Thorne Hall

The Hidden Historians of War and the Places They Carry: Refugee Stories from Iraq and Syria

What happens when the history of a war and its survivors is told not only through books, but through the objects and memories people carry with them? Join journalist and scholar Stephanie Saldaña, who lived in Syria before the war, as she shares from her new book What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry. She will describe her journey across nine countries to meet refugees and learn what they salvaged from the ruins when they escaped.

Media Arts and Culture is hosting La Pocha Nostra, Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Balitrónica, 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).

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Members of the Occidental College Music Department will perform the greatest hits from music attorney John Branca's most renowned clients, including Michael Jackson, Carlos Santana, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, and Rodgers & Hammerstein. The concert will also feature a performance from a special guest artist.

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Join us for an evening of conversation between artist Tavares Strachan with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber. Tavares Strachan's sculpture The Encyclopedia of Invisibility is on display in the Invisibility: Powers & Perils exhibition at OXY ARTS. 

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Her recent book, What Can I Do? The Path From Climate Despair to Action, serves as a powerful call, and this event promises to ignite our collective resolve to drive impactful change. Jane and Greg will be joined by Emma Silber ’23 and Emma Galbraith ’25, climate activists leading the local charge in the fight for climate justice.

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We are running out of time. 2023 was one of the most volatile climate years in history, and the mealy outcomes of COP28 make it clear that incremental politics aren't going to save us. Is there any hope of achieving the systemic changes we need to address climate change before it's too late? In SAVING OURSELVES: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action, author Dana R. Fisher charts a realistic path forward for climate action--but only by mobilizing people power to push for the necessary changes.