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Scripps College Hosts “Discussion of Mobile Media and Civic Engagement in Public Schools”
Antero Garcia, assistant professor of English at Colorado State University, examines on how educators can grab a student’s attention in the digital age in his lecture “Control, Resistance, and Play: A Discussion of Mobile Media, Pedagogy, and Civic Engagement in Public Schools.” Garcia lectures at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 in Garrison Theater, 231 E. 10th St. This event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreScripps College Hosts Lecture on “Women of Color’s Transformative Social Justice Media Magic”
Moya Bailey, graduate fellow at Emory University’s Digital Scholarship Commons, explores the ways women of color use social media in her lecture “Digital Alchemy: Women of Color’s Transformative Social Justice Media Magic” at 7:30 pm Oct. 9 in Garrison Theater, 231 E. 10th St. This event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreNuremberg Chronicle Returns to Denison Library After Two-Year Conservation
After over two years of conservation and restoration, the Nuremberg Chronicle has returned to Scripps College’s Ella Strong Denison Library. The chronicle, one of approximately 400 surviving Latin copies, was published in 1493 in Nuremberg, Germany and is also known as “Liber Chronicarum” (“Book of Chronicles”) from a phrase in the introduction.
Read MoreScripps College Press on the Road: New York City and California Events
Kitty Maryatt, director of the Scripps College Press, lectures on “Interrogating Book Structure” on Oct. 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the Center for Book Arts, 28 W. 27th Street, 3rd Floor, in Manhattan. She also presents a workshop at the center on Oct 27-28. Both events are open to the public for a fee.
Read More“Digital/Social Media and Music Communities, From Katrina to Occupy”
Sam Cronk, visiting lecturer in music at Scripps College, lectures on “Digital/Social Media and Music Communities, from Katrina to Occupy” at noon on Oct. 3 in the Hampton Room at Malott Commons. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read MoreWomen in Public Service
Scripps College senior Kristie Hernandez participates today in “A Global Conversation: Women Leaders Responding to the United Nations General Assembly,” an event hosted by the Women in Public Service Project (WPSP) and the U.N. General Assembly.
Read MoreSocial Media Pedagogy: Feminist Teaching Online and Off
Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at Pitzer College, lectures on “Social Media Pedagogy: Feminist Teaching Online and Off” at noon on September 25 in the Hampton Room of Malott Commons. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read MoreSummer in Beirut
While conflicts in the Middle East generated headline news this summer, three Scripps College students lived in Lebanon and either met with Palestinian refugees or interned at a conflict management think tank in Beirut.
Read MoreThe Art of Science
More than three dozen undergraduate research projects made their formal debut last week during an afternoon of presentations at the W. M. Keck Science Department
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