Munroe Center for Social Inquiry / MCSI

Press Releases

2017 Pitzer College Atherton Lecture Explores Race, Conspiracy Theories and Hip-Hop Culture

Munroe Center for Social Inquiry speaker Professor John L. Jackson, University of PennsylvaniaClaremont, Calif. (November 3, 2017)— Pitzer College’s Munroe Center for Social Inquiry (MCSI) speakers series on conspiracy theory hosts University of Pennsylvania Professor and author John L. Jackson on Tuesday, November 7, in Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College. Jackson’s talk, “What’s Love Got to Do with It? Race, Conspiracy Theories, and Contemporary Hip-Hop Culture,” is [Read More...]
November 3, 2017
Video

Conspiracy Theories are for Losers

Joseph UzcinskiUniversity of Miami Professor Joseph Uscinski highlights his analysis of more than a hundred years of data taken from newspapers, surveys and the internet.
October 10, 2017
Press Releases

Pitzer College Launches Speaker Series “Islam: Beyond Ideological Narratives”

MCSI Speaker Series "ISLAM: Beyond Ideological Narratives"Claremont, Calif. (September 6, 2016)—Pitzer College kicks off its Munroe Center for Social Inquiry’s 2016-17 speaker and event series, “Islam: Beyond Ideological Narratives,” today with a talk by Amat Alsoswa, the former minister for human rights in Yemen. Alsoswa, who will speak about Yemeni women’s rights, is the first in a lineup of distinguished speakers [Read More...]
September 6, 2016
Spotlights

Of Memory and Collecting

“Image, Archive and Event:  Tracking the Archive’s Odyssey” Kicks off the MCSI Fall Lecture Series The first MCSI lecture of the fall 2015 series, focused on the theme ARCHIVE, took place on Tuesday, September 15, 2015. Laura Wexler and Lauren Tilton, both of Yale University, came to Pitzer to talk about the changing relationship of the [Read More...]
September 16, 2015