Art and Lectures

Oxnard College Speakers Series Spring 2008

Speakers commemorating African American History Month in February and Women’s History Month in March are among the guest lecturers appearing at the 2008 Spring Oxnard College Speakers Lecture Series that begins Wednesday, February 13, 2008.  The Oxnard College Speakers Series is held on Wednesdays from 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. in LS 8 (Clock Tower Auditorium) and is funded in part by the Oxnard College Foundation.  The events are free, and students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome to attend.  For more information on the series contact Shelley Savren at ssavren@vcccd.edu or 986-5800 ext. 1951.   

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Completing the Puzzle:
The Missing Pieces to Argentina’s Identity 

Cecilia Milán, Native Argentinean and OC Spanish Professor, will share anecdotes of some lesser known aspects of Argentina:  sleepy towns of the Far West, contributions of recent Korean immigrants, Yámana Indians of Tierra del Fuego and a flourishing wine industry in Mendoza.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Arab, Jewish and Christian Harmony
in the Golden Age of Spain 

Yuval Ron, world renowned Musician, Artist, Composer and Producer, will perform some of the Jewish and Arabic music that originated from Andalusia Spain and will discuss the mutual influences between these traditions and the Christian musical traditions of Spain.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Passports and Poems from Other Lives 

Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Poet, Scholar and UCSB Professor, will read poems from her new manuscript that speak of her experiences as an immigrant traveling from Malaysia to California and will talk about poems as passports that document transnational lives.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Necessary Losses:  How Suffering
Can Be Used for Success 

Leo Orange, OC Coordinator of the Educational Assistance Center, will lecture on intervention strategies necessary for people who find it difficult to succeed in school, work or relationships, due to catastrophic events that have happened in their lives.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Saving the Planet Earth: 
An Inconvenient Truth 

In celebration of Earth Day, Marie Butler, OC Sociology Professor, will show clips from Al Gore’s academy award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, and will hold a discussion about global warming and why the environmental movement is so important today.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Mother, What Ails Thee? 
Imagining Chernobyl 

In commemoration of the April 26, 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl (Ukraine), Pamela Meidell and Monika Szymurska of Atomic Mirror, will present a readers’ theatre enactment of this tragic event, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history, followed by a Q and A.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The Luscious Colored Photographs
of Frieda Kahlo 

Elaine Alarcón-Totten, OC English Professor, will show images of the Nicholas Murray’s 20^th century photographs of the famous Mexican painter, Frieda Kahlo, and will talk about the story behind the photos, including the relationship between Murray and Kahlo.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Die Like a Hero or Live Like a Coward 

Anthony Rodriguez, OC English Professor, joined by students from the Literature Institute of Oxnard College, will conduct a mock trial of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and in doing so, will delve into the depth of Hamlet’s conflicted heart.