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April/May 2011 Events

April/May 2011
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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Earth Week; Anything/Everything Swap
1:00-5:00 p.m.
Pitzer Mounds

“Science, Power and Gender Identity”
4:30 p.m.
QRC (Pomona)

“The Language of Autism”
5:45 p.m.
Davidson Lecture Hall (CMC)

“The Future of Food”
8:00 p.m.
Gold Student Center (Pitzer)

21

Strawberry Day at Malott

Liza Bakewell: Author & Anthropologist
4:15 p.m.
Hampton Room

“What are you looking for? Sexuality, Archives, Geopolitics”
5:00 p.m.
Humanities 201

5C Dance Company Showcase
7:00 p.m.
Garrison Theater

Trashy Fashion Show
8:00 p.m.
Gold Student Center (Pitzer)

“Fantastische!” Motley encore

22

Kohoutek Music Festival
4:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Pitzer Mounds
*Ongoing

Levitt on The Lawn: Chris Pierce
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Bowling Green Lawn

A-Team Carnival
6:30-10:00 p.m.
Tiernan Field House

23

Kohoutek Music Festival (day 2)

“Live Aloha” fundraiser Lu’au for Japan
4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Bowling Green Lawn

24

Easter Sunday

Clothing Swap at the Women’s Union
3:00-7:00 p.m.
Second Floor of Walker Lounge (Pomona)

25

Afro-Cuban Drumming Ensemble
8:15 p.m.
Thatcher Music Building, Lyman Hall (Pomona)

26

Passover Ends

Professor Ou: “Teaching Math as a Non-Superstition”
Noon
Hampton Room

Jonathan Kozol:
“A new War on Poverty”
7:00 p.m. Garrison Theater

27

Panel Discussion: “Future of Higher Education”
Noon-1:00 p.m.
Hampton Room

Challah French Toast
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Seal Court

28

Spring Dance Concert
8:00 p.m.
Seaver Theater (Pomona)
*Ongoing

29

Pool Party
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Tiernan Field House

Networking
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Mary Wig Johnson Humanities Courtyard

Lavender Graduation
3:30 p.m.
Balch

Scripps/CMC Senior Art Exhibition
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Williamson Gallery

30

Claremont Concert Orchestra and Concert Choir
8:00 p.m.
Garrison Theater
*Ongoing

1

Field of Flags Holocaust Memorial
10:00 a.m.
Pitzer Commencement Plaza

*Ongoing

2

HMC Address for Presentation Day
4:00 p.m.
Galileo Hall

3

Last day of Scripps Classes

4

Capstone Day

Student/Faculty Soccer Game

5

Class of 2011 & La Semeuse Tea
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Seal Court

Jazz Class
8:00-9:30 p.m.
Platt’s Green Room (HMC)

6

National Public Gardens Day

7

Native Plant Clinic
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Read the full story

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Calendar of Events: What’s Happening on Campus

Wednesday, April 6
49th Robbins Lecture Series, Life on the River of Science with Professor Peter Agre, Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona), 4:30 p.m. (continues through April 7)

Thursday, April 7
Weijian Shan, Can China Innovate?, Athenaeum (CMC), 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

The Studio Artists of Pomona College, Lyman Hall (Pomona) followed by tea and reception at Seaver House (Pomona), 1:30 to 3 p.m.

9th Annual Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union, Hampton Room (Scripps), all day

Friday, April 8
Elders-in-Residence program, Elk Whistle with Bill Neal, Grove House Outdoor Classroom (Pitzer), 12 p.m.

Art as Activism, SCORE Living Room (Scripps), 3 to 5 p.m.

LA Opera Young Artists Program, Lyman Hall (Pomona), 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 9
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes March to End Violence Against Women (Pitzer), 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (registration starts at 9:30 a.m.)

International Festival (CMC), 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday, April 11
Girard Lecture, Personal and Professional Perspectives on Bipolar Illness with Kay Redfield Jamison, Humanities Auditorium (Scripps), 4:15 to 5 p.m.

Film: Oxhide II, Rose Hills Theatre (Pomona), 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 12
PBI, Whose Loss and Whose Gain?: The Contradictory Politics of the Brain Drains, Hahn 108 (Pomona), 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.

Film: Thomas Mao (Xiao Dongxi), Rose Hills Theatre (Pomona), 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 13
Queer Faculty Symposium Series: The Imperial Logic of Sexuality, Queer Resource Center (Pomona), 4:30 p.m.

