Workshop

The Spring 2025 series of four workshops follow a through-line of critical polymathy: using the synthesis of different perspectives to give us a better look at popular technologies and production techniques.

These events will take place at the Ahmanson Lab every other Wednesday starting February 26th from 3pm-4pm during Spring 2025. See below for our topics.

 


This program is open to all eligible individuals. USC operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.

 

 

Current Semester
Sep 16 2014

Goethe’s Color Wheel—Its Meanings and Implications, A Workshop

When: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Where: Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, DML 241
Event Type: Workshop
“Give to Nature praise and honor, blithe of heart and sound of eye, knowing for the world of colour, where its broad foundations lie.”                                                 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All nature,” wrote Goethe, “manifests by means of colours to the sense of sight.”   Moving away from the conventional mechanistic approach to science, Goethe approached the natural world as phenomenological, focusing...
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Sep 17 2014

POETRY. ENTRANCES AND EXITS.

When: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, DML 241
Event Type: Workshop
USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, USC Libraries, USC’s Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, and Villa Aurora present:


Gerhard Falkner

POETRY. ENTRANCES AND EXITS

In a conversation with Robert von Hallberg, Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, Falkner will discuss the entrances into and exits from poetry, addressing such topics as the selection of style of language for specific contexts and how the language of poetry makes it possible to say more with less, and the various media outlets, for example film and the performing arts...
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