Lifelong Learning

USC Town and Gown, University Park Campus

Thursday, January 30, 2025

This annual conference brings together experts from politics, government, media and academia to explore the most pressing issues in America’s political landscape. Topics this year include the 2024 presidential election, down ballot races and the overall
temperature of the country

Newman Recital Hall (AHF 151), University Park Campus

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.

Award-winning musician and Harvard professor Vijay Iyer, who has been voted DownBeat magazine’s Artist of the Year four times since 2012 and Artist of the Year in Jazz Times’ Critics’ and Readers’ Polls for 2017, will kick off his residency at USC with an intimate solo performance at Newman Recital Hall.

Organized by Erin Graff Zivin (Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature) and Jonathan Leal (English). Co-sponsored by the USC Dornsife Experimental Humanities Lab.

Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, DML 240, University Park Campus

Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 6 p.m.

To conclude his residency at USC, Vijay Iyer—a celebrated pianist, composer, collaborator, and tenured professor at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies—will discuss his process, art, career, and more.

USC Town and Gown, University Park Campus 

Thursday, April 3, 2025

A signature USC Earth Month event, the annual conference hosts experts from politics, government, media and academia to discuss climate change issues with a focus on finding practical policy and business solutions as well as identifying ways to remove political
obstacles in the implementation. Panelists will discuss the effects of the
presidential election on climate policy.

CASA 0101, 2102 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90033

Thursday, April 3, 2025 – Sunday, April 6, 2025

Join us for workshop performances of Homeboys, a new musical celebrating the iconic L.A.-based nonprofit that began serving former gang members and at-risk youth in 1988. Created by Alberto López, Greg Koppenhaver, and Mark C. Marino, and co-produced by CASA 0101, the original theatre piece follows six homeboys and homegirls as they try to leave la vida, recounting the founding of Homeboy Industries by Father Greg Boyle and featuring pan-Latin musical styles from 1990s rap to reggaeton and cumbia.

Mark C. Marino (book and lyrics) is a professor in the Dornsife College Writing Program at USC, where he directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCS) Lab.

USC Brain and Creativity Institute’s Joyce J. Cammilleri Hall (BCI), University Park Campus

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

“A System in Collapse Is a System Moving Forward”

A Dance Performance-Lecture by Aimar Pérez Galí and Daniel Méndez Piña

Reception to follow.

Panelists:

Aimar Pérez Galí, Dancer

Amelia Jones, Vice Dean and Professor, USC Roski School of Art and Design

Patrick Corbin, Associate Professor, USC Kaufman School of Dance

Gian Maria Annovi, Associate Professor, Italian and Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife College

Miguel Caballero-Vázquez, Assistant Professor, Iberian Studies, Northwestern University

SAVE THE DATES

Please join us for two special fundraising galas as we honor and celebrate Bob Shrum, Director of the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future and the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, for his many years of dedication at the University of California.

Los Angeles, California

Location: TBD

Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Time: 6:00 P.M. Reception | 7:00 P.M. Dinner

Washington D.C.

Location: TBD

Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025

Time: 6:00 P.M. Reception | 7:00 P.M. Dinner

More details to follow…