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2024 Phi Beta Kappa Lecture with Neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

The proclivity to think and feel deeply about complex social issues is a hallmark human achievement—a foundation of global society as well as of personal growth. This achievement rests on capacities for transcendent thinking, that is, on a person’s abilities and dispositions to consider the broader ethical and systems-level implications that transcend situations and pertain to bigger ideas, values and identities. In this talk, Dr.

BUDDHISM AND ECOLOGY IN THE HIMALAYAS - Activist and Entrepreneur Ang Dolma Sherpa

Ms. Ang Dolma Sherpa is an environmentally and culturally engaged social entrepreneur who won the top “ideator” award at Idea Studio Nepal 2019 for her concept of biodegradable khatak, or offering scarves, and lungta, or prayer flags. The platform led her to open her studio Utpala Craft in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2020, creating a shift from synthetic khatak and lungta to biodegradable ones in response to the discovery of microplastics in Himalayan glaciers and streams. Ms.

2023 Sterling Award Lecture: Beneficial Partnerships: From the Deep Ocean to the Rainforest

Professor Shana Goffredi researches the beneficial symbiotic partnerships between bacteria and animals. She considers herself an explorer at heart and is committed to uncovering the unique diversity of life on Earth. For much of her career, Dr. Goffredi has used submersibles to study invertebrates on the ocean floor. More recent pursuits involve the depths of the jungle.

Reporting on Rights Violations: Israel/Palestine and Beyond

Omar Shakir currently serves as the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, where he investigates human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. He has authored several major reports, including a 2021 report comprehensively documenting how Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity, of apartheid, and persecution against millions of Palestinians. As a result of his advocacy, the Israeli government deported Omar in November 2019.

Los Angeles and Film Series: The Crimson Kimono (1959)

Set in L.A.’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, Samuel Fuller’s L.A. film noir starring James Shigeta is a rare example of progressive-minded depictions of racial relations and portrayals of an Asian-American lead character during this period of film history. This event is moderated by Professor Vivian Lin and will also feature two short films from Visual Communications on life and culture in Little Tokyo.

With generous support from Ronald R. and Susan C. Hahn '66 '65

 

 

MAC Cinematheque Presents: Delicate Translation

Delicate Translation, tracing one’s home and experiences of transnational displacement, practices a language that resists articulation in the standard Western vernacular. Rooted within the displaced body itself, each artist manifests a personal language, searching and longing through digital vessels, screen and “windows”, and metatextual recalling to a non-place we know as home. In this screening, the memory images unravel, resisting dominant history and conventional narrative form.

Doors at 6:30PM, screenings will start at 7:00PM.