The Spring Semester Tuesday Noon Academy, a series of lunchtime lectures at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», features distinguished alumnae, professors, students, and guests. Lectures begin at 12 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». The series is sponsored by the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons and is free and open to the public. Coffee and dessert are provided. Guests may bring a lunch or purchase one at the Malott Commons Dining Hall. Doors to the Hampton Room open at 11:45 a.m. For additional program information, please call the Malott Commons office at (909) 607-9372.
Scheduled speakers and topics are:
- January 30, Laura Skandera Trombley, President, Pitzer College, “Mark Twain’s Annus Horribilis of 1908″
- February 6, Leigh Gilmore, Backstrand Chair in Gender and Women’s Studies, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», “Transparency: Autobiography in an Age of ‘Truthiness'”
- February 13, Sandra Tsing Loh, Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», Writer, Artist, and NPR Commentator, “We’d Rather Eat Chocolate”
- February 27, Teresa Landgraff Gale ’96, Artist, Educator, and Lois Langland Alumna-in-Residence, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», “Writing with Sound: Aural Storytelling in Digital Times”
- March 6, Hao Huang, Professor of Music, Chair of the Department of Music, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», “Music in Xinjiang”
- March 20, Louis Stern, President and Director, Louis Stern Fine Arts, “Alfredo Ramos Martinez and Hollywood”
- March 27, Candida Jaquez, Assistant Professor of Music, Ethnomusicology, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», “Mariachi Tradition”
- April 3, Joy Goto, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, The Joint Science Department of The Claremont Colleges, “From Fruit Bats to Fruit Flies: Clues to Understanding Neurodegenerative Disease”
- April 20, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Scholar-in-Residence, Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of The Claremont Colleges, “Making Revolution Irresistible: Writing, Political Struggle, and Women’s Lives”
- April 24, Dale McDonald, Executive Chef, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», “Sensational Summer Surprises”