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This Week’s Events
Student Leadership Recognition Week
April 26-30
Each spring, Student Affairs typically recognizes student leaders through our Student Leadership Awards. This year, we are hosting a broader “Student Leadership Recognition Week” to honor the many ways students have contributed to Pitzer and their communities during our virtual academic year. Check back daily to see the students who are getting especially recognized.
#StopAsianHate: The Fight Against AAPI Racism and Violence
Monday, April 26, 4-5 p.m.
Zoom link in calendar
The pandemic, combined with anti-Asian political rhetoric, has created a new social epidemic – a dramatic rise in racism and violence again Asian American Pacific Islanders in the United States. In this talk, Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, and Karthick Ramakrishnan, professor of public policy and political science at UC Riverside, will discuss strategies and efforts for countering AAPI hate and violence.
Creating Inclusive Organizations
Tuesday, April 27, 9:15-10:30 a.m.
Zoom link in calendar
Lauren Wadsworth, PhD, will discuss practical ways that organizations (and all people) can improve their cultural awareness and support diversity/equity/inclusion practices in the workplace. Part of the Racial Justice Initiative.
CASA Pitzer: Racial and Healing Justice Speaker Series
Tuesday, April 27, 10:15-11:15 a.m.
Zoom link in calendar
This series highlights racial and healing justice within the work of community-based research and engagement. This week: Art as Culture, as Resistance, as Industry.
The People’s Pitzer: The Civics Center
Wednesday, April 28, Noon-1 p.m.
Zoom link in calendar
Join TPP and representatives from The Civics Center for a conversation about equal-access voting, civic engagement for young people, the effectiveness of change-making through voting, challenges to civic action, and much more. Part of TPP Activists Speaker Series.
Hip Hop and Afro-Colombian Vernacular Culture
Wednesday, April 28, 12:45-2 p.m.
Zoom link in calendar
Join us for an exciting experience and discover Afro-Colombian vernacular culture with Kombilesa Mí, a group that seeks to preserve a forgotten language through Hip-Hop. Kombilesa Mí will offer a performance and then engage in a discussion to valorize their unique identity as the first free slave settlement of the Americas, and Palenquero, the traditional language of their village.
Wellness Wednesday: Emotional Wellness
Wednesday, April 28, 3-4 p.m.
Join us on IG Live as we talk about Emotional Wellness and engage in Summer Self-Care Planning. Follow @PZStrive2Thrive for this event.
IDCLS Book Celebration
Thursday, April 29, 4:15-5:15 p.m.
The Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies (IDCLS) celebrates two new books by CLS Faculty including Pitzer Professor Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda’s Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras. Join us for a Zoom reading and discussion.
Reunion Celebration 2021
Friday, April 30 & Saturday, May 1
What’s so Pitzer? The Mounds? Student artists and musicians? Amazing views of the San Gabriel Mountains? Grove House cookies? Talking with friends and classmates late into the night? No matter your answer, Reunion Celebration 2021 is a great time to re-live many so-Pitzer moments while you reconnect with dear friends and favorite faculty. This will be our first virtual Reunion Celebration, and we plan to make it a memorable one!
True Equity Part 3: Our Stories: Pitzer’s Inaugural Black Alumni Caucus
Saturday, May 1, 5-6 p.m.
Registration link in calendar
The entire Pitzer community is invited to an intergenerational conversation about the lived experiences of Black students, now alumni, of Pitzer College and the actionable next steps for upholding our core values through accountability, community, and resolution to create true equity for the next generation. Led by Pitzer Alumni Board member Derric Johnson ’95.
Asynchronous and Ongoing Events
Summer Session Registration
2021 Summer Session Dates: One six-week session: May 24-July 2
Registration is open now
Summer Session is open to current students of The Claremont Colleges in good standing at their respective colleges and qualified students in good standing at other accredited colleges and universities.
Mindful Movement: Insomnia
First Wednesdays, 5:45 p.m.
Third Thursdays, 12:15 p.m.
https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/513664738
You are invited to participate in a drop-in qi gong class. The goal is to teach simple practices to help your grapple with hard situations such as illness, natural disasters, chronic stress, violence, imprisonment, inequities, death, immigration policies, and more. Open to all; no experience necessary.
Podcast Series: The Careful Photograph
New episodes released weekly
This spring, the programming for the Munroe Center for Social Inquiry is a podcast series. “The Careful Photograph” features contemporary photographers of color who are pushing the medium and posing important questions around race and identity. Each episode starts with a visual description of a single photograph by the artist, and then explores how the work in question works against expected tropes.
Explore the social media accounts of Pitzer’s offices and organizations with our social media directory.
Keep Up to Date
Visit the Pitzer Events Calendar for a more complete list of events. Submit your events or notices to the Pitzer calendar to be included in the Monday newsletter. Deadline for ZEST submissions is by noon Thursday.
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