Events

Opening Reception: Pintor de Poemas: Unseen Works by Alfredo Ramos Martínez
2025-09-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, 251 E. 11th St., Claremont, 91711
Opening Reception: Pintor de Poemas: Unseen Works by Alfredo Ramos Martínez
September 13, 2025 7-9 PM
Celebrate the opening of Pintor de Poemas: Unseen Works by Alfredo Ramos Martínez with an evening of art, live music, and refreshments as well as classic boleros, rancheras, and more from LA-based trío romántico Voz Bohemia. In this groundbreaking exhibition, more than 25 mural studies, drawings, and paintings by Ramos Martínez—most never or rarely exhibited—shed new light on his vision and demonstrate his engagement with labor, revolution, Indigenous identity, and war in early twentieth-century Mexico and Los Angeles. Be among the first to experience this revelatory exhibition and gather in community to honor the complex legacy of an acclaimed artist whose work is etched into the heart of the Scripps College campus.

@Noon with Céline Cousteau
2025-09-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Hampton Room, Scripps College, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
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Join us for lunch and conversation with Céline Cousteau, documentary filmmaker, environmental advocate, and granddaughter of legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau. Cousteau will share stories from her global work spotlighting Indigenous communities, clips from her documentary Tribes on the Edge about Indigenous Brazilian communities’ fight to protect their homes, and the urgent need for environmental conservation.
Sponsored by Alexa Fullerton Hampton Fund

The Importance of Endorsing Liberal Democracy for Human Development and Wellbeing in Europe: Insights from the ESS10 in Tumultuous Times
2025-09-17 12:15 - 13:15 | Hampton Room, Scripps College, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
An important question facing European countries and the European Union is whether valuing democracy adds any insight, beyond basic human values such as benevolence and universalism, in accounting for variations in critical measures of wellbeing and thriving. Round 10 of the European Social Survey (ESS10) occurred in 2020-2022, during the tumultuous times of the Covid pandemic and a rise in EU votes signaling support of authoritarian and populist candidates. The ESS10 included a module specifically asking participants which features of democracy they value and endorse as important to democracy in general. Factor analysis resulted in a novel, scalar invariant, democracy values scale, 4Dem, with factors of Liberal Democracy, Populist Democracy, Economic Equality, and Diverse Voices. Bayesian modeling revealed that basic human values, as assessed with the ESS10’s Human Values Scale, did not covary strongly with 4Dem or with measures of wellbeing. Rather, Liberal Democracy and Diverse Voices both covaried with objective measures of wellbeing. The findings of this study support greater attention to the study of democratic values for the unique insight they provide into human wellbeing in Europe.
About the Speaker: Prof. Spezio is a computational cognitive neuroscientist specializing in valuation, emotion, and decision making in interaction. He joined Scripps College after completing postdoctoral fellowships in UC Davis’ Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science and in the laboratory of Ralph Adolphs at Caltech. He has edited several interdisciplinary volumes on religion & science and science and virtue.
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Friday Noon Concert Series
2025-09-19 12:15 - 13:00 | Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, 91711
Pianist Aron Kallay (Scripps & Pomona) plays music by Prokofiev and Ginestera in the next installment of the Friday Noon Concert Series.
Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information regarding upcoming concert programs and public event protocol.
• Doors open at 12 noon
• Admission is free and open to the public
• Food is not permitted in the concert hall
• All artists and programs subject to change
Call the Scripps Music Library for more information: 909-607-3266

Urban (Un) Livability: Shifting Food Networks and Uncertain Futures in India's IT Capital
2025-09-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Humanities Classroom 204, 1030 N. Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA, 91784
With its emergence as India’s IT Capital, the city of Bengaluru has experienced exponential growth since the early 1990s. As agricultural fields give way to highways and residential developments, residents of Bengaluru and its outskirts narrate their city as poised at the edge, between the glamour of a globally connected IT hub and the destruction of a cityscape trapped in unyielding processes of urbanization. This talk explores middle class narratives and practices of livability to detail a kind of life-making anchored in aspiration yet simultaneously haunted by broader socioeconomic, ecological, and ethical concerns. I capture this tension by examining efforts to reconfigure fresh fruit and vegetable supply chains to address middle class concerns and desires. Whether through urban gardening workshops or corporate claims-making about “direct” connections with farmers, food offers a critical locus for class-specific mediations of urban livability that shape everyday life. As a form of negotiation over the present and future of the developing city and the lives it supports or neglects, efforts to rework Bengaluru’s food system highlight the embodied uncertainties of urban transformation and estimations of current and future wellbeing in South Asia and beyond.

