Lunch and Learn Series
McKibben Hall, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Continue reading “A Hidden History of Addiction: A Conversation with Professor Rebecca Lemon”
Clowns in the Hospital?! That’s Bonkers!: Conversations with Professor Zach Steel about Medical Clowning
Lunch and Learn Series
Mayer Auditorium, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Theatre, Medicine, Healing – Intersections and Accidents
Lunch and Learn Series
McKibben Hall 256, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 12:00-1:00 p.m.
David Bridel is dean of the USC School of Dramatic Arts and the inaugural holder of the Braverman Family Dean’s Chair. An accomplished director, playwright, choreographer, librettist and performer, his work in these disciplines has been seen in theatres, opera houses, and on screen at universities, festivals and theatres throughout the world. Dean Bridel is the founding and artistic director of The Clown School in Los Angeles, the only studio in the city devoted exclusively to the study and practice of clowning. He has received numerous grants and awards for his work, and is the coauthor of Clowns: In Conversation With Modern Masters.
War, Memory, and Trauma: A Conversation with Professor Viet Nguyen about The Sympathizer
Lunch and Learn Series
McKibben Hall 249, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Professor Viet Nguyen is the author of The Refugees, Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Sympathizer. He holds the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, and was recently awarded prestigious fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
Drinking Through the Ages: A Brief History of Alcohol Use and Abuse
Lunch and Learn Series
McKibben Hall 156, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Friday, November 10, 2017 at 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Professor of History and Anthropology, Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, and Divisional Dean for the Humanities at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. His research focuses on the history of early America, the early modern Atlantic world, environmental history, and early Native American history.