Careers in Law: Meet Judge Owens, 9th Circuit Judge
Judge Owens will share about the career journey that led him to the Federal Court of Appeals, and also answer questions from the audience about his career and the courts.
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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.
SANKOFA CITY: Speculative Design in Leimart Park
A conversation with Sankofa City filmmakers Ben Caldwell and Karl Baumann about their process designing a series of speculative media projects with the Leimart Park community of Los Angeles, moderated by MAC Prof. Amanda Tasse.
Sen. Maria Elena Durazo: What can the legislature do for you?
Learn about the new Health4All program, California politics, and the future of the state.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Politics.
"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
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.