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Women’s Fiber Arts in the South Pacific
Heather Waldroup, visual materials curator and CLIR postdoctural fellow, Libraries of The Claremont Colleges, will discuss researching women’s textile production in the South Pacific, Tuesday, March 31, as part of the Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy.
Read MoreWriter Gustavo Arellano to Speak on “Humor in a Caliente Vein”
Gustavo Arellano, writer and columnist on Latino culture, will speak on “Humor in a Caliente Vein: Satire and its Relationship to Saving the Mexican Race,” Thursday, March 26, at noon, in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons.
Read MoreAuthor Griest Gives Tips for Wandering Women and a Reading of “Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines”
Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest will present two events at ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision. Both events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreMultiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities
Cecilia A. Conrad, ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ’s dean of faculty and professor of economics at Pomona College, is the final speaker in the Claremont College’s Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies’ 2008-09 speaker series, “Multiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities.”
Read MoreÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµSenior Alissa Petrites Wins Davis Peace Scholarship
Alissa Petrites ’09, a humanities major from Oakland, Calif., is the recipient of a 2009 Davis Projects for Peace Scholarship, in the amount of $10,000, to facilitate her “Promoting Breast Milk Donation” project in South Africa.
Read MoreStudents Take Action for Good Causes
When ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµstudents care passionately about a cause, increasingly they turn to creative and productive ways to get out the word – and raise money.
Read MoreÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµStudent Named 2009 Watson Fellow
ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ senior Kyle Delbyck was awarded a prestigious 2009-2010 Watson Foundation Fellowship to spend a year exploring relationships between dramatic presentations and historical amnesia in Lithuania, Taiwan, Cambodia and Ghana.
Read MoreU.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ‘93 to Give ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ Commencement Address
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ’93 will give the commencement address at ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ on Sunday, May 17, 2009. Giffords, a 1993 graduate of Scripps, represents the Eighth District of Arizona, a diverse area that covers 9,000 square miles including a 114 mile border with Mexico.
Read MoreÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµBolsters Japanese Art and Literature Collection
ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ has received 48 recently published books on Japanese arts and literature from The Nippon Foundation, to be housed in Denison Library.
Read MoreRoya Hakakian’s Journey From the Land of No: A Childhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Roya Hakakian, writer, poet, journalist, and 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, will speak at ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ as part of the Alex Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision, on Tuesday, March 3.
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