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Scripps College 6th Annual Sustainability Fair
Join us in celebrating the 6th Annual Community Sustainability Fair! Featuring jam-making, clothes-swapping, and showcasing the latest sustainability projects from over 20 local student and community organizations. Find out what is going green in your community! The Fair will take place on Friday, April 1st, 11:30am-1:30pm on Elm Tree Lawn. Lunch will be served outside […]
Read MoreThe EU Crisis of 2016: A wake-up call or an existential threat?
Mariusz M. Brymora was appointed the Consul General of Poland in Los Angeles on September 7, 2013. Before coming to California, he worked as the Deputy Director of the Department of Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he supervised the promotional activity of Polish diplomatic missions, including 23 Polish Institutes.
Read MoreFrom the Shoah to the Herero Genocide: A Singular Journey from an Arab Writer
Anouar Benmalek holds dual Algerian and French citizenship and is a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris Sud. An internationally acclaimed author and journalist, he has won several of France’s prestigious literary prizes, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His historical novels examine the lives of ordinary people living […]
Read MoreThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: European Football in the Twenty First Century
David Goldblatt is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and academic. In 2006, he published The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football, considered the definitive history of the game. In 2014, he published The Game of our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year […]
Read MoreSexualized Children and Mestizaje in the Colonial Philippines
What is the relationship between education, developmentalism, and the militarization of the Pacific? Dr. Nubla will address colonial representations that simultaneously infantilized and sexualized Filipinas/os during the American Occupation of the Philippines in the early twentieth century. These colonial materials — postcards, travelogues, and political cartoons that were circulated widely — prompted the U.S. public […]
Read MoreThe Cinematic Afterlife of Dominic D’souza” Goan Invisibility and the Making of Gay Indian Identity
In the film My Brother… Nikhil (2005), based loosely on the events surrounding Dominic D’souza’s HIV diagnosis in Goa in the 1980s, the late AIDS activist’s life story is purposefully retold to the point where he disappears. Not only was D’souza allegedly India’s “patient zero,” but My Brother… Nikhil is also purportedly India’s inaugural “gay […]
Read MoreOn the U.S. Navy’s Rule of Law: Giorgio Agamben, War Crimes, and the Japanese Pacific
Why and how did the U.S. Navy’s War Crimes Tribunals Program, the first court of its kind to prosecute Class B war criminals in the military colony of Guam, transform the NanyÅ or the “Japanese Pacific” into an American saltwater state? By drawing from Giorgio Agamben’s political philosophy, Professor Camacho will discuss how the intertwined […]
Read MoreEurope Today: An Austere and Nationalist Portrait
This talk will explore the present political and social situation in the European continent, in an era where “austerity”, “refugees,” and the “far right” are often associated with “Europe” in many world media headlines. Andrea Mammone is a historian of modern Europe at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published extensively on the western […]
Read MoreSalsa as Expressive Liberation
In the span of a single decade, the 1970s, young people in urban centers all over Latin America came to embrace salsa. Its unprecedented international popularity resulted from the confluence of several distinct social conditions and historical events: the Puerto Rican colonial status, the civil rights/black pride movements in the U.S., the Cuban revolution, urban […]
Read MoreSenior Day 2016
Graduating Seniors! Need to order invitations and announcements? Haven’t gotten your cap and gown measurements? If not, we welcome you to participate in our Senior Day where all of your graduation needs can be taken care of. Herff Jones will be on campus taking measurements of caps and gowns and making sure you are ready […]
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