Campus Calendar: Oct. 12
Road to the White House 2012
The Unruh Institute’s weekly discussion series tackles “The Politics of Education: Fixing Our Public Schools.”
Religion On the Move: Tourism and the Religious Imagination
A seminar features papers by Rupert Stasch on images of the primitive in the tourist imaginary and Christian Hammons on the attraction of the shaman to cultural tourists in the Mentawai Islands.
Finding the ‘Democratic Advantage’ in Sovereign Bond Ratings
University Park Campus
von KleinSmid Center
300A
Free
The Center for International Studies Speaker Series welcomes Glen Biglaiser, associate professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University.
Cafe des Sciences
Cecile Favre lectures in French on “The biology of ionizing radiation: the good, the bad and the ugly.”
An Evening with Bill Lockyer
University Park Campus
Musick Law Building
1
Free
A rare opportunity: California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer comes to USC for an event hosted by USC’s Government Law Organization.
Hell and Back Again
University Park Campus
George Lucas Instructional Building
Ray Stark Family Theatre, Room 108
Free
Embedded during a 2009 assault on a Taliban stronghold, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis captures the frontline action with visceral immediacy.
Tuba Faculty Recital
University Park Campus
Alfred Newman Recital Hall
Free
Jim Self, Norm Pearson, Doug Tornquist and other Thornton tuba faculty present premieres by David Jones, Anne McGinty and Steven J. Williams.
Popular Music Showcase
University Park Campus
Ground Zero Performance Cafe
Free
The Al Sherman Foundation presents a showcase of first-year students in the Popular Music Performance program, who will play a range of classic and contemporary tunes.