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The Los Angeles Times has released its handy guide to PST: Art & Science Collide exhibitions—including our ONE Archives' "Sci-Fi, Magick, Q***r LA: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation." See it at the USC Fisher Museum of Art by November 23.

The busy person's guide to PST 'Art & Science Collide' exhibitions The latest installment of Pacific Standard Time, the museum series that this year is titled 'PST Art: Art & Science collide,' has arrived. Here's our shortlist of exhibitions and events.

Welcome back, Trojans! Whether today marks the beginning of your academic journey at USC, or merely the start of a new chapter, our virtual orientation will introduce you to the many ways we can support your scholarly endeavors: https://usc.libwizard.com/f/virtualorientation

UK-based science historian Dr. Franziska Kohlt recently completed her term as our inaugural Carrollian Fellow. Her kaleidoscopic foray into our Cassady Lewis Carroll collection resulted in an array of discoveries, publications, academic collaboration, and student engagement—as well as forthcoming opportunities for the public to experience some of the collection's treasures for themselves.

Inaugural Carrollian Fellow Unveils New Worlds for Students to Discover | USC Libraries Franziska Kohlt, a UK-based science historian, spent the past academic year exploring the vast imaginative world of Lewis Carroll.

Our ONE Archives' "Sci-fi, Magick, Q***r L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation," presented as part of the Getty's PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative, opens this Thursday, Aug. 22, at the USC Fisher Museum of Art.

Art show explores sci-fi, the occult and q***r history in mid-20th century LA Sci-Fi, Magick, Q***r L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation runs Aug. 22 - Nov. 23 at USC’s Fisher Museum of Art

We partnered with the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and USC Shoah Foundation on a new collective storytelling project that puts museum visitors in conversation with ten Holocaust survivors.

Read about "Survivor Stories: An Interactive Dialog" in the New York Times:

Long After Surviving the N***s, They Use A.I. to Remind the World The Museum of Jewish Heritage is using artificial intelligence to create an installation where visitors can interact with people who directly experienced the Holocaust.

Congratulations to Maurice Hudson, our 2024 Floyd Covington fellow!

Hudson is president of the California Social Welfare Archives (CSWA) and an affiliate faculty member at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Hudson's research will mine our archival collections for insights into how trends like the rise of community policing changed the relationship between social work and law enforcement in 1960s-90s L.A.

Maurice Hudson Named 2024 Floyd Covington Fellow | USC Libraries Hudson's research focuses on the historical relationship between social work and law enforcement in the L.A. area.

Earlier this year, USC Dornsife undergrad Amelia Marvit won a Student Recognition Award from the USC chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, which we host, for her article about the cardiovascular systems of "Doctor Who" Time Lords. Now, Scientific American has published a modified version of that award-winning article. Congratulations, Amelia!

Doctor Who’s Alien Anatomy Explained by USC Dornsife Alumna - USC Dornsife Time Lord biology gets a scholarly examination in Scientific American.

SAG-AFTRA has honored Lost LA, our co-production with PBS SoCal, with its 2023 Belva Davis American Scene Award. The award recognizes union productions that "realistically portray the American Scene" through diverse and inclusive programming.

Lost LA Receives SAG-AFTRA's American Scene Award for Diverse and Inclusive Programming | USC Libraries The USC Libraries' co-production with PBS SoCal has won the 2023 Belva Davis American Scene Award for its "From Little Tokyo to Crenshaw" episode.

Meet the five USC students who've been awarded our Summer Primary Source Research Fellowships on Sustainability.

Five USC Students Named Summer Sustainability Fellows | USC Libraries The fellows are engaged in primary source research at the intersection of history, gender studies, and sustainability studies.

The USC Libraries are celebrating by highlighting LGBTQIA+ Muslim and Jewish writers and stories. Check out our Pride Book List here: https://libguides.usc.edu/pridebooks

Earlier this month, we celebrated the intellectual and creative achievements of our USC students at a series of Commencement Week events.

