Professor Roberts will be reading from her latest book, I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife. In this stirring curatorial achievement, a scholar compiles letters exchanged among African Americans as the Civil War blasted away the scaffolding of bondage, hinting at an uncertain future. In 1861, a Virginia slave, John Washington, proposed marriage to […]
Marie Yovanovitch is a three-time US ambassador, most recently in Kyiv as the ambassador to Ukraine, and the New York Times bestselling author of a 2022 memoir, Lessons from the Edge. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Yovanovitch has earned the Senior Foreign Service Performance Award eight times and the State Department’s […]
Dr. Treve B. Lindsey will present our annual Sojourner Truth Lecture in Balch Auditorium. Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is a Professor of Women’s , Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University and the co-founder of Black Feminist Night School at Zora’s House. Her research and teaching interests span from African American women’s history, […]
This March 3 concert of jazz music by Jimmy Van Heusen features Scripps College music faculty, Dhiren Panikker on piano. Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information regarding upcoming concert programs and public event protocol. Concert Series Dates: 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3, 3/24, 4/7, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, & 5/5. • […]
The Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges presents The Claremont Concert Orchestra performing symphonic works by Brahms, Chin, and Schumann. There will be two performances. An evening concert at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 4 and a Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m. on March 5. Concerts will be held […]
The Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges presents The Claremont Concert Orchestra performing symphonic works by Brahms, Chin, and Schumann. There will be two performances. An evening concert at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 4 and a Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m. on March 5. Concerts will be held […]
Join us for an exclusive screening of Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down followed by a panel discussion with Gabby Giffords, Lisa Erspamer, and Peter Ambler. Gabrielle Giffords is a Scripps alum from the Class of ’93, a leading gun violence prevention advocate, and a former member of US Congress, a position she held from 2005 […]
Michael McCarty learned storytelling from his mother. And his life has indeed been one heaven of a story to tell: a student activist, Black Panther, US Army martial arts instructor, acupuncturist, world traveler, spiritual seeker, construction worker, storyteller, husband, father, and crazy friend, he first learned about professional storytelling in 1992 when he met Joel […]
This program is canceled! Joseph Boone is currently a professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California and previously taught at Harvard University. Boone’s areas of expertise include the novel as genre, gender and queer studies, narrative theory, and modernism. He is the author of four books, including Furnace Creek and […]
Performances by students of the Scripps Music Department. Admission is FREE and open to the public.
