Events and Exhibitions
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closing dateAug242016-Dec162016Featured - Happening nowArtists at Work: Photographs by Jim Arkatov
Born in 1920, Jim Arkatov has been photographing some of the world’s greatest musicians and fine artists for decades. The works on display include portraits of Southern California’s most famous...View Exhibition -
Oct062016-Oct072016Trojan Family Weekend at the USC Libraries
THURSDAY, OCT. 6 Leavey Library Guided Tour: 1:30 pm Leavey Library Lobby (LVL) Come join us for a guided walking tour of USC’s Leavey Library and the incredible USC collection, home to over 5.8...View Event -
Oct072016The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Fall Recognition Ceremony
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 and has more than 300 chapters in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. It is the oldest academic honor society at USC that is...View Event -
Oct112016Movements, Or What Sound Does the Earth Make?
The earth hums along to its own soundtrack. If only we could listen to it. When the ground beneath us shifts, as it is prone to do in Los Angeles, it unleashes enormous quantities of energy as...View Event -
Oct152016Eleventh-Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar
The stories of Los Angeles. All day. All in one place. For more than 20 years, the L.A. as Subject consortium has brought to life the diverse, often hidden stories that make Southern California such...View Event -
Oct152016500 Years of Utopia: Governing Paradise
For 500 years, utopia —a word coined by Sir Thomas More to describe the ideal city—has been used as popular shorthand for a perfect world and lies at the heart of the Western political imagination...View Event -
Oct182016Celebrating ROBINSON JEFFERS
As California’s first great poet, Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) blazed a trail through the literary world from his base in Carmel. His books, including Tamar and Other Poems (1924), Thurso’s Landing (...View Event -
Nov022016Haunted: A Literary Event with Leo Braudy
Please join Dean Catherine Quinlan and the Friends of the USC Libraries for a Literary Event with USC University Professor and Bing Professor of English and American Literature Leo Braudy, for a...View Event -
Nov092016500 Years of Utopia
For 500 years, utopia —a word coined by Sir Thomas More to describe the ideal city—has been used as popular shorthand for a perfect world and lies at the heart of the Western political imagination...View Exhibition -
Nov092016500 Years of Utopia: Designing Utopia
Is it possible to design a perfect city? The concept of utopia—a term coined 500 years ago by Sir Thomas More to describe the ideal city—lies at the heart of the Western political imagination. But...View Event -
Feb072017500 Years of Utopia: Utopian Representations
The concept of utopia has sparked the Western political imagination for 500 years, since the term was coined by Sir Thomas More to describe the ideal city. But how do we envision utopia in the...View Event -
Mar232017Uncanny Valleys: Thinking and Feeling in the Age of Synthetic Humans
From service robots to virtual agents like Apple’s Siri, humanlike machines are poised to grow ever more integral to our daily lives. Researchers like Hiroshi Ishiguro , Yoshio Matsumoto, Travis...View Event -
Apr062017Doctors’ Orders for a Good Death: Caitlin Doughty and Lindsey Fitzharris
“[We] believe that by hiding death and dying behind closed doors we do more harm than good to our society.” —Order of the Good Death Most Americans are uncomfortable talking about death...View Event
