How Do We Talk about Palestine and Israel?
Students, staff and faculty are invited to join a conversation with Salam Al-Marayati and Daniel Sokatch.
https://map.oxy.edu/?id=1103#!m/276705
The King of the Deal: An Evening with John Branca ’72 & Jim Sebenius
Students are invited to attend an evening with John Branca ’72 (Music Industry Icon, Entertainment Lawyer, Partner and Head of the Music Department at Ziffren Brittenham, LLP) and Jim Sebenius (Harvard Business School)
History Department's Senior Comps Event
3:00 Patrick Fennessey "No One Likes Us And We Don’t Care: Deconstructing the Mythos of Philadelphia Eagles Fandom, 1960-1971"
3:20 Jake Landsberg "B’nai B'rith Messenger: The Story of Jewish Internationalism in Los Angeles, 1920-1939"
3:40 Arin Littman "Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jews? Jewish Identity on Trial in Cold War America, 1947-1953"
4:00 Lila O'Leary "Saving the World Through Music: Evangelical Missionary Musicians and US Empire, 1975-1995"
From Highland Park to Hollywood: Finding a Career in Entertainment after Occidental
About the Panelists
Sam Bergen '04 is the chief marketing officer at Illumination, shepherding The Super Mario Bros. Movie to a worldwide box office of $1.36 billion earlier this year. He is currently preparing for the launch of Migration this December and for Despicable Me 4 next July. Prior to joining Illumination in December 2020, Bergen was vice president of global brand creative for Beats by Dre, built Vice Media’s West Coast office, and was CMO for Omnicom. At Oxy, Bergen majored in cognitive science with a minor in film.
A Talk by Mike Bonin, LA City Councilmember (retired), Leadership in Government Fellow, Open Society Foundations
WHAT I HEARD: LIVING THROUGH L.A.'S RACISTS TAPES SCANDAL
by Mike Bonin, Los Angeles City Councilmember (retired), Leadership in Government Fellow, Open Society Foundations
Navigating Mali's Challenges: Voices of the Urban Youth
Since 2012, Mali has grappled with governance, sovereignty, and human security crises. Despite holding multi-party elections for two decades, the nation has seen three coups in just over ten years and still faces persistent insurgencies.
In this talk, Professor Jaimie Bleck will delve into the views of Mali's urban youth on these significant governance challenges. Based on discussions from 66 focus groups with informal city youth clubs, known as "grinw," she will focus on the youth's perspective for resolving the present crises.
Let's Meet Halfway: Screening and Co-Director Q&A
The Media Arts & Culture Department, Women in Film and Television Club, and Oxy Film Club co-present a screening of the indy feature Let's Meet Halfway (2023) followed by a Q&A with Oxy alum co-directors Dana Dveris MAC '22 and Max Schmitz Oxy/USC '22. Dana and Max began the screenplay as students
Body Parts (2022) + Q&A with director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and producer Helen Hood Scheer
Body Parts traces the evolution of "sex" on-screen from a woman’s perspective, uncovering the uncomfortable realities behind some of the most iconic scenes in cinema history and celebrating the push for change and rise of intimacy coordination on set.
This event is free and open to the public!
2023 Ruenitz Lecture: Dr. Moiya McTier
After graduating from Harvard as the first person in the school’s history to study both astronomy and mythology, Dr. Moiya McTier earned her PhD in astrophysics at Columbia University where she was selected as a National Science Foundation research fellow. Moiya has consulted with companies like Disney and PBS on their fictional worlds, helped design exhibits for the New York Hall of Science, and given hundreds of talks about science around the globe (including features on MSNBC, NPR, and NowThis News).
2023 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence Public Lecture
There will be a 6pm reception preceding the talk.
There is a related arts workshop with Crawley on Feb. 17.