In March, the Tuesday Noon Academy, a series of noontime lectures covering a variety of topics, features curator, Diana du Pont, professors Stephen L. Glass, K. Kim-Trang Tran, and Sheila Walker. Each lecture begins 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 at11:45 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 explores a broad range of subject matters, including science, music, politics, and art among others. Scheduled speakers and topics for March are:
On March 2, Diana du Pont, Scripps ’75, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, will lecture on “Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!.” du Pont was curator for the photography department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She also organized exhibitions at the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach before becoming a curator at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 1992.
On March 23, Stephen L. Glass, the John A. McCarthy Professor of Classics & Classical Archaeology at Pitzer College will address “Wrestling With the Ancient Olympics: Some Quadrennially Pertinent Observations.” Glass’ knowledge is extensive, ranging from classical mythology and religion to ancient and modern Greek. He has done extensive fieldwork in Greece, at sites and sanctuaries where agnostic interest of Greeks are evinced.
On March 23, assistant professor of art at Scripps College, K. Kim-Trang Tran presents “Call Me Sugar.” Tran is currently completing a collaborative project with Karl Mihail titled Gene Genies Worldwide as well as independently creating a narrative film about her mother. Her Blindness Series, which explores the metaphors of blindness, has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar.
On March 30, Sheila Walker, associate professor of psychology at Scripps College, will be lecturing on “Hoochie Mamas and Chicken Heads: Life Stories of African American Adolescent Girls.” Walker is currently researching how gender, race, and class converge to structure distinct development contexts for African-American female adolescents in three socio-economic groups.