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Please join us to hear our Group Language seniors present their senior comprehensive projects. There will be time for questions and cookies!

Tim (Chenghan) Zhou (Group Language [Chinese & Linguistics]) will present his talk entitled "Acquisition of Language: A Critical Review of Factors in Language Acquisition" and Jacqueline Pichardo (Group Language [Spanish & Linguistics]; Cognitive Science) will present her talk entitled "Code-switching Without Alternating Between Two Languages? The Balance Between Cultural Identity and Linguistic Expression."

Launched in 2008, Campaign Semester is open to Oxy students of all majors, and all years  ~ no previous campaign experience required!  Earn 16 Occidental units!  Financial aid applies!

Launched in 2008, Campaign Semester is open to Oxy students of all majors, and all years  ~ no previous campaign experience required!  Earn 16 Occidental units!  Financial aid applies!

Campaign Semester participants remain fully enrolled at Occidental and earn a full semester of college credit (16 units) for volunteering full-time in a Presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, or gubernatorial campaign for 10 weeks during the fall semester. After Election Day, students return to campus and participate in a five-week seminar that involves reading and discussion in order to put their campaign work in a broader context. Join us for this information session to learn how to get involved in the 2024 election cycle. 

Dr. Dalit Baum (Ph.D., Hebrew University) is the director of the AFSC's Economic Activism Program. She is the co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation and the Coalition of Women for Peace. She is a feminist scholar and teacher who has taught about militarism and the global economy from a feminist perspective in Israeli and U.S. universities.

Presentations include: 

Jacob Eggert: "Confidence and Insecurity in the Realm of Value"

Farrah H. Kim: "What an Absurd Life Reveals about the Afterlife"

Michael Caballero: "The Reasonability of Fearing Death: Subjective versus Objective Reasoning"

Henrik De La Torre: "How Can We Dance at the End of the World?" 

Samuel Ritmeester-Loy: "We're all in this Together: Losing Individualism in the face of Death" 

If you have any questions or cannot attend, email either carrerac@oxy.edu or mimperio@oxy.edu.

Yuriko Romer is a San Francisco-based award winning director. She will be discussing her film Diamond Diplomacy: 

"Deep devotion to the game of baseball has been tossed between the U.S. and Japan since its opening to the West in the late 1800's, and mirrors profound shifts in diplomacy between the two nations. Diamond Diplomacy charts this 150-year story revealing pivotal moments of an often-controversial duality that has existed throughout this history."

Event is sponsored by UEP 310 Community Organizing & Leadership class taught by Professors Peter Dreier and Jan Breidenbach. Due to limited seating, please email dreier@oxy.edu if you are interested in attending.