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Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform
Lear Center Fellow David Bollier hosts a panel discussion as part of the International Commons Conference (ICC) "Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform." The event seeks to bring together a diverse group of about 150 international and Germany/European based commoners, intellectuals, activists and policy makers. Questions to be exp... November 1st, 2010 - November 2nd, 2010

Free Culture Forum
Lear Center Deputy Director Johanna Blakley joins experts from around the world on the free culture movement in this international conference. Scheduled in tandum with the 3rd oXcars Festival, the FCForum is a three-day event of international scope that brings together key organizations and active voices in the spheres of free culture and knowl... October 29th, 2010 - October 1st, 2010

Why Me? A Visions & Voices Event
In 1974, Annenberg Journalism Professor Joe Saltzman produced what has been acknowledged to be the first TV documentary on breast cancer, an hour-long program called Why Me? This groundbreaking documentary addressed a subject not seen before on television. The award-winning program was viewed by one out of every three women in the Western world, ... October 21st, 2010 6:30pm

The Popular Music Project Presents: Raymond Roker
Raymond Roker, Co-Founder and Publisher of URB magazine and URB.com, is the 2010-2011 Distinguished Artist in Residence for the Popular Music Project. A former DJ, Roker is actively imagining new avenues for digital media,music, social networking, and branding/marketing to commingle in creative ways. The Popular Music Project will host an intro... October 7th, 2010

140 Characters Conference
Deputy Director Johanna Blakley will join hundreds of social media experts to discuss Twitter's impact on media and culture at the annual 140 Character Conference, scheduled in Los Angeles. Her topic, "Twitter in the Ivory Tower" will explore how the social media tool can bridge the gap between the general public and academe. She will discuss how T... October 4th, 2010

Alumni Leadership Conference
Deputy Director Johanna Blakley will discuss intellectual property in the fashion industry to 200 alumni volunteer leaders and USC senior administrators at the annual USC Alumni Leadership Conference. This year'se event -- "Trojans Transforming the World" -- and gives alumni the opportunity to hear updates from USC�s senior leaders, inc... September 30th, 2010

Open World Forum
Lear Center Fellow David Bollier hosts a panel and workshop on the commons at the Open World Forum, a major, international open-space business conference where stakeholders in the Free/Open Source movement can meet and make new connections.September 29 through October 1, 2010�Paris, France For more information, visit the website at www.openworldf... September 29th, 2010 - October 1st, 2010

2010 Sentinel for Health Awards Ceremony
The Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society program�will announce the winners of the eleventh annual Sentinel for Health Awards Ceremony. Six categories of storylines will be recognized � daytime drama, primetime drama, primetime comedy, primetime drama minor storyline,�children's programming, and the newly-added global health storyline. Th... September 22nd, 2010 6:00pm

2010 Everett M. Rogers Colloquium
Martine Bouman, director of the Center Media & Health in the Netherlands, has been named the 2010 recipient of the Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment Education. Her career is a rare combination of roles as social scientist and educator, designer of EE campaigns, and public policy advocate. Her work has led to television ... September 22nd, 2010 12:00pm

Social Media Week 2010
As part of Social Media Week, the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML) hosts a lecture by Lear Center Deputy Director Johanna Blakley titled "The Business and Culture of Social Media." Blakley's lecture will explore how social media has forever altered the media landscape, and how organizations must adapt to identify their new au... September 20th, 2010

Prime Time for Addiction Issues
The Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society program brings together top experts on the science and psychology of addiction to discuss cutting-edge research with the producers and writers from A&E's Emmy Award-winning series Intervention at the Writers Guild of America, West. This briefing was co-sponsored by HH&S, the WGAW and A&... August 9th, 2010

University & Cyberspace
Lear Center Fellow David Bollier will be part of "University & Cyberspace: Reshaping Knowledge Institutions in the Digital Age" � a three-day, multi-disciplinary conference focusing on the ways in which the Internet affects universities as knowledge institutions. Bollier will discuss how academia as a commons is threatened by variou... June 28th, 2010 - June 30th, 2010

