{"id":606,"date":"2023-04-26T13:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T20:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/?page_id=606"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:14:01","slug":"2018-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/past-laih-events\/2018-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"2018-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities @ USC schedule for 2018-19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All events are in 241 Doheny Memorial Library unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 21 \u2013 Dr. Marianne Wolf<\/strong>\u00a0will be speaking on her new book,\u00a0<i>The Future of the Deep Reading Brain in a Digital Culture<\/i>. Her presentation will describe the formation of the reading brain and the important role of deep reading processes like critical analysis and empathy in its development. Emphases will be placed on why and how the reading brain is changing in positive and worrisome directions as the result of the digital medium and its implications for the next generation and a democratic society.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Wolf_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Dr. Marianne Wolf\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 5 \u2013 Artist Alexandra Grant<\/strong>\u00a0will be speaking about how she uses language and exchanges with writers as a source for imagery in sculpture, painting, drawing, and video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Grant_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Artist Alexandra Grant\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 19 \u2013 Fellow Sasha Anawalt<\/strong>\u00a0will be speaking on the subject \u201cLos Angeles: The Cradle of American Modern Dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Anawalt_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Fellow Sasha Anawalt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 2 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Field trip to the Wende Museum of the Cold War<\/strong>, 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City. Exhibitions to include\u00a0<i>War of Nerves: The Psychological Landscape of the Cold War<\/i>\u00a0in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection (London), and\u00a0<i>Red Shoes: Love, Politics, and Dance during the Cold War<\/i>. Luncheon at Caf\u00e9 Laurent at 4243 Overland Ave, Culver City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/WendeMuseum_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Field trip to the Wende Museum of the Cold War\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 16 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>In his overview detailing the work of The Science &amp; Entertainment Exchange, program director\u00a0<strong>Rick Loverd<\/strong>\u00a0will discuss the collaborative connections The Exchange fosters with entertainment industry professionals and top scientists and engineers to create a synergy between accurate science and engaging storylines in popular film and television programming\u2014among them\u00a0<i>Criminal Minds<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Big Bang Theory<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Good Wife<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Covert Affairs\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>Black Panther<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Loverd_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\"  alt=\"Rick Loverd\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dec. 7 \u2013 Field trip to the USC Fisher Museum of Art<\/strong>: Curator Tim Wride will provide a talk and a tour of\u00a0<i>Earthworks: Mapping the Anthropocene.\u00a0<\/i>The exhibition features new and recent works by Justin Brice Guariglia,\u00a0a transdisciplinary artist who, in 2015 and 2016, flew seven times with\u00a0NASA\u00a0as part of Operation Ice Bridge (a survey mission of Greenland) to study how melting glaciers affect the rise of sea levels. Luncheon will be held at the Fisher Museum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/FisherMuseum_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Curator Tim Wride\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan. 11 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0On the heels of the Oscar nomination announcements,\u00a0<strong>Nancy Wang Yuen<\/strong>\u00a0will discuss findings based on her book,\u00a0<i>Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Yuen_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Nancy Wang Yuen\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan. 25 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Fellow\u00a0<strong>Patt Morrison<\/strong>\u00a0of the Los Angeles Times discusses her new book,\u00a0<i>Don\u2019t Stop the Presses: Truth, Justice, and The American Newspaper<\/i>\u00a0in which she showcases the importance of newspapers\u2014in both words and startling imagery\u2014and documents the impact of the medium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Morrison_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Patt Morrison\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb. 8 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Literary scholar and biographer\u00a0<strong>Zachary Leader<\/strong>\u00a0discussing his latest work,\u00a0<i>The Life of Saul Bellows,\u00a0<\/i>sharing notes from unprecedented access to the novelist\u2019s papers, including much previously restricted material, as well as interviews with more than 150 of Bellow\u2019s relatives, close friends, colleagues, and lovers, a number of whom have never spoken to researchers before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Leader_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Zachary Leader\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb. 22 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Annual lunch at the Getty Museum with the Getty Research Institute Fellows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Getty_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Annual lunch at the Getty Museum\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 8 \u2013 Emily Lakdawalla<\/strong>, Senior Editor of The Planetary Society, shares insights related to her research on Mars curiosity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Lakdawalla_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Emily Lakdawalla\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 22 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Nicola Twilley<\/strong>\u00a0co-host and co-producer of Gastropod, a popular and award-winning podcast about the history and science of food, on \u201cExploring the Artificial Cryosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Twilley_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Nicola Twilley\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past century, we have built a network of thermal control that has remade our entire relationship with food, for better and, in some ways, for worse. It is the invisible backbone of our food system\u2014a man-made, distributed, and perpetual winter of mechanical refrigeration\u2014it is the many mysteries of the artificial cryosphere that beckon, from banana ripening rooms to sleeping fish, and from reefers to juice tanks. What have we gained and lost, in our wholehearted embrace of artificial cold? And what can we do to make sure its many benefits outweigh its enormous costs, going forward?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 5 \u2013 Kit Rachlis<\/strong>, Senior Editor for The California Sunday Magazine, to discuss &#8220;Journalism Under Siege: What&#8217;s Its Future?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Rachlis_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\" Kit Rachlis\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 19:\u00a0<\/strong>Fellow<strong>\u00a0Henry Jenkins<\/strong>\u00a0on \u201cSometimes My Kids Seem Like a Bunch of Kangaroos!: Permissive Parenting\u00a0and Post-War Children&#8217;s Culture\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/laih\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/11\/Jenkins_jpg.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Henry Jenkins\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This talk explores some of the ways ideas about childhood and parenting changed after the Second World War, shaped by the writings of, among others, Margaret Mead,\u00a0Benjamin Spock, and Dorothy Baruch, who described the ways the family\u00a0and the culture more generally needed to be reshaped to accommodate children&#8217;s passions, curiosity, and creativity. How might this new paradigm help to explain such archetypical post-war children&#8217;s texts as\u00a0<i>The Cat in the Hat,<\/i>\u00a0<i>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Dennis the Menace, Johnny Quest<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Mr. Roger&#8217;s Neighborhood<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>May 3 \u2013<\/i>\u00a0Field trip to Union Station. Fellow\u00a0<strong>Bill Deverell<\/strong>\u00a0will speak about Union Station and what lies beneath it. 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