October 2008 Events at Pomona College
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts colleges, is sponsoring the following on-campus events. Each of these events is open to the public and free of charge unless otherwise noted.
Oct. 2 —The Hart Institute for American History
Lecture Series: “The Portage: Space, Time, and Storytelling in the
Making of an American Place”
William Cronon, professor
of history, geography and environmental studies at University of
Wisconsin, will deliver a lecture titled, “The Portage: Space, Time,
and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place” as part of The
Hart Institute for American History 2008-09 Lecture Series,
“Environment and American Society." The lecture begins at 4:15 p.m. in
Pomona College’s Rose Hills Theatre (Smith Campus Center, 170 E. 6th
St., Claremont). Contact: (909) 607-9435.
Oct. 2—Lecture: "Urban Sanitation and the Colonial City: Engagements with Japanese Hygienic Modernity"
Colorado State University Professor of History Todd Henry will discuss
"Urban Sanitation and the Colonial City: Engagements with Japanese
Hygienic Modernity," beginning at 6 p.m. at the Claremont McKenna
College Athenaeum (385 E. 8th St., Claremont). This lecture is
organized by Pomona and Claremont McKenna Colleges’ Departments of
History. Contact: (909) 607-3075.
Oct. 3—Friday Noon Concert
The St. Florian
Trio: Motoko Mito (violin); Yosuke Ozawa (cello); Phillip Young (piano)
perform music by Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97
“Archduke.” The concert begins at 12:15 p.m. and will be held in Balch
Auditorium (Scripps College, 10th St. and Dartmouth Ave., Claremont).
Oct. 4—Evening with the Millennium Consort Singers
World-renowned Grammy Award nominee Martin Neary will conduct The
Millennium Consort Singers as they perform music by Britten, Byrd,
Flaherty, and Rohde. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and will be held at
the Pomona College Bridges Hall of Music (150 E. 4th Street,
Claremont).
Oct. 6 —Fall Literary Series: Norman Finkelstein
Poet & critic Norman Finkelstein, author of Powers (2005) and Passing Over
(2007), and professor of English at Xavier University, will give a
reading beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Pomona College’s Ena Thompson Reading
Room (Crookshank Hall, Room 108, 140 W. Sixth St., Claremont). This
event is sponsored by the Pomona College Department of English.
Contact: (909) 607-2212.
Oct. 7 —Film: “Up the Yangtze River”
Director
Yung Chang uses the construction of China's massive Three Gorges Dam as
a springboard to understanding social hierarchies in the film Up the Yangtze River (Canada, 2007). The director will
attend the screening, which begins at 7 p.m. in Pomona College’s Rose
Hills Theatre (Smith Campus Center, 170 E. 6th St., Claremont). This
screening is part of The Pacific Basin Institute (PBI) at Pomona
College’s 2008 Film Festival Series. Contact: (909) 607-8065.
Oct. 8 —Anthropology Distinguished Lecturer Series: "Images of a Changing California: Henry B. Brown’s 1851-1852 Sketches”
Thomas
Blackburn, professor emeritus of anthropology at CSU Pomona, will
present "Images of a Changing California: Henry B. Brown's 1851-1852
Sketches." Dr. Blackburn is the author of Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians
(1993). This lecture begins at 4:15 p.m and will be held at Pomona
College in Hahn 101 (Hahn Building, 420 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont).
This event is part of the Anthropology Distinguished Lecturer Series:
“Native California: Diversity, Identity, and Sustainability.” Contact:
(909) 607-9675.
Oct. 9-12—Theatre: “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf”
The Obie Award-winning
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf reveals what it is to be of color and female in the 20th century. It was praised by
The New Yorker
for "encompassing…every feeling and experience a woman has ever had."
Directed by Shakina Nayfack. The show will be performed at: 8 p.m.,
Oct. 9-11; 2 p.m., Oct. 11 & 12, in the Pomona College Allen Studio
Theatre (Seaver Theatre, 300 E. Bonita Ave., Claremont). Tickets are $5
for faculty, staff, students and senior citizens and $10 for general
admission; season subscriptions are $20 for faculty, staff, students
and senior citizens, $30 for general admission. Box Office: (909)
621-8525 or (909) 607-4375, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Mon.-Fri.
