USC Dornsife News

The distinguished professor emeritus, who earned the Order of the Rising Sun from the emperor of Japan, was considered the “godfather” of Japanese studies.

This year’s Generations in Dialogue, a program of The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, benefits writers.

Choi Dong-hoon, director of The Thieves, the highest-grossing film in Korea to date, speaks during a recent film festival co-organized by USC Dornsife’s Korean Studies Institute.

The public is now invited to free monthly tours of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, where they can learn about the preservation and educational use of nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.

Nearly 52,000 video interviews have been archived digitally.

As many as 150,000 people attended the 17th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held at USC. Among the events they enjoyed were several featuring USC Dornsife faculty and alumni.

The non-profit publisher of Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic literature, housed in USC Dornsife’s Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, brings innovative fiction, poetry and critical essays to the public.