Conference summaries:
- 2005
- Pandora's Box
- 2004
- Rank-o-philia
- 2003
- The Tower of Babel
- 2002
- Dissolving Boundaries
- 2001
- Anarchy
- 2000
- High/Low: Culture, Class, Technology
- 1999
- Meaning of the Millennium
- 1998
- Postmodernism
Each year Thematic Option hosts a two day undergraduate Research Conference in which students present their own academic work in a public forum on panels chaired by USC faculty.


