Visit to Forest Lawn Museum to discuss links between art and religion, place and memory, commemoration and personal history. Led by museum director Dr. James Fishburne and medievalist Alison Perchuk, currently a Huntington Fellow working on an interdisciplinary study of the role of nineteenth- and twentieth-century concepts of the European Middle Ages in the development of Southern California
CPW (Center for the Premodern World at USC) will be hosting Colin McAllister, who is visiting us from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Colin is both a musicologist and a musician. His academic work focuses on the apocalypse and the music of the Middle Ages. At CPW, he will be talking about the ideas and […]
CHARM Reads Together: Discussion with Claire
Performed by Thornton Baroque Sinfonia Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida Featuring music from Mission San Fernando (Sponsored by 2022-23 Collaboration Fund with Lisa Pon, with research by DMA student Alejandro Acosta)
Guadalupe Rosales (b. 1980, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist who received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and was the 2019 recipient of Gordon Parks Foundation fellowship and 2020 USA Artist Award fellow. She is the founder and operator of Veteranas & Rucas and Map Pointz, two digital archives […]
Grace Converse presents her latest research on Theosophy in S. California, 1875-1945.
We will read Leah DeVun's The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (2021). We are planning a casual conversation over coffee/tea for March 22, 3-4pm, with an option to zoom in, and they are welcome. But it is also possible to participate fully virtually and asynchronously: DeVun’s introduction and chapter 1 are now available for […]
What began in 1988 as a way of improving the lives of former gang members in East Los Angeles has evolved into the largest gang intervention, rehab and re-entry program in the world. Each year we welcome thousands of people through our doors seeking to transform their lives. Whether joining our 18-month employment and re-entry […]
Peter Sellars takes part in a roundtable with David Albertson (Religion), Adam Gilbert (Thornton), Lisa Pon (Art History), and an undergraduate from the Harman Academy of Polymathic Study to discuss history, art, religion and music with regards to his direction of the Schütz MusikalischeExequien staging that was performed at Disney Hall this past November. Sponsored by the USC […]