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September 24, 2008

Gesamtkunstwerk and Modernism

Juliet Koss, associate professor of art history at Scripps College, has published an excerpt of her forthcoming book, “Modernism After Wagner,” in one of Germany’s leading daily newspapers.

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September 18, 2008

Student Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition

An exhibit of student ceramic art from The Claremont Colleges is being shown through September 30 at the Art Office Gallery, located in Lang 112 on the Scripps campus.

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Seeing a Color Blind Future

Patricia J. Williams, professor of law, columnist, and author, will lecture on issues of racism at Scripps College as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series.

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September 17, 2008

“You Already Know Enough”

For you see, in the end, Scripps is not simply a beautiful campus, a challenging curriculum, an approach to education. Scripps is you. You are Scripps. And your class is a special one because it arrives at a turning point in the history of the college.

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Sleepstarved at the Tuesday Noon Academy

The Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy presents “Sleepstarved”, Professor of English Gayle Greene’s first-person account of living with insomnia, on September 23.

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Rare Collection of Photographic Books and Journals Donated to Scripps College

A remarkable group of photographic books and journals, assembled by the late Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, leading Los Angeles photography collectors, has been donated to Scripps College.

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“Delta dandi”: Talking About Collective Grief and Trauma

Award-winning author Sharon Bridgforth will present from her new work, “delta dandi,” September 18, at noon in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons at Scripps College. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Macko’s “Bee Stories” at Claremont Museum of Art

Nancy Macko, professor of art and chair of gender and women’s studies at Scripps College, has her video, “Bee Stories,” 2006, included in the upcoming exhibition, “Multiverse,” at the Claremont Museum of Art, opening September 20.

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September 16, 2008

Global Media: The Shock Doctrine

Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and syndicated columnist, will be a guest speaker at Scripps as part of the Humanities Institute’s fall lecture series “Global Media” on September 18.

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September 15, 2008

(Up-and-Coming) California Authors: Andrew Foster Altschul

Andrew Foster Altschul, a lecturer in the creative writing program at Stanford University, will read from his novel “Lady Lazarus” on September 17, as part of a new speaker series, (Up-and-Coming) California Writers.

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