Stop by the Intellectual Commons in Doheny Library at 12 p.m. on April 15th to learn more about the innovative HyperCities project. Tara McPherson, co-director of USC’s Center for Transformative Scholarship (CTS) will moderate a discussion among USC College history professor (and CTS co-director) Phil Ethington, UCLA history professor Todd Presner, and Leta Hunt of the USC Libraries. Ethington and Presner work with a team of scholars and developers on the HyperCities project, which is creating a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. The project is developing content for: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Rome, Lima, Ollantaytambo, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Tehran, Saigon, Toyko, Shanghai, Seoul, and numerous other world cities. The event is presented by USC's Center for Transformative Scholarship.
Thursday, April 15
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Doheny Memorial Library
Intellectual Commons, 2nd Floor
Free lunch provided
