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February 10, 2012 (Re)collections: Trauma, Collective Memory and the Archive – Part I 3 – 5  p.m. Carole Little Building (CAL) To secure your spot please RSVP to: tdc@dornsife.usc.edu Walk-Ins Welcome

This two-day event will be devoted to a multi-faceted inquiry of memory and its manifestations in individual and public life.

Part I

Led by Dr. Dan Leshem, Associate Director of Academic Outreach and Research, USC Shoah Foundation Institute

The first part of this two-day event is devoted to the physical, and digital, aspects of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive. The Institute staff will introduce their digital archive of almost 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. Participants will receive a hands-on tutorial on using the archive, as well as a discussion on the methodologies of its collection and analysis. After using the digitized archive, a tour of the physical archive will remind us of the materiality of memory. In this session, we consider our role as users of the digital archive, and how the Institute’s Visual History Archive can be integrated into the classroom and used across disciplines.

 

February 11, 2012 (Re)collections: Trauma, Collective Memory and the Archive – Part II 10 a.m. – 4:15  p.m. Doheny Memorial Library, 240 To secure your spot please RSVP to: tdc@dornsife.usc.edu Walk-Ins Welcome

Join us for part two of the two-day series for exploring, reproducing, and the possible reprogramming of the human memory.

Part II

10 a.m. – 12 p.m. –Panel Discussion
“Bridging Individual and Collective Memory”

Using our experiences in the Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive as an entry point, this panel will look at the relations between individual and collective memory. How do we understand the interactions between these components? Which one is more powerful, under which circumstances, and what mediates the two? How does this understanding shape (or is reflected by) the methodologies we employ? Our panel members will present on their own work which touches on these questions, as well as engage in an interdisciplinary discussion.

Panelists:

Dr. Dan Leshem, Associate Director of Academic Outreach and Research, USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Dr. Oren Meyers, Visiting Professor, San Diego State University Jewish Studies Program; Professor, University of Haifa, Department of Communication, Israel

Dr. Josh Kun, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication, (Joint appointment in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity)

Dr. Viet Nguyen, Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, USC

Moderator: Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, PhD student, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

12 – 2 p.m. – Lunch

Renowned performance artists Denise Uyehara and Genevieve Erin O'Brien will lead a hands-on workshop that explores the materialization of memory in everyday objects. Through embodied practice, we will explore how memory becomes embedded in or evacuated from objects. Participants are encouraged to bring an object from their daily lives that holds some meaning them. Objects will also be available at the workshop for participants to use.

Read more information about the panelists, performers, and organizers.

February 21, 2012 Conversations at Sunset 5 – 6 p.m. Doheny Memorial Library, Herklotz Room To secure your spot please RSVP to: tdc@dornsife.usc.edu Walk-Ins Welcome

Speaker: Professor Aimee Bender, Department of English, Creative Writing Program

Come and hear Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) read one of her short stories, and discuss the story and the creative process with her.

 

 

February 27, 2012 Performing in Masks 4 – 6 p.m. Doheny Memorial Library, 240 To secure your spot please RSVP to: tdc@dornsife.usc.edu

A participatory workshop based on New York University Professor Peter Meineck's new research of the 5th-century ancient Greek mask. Participants will study the techniques of acting in masks, the importance of movement and the perception of emotional shifts of the mask for the spectator.

 

February 28, 2012 The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask 12 – 2 p.m. Doheny Memorial Library Intellectual Commons, 233 To secure your spot please RSVP to: tdc@dornsife.usc.edu Walk-Ins Welcome

Join Peter Meineck, distinguished poet and author, as he discusses how the Greek tragic mask created the focus that guided the spectators of tragedy between the foveal and the peripheral, provided the visual means to denote a performance and most importantly, produced the intimacy necessary to facilitate individual emotional responses.

 

February 28, 2012 AQUILA THEATRE              in Euripides’ Herakles 7 – 9 p.m. Bovard Auditorium To secure your spot please RSVP at Vision and Voices Reservations begin February 2, 2012

Herakles, the play, raises challenging questions: What is legitimate violence, and how can we prevent it from taking us over and turning inward against what we value most? How can we be human in a world that can seem inhuman? Can we accept catastrophes that happen to us for no justifiable reason and go on with life? How do we make a place in our lives for these disasters? Come enjoy this authentic Greek theatre performance as the actors and chorus perform through masks. Presented by Visions and Voices and The Dornsife Commons.

 

 

Events and details subject to change. For more information, email tdc@dornsife.usc.edu.