This film is followed by an interview with leading anti-stalking expert and private investigator, Lenora Claire.
Content Warning: A note about content of this film - it discusses sexual violence and sexual assault with first-hand accounts from survivors along with other distressing content. Please make a plan to ensure you have support before and after any films you plan to attend.
Oxy community! Come learn from a conversation between Asha Grant (The Salteaters Book Shop), Nikki High (Octavia's Bookshelf) and Jazzi McGilbert (Reparations Club) on how Black women-owned bookstores in LA are spaces for social change and social justice!
This event is sponsored by the Humanities for Just Communities Initiative, the Departments of Black Studies, American Studies and English and the Interdisciplinary Writing Program.
Join us for a lecture by Dorian Bell, “Jews Will Not Replace Us”: Antisemitism and the Great Replacement Theory
Adherents of the so-called Great Replacement theory accuse “globalist” elites of conspiring to drown white nations in a non-white immigrant tide. This lecture shows how such demographic conspiracism draws on — but also reconfigures — old antisemitic notions about Jewish power. The result is what Bell calls post-antisemitism: a phenomenon molded by antisemitism, yet that poses a distinctive new threat to Jews and non-Jews alike.
Interested in attending a college lecture or speaker series? Prepare for the upcoming Community Book Author Talk on 10/18 through this event!
For years, China has been developing an alternative to the US-led international order. The success of this effort hinges on China’s ability to convince its allies to abandon the US dollar as the global standard for trade and investment in favor of its currency, the renminbi (RMB). Due to China’s unique political economy, the core challenge for China lies in providing global investors access to a deep and liquid RMB capital market while maintaining domestic capital controls.
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.
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.
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.
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).