1. Spring 2016 Scripps College Humanities Institute
We Are the Ones
PANDORA L. THOMAS
Co-founder of Earthseed Consulting
Thursday, February 11, 7:30pm
Balch Auditorium
Art to the Rescue: Cultural Agents
Take You By Surprise
DORIS SOMMER
Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish,
Harvard University
GEORGE LIPSITZ
American Studies Scholar and Professor in the Department
of Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Thursday, February 18, 7:30pm
Balch Auditorium
The“Culture”of Violence: Race,
Sexuality, and the Politics of
Knowledge
CHANDAN REDDY
Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality
Studies, University of Washington
Thursday, March 3, 7:30pm
Balch Auditorium
Feminist Emergencies: Imperial
War and Gender Justice
Movements from Palestine and
Lebanon to Chicago and Detroit
NADINE NABER
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Thursday, April 14, 7:30pm
Balch Auditorium
Citizen: A Reading and
Conversation with Claudia Rankine
CLAUDIA RANKINE
Aerol Arnold Chair of English, University of Southern
California
Thursday, April 21, 7:30pm
Garrison Theater
Public Lectures
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This past fall, the Humanities
Institute sought to confront some
of the devastating effects of the
intersecting forms of violence
committed against people of
marginalized identities in the
contemporary United States. In
the face of these crises, there are
people doing tremendous work
of intervention, agitation, and
resistance—work that is constant,
multifaceted, simultaneous, and
that perseveres.
This spring, the Humanities
Institute welcomes scholars,
artists, activists, dancers, poets,
writers, and musicians who are
using their intellect and talents
to further the discussions of
systemic and overt violence. As
agents of change, they further
the urgent and necessary work of
dismantling systems of inequality
and social injustice, and they
inspire the activism and calls
for social justice that will better
shape our world.
Hao Huang
Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed
Chair in Music and Professor of Music
Director, Humanities Institute
Adrian Quintanar
Assistant to the Humanities
Institute Director
Humanities Institute Steering
Committee, 2015–16
Piya Chatterjee, Dorothy
Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of
Gender and Women’s Studies and
Chair of the Feminist, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies Department
Lara Deeb, Chair, Department
of Anthropology, and Professor
of Anthropology
Martha Gonzalez, Assistant
Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o
Studies
David Roselli, Associate Professor
of Classics
Co-sponsored by the Scripps
College Office of Public Events and
Community Program
Tuesday Noon Academy
Lectures
Tuesdays at 12:15pm in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons
March 22: Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Creative
Nonviolence In and After Violence: From
Coexistence to Reconciliation
MICHAEL SPEZIO
Associate Professor of Psychology, Scripps College
March 29: State and Societal Violence to Children
RIVKA WEINBERG
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Scripps College
April 5: Race/Riot/Rebellion: Or, How America
Came to Regard Black Equality as a Violation of
White Rights
MARK GOLUB
Associate Professor of Politics, Scripps College
Interventions and Resistance:
Raced/Classed/Gendered Violence in the USA
Interventions and Resistance:
Raced/Classed/Gendered Violence in the USA
Workshops
for Scripps Students Only
Reservations required in advance
Resistance and Interventions: The Writer in Place
SESSHU FOSTER
Poet and Educator
Thursday, January 28, 4:15–5:30pm, Vita Nova Hall
Movement Workshop
ANANYA CHATTERJEA
Professor of Dance, University of Minnesota
Monday, February 8, 6:30pm, Richardson Dance Studio
Face to Face: Radical Futures for Black and Indigenous
Solidarity
ASIYAHOLA SANKARA
Black Lives Matter Activist
Thursday, February 25, 4:15–5:30pm, Vita Nova Hall
I Need IX: A Civil Rights Framework for Ending
Gender-Based Violence
MAHROH JAHANGIRI and ZOE RIDOLFI-STARR
Contributors to knowyourix.org
Thursday, March 24, 4:00–6:00pm, Vita Nova Hall
To All Relations
Dance Workshop with NOBUKO MIYAMOTO
Artistic Director of Great Leap
Thursday, April 28, 4:15–6:35pm, Richardson Dance Studio
Sexual Assault Prevention and Support
RIMA SHAH
Director of EmPOWER Center
Tuesday, May 3, 4:15–5:30pm, Vita Nova Hall
Performance
ANANYA DANCE THEATRE Presents
Roktim: Nurture Incarnadine
Saturday, February 6, 7:30pm
Garrison Theater

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Founded in 1986, the Humanities
Institute presents a thematic program
each semester pursuing a topic
related to the humanities. As part of
Scripps’tradition of interdisciplinary
education, these programs include
lectures, exhibitions, and workshops
that bring together prominent and
younger cutting-edge scholars with
Scripps undergraduate students.
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Directions to Scripps College
To reach Scripps College from any area except Pasadena, take the 10 Freeway to Indian Hill
Boulevard (exit 47) and drive approximately 2 miles north. Turn right onto Tenth Street and
proceed east. Malott Commons is on the corner of Eighth and Columbia and the Performing
Arts Center is on the corner of Tenth and Dartmouth.
To reach the 10 Freeway from Orange County and the south, take the 57 Freeway north or,
from Long Beach, take the 605 Freeway north. From west and southwest of Los Angeles,
take the 60 Freeway east to the 57 Freeway north to the 10 Freeway east. Once on the 10
Freeway, follow the previous directions to campus.
From Pasadena and the San Fernando Valley, take the 210 Freeway east and exit at Towne
Avenue. Turn right onto Towne, then left onto Foothill Boulevard. Continue on Foothill just
over a mile and turn right onto Dartmouth Avenue.
Parking
Parking is available behind Garrison Theater at the corner of Eleventh and Dartmouth, in the
lot at the corner of Tenth and Columbia, and on Tenth Street.
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