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In spring of 2011, The Academy for Polymathic Study at USC inaugurated “Tuesday Lunch with Leo Braudy and Friends,” a cross-disciplinary speaker series.
Sessions included:
- FEBRUARY 15, 2011 — Music with Robert Cutietta, Dean–Thornton School of Music
12:00pm – 1:30pm, Intellectual Commons, DML 2nd floor, room 233. - FEBRUARY 22, 2011 — Poetry with David St. John, Professor of English
12:00pm – 1:30pm, Intellectual Commons, DML 2nd floor, room 233. - MARCH 8, 2011 — Business with Sidney Harman, Presidential Professor, Isaias W. Hellman Professor of Polymathy
12:00pm – 1:30pm, Intellectual Commons, DML 2nd floor, room 233. - APRIL 12, 2011 — Government with Jack Knott, Dean of School of Policy, Planning and Development
12:00pm – 1:30pm, Intellectual Commons, DML 2nd floor, room 233.
Previous:
- Moderator, “A History of Violence,” Los Angeles Times Book Festival, April 26, 2008.
- Moderator, “Hollywood Goes to War: The Battle of San Pietro and The Memphis Belle”; Discussant,“Twelve O’Clock High: Literature into Film”; Real to Reel: World War II in Film, Documentaries & Newsreels, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, April 10-12, 2008.
- Panelist/Discussant, Victor Burgin’s “The Little House,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture L.A. Schindler House, November 10, 2007.
- Interviewer, Millard Kaufman, author of A Bowl of Cherries, Los Angeles Public Library Aloud series, May 6, 2008.
- “Leo Braudy and David Thomson discuss Citizen Kane,” Moguls, Millionaires, & Movie Stars: Hollywood Between the Wars, 1920-1940, Huntington Library, May 31, 2008.