Scrippscasts (page 3)
Open Line of Conversation
Director of Scripps College Academy Kelly Hewitt and Kristie Hernandez ’13 were both interviewed October 14 for CBS Radio’s public affairs program ‘Open Line.’ The segments aired recently across Los Angeles, but now you can listen online as well!
Read MoreBridging Cultures: Realizing an NEH Teaching Fellowship
Given Scripps College’s current strategic goals of diversity and globalization, professor Hao Huang proposes revising his existing course, MUS 121, “Music of the Spirits: Sacred Musical Traditions.” His talk addresses how he developed the application proposal and progress made to date.
Read MoreAISS: A Novel Experiment in Science Education and Its Impact on Scripps
Scot Gould, professor of physics, discusses the academic features, participants (faculty, staff and students), and current outcomes of AISS. The importance of Core and connections between AISS and Core are also highlighted.
Read MoreFour Guiding Principles for the Lived Experience
Helena Viramontes, Spring 2012 Mary Routt Chair of Writing, presents a lecture to speak on the legacy of Cesar Chavez.
Read MorePublic Christianity in Egypt: On the (In)Visibility of Copts
Assistant professor of anthropology Anthony Shenoda explores the ways in which some Coptic Christians in Egypt publicly confess their Christian faith in an Islamic public sphere.
Read MoreAn Introduction to “Clay’s Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968”
Mary MacNaughton, director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and associate professor of art history at Scripps College, talks about Pacific Standard Time and “Clay’s Tectonic Shift,” focusing on the ways in which Mason, Price and Voulkos created a new kind of clay sculpture which left the domain of craft to align with the avant-garde.
Read MoreArchaeological Preservation in the Face of Urban Development in Athens, Greece
Alice Paterakis, Director of Conservation at the Kaman-Kalehoyuk Excavation for the Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archeology in Turkey, discusses the pros and cons of development around historically significant sites throughout Athens, Greece.
Read MoreThe Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike
Peter Baldwin, one of the world’s leading historians of comparative social policy, talks about his recent book “The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike.”
Read MoreThe Euro and the Future of Europe
Professor of International Relations David Andrews speaks at UCLA’s Center for European and Eurasian Studies about the euro and the future of Europe.
Read MorePainting with Words: Proust, from Sentence to Illustration
Assistant professor of French France Lemoine discusses the daunting transformation of Proust’s seven-volume novel “A La Recherche du Temps Perdu” into a graphic novel.
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