havel’salter-ego Ferdinand Vanek. Recently released from jail foranti-government activities, Vanek escaped his hellishoffice to visit the comfortable, middle-class home of hisfriend, Stanek. He is hoping to convince Stanek to sign apetition renouncing the regime. In this remarkable work,Havel demonstrates how the restrictions of freedom ofspeech and thought spread conformity across allmembers of society while slowly eroding basic humanity.


Wednesday, March 7 at 7 p.m.Scene Dock TheatreRSVP Required

Václav Havel’s Protest

Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m.Alfred Newman Recital HallThis concert event will feature several world-class, conservatory-trained musicians from aroundthe world, including Sicily’s Francesco Buzurro, Argentina’s Daniel Corzo and USC’s Richard Smith.They will engage in acts of real-time musical risk-taking through their collaborative performance.An after-concert panel of USC music-school graduates will discuss their post-USC successstrategies within the turbulence of the information revolution. Panel members have worked withthe Los Angeles Philharmonic, in major television and film productions and with recording artistsincluding Snoop Dogg, Johnny Lang, Josh Groban, Mark Anthony and the Backstreet Boys.

Organized by Richard Smith (studio guitar).

The Conservatory as ExploratoryUniversal Fundamentals and IrrationalIntangibles in the Information Revolution

Organized by Richard Meyer (arthistory), Roberto Diaz (Spanish andPortuguese) and Selma Holo (arthistory, Fisher Gallery and theInternational Museum StudiesInstitute). Co-sponsored by LVMC.

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Tuesday, October 3, Time TBAAnnenberg AuditoriumThis exhibition features Pulitzer Prize–winning politicalphotographer David Hume Kennerly. On October 3, please joinus for an opening roundtable and reception. A panel of artistsand scholars will discuss the role of photography andphotojournalism in relation to such core values as creativity,privacy and community.

Organized by the Annenberg School for Communication.

Photojournalismand the AmericanPresidency

Color photograph displayed with permission fromGehry Partners, LLP. Black and white photographused with permission from ©J. Paul Getty Trust.Julius Shulman Photography Archive, ResearchLibrary at the Getty Research Institute.

Wednesday, October 4–Friday, October 6USC architecture graduates include Frank Gehry and Thom Mayne, whose work takesaesthetic risks that have come to redefine architectural practice today. GraduatesJames Bonar and Ena Dubnoff are highly respected in the areas of social architectureand low-income housing. Ed Niles, Ronald Altoon and Michael Hricak have shownleadership through involvement in organizations such as the American Institute ofArchitects. Some of Los Angeles’s most significant landmarks have been producedthrough the multigenerational alumni of AC Martin and Associates. Pierre Koenig andRaphael Soriano remain renowned for their ardent pursuit of free inquiry that redefinedthe single-family house in the postwar period. Recent graduate Mark Lee continues thegoal of free inquiry in his search for new means of expression. At the urban scale, Jon Jerde and Mark Rios have pioneered new forms of “placemaking,” using architectureas a means to create communal places here and abroad.

This three-day event will explore the work of USC architecture alumni and provokemeaningful reflection among students about the opportunities they have to carry thelessons and values they have learned at USC into the wider community. The seriesincludes a lecture by James Steele, a symposium featuring USC architecture alumni andbuilding tours of several significant projects throughout Los Angeles.

Building ValueUSC’s Impact on the BuiltEnvironment of Los Angeles

Jimmy Joyced!Wednesday, February 28 at 7 p.m.Ground Zero Coffeehouse

Jimmy Joyced! is a hilarious one-man show thattakes a journey through the life and times of Irishwriter James Joyce. This energetic and colorfulproduction is a punchy combination of physicalperformance and vocal delivery. O’Kelly received aBest Actor nomination at the Irish Times/ESB IrishTheatre Awards. The performance will be precededby a roundtable discussion featuring severalJames Joyce specialists.

The CambriaThursday, March 1 at 8 p.m.Gin Wong Conference Center

The Cambria is based on the experience ofescaped slave Frederick Douglass who, in 1845,had just published his life story and soughtasylum in Ireland. The play reflects on theintertwined fates of African American slaves andthe poor Irish peasantry who would emigrate in themillions to escape starvation. In the U.S., the Irishoften lived and worked alongside AfricanAmericans, causing racial tension and, at times,solidarity and cooperation. Douglass compared theconditions of the Irish, as he witnessed themduring his travels, to those of slaves in America.

Donal O’KellyJoin us for two fantasticperformances by the criticallyacclaimed Irish actor Donal O’Kelly.

“A powerful theatrical experience ... a stirringproduction” —Irish Examiner

“Everything about this tantalising performance ismemorable ... nothing short of ‘genius inspired bygenius.’” —RTE (Radio Telefís Eireann, Ireland’sPublic Service Broadcaster)

As an actor, Donal O’Kelly’s movie rolesinclude Bimbo in Roddy Doyle’s The Van, androles in Irish movies Spin the Bottle and IWent Down. He has appeared in Beckett’s Actwithout Words I at the Lincoln Center,Waiting for Godot at the Toronto WinterGarden, Juno and the Paycock at the AbbeyTheatre and in Colm Toibin’s Beauty in aBroken Place at the Peacock. He has touredEurope, the United States, Canada andAustralia with his solo plays.

Organized by David Lloyd (English) and Peter O’Neill(writing program).

“A first-class ticket to Dublin. . . wonderful towatch. ****” —Karen Fricker, The Guardian

Organized by architecture faculty members Amy Murphy and Kim Coleman.

Photo: David Hume Kennerly

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Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m.Bovard AuditoriumRSVP RequiredIn 1956, Dizzy Gillespie took jazz to the worldon a diplomatic mission initiated byCongressman Adam Clayton Powell and fundedby the State Department. Quincy Jones wasDizzy’s fourth trumpeter and tour manager. TheUSC Annenberg School for Communication, USCCenter on Public Diplomacy, USC IntegratedMedia Systems Center and Visions and Voicespresent this special event to celebrate the 50thanniversary of the tour and the role of music incultural diplomacy. The event will feature theThornton Jazz Orchestra directed by Shelly Berg.In addition to the performance, the event willinclude a conversation with Quincy Jones andother musicians and scholars about jazz,public diplomacy and American ideals.

Tickets will be available for USC studentsthrough Visions and Voices. To RSVP or foradditional ticket information, please visit ourwebsite at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

Visions and Voices Inaugural Event

Jazz, Public Diplomacyand Dizzy Gillespie

FeaturingQuincy Jones and theThornton Jazz Orchestra

Tuesday, February 27, Time TBABovard AuditoriumRap confronts issues of racial justice,solidarity and separation, guilt and innocence.This event brings together contemporaryrecording artists, USC students who createand listen to the music, and faculty who studyand are energized by it, so that we mayexchange ideas, engage one another andlisten to and/or perform the music. Morebroadly viewed, Hip Hop comprises otherelements including dance, fashion and visualart. Please join us for a multidimensionalevening of multimedia performance andphilosophical critique, as the poetry andmusic of rap engages us morally and movesus spiritually.

Organized by Jody Armour (law), Ronald Garet (law/religion),Ronald McCurdy (jazz studies), Sharon Stewart(community outreach), Garrett Thompson (cinema-TV),Lori White (student affairs) and Patrick Bailey (studentlife and involvement).

Rap, Race andRedemption

Tuesday, February 7 at 7 p.m.Bovard AuditoriumRSVP Required This signature Visions and Voices eventfeatures Spike Lee, one of Hollywood’s mostimportant and influential filmmakers. Aproducer, director, writer and actor, Spike Leehas made numerous critically acclaimed filmsincluding Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing,Jungle Fever, Crooklyn and He Got Game.

Lee will talk about his experience in the filmindustry making technically original, politicallyinspired and often controversial films. Theevent will include a conversation with SpikeLee and USC faculty and a Q&A with theaudience.

Visions and VoicesSignature Event

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Friday, October 13, Time TBAMayer Auditorium, Health Sciences Campus

Friday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.Bovard Auditorium

The award-winning actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smithpresents two performances at USC highlighting the ways thearts and humanities may enrich the world of medicine andvice versa. Focusing on the many voices central to the dramaof human illness, Smith’s performances will draw on materialfrom Rounding it Out, which she created for the Yale MedicalSchool, and her current project on the body in crisis. Bothperformances will be followed by a panel discussion.

The winner of numerous awards including the prestigiousMacArthur “Genius” Award, Smith is a professor at New YorkUniversity. An actress and playwright who is also a publicintellectual, her innovative theater projects serve asoccasions for intersections between the arts and the civicsphere, between artists and intellectuals and betweenintellectuals and activists. She is perhaps best known as theauthor and performer of two one-woman plays about racialtensions in American cities—Fires in the Mirror (ObieAward–winner and runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize) andTwilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Obie Award–winner and TonyAward–nominee). Smith’s television and film credits includeThe West Wing and Philadelphia. Her books include Letters toa Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in theArts—For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind.

Organized by Joe Boone (English) and Pamela Schaff (family medicine).

Narrative EthicsA Performance by

Anna Deavere Smith

“The most exciting individual inAmerican theater.” —Newsweek


FebruaryDate, Time and Location TBAThis event will feature seminal theaterdirector, filmmaker and theorist Peter Brookand a screening of his film, Tragedy of Hamlet,followed by an interview with Brook andaudience Q&A moderated by Antonio Damasio,Dornsife professor of neuroscience and directorof the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC.

