Lower Herrick

This talk will cover the two overarching arguments of Rebecca Bartel’s book, Card Carrying Christians: Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia. The first is that there is an inextricable link between Christian morality and the morality of finance capitalism as it has developed in Colombia. The second, related to the first, is that aspiring, believing, and becoming are the organizing social forms of finance.

lovelike is a mixed-reality musical performance about losing yourself to loneliness and longing. The project uses motion capture and VR as part of an interface that allows avatars to interact with virtual objects as proxies for effects envelopes and instruments in audio software. Throughout the duration of the performance, Jenna Caravello and Celia Hollander collaborate on a musical composition on stage together, Jenna as an embodied avatar in a projected virtual world and Celia organizing incoming clips in live audio software.

Join us for a discussion on the historic antecedents of misunderstandings and myths directed toward Muslim and Jewish folks. This program will provide tools and techniques for disrupting Islamophobic and anti-Semitic behaviors.

Registration Link provided in the 2/5/24 campus email.

Student Presenters:

• Amaryllis Argueta: Creating Meaningful Virtual Spaces: Reimagining the Occidental College Disorientation Guide through Unity
• Aarushi Arora: Los Angeles Community Fridges
• Hector Baez: Automating Data Extraction from Document Images
• Olivia Baldwin-Geilin: Greenspaces: Accessing the Outdoors Made Easy
• Layal Bata: Cognitively Modeling the Two Systems Account of Theory of Mind Using Analogy

Presenting seniors:

• Aarushi Arora - Rewire Your Brain: Meditation, the Default Mode Network, and Depression
• Ava Lubetkin - How Dance Intervention Works in Healing Emotional Trauma: Spontaneity, Movement, and Awareness of Body
• Chloe Hong - Online Consumer Decision-Making in Millennials vs.

Join members of the Integrated Strategic Planning Steering Committee on Monday, November 15 from 11 a.m. - 12 noon in Lower Herrick for a Community Input Session.

What is ISP?

Beginning this semester, Occidental will commence work on a highly collaborative strategic planning process that will result in a compelling vision and a corresponding set of institutional priorities that will propel Occidental through 2030. Read more about the plan.

Join members of the Integrated Strategic Planning Steering Committee on Thursday, November 4 from 2:30 - 4 pm in Lower Herrick for a Community Input Session.

What is ISP?

Sponsored by the Center for Community Based Learning and Latin American Studies Program.

Funding for the exhibit and website was made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Arts and Technology grant, Occidental College.

Light refreshments will be served.

About John Tapia Urquiza: 

The primary election is the first time Angelenos will cast ballots under a brand-new model, one that includes state-of-the-art equipment, an updated design for mail-in ballots and new locations for in-person voting. This semester, as Los Angeles County transitions from polling places to vote centers, Occidental College is a proud participant in the Vote Center Placement Project.

Developed for students who want to use the basic principles and practices of restorative justice, this training prompts students to reflect on their role in fostering a culture of care based on respect, responsibility, and repair of harm.