The Art of Business and the Business of Art

Sep 12 2011
When: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library, DML 240
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Event Details

A conversation among Professor Lord John Eatwell, President of Queens' College, Cambridge; the Honorable Dana Gioia, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, currently serving as Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture; Alexander Marr, Associate Professor of Art History; and Nandini Rajagopalan, Captain Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship, Director of Research at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Professor of Management and Organization.

Business is a theory, a practice, and an art form.  So is poetry.  And so is politics.  This session inaugurated the academic year 2011-2012 for the USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study with a wide-ranging discussion among four diversely learned polymaths—an economist, educator, college president, and member of Parliament; a poet, arts activist, and former Chairman of the NEA; a distinguished scholar of the history of art, mathematics, and polymathy; and a world-renowned professor of business at USC---to discuss the business of art, the art of business, and the marketing of each enterprise.

A video of the discussion will be available for viewing soon.  For more information, contact Dr. Karin Huebner, Director of Programs, at khuebner@usc.edu or 213-740-8747.

Speaker Information

Speaker

John Eatwell

Lord John Eatwell is President of Queens' College, Cambridge & professor of financial policy in Cambridge’s Judge Business School. From 1985 to 1992 he served as economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labour Party and was responsible for much of the work that led to a substantial re-alignment of the Labour Party's economic policies. His research interests are in European integration and problems of unemployment. Lord Eatwell will join the faculty of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, where he will teach a graduate course in the Department of Economics and an undergraduate course in the School of International Relations.

Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia holds the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California. Professor Gioia is the former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. His poetry collection, Interrogations at Noon, won the 2002 American Book Award. A true polymath, Professor Gioia has also written an opera.