Peter Brook is a highly influential Britishtheatrical producer, director and author whosework consistently evokes a great deal ofadmiration and embodies a deep respect forindividuality and diversity. His films include Lordof the Flies (1962), Meetings with RemarkableMen (1979) and the eponymous movie basedon the Indian epic Mahabharata (1989). Brookhas created a variety of other theatricalworks, such as a version of Oliver Sacks’s TheMan Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1994), aproduction of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (1998)and a streamlined Hamlet (2000).

Organized by Antonio and Hanna Damasio (psychology,Brain and Creativity Institute).

Mind andBehaviorin Theaterand Film

FeaturingPeter Brook

Spike LeeAmerica through My Lens


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Thursday, January 25 at 7 p.m.Bing TheatreRSVP RequiredConsidered by many to be one of Brecht’s masterpieces, Galileo exploresthe question of a scientist’s social and ethical responsibilities, as thebrilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life’s work whenhe is confronted with the persecution of the Inquisition. Through hischaracterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines issues ofscientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectualand authority. Brecht’s Galileo is not a hero—he is a man who loves lifeso much that he is compelled to investigate its wholesome nature.Though he saves his own skin from the rigors of the Inquisition, he alsosaves his work for posterity, not to be of benefit to him in his ownlifetime, but on behalf of future humankind.


Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo

The Politics of Rich and Poor:Asian Americans in the Global CityTuesday, October 17–Thursday, October 19From transnational industrialists and elite professionals tolow-wage laborers and undocumented service workers, Asiansrepresent some of the richest and poorest segments of the U.S.population. These sessions highlight the class diversity ofAsian America and will feature anthropologist Aihwa Wong,filmmaker and community activist Spencer Nakasako, novelistNina Revoyr and the Program in American Studies andEthnicity director and associate professor Ruth Gilmore.

South by Southeast: Indian andVietnamese Artists in a Transnational AgeTuesday, January 30–Thursday, February 1In pursuit of ethical (self-)representation and transformativepractice, Asian artists in diaspora deploy a wide range ofresources and techniques and work fearlessly across mediums.These sessions will feature the work of several cutting-edgeartists/writers: sociologist and filmmaker Kum-Kum Bhavnani,journalist, memoirist and radio-show host Nguyen Qui Duc,artist Dinh Q. Lê and cinema-TV assistant professor PriyaJaikumar.

Visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices for acomplete schedule of events.

Organized by Jane Iwamura (religion) and Viet Nguyen (English). Co-sponsoredby the Asian American Studies Program—Program in American Studies andEthnicity, Asian Pacific American Student Services and the Asian PacificAlumni Association.

Asians in the AmericasAmericans in Asia

This series of events brings together journalists, writers,academics, filmmakers, activists and artists whose work focuseson the way culture, capital, ideas and populations flow andcounter-flow through the Pacific Rim, from Asia to Latin Americato North America and back again.

Monday, January 297 p.m.: Pre-performance discussion8 p.m.: ConcertAlfred Newman Recital Hall

Thornton Contemporary Music Ensemble, Donald Crockett, directorThornton Percussion Ensemble, Erik Forrester, directorThornton Classical Guitar Ensemble, James Smith, director

This concert is presented in conjunction with a citywide festival celebratingcomposer Steve Reich’s 70th birthday. Widely regarded as one of the major“minimalists,” Reich’s music has had a major impact on art, film and popularmusic in the 20th century. From his early taped speech pieces It’s Gonna Rain(1965) and Come Out (1966) to Three Tales (2002), a digital-video opera madein collaboration with video-artist Beryl Korot, Reich’s path has embraced notonly aspects of western classical music, but the structures, harmonies andrhythms of non-western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz.

The concert will be preceded by a discussion with Steve Reich aboutminimalism in art and popular music.

USC Thornton Music EnsembleSteve Reich at 70

Organized by the Thornton School of Music. Other partners in this festival include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, LA Master Chorale and UCLA Live.

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Wednesday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m.Alfred Newman Recital HallThe 17th-century German polymath, Gottfried Leibniz, likened music tounconscious arithmetic. Featuring pianist-engineer Elaine Chew, thisevent demonstrates mathematical principles in music throughperformance of contemporary pieces, illustrations of their analysesusing computing tools and interactive discussion interspersed betweenthe pieces. Chew is an interdisciplinary scholar with dual training inoperations research and music performance. She has produced andperformed numerous classical concerts in countries ranging fromSingapore to Slovenia. As a pioneer building a career at the intersectionof music and engineering, she was awarded the prestigious NSF EarlyCareer Award and Presidential Early Career Award for Science andEngineering, the highest honor bestowed upon young scientists andengineers in the United States.

Organized by Elane Chew (engineering), the Viterbi School of Engineering and theThornton School of Music.

The Mathematics in Music A Performance andConversation withElaine Chew


The past and antiquity serve as sources of imagination, innovationand tradition at these interactive trips to the Getty Villa and UCLAExperiential Technologies Center. You must be a USC student toparticipate. To RSVP, please visit our website atwww.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

Getty Villa: Reconstructed and DeconstructedWednesday, October 25 from noon–5 pmThis trip to the newly reopened Getty Villa will include a conversationwith curators and conservators about the success of the museumenvironment as a reconstructed artifact, art gallery, education centerand performance venue.

A Virtual Experience of Ancient Jerusalemand RomeWednesday, January 24 from 3–6 pmTake a trip to ancient Jerusalem and Rome through a virtual experienceat the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center (ETC), which promotesthe use of new technologies for research in diverse disciplinesthrough the comprehensive simulation of historical environments.

Organized by Bryan Burns (classics), Lynn Swartz Dodd (religion), Anne Porter(religion), Alison Renteln (political science) and Diane Winston (journalism).

Envisioning the Past

Wednesday, January 17 at 6 p.m.Hedco Neurosciences Building, Hedco AuditoriumDuring the fall semester, the College of Letters, Arts andSciences and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute willcollaborate in the mounting of a freshman seminar that willprovide students with the opportunity to work with the richarchive of survivor testimonies from the Shoah FoundationInstitute. Students will learn how to conceptualize and createtheir own testimony clip reels. This event will feature ascreening of student-produced reels, followed by a discussionwith students and Shoah Foundation Institute staff about theprocess of working with survivor testimonies.

Organized by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the USC ShoahFoundation Institute for Visual History and Education.

Storytelling with TestimonyFriday, October 20–Sunday, October 22George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108This fascinating series examines the American Presidencythrough feature films and documentaries portrayingpresidents confronted by the major crises of their careers. Inaddition to providing a glimpse of the unique skills andflaws that each man brought to the office, the seriesillustrates the dichotomy inherent in an office that is boththe most desired position in the world and a burden thateach president couldn’t wait to lay down.

The opening night screening will feature David Wolper’s TheMaking of the President 1960. Mr. Wolper will introduce thefilm and talk about its production. Following the screening,there will be a discussion of the 1960 election and itsimplications for the campaigns that followed, chaired byMichael Renov, associate dean of the School of Cinema-Television, and featuring faculty from history and politicalscience.

For a complete schedule of films and related programs andexhibitions, please visit our website atwww.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.


The Glorious Burden

Photo: Brian Morri

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Friday, October 27–Saturday, October 28Eileen Norris Cinema TheatreAttend screenings of India’s film classics and of itsemerging cinema as we celebrate the world’s largestfilm industry! The festival will showcase the unique,innovative and changing forms of Indian cinema andsociety. The two-day event will include features,documentaries, a panel discussion with filmmakersand scholars and an evening gala with musicinspired by the sounds of contemporary Bollywood.

For the most up-to-date schedule information, pleasevisit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.


Melodramas of ChangeUSC’s First Indian Film Festival

DialoguesUSC joins with the Los Angeles Institute of Humanities for a series of cross-disciplinarypanels and conversations exploring a variety of social, scientific, ethical and cultural ideas.

Tuesday, November 21 at 7 p.m.Scene Dock TheatreRSVP RequiredMandelstam’s Witness is V.M. Rakoff’s adaptationof the first volume of Nadezhda Mandelstam’smemoir, Hope Against Hope. The play tells theharrowing tale of the arrest and imprisonment ofNadezhda’s husband, Osip, for writing a poemabout Joseph Stalin. Osip Mandelstam was one ofRussia’s greatest poets of the last century. Afterhis death in a Stalin prison in 1938, Nadezhdamemorized or hid all of his poems to ensure thatthey would not be blotted out by Soviet authorities.Staying one step ahead of arrest and after anendless series of hardships, she smuggled thepoems to the West in the 1950s. Mandelstam’sWitness reveals a woman of great intelligence,limitless courage, no illusions and a wild sense ofthe absurdity of life.


Mandelstam’s Witness

World Press Photo is the leading internationalpress photography competition and exhibition. Asit has for the past two years, the USC AnnenbergSchool for Communication will host the exhibitionof winning photographs.

Opening Reception and DiscussionThursday, January 11Time and Location TBA

Visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoicesfor additional events featuring PulitzerPrize–winning photographers on subjects includingphotojournalism and public diplomacy and thepower of images to influence our perspectives oneverything from body image to politics, war andthe world around us.


