How can great metropolises transcend the incipient conflicts among their diverse groups and maintain democratic and just communities in which individuals feel a shared citizenship?
Hosting communities from every culture on earth, the great global cities often experience ethnic and religious tensions, violence, economic inequality, and wrenching cultural transformation.
The "melting pot" metaphor no longer describes how diverse urban communities interact, and new models must be developed for how people of diverse backgrounds will coexist and share
the public life of their great urban centers.
How will cities rewrite the social contract? And what role will urban universities play in this movement toward crafting a new relationship between diversity and democracy?
The USC Center for Diversity and Democracy will engage these questions through research, teaching, and civic engagement with communities all over the United States and the world.
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Featured Alumni: Daniel HoSang:
American Studies’ Daniel HoSang is USC College’s featured alumni for April. The website will remain on this page until the end of April. Afterwards, Daniel’s profile will be available in the American Studies and Ethnicity website.
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History and Tradition 
October 4 - May 11 Black-and-white images culled from the USC Archives and the USC Digital Library celebrate the iconic architecture and traditions that have helped shape the university’s identity. |
| Taking Stock of the Arab Uprisings
February 9 Join members of the USC Middle East Studies Program faculty for an assessment of where things stand and their predictions of the directions the Arab uprisings may take in the coming year. |
| Becoming a Saint, Twice: The Two Canonizations of a 13th Century Porter
February 9 Enjoy a wine tasting and scholarly discussion with Lester K. Little of Smith College, past president of the Medieval Academy of America. |
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