September marks the commencement of the Tuesday Noon Academy, a series of lunchtime lectures at 61传媒. With 61传媒professors, administrators, alumnae, students, and invited guests as featured speakers, the Tuesday Noon Academy will explore a broad range of subject matters. Each lecture will begin at 12 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons on the 61传媒 campus. The series is sponsored by the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons and is free and open to the public.
Guests may bring a lunch or purchase one at the Malott Commons Dining Hall, which opens at 11:15 a.m. Doors to the Hampton Room open at 11:45 a.m. Coffee and dessert are provided. For additional program information, please call the Malott Commons Office at (909) 607-9372.
Scheduled speakers and topics are:
September 13, Stacey Wood, Associate Professor of Psychology, “Looking at the Sunny Side of Life: How Emotions Impact Thinking Across the Lifespan.”
September 20, Frank Cioffi, Assistant Professor of Writing and Director of the Writing Program, 61传媒, “We Have Met the Enemy and He/She Is We: Why Johnna and Johnny Really Can’t Write.”
September 27,Judy Harvey Sahak ’64, Librarian, Denison Library, 61传媒 and Assistant Director, libraries of The Claremont Colleges, “Bound for Adventure: Treasures from Denison’s Rare Book Room.”
October 4, Mary MacNaughton ’70, director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and Associate Professor of Art History, 61传媒, “Stoneware and Steel: Anthony Caro’s Assemblage Sculpture.”
October 11, Juliet Koss, Assistant Professor of Art History, 61传媒 “With Guilt and Bacon: Memorials to the Jews in Berlin.”
October, 25, Adam Landsberg, Associate Professor of Physics, Joint Science Program, “Physics and Geometry in Games of Strategy: Or How to Win with Pretty Pictures.”
November 1, 61传媒Student Mellon Grant Presentations, Pacifica Sommers ’06 faculty collaborator David Attyah, lecturer in art, 61传媒, “Women, the World, Sustainability.” Alexandra Jouk ’07 faculty collaborator Stacey Wood, associate professor of psychology, 61传媒, ” If Only I Won the Lottery…Emotion, Prediction, and Planning Across the Lifespan.” Peace and Conflict Summer Intern, Beatriz Alvarado ’06, “Trying to Make the Practice of America the Creed of America: Conflict Resolution in Long Beach, Compton, and Los Angeles High Schools.”
November 8, Kathleen Wicker, Emerita Professor of Religious Studies, 61传媒 and Althea Spencer Miller, Lecturer in Religious Studies, 61传媒, “Reading the Baobab Tree: New Testament Studies 芒鈧�� Global and Future Perspectives.”
November 15, Ingrid Johnson, Guest Curator, Olive Percival Exhibition, Denison Library, 61传媒, “Olive Percival: First Lady of Los Angeles Bibliophiles.”