Dance Production 2024
PERFORMANCES
Friday, March 22 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 23 at 2 p.m.
Saturday, March 23 at 7 p.m.
Preorder your tickets now or buy tickets at the door!
Indigenous Futures in the Himalayas - Prof. Charisma Lepcha
"Thirsty hunters and non-human inlaws across broken bridges in the Sikkim Himalaya"
How are human and more-than-human beings impacted by unplanned infrastructural development and resource extraction in the Sikkim Himalayas?
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.
A book talk with Justin Torres and Chekwube Danladi
Justin Torres comes to campus to read from his recent National Book Award-winning novel Blackouts, and to discuss it with Writer-in-Residence Chekwube Danladi. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35," a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.
Discussion Event: Challenging Anti-Semitism & Islamophobia
Join us for a discussion on the historic antecedents of misunderstandings and myths directed toward Muslim and Jewish folks. This program will provide tools and techniques for disrupting Islamophobic and anti-Semitic behaviors.
Registration Link provided in the 2/5/24 campus email.
Apollo Night 2024
Students, Faculty and Staff: email bsa@oxy.edu or look for ticket sales on the Quad to get tickets before the show date ($6) OR purchase tickets at the door the night of the show ($10).
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.
2024 Occidental College Career & Internship Fair
OXY 2024 Career & Internship Fair
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Event Start Time: 11:00 AM
Event End Time: 2:00 PM
Looking for full-time work or an internship? Exploring your options for employment after graduation? Attend the OXY Career & Internship Fair on Thursday, February 22 from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM on the Academic Quad!
Come help construct the OXYHEDRON!
The OXYHEDRON will be built between Fowler & Johnson Hall, in front of the Coons Administration Building!
Construction will begin on Friday, November 10 from 10am to 4pm. The structure will be on view through Monday, November 13.
Built together with the Occidental Math Department, this 17-foot-tall structure shows a three-dimensional fractal composed of ever-larger copies of a fundamental 8-sided shape, the regular octahedron.
Inaugural Olive Harvest Fest
Calling all students, staff, faculty, and alumni! For the first time ever, the Office of Sustainability is pleased to welcome you to join us in harvesting olives from our campus Mission Olive trees. The olives will be pressed locally into our very own extra virgin olive oil!
Friday, November 3rd
10:00am - 2:00pm (come and go as you please!)
In the Olive Grove / on Thorne Patio