News Releases (page 17)
Professor Lara Deeb Honored with British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
61´«Ã½ Professor of Anthropology Lara Deeb’s book Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Morality and Geography in Shi’ite South Beirut, is the 2014 recipient of the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies from the British Society for Middle East Studies. The prize, awarded for the best English language first-edition published scholarly work on the Middle East, has been presented since 1998.
Read MoreInland Valley Daily Bulletin Features Core III Class
Beau Yarbrough, higher education reporter for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, features students in Professor Thierry Boucquey’s Core III course in this December 3 news story. Yarbrough observed Karen Chan ’17 & Rachel Qi ’17 teach Chinese to a fourth-grade class at Chaparral Elementary School as part of their coursework in Boucquey’s Core III class.
Read MoreThe Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The 71st 61´«Ã½ Ceramic Annual
The 61´«Ã½ Ceramic Annual, the longest continuous exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States, will open for its 71st year on Jan. 24 and will continue through April 5.
Read More61´«Ã½and Pomona Dance present “In The Works…” A Concert of Student Danceworks
“In The Works…” is the annual fall concert by students of the departments of dance at 61´«Ã½and Pomona Colleges. The concert will take place Dec. 4, 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. and also on Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. in the Pendleton Dance Center, Pomona College.
Read More61´«Ã½ President Lori Bettison-Varga Honored With Alumni Award
61´«Ã½ President Lori Bettison-Varga on Saturday received a Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, the University of California, Santa Barbara, at its inaugural Women in Leadership event.
Read More61´«Ã½ Shares $1.5 Million Mellon Grant to Promote Digital Humanities
61´«Ã½ is one of five undergraduate colleges of the Claremont University Consortium to share a $1.5 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to promote digital humanities.
Read MoreAnonymous Gift Lays the Foundation for New 61´«Ã½Residence Hall
61´«Ã½ has received a $10 million donation from an anonymous donor to support the construction of its tenth residence hall.
Read MoreNine-Point Perspective: 61´«Ã½ Faculty Exhibition
With works in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian Institution; exhibitions in Tokyo, London and Paris; pieces at […]
Read MoreThe Responsibility to Protect
The European Union Center of California invites you to explore the moral and ethical boundaries around protecting people in a two-day conference honoring war hero Jan Karski.
Read More61´«Ã½ Interrogates the Sound of Silence
Is silence the absence of sound? Is it a refusal to speak – or an inability to respond? What are the politics of silence? How is silence enjoyed, mandated, or inflicted? How are silence and gender related? This fall, the 61´«Ã½ Humanities Institute explores the theory and practice of silence: voluntary and coerced, solitary and communal, literal and metaphoric.
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