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Essayist Sarah Manguso (Tuesday Noon*)
1.31 Christian Ramírez, Revitalize Not Militarize: The Struggle for Human Rights in the Southern Border (Tuesday Noon*) 2.2 Anna Deavere Smith, Doing Time in Education: The Schoolto-Prison Pipeline 2.9
Manual Cinema, Lula del Ray
2.14 Myriam J. A. Chancy, The Politics of Exclusion: Narrating Post-Earthquake Haiti (Tuesday Noon*) 2.16 The Roxanne Wilson Fund for Women’s Leadership: Lisa Lucas 2.21 The ACLU of Southern California’s Ahilan Arulanantham (Tuesday Noon*) 2.21
Ralph Nader in conversation
2.28 Jade Chang, The Wangs vs. the World (Tuesday Noon*) 3.21 Novelists Elif Batuman and Jami Attenberg in conversation (Tuesday Noon*) 3.25
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in conversation
3.28 Wendy Cheng, “Our Mutual L.A. Suburban Pasts”: Race and Cosmopolitanism in Greater Los Angeles (Tuesday Noon*) 3.29
Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi
4.4 Ellen Pearlstein, Assessment of Significance and DecisionMaking in Object Conservation (Tuesday Noon*) 4.4
Maggie Nelson and Sarah Manguso in Conversation
* Tuesday Noon is Scripps’ midday public lecture series. Bring your lunch and join the conversation, 12:15pm, Hampton Room, Malott Commons. No reservations required.
Anna Deavere Smith Blending journalism, commentary, and theater, Anna Deavere Smith is known for performances that explore complex and vital social issues. Her new work, Doing Time in Education: The School-to-Prison Pipeline, is no exception. Smith has spent the past year interviewing hundreds of people—students, teachers, police officers, community activists, and policy makers—in an attempt to understand the cycle that funnels vulnerable youth from school to incarceration. A playwright, professor, and actress who has appeared on television shows including The West Wing and Nurse Jackie, Smith teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue. This program is made possible by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Endowed Speaker Fund.
Thursday, February 2, 6pm, Garrison Theater
Thursday, February 9, 7pm, Garrison Theater “If you add up the two-dimensional and the threedimensional to create a new spatial entity, does that mean you’re in the fifth dimension? Whatever you choose to call it, such a perspectivemelting world is the realm in which the enchanting Lula del Ray takes place.”
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—The New York Times
A Manual Cinema production is a choreographic feat: Puppeteers move seamlessly between projectors, shadow puppets glide across large screens, encountering the live actors who bound between, doffing a cap here, lighting a cigarette there, as music swells from the orchestra. Lula del Ray is the story of one lonely but adventurous young woman trying to navigate the trials of adolescence as she flees her desert home with an eye toward the city. With original music inspired by the likes of Hank Williams and Patsy Cline, Lula del Ray is at turns moody and bittersweet, exquisite and melancholic. This program is made possible by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Endowed Speaker Fund.
Thursday, February 16, 6pm, Balch Auditorium
Roxanne Wilson Fund for Women’s Leadership:
Lisa Lucas
For National Book Foundation Executive Director Lisa Lucas, reminding people just how much fun reading can be is a top priority. As the organization’s first female and African American in that role, she’s also committed to building readership and nourishing a literary ecosystem that represents American diversity in all of its guises. Join Lucas for a conversation about the importance of the written word. Prior to joining the National Book Foundation, Lucas served as the publisher of Guernica, a nonprofit online magazine focusing on writing that explores the intersection of art and politics with an international and diverse focus. She has also served as director of education at the Tribeca Film Institute, on the development team at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and as a consultant for the Sundance Institute, San Francisco Film Society, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and ReelWorks Teen Filmmaking. Lucas also serves on the literary council of the Brooklyn Book Festival. Find her on Twitter at @likaluca. The Roxanne Wilson Fund for Women’s Leadership is a multiday program intended to bring to Scripps’ campus a woman who demonstrates leadership in both her professional life and volunteer service to her community and beyond. The endowment was established to recognize the significant contributions of Roxanne Wilson ’76 upon her retirement as chair of the Scripps College Board of Trustees.
r e d a N Ralph Consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform: Since the publication in 1965 of his bestselling critique of the car industry, Unsafe at Any Speed, Ralph Nader, activist, lawyer, and sometime politician has been agitating for causes near and dear to the progressive American agenda for the past 50 years. In the wake of an election season that has illuminated striking divisions within the American populace and prompted immense public reflection on what we believe to be our fundamental rights and freedoms, Nader reflects on his passions and life’s work as an activist now working in Trump’s America. Named by The Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the most influential Americans of the 20th century, Nader has helped us drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments for more than four decades. Nader’s recent books include Unstoppable, The Good Fight, and the bestseller, Seventeen Traditions. Nader writes a syndicated column, has his own radio show, and gives lectures and interviews year round. This program is made possible by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Endowed Speaker Fund.
Tuesday, February 21, 6pm, Garrison Theater
“Ralph Nader is the grand progressive of our time. We overlook his words at our own peril!” —Cornel West
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Saturday, March 25, 3pm, Garrison Theater
“[A Colony in a Nation] is an essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me
In 2012, Chris Hayes published Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, a prescient analysis of how Americans’ loss of trust in public institutions might lead to a political crisis. That same political and historical acumen informs Hayes’s latest book, A Colony in a Nation, which reveals that by every empirical measure—wealth, unemployment, incarceration, and school segregation—racial inequality hasn’t improved since 1968. Bringing his signature analysis to this essential issue, Hayes will be joined in conversation by Scripps politics faculty Vanessa Tyson. Hayes is the host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC and editor-at-large at The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, daughter, and son. Tyson is an assistant professor of politics at Scripps College. Her latest book, Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, was released in September 2016 by Oxford University Press.
There are few who are brave enough to spar with Stephen Colbert, and even fewer who would proclaim to a decidedly numbers-averse populace that math is both fun and relevant. Eugenia Cheng is the brazen mathematician who has taken on both the king of late-night comedy and algebraphobics. In her book How to Bake Pi, Cheng uses recipes for treats like chocolate brownies as an entry point to understanding what math is. She visits Scripps to reflect on the joy of bringing math to the masses and the experience of being a woman in STEM. Cheng is senior lecturer of pure mathematics at the University of Sheffield and is currently on sabbatical in the U.S., where she is scientist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her YouTube lectures, beginning in 2007, have been viewed over a million times to date. Her latest book, Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics, will be published this year. This program is made possible by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Endowed Speaker Fund.
“A singular humanization of the mathematical project.” —Booklist, starred review
Wednesday, March 29, 6pm, Balch Auditorium
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Both Maggie Nelson and Sarah Manguso take on the complex issues of gender, sexuality, and mothering by playing with form, engaging critical theory, and deploying styles that are equal parts poetry and essay. In The Argonauts, Nelson explores pregnancy and new motherhood, her partner’s gender transition, and the loss of a parent. Manguso’s work examines many of these same vulnerabilities; in Ongoingness: The End of the Diary, she reflects on a life’s practice of recording memory. The two take the stage to discuss literature and their creative practices. Nelson is a poet, critic, and nonfiction author of books such as The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, Bluets, and Jane: A Murder. The recipient of the 2016 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, she teaches in the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts and lives in Los Angeles. Manguso is the author of seven books that vibrate between essay and poetry, most recently 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay. Her writing has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. She lives in Los Angeles. This program is made possible by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Endowed Speaker Fund and is presented in partnership with the Mary Routt Chair in Writing.
Tuesday, April 4, 6pm, Garrison Theater
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