The Oxnard College
Scholars’ Lecture Series
The Oxnard College Scholars’ Lecture Series is presented by faculty members of Oxnard, Moorpark, and Ventura Colleges and guests. This series features rich educational and cultural events including lectures, slide shows, panel discussions and performances. This year’s series has been funded by the Oxnard College Foundation. We encourage all students and welcome members of the community to attend.
All programs are on Wednesdays from noon to 12:50 p.m. and are held in LS-8 (auditorium behind the Clock Tower). Events are free. Please purchase a parking ticket for $1 upon entering campus.
Oxnard College is located at 4000 S. Rose Avenue, Oxnard, CA.
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
“Deaf Heritage, Culture and Language”
In celebration of Deaf Awareness Week, deaf professionals, including an engineer, architect, university professor and deaf community educator will speak about deaf issues from personal perspectives in a panel discussion moderated by Oxnard College deaf students.
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
“Driving Home Alone: A Fiction in Progress”
Poet, Novelist and Moorpark College Professor Hart Schulz will read from his collection of content and theme-related stories, Driving Home Alone, dedicated to and inspired by the late poet Richard Brautigan.
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
“Seeds of Hate”
Moorpark Professor and Director, Rolland Petrello, will talk about hate crimes in America and their depiction in the media and will also present a preview of The Laramie Project, a play (to be performed at Moorpark College) about a brutal hate crime committed in Laramie Wyoming and how the townspeople coped.
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
“The Causes of Hunger”
In commemoration of World Food Day, Oxnard College Professors Ishita Edwards, Carolyn Dorrance and Marie Butler will hold a panel discussion, examining and debating the causes and consequences of hunger, poverty and disease throughout the world today.
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
“The Literary Magic of Contemporary Memoir”
Oxnard College Professor Eric Boys will demonstrate how memoirs can create good non-fiction essays for composition classes and will invite some of his students to read and talk about their writing.
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
“Terrorism and Religion”
Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Sociology and Director of Global and International Studies at UCSB and author of Gandhi’s Way, The New Cold War will discuss the connections between terrorism and religion, as addressed in his book, Terror in the Mind of God, in a forum followed by a question/answer session.
Wednesday, November 6, 2002
“Honoring Our Native Chumash”
In celebration of Native American Month, Patrick Tumamait, Native Chumach Indian of Ojai, will talk about the findings at local Chumach archeological sites, describe tools and artifacts and how they were once used, and trace his personal ancestry back to the 14th century on Santa Cruz Island.
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
“One Book, One State: Dramatic Readings from The Grapes of Wrath”
Ventura College Professors Amy Madsen, Kelly Peinado and Deborah Ventura will present three dramatic readings with commentary, from John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about the Great Depression.
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
“Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life With Words” *
Poet, Author and Teacher Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge will read creative non-fiction from her book, poemcrazy (in its 16th printing by Random House), as well as some of her own poetry and will discuss how being a writer effects and is effected by every part of a person’s life.
* This event is o-sponsored by Poets & Writers.
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
“Urban Myths: Lies, Damned Lies and the Internet”
Oxnard College Librarian Tom Stough and Professor Michael Bowen will talk about how to check out whether the latest e-mail tale is accurate and how to apply critical thinking skills in order to evaluate the warnings that what we see and the stories we hear about the internet.
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
“Winter Holiday, 1905”
Moorpark College Professor Gwendolyn Alley and Historian Suzanne Lawrence (from the Ventura County Museum of History and Art) will take us back to winter holiday celebrations in Ventura circa 1905 in a living history performance portraying Alley’s great grandmother, Anna Paquette and Lawrence’s great aunt, Adelaide.
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
“The Human Mind/Body as an Archeological/Psychological Dig”
Professor Anthony Rodriguez will use the teachings of Sigmund Freud as a psychological backdrop for a literary analysis of Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka’s stories and novels.
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