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Pop, Politics and PropagandaWednesday, November 1 from 3–5 p.m.Doheny Memorial LibraryIntellectual Commons, Room 233Join us for an interactive panel discussion on howpolitical parties and critics have used art and popularculture for political ends. Moderated by Marty Kaplan,associate dean of the USC Annenberg School forCommunication, the panel includes journalist Marc Cooper, whose award-winning work hasappeared in dozens of publications from Rolling Stoneto The Nation; artist Robbie Conal, whose posterssatirize politicians and bureaucrats whom he felt hadabused their power; and Carol A. Wells, founder andexecutive director of the Center for the Study ofPolitical Graphics.

Image by Bob Light and John Houston, originally printedfor the Socialist Worker Party, London, ca. 1984. Courtesyof the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

Photo: Finbarr O’Reilly

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The Moral Morass ofContemporary LifeWednesday, March 7 from 3–5 p.m.Doheny Memorial LibraryIntellectual Commons, Room 233The Dialogues series continues with a discussionon the moral morass of contemporary life.Panelists include Rabbi Leonard Beerman and Rev. George Regas.

Organized by Steve Ross (history), Lynn O’Leary-Archer (USCLibraries), Barbara Isenberg (Los Angeles Institute for theHumanities), Lindsay Clark (Los Angeles Institute for theHumanities) and Tyson Gaskill (USC Libraries).

Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m.Hedco Neurosciences BuildingHedco Auditorium USC English professor and world-renowned author T. Coraghessan Boyle will read from his new novel,Talk Talk, the story of a deaf woman whose identityhas been stolen. It is a fictional meditation not onlyon difference, but on the nature of identity itself andon the role that language and acculturation play in itsconstruction. Boyle is the award-winning author ofseventeen books of fiction, including After the Plague,Drop City, The Inner Circle and Tooth and Claw. Theevent will be followed by a discussion, book signingand reception.

Organized by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Talk TalkAn Evening with T.C. Boyle

Guess Who’s Coming to DinnerFriday, November 17 at 6:30 p.m.George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108In Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (directed by Stanley Kramer, 1967), aliberal white couple (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy) teach theirdaughter (Katharine Houghton) that all people are created equal,regardless of race or religion. But things change when she unexpectedlybrings home a black doctor (Sydney Poitier) and announces that they’reengaged. This provocative film challenges our conscious and unconsciousbeliefs and prejudices about each other. Ralph Fertig will lead aconversation following the screening and discuss ways to create a moreinclusive society.

City of GodFriday, February 9 at 6:30 p.m.George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108City of God (directed by Fernando Meirelleres and Katia Lund, Brazil, 2002)is about a housing project built in the 1960s that in the early ‘80s becameone of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells thestories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all isseen through the eyes of a singular narrator, Busca-Pé, a poor black youthtoo frail and scared to become an outlaw, but also too smart to be contentwith underpaid, menial jobs. Kristen Ferguson will lead a discussionfollowing the film and will examine the latest research regarding socialdevelopment in Latin American countries.

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed JesusFriday, April 13 at 6:30 p.m.George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (directed by Andrew Douglas, 2005) isa captivating and compelling road trip through the creative and religiousspirit of the South. The documentary travels to churches, prisons, bikerbars and coal mines, revealing misfits, loners and a world of marginalizedwhite people and their sometimes haunting culture. In a discussionfollowing the screening, Rafael C. Angulo will examine the characters andculture of the South and help us recognize redemption in the most unlikelypeople and places.

Organized by social-work faculty members Rafael Angulo, Mary Gress, Stephen Hydon andJolene Swain.

This series features several important classical andcontemporary films viewed through the lens ofsocial-work theory and practice. Over the pastcentury, film is arguably the preeminent art form ofour culture, reflecting our basic fears and desires,our shared myths and dreams. This series willexplore social problems in an open and excitingdiscussion format moderated by faculty from theUSC School of Social Work.

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Remixing the ArchiveSaturday, November 4–Sunday, November 5Theory meets practice during this dynamic weekend of speakers,screenings, exhibits, workshops, a live performance event and file-sharing party, culminating in a student competition. Explore theevolving status of digital archives and interrogate the historicalroots and cultural implications of an exceptionally vibrant remixculture.

The Perception of Perception Saturday, January 20–Sunday, January 21In today’s data-saturated and digitally mediated world, questions ofhow we perceive the world around us have taken on a new urgency.From big-budget Hollywood to a 19th-century panorama, this seriesof speakers, panels, workshops and exhibits will trace threeinterwoven strands through the fields of cognition, perspective andstereoscopy—no one attending these events will see the world thesame way again.

Fiction ScienceSaturday, March 3–Sunday, March 4This weekend of events will bring together writers, artists,scientists, directors and special-effects artists to map out theterritories between fiction and science and reality and fantasy,asking whether fictional worlds, hoaxes, satire and alternatehistories can sometimes seem more “true-to-life” than reality itself.

Distributed RealitiesSaturday, April 21–Sunday, April 22The final event of the series will examine new technology’s impacton our ideas of public space and social interaction. We will focus ona number of interconnected topics, including radical newapproaches to distance learning; alternate reality games; multi-user installations and multi-authored storytelling; the meanings ofimmersion, interaction, participation and social experience; andhow connections between people are mediated and amplified viatechnology.

Visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices for updatedevent information.

Organized by cinema-TV faculty members Perry Hoberman, Steve Anderson, Anne Balsamo, Anne Friedberg, Richard Weinberg and Michael Naimark; Alice Gambrell (English); Douglas Thomas (communication); and Holly Willis (fine arts).

TransFormations

TransFormations is a series of events formed around four specifictopics, each at the crossroads of four larger umbrella themes: art,technology, cognition and perception.

Sunday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m.Eileen Norris Cinema TheatreJoin us for a screening of the documentary Voicesfrom the List, the true story of Oskar Schindler, astold by the Jews he saved. Based exclusively ontestimonies of “Schindler Juden” from the USCShoah Foundation Institute archive, Voices fromthe List continues beyond the narrative of thefilm, starting with each person before theHolocaust and showing how they rebuilt theirlives after the Holocaust was over. The filmincorporates rare archival footage and an originalscore to add a new dimension—the real voices ofthe people whose names were on the list— to thestory of Oskar Schindler. The screening will befollowed by a panel discussion with threesurvivors featured in the documentary andfilmmakers James Moll and Mike Mayhew.

Organized by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences andthe USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History andEducation.

Voices from the List

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Remixing the ArchiveSaturday, November 4–Sunday, November 5Theory meets practice during this dynamic weekend of speakers,screenings, exhibits, workshops, a live performance event and file-sharing party, culminating in a student competition. Explore theevolving status of digital archives and interrogate the historicalroots and cultural implications of an exceptionally vibrant remixculture.

The Perception of Perception Saturday, January 20–Sunday, January 21In today’s data-saturated and digitally mediated world, questions ofhow we perceive the world around us have taken on a new urgency.From big-budget Hollywood to a 19th-century panorama, this seriesof speakers, panels, workshops and exhibits will trace threeinterwoven strands through the fields of cognition, perspective andstereoscopy—no one attending these events will see the world thesame way again.

Fiction ScienceSaturday, March 3–Sunday, March 4This weekend of events will bring together writers, artists,scientists, directors and special-effects artists to map out theterritories between fiction and science and reality and fantasy,asking whether fictional worlds, hoaxes, satire and alternatehistories can sometimes seem more “true-to-life” than reality itself.

Distributed RealitiesSaturday, April 21–Sunday, April 22The final event of the series will examine new technology’s impacton our ideas of public space and social interaction. We will focus ona number of interconnected topics, including radical newapproaches to distance learning; alternate reality games; multi-user installations and multi-authored storytelling; the meanings ofimmersion, interaction, participation and social experience; andhow connections between people are mediated and amplified viatechnology.

Visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices for updatedevent information.

Organized by cinema-TV faculty members Perry Hoberman, Steve Anderson, Anne Balsamo, Anne Friedberg, Richard Weinberg and Michael Naimark; Alice Gambrell (English); Douglas Thomas (communication); and Holly Willis (fine arts).

TransFormations

TransFormations is a series of events formed around four specifictopics, each at the crossroads of four larger umbrella themes: art,technology, cognition and perception.

Sunday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m.Eileen Norris Cinema TheatreJoin us for a screening of the documentary Voicesfrom the List, the true story of Oskar Schindler, astold by the Jews he saved. Based exclusively ontestimonies of “Schindler Juden” from the USCShoah Foundation Institute archive, Voices fromthe List continues beyond the narrative of thefilm, starting with each person before theHolocaust and showing how they rebuilt theirlives after the Holocaust was over. The filmincorporates rare archival footage and an originalscore to add a new dimension—the real voices ofthe people whose names were on the list— to thestory of Oskar Schindler. The screening will befollowed by a panel discussion with threesurvivors featured in the documentary andfilmmakers James Moll and Mike Mayhew.

Organized by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences andthe USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History andEducation.

Voices from the List

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The Moral Morass ofContemporary LifeWednesday, March 7 from 3–5 p.m.Doheny Memorial LibraryIntellectual Commons, Room 233The Dialogues series continues with a discussionon the moral morass of contemporary life.Panelists include Rabbi Leonard Beerman and Rev. George Regas.

Organized by Steve Ross (history), Lynn O’Leary-Archer (USCLibraries), Barbara Isenberg (Los Angeles Institute for theHumanities), Lindsay Clark (Los Angeles Institute for theHumanities) and Tyson Gaskill (USC Libraries).

Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m.Hedco Neurosciences BuildingHedco Auditorium USC English professor and world-renowned author T. Coraghessan Boyle will read from his new novel,Talk Talk, the story of a deaf woman whose identityhas been stolen. It is a fictional meditation not onlyon difference, but on the nature of identity itself andon the role that language and acculturation play in itsconstruction. Boyle is the award-winning author ofseventeen books of fiction, including After the Plague,Drop City, The Inner Circle and Tooth and Claw. Theevent will be followed by a discussion, book signingand reception.

Organized by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Talk TalkAn Evening with T.C. Boyle

Guess Who’s Coming to DinnerFriday, November 17 at 6:30 p.m.George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108In Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (directed by Stanley Kramer, 1967), aliberal white couple (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy) teach theirdaughter (Katharine Houghton) that all people are created equal,regardless of race or religion. But things change when she unexpectedlybrings home a black doctor (Sydney Poitier) and announces that they’reengaged. This provocative film challenges our conscious and unconsciousbeliefs and prejudices about each other. Ralph Fertig will lead aconversation following the screening and discuss ways to create a moreinclusive society.

City of GodFriday, February 9 at 6:30 p.m.George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108City of God (directed by Fernando Meirelleres and Katia Lund, Brazil, 2002)is about a housing project built in the 1960s that in the early ‘80s becameone of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells thestories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all isseen through the eyes of a singular narrator, Busca-Pé, a poor black youthtoo frail and scared to become an outlaw, but also too smart to be contentwith underpaid, menial jobs. Kristen Ferguson will lead a discussionfollowing the film and will examine the latest research regarding socialdevelopment in Latin American countries.

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed JesusFriday, April 13 at 6:30 p.m.George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (directed by Andrew Douglas, 2005) isa captivating and compelling road trip through the creative and religiousspirit of the South. The documentary travels to churches, prisons, bikerbars and coal mines, revealing misfits, loners and a world of marginalizedwhite people and their sometimes haunting culture. In a discussionfollowing the screening, Rafael C. Angulo will examine the characters andculture of the South and help us recognize redemption in the most unlikelypeople and places.

Organized by social-work faculty members Rafael Angulo, Mary Gress, Stephen Hydon andJolene Swain.

This series features several important classical andcontemporary films viewed through the lens ofsocial-work theory and practice. Over the pastcentury, film is arguably the preeminent art form ofour culture, reflecting our basic fears and desires,our shared myths and dreams. This series willexplore social problems in an open and excitingdiscussion format moderated by faculty from theUSC School of Social Work.

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Friday, October 27–Saturday, October 28Eileen Norris Cinema TheatreAttend screenings of India’s film classics and of itsemerging cinema as we celebrate the world’s largestfilm industry! The festival will showcase the unique,innovative and changing forms of Indian cinema andsociety. The two-day event will include features,documentaries, a panel discussion with filmmakersand scholars and an evening gala with musicinspired by the sounds of contemporary Bollywood.

For the most up-to-date schedule information, pleasevisit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.


Melodramas of ChangeUSC’s First Indian Film Festival

DialoguesUSC joins with the Los Angeles Institute of Humanities for a series of cross-disciplinarypanels and conversations exploring a variety of social, scientific, ethical and cultural ideas.

Tuesday, November 21 at 7 p.m.Scene Dock TheatreRSVP RequiredMandelstam’s Witness is V.M. Rakoff’s adaptationof the first volume of Nadezhda Mandelstam’smemoir, Hope Against Hope. The play tells theharrowing tale of the arrest and imprisonment ofNadezhda’s husband, Osip, for writing a poemabout Joseph Stalin. Osip Mandelstam was one ofRussia’s greatest poets of the last century. Afterhis death in a Stalin prison in 1938, Nadezhdamemorized or hid all of his poems to ensure thatthey would not be blotted out by Soviet authorities.Staying one step ahead of arrest and after anendless series of hardships, she smuggled thepoems to the West in the 1950s. Mandelstam’sWitness reveals a woman of great intelligence,limitless courage, no illusions and a wild sense ofthe absurdity of life.


Mandelstam’s Witness

World Press Photo is the leading internationalpress photography competition and exhibition. Asit has for the past two years, the USC AnnenbergSchool for Communication will host the exhibitionof winning photographs.

Opening Reception and DiscussionThursday, January 11Time and Location TBA

Visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoicesfor additional events featuring PulitzerPrize–winning photographers on subjects includingphotojournalism and public diplomacy and thepower of images to influence our perspectives oneverything from body image to politics, war andthe world around us.


World Press Photo 2006

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Pop, Politics and PropagandaWednesday, November 1 from 3–5 p.m.Doheny Memorial LibraryIntellectual Commons, Room 233Join us for an interactive panel discussion on howpolitical parties and critics have used art and popularculture for political ends. Moderated by Marty Kaplan,associate dean of the USC Annenberg School forCommunication, the panel includes journalist Marc Cooper, whose award-winning work hasappeared in dozens of publications from Rolling Stoneto The Nation; artist Robbie Conal, whose posterssatirize politicians and bureaucrats whom he felt hadabused their power; and Carol A. Wells, founder andexecutive director of the Center for the Study ofPolitical Graphics.

Image by Bob Light and John Houston, originally printedfor the Socialist Worker Party, London, ca. 1984. Courtesyof the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

Photo: Finbarr O’Reilly


Wednesday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m.Alfred Newman Recital HallThe 17th-century German polymath, Gottfried Leibniz, likened music tounconscious arithmetic. Featuring pianist-engineer Elaine Chew, thisevent demonstrates mathematical principles in music throughperformance of contemporary pieces, illustrations of their analysesusing computing tools and interactive discussion interspersed betweenthe pieces. Chew is an interdisciplinary scholar with dual training inoperations research and music performance. She has produced andperformed numerous classical concerts in countries ranging fromSingapore to Slovenia. As a pioneer building a career at the intersectionof music and engineering, she was awarded the prestigious NSF EarlyCareer Award and Presidential Early Career Award for Science andEngineering, the highest honor bestowed upon young scientists andengineers in the United States.

Organized by Elane Chew (engineering), the Viterbi School of Engineering and theThornton School of Music.

The Mathematics in Music A Performance andConversation withElaine Chew


The past and antiquity serve as sources of imagination, innovationand tradition at these interactive trips to the Getty Villa and UCLAExperiential Technologies Center. You must be a USC student toparticipate. To RSVP, please visit our website atwww.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

Getty Villa: Reconstructed and DeconstructedWednesday, October 25 from noon–5 pmThis trip to the newly reopened Getty Villa will include a conversationwith curators and conservators about the success of the museumenvironment as a reconstructed artifact, art gallery, education centerand performance venue.

A Virtual Experience of Ancient Jerusalemand RomeWednesday, January 24 from 3–6 pmTake a trip to ancient Jerusalem and Rome through a virtual experienceat the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center (ETC), which promotesthe use of new technologies for research in diverse disciplinesthrough the comprehensive simulation of historical environments.

Organized by Bryan Burns (classics), Lynn Swartz Dodd (religion), Anne Porter(religion), Alison Renteln (political science) and Diane Winston (journalism).

Envisioning the Past

Wednesday, January 17 at 6 p.m.Hedco Neurosciences Building, Hedco AuditoriumDuring the fall semester, the College of Letters, Arts andSciences and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute willcollaborate in the mounting of a freshman seminar that willprovide students with the opportunity to work with the richarchive of survivor testimonies from the Shoah FoundationInstitute. Students will learn how to conceptualize and createtheir own testimony clip reels. This event will feature ascreening of student-produced reels, followed by a discussionwith students and Shoah Foundation Institute staff about theprocess of working with survivor testimonies.

Organized by the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the USC ShoahFoundation Institute for Visual History and Education.

Storytelling with TestimonyFriday, October 20–Sunday, October 22George Lucas Instructional Building, Room 108This fascinating series examines the American Presidencythrough feature films and documentaries portrayingpresidents confronted by the major crises of their careers. Inaddition to providing a glimpse of the unique skills andflaws that each man brought to the office, the seriesillustrates the dichotomy inherent in an office that is boththe most desired position in the world and a burden thateach president couldn’t wait to lay down.

The opening night screening will feature David Wolper’s TheMaking of the President 1960. Mr. Wolper will introduce thefilm and talk about its production. Following the screening,there will be a discussion of the 1960 election and itsimplications for the campaigns that followed, chaired byMichael Renov, associate dean of the School of Cinema-Television, and featuring faculty from history and politicalscience.

For a complete schedule of films and related programs andexhibitions, please visit our website atwww.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.


The Glorious Burden

Photo: Brian Morri



Thursday, January 25 at 7 p.m.Bing TheatreRSVP RequiredConsidered by many to be one of Brecht’s masterpieces, Galileo exploresthe question of a scientist’s social and ethical responsibilities, as thebrilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life’s work whenhe is confronted with the persecution of the Inquisition. Through hischaracterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines issues ofscientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectualand authority. Brecht’s Galileo is not a hero—he is a man who loves lifeso much that he is compelled to investigate its wholesome nature.Though he saves his own skin from the rigors of the Inquisition, he alsosaves his work for posterity, not to be of benefit to him in his ownlifetime, but on behalf of future humankind.


Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo

The Politics of Rich and Poor:Asian Americans in the Global CityTuesday, October 17–Thursday, October 19From transnational industrialists and elite professionals tolow-wage laborers and undocumented service workers, Asiansrepresent some of the richest and poorest segments of the U.S.population. These sessions highlight the class diversity ofAsian America and will feature anthropologist Aihwa Wong,filmmaker and community activist Spencer Nakasako, novelistNina Revoyr and the Program in American Studies andEthnicity director and associate professor Ruth Gilmore.

South by Southeast: Indian andVietnamese Artists in a Transnational AgeTuesday, January 30–Thursday, February 1In pursuit of ethical (self-)representation and transformativepractice, Asian artists in diaspora deploy a wide range ofresources and techniques and work fearlessly across mediums.These sessions will feature the work of several cutting-edgeartists/writers: sociologist and filmmaker Kum-Kum Bhavnani,journalist, memoirist and radio-show host Nguyen Qui Duc,artist Dinh Q. Lê and cinema-TV assistant professor PriyaJaikumar.

Visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices for acomplete schedule of events.

Organized by Jane Iwamura (religion) and Viet Nguyen (English). Co-sponsoredby the Asian American Studies Program—Program in American Studies andEthnicity, Asian Pacific American Student Services and the Asian PacificAlumni Association.

Asians in the AmericasAmericans in Asia

This series of events brings together journalists, writers,academics, filmmakers, activists and artists whose work focuseson the way culture, capital, ideas and populations flow andcounter-flow through the Pacific Rim, from Asia to Latin Americato North America and back again.

Monday, January 297 p.m.: Pre-performance discussion8 p.m.: ConcertAlfred Newman Recital Hall

Thornton Contemporary Music Ensemble, Donald Crockett, directorThornton Percussion Ensemble, Erik Forrester, directorThornton Classical Guitar Ensemble, James Smith, director

This concert is presented in conjunction with a citywide festival celebratingcomposer Steve Reich’s 70th birthday. Widely regarded as one of the major“minimalists,” Reich’s music has had a major impact on art, film and popularmusic in the 20th century. From his early taped speech pieces It’s Gonna Rain(1965) and Come Out (1966) to Three Tales (2002), a digital-video opera madein collaboration with video-artist Beryl Korot, Reich’s path has embraced notonly aspects of western classical music, but the structures, harmonies andrhythms of non-western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz.

The concert will be preceded by a discussion with Steve Reich aboutminimalism in art and popular music.

USC Thornton Music EnsembleSteve Reich at 70

Organized by the Thornton School of Music. Other partners in this festival include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, LA Master Chorale and UCLA Live.


Friday, October 13, Time TBAMayer Auditorium, Health Sciences Campus

Friday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.Bovard Auditorium

The award-winning actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smithpresents two performances at USC highlighting the ways thearts and humanities may enrich the world of medicine andvice versa. Focusing on the many voices central to the dramaof human illness, Smith’s performances will draw on materialfrom Rounding it Out, which she created for the Yale MedicalSchool, and her current project on the body in crisis. Bothperformances will be followed by a panel discussion.

The winner of numerous awards including the prestigiousMacArthur “Genius” Award, Smith is a professor at New YorkUniversity. An actress and playwright who is also a publicintellectual, her innovative theater projects serve asoccasions for intersections between the arts and the civicsphere, between artists and intellectuals and betweenintellectuals and activists. She is perhaps best known as theauthor and performer of two one-woman plays about racialtensions in American cities—Fires in the Mirror (ObieAward–winner and runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize) andTwilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Obie Award–winner and TonyAward–nominee). Smith’s television and film credits includeThe West Wing and Philadelphia. Her books include Letters toa Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in theArts—For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind.

Organized by Joe Boone (English) and Pamela Schaff (family medicine).

Narrative EthicsA Performance by

Anna Deavere Smith

“The most exciting individual inAmerican theater.” —Newsweek


FebruaryDate, Time and Location TBAThis event will feature seminal theaterdirector, filmmaker and theorist Peter Brookand a screening of his film, Tragedy of Hamlet,followed by an interview with Brook andaudience Q&A moderated by Antonio Damasio,Dornsife professor of neuroscience and directorof the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC.

Peter Brook is a highly influential Britishtheatrical producer, director and author whosework consistently evokes a great deal ofadmiration and embodies a deep respect forindividuality and diversity. His films include Lordof the Flies (1962), Meetings with RemarkableMen (1979) and the eponymous movie basedon the Indian epic Mahabharata (1989). Brookhas created a variety of other theatricalworks, such as a version of Oliver Sacks’s TheMan Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1994), aproduction of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (1998)and a streamlined Hamlet (2000).

Organized by Antonio and Hanna Damasio (psychology,Brain and Creativity Institute).

Mind andBehaviorin Theaterand Film

FeaturingPeter Brook

Spike LeeAmerica through My Lens




Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m.Bovard AuditoriumRSVP RequiredIn 1956, Dizzy Gillespie took jazz to the worldon a diplomatic mission initiated byCongressman Adam Clayton Powell and fundedby the State Department. Quincy Jones wasDizzy’s fourth trumpeter and tour manager. TheUSC Annenberg School for Communication, USCCenter on Public Diplomacy, USC IntegratedMedia Systems Center and Visions and Voicespresent this special event to celebrate the 50thanniversary of the tour and the role of music incultural diplomacy. The event will feature theThornton Jazz Orchestra directed by Shelly Berg.In addition to the performance, the event willinclude a conversation with Quincy Jones andother musicians and scholars about jazz,public diplomacy and American ideals.

Tickets will be available for USC studentsthrough Visions and Voices. To RSVP or foradditional ticket information, please visit ourwebsite at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

Visions and Voices Inaugural Event

Jazz, Public Diplomacyand Dizzy Gillespie

FeaturingQuincy Jones and theThornton Jazz Orchestra

Tuesday, February 27, Time TBABovard AuditoriumRap confronts issues of racial justice,solidarity and separation, guilt and innocence.This event brings together contemporaryrecording artists, USC students who createand listen to the music, and faculty who studyand are energized by it, so that we mayexchange ideas, engage one another andlisten to and/or perform the music. Morebroadly viewed, Hip Hop comprises otherelements including dance, fashion and visualart. Please join us for a multidimensionalevening of multimedia performance andphilosophical critique, as the poetry andmusic of rap engages us morally and movesus spiritually.

Organized by Jody Armour (law), Ronald Garet (law/religion),Ronald McCurdy (jazz studies), Sharon Stewart(community outreach), Garrett Thompson (cinema-TV),Lori White (student affairs) and Patrick Bailey (studentlife and involvement).

Rap, Race andRedemption

Tuesday, February 7 at 7 p.m.Bovard AuditoriumRSVP Required This signature Visions and Voices eventfeatures Spike Lee, one of Hollywood’s mostimportant and influential filmmakers. Aproducer, director, writer and actor, Spike Leehas made numerous critically acclaimed filmsincluding Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing,Jungle Fever, Crooklyn and He Got Game.

Lee will talk about his experience in the filmindustry making technically original, politicallyinspired and often controversial films. Theevent will include a conversation with SpikeLee and USC faculty and a Q&A with theaudience.

Visions and VoicesSignature Event



Tuesday, October 3, Time TBAAnnenberg AuditoriumThis exhibition features Pulitzer Prize–winning politicalphotographer David Hume Kennerly. On October 3, please joinus for an opening roundtable and reception. A panel of artistsand scholars will discuss the role of photography andphotojournalism in relation to such core values as creativity,privacy and community.


Photojournalismand the AmericanPresidency

Color photograph displayed with permission fromGehry Partners, LLP. Black and white photographused with permission from ©J. Paul Getty Trust.Julius Shulman Photography Archive, ResearchLibrary at the Getty Research Institute.

Wednesday, October 4–Friday, October 6USC architecture graduates include Frank Gehry and Thom Mayne, whose work takesaesthetic risks that have come to redefine architectural practice today. GraduatesJames Bonar and Ena Dubnoff are highly respected in the areas of social architectureand low-income housing. Ed Niles, Ronald Altoon and Michael Hricak have shownleadership through involvement in organizations such as the American Institute ofArchitects. Some of Los Angeles’s most significant landmarks have been producedthrough the multigenerational alumni of AC Martin and Associates. Pierre Koenig andRaphael Soriano remain renowned for their ardent pursuit of free inquiry that redefinedthe single-family house in the postwar period. Recent graduate Mark Lee continues thegoal of free inquiry in his search for new means of expression. At the urban scale, Jon Jerde and Mark Rios have pioneered new forms of “placemaking,” using architectureas a means to create communal places here and abroad.

This three-day event will explore the work of USC architecture alumni and provokemeaningful reflection among students about the opportunities they have to carry thelessons and values they have learned at USC into the wider community. The seriesincludes a lecture by James Steele, a symposium featuring USC architecture alumni andbuilding tours of several significant projects throughout Los Angeles.

Building ValueUSC’s Impact on the BuiltEnvironment of Los Angeles

Jimmy Joyced!Wednesday, February 28 at 7 p.m.Ground Zero Coffeehouse

Jimmy Joyced! is a hilarious one-man show thattakes a journey through the life and times of Irishwriter James Joyce. This energetic and colorfulproduction is a punchy combination of physicalperformance and vocal delivery. O’Kelly received aBest Actor nomination at the Irish Times/ESB IrishTheatre Awards. The performance will be precededby a roundtable discussion featuring severalJames Joyce specialists.