Camille Frazier
University of California, Los Angeles

Camille Frazier is Agricultural Land Equity Program Lead at the California Strategic Growth Council in the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. She graduated summa cum laude from Scripps College with a BA in anthropology (class of ‘09) and has an MA and PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the UCLA. She is the author of Cultivating Livability: Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru (University of Minnesota Press, 2024).

STEM @Noon with Eunji Paige Chung '06
2025-09-24 12:00 - 13:00 | The Nucleus Patio, 1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
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Take a midday break and join us for lunch and conversation with Eunji Paige Chung ’06, associate professor of biomedical engineering at USC and founding director of the USC Transformative Center for Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery. Hear about Chung’s research, current work, and career path since graduating from Scripps.
Sponsored by the Charlotte Tsuei-yu Chen Ou Women in STEM Event Fund

Ethiopia in the classical canon
2025-09-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Boone Recital Hall, 241 East 10th Street, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Sarah Derbew, Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford University, affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the Center for African Studies
Join us for an evening focused on the special place of Ethiopia in the classical canon. Co-hosted by the Scripps College Department of Ancient Studies/Classics and the 5C Department of Africana Studies.
FMI: rmilovcordoba@scrippscollege.edu or walcenat@scrippscollege.edu

Friday Noon Concert Series
2025-09-26 12:15 - 13:00 | Lyman Hall, 340 N. College Ave. Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
The Friday Noon Concert Series continues with the Cornucopia Baroque Ensemble as they present works by Boismortier, Handel, and Telemann.
NOTE: This concert takes place in Lyman Hall at Pomona College (340 N College Ave).
Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information regarding upcoming concert programs and public event protocol.
• Doors open at 12 noon
• Admission is free and open to the public
• Food is not permitted in the concert hall
• All artists and programs subject to change
Call the Scripps Music Library for more information: 909-607-3266

R.K. Russell in Conversation
2025-09-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Scripps College, Scripps College, Claremont, 91711, United States
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Being the first is always hard, but that didn’t stop R.K. Russell. Join us for an empowering conversation with the former NFL player, author, and advocate for LGBTQ+ visibility in sports. Russell will share his groundbreaking journey as the first openly bisexual player in the NFL and discuss his critically acclaimed memoir The Yards Between Us. Stay after the event for a chance to purchase the memoir and have it signed by Russell.
Sponsored by the European Act Speakers Fund

STEM @Noon with Gillian Holzer '19
2025-10-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Hampton Room, Scripps College, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
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Flower Vendors, the unfinished fresco by Mexican muralist Alfredo Ramos Martínez, is one of Scripps’ most iconic works of art. In celebration of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery’s fall exhibition on Ramos Martínez, join us to hear from Scripps alum and art conservation major Gillian Holzer ’19 on her research on the artist. From Martínez’s method of capturing colors to how he kept them vibrant for an enduring masterpiece, you won’t want to miss this thought-provoking discussion of art and science!
Sponsored by the Charlotte Tsuei-yu Chen Ou Women in STEM Event Fund

Aly Raisman in Conversation
2025-10-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Garrison Theater, 231 E. 10th Street, Claremont, CA, 91711
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Aly Raisman shone on a global stage during her career as a three-time Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics. She re-entered the spotlight to use her voice to share her experience of sexual assault, and has since remained a steadfast advocate for mental health and sexual abuse survivors. Don’t miss this inspiring evening with one of the most courageous and influential athletes of our time.
Sponsored by the Roxanne Wilson Fund for Women’s Leadership

Friday Noon Concert Series
2025-10-03 12:15 - 13:00 | Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, 91711
Pianist Hao Huang (Scripps) presents Maestro and Virtuoso: Beethoven and Liszt, as the next installment of the Friday Noon Concert Series.
Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information regarding upcoming concert programs and public event protocol.
• Doors open at 12 noon
• Admission is free and open to the public
• Food is not permitted in the concert hall
• All artists and programs subject to change
Call the Scripps Music Library for more information: 909-607-3266

Naja Lockwood in Conversation
2025-10-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, 91711
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Join us for a screening of On Healing Land, Birds Perch and moderated conversation with director Naja Lockwood. The documentary explores the people and stories behind an iconic photograph from the Vietnam War and the lasting aftershocks of trauma experienced by North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, and Vietnamese Americans. Don’t miss a chance to hear directly from Lockwood about her process and vision.
Funded in part by the European Act

Student Recital
2025-10-07 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-10-23 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-11-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Boone Recital Hall, 241 East 10th Street, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Performances by students of the Scripps College Music Department.

