Theme Guides

USC Visions and Voices creates theme guides for selected events featuring information on the event topics, guest speakers and artists, participating organizations, and additional resources. Theme guides may be accessed at the links below.

FALL 2021
10/16/21: Because of Anita: Truth, Justice, Race, Gender, and Power–30 Years Later – Program and Theme Guide
10/21/21: Masters of the Currents – Program and Theme Guide
11/2/21: An Evening with Zadie Smith – Theme Guide
11/4–6/21: USSR 30: Cinema after the Collapse – Schedule and Theme Guide
11/11/21: Waging Peace in Vietnam: Protest Movements and Social Change – Theme Guide
11/15/21: Midnight Traveler: Capturing the Global Refugee Crisis on Film – Theme Guide
12/2/21: Rhythms and Revolution: Race, Gender, and Jazz – Terri Lyne Carrington, säje, and Patrice Rushen in Concert – Theme Guide
12/4/21: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee: A Marathon Reading – Theme Guide
12/6/21: Make Mend: I’m DYE-ING to Make That! – Theme Guide

SPRING 2022
1/21/22: Art, Identity, and Power: An Evening with Rocky Rivera and Audrey Chan – Theme Guide
2/2/22: Decolonizing Research: A Conversation with Indigenous Scholars – Theme Guide
2/11–12/22: Doug Varone and Dancers – Program and Theme Guide
2/16/22: Keith Wailoo – Inequalities Unmasked: What Pandemics Reveal about American Society from the Spanish Flu to COVID-19 – Theme Guide
2/17/22: Everybody’s Talking about Jamie – Theme Guide
2/23/22: Tupac Shakur. Wake Me When I’m Free – Theme Guide
2/26/22: Roving Studio Triptych with Artist Kite – Theme Guide
3/2/22: The Soldier’s Tale – Program and Theme Guide
3/3/22: Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas – Theme Guide
3/9/22: California Dystopia: Understanding Climate Change and Social Collapse through Science Fiction – Theme Guide
3/11/22:Chutney Popcorn – Screening and Conversation with Nisha Ganatra and Maryam Keshavarz – Theme Guide
3/26/22: The Real James Bond…Was Dominican – Theme Guide
3/31/22: Tracing Our Creative Origins: A Workshop with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik – Theme Guide
4/1/22: Belonging as Survival: Creativity, Activism, and Community – Theme Guide
4/7/22: Borrowed Recipes: Migrant Food Worlds of the Silk Road – Theme Guide
4/13/22: Michele Bratcher Goodwin – Dying While Black: Race, Maternity, and the Reproductive Health Care System – Theme Guide
4/14/22: Crafting Change: An Afternoon with the Social Justice Sewing Academy – Theme Guide
4/15/22: Make Mend: Kintsugi Hack – Theme Guide
4/21–22/22: Ku’er Worlds: Queering Chinese American Identities in Art and Film – Theme Guide
4/29–30/22: South of Expo: Art, Artists, and Cultural Spaces since the 1960s – Theme Guide

FALL 2022
8/26–27/22: John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: The Origin of Love – Program and Theme Guide
9/9/22:  Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse – Theme Guide
9/9/22: John Singleton: A Celebration – Boyz n the Hood – Theme Guide
9/20/22: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! – Theme Guide
9/21/22: John Singleton: A Celebration – Poetic Justice – Theme Guide