Commencement 2024: Celebrating Our USC Graduates | USC Libraries The USC Libraries celebrated the intellectual and creative achievements of our USC students at a series of annual events during USC’s Commencement Week.

Earlier this week, we celebrated the 133 newest members of USC's oldest fully interdisciplinary honor society at the Phi Kappa Phi initiation ceremony. Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to USC's ! In honor of them, from our USC University Archives, here's a look back to the 1926 Commencement ceremony at the the then-three-year-old Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

How do library collections preserve a record of freeway construction and community displacement? Check out this interview with our inaugural sustainability fellow, Amber Santoro, courtesy of our partners at the USC Wrigley Institute for Environment & Sustainability.

Sharing Untold Stories: Ph.D. student Amber Santoro highlights community impacts of freeway construction - USC Wrigley Today, millions of Angelenos rely on an extensive network of freeways to get around our bustling city. Although many see freeways primarily as a dreaded part of their weekday rush-hour routine, the highways’ histories are rich with untold narratives of communities whose lives were inextricably lin...

Congratulations to the winners of our USC Libraries Research Award! The annual contest recognizes excellence and creativity in the use of our research collections and services. We celebrated this year's six winning entries a reception last Tuesday at Doheny Memorial Library.

USC Libraries Research Award Celebrates Student Excellence | USC Libraries Winners of the annual USC Libraries Research Award honored at a reception

Happy Earth Day from the USC Libraries! Of course, here at USC we celebrate Earth Month all April long: https://sustainability.usc.edu/events/usc-earth-month/

Pictured: A globe on display in Jinan China, 1947, from the the International Mission Photography Archive in our USC Digital Library.

This Thursday, USC RSVP hosts a Narrative Medicine workshop centered on the importance of interpersonal connection in creating safer environments for our fellow Trojans.

USC RSVP x Narrative Medicine Workshop: In The Family of Things Join USC RSVP in partnership with the USC M.S. Narrative Medicine program in a Narrative Medicine workshop centered on the importance of interpersonal connection in creating safer environments for our fellow Trojans. We will be discussing a piece of poetry and learning more about narrative medicine....

China Daily recently featured our Ailing Zhang (Eileen Chang) papers in a story about the Chinese-American writer and her reclusive final years in Los Angeles.

Chang (1920–95) often wrote about the resilience and self-reliance of "lonely, abandoned women"—a theme that echoed through her latter years. "Chang's own life, especially in her later years," writes the Daily's Mariella Radaelli, "seemed to imitate those of the characters she had written. Her papers in USC's collection are a testament to her integrity and courage as demonstrated in her ability to go it alone, until the very end."

The solitude of Eileen Chang A collection of manuscripts, letters and other documents recently acquired by the University of Southern California promises to shed new light on the later years of the iconic Chinese writer Eileen Chang. Mariella Radaelli reports.

A new book collection at the USC Libraries will serve students, faculty, and others researching the Armenian genocide. Comprising approximately 3,800 books in Armenian, Turkish, French, German, and English, it represents a major addition to our holdings on Holocaust and genocide studies.

USC Libraries Celebrate Major New Book Collection on Armenian Genocide | USC Libraries The collection comprises approximately 3,800 books in Armenian, Turkish, French, German, and English and represents a major new addition to the USC Libraries’ genocide studies holdings.

Los Angeles is mourning the loss of the Rev. Dr. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, the influential civil rights leader and longtime pastor at the First African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church of Los Angeles.

Murray was renowned for his stirring sermons delivered from the First AME pulpit. Many have been digitized and made publicly accessible through our USC Digital Library, in partnership with the USC Center for Religion & Civic Culture and with generous National Endowment for the Humanities support.

Watch here: https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/Archive/First-African-Methodist-Episcopal-Church-of-Los-Angeles-Collection-2A3BF1W9O8?Flat=1

We're excited to announce the debut of Hidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ Collections. This partnership between our ONE Archives and L.A. as Subject, made possible by a generous grant from the California State Library, will create a centralized resource of LGBTQ+ archival material for researchers and community members.