The CambriaThursday, March 1 at 8 p.m.Gin Wong Conference Center

The Cambria is based on the experience ofescaped slave Frederick Douglass who, in 1845,had just published his life story and soughtasylum in Ireland. The play reflects on theintertwined fates of African American slaves andthe poor Irish peasantry who would emigrate in themillions to escape starvation. In the U.S., the Irishoften lived and worked alongside AfricanAmericans, causing racial tension and, at times,solidarity and cooperation. Douglass compared theconditions of the Irish, as he witnessed themduring his travels, to those of slaves in America.

Donal O’KellyJoin us for two fantasticperformances by the criticallyacclaimed Irish actor Donal O’Kelly.

“A powerful theatrical experience ... a stirringproduction” —Irish Examiner

“Everything about this tantalising performance ismemorable ... nothing short of ‘genius inspired bygenius.’” —RTE (Radio Telefís Eireann, Ireland’sPublic Service Broadcaster)

As an actor, Donal O’Kelly’s movie rolesinclude Bimbo in Roddy Doyle’s The Van, androles in Irish movies Spin the Bottle and IWent Down. He has appeared in Beckett’s Actwithout Words I at the Lincoln Center,Waiting for Godot at the Toronto WinterGarden, Juno and the Paycock at the AbbeyTheatre and in Colm Toibin’s Beauty in aBroken Place at the Peacock. He has touredEurope, the United States, Canada andAustralia with his solo plays.

Organized by David Lloyd (English) and Peter O’Neill(writing program).

“A first-class ticket to Dublin. . . wonderful towatch. ****” —Karen Fricker, The Guardian

Organized by architecture faculty members Amy Murphy and Kim Coleman.

Photo: David Hume Kennerly



Iona Rozeal BrownArt, Hip Hop and GlobalismFriday, September 29 at noonDoheny Memorial LibraryIntellectual Commons, Room 233Contemporary artist Iona Rozeal Brown, an AfricanAmerican artist who has lived in Tokyo, Yokohamaand Washington, D.C., stages a creative dialoguebetween traditional Japanese art forms and HipHop. Brown has had solo shows in Los Angeles,San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., andher work was featured in the influential exhibitionBlack Belt at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Thepresentation will be followed by a discussion withUSC English professor Richard Meyer.

Carlos MonsiváisMyths and Realities: Frida, the Border, Lucha Libreand You Name ItThursday, October 26 at noonDoheny Memorial LibraryIntellectual Commons, Room 233Carlos Monsiváis is arguably Latin America’sforemost cultural critic—an award-winningessayist and journalist whose writings investigatethe artistic and sociopolitical life of Mexico, with aspecial focus on the strange, chaotic and vibrantmegalopolis of Mexico City. Loving and satirical butconsistently intelligent and ethical, Monsiváis’sgaze seems to take in virtually everything, fromhistory and politics to the rich diversity and dignityof popular urban culture. Daniela Bleichmar,Roberto Diaz and Selma Holo will moderate adiscussion after Monsiváis’s presentation.

Global CultureContemporary Art in the WorldThis series explores the role of the arts in responding to contemporary social conditions in Japan,Mexico and the United States. The work of Iona Rozeal Brown and Carlos Monsiváis representsthe power of the creative process. Their visits will inspire students to engage with contemporaryart and visual culture in new and exciting ways.

Friday, March 2 at 8 p.m.Alfred Newman Recital Hall

USC Thornton Baroque SinfoniaAdam Gilbert, director

Is it ethical for us to impose our tastes and value systemson masterpieces from the past? Would Bach agree that amodern performance of his work is “better” than the oneshe had available to him? This concert will be dedicated tofinding answers to these and other questions.

Like other ensembles that study the performancepractices of music written before the advent of recording

technology, the Thornton Baroque Sinfonia will discuss thekind of historical knowledge necessary to perform thisrepertory and demonstrate how these early instruments areplayed, showing their different sounds and playingtechniques, while contrasting them with modern instruments.The concert will be preceded by a conversation with aprominent performer and musicologist, Victor Coelho, anexpert in early music performance and in rock/blues guitar.


Music the Way It’s Sposed to Be

From celebrated Czech playwright Václav Havel, a keyfigure in Czech public life for the past half century,comes one of his wittiest one-acts that raises importantquestions about the role of artists in a political context.Written in 1978, Protest deals with the travails of Havel’salter-ego Ferdinand Vanek. Recently released from jail foranti-government activities, Vanek escaped his hellishoffice to visit the comfortable, middle-class home of hisfriend, Stanek. He is hoping to convince Stanek to sign apetition renouncing the regime. In this remarkable work,Havel demonstrates how the restrictions of freedom ofspeech and thought spread conformity across allmembers of society while slowly eroding basic humanity.


Wednesday, March 7 at 7 p.m.Scene Dock TheatreRSVP Required

Václav Havel’s Protest

Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m.Alfred Newman Recital HallThis concert event will feature several world-class, conservatory-trained musicians from aroundthe world, including Sicily’s Francesco Buzurro, Argentina’s Daniel Corzo and USC’s Richard Smith.They will engage in acts of real-time musical risk-taking through their collaborative performance.An after-concert panel of USC music-school graduates will discuss their post-USC successstrategies within the turbulence of the information revolution. Panel members have worked withthe Los Angeles Philharmonic, in major television and film productions and with recording artistsincluding Snoop Dogg, Johnny Lang, Josh Groban, Mark Anthony and the Backstreet Boys.

Organized by Richard Smith (studio guitar).

The Conservatory as ExploratoryUniversal Fundamentals and IrrationalIntangibles in the Information Revolution

Organized by Richard Meyer (arthistory), Roberto Diaz (Spanish andPortuguese) and Selma Holo (arthistory, Fisher Gallery and theInternational Museum StudiesInstitute). Co-sponsored by LVMC.



Oliver SacksMusic, Healing and the BrainFriday, September 15 at 4 p.m.Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences CampusWorld-renowned professor of neurology and author, Dr. Oliver Sacks,discusses the role of the humanities in medicine. A professor atthe Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at the NYU School ofMedicine, Sacks is concerned above all with the ways in whichindividuals survive and adapt to different neurological diseasesand conditions, and what this experience can tell us about thehuman brain and mind. He is the author of nine award-winningbooks that have sold several million copies worldwide. He isperhaps best known for his book Awakenings, which inspiredthe Oscar-nominated movie starring Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro.

Rita CharonNarrative Medicine: The Healing Power of StoriesThursday, February 8 at 4 p.m.Doheny Memorial Library, Room 240

Friday, February 9 at 3 p.m.Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences CampusDr. Rita Charon, internist and literary scholar, will discuss someof the core issues facing the health of individuals and society.Charon is professor of clinical medicine at the College ofPhysicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and director ofthe program in narrative medicine. She has designed anddirected Columbia’s teaching programs in medical interviewing,humanities and medicine and narrative medicine, and herteaching methods and curricular designs have been replicatedin many medical schools internationally. She is editor-in-chiefof the journal Literature and Medicine and the author ofnumerous publications, including Narrative Medicine: Honoringthe Stories of Illness.

Organized by Pamela Schaff (family medicine), Erin Quinn (Keckadmissions), Hilary Schor (English) and Clive Taylor (pathology).

Medical Humanities Speaker Series

FeaturingOliver Sacks and Rita Charon

“The poet laureate ofmedicine.” —The New York Times

Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m.Bovard AuditoriumArtistic director Viji Prakash founded the ShaktiDance Company to introduce young South AsianAmericans to the ancient art of Bharata Natyamdance. A virtuoso in this ancient classical danceform, Prakash is an internationally acclaimed dancer,choreographer and teacher. Her dynamic stagepresence and her rhythmic command over thecomplex foot patterns and striking facial expressionsbring to life the beauty and grandeur of this art form.

Additional events include a workshop, film screeningand discussion. For more information, please visitour website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

Organized by Nancy Lutkehaus (anthropology/gender studies),Priya Jaikumar (cinema), Dorinne Kondo (anthropology/Asianstudies), Gelya Frank (occupational therapy), Doe Mayer(cinema) and Anita Kumar (anthropology).

Dancing with ShaktiA Performance by Viji Prakash and the Shakti Dance Company

Tuesday, March 27–Thursday, March 29Alfred Newman Recital Hall and Thornton School of Music ClassroomsThis series of events will feature compellingdiscussions and demonstrations on the power of thearts to bridge racial, cultural and political differences.A select number of faculty and students from theJerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (JAMD) inIsrael have been invited to participate in this programand will visit the Thornton School of Music as part ofan ongoing partnership between the two institutions.Their participation will enhance the discussion on whatroles art can play in relationships of peoples of diversecultures who have traditionally been in conflict. Theweek of cultural and musical exchange will culminatein a concert featuring an eclectic program, tiedtogether by the theme “East Meets West,” with theJAMD faculty and students and Thornton performers.


East Meets WestExploring Culturesthrough Music




In a period of 100 days in 1994, at least 800,000people were killed in the small country of Rwanda,located in the Great Lakes region of central Africa.These events scarred the nation and challengedwestern countries to consider the results of theirinaction. The Center for Religion and Civic Culturepresents an exhibition, film and discussions thatexplore the genocide and the powerful stories ofRwandan survivors.

