Choi Auditorium

Kushner’s new novel, The Mars Room, was published on May 1st, 2018, and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Kushner is also the author of The Flamethrowers, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Five Novel of 2013. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. A collection of her early work, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2015. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Paris Review.

Documentary filmmaker Karyl Evans presents her new film about landscape architect Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959), who overcame the challenges of a male-dominated profession to landscape more than 200 projects during her pioneering career, including the Occidental campus. A presentation by historian Ann Scheid on her research into Farrand’s Southern California landscapes and a Q&A with the filmmaker will follow.

Crisostomo, a senior at Lincoln High School in 1968, was part of a small group of students and faculty who led 15,000 Chicano students to walk out of their L.A. Unified schools in a historic protest against longstanding inequities in the district. Refreshments will be served! Presented by Upward Bound and the First Generation Club.

Former Israeli soldier Ari Folman's animated, quasi-documentary Waltz With Bashir follows the filmmaker's emotional attempt to decipher the horrors that unfolded one night in September of 1982 when more than 3,000 Palestinian refugees were massacred in the heart of Beirut as Israeli soldiers surrounded the area. Folman was one of those soldiers, but nearly 20 years after the fact, his memories of that night remained particularly hazy. This is the unsettling story of his quest to unearth those memories.

This talk will combine imagery and video clips of methods of book production in Tibet to introduce the viewer to the materials used and artisans involved in creating these spiritual treasures. 

Roman Catholic nun-scribes copied out and decorated thousands of manuscripts in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.  Moreton has documented 250 manuscripts produced by over 70 nun-scribes and decorators from more than 40 different convents in Renaissance and early modern Italy. Dr.

Learn how to effectively write your accomplishments reflecting past work experiences and leadership roles. Get your resume ready for prime time!

Learn about the types of interviews and how to effectively analyze a job description to tell your story.