Hidden Histories: Hidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ Collections  

Last Saturday, our facilities team led USC Alumni Day of SCervice volunteers in updating and refreshing the ONE Archives' native plant garden.

USC Alumni Day of SCervice at ONE Archives | USC Libraries The USC Libraries facilities team led a dozen volunteers in refreshing and updating the native cactus garden at the ONE Archives.

April is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at USC. Here at the USC Libraries, we're proud to offer resources to help the Trojan family deepen its appreciation for Asian American & Pacific Islander heritage, including a digital exhibit about the pioneering Chinese American scholar Theodore Hsi-en Chen and an in-person exhibition drawing upon our East Asian Library's collection of Korean science fiction and fantasy.

Details: https://we-are.usc.edu/celebrating-asian-american-pacific-islander-heritage-month/

This April, we celebrate Arab American Heritage Month at .

On Monday, 4/1, join President Carol Folt together with faculty, staff, students, and community members for a kickoff event featuring special remarks, energetic performances, and traditional refreshments.

Details: https://we-are.usc.edu/celebrating-asian-american-pacific-islander-heritage-month/

Last week we hosted a performance of short plays by USC students that examine and reimagine the university's Trojan symbolism.

Here's the Daily Trojan's recap of "About Face: Women, War, and Re-envisioning Troy," presented in partnership with USC Visions and Voices, USC School of Dramatic Arts, and USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

‘About Face’ empowers modern Trojan women - Daily Trojan Playwrights, professors and actors gathered to discuss modern Trojan women.

Our 36th-annual Scripter Awards, which honor the year's most accomplished adaptations of the written word, were widely covered in the entertainment press.

Media Coverage of the 36th-annual Scripter Awards | USC Libraries The 36th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards were widely covered by the entertainment press.

Many grad students report feeling intense anxiety around research, especially as they conduct independent research for theses and dissertations for the first time. On 3/21, students can face this research anxiety head on at an online workshop hosted by librarian Kevin Klipfel.

Workshop - "Facing Research Anxiety: A Mindfulness-Based Approach" with Kevin Klipfel | USC Libraries Workshop - "Facing Research Anxiety: A Mindfulness-Based Approach" with Kevin Klipfel Workshop Add to Calendar 2024-03-21 11:00:00 2024-03-21 12:00:00 Workshop - "Facing Research Anxiety: A Mindfulness-Based Approach" with Kevin Klipfel 11:00 am 12:00 pm America/Los_Angeles public March 21, 2024 - M...

USC faculty who want to integrate primary sources related to social justice into their teaching or research are invited to apply for our next round of Floyd Covington fellowships. Application deadline: April 15.

Floyd Covington Fellowship Call for Proposals, Spring 2024 | USC Libraries USC faculty who want to integrate primary sources related to social justice into their teaching or research are invited to apply for the next round of Floyd Covington fellowships.

It's Academic Integrity Week at USC. A full week of sessions about generative AI
tools, helpful writing strategies and learning tips, ways to promote academic integrity, and more.

Details:

Office of Academic Integrity By actively engaging with students, staff, and faculty, we seek to cultivate a shared commitment to upholding the values of integrity and accountability within the university community. Through our educational programs and collaborative efforts, we emphasize the importance of academic honesty and co...

Congratulations to the winners of our 36th-annual Scripter Awards!

Author Mick Herron and screenwriter Will Smith ("Real Tigers"/"Slow Horses") won in the episodic series category and author Percival Everett & writer/director Cord Jefferson ("Erasure"/"American Fiction") in film.

Writers of “American Fiction,” “Slow Horses” Win 36th-annual Scripter Awards | USC Libraries The authors and screenwriters behind the film “American Fiction” and the series “Slow Horses” won the 36th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards on the evening of Saturday, Mar. 2.