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Student Activism Networking Luncheon
Community Engagement and Mentor Opportunities

Friday, April 26th
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Sontag Rooftop Garden, Pomona College

Are you interested in getting more involved with the community outside of the Claremont Colleges bubble? Do you want to work with elementary and high school students in the area? Do you want to become involved with local organizations and be an active participant in local politics and social justice? Just curious about what opportunities might lie beyond the college campuses? This luncheon offers the unique opportunity to meet and talk with students and administrators from various intercollegiate community mentor and engagement programs. Come join in the conversation and find out how you might be able to get involved!

Lunch will be provided

RSVP by Apr. 24th to wstudies@scrippscollege.edu 
f.m.i. x 1-8274
Sponsored by Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of the Claremont Colleges

Stop the Torture in California: A Symposium on Solitary Confinement

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College

1:00 p.m - Inside California’s Supermax Prisons Panel Discussion with:

  • Terry Kupers, M.D., Forensic mental health expert
  • Sheila Pinkel, Professor Emerita of Art & Art History, Pomona College
  • Patricia Aguilar, Family member of SHU prisoner
  • Daletha Haydend, Family member of SHU prisoner
3:00 p.m - The Struggle to End Long-Term Solitary Confinement in California Prisons Panel Discussion with:
  • Peter Schey, Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law
  • Carol Strickman, J.D., Staff attorney, Legal Services for Prisoners With Children
  • Azadeh Zohrabi, J.D., Soros Justice Fellow, Legal Services for Prisoners With Children
  • Dolores Canales, co-founder California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement

7:00 p.m. – Screening of Herman’s House and Q&A with director Angad Bhalla

12:00 p.m-4:30 p.m – A model SHU (Solitary Housing Unit) will be on display.

This event is sponsored by the Scripps Core 2 program; Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of The Claremont Colleges; BLAIS Foundation Challenge Award, Claremont Graduate University; and McConnell Funds, Pomona College.

This event is free and open to the public.  Please visit http://www.scrippscollege.edu/about/campus-map.php to view location.  The Humanities Auditorium is number 8B on the map. For more information, call (909)621-8274.

 

FACULTY NEWS

Betty Bernhard, PhD (Theatre Department, Pomona College), recently visited Pune India, to direct a film and produce a play on the LGBT community. The title of this two pronged project is” To(He) Ti (She) Tey (It/They)”  a 90 minute devised theatre piece based on interviews and collaboration with 15 men and women from the LGBT community there.  Caste, class, religious and  family pressures are strongly featured  in it. While non-heterosexual sex is found and featured  in the most important Indian texts (the Puranas, Kama Sutra, and  Mahabharata for example), many consider it to be a “Western” idea corrupting India. The play took place on Feb 12 and 13th. The  56 minute film done with professional cinematographer and editor, is now ready for public view. Both play and film are mainly in spoken Marathi, some English, with subtitles for everything in English.

The production was recently covered by The Indian Express, the 3rd largest newspaper in India. Read the article here: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/staging-a-revelation/1068961/0

Lori Bettison-Varga, Scripps College President spoke with Charter’s Brad Pomerance about the role science plays with students at Scripps College, and about women in science in particular. Watch the video>>
Rachel Mayeri (Media Studies, Harvey Mudd College)
A film made by Rachel Mayeri, associate professor of media studies, was featured at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Utah that took place in January. Mayeri’s experimental film, “Primate Cinema: Apes as Family,” was selected for the festival’s non-competitive New Frontier Short Films category. The film was one of 65 works chosen from a record 8,102 submissions.
Read more about Mayeri’s project at http://www.hmc.edu/newsandevents/primate-cinema-sundance-2013.html , or view a trailer for the film at http://vimeo.com/28726383.
Sheila Pinkel (Emerita, Art & Art History, Pomona College) has an article and photographs featured in the Trans Asian Photography Review (TAP Review) Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall 2012. Read Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) in Laos and view Pinkel’s photographs at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0003.107
Pinkel’s work is also featured in the exhibition, Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, at LACMA, on view from November 25, 2012 – February 24, 2013.

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