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Caltech Professor Andrew Sinclair on China's Global Currency

For years, China has been developing an alternative to the US-led international order. The success of this effort hinges on China’s ability to convince its allies to abandon the US dollar as the global standard for trade and investment in favor of its currency, the renminbi (RMB). Due to China’s unique political economy, the core challenge for China lies in providing global investors access to a deep and liquid RMB capital market while maintaining domestic capital controls.

Transpacific Analog: Aesthetics and Mechanics of Sound Recording Technology

This live technological demonstration and in-person conversation explores how sound recording and reproduction technology shape aesthetic practices and vice versa across the Pacific. CHamoru audio creative Micah Garrido ’17 and turntablist Takuro MizutaLippit, known as dj sniff, will discuss proto-turntablist  Shizuto Haruna mixing and playing Emperor Hirohito’s surrender of Japan in 1945, Chamorro festival performance circuits, cognitive scientific theories of sound, and DJ Grandmaster Flash’s role in the history of turntablism.

Camera Rolling: A Video Anthology from Young Women in Nepal A Participatory Video Project

The lecture will be hosted by the Media Arts and Culture and Asian Studies departments as well as feature 3 Occidental students who were on exchange to Kathmandu, Nepal who were conducting research alongside during the Faculty-Led Richter Project to Nepal in Summer 2024. During this research project, Dr.

Screening of experimental films created by La Pocha Nostra

Media Arts and Culture is hosting La Pocha Nostra, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Balitronica, at Oxy.  Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, filmmaker, radical pedagogue and artistic director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Balitrónica is a cyborg-feminist poet, performance artist, hereditary witch, 2nd Degree, Cabot Priestess, and co-Artistic director of La Pocha Nostra. They will offer their performance, The Mex Files Duet: A Divination Ritual, on September 10, 6-8pm, in Thorne (followed by a reception, 8-9pm).

Screening of "Two Lives in Pittsburgh" with Q&A

Join MAC Professor Aleem Hossain and writer-director-actor Brian Silverman as they screen and then discuss Silverman's indie feature film "Two Lives in Pittsburgh." The film has won more than a dozen festival awards including the Audience Award at Dances With Films.
 
Film Threat called it "compassionate and profound" and ScreenCritix said it was "an important cinematic exploration of contemporary social issues." 
 
Hossain and Silverman will discuss how Silverman shot this low budget film and secured worldwide distribution.

"The Big Raise" Premiere and Q&A with Filmmaker Angelina Lee '22: Earth Month Film Festival

The Womxn of Cinema and Television Club, Sustainable Oxy Citizens Club, and FEAST present a premiere of regenerative agriculture documentary The Big Raise (2024), developed as part of the Obama Fellowship. The showing will be followed by a Q&A with director and Oxy alumna Angelina Lee '22. The documentary explores the permaculture practices used to sustainably grow food at La Grande Raisandière, or the Big Raise, which includes soil repair, companion planting, rainwater capture, incorporating solar and EV chargers, and more.

UN Week Keynote: “Queerness” and Other Vexing Issues in the UN: Advancing Human Rights in Times of Crisis

Madrigal-Borloz is the former UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and former member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Madrigal-Borloz is also a Senior Visiting Researcher at Harvard University and was a former Legal Director of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

A pre-keynote reception will be held in the Johnson Hall Global Forum beginning at 5:15 pm.

Photo by Alexandre Leal de Freitas