Several USC Annenberg faculty members will be participating in panels at this weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.

Associate Professor Josh Kun will be joining a panel called “Let’s Get Together and Feel All Right: Music, Spirit, Community and Politics.” The panel will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Starting at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, Professor Henry Jenkins will be participating in a panel called “The Future of Reading: New Technologies in Playing and Learning.”

"In a remix culture, young people are more and more likely to engage with the culture around them through acts of appropriation and transformation, rethinking and remaking stories, sampling and remixing sounds," said Jenkins. "Our hope is to model ways that teachers can bring those new media literacy skills into their classrooms, but also ways that all of us can rethink what it means to read in a world where the lines between reader and author are shifting."

Clinical Professor Alison Trope will be participating in a panel called “L.A. Lives: Making, Mapping, and Imagining Southern California” on Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

"I will specifically be speaking about the role Hollywood plays in our cultural imagination, both inside and outside Los Angeles," said Trope.

All 3 panels will be held in Hoffman Hall. Free tickets to the panels are available here.