Whitman College
Belonging to the Future by Retelling the Past
Whitman College, Olin Hall Room 138Lecture by Susan J. Brison, Professor of Philosophy and Susan and James Wright Professor of Computation and Just Communties at Dartmouth College. Lecture is titled “Belonging to the Future by Retelling the Past.” This talk explores how those whose lives seem hopeless can construct new narratives of their pasts that enable them to create future […]
Critical South-North Dialogues on Mining Extraction and the Energy Transition
Whitman College Maxey Hall, Room 306This series of public talks center on the socio-ecological impacts of the mega-mine “Mirador” in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. These talks feature members from the Indigenous organization CASCOMI and of the environmental collective Comunálisis, who will share (via zoom) their insights and expertise on the entrenched politics and conflicts related to the rise of extractive […]
Critical South-North Dialogues on Mining Extraction and the Energy Transition
Whitman CollegeThis series of public talks center on the socio-ecological impacts of the mega-mine “Mirador” in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. These talks feature members from the Indigenous organization CASCOMI and of the environmental collective Comunálisis, who will share (via zoom) their insights and expertise on the entrenched politics and conflicts related to the rise of extractive […]
Watson Fellowship Q&A Panel with Alumni
Olin Hall Auditorium, 138Whitman alumni Annie Means '22, Cameron Conner '20, and Katie Jose '23 will share stories of pursuing their passions around the world through the Watson Fellowship. Learn about the experiences of these alumni on their Watson Fellowship years abroad, and how the fellowship is helping them launch into their next steps. To learn more about […]
Classics Lecture | Madeline Miller
Kimball Theatre in Hunter Conservatory 324 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, United StatesJudd D. Kimball Endowed Lecture in Classics Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at 6:00 pm Kimball Theater in Hunter Conservatory An Evening with Madeline Miller This is a hybrid event. Please join us in-person or online for this livestreamed Zoom lecture. A Q&A moderated at the in-person event in Kimball Theater will follow the Zoom lecture. […]
Reimagining Border Crises through Black “Aliveness”: Spectacular Urgencies and Quotidian Lives
Olin Hall Auditorium, 138Guest speaker Lisa Flores, the Josephine Berry Weiss Chair of the Humanities and professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State, will deliver a public talk on "Spectacular Urgencies and Quotidian Lives: Reimagining Border Crises through Black “Aliveness.” In recent years, public imaging of U.S. border crises, especially […]
Reimagine Resilience: Storytelling as a Portal to Prevention
Whitman College - Olin Hall 138Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess - award-winning author, scholar, and professor at Columbia University - centers storytelling at the heart of scholarship, research, and work across America in service of building belonging and nurturing resilience to hate across communities. Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess released her second nonfiction contribution, Three Summers (Macmillan Publishers-FSG, 2024) to critical acclaim. Three Summers is a […]
Third Space Speakers Series presents: Amanda Nguyen
Whitman College - Reid Center - Young Ballroom 280 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, WA, United StatesAmanda Nguyen is an activist and astronaut. She passed the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights unaniomously in the United States and United Nations through her organization Rise, and subsequently ignited the Stop Asian Hate movement in 2021. She will become the first Vietnamese woman to go to space when she flies on an upcoming […]
“Regalia in Relation: Northwest Coast Arts and Ties to Territory”
Olin Hall Auditorium 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, United StatesCeremonial clothing means more than just being dressed appropriately for the occasion. Button blankets, aprons, robes, and masks are essential to ongoing expressions of inherited rights and privileges. Shifting the scholarly focus from the carved traditions in Northwest Coast art, this talk recenters the textile arts within a holistic culturally-focused context while addressing issues of […]
