January 19, 2010 TRANSNATIONAL CHARISMA AND TRAVELING SPIRITS Muslim Women and Activism 12 - 2 p.m. University Club To secure your spot please RSVP to abubaker@usc.edu by Jan. 15

Speaker
Susan Slyomovics, UCLA: “Fatna El Bouih and the Work of Memory, Gender, and Reparation in Morocco: Sacred Sites, Memorials and Museums”

Discussant
Shafiqa Ahmadi, USC Rossier School of Education

Susan Slyomovics is professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is also director of UCLA’s G. E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies. Among her publications are The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998) awarded the 1999 Albert Hourani Book Prize and the 1999 Chicago Folklore Book Prize; editor, The Living Medina in the Maghrib: The Walled Arab city in Literature, Architecture and History (2001); co-editor, Women and Power in the Middle East (2001); The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (2005); coeditor, Waging War and Making Peace: The Anthropology of Reparations (2008); and editor, Clifford Geertz in Morocco (in press, 2010).

Spaces are limited for this lunchtime seminar co-sponsored by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture. Please RSVP to abubaker@usc.edu by January 15 to reserve a seat. Copies of the paper will be emailed to those who RSVP.

January 26, 2010 THE COLLEGE COMMONS SIGNATURE EVENT The Map of the World:  Movement and Mystery 5:30 p.m. Natural History Museum To secure your spot please RSVP to:Event Code: CCMAP

At this event, USC College faculty members Frank Corsetti (Earth Sciences), Philip Ethington (History) and John Wilson (Geography) will discuss the range of "mappings" that give us meaning. From California missions to celebrity murders, from the Santa Monica Bay to the desert, the movement of tectonic plates to shifting populations, we will ask, "How did we get here, and where are we going?" We draw on the wonderful collections of the Natural History Museum to pose new answers to those questions.

Parking information: Exposition Park Lot 3, west of Menlo just south of Exposition and east of Vermont. Cost for parking is usually $8, but may be more expensive if there is an event at the Coliseum (subject to change). Museum First Friday cost for parking is $8.

For further information, please call our 24 hour information phone-line at (213) 763-DINO

Click here for NHM map and directions.

Events and details subject to change. For more information, email tcc@college.usc.edu.