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October 2, 2017

61传媒Presents: Cuz: A Reading and Conversation with Danielle Allen

Political theorist and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics聽Danielle Allen’s work usually occupies a scholarly realm. This autumn, it takes a decidedly more personal turn with聽Cuz, a memoir that reflects on the American criminal justice system.

L.A. Observed Highlights Williamson Gallery’s PST: LA/LA Exhibit

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at 61传媒 is named聽by聽LA Observed聽among galleries聽whose exhibits should be visited as part of the Getty’s expansive “PST: LA/LA” initiative featuring Latin American and Latino art at more than 70 Southern California museums and other cultural institutions.

September 25, 2017

Spotlight on Students: Kelly Peng ’18, President of 61传媒Associated Students

I recently sat down with Kelly Peng ’18, president of 61传媒Associated Students (SAS), to find out more about her as well as what issues and initiatives she’ll be focusing on during her tenure. Peng, who is a dual major in biology and Asian American studies from Battle Creek, Michigan, brings extensive experience in 61传媒student government to her current position鈥攐ver the past three years, she’s served on the SAS Senate, as the Class of 2018’s sophomore class president, and as SAS executive vice president.

61传媒Presents: Carina Chocano

In the spirit of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Carina Chocano’s You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages examines the dramatic and often damaging ways that pop culture influences female identity. Cultural touchstones鈥攆rom Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen鈥攕erve as entry points to Chocano’s personal reflections and surface some familiar truths about the challenges of locating oneself in the face of an often abstract ideal of womanhood. Chocano and Scripps’s Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies Piya Chatterjee are the first speakers in a three-part conversation series.

September 19, 2017

61传媒Presents: The Grip of It, with Jac Jemc

Novelist聽Jac Jemc’s smart and uneasy page-turner is a ghost story set in the wilds of suburban America; at the book’s center is a couple whose domestic adventures take a decidedly hallucinatory and harrowing turn. Jemc, who has taught creative writing at Notre Dame and Lake Forest College, talks with Scripps’聽Adam Novy聽about her latest literary escapade.

September 18, 2017

Miriam Raffel-Smith ’20 Publishes Climate Change Opinion in S.F. Examiner

Miriam Raffel-Smith ’20 urges California’s political leaders to continue taking measures to abate the harmful effects of pollution in聽an聽op-ed column published recently in the聽San Francisco Examiner.聽

Spotlight on Faculty: Ken Gonzales-Day, Professor of Art

61传媒Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day’s exhibitions have been described as not to be missed, and he has been commended with numerous awards and accolades over his career. This past spring, Gonzales-Day was honored with a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

September 14, 2017

Lara Deeb on Sectarianism and Intermarriage in Lebanon

Lara Deeb, professor of anthropology at 61传媒, writes in聽Jadaliyya.com about her聽current research on Lebanese social responses to interreligious and intersectarian marriages and long-term relationships.

September 12, 2017

61传媒 Ranked #26 in Nation by U.S. News & World Report

61传媒 in Claremont, Calif. was ranked No. 26 among the nation’s Best Liberal Arts Colleges on聽U.S. News & World Report’s聽Best Colleges 2018聽ranking, also ranking 21st among high school counselors surveyed, #14 as a National Liberal Arts College with the least debt, 26th out of 38 in ethnic diversity, and 61st among Best Value Schools.

Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day on Identity and Race in LA Weekly’s Feature Video Interview

61传媒 professor of art Ken Gonzales-Day’s works on identity and construction of race are the subject of聽LA Weekly’s聽featured video interview聽as the Getty’s expansive arts initiative聽Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA聽opens in dozens of cultural institutions across Southern California.聽