Religion, Race, Gender, and the 2024 Election Conference
Oct
31
9:00 AM09:00

Religion, Race, Gender, and the 2024 Election Conference

Who will win the 2024 Election? Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? The race is a dead heat in many key swing states. Many analysts predict the election will come down to about 60,000 voters in seven key swing states, but three in particular. This conference will explore the critical roles that religion, race, and gender will play in shaping the final outcome across the nation and in key swing states.

Leading scholars who will be speaking at this conference include: Levi Allen (Indiana State University), Gastón Espinosa (Claremont McKenna College), Dalia Fahmy (Long Island University), Andra Gillespie (Emory University), Rabbi Danny Lutz (Claremont Colleges), Laura R. Olson (Clemson University), Jerry Z. Park (Baylor University), and Imam Hadi Qazwani (Claremont Colleges).

This conference is co-sponsored by the Gould Center, Salvatori Center, and Department of Religious Studies.

To register for the conference, click here!

Click here to see the conference schedule, and here for a list of speakers.

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Humanities Halloween
Oct
31
12:15 PM12:15

Humanities Halloween

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Attention Goulish Gouldies!

Save the date for our annual Humanities Halloween on Thursday, October 31st from 12:15-1:15pm at the Gould Center in Kravis Lower Court. Free chipotle - first come, first served. There will be a prize for the best humanities-themed Halloween costume, so come dressed up! We hope to see you there

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Faculty Feedback Forum: Dr. Joseph Frigault
Nov
8
9:00 AM09:00

Faculty Feedback Forum: Dr. Joseph Frigault

Dr. Joseph Frigault, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will be workshopping chapters from his forthcoming book Whiteness, Fair Play, and Reparation: Toward a Political Inroad with several invited commentators including: Alasia Nuti (University of York), Avia Pasternak (University of Maryland), Maeve McKeown (University of Groningen), Candice Delmas (Northeastern University). The session will be chaired by Professor Gabbrielle Johnson (Claremont McKenna College).

 Drawing on the empirical literature on white racial identity in connection with attitudes toward race-sensitive social policy, and related analyses of the white moral imagination, Whiteness, Fair Play, and Reparation argues that the idea of "fair play" can be an effective tool for convincing white Americans that reparations are morally and politically justified. If you are interested in attending and reading an introduction to the book, please register by clicking the link below.

Click here to register. Zoom link will be provided to all who register.

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Golo Mann Endowed Lecture: The Legacies of Crime
Oct
29
5:30 PM17:30

Golo Mann Endowed Lecture: The Legacies of Crime

Author Steph Cha will talk about the way crime shapes our world, a theme that drives her writing, from her neo-noir private investigator series to her award-winning novel Your House Will Pay. She will explore the echoes of crimes past and the way they connect with the present, and how the second-generation Korean Angeleno experience captures very American questions of heritage and identity.

You can register for this event here: https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/events/20241029

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Distributed Consciousness: Creativity and Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Oct
22
5:30 PM17:30

Distributed Consciousness: Creativity and Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Memo Akten is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates the intricacies of human-machine entanglements. In this talk, Akten discusses the conceptual motivations behind some of his recent works and research involving computational technologies, with a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning, embodied interaction, and mixed reality. From a practical perspective, this includes explorations in real-time, interactive computational systems for artistic, creative expression; and 'intelligent' systems for human-machine collaborative creativity. From a more conceptual perspective, this involves investigations into how we make sense of the world and project meaning onto noise; and more broadly speaking, the collisions between nature, science, technology, ethics, ritual, tradition and religion; particularly in the context of the current social and political polarizations, moral crises and technological submission.

This event is part of the Gould Center’s AI + the Humanities speaker series. You can register for this event on the Ath website once registration opens!

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Poetry Reading, Reflections, and Conversation: An Evening with Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman
Oct
21
5:30 PM17:30

Poetry Reading, Reflections, and Conversation: An Evening with Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman

Join us on Monday, October 21st for a night of poetry at the Ath with Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass. Hillman is a poet of works such as Loose Sugar and Cascadia; Hass is the past United States Poet Laureate and author of The Apple Trees at Olema and Time and Materials.

Co-sponsored by the Literature Department, Gould Center, and Salvatori Center. You can register for this event on the Ath website once registration opens!

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Juvenile-in-Justice: Art as a Weapon for Change
Oct
1
5:30 PM17:30

Juvenile-in-Justice: Art as a Weapon for Change

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Juvenile-In-Justice has put the face on juveniles in the justice system. While data is undeniably important, locating the numbers in the context of a real child is critical to creating empathy. Lives can be measured, but don’t resonate, in the sterile fluorescence of numbers, charts and trends. Data yearns to be articulated in the human experience in fragile voice and portrait to be truly understood and effectively used. Juvenile-in-Justice is a collection of images, interviews, audio documents, and texts created over a dozen years, at 300 sites in 35 states, drawn from the lives of more than 1,000 kids. Join artist and photographer Richard Ross, director of the project, for a discussion of this work of art and activism, to show how he and his team work with educational institutions and non-profits to better understand and/or explain the needs, policies, strategies, and resources required to facilitate better outcomes for the 53,000+ children in custody every day.

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Gould Center Open House
Sep
4
5:30 PM17:30

Gould Center Open House

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Stop by the Gould Center in Kravis Lower Court for our Open House to learn about the many research and creative programming opportunities that are available to students throughout the academic year. From our Humanities Labs, Gould Center Fellows program, Editorial Board, Special Project, Passion Projects, Creative Works Fellowships, and more - there is so much you can do in the humanities at CMC!

Chipotle provided. First come, first served!

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