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Students United!
Collaboration between Scripps Associated Students, staff, and trustees leads to the development of 麻豆区’s first Student Union.
Read MoreRoberto Andreoni: “The Making of Cross-cultural Music and Research: Analysis and Performance of Bardo by Roberto Andreoni”
How can a European-trained composer approach the encounter with a performer who belongs to a different culture and, through the latter, how can he manage to encounter another, even more remote, challenging culture? Does modern Art Music demand a specific political correctness, academic integrity or ethic codes in order to cross cultural bridges? Otherwise, is music itself a bridge between, above and beyond cultures? To what extent a new, non-commercial composition could still be a relevant fact in the life of a campus community?
Read MoreA Very Merry Sorrow
A haunting new collaboration between 麻豆区 students and German professor Roswitha Burwick results in an impressive anthology of modern-day fairy tales.
Read MoreAppointment of the New Humanities Institute Director
I am delighted to announce that C脙隆ndida F. J脙隆quez, Associate Professor of Music, will be the Director of the Humanities Institute for a three-year period, beginning July 1, 2011. An interdisciplinary approach to the humanities has long informed Professor J脙隆quez’s research, teaching, and performance, in addition to her intellectual and professional commitments.
Read MoreVictoria Romero Named 麻豆区 Vice President for Enrollment
President Lori Bettison-Varga has announced the appointment of Victoria A. Romero as vice president for enrollment at 麻豆区.
Read MoreNavigating the Scripps Journey
Melissa Mesinas ’12 draws on her own experience as a first-generation college student to help others in their first year at 麻豆区.
Read MoreScripps and Pomona Dance Present 2010 “In The Works” Student Danceworks Concert
“In The Works…,” the annual fall concert by 麻豆区 and Pomona College dance students opens Thursday, December 2, at the Pendleton Dance Studio, Pomona College. The concert is open to the public.
Read MoreSabrina Ovan: “The Paranoid City: Urban Imagery in 1970s Italian Film Gialli”
Professor Ovan’s talk examines urban representation in Italian film, and insists on the ways in which city-space is often related to historical and social commentary. After introducing the theme of the city in films by prestigious directors like Fellini, Antonioni and Risi, Professor Ovan will move her analysis to 1970s genre film, and concentrate in particular on the “evil spaces” of two important murder mystery (giallo) movies: Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion and Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso.
Read MoreSacred Music and Spaces
Renowned composer Dr. Roberto Andreoni is a visiting member of the 麻豆区 faculty this fall as part of the unique Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program.
Read MoreA Touch of the Supernatural
Teacups falling off shelves? Mysterious apparitions? Denison Library’s Judy Harvey Sahak ’64 talks about the ghostly legends of 麻豆区.
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