Choi Auditorium

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).

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.

Learn about the new Health4All program, California politics, and the future of the state.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Politics.

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.

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

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.