Occidental's Community Book Program with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Registration for this virtual event is required, and is open to all Oxy community members. Register here
Computer Science Department's Senior Comps Event
- Amaia McCoy: TAC: Athletic Training Web Application Connecting Trainers, Athletes, and Coaches
- Axel Bartsch: Expected Goals in Rocket League
- Campbell Gilbert: RavenDesk: A Word Processor with Built-In Meta-Cognitive Support
- Connor Wierman: Uni-Housing: An Improved Housing App for College Students
- Dani Renteria: Sports Commentary Generation
- Elise Corwin: Comm
History Department's Senior Comps Event
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"
Talk by Nadia Chernyak, University of California, Irvine
One of the most critical societal issues is our perpetuation of inequality. One important quandary, however, is that while humans agree that equality is important, they continue to endorse and perpetuate existing inequalities. This talk presents some developmental evidence for why this may be the case.
Talk by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Poet, Essayist and Chekwube Danladi, Occidental College Writer-in-Residence
Chekwube Danladi is the author of Semiotics (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and, Take Me Back, included in the New Generation African Poets chapbook boxset. She has received support from Kimbilio Fiction, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and elsewhere.
An Early Evening of Objects, Performance, and Prose
You are cordially invited to a celebration of objects, performance, and prose featuring William Leon Dawson’s The Birds of California volumes, first published one-hundred years ago in 1923. In his writings, Dawson captured a comprehensive scope of complete, scientific, and popular accounts of the “vividly contrasting and kaleidoscopic” bird life found here in the Golden State.
Come help construct the OXYHEDRON!
The OXYHEDRON will be built between Fowler & Johnson Hall, in front of the Coons Administration Building!
Construction will begin on Friday, November 10 from 10am to 4pm. The structure will be on view through Monday, November 13.
Built together with the Occidental Math Department, this 17-foot-tall structure shows a three-dimensional fractal composed of ever-larger copies of a fundamental 8-sided shape, the regular octahedron.
Inaugural Olive Harvest Fest
Calling all students, staff, faculty, and alumni! For the first time ever, the Office of Sustainability is pleased to welcome you to join us in harvesting olives from our campus Mission Olive trees. The olives will be pressed locally into our very own extra virgin olive oil!
Friday, November 3rd
10:00am - 2:00pm (come and go as you please!)
In the Olive Grove / on Thorne Patio
Oxy Community Bird Walk
Moore Lab of Zoology will be hosting a guided bird walk on Friday, November 3 at 8AM. We'll be on the lookout for seasonal and migrant birds along with our favorite resident birds throughout campus.
Meet us outside at the front entrance of the Moore Lab near Sycamore Glen. Bring binoculars if you have them, and we'll also have plenty to share.
All Oxy staff, faculty & students are welcome to join! Let us know you'll be there, RSVP with Jenny Wong at jwong3@oxy.edu.
A Talk by Mike Bonin, LA City Councilmember (retired), Leadership in Government Fellow, Open Society Foundations
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