State of the Arts Symposium
Hollywood, Health & Society director Sandra de Castro Buffington has been asked to join the Millenium Project's Global Arts and Media Node and will present a talk at the State of the Arts 2010 Symposium, offered by Millenium Project's partner organization,�c3: Center for Conscious Creativity.The�symposium will address future trends in the arts ... June 19th, 2010

Social Media in the Curriculum: Degrees for Today�s Learners
The Lear Center�s Johanna Blakley will moderate a discussion at the New Media Consortium about how social media is both used and taught within the academy. Since social media is a critical part of today�s professional communication tools palette, this conversation will focus on two innovative programs at USC that have leveraged social networking pr... June 11th, 2010

Marty Kaplan: Visiting Professor at Barcelona's UOC
Lear Center director Marty Kaplan will spend the next three weeks as a visiting professor at the Open University of Catalonia, offering a public lecture and four seminars on the current tectonic shifts in American entertainment media and journalism resulting from outdated business models and the transformative nature of digital content. Professor K... May 14th, 2010

Jews on Vinyl at the Skirball
Popular Music Project Director and Annenberg professor Josh Kun co-curates an exploration into Jewish recorded music in "Jews on Vinyl" at the Skirball Cultural Center. Based on Kun and Roger Bennett's book, And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost, the exhibition fea... May 11th, 2010

That Old Black Magic: The Music of Black-Jewish Relations
Josh Kun, director of the Lear Center's Popular Music Project, explores the myriad ways Jews and African Americans have overlapped in music including how Jews and African Americans have coalesced, clashed, mobilized, and struggled with each other through a century�s worth of extraordinary and fascinating performances that find Jews performing ... April 25th, 2010

The Popular Music Project Presents: Courtney Holt
Last fall, 2010 Popular Music Project Artist-in-Residence Courtney Holt, president of MySpace Music, asked a group of Annenberg undergraduates to imagine their ideal online platform for digital music consumption. Join us as they present their findings in a candid conversation with Holt � moderated by PMP director Josh Kun and ASC doctoral student I... April 19th, 2010 6:30pm

The Death and Life of American Journalism: An Annenberg Research Colloquium
In their new book,�The Death and Life of American Journalism,�Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols demonstrate that the crisis in American journalism precedes the Internet and the current economic turbulence stems from the hollowing out of journalism under corporate control, which has increased dramatically since the late 1970s. Moreover, they argu... April 19th, 2010

TedxUSC
TEDxUSC "Ideas Empowered" ConferenceThe TEDxUSC Conference brings the spirit of the TED Conference to USC. Think of TEDxUSC as a retreat with 1200 of your smartest friends. A time to explore new ideas, get inspired by visionary thinkers, and gain exposure to concepts and innovations you may not have ever seen before. A time to check-out f... April 13th, 2010

Dean's Series on Sustainable Innovation: Brand Cultures
Dean Ernest J. Wilson welcomes communication professor Sarah Banet-Weiser, director of the Norman Lear Center's BrandSpace, for a discussion of contemporary brand culture. BrandSpace is an interdisciplinary project, steered by a faculty working group from across USC�s campus that examines the way in which new practices, imaginations and politics ar... April 7th, 2010

Dean's Series on Sustainable Innovation: Popular Music Project
Dean Ernest J. Wilson welcomes Josh Kun, Annenberg professor and director of the Lear Center's Popular Music Project, for a discussion of "The Music of El Otro Mexico." We�ll hear about Kun's research on the Regional Mexican music scene in California and what the songs of artists like Los Tigres del Norte, Joan Sebastian, & many other... April 1st, 2010