Exhibition OpeningThursday, September 14 at 5 p.m. California African American MuseumExposition Park“Rwanda: Portraits of Survival and Hope” opens atthe California African American Museum. The exhibitfeatures photographs by Jerry Berndt that focus ontwo populations of survivors: orphans who areheading households of their surviving siblings andwidows who are struggling to care for their children.

Rebuilding Rwanda, Organizing for DarfurMonday, October 9 at 6 p.m.Annenberg AuditoriumMark Hanis, CEO of Genocide Intervention Network,and USC scholars will discuss the ongoinghumanitarian crisis in Darfur and the currentsituation in Rwanda.

God Sleeps in RwandaWednesday, November 8 at 5:30 p.m.Leavey Library AuditoriumJoin filmmaker and photojournalist KimberleeAcquaro for a screening of her Academy Award-nominated film, God Sleeps in Rwanda, aboutcourageous Rwandan women rebuilding their livesafter the genocide, redefining their roles in societyand bringing hope to a wounded nation.

Organized by Donald Miller (religion), Jon Miller (sociology)and the Center for Religion and Civic Culture’s Brie Loskotaand Timothy Sato.

Rwanda: Portraits ofSurvival and Hope Friday, March 30–Saturday, March 31

A variety of films will be featured exploring therelationship between Mexico and MexicanAmerica. In light of recent U.S. debates overMexican immigration and nationwide pro-immigrant protests involving millions, such afestival is especially timely. Although Chicanosand Mexicanos have often worked together onfilms, Mexican and Chicano films are too oftenscreened and discussed in isolation from oneanother. The festival will include three featurefilms and two programs of short films anddiscussions with scholars, students,filmmakers and audience members. Numerousissues will be addressed, with particularemphasis on immigration from both Chicanoand Mexican perspectives.

For updated festival information, please visitour website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.


Film across Borders:Dialogues between Mexicanand Chicano CinemasA Transborder Film Festival

Thursday, April 5 from 10 a.m.–6 p.m.Leavey Library AuditoriumThe symposium will explore the idea that culture practiced under a politicaldictatorship suffers and declines as a result of ideological interference. We willalso touch upon the counter-argument that ideological interference may bringinspiration and aesthetic benefit. Additionally, we will celebrate the recentdonation of the Ferris Collection of Soviet Material Culture to the College ofLetters, Arts and Sciences and the renovation of the USC Institute of ModernRussian Culture.

For the symposium schedule, please visit our website atwww.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

Organized by Slavic languages faculty members John Bowlt (Institute of Modern RussianCulture), Marcus Levitt, Sarah Pratt, Boris Wolfson and Tatiana Akishina; Selma Holo (arthistory, Fisher Gallery); and Mark Konecny (Institute of Modern Russian Culture).

Beauty and the BeastA Symposium on Stalin and the Arts



Thursday, September 7 at 6 p.m.Alfred Newman Recital HallRobert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate andtranslator of “The Inferno of Dante” will be joined byartist Michael Mazur, whose illustrationsaccompanied Pinsky’s award-winning English versionof the famous poem. Mazur and Pinsky will discusstheir collaboration—its challenges, discoveries andsuccesses.

This event is presented in conjunction with theexhibition “The Inferno of Dante by Michael Mazur” onview at the USC Fisher Gallery (September 6–October 28). Information about the exhibition may befound at www.usc.edu/fishergallery.

Organized by the Fisher Gallery and supported by the RoskiSchool of Fine Arts, English and Spectrum.

Image and TextA Dialogue withRobert Pinskyand Michael Mazur

Wednesday, September 13 at 6 p.m.Scene Dock TheatreRSVP RequiredJoin us for a staged reading of Are You Now orHave You Ever Been?, written by Eric Bentley in1972 based on transcripts of the House Un-American Activities Committee’s investigation ofthe entertainment industry. Humorous, but alwayschilling and gripping, Are You Now or Have YouEver Been? uses the words of interrogators andwitnesses to dramatize what has been describedas one of the most damaging assaults on personalliberties in U.S. history. Among the well-knownactors summoned to testify were John Garfield,Larry Parks, Adolph Menjou and Zero Mostel, aswell as writers and directors, including Elia Kazan,Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., Lillian Hellmanand Dalton Trumbo.


Eric Bentley’s Are You Nowor Have You Ever Been?The Investigation ofShow Business by theUn-American Activities Committee 1947–1956

Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 21 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.Sunday, April 22 at 2 p.m.Bing Theatre RSVP Required

Brent McMunn, conductorKen Cazan, stage director

With libretto by J.D. McClatchy, Miss Lonelyhearts is based on the 1930snovel of the same name by Nathaniel West and deals with thought-provoking,dark and highly personal issues of life, death, god and sexuality. The operawas commissioned from Lowell Liebermann, one of today’s foremost composers.Miss Lonelyhearts has been made into a Broadway play and two movies.This is the first musical setting of the novel and was commissioned by theJuilliard School of Music for their 100th anniversary in 2006 with USC’s Ken Cazan as stage director. The concept, however, has been developedcooperatively with the Juilliard, the USC Thornton School of Music and theCollege-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

The composer and librettist will be on campus to discuss the creation ofthis work with students.


Miss Lonelyhearts Opera

Thursday, April 26–Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m.Bing TheatreRSVP RequiredThe theme of the USC Repertory Dance Company’s annualspring concert is dance and technology, featuring a mergerof motion capture and robotics with modern dance.

Modern dance is increasingly evolving towardincorporating elements from other technologies toenhance the observer’s experience. This event will bringtogether USC’s strengths in engineering research as wellas dance, and will be developed through collaborationwith world-renowned artist Mark Morris, who will workwith USC faculty and students to produce a danceperformance using motion-capture technology.

Organized by Margo Apostolos (theater/dance) and Maja Mataric´(computer science).

Capturing Movement in Time and SpaceDance and Motion Capture

In the spring semester, a workshop for USC studentswill be presented by internationally acclaimedchoreographer and dancer MARK MORRIS. Visit ourwebsite at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices for details.

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Friday, August 18 at 4 p.m.Bovard AuditoriumBe the first to experience Visions and Voices:The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative! Provost C. L. Max Nikias welcomes students at thismultimedia program featuring a DJ, nationalpoetry-slam champion Javon Johnson, cutting-edge independent film and live music.

Spark!A Visions and VoicesMultimedia Showcase

Science, Serendipityand the Search for TruthAugust 31, November 16, February 15 and April 12

Science is on stage in this informal series of conversations and performances presented alongsidemusic, theater, journalism, religion, film, dance and other disciplines. The series will feature adiverse array of critically acclaimed and award-winning scholars and artists. See whatserendipitous connections bubble up as we play with ideas and make discoveries.

Two interconnected subjects will be explored during our adventures in interdisciplinarysightseeing: Uncertainty and Point of View. These programs will expand our horizons, addperspective, allow new connections to be explored and bring the central themes into sharperfocus. We invite the presenters and audience to take risks, seek connections and, above all,enjoy the delight that comes from the free exchange of ideas.

UncertaintyOn Thursday, August 31 at 7 p.m., joinus for a conversation in the AnnenbergAuditorium with science writer K.C. Cole,physicist Clifford Johnson, religioushistorian Jonathan Kirsch and actressChloe Webb.

Annenberg’s Larry Pryor, climatologistStephen Schneider, composer Veronika Krausas and engineer Farzad Naeim continue the conversationon Thursday, November 16 at 7 p.m. inthe Annenberg Auditorium.

Point of ViewAnthropologist Amy Parish, author Victor Navasky and Oscar-nominatedfilmmaker and writer Jon Boorstin, willbe featured on Thursday, February 15 at7 p.m. at the Gin Wong ConferenceCenter.

The series concludes with relativist Don Marolf, poet and author Michael Datcher and choreographerRosanna Gamson on Thursday, April 12at 7 p.m. at the Gin Wong ConferenceCenter.

Organized by K.C. Cole (journalism), Clifford Johnson (physics) and the Annenberg School for Communication.

Water and PowerA Performance by Culture ClashFriday, September 15 at 6 p.m.Water and Power, a potent story of contemporary Los Angeles written and performed by Culture Clash, willhave its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. Theplay deftly captures the pulse of a city in constantevolution, a city in which no amount of sunlight canilluminate the shadows, where urgent questions areasked about who runs the streets of L.A. Before the play,there will be a discussion with leading political figuresand experts about L.A. power and politics.

USC Thornton Symphony at the Walt Disney Concert HallSunday, October 15 at 6:30 p.m.

Larry Livingston, music director, Thornton orchestrasCarl St. Clair, principal conductorMichelle Kim, violin

USC Thornton Symphony participates in the Los AngelesPhilharmonic’s “Sounds About Town” series with musicby Thornton’s faculty composer Frank Ticheli (ShootingStars), Joan Tower (Violin Concerto) and Gustav Mahler(Symphony No. 1).

DoubtThursday, October 19 at 7:15 p.m.“An extraordinary experience: enthralling, vibrant andsizzling.” —New York PostDoubt, winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play, is agripping mystery about a nun who harbors doubts aboutthe charismatic parish priest and his relationship withan altar boy. Following the play at the AhmansonTheatre, USC students will participate in a livelydiscussion regarding ethical dilemmas with the star-studded cast and ethicists.

