Join us Wednesday, August 22, for our USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study's 2018 opening event. Physics and astronomy professor Clifford Johnson, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll, and literary scholar Kate Flint will expand our understanding of the malleable and mysterious concept: time.

The collection will include more than 1,200 performances digitized over 15 years by the Dance Heritage Coalition, thanks to a $560,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

When author and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann lived in Los Angeles, he maintained a close relationship with the Unitarian Church. This Friday, join our partners at the Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. for a lecture and discussion on Mann's "warm sympathy" for Unitarians' beliefs and the way they put these beliefs into action.

We might be the first university research library to win an Emmy.

“Thank you to the Television Academy for this remarkable recognition,” said our dean, Catherine Quinlan. “I’m grateful to our KCET partners and all the talented filmmakers who do such excellent work with the primary sources of our regional history. So many vital stories like that of Victor Green and his Green Book live in our libraries, archives, and private collections, and it’s truly an honor to help those stories become a larger part of our shared experience as Southern Californians.”

With generous National Endowment for the Humanities support, the project will make publicly accessible 87,200 pages of records, correspondence, and one-of-a-kind materials documenting these two important early homophile organizations. The organizations advocated for civil rights and social equality starting in the early 1950s, when gay, lesbian, and gender nonconforming Americans were excluded from public life and faced numerous forms of discrimination as well as organized campaigns of police harassment.