Oct. 10—Friday Noon Concert
Pomona College
faculty members Alfred Cramer (baroque violin), Roger Lebow (baroque
cello) and Graydon Beeks (harpsichord) will perform music by
Boismortier, Haym and Vivaldi. The concert begins at 12:15 p.m. and
will be held in Balch Auditorium (Scripps College, 10th St. and
Dartmouth Ave., Claremont).
Oct. 11, 12—Pomona College Orchestra
Pomona College faculty members Eric Lindholm (conductor), and Genevieve
Feiwen Lee (piano) will perform with the Pomona College Orchestra,
presenting music by Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a; Ginastera:
Dance Suite from Estancia (1941); and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58.
The concert begins at 8 p.m., Sat., Oct. 11; 3 p.m., Sun., Oct. 12, and
will be held in the Pomona College Bridges Hall of Music (150 E. 4th
Street, Claremont).
Oct. 15—Faculty Lecture Series: Intracellular Traffic
Pomona College professor of biology, Clarissa Cheney, will deliver a
lecture titled, “Going From Here to There within the Cell: How the Cell
Directs Intracellular Traffic,” The lecture and free lunch begin at
noon in the Blue Room of Frank Dining Hall (260 E. Bonita Avenue,
Claremont). Contact: (909) 621-8328.
Oct. 15—PBI Lecture: “Earth and Fire: Sustaining Life and Art on the Silk Road”
Historian,
curator at the British Library and director of the International
Dunhuang Project, Susan Whitfield, has traveled and written widely on
the Silk Road, its history, historiography and art. She will lecture on
“Earth and Fire: Sustaining Life and Art on the Silk Road,” beginning
at 4:15 p.m., and will be held at Pomona College in Hahn 101 (Hahn
Building, 420 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont). Organized by the Pacific
Basin Institute (PBI). (909) 607-8065.
Oct. 22—Faculty Lecture Series: Education in Pakistan
Pomona
College Professor of Economics Tahir Andrabi will discuss “One Giant
Leap: Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools.” The
lecture and free lunch begin at noon in the Blue Room of Frank Dining
Hall (260 E. Bonita Avenue, Claremont). Contact: (909) 621-8328.
Oct. 24—Friday Noon Concert
Yun He Liang will perform the erhu, a two-stringed bowed
musical instrument, sometimes known as the "Chinese violin" or "Chinese
two-string fiddle.” Together with Pomona College faculty member Phillip
Young (piano), Yun He Liang will present music inspired by folk
traditions of China and Hungary, featuring music by Dun, Bartók, and
Liu. The concert begins at 12:15 p.m. and will be held in Balch
Auditorium (Scripps College, 10th St. and Dartmouth Ave., Claremont).
Oct. 25—Violin and Piano through the Ages
Pomona College faculty member Todor Pelev (violin) and Douglas Ashcraft
(piano) will perform music by Beethoven, Debussy and Vladigerov. The
concert begins at 8 p.m. and will be held in the Pomona College Bridges
Hall of Music (150 E. 4th Street, Claremont).
Oct. 27—Lecture: "Magma in the Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository"
Mineralogical
Society of America Distinguished Lecturer Bruce Marsh (Johns Hopkins
University) will lecture on "Magma in the Proposed Yucca Mountain
Nuclear Repository," beginning at 4 p.m. in Pomona College’s Edmonds
Ballroom, Room 130 (Smith Campus Center, 170 E. Sixth St., Claremont).
Contact: (909) 621-8677.