On the Road with Amanda Nguyen - POSTPONED!
2025-10-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, Independence Ave SW &, 7th St SW,, Washington DC, 20560
The event will be postponed to a later time.
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Live far from Scripps? No need to feel like you’re missing out, On the Road with Scripps Presents brings thoughtful conversations and communities together in cities all over the nation. Join us for a conversation and reception with Amanda Nguyen, civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, at Washington D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum.
Sponsored by the Roxanne Wilson Fund for Women’s Leadership

The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago
2025-10-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities Classroom 204, 1030 N. Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA, 91784
Abstract: The Petro-State Masquerade considers how postcolonial political futures in the Caribbean nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago came to be staked to the market futures of oil, natural gas, and their petrochemical derivatives. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Jobson theorizes how the tenuous relationship between oil and political power—enshrined in the hyphenated form of the petro-state—is represented by postcolonial state officials as a Carnivalesque “masquerade of permanence” through the perpetual expansion of fossil fuel ventures. At the same time, low oil and gas prices, diminishing reserves, and renewable energy innovations threaten the viability of the Trinbagonian energy sector.

Since 1998, multinational oil and gas investments in Trinidad have increasingly concentrated in the deepwater sector. Characterized by protracted production cycles, deepwater ventures feature prohibitive costs and a comparatively low probability of success. After several deepwater ventures failed to yield substantive commercial quantities of oil or gas, the unfulfilled potential of a lucrative offshore geology is invoked to mitigate uncertainty and secure the long-term viability of the Trinbagonian energy sector. In their masquerade, state officials depict fossil fuels as inexhaustible resources waiting to be unearthed by multinational capital and novel extractive technologies.

Sponsored by: the Scripps Harper Lecture Fund (Dean of Faculty’s Office), Scripps Anthropology, Scripps Latin American Studies (History), and Pomona Environmental Analysis.

Curtis Chin in Conversation
2025-10-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, 91711
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Acclaimed author, filmmaker, and co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Curtis Chin comes to Scripps for an evening of conversation with Professor of Music Anne Harley. He’ll share powerful stories from his memoir Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, published in 2023, which explores identity, activism, and the Asian American experience. Don’t miss this night of conversation and community. A book signing for Chin’s memoir will follow the program.
Sponsored by Scripps Presents

Friday Noon Concert Series
2025-10-17 12:15 - 13:00 | Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, 91711
In this week’s Friday Noon Concert, Charles Kamm (Scripps), Jeffrey Bernstein, and Lika Miyake present a concert of Early Music for vocal trio.
NOTE: This week’s concert, originally scheduled to occur in the Garrison Theater Lobby, will be held in Balch Auditorium.
Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information regarding upcoming concert programs and public event protocol.
• Doors open at 12 noon
• Admission is free and open to the public
• Food is not permitted in the concert hall
• All artists and programs subject to change
Call the Scripps Music Library for more information: 909-607-3266

Claremont Concert Orchestra Fall Concerts
2025-10-18 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-10-19 14:00 - 15:30 | Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center, 241 East 10th Street, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
The Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges presents
The Claremont Concert Orchestra performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9, “Jeunehomme” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”.
This concert features Brayden Chien (CMC ’27), the Joint Music Program’s 2025 concerto audition finalist, as the pianist for the Mozart concerto. There will be two performances. An evening concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 18 and a Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m. on October 19.
Concerts will be held in Garrison Theater at the Scripps College Performing Arts Center.
Admission is FREE and open to the public.
Contact the Joint Music Office for more information. 909-607-3267

Live Performances: Musica, Muralista! Remembering Alfredo Ramos Martínez
2025-10-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, 251 E. 11th St., Claremont, 91711
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The start time of this event has been updated to 6pm.
Don’t miss this chance to honor the legacy of painter and muralist Alfredo Ramos Martínez and the stories of people in struggle through art, music, and community!
The evening will begin at the Williamson Gallery with a short performance by the critically acclaimed mariachi group, The Mata Family. A lively musical procession will then lead guests to the Margaret Fowler Memorial Garden—home to Martínez’s final mural Las Vendedoras de Flores (The Flower Vendors)—for the dedication of an altar by installation artists Ofelia Esparza and Rosanna Ahrens Esparza.
The celebration will conclude with a concert by members of the Grammy–winning band, Quetzal, and a spirited fandango. Bring your dancing shoes and your love of music and art!
Co-sponsored by Scripps Presents, the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, and the Intercollegiate Department of Chicanx Latinx studies

