Claremont Colleges Events
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Anna Simons
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
Claremont McKenna College
385 East 8th Street
From Indian Hill Blvd., east on 10th to Columbia, right on Columbia to 8th St., left on 8th street.
Claremont, 91711
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(909) 621-8244Professor of defense analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey; author, The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces (1997) and Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone (1995)
Jerri Bergen and Terri Polley of Cable Airport, Upland: "Aircraft Nose Art: From Sea Monsters to Sirens and Back Again"
1:30 PM
Hampton Room, Malott Commons
Scripps College
345 E. 9th Street
9th and Columbia
Claremont, 91711
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(909) 908-2877Sponsored by Scripps College Fine Arts Foundation. Tea and refreshments following.
Reception and Book Signing: Dixon Hearne
3:30 PM
Huntley Bookstore
Claremont University Consortium
175 E. 8th Street
Corner of Dartmouth and 8th Street
Claremont, 91711
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(909) 607-7951Reception in Huntley Bookstore in honor of CGU Alumnae Dixon Hearne.
"Characteristics and Transplantation of Hematopoetic and Leukemic Stem Cells"
4:00 PM
Seaver Commons Room, Room 103
Pomona College
645 N. College Ave.
Between Seaver North and Seaver South.
Claremont, 91711
(909) 607-7438Sponsored by the Department of Biology.
Hillel Fradkin: "What Went Wrong? What Went Right: What's Next? Reflections on Muslim History"
6:45 - 8:00 PM
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
Claremont McKenna College
385 East 8th Street
From Indian Hill Blvd., east on 10th to Columbia, right on Columbia to 8th St., left on 8th street.
Claremont, 91711
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(909) 621-8244Senior fellow and director, Center for Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute; author, With All Your Heart, Soul, and Might: Freedom, Morality, and Politics in the Hebrew Bible (1998) and Philosophy or Exegesis: Perennial Problems in the Study of Judeo-Arabic Philosophic Authors (1997)
Marsha Kinder: "Women in Recent Spanish Cinema"
7:00 PM
Hampton Room, Malott Commons
Scripps College
345 E. 9th Street
9th and Columbia
Claremont, 91711
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(909) 607-2727Professor, USC School of Cinema-Television. This lecture is co-sponsored by Gender and Women's Studies, Intercollegiate Women's Studies and the Malott Commons
Office.Dr. Bruce J. Nelson '74 Distinguished Speakers Series:
Keith Devlin: "Euclid's 'Elements' as a Videogame"7:30 PM
Galileo Auditorium
Harvey Mudd College
301 Platt Blvd
Claremont, 91711
(909) 607-0898"The Math Guy" on National Public Radio, Devlin researches the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. He is the author of Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind; Life by the Numbers; The Language of Mathematics; Making the Invisible Visible; Mathematics, InfoSense, The Math Gene, and The Millennium Problems. Event hosted by the HMC Dept. of Mathematics.
Mormon Studies Lecture Series Fall 2009:
Harry S. Stout: "Joseph Smith and Jonathan Edwards"8:00 PM
Mudd Theater
Claremont School of Theology
1325 N. College Ave.
Claremont, 91001
(909) 621-8085Professor of History, Religious Studies and American Studies at Yale University and Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity, Yale Divinity School. He is general editor of the Jonathan Edwards Papers and a member of the National Advisory Board for the Joseph Smith Papers.
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