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Finding Hope in Interesting Places with a Horror Writer, Jazz Icon and Technology Scholar

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Southland Sessions Presents: From high school operas and drive-thru art exhibitions to Chicano comedies and underground DJ sets—we are showcasing the vibrancy of arts and culture across our city today.

In the fifth conversation of UCLA’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” series, Tananarive Due, author, screenwriter and producer; Herbie Hancock, musician, composer, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, SGI Buddhist; and Ramesh Srinivasan, information studies scholar and innovation policy advisor for Biden & Harris, explore the question, "What is Hope?"

10 Questions: Reckoning: What is Hope?

Title: 10 Questions: Reckoning: What is Hope?
Featuring: Tananarive Due, Herbie Hancock and Ramesh Srinivasan
Presented By: UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
Originally Presented: Nov. 2, 2020

About This Series

Both an upper division undergraduate course and a series of public conversations open to the broader community, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture's "10 Questions” series invites the public to join UCLA students in the virtual classroom to engage in vibrant conversation alongside leading faculty and distinguished alumni from across the university.

With COVID-19, the climate crisis, social and political turmoil unlike anything we have seen in a generation, and of course, a presidential election on our minds, this third installment of the annual 10 Questions series will be asking the most urgent set of questions yet.

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