Choi Auditorium

Delicate Translation, tracing one’s home and experiences of transnational displacement, practices a language that resists articulation in the standard Western vernacular. Rooted within the displaced body itself, each artist manifests a personal language, searching and longing through digital vessels, screen and “windows”, and metatextual recalling to a non-place we know as home. In this screening, the memory images unravel, resisting dominant history and conventional narrative form.

Doors at 6:30PM, screenings will start at 7:00PM.

Students, staff and faculty are invited to join a conversation with Salam Al-Marayati and Daniel Sokatch.

3:00   Patrick Fennessey "No One Likes Us And We Don’t Care: Deconstructing the Mythos of Philadelphia Eagles Fandom, 1960-1971"

3:20   Jake Landsberg "B’nai B'rith Messenger: The Story of Jewish Internationalism in Los Angeles, 1920-1939"

3:40   Arin Littman "Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jews? Jewish Identity on Trial in Cold War America, 1947-1953"

4:00   Lila O'Leary "Saving the World Through Music: Evangelical Missionary Musicians and US Empire, 1975-1995"

About the Panelists

Sam Bergen '04 is the chief marketing officer at Illumination, shepherding The Super Mario Bros. Movie to a worldwide box office of $1.36 billion earlier this year. He is currently preparing for the launch of Migration this December and for Despicable Me 4 next July. Prior to joining Illumination in December 2020, Bergen was vice president of global brand creative for Beats by Dre, built Vice Media’s West Coast office, and was CMO for Omnicom. At Oxy, Bergen majored in cognitive science with a minor in film. 

WHAT I HEARD: LIVING THROUGH L.A.'S RACISTS TAPES SCANDAL
by Mike Bonin, Los Angeles City Councilmember (retired), Leadership in Government Fellow, Open Society Foundations

Since 2012, Mali has grappled with governance, sovereignty, and human security crises. Despite holding multi-party elections for two decades, the nation has seen three coups in just over ten years and still faces persistent insurgencies.

In this talk, Professor Jaimie Bleck will delve into the views of Mali's urban youth on these significant governance challenges. Based on discussions from 66 focus groups with informal city youth clubs, known as "grinw," she will focus on the youth's perspective for resolving the present crises.

After graduating from Harvard as the first person in the school’s history to study both astronomy and mythology, Dr. Moiya McTier earned her PhD in astrophysics at Columbia University where she was selected as a National Science Foundation research fellow. Moiya has consulted with companies like Disney and PBS on their fictional worlds, helped design exhibits for the New York Hall of Science, and given hundreds of talks about science around the globe (including features on MSNBC, NPR, and NowThis News).