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Dionne Bensonsmith : “Race, Choice, and Reproductive Health in the Age of Health Care Reform”
This talk addresses recent proposals and amendments in the Obama Health Care Plan and their potential effects on reproductive choice — specifically among women of color.
Read MoreBreaking Through the Spiral Ceiling: An American Woman Becomes a DNA Scientist
Professor Laura L. Mays Hoopes, Halstead-Bent Professor of Biology at Pomona College, presents “Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling: An American Woman Becomes a DNA Scientist” hosted by the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons and Joint Science Program on Tuesday, March 8, at 6:45 p.m. in Scripps College’s Malott Commons Hampton Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreTuesday Noon Academy Presents “Marble Statues and Earthquakes”
McKenzie Lowry, mount maker in the department of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum will speak on “How to Keep Massive Marble Statues Standing in an Earthquake,” presented by the Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy, on March 8.
Read MoreKathleen O’Brien Wicker Endowed Lecture Presents Professor Musa Dube
Professor Musa Dube, this year’s Kathleen O’Brien Wicker Endowed Lecture speaker, will present “The No. 1 Lady Detective Meets Rahab for a Cup of Bush Tea: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Translation” on Wednesday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Scripps College’s Malott Commons Hampton Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Read More“The Conservation of Art” at the Tuesday Noon Academy
Tom Learner, senior scientist and head of modern and contemporary art research at the Getty Conservation Institute will speak on, “The Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art,” presented by the Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy, on February 8. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read More“Go Red” Lunch Lecture: Dr. Stacey A. Hilton
Dr. Stacey A. Hilton, Davis Doctor of Public Administration, will present “Women and Cardiovascular Disease: Your Mind, Body and Weight Management,” on February 4, as part of the “Go Red” lunch lecture presented by the Malott Commons.
Read MoreRoberto Andreoni: “The Making of Cross-cultural Music and Research: Analysis and Performance of Bardo by Roberto Andreoni”
How can a European-trained composer approach the encounter with a performer who belongs to a different culture and, through the latter, how can he manage to encounter another, even more remote, challenging culture? Does modern Art Music demand a specific political correctness, academic integrity or ethic codes in order to cross cultural bridges? Otherwise, is music itself a bridge between, above and beyond cultures? To what extent a new, non-commercial composition could still be a relevant fact in the life of a campus community?
Read MoreSabrina Ovan: “The Paranoid City: Urban Imagery in 1970s Italian Film Gialli”
Professor Ovan’s talk examines urban representation in Italian film, and insists on the ways in which city-space is often related to historical and social commentary. After introducing the theme of the city in films by prestigious directors like Fellini, Antonioni and Risi, Professor Ovan will move her analysis to 1970s genre film, and concentrate in particular on the “evil spaces” of two important murder mystery (giallo) movies: Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion and Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso.
Read MoreAlice Waters, Chef, Author, and Organic Food Advocate Speaks at Scripps College
Alice Waters, the pioneering chef who revolutionized the food world with fresh, organic restaurant fare, comes to Scripps College as inaugural speaker of the Roxanne Wilson Fund for Women’s Leadership.
Read MoreSam Cronk : “Gadrenota: She Stands Up The Song”
A conversation about the intersections of Iroquoian women’s singing traditions, ethnographic research, indigeneity and Haudenosaunee world views. After more than a century of anthropological research and 400 years of “encounter”, […]
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