The Tuesday Noon Academy, a series of noontime lectures covering a variety of topics, will begin February 3 and continue through April 27. Each lecture will begin promptly at 12:00 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons on the Scripps College campus. Sponsored by the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons, this series is free and open to the public. Guests may bring their own lunch or purchase a lunch at the Malott Commons Dining Hall, which opens at 11:15 a.m. Doors to the Hampton Room open at 11:45 a.m. Coffee and dessert are provided. For additional program information, please call the Malott Commons Office, (909) 607-8508.
With Scripps professors, administrators, and invited guests as featured speakers, the Tuesday Noon Academy will explore a broad range of subject matters, including science, music, politics, and art, among others. Scheduled speakers and topics for February are:
On February 3, Stanton Hunter, artist and visiting lecturer in art at Scripps, will present “No Land in Sight.” Primarily working in clay, Hunter’s work includes vessels, sculpture and installation, both indoors and outdoors. His works have exhibited both internationally and nationally, and several of his pieces are currently housed in public collections on both coasts. Hunter has run the ceramics program at Scripps since 2000 and continues to guest lecture/teach at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
On February 10, Artist, activist, and anthropologist David Attyah will offer “A Brief History of Outrage: Political Art and Media Activism.” Attyah, currently a visiting assistant professor of art at Scripps, is one of the co-founders of THINK AGAIN, an artist-activist collaborative that combats mainstream ideas that perpetuate injustices, and his own artwork tackles numerous political themes, including: racism, gender inequality, economic injustice, and gay rights.
(CANCELLED) On February 17, Lois Langland Alumna-in-Residence Kathleen Brogan Schwarz, M.D., (Scripps Class of 1964) will speak on “The ABCs of Hepatitis: What You Need to Know.” Dr. Schwarz is a board-certified pediatric gastroenterologist with a special interest in pediatric liver disease, specifically viral hepatitis and liver transplantation. At John’s Hopkins Children’s Center, Schwarz serves as division chair of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and professor of pediatrics, and, in 1999, was named one of the top 25 pediatricians in Baltimore by Baltimore Magazine.
On February 24, Katie Purvis, assistant professor of chemistry at Keck Joint Science Department of The Claremont Colleges, will lecture on “Nuclear Testing in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: An Environmental Catastrophe.” Purvis is the first environmental chemist at The Claremont Colleges, and her current research focuses on measuring microscopic particulate matter that floats in the air, unseen by human eyes.