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A Voice for Justice
Pitzer College alumna Susan Sobel ’12 wants to expand the conversation about the American justice system and is using her role as a new contributor to The Huffington Post to do just that. Her first piece for the Post, “What Prison, Poetry, and a Redhead Have in Common,” outlines how she became an advocate for
[Read More...]Facing, Not Facebooking, Each Other
“Facing the Empathy Deficit,” a talk about mindful technology by Pitzer College alumnus Ari Saperstein ’15, was recently posted on the TEDxTalks website. In 2014, Saperstein was the first Pitzer student to win the TEDxClaremontColleges’ Student Speaker Competition, which guaranteed him a spot to speak at the 2015 TEDx conference in March. Saperstein’s 16-minute speech focuses on the impact social
[Read More...]Of Memory and Collecting
“Image, Archive and Event: Tracking the Archive’s Odyssey” Kicks off the MCSI Fall Lecture Series The first MCSI lecture of the fall 2015 series, focused on the theme ARCHIVE, took place on Tuesday, September 15, 2015. Laura Wexler and Lauren Tilton, both of Yale University, came to Pitzer to talk about the changing relationship of the
[Read More...]LA Review of Books calls Professor Susan C. Seymour’s New Book “a classic biography of a distinguished American”
Los Angeles Review of Books calls Pitzer Professor Susan C. Seymour‘s new book Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent, “a classic biography of a distinguished American.” ___ “This book, Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent, deserves wide readership, and not only among anthropologists and historians (especially those interested in gay and lesbian histories and those interested in the
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