Workshop

Presented in collaboration with the USC Interfaith Council.

 

“When I run, I feel His pleasure.” Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire

 

Whirling dervishes, reggaes’ beat, aromatic incense, and Greek Orthodox iconography all share something in common—they are each unique portals to the ecstatic, conduits to sublimity. For Olympic gold medalist Eric Liddell, his spiritual ecstasy came when he simply ran. How might we understand the complexity of this sort of induced sensual/spiritual intoxication, literally and metaphorically?  For our spring 2019...

A conversation with Miriam Pawel, historian, journalist, and author of The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation

 

Light lunch will be served.

California Poet Laureate and USC Professor, Dana Gioia, moderates a discussion with poet, classicist, and 2011 MacArthur Fellow Alicia Stallings, author of the award-winning collections Archaic Smile, Hapax, The Nature of Things, and Olives. 

In September 2012, Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts and crafts stores, filed a lawsuit against the United States over a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) which mandated that health insurance provided by employers must include access to emergency contra-ceptives. Hobby Lobby stated that this provision violated their religious beliefs, and argued that they were protected by the First Amendment and Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The Supreme Court eventually ruled in their favor. This panel will seek to discuss the various ethical issues associated with...

“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...

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...