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"Hollywood Meets The Hill" to Showcase Global Health
Hollywood, Health & Society's Global Health Initiative hosts an exciting, star-studded event in Washington, D.C., bringing top television producers, writers and celebrities onto the stage with key policymakers for an evening highlighting how global health is portrayed in entertainment media.To involve policymakers at the highest level, HH&S...
March 24th, 2010
Dean's Series on Sustainable Innovation: The Lear Center's Creativity, Commerce & Culture Project
Join the Norman Lear Center’s Marty Kaplan and Johanna Blakley for insights into one of their most innovative projects. Launched in 2001, the Creativity, Commerce & Culture project (CCC) embraces artful combinations of scholarship, artistic work and performance as it explores the creative, legal and ethical issues facing authors, artists and ...
March 25th, 2010
Bipartisan Global Health Briefing for Congressional Staff
Hollywood, Health & Society’s Global Health Initiative will hold a global health briefing for Congressional Staff, in collaboration with the Entertainment Caucus of the House of Representatives (chaired by Representative Diane Watson (D-CA) and the Study Group on Public Health (co-chaired by Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), along wi...
March 25th, 2010
Joystick Nation: A Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Lecture
Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan moderates a discussion titled Joystick Nation: Theater, Film and Interactive Gaming in 2020 as part of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities lecture series. Kaplan, an LAIH fellow, will be joined by another LAIH fellow Richard Schickel, along with REDCAT executive director Mark Murphy and Tracy Fullerton,...
March 29th, 2010
Dean's Series on Sustainable Innovation: Popular Music Project
Dean Ernest J. Wilson welcomes Josh Kun, Annenberg professor and director of the Lear Center's Popular Music Project, for a discussion of "The Music of El Otro Mexico." We’ll hear about Kun's research on the Regional Mexican music scene in California and what the songs of artists like Los Tigres del Norte, Joan Sebastian, & many oth...
April 1st, 2010
Dean's Series on Sustainable Innovation: Brand Cultures
Dean Ernest J. Wilson welcomes communication professor Sarah Banet-Weiser, director of the Norman Lear Center's BrandSpace, for a discussion of contemporary brand culture. BrandSpace is an interdisciplinary project, steered by a faculty working group from across USC’s campus that examines the way in which new practices, imaginations and politics ...
April 8th, 2010
The Death and Life of American Journalism: An Annenberg Research Colloquium
in their new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols demonstrate that the crisis in American journalism precedes the Internet and the current economic turbulence stems from the hollowing out of journalism under corporate control, which has increased dramatically since the late 1970s. Moreov...
