2013-2014 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Pomona’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter. To celebrate our centennial, the chapter will host a series of talks, including presentations given by departments/programs at Pomona, to spark a campus conversation on liberal arts education. Except where noted, each event will be held in the Frank Dining Hall Blue Room at noon. All members of the Pomona College community (faculty, staff, and students) are invited to attend. The cost of the lunches will be covered with the generous support of the Office of the President. For more information, please contact Professor Mary Paster.
SPRING PRESENTATIONS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 28:
“The Centrality of Computer Science to a Modern Liberal Arts Education”
presented by Computer Science
“PPE and the Multidimensionality of Problem-Solving”
presented by PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics)
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18:
“The Liberal Arts and the Arts of Liberty”
presented by Politics
“Bridging 6th Street: Math and the Humanities”
presented by Mathematics
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
TUESDAY, MARCH 11:
“Liberal Arts and the Art of Disagreement”
presented by Philosophy
“German and the Liberal Arts – German in the Liberal Arts”
presented by the German Program
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
TUESDAY, APRIL 8:
“Prudential Reasoning and Human Flourishing:
The Role of Economics in the Liberal Arts”
presented by Economics
“Music as a Liberal Art”
presented by Music
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 4:15pm, ROSE HILLS THEATRE:
A talk by Cecilia Conrad
Director of the MacArthur Fellows Program and former Dean of Pomona College
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
PAST EVENTS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15:
“Embodied Knowledge: Performance and the Liberal Arts”
presented by Theatre and Dance
“From Studia Humanitatis to the Liberal Arts:
Art History, the Museum, and Modern Visual Cultures”
presented by Art History
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5:
“How Does a ‘New’ Discipline Become Part of the Liberal Arts?”
presented by STS (Science, Technology, and Society)
“Writing in/and the Liberal Arts”
presented by Dara Regaignon, Director of College Writing
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 4:15pm, ROSE HILLS THEATRE:
“The Humanities in an Era of Change”
presented by Earl Lewis, President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •