Lectures

Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award-winning actress, singer, and dancer Rita Moreno will deliver the Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs and the Arts on Monday, April 10 at 7 p.m. in Schneebeck Concert Hall. Tickets for the event are $45 and can be purchased at tickets.pugetsound.edu.

Climate change affects communities and their cultural heritage in many different ways. Our speakers will present archaeological research focused on the ways Indigenous peoples of the Northwest have adapted to changing environments in the past. In addition, we will hear about how climate change impacts the stewardship of cultural resources at present.

GUEST SPEAKERS:

The U.S. has lived through a half century of a neoliberal model of economic governance and economic inequality and now stands at a level not seen since the Roaring Twenties. Americans are more divided today than at any point in recent history along the lines of ideology, politics, and race. Just how serious is the legitimation crisis facing the elites and just how hostile are we to each other? What are the causes of these conflicts? Pierce County People’s Project is investigating these questions through a mixed-methods study of a random sample of county residents.

We invite you to join this facilitated, engaging and interactive discussion focusing on death as an idea, fear and anxiety around end of life and death and dying, the dying process, ceremonies and rituals in various cultures, death metaphors, hospice, and grief and loss. Together we'll explore these experiences, which touch all of our lives, as we become more comfortable discussing death in both private and professional settings. This discussion will be particularly helpful for healthcare providers, and those training to become healthcare providers.

But Some of Us Are BRAVE: Narratives of Scholarship, Resistance, and Activism by Women & Womxn of color

Join us for this special one lecture return of the Brave Series: Reading Race and Gender in Yucatán's "Caste War" with Sarah Bey-West, Ph.D.

Zoom lecture hosted by Professor Man He from Williams College 

Topic: Women Represented in Chinese Films, Advertisements, and Theaters, 1930s-1940s

Zoom Link:  https://pugetsound-edu.zoom.us/j/89304712019

A co-sponsored event in honor of May 5, Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, join the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity and Collins Library for a documentary film screening of Sisters Rising. Please R

Tacoma Film Festival's Audience Award winner, "Buffalo Soldiers," will have a free screening followed by a post-film talk with creator/director Dru Holley. This program packed two theaters at The Grand Cinema, and its post-film discussion, as well.

This Native Daily Network's documentary Ancestral Waters 2022 chronicles the Puyallup Tribe's fight to protect its waters from a fracked gas refinery at the Port of Tacoma.  The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Benita and Darren Moore and a representative from the local environmental group 350 Tacoma.

The event is sponsored by the Department of English and the Native Indigenous Student Alliance

All are welcome to our Spring '23 Swope Endowed Lecture, featuring the artists of Nefesh Mountain.  Nefesh