The Spring Semester Tuesday Noon Academy, a series of lunchtime lectures at Scripps College, features distinguished alumnae, professors, students, and guests. Lectures begin at 12 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, Scripps College. The series is sponsored by the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons and is free and open to the public. Coffee and dessert are provided. Guests may bring a lunch or purchase one at the Malott Commons Dining Hall. Doors to the Hampton Room open at 11:45 a.m. For additional program information, please call the Malott Commons office at (909) 607-9372.
Scheduled speakers and topics are:
- January 30, Laura Skandera Trombley, President, Pitzer College, “Mark Twain’s Annus Horribilis of 1908″
- February 6, Leigh Gilmore, Backstrand Chair in Gender and Women’s Studies, Scripps College, “Transparency: Autobiography in an Age of ‘Truthiness'”
- February 13, Sandra Tsing Loh, Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing, Scripps College, Writer, Artist, and NPR Commentator, “We’d Rather Eat Chocolate”
- February 27, Teresa Landgraff Gale ’96, Artist, Educator, and Lois Langland Alumna-in-Residence, Scripps College, “Writing with Sound: Aural Storytelling in Digital Times”
- March 6, Hao Huang, Professor of Music, Chair of the Department of Music, Scripps College, “Music in Xinjiang”
- March 20, Louis Stern, President and Director, Louis Stern Fine Arts, “Alfredo Ramos Martinez and Hollywood”
- March 27, Candida Jaquez, Assistant Professor of Music, Ethnomusicology, Scripps College, “Mariachi Tradition”
- April 3, Joy Goto, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, The Joint Science Department of The Claremont Colleges, “From Fruit Bats to Fruit Flies: Clues to Understanding Neurodegenerative Disease”
- April 20, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Scholar-in-Residence, Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of The Claremont Colleges, “Making Revolution Irresistible: Writing, Political Struggle, and Women’s Lives”
- April 24, Dale McDonald, Executive Chef, Scripps College, “Sensational Summer Surprises”