SPRING 2006 EVENTS AT HARTLEY HOUSE 

Please contact Doreen O’Connor-Gómez if you have any questions!
doconnor@whittier.edu or (562) 907-4280

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
DINNER AT 5:30PM
FIRESIDE CHAT AT 6:00PM
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
author of
FAREWELL TO MANZANAR

During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, a 7-year-old child, Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and adapted, observed and grew. For her father it was essentially the end of his life. FAREWELL TO MANZANAR has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. Last year the San Francisco Chronicle named it one of the twentieth century’s 100 best nonfiction books from west of the Rockies.


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
THE FACULTY RESEARCH SHARING SERIES
4-6PM
David Hunt
Philosophy
From Pagan to Christian in Ancient Rome:
A Philosopher Confronts Material Culture, or my first power-point presentation

FRIDAY, MARCH 10
THE FACULTY RESEARCH SHARING SERIES
4-6PM
George de la Roza
Chinese
The Use of the Cities of Hong Kong and Shanghai as Liminal Space

TUESDAY, MARCH 14
ROCÍO GALICIA
Territorio de conflicto: la dramaturgia actual del norte de México.

DINNER AT 5:00PM AT HARTLEY HOUSE (rsvp to doconnor@whittier.edu
LECTURE AT 6:00 PM IN HOOVER 100
IN SPANISH, with ENGLISH translation provided

Rocío Galicia (México) estudió la licenciatura en Literatura Dramática y Teatro en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Posteriormente se especializó en actuación, dramaturgia y voz hablada. Actualmente cursa la maestría en Letras Modernas en la Universidad Iberoamericana. Ha publicado entrevistas, traducciones y ensayos en libros y revistas especializados de México y el extranjero. Es coautora del libro Una comedia a la antigua. Bitácora del montaje (2003). Guionista y realizadora del documental De oficio alquimistas. Los técnicos en el teatro (2005). Se desempeña como investigadora del Centro Nacional de Investigación Teatral “Rodolfo Usigli”, institución donde es titular del proyecto Territorio de conflicto. Obra y geografía de once dramaturgos norteños y de la elaboración de 2 tomos de entrevistas realizadas a los dramaturgos de la zona de Norte de México.

TUESDAY, MARCH 21
PSI CHI INDUCTION CEREMONY
6:00-8:00PM
For more info contact Lori at lcamparo@whittier.edu

FRIDAY, MARCH 24
4-6PM
THE FACULTY RESEARCH SHARING SERIES
Charles S. Adams
English
Henry Adams, Don DeLillo, and the Object of History

FRIDAY, APRIL 14
THE FACULTY RESEARCH SHARING SERIES
4-6PM
Rafael Chabrán
Spanish
Eres lo comes y cocinas: From Regional Cooking in the Middle Ages Renaissance to Spanish 290 (Food, Film and Fiction in Spain and Latin America) to Cooking at Phlight

THURSDAY, APRIL 20
Dick Hebdige
UN-IMAGINING UTOPIA: REFRAMING THE 1960'S.
Joining up the dots between Purple Haze and Prozac, the Love-in and the rave, the commune and the gating of communities this mixed media presentation explores the legacy of the US 60’s counterculture and its implications for the future of American Dreaming.

DINNER AT 5:30PM AT HARTLEY HOUSE (rsvp to doconnor@whittier.edu)
LECTURE AT 6:30 PM IN HOOVER 100

Cultural critic and writer, Dick Hebdige is a Professor in the Art and Film Studies departments at UC Santa Barbara where he also serves as Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and co-Director of the UC Institute for Research in the Arts.

MONDAY, APRIL 24
IDA Y VUELTA: WALKING TWO WORLDS
AN EVENING WITH PABLO MENENDEZ
Buffet dinner at 6:00PM
Fireside Chat at 6:30PM
MUSIC,
INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF PEACE
It is unfortunate that exchange of the arts has suffered so completely as a consequence of the complexities of US/Cuban relations. We do not often have the opportunity to freely share in the gifts of Cuba but...every so often there is an exception and Pablo Menéndez is an exception.
Mr. Menéndez arrived in Cuba in 1966 at age 14 from Oakland, California to study music. He is the only person from the United States to be living and working in Cuba and with Cuban music since 1966, the only North American that is actually an active part of the last 30 odd years of Cuban music history.
Here is YOUR opportunity to learn about life in Cuba. What are the common elements in the histories of the US and Cuba? What are the similarities and differences of the mixture of African and European ingredients? What is the history of the inter-relationship of both cultures, both pre and post revolution?


FRIDAY, APRIL 28
THE FACULTY RESEARCH SHARING SERIES
4-6PM
Surupa Gupta
Political Science
Where are the 700 million? The WTO discourse in India
and the lack of farm sector interest articulation

FRIDAY, MAY 12
THE FACULTY RESEARCH SHARING SERIES
4-6PM
Michelle Switzer
Philosophy
[Ideological] Identity: The Heart of [Political] Life


For more information on any of these programs or events, please feel free to contact your
Hartley House Faculty Master, Doreen O’Connor-Gómez, at doconnor@whittier.edu