The 2025 Antoinette and Vincent M. Dungan Lectureship on Energy and the Environment
The Core Program is excited to host award-winning chef, author, and activist Bryant Terry for a talk on the topic of food justice. The talk is open to the entire community. First-year students are required to attend.
Thorne Hall, Occidental College
Join us for an evening of conversation between boundary-breaking multi-hyphenate Miranda July with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.
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).
Featuring works by Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Ethel Smyth, and a special performance of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature"!
Read an article about Brit Bennett and her Occidental College event.