In the ContinuumWednesday, November 15 at 7 p.m.“In the Continuum leaves behind a warm afterglow ofhuman struggles explored, illumined and embraced.” —The New York TimesIn the Continuum, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, is a powerfulnew play and critically acclaimed off-Broadway hit thatpresents a humanizing view of the devastating problemof AIDS among African and African American women.

Experience L.A.Many stimulating opportunities will be available for USC students to experienceLos Angeles’s world-class cultural landscape. You must be a USC student toparticipate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. For moreinformation or to RSVP, please visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices.

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2 Events2 Spark! A Visions and Voices Multimedia Showcase2 Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth3 Image and Text: Robert Pinsky and Michael Mazur3 Eric Bentley’s Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?4 Rwanda: Portraits of Survival and Hope5 Medical Humanities Speaker Series6 Global Culture: Contemporary Art in the World7 Photojournalism and the American Presidency7 USC’s Impact on the Built Environment of Los Angeles8 Jazz, Public Diplomacy and Dizzy Gillespie with Quincy Jones9 Narrative Ethics: Anna Deavere Smith

10 Asians in the Americas/Americans in Asia11 The Glorious Burden11 Envisioning the Past12 Melodramas of Change: Indian Film Festival12 Dialogues13 Talk Talk: An Evening with T.C. Boyle14 TransFormations15 Voices from the List16 Looking Out/Looking In17 Mandelstam’s Witness17 World Press Photo 200618 Storytelling with Testimony18 The Mathematics in Music: Elaine Chew19 Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo19 USC Thornton Music Ensemble: Steve Reich at 7020 Mind and Behavior in Theater and Film: Peter Brook20 Spike Lee: America through My Lens21 Rap, Race and Redemption22 Donal O’Kelly23 Music the Way It’s Sposed to Be23 Václav Havel’s Protest23 The Conservatory as Exploratory24 Viji Prakash and the Shakti Dance Company24 East Meets West: Exploring Cultures through Music25 Film across Borders: Dialogues between Mexican and

Chicano Cinemas25 Beauty and the Beast: Stalin and the Arts26 Miss Lonelyhearts Opera26 Capturing Movement in Time and Space

27 Experience L.A.—Performances andEvents around Los Angeles

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Contents13Friday, January 19 at 7 p.m.Having its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, 13is a wild musical comedy that takes the audience intothe middle of the fantastic and frightening experience ofadolescent America. Music and lyrics are by Jason Robert Brown, whom The New York Times calls “aleading member of a new generation of composers.”Following the play, there will be a discussion withMadeline Puzo, dean of the USC School of Theatre, aswell as Brown and members of the cast.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Friday, February 23 at 6:15 p.m.“... pulse-racing.” —The New York Times A dark comedy with gut-wrenching power, Who’s Afraidof Virginia Woolf? at the Ahmanson Theatre featuresperhaps the most memorable married couple in theatre.This modern classic by Edward Albee received six TonyAward nominations for its 2005 Broadway run.

Let’s Go for a Walk!Visions and Voices will partner with the Los AngelesConservancy to offer a variety of walking tours exploringthe city of Los Angeles. Learn about its history, art,architecture and culture by exploring the downtowntheater district, skyline and the Historic Core, spanningfour decades of Los Angeles history and featuring manyof the city’s architectural landmarks.

Organized by Aileen Adams, director of Arts and Culture Outreachand Madeline Puzo, dean of the School of Theatre.

VISIONS AND VOICES—Leadership

For more information or to RSVP, visit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices. Also,check out the following Visions and Voices events for more off-campus opportunities:Rwanda: Portraits of Survival and Hope (p. 4), Building Value (p. 7) and Envisioning thePast (p. 11).

Deans’ Council Chaired by Madeline Puzo, School of TheatreGeoffrey Cowan, Annenberg School for CommunicationRobert Cutietta, Thornton School of Music Elizabeth Daley, School of Cinema-Television Selma Holo, Fisher Gallery Peter Starr, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Ruth Weisberg, Roski School of Fine Arts Yannis Yortsos, Viterbi School of Engineering Ex-Officio:Aileen Adams, Director, Arts and Culture OutreachPatrick Bailey, Assistant Dean, Student Life and Involvement

Faculty CommitteeChaired by Tara McPherson, School of Cinema-Television

DirectorsBarry Glassner, Executive Vice Provost Dennis Cornell, Associate Vice President, University RelationsDaria Yudacufski, Managing Director, Visions and Voices

For additional information on committees and staff, pleasevisit our website at www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices

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USC is proud to bring you Visions and Voices—the university’s newinitiative in the arts and humanities. Visions and Voices has beendesigned to use the arts and humanities to transform a student’sperspective, in a way that can only happen at USC.

We believe the USC experience is already unique within Americanhigher education: Nowhere else do top-quality scholars in the arts,humanities, sciences and professions interact in such mutuallybeneficial ways.

USC boasts the nation’s best overall arts program on its campus; inaddition, this campus is located within one of the world’s two orthree greatest cultural centers. USC intends to use these twodistinctions for maximum educational advantage.

USC’s core values—freedom of intellectual inquiry, appreciation ofdiversity, mutual respect and ethical conduct being among them—are timeless. Such timeless values help a person know what workswithin a changing world. They serve both as a sturdy foundation forlifelong decision-making and as an engine for successfulinnovation—regardless of field or discipline.

The arts and the humanities allow us to internalize such valueswithin our lives and our work. To paraphrase Emerson, art revealstruth that everyday reality tends to obscure. The arts andhumanities are our teachers, making our souls visible to us andillumining our way. They help us discern what it is to be fullyhuman, and to live in the society of other humans. They enable usto observe life’s challenges and opportunities with new eyes—andthis has never been more vital for a student than today.

Visions and Voices serves not merely to entertain or inspire, but tochallenge students at the core of their being. Each event includesan interactive or reflective component—allowing students toengage with artists and faculty and to explore how the eventexemplifies a timeless value. This approach to the arts andhumanities can make every future scientist a better scientist, everyfuture lawyer a better lawyer, every future business professional abetter business professional. And, as students from far-rangingdisciplines come together in dynamic encounters, this can makeevery future artist a better artist.

Science and technology are means toward an end. But real art isour true end as fully mature human beings living in society. Visionsand Voices will make this truth evident in life-changing ways.

Sincerely,

C. L. Max NikiasProvost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dear Friend of USC:Spark! A Visions and Voices Multimedia Showcase, p. 2Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth, p. 2Image and Text: Robert Pinsky and Michael Mazur, p. 3Eric Bentley’s Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?, p. 3Rwanda: Portraits of Survival and Hope, p. 4Oliver Sacks: Music, Healing and the Brain, p. 5Water and Power by Culture Clash at the Mark Taper Forum, p. 27Iona Rozeal Brown: Art, Hip Hop and Globalism, p. 6Photojournalism and the American Presidency, p. 7Building Value: USC’s Impact on the Built Environment of Los Angeles, p. 7Rebuilding Rwanda, Organizing for Darfur, p. 4Jazz, Public Diplomacy and Dizzy Gillespie with Quincy Jones, p. 8Narrative Ethics: Anna Deavere Smith, p. 9USC Thornton Symphony at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, p. 27The Politics of Rich and Poor: Asian Americans in the Global City, p. 10Doubt at the Ahmanson Theatre, p. 27The Glorious Burden, p. 11Getty Villa: Reconstructed and Deconstructed, p. 11Carlos Monsiváis: Myths and Realities, p. 6Melodramas of Change: USC’s First Indian Film Festival, p. 12Pop, Politics and Propaganda, p. 12Talk Talk: An Evening with T.C. Boyle, p. 13TransFormations: Remixing the Archive, p. 14God Sleeps in Rwanda, p. 4Voices from the List, p. 15In the Continuum at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, p. 27Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth, p. 2Looking Out/Looking In: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, p. 16Mandelstam’s Witness, p. 17World Press Photo 2006, p. 17Storytelling with Testimony, p. 1813 at the Mark Taper Forum, p. 28TransFormations: The Perception of Perception, p. 14A Virtual Experience of Ancient Jerusalem and Rome, p. 11The Mathematics in Music: Elaine Chew, p. 18Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo, p. 19USC Thornton Music Ensemble: Steve Reich at 70, p. 19South by Southeast: Indian and Vietnamese Artists in a Transnational Age, p. 10Mind and Behavior in Theater and Film: Peter Brook, p. 20Spike Lee: America through My Lens, p. 20Rita Charon: Narrative Medicine, p. 5Looking Out/Looking In: City of God, p. 16Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth, p. 2Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Ahmanson Theatre, p. 28Rap, Race and Redemption, p. 21Donal O’Kelly: Jimmy Joyced!, p. 22Donal O’Kelly: The Cambria, p. 22Music the Way It’s Sposed to Be, p. 23TransFormations: Fiction Science, p. 14The Moral Morass of Contemporary Life, p. 13Václav Havel’s Protest, p. 23The Conservatory as Exploratory, p. 23Viji Prakash and the Shakti Dance Company, p. 24East Meets West: Exploring Cultures through Music, p. 24Film across Borders: Dialogues between Mexican and Chicano Cinemas, p. 25Beauty and the Beast: A Symposium on Stalin and the Arts, p. 25Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth, p. 2 Looking Out/Looking In: Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, p. 16Miss Lonelyhearts Opera, p. 26TransFormations: Distributed Realities, p. 14Capturing Movement in Time and Space: Dance and Motion Capture, p. 26

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