Oct.27— Sociology Lecture Series: "White Power/Black Brokers: Race, Class and Politics in the City"
As
part of the Pomona College Sociology Lecture Series: Families and
Neighborhoods, Sociologist Mary Pattillo (Northwestern University) will
present "White Power/Black Brokers: Race, Class and Politics in the
City." Pattillo's most recent book, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
(2007), winner of the Robert Park Best Book Award from the American
Sociological Association, examines the simultaneous processes of
low-income housing construction and gentrification in a black Chicago
neighborhood. This lecture begins at 4:15 p.m. and will be held at
Pomona College in Hahn 101 (Hahn Building, 420 N. Harvard Ave.,
Claremont). Contact: (909) 607-3026.
Oct. 28—Lecture: “China 2.0: Illusion and Promise Behind the Great Firewall”
Michael
Santoro, professor of business environment at the Rutgers Business
School and faculty member of the Rutgers Center for Global Change and
Governance, will discuss, “China 2.0: Illusion and Promise Behind the
Great Firewall.” Sponsored by Oldenborg International Relations
Colloquium (IRC), this event begins at noon in Pomona College’s
Oldenborg Dining Hall (350 N. College Way, Claremont). Admission is
free and a free lunch is provided for faculty and staff; students use
meal cards; $5 general admission (lunch only). Contact: (909) 621-8018.
Oct. 28—Fall Literary Series: Blackwood
Novelist and screenwriter Rick Blackwood, Pomona College Visiting Professor of English and Screenwriting, and author of
Deadlock (1993) and Pyramider
(1992), will read from his work beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Pomona
College’s Ena Thompson Reading Room (Crookshank Hall, Room 108, 140 W.
Sixth St., Claremont). This event is sponsored by the Pomona College
Department of English. Contact: (909) 607-8065.
Oct. 29—Faculty Lecture Series: Slow Art
Pomona
College Professor of English Arden Reed will lecture on “Slow Art:
Strategies for Attending to Visual Images in a Culture of Speed and
Distraction.” The lecture and lunch begin at noon in the Blue Room of
Frank Dining Hall (260 E. Bonita Avenue, Claremont). Contact: (909)
621-8328.
Oct. 29—Anthropology Distinguished Lecturer Series: “Chumash Ethnobotany"
Jan
Timbrook, curator of ethnography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History will lecture on “Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the
Native People of Southern California,” as part of the Anthropology
Distinguished Lecturer Series: “Native California: Diversity, Identity,
and Sustainability.” This lecture begins at 4:15 p.m. in Hahn 101
(Pomona College, Hahn Building, 420 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont).
Contact: (909) 607-9675.
Oct. 29—Student Recital
Students will
present a recital of music beginning at 8:15 p.m., in the Pomona
College Lyman Hall (Thatcher Music Building, 340 N. College Avenue,
Claremont).
Oct. 31—Friday Noon Concert
Pomona College faculty members Rachel Huang (violin), Roger Lebow
(cello) and Gayle Blankenburg (piano) will perform music by Dvorák. The
concert begins at 12:15 p.m. and will be held in Balch Auditorium
(Scripps College, 10th St. and Dartmouth Ave., Claremont).
Continuing Museum Exhibitions:
Sept. 2 —Oct. 19 Pomona College Faculty Exhibition
Studio Art Pomona College faculty members Mark Allen, Sandeep
Mukherjee, Sheila Pinkel and Mercedes Teixido exhibit their work. The
Pomona College Museum of Art (330 N. College Ave., Claremont) is open
Tues.-Fri., 12-5 p.m.; Sat.-Sun, 1-5 p.m. Contact: (909) 621-8283 or
visit www.pomona.edu/museum.
Sept. 2 —Oct. 19 Project Series 36: Predock_Frane Architects
Award-winning international design and architecture firm,
Predock_Frane Architects, will present an installation titled “Inland
Empire,” which is their interpretation of the decentralized landscapes
of the Inland Empire, encompassing Riverside and San Bernardino
counties. The Pomona College Museum of Art (330 N. College Ave.,
Claremont) is open Tues.-Fri., 12-5 p.m.; Sat.-Sun, 1-5 p.m. Contact:
(909) 621-8283 or visit www.pomona.edu/museum.
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