Friday Noon Concert Series
2025-10-24 12:15 - 13:00 | Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, 91711
In this installment of the Friday Noon Concert Series, bassoonist Carolyn Beck (Pomona), oboist Francisco Castillo (Pomona), and pianist Phillip Young (Pomona) perform works by Jenni Brandon, Francisco Castillo, and Francis Poulenc.
Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information regarding upcoming concert programs and public event protocol.
• Doors open at 12 noon
• Admission is free and open to the public
• Food is not permitted in the concert hall
• All artists and programs subject to change
Call the Scripps Music Library for more information: 909-607-3266

Scripps in Bloom: New York
2025-10-24 18:30 - 20:30 | SoHo Grand Hotel, 310 W Broadway, New York, 10013
Scripps in Bloom is returning this fall! Hear directly from President Amy Marcus-Newhall, connect with the Scripps community in your region, enjoy exclusive access to remarkable locations, and join us in celebrating featured alumnae.
The Scripps community is flourishing, and there is much to celebrate as we approach our centennial year in 2026-27. Join us to hear college updates, network with fellow Scripps alums and families, and take part in a screening and private reception at the SoHo Grand Hotel. Kimberly Kalaja ’92, director, writer, and producer of The Lesson, a short film about an assault survivor trying to reclaim the feeling of safety in the world, will be in attendance to introduce the film. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served.

Choral music from around the globe
2025-10-26 15:00 - 16:30 | Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center, 241 East 10th Street, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
The Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges presents
The Claremont Concert Choir and The Claremont Treble Singers with the High Notes of the Pasadena Chorale.
There will be one performance on Sunday, October 26 at 3:00 p.m.
Concert will be held in Garrison Theater at the Scripps College Performing Arts Center.
Admission is FREE and open to the public.
Contact the Joint Music Office for more information. 909-607-3267

@Noon with Cleyvis Natera
2025-10-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Hampton Room, Scripps College, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
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Join us for a free lunch and conversation with author Cleyvis Natera and Myriam Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities. Natera is the author of The Grand Paloma Resort, a thrilling novel set at a Dominican Republic resort where two local girls go missing. A commentary on social class, race, family, and community, this is a novel you won’t want to put down. Don’t miss the chance to hear from Natera herself when she comes to campus!

Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage: A Book Talk
2025-10-28 16:00 - 18:00 | humanities 204
“Statuomania” overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across its French colony (1830-1962). Following Algeria’s hard-fought independence in 1962, colonial monuments took on different meanings. Some were “repatriated” to France, legally or clandestinely while others were preserved in an independent Algeria. Today, in both Algeria and France, people are moving and removing, vandalizing, and preserving this contested, yet shared monumental heritage.
Professor Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
Susan Slyomovics is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA. She is the author of books and articles on the topics of reparations, anthropology of art, and cultural and material heritage of the Middle East and North Africa.

Scripps in Bloom: San Francisco
2025-10-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Exploratorium, Pier 15 (Embarcadero at Green Street), San Francisco, 94111
Scripps in Bloom is returning this fall! Hear directly from President Amy Marcus-Newhall, connect with the Scripps community in your region, enjoy exclusive access to remarkable locations, and join us in celebrating featured alumnae.
The Scripps community is flourishing, and there is much to celebrate as we approach our centennial year in 2026-27. Join us to hear college updates and network with fellow Scripps alums and families at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served.

Friday Noon Concert Series
2025-10-31 12:15 - 13:00 | Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, 91711
This week’s Friday Noon Concert Series features Brahms’s 3rd Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60, performed by Rachel V. Huang (Scripps), violin; Cindy Fogg, viola; Tom Flaherty, cello; and Jennie Jung (Scripps & Pomona), piano.
Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information regarding upcoming concert programs and public event protocol.
• Doors open at 12 noon
• Admission is free and open to the public
• Food is not permitted in the concert hall
• All artists and programs subject to change
Call the Scripps Music Library for more information: 909-607-3266
