The Claremont Colleges Events
Hixon Center Black, Gold and Green Talk: Maggi Kelly, U.C. Berkeley
12:00 - 1:15 PM
Shanahan Center
Harvey Mudd College
320 East Foothill Boulevard
Claremont, 91711
(909) 607-7623Maggi Kelly, professor of environmental science, policy and management at the University of California, Berkeley, studies the drivers, patterns and consequences of environmental change across California's spatially complex, socially diverse and dynamic landscapes using integrated geospatial tools.
Kelly will speak about how mapping technology and geospatial tools can be used to identify changes in California's environmental landscape, and how these tools can provide insights for scientists, lawmakers and the California public to address critical environmental challenges.
Lunch is provided.
The Future of Revolutions
4:15 PM
Hahn Building
Pomona College
420 Harvard Avenue
Claremont, 91711
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(909) 621-8510Join academics from around the world for a panel discussion on the future of revolutions.
The Merlan Lecture:
David Chalmers, "The Virtual and the Real"4:15 PM
Humanities Auditorium
Scripps College
Claremont, 91711
(909) 607-1819David Chalmers, University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, and Co-Director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at New York University, will deliver the Merlan Lecture. Professor Chalmers is a world-renowned philosopher of mind and cognitive science. He is the author of The Conscious Mind, Explaining Consciousness: the Hard Problem, The Character of Consciousness, and Constructing the World; and the editor of Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology and Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. He has written many groundbreaking papers in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, and earned numerous prizes, including the Stanton Prize for Philosophy and Psychology, the Jon Barwise Prize for Philosophy and Computing, and the Jean Nicod Prize. He has been interviewed for academic and lay publications in print and video many times.
Alice Sebold: "We Move As a Group: Uniting the Genders in the Fight Against Rape Culture"
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) 621-8244Author, The Almost Moon (2007) and The Lovely Bones (2002).