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Events and Exhibitions
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Visualizing Medicine: Humanizing Healthcare through Medical Illustration, Web Comics, and Graphic Novels
Norris Medical Library
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2023-11-01 05:57:21
2024-09-30 05:57:21
Visualizing Medicine: Humanizing Healthcare through Medical Illustration, Web Comics, and Graphic Novels
Art - in all its permutations - creates space for self-expression, emotional release, and a way of processing our thoughts, dreams, frustrations, and grief. In medicine, the visual becomes a method with the potential not only to teach or define but also to exclude or ignore many bodies. Ghanaian-American physician-artist Shirlene Obuobi, MD, and cartoonist-author Alison Bechdel disrupt outdated narratives within healthcare and popular culture that shape individual and social conceptions of healthy bodies. Their representations can humanize the experiences of others, particularly when the clinical gaze can create an artificial divide between patients and healthcare professionals, disenfranchising individuals and communities.
Norris Medical Library
America/Los_Angeles
public
Nov
10
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2023-11-10 05:46:59
2024-05-10 05:46:59
Sixty Years of South Korean Science Fiction: Selections from the USC Korean Heritage Library’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection
East Asian Library
America/Los_Angeles
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2023-11-28 15:00:00
2023-11-29 16:00:00
Technology as Religion
Technology presents paradigms that parallel religious concepts, offering alternative interpretations of age-old beliefs. Indeed, cutting-edge technologies enable even staunch materialists in places like Silicon Valley, (e.g. Ray Kurzweil) to embrace beliefs typically associated with metaphysics or religion. For instance, the notion of uploading one's consciousness to a computer resonates with the religious promise of eternal life, suggesting a digital transcendence beyond physical mortality. Similarly, the theory that we exist within a computer simulation mirrors religious beliefs of a realm or existence beyond our perceived reality, hinting at layers of creation we've yet to understand. Furthermore, as we edge closer to creating an Artificial Superintelligence, it can be perceived as a god-like entity, possessing knowledge and power far beyond human comprehension.<br />
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Topics of conversation might include: As Artificial Intelligence and other technologies become increasingly integrated into daily life, how might religious interpretations of the soul, consciousness, and existence evolve? Can technological developments truly replace or serve as alternatives to religious beliefs (can they for instance, give our lives meaning and purpose ), or do they simply offer another layer of interpretation for our existential questions? How might these interpretations differ across cultures and belief systems?
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Primary Source Highlights

Special Collections
Osaka Shosen Kaisha Poster

Special Collections
The Allan Hancock Foundation Archive

East Asian Library
West Lake Couplets 西湖楹聯

East Asian Library
The Collection of Songs among the Flowers 花間集

Special Collections
Biography of Zhang Yi 張儀列傳

Special Collections
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi 東海道五十三次

Special Collections
“Coloured Memories”: A German American soldier’s illustrated notebook

Special Collections
John J. Audubon's Birds of America

Special Collections
Alice In Wonderland Playing Cards

Special Collections
Albert Einstein's Appendix II: Generalized Theory of Gravitation

Special Collections
Hamlin Garland Papers

Special Collections
"An Excursion 'Round the World"
Collections in Use

Scalar
Digital Exhibitions

Special Collections
An Interactive, Natural-Language Adventure through Wonderland

Digital Project
Welcome to Venice West

Special Collections
Primary Source Literacy

K-12 Curriculum
Lost L.A. Curriculum Project

Television Series