Dean's Series on Sustainable Innovation: The Lear Center's Creativity, Commerce & Culture Project
Join the Norman Lear Center�s Marty Kaplan and Johanna Blakley for insights into one of their most innovative projects. Launched in 2001, the Creativity, Commerce & Culture project (CCC) embraces artful combinations of scholarship, artistic work and performance as it explores the creative, legal and ethical issues facing authors, artists and ... March 25th, 2010

"Hollywood Meets The Hill" to Showcase Global Health
Hollywood, Health & Society's Global Health Initiative hosts an exciting, star-studded event in Washington, D.C., bringing top television producers, writers and celebrities onto the stage with key policymakers for an evening highlighting how global health is portrayed in�entertainment media.To involve policymakers at the highest level, HH&S... March 24th, 2010

Best of Times: Writing in the Age of the Internet
The changing landscape of publishing, media and entertainment is at once rife with challenges and opportunities for all involved. How can fiction and non-fiction writers, screen and television writers, poets and journalists best penetrate and navigate the world of the Kindle, iPad and free online news? Lear Center Deputy Director Johanna Blakley jo... March 11th, 2010 6:00pm

Does LA Local TV News Cover News Locals Need?
Release of a Major New Study of the LA Media Market By the USC Annenberg School�s Norman Lear Center Martin Kaplan, director of the Lear Center, is co-principal investigator, along with Seton Hall's Dr. Matthew Hale, on this unprecedented�study of more than 11,000 news stories aired by eight LA�TV stations. FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps � who... March 11th, 2010 10:00am

You Want a Piece of Me? Organ Transplantation Stories From the Real World
If you were given the chance to save eight lives, wouldn�t you take it? Come listen to experts discuss leading edge technology and therapy and expose the myths of organ donation. Hear personal stories about the second chance of life from real organ recipients and donors, and see how a popular primetime drama addressed this compelling issue. Watch t... March 11th, 2010

The Adventures of Abie the Fishman: A Lecture by Josh Kun
STARRING THE MARX BROTHERS & BOB DYLAN With Special Appearances by Willie Howard, Belle Barth, Doc Pomus, Jerome Robbins, Speedy Gonzales, Kiss & More Popular Music Project director Josh Kun presents this entertaining and intriguing talk under the auspices of The Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity and The UCLA Center for ... February 1st, 2010

Lincoln & King's Unfinished Work
The Norman Lear Center is a co-convener for the Los Angeles Abraham Lincoln National Town Hall, part of a series of national events celebrating the life and legacy of the 16th American president. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, actor Richard Dreyfuss, Dr. Darlene Robles of the Los Angeles County Office of Educatio... January 17th, 2010

Addiction: Fact & Fiction
Come hear compelling stories about addiction - from substance abuse to treatment and recovery. Hear from recovered addicts, medical experts, specialists in drug and tobacco policy, and TV writers who have turned stories about addiction�into top-rated television shows. View the video here.�Featuring: Moderator: Dr. Neal Baer, Executive Producer, Law... January 14th, 2010

World's Fair Use Day
Norman Lear Center Fellow David Bollier, author of Viral Spiral, How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, will moderate a panel titled "Emerging Media: Commentary, Criticism and the New Publishing Paradigm" at World's Fair Use Day (WFUD). WFUD is a free, all-day celebration of fair use: the legal right that allows innova... January 12th, 2010

Innovation & Creativity in the Fashion Industry
Digital technology has enabled new modalities of innovation in every industry, but it has also taken a toll. Industries with strong copyright protection (music, film, TV, publishing) are finding it hard to compete in the digital marketplace, where amateurs can make perfect copies with the click of a button. While it may be tempting to believe tha... January 12th, 2010

Sounds and Cents: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Possible Future of the Music Industry
Who makes music? To what end? Under what conditions? Questions such as these have been widely discussed since the late 1990s, when the music industry began to face a series of seismic, paradigm-shifting challenges. Seldom have these issues been placed in much-needed historical perspective, however. Josh Kun, director of the Norman Lear Center's Pop... January 11th, 2010 12:00pm