ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Tuesday, January 17, at 9 a.m. 

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DESCRIPTION:
The concept of utopia has provoked the Western political imagination for 500 years, since the term was coined by Sir Thomas More to describe the ideal metropolis. But how do we envision utopia in the context of a 21st-century megacity like Los Angeles, with its particular environmental, social, and economic challenges? Further, how have representations of the perfect society changed alongside new media and emerging technologies that More himself could scarcely have imagined? In a multimedia conversation that includes a screening of unique media artifacts, archivist and cultural historian Megan Prelinger will discuss these questions with USC Libraries Discovery Fellow Geoff Manaugh.

Megan Prelinger is a cultural historian and the author of two books: Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age (2015), and Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race (2010). She is also co-founder and information designer of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, where she lives.

This event is presented as part of “500 Years of Utopia,” a series of events marking the December 2016 half-millennial anniversary of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia.

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Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
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Designing Utopia
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Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
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Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by the USC Libraries.