Film: I Wish I Knew, Rose Hills Theatre (Pomona), 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 14
Humanities Institute Lecture: Internationalizing Higher Education: Emerging

Models and Challenges with Stephen Larsen, Hampton Room (Scripps), 12 p.m.

3D Cooperative Strategies for Underwater Robots, Honnold/Mudd Library, 4:15-5:15 p.m.

Film: Disorder, Rose Hills Theatre (Pomona), 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 15
Mathew Engelke, “God’s Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England,” Balch Conference Room (Scripps), 12 p.m.

Scripps Dances, Garrison Theatre (Scripps), 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 16
Scripps Dances, Garrison Theatre (Scripps), 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Monday, April 18
Where do we stand in the European Union—a Hungarian Presidency Perspective, Hampton Room (Scripps), noon

The 2012 Maya End Times Calendar Follies with Edward Krupp (‘67), Millikan 134 (Pomona), 4:15 p.m.

Matt Logelin: “Two Kisses for Maddy” reading and book signing, Hampton Room (Scripps), 4:15 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19
Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30), Athenaeum (CMC), 6:45 p.m.

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Calendar of Events: What’s Happening on Campus (February)

Feb 7
Sustainability Dialog – Local Environmental Justice Issues, Hahn 101 (PO), 7 p.m.

Feb 8
Sustainability Film Festival featuring Green, Green Water, Rose Hills (PO), 7 p.m.

Sojourner Truth Lecture by Poet and Activist Sonia Sanchez, Rose Hills (PO), 7:30 p.m.

The Artist Book as an Agent of Social Change, Clark Humanities Museum (SCR), all day event

Elizabeth Cauffman, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum (CMC), 6:45 p.m.

Feb 9
67th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Williamson Gallery (SCR), 1 to 5 p.m. (continues through the month)

Vali Nasr, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum (CMC), 6:45 p.m.

Feb 10
Art After Hours, Pomona Museum of Art, 5 to 11 p.m.

Lunar New Year, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum (CMC), 6:45 p.m.

Feb 11
GRE Practice Test & Review Session, Bauer Center South 22 (CMC), 12:30 p.m.

Malott Commons 11th Anniversary Community Valentine’s Party, Malott Commons (SCR), 2 p.m.

Feb 12
Tawanda muChinyakare’s Chinyakare Ensemble. Bridges Hall of Music (PO), 8 p.m.

Feb 13
Music of Arnold Schoenberg: A Discussion, Lyman Hall (PO), 4 p.m.

Feb 14
Scripps Students Art Studios Tour, Language Art Studios (SCR), 2 p.m.

Steven Phillips, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum (CMC), 6:45 p.m.

Feb 15
Monsour Counseling & Psychological Services: Time Management & Study Skills Workshop, Tranquada Student Services Building (CUC), 1 p.m.

Charles Baxter, Marian Miner Cook Auditorium (CMC), 6:45 p.m.

Feb 16
Physics at the Edge of Philosophy: Black Holes are Neither Black nor Holes by Sahakian and Sushytska, Galileo Edwards Hall (HMC), 7 p.m.

Feb 17
Pekka Hämäläinen lecture: The Struggle for Power and Survival in North America, 1600-1900, Rose Hills (PO), 11 a.m.

Core Ensemble, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum (CMC), 6:45 p.m.

Feb 18
Workshop: Employment for Visa Students and Scholars, Tranquada Student Services Multi-Purpose Room (CUC), 11:45 a.m.

Feb 19
Kohn + Kohn Music Concert, Bridges Hall of Music (PO), 8 p.m.

Feb 20
Songs from Spain and Latin America, Bridges Hall of Music (PO), 3 p.m.

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Calendar of Events (December 9-19)

PHOTO COURTESY OF LAURIE FENDRICH ARCHIVES

December 9-14
Study Breaks at Honnold/Mudd, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

December 10
Yogathon classes at 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 3 p.m. (hip hop yoga), and 4 p.m.

December 11 – 12
CGU Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concerts
Saturday, Dec. 11 at Alex Theatre, Glendale, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 12 at Royce Hall, UCLA, 7 p.m.

December 11-13
Pizza Nights at Honnold/Mudd 9 p.m.

December 11-19
Sense and Sensation: Laurie Fendrich, Paintings and Drawings 1990-2010, Williamson Gallery, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

PHOTO COURTESY OF INLAND BALLET ARCHIVES

Steve Roden: When Words Become Forms, Pomona Museum of Art, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

December 11-12, 18-19
Inland Pacific Ballet’s The Nutcracker, Bridges Auditorium, show times vary
FMI: www.ipballet.org

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