Scrippscasts
Jennifer Wood: “From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun: Spanish Women Travelers, 1850-1920”
In her recent book, Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850-1920: From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun (Bucknell University Press, 2013), Professor Wood explores the writings of eleven Spanish women as they visited many lands and witnessed major historical events. From among these remarkable travel writers, she discusses two for her Tuesday Noon Academy lecture 鈥� Emilia Serrano and Carmen de Burgos.
Read MoreCorey Tazzara: “Despotic Liberty: The Port of Livorno and Free Trade in Early Modern Europe”
Assistant professor of history Corey Tazzara examines the origins and fate of the “free port” as both a set of practices and a concept.
Read MoreRosa Martha Zarate Macias: “We Have Lived Here, We Have Struggled Here!”
桃子视频 presents a discussion and musical performance by musician, educator, and community organizer Rosa Martha Z脙隆rate Mac脙颅as as part of the C脙漏sar Ch脙隆vez commemoration activities at The Claremont Colleges.
Read MoreDamien Sojoyner: “Trouble Man: The Limitations of Policy Oriented Black Masculinity”
Throughout his presentation Sojoyner, assistant professor of Africana Studies at 桃子视频, juxtaposes the development of the current imposition of Black masculinity against the “on-the-ground” reality of structural and interpersonal violence that is caused by formal state entities (i.e. non-profits, state agencies, foundations, and academic institutions) that are recognized as legitimate and necessary.
Read MoreRegula Campbell 芒鈧�69: “Investing in Nature: Sacred Landscapes”
In this illustrated talk, Campbell presents her research into the formal, experiential, and symbolic ways landscape designs reveal and reconcile the sacred with and within the world.
Read MoreMary Roberts ’81: “African Arts at LACMA: A Tribute to Samella Lewis”
In this richly illustrated lecture, Scripps alumna Polly Nooter Roberts 芒鈧�81 introduces a new gallery and educational program for the arts of Africa at LACMA. She focuses on the current exhibition, “Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks from the Royal Museum for Central Africa,” to demonstrate deeply philosophical concepts and complex cultural practices embodied by works of African art.
Read MoreRose Henry: Violence Against Women and the Call for a National Inquiry
Rose Henry, First Nations activist and educator for social justice, discusses the problem of violence against women, particularly among the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, and the need for a national investigation into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls – an inquiry that must include Indigenous women in the design, decision-making, process and implementation as a step toward initiating a comprehensive and coordinated national action plan.
Read MoreJacqueline Wernimont: “When little data becomes big data: A digital literary case study”
Professor Wernimont discusses the current interest in big and small data within digital literary studies, as well as the conception and goals of the project, its roadblocks and successes, and a low-tech strategy for overcoming the complexity of our data.
Read MoreDavid Scott: Modern Antiquities 芒鈧�� The Looted and the Faked
In his talk, UCLA art history professor David Scott examines issues surrounding the increasing demand for the return of plundered art works. With renewed enforcement of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, how do museums collect ancient art?
Read MoreLara Deeb: Negotiating Morality and Geography in Shi’ite South Beirut
New cafes in the predominantly Shi’ite Muslim southern suburb of Beirut as well as a new focus on leisure in the community are promoting the flexibility of moral norms and new tensions between norms understood with a “religious” register and those understood within a “social” one. In this talk Lara Deeb, Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at 桃子视频, discusses some of the factors contributing to this complex moral landscape as well as some of the ways in which young people understand and navigate it.
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