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Benson Auditorium

1050 N. Mills Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711 United States Get Directions
The George C.S. Benson Auditorium is in Avery Hall facing the Mounds in the center of campus.
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Moonlight Club Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

The film Moonlight Club is a movie about love, joy, acceptance, and happiness. This film has been shown at multiple screenings and festivals in Japan. The three actors, the director, and a Pitzer alum, Makiko Young, who is involved with the film will all be travelling to Pitzer from Kyoto, Japan and New York, New […]

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Screening & Discussion: The Barber of Little Rock

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Join a special screening of the 2024 Academy Award-nominated short film, The Barber of Little Rock, followed by a discussion with co-director John Hoffman and the titular barber himself, Arlo Washington. This event is co-sponsored by the Presidential Initiative on Constructive Dialogue and the Melvin L. Oliver Racial Justice Initiative. February 20, 2024 at 4:30 […]

Anna Malaika Tubbs: The Three Mothers

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Have you ever thought about the contribution of mothers in shaping our nation in the face of patriarchy? Did your K-12 history books give a nuanced understanding of the Civil Rights Movement? Join us as we unpack these questions and more in the first installment of the Presidential Constructive Dialogues Initiative. Watch the recording of […]

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Event Series Media Drops – Fall 2023 End of Semester Screenings

Media Drops – Fall 2023 End of Semester Screenings

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

The End of Semester Screenings will be on Wednesday, December 6th from 5:30 - 7:30pm (All Participating Production Classes), and Friday, December 8th from 11:15AM - 7:00PM (Senior Projects) in Benson Auditorium (PZ Campus). The December 6th program will feature works by: MS045 Documentary Media (Prof. Lerner)  MS082:  Intro to Video Art (Prof. Checcet)  MS148 […]

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Pepper Visiting Artist & MCSI Lecture – Gala Porras-Kim

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Internationally renowned artist, Gala Porras-Kim will present her ongoing research on archaeological objects, institutional histories, museum ethics, and collecting practices, in relation to her upcoming Spring exhibition at Pitzer College Art Galleries. Porras-Kim's research-based practice explores the relationships between objects and artifacts and the institutions that care for, collect and display them. Gala Porras-Kim's work […]

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A Million Miles Away screening with special guest Peter Case

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Intercollegiate Media Studies presents a special screening event featuring the documentary Peter Case: A Million Miles Away w/ special guests Peter Case and director Fred Parnes. Click here for the movie trailer

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MCSI Series: Apologies, Reparations, and Restitution – Mary Miller

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

How did works of ancient, pre-Hispanic Mexico first come to the United States?  Who collected them, and why?  In this talk, Mary Miller will focus on the turn mid-20th century from archaeological and anthropological collections and study to those driven by the art market, and to the representation of pre-Hispanic art in departments of art history.  […]

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Break and Flow: The Poetics of Hip Hop in Latin America

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Charlie Hankin in conversation with Fély Catan This year, hip hop turned 50. In Latin America, rappers claim the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class violence. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese […]

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MCSI Series: Apologies, Reparations, and Restitution – Charles Cronin

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

The aesthetic, emotional, and economic significance of most tangible cultural artifacts is generated primarily by their creators’ application of human intelligence to materials like stone, paint, wood, etc. Digital technologies allow increasingly precise documentation and reproduction of these investments of human intelligence. Accordingly, we can – and should – place greater value on information that we can […]

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Stephen and Sandra Glass Annual Humanities Lecture

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Mettle, Metal, and Medal, or Autotheorizing Contemporary Classical Scholarship   "Mettle, Metal, and Medal", Dr. Eccleston reflects on the racialized and gendered stakes of thinking about and with the ancient Greek (and Roman) classics today. Suzan-Lori Parks' 2015 drama, Father Comes Home from the Wars, is often marketed as an adaptation of Homer's epic poem, Odyssey. Parks has repeatedly rejected […]

MCSI Series: “Holocaust Restitution: A Moral, Historical, and Political Problem” – Mark Weitzman

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Mark Weitzman is currently Chief Operating Officer of the World Jewish Restitution Organization where he plays a leading role in WJRO’s advocacy and negotiations efforts to recover Jewish properties in Europe, to foster memory of the Holocaust and to counter Holocaust distortion. He was previously Director of Government Affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He is […]

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MCSI Lecture | The Failure to Repair and the Persistence of Genocide

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

 This lecture is part of the 2023 MCSI Speaker series:  ‘Reparations, Apologies, and Restitution'  Description:  Armenians have been subjected to two historical cases of genocide, the 1894-96 Massacres and the Genocide of Ottoman Christians of 1913-23.  The second of these had especially devastating impacts on Armenians.  The failure to repair has been the major obstacle […]

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MCSI Lecture | The Reparative Conjuncture

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Our societal present is shaped by the insurgent recognition of antiblackness following the murder of George Floyd. This moment qualifies as a reparative conjuncture where reparations are as feasible as ever. Drawing on his scholarship and work on the CA Reparations Task Force, Lewis examines the possibilities for African American reparations by analyzing the societal […]

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Lecture: Memories of the World War II Mass Incarceration and Japanese American Redress Activism

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Event Description: This talk analyzes the movement to obtain redress for the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Multiple generations of Japanese Americans participated in three campaigns that culminated in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 providing an official apology and individual payments of $20,000 to surviving […]

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New Student Convocation

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Pitzer College will host Convocation for the incoming class of 2027 and new incoming students on Friday, August 25 in Benson Auditorium from 12:15-1:15 p.m. Watch the live stream here: https://www.pitzer.edu/convocation/ Speakers President Strom C. Thacker Allen Omoto, Dean of Faculty Sanya Dhama, Student Senate President Alayna Session-Goins, OSA Nigel Boyle, FEC Chair

Event Series THIS IS IT: Spring 2023 End of Semester Screenings

THIS IS IT: Spring 2023 End of Semester Screenings

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

The Spring 2023 End of Semester Screenings will be on Wednesday, May 3rd  (All Participating Production Classes) and Thursday, May 4th (Senior Exhibitions) in Benson Auditorium (PZ Campus). The May 3rd Screenings program begins at 12:30pm, and includes works from: Media Arts for Social Justice, Intro to Video Classes, Intermediate Video Art, Digital Media Studies, Advanced […]

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An Evening with Michelle Dowd ’90: A Conversation on Storytelling

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Moderated by Phil Zuckerman, Professor of Sociology & Secular Studies, and Associate Dean of Faculty. Michelle will also be signing copies of her new book, Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult. Check out the 2023 Alumni Weekend page for more events. Click here to register for this event.Questions? Please email [email protected].

The Boys Who Said NO! An Ode to the Power of Activism

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

The event will involve a panel of Vietnam war resisters who stood up to the United States government and fought to end the war. The acclaimed documentary film The Boys Who Said NO! will illustrate the anti-war movement and the depth of deception the United States government propagated. The Office of Alumni and Family Engagement […]

Crystal Diaries documentary screening

Benson Auditorium 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Crystal Diaries is a feature-length documentary that shares the intimate stories of five members of the LGTBQ House and Ball community in Los Angeles whose lives have been impacted by the struggle with methamphetamine addiction. This film is intended to provide solidarity, conversations around healing, and representations that mainstream media has neglected. Crystal Diaries was […]

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