To suggest a speaker, please email our Assistant Director, Leanne Thach at leanne.thach@pomona.edu or call (909) 607-1159.
Spring 2013
5C students swipe and CUC faculty and staff may sign-in for Oldenborg Dining Hall access. Community members may attend at Oldenborg’s discretion and incur a charge.
| Monday, May 6 |
Importing Democracy: The Role of NGOs in South Africa, Tajikistan and Argentina
Julie Fisher |
| Friday, May 3 |
Marlene and Her Friends: Berlin’s Tin Pan Alley – Before the Nazis Killed It
Andrew Lear |
| Thursday, May 2 |
Documentary Filmmaking, Ethnography, and Social Justice – A View from the Academy
Kum-Kum Bhavnani |
| Tuesday, April 30 |
How Skin Color Evolved and Why It Matters
Nina Jablonski |
| Monday, April 29 |
Asian Migrant Crossings: From Criminality to Victimhood and the Human Trafficking Paradigm
Annie Isabel Fukushima |
| Friday, April 26 |
North Korea: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
Christopher R. Hill |
| Thursday, April 25 |
Pancho Villa’s Head: the Mexican Revolution and the Chicano Dramatic Imagination
Alma Martinez |
| Tuesday, April 23 |
Memory and the Urban Chronicle in Puerto Rico
Myrna García-Calderón |
| Monday, April 22 |
Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration
Emma Sokoloff-Rubin and Jeffrey W. Rubin |
| Thursday, April 18 |
Indigenous Peoples and Mega-Projects in Latin America: The Wayuu People Confront a Coal Mine
Jazmin Romero Epiayu |
| Tuesday, April 16 |
Keeping the Immigrant Bargain: The Costs and Rewards of Success in America
Vivian Louie |
| Monday, April 15 |
The U.S. Pivot to Asia: Where Does That Leave Europe?
Karel Kovanda |
| Friday, April 12 |
Certified Lives: Producing Transparency in Fairtrade-Organic Coffee
Tad Mutersbaugh |
| Thursday, April 11 |
Guilt, Nostalgia, and Victimhood: Korea in the Japanese Theatrical Imagination
Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei |
| Tuesday, April 9 |
Other Landscapes, Other Lives: A Poetry Reading and Discussion
Ramon Garcia |
| Thursday, April 4 |
Whose Planet? Whose Economic Development? Coal and Human Rights in Columbia
Aviva Chomsky |
| Tuesday, March 12 |
The Latin American Novel in English
Suzanne Levine |
| Monday, March 4 |
Shameful! Naked People! Or Baring the Device of Soviet Stagnation as it’s Been Written So Far
Anastasia Kayiatos |
| Thursday, February 28 |
Undocumented: The Theory and Practice of Illegality
Aviva Chomksy |
| Tuesday, February 26 |
Gender, Migration, and Legality in the Rural Mountain West
Leah Schmalzbauer |
| Thursday, February 21 |
Privatization, Capitalists, and Political Contestation in the Post-Soviet Autocracies
Barbara Junisbai |
| Tuesday, February 19 |
Muslim Architecture in China
Nancy Steinhardt |
| Friday, February 15 |
The 2012 Oldenborg International Research and Travel Grant Recipients
Ann Dennis, Martha Johnson, and Mingyan Ma |
| Thursday, February 14 |
This America of Ours: Two Women’s Friendship, Spycraft, and Latin American Wartime Diplomacy
Elizabeth Horan |
| Tuesday, February 12 |
Reading the World in Traveling
Bernadette Conrad |
Fall 2012
| Tuesday, December 11 |
Oldenborg Cinema: Short Films and Comic Sketches
Aki Kishihara, Anastasia Bobysheva, Emma Douzou, Jiangyun Zou, Mariana Jaimes, Ulrich Ciesla, and Zeltia Fucinos-Mosquera |
| Thursday, December 6 |
PBI Student Video Presentations LaFaye Garth, Ruiyi Zhu, Corey Fayne, and Spencer Heim |
| Friday, November 30 |
Governing Fairtrade: Vote and Voice in Fairtrade Labeling
Elizabeth Bennett |
| Thursday, November 29 |
Analyzing Trends in Chinese Social Media
Louis Yu |
| Friday, November 16 |
Silk Reeling: A Chinese Martial Art
Cesário Augusto Pimentel de Alencar |
| Monday, November 12 |
The Student Movement in Chile: Occupying the Neoliberal City and Performing Resistance
Alicia del Campo |
| Friday, November 2 |
Igor Moiseyev and the Invented Tradition of Russian Folk Dance
Anthony Shay |
| Monday, October 29 |
Solitary Gestures
Concha García |
| Friday, October 19 |
Partition
Ruth Wilson Gilmore |
Thursday,
October 18 |
Pussy Riot: Performance and Politics. A Roundtable Discussion
Anne Dwyer, Konstantine Klioutchkine, Hilary Appel, Jonathan Petropoulos, and Audrey Bilger |
Tuesday,
October 9 |
The Evolution of Flamenco Guitar: The International Flamenco Scene
Eric Puma |
Thursday,
September 27 |
The Art of the Profile: Writing About China, One Life at a Time
James H. Carter, Angilee Shah, and Jeffrey Wasserstrom |
Thursday,
September 20 |
Making Refugee Rights a Reality in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Emily Arnold-Fernández |
Friday,
September 14 |
Diplomacy and Crisis in Pakistan
Cameron Munter |
Wednesday,
September 12 |
Global Crisis and New Rural Reconstruction Movement in China
Tiejun Wen |
