News and Events Fall 2009

Aug 28
Art History Department Language exams

Sept 7
Labor Day

Sept 8
"Victor Raphael: Travels and Wanderings,  1979-2009"
USC Fischer Museum, Opening Reception
 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Remarks by Selma Holo at 6:30 pm
Link to upcoming events Fisher Museum http://fisher.usc.edu/education/   

Sept 10
VSGC Advisory Board - 10:30 am - Noon - VKC 379, Conference Room
VSGC Welcome Back/Students and Faculty - 12:30-2:00 - Fisher Museum

Sept 11       
Last day to register and add classes
Last day to drop a class without a mark of "W," except for Monday-only classes, and receive a 100% refund Last day to change enrollment option to Pass/No Pass or Audit
Last day to purchase or waive tuition refund insurance

Sept 14, every Monday through Nov 16 
Yoga at Fisher Museum (in relation to Victor Raphael’s exhibition)
3:00 - 4:30 pm

Sept 16
"Rome's Suburbium: New Excavations at the Villa delle Vignacce" by
Darius Arya, Director of the American Institute for Roman Culture in Rome (AIRC)
USC Campus WPH B27
5:15-6:15 pm, followed by reception.

Sept 18          
USC Fisher Museum Annual Student Party
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Sept 24           
VSGC Fellowship Workshop I, "Speaking in Tongues: Fellowship Writing and the Task of Scholarly Self-Description" Speakers: Ara Merjian, Lauro de Bosis, Kelly Quinn
5:30-7:00 pm

Sept 25           
VSGC Fellowship Workshop II
10:00 am - 3:30 pm

Sept 30        
Faculty meeting - 9:00 am - VKC 379 Nominate outstanding TA

Oct 3           
Grad Symposium - "Peripheral Visions: Colonization, Resistance, Representation" - Getty Research Institute

Oct 20         
Grad student proposals for outside fellowship available for review

Oct 23        
Deadline for Submission of Outstanding TA

Oct 28   
Faculty meeting - 9:00 am - VKC 379: Nominate outside fellowships

Nov 2    
Annual Activity Report - NTT Faculty
Thesis/Dissertation submission for Fall 09
Deadline for Associate Award for Excellence in Teaching

Nov 7    
Contemporary Project / LACMA - 1 day conference re: "New Topographies"

Nov 13      
Last day to drop a class with a mark of W

Nov 19
Ryan Holmberg will be giving a lecture from 12:30 - 2pm in SOS 250

Nov 14        
Merit Review Committee meets on NTT

Nov 21  
Chair Deadline for NTT Evaluations

Nov 26-28   
HOLIDAY  Thanksgiving

Nov 30  
Response of NTT Faculty to Chair review

Dec 1         
 "Intimacies: a World AIDS Day Performance by Michael Kearns" - 7:00 pm - Ground Zero Cafe

Dec 2     
Annual Activity Report - TT Faculty
Faculty meeting - 9:00 am - VKC 379
New Graduate Application files available to faculty

Dec 4           
Classes End

Dec 5-8        
Study Days

Dec 9-16      
Exams

Dec 10  
All Faculty review in their areas new grad applicants and submit short list to admissions committee.

Dec 14  
Admissions Committee finalizes admissions short list

Dec 17  
Jeanne and Barbara contact short list and arrange for travel to campus in January

Dec 17-Jan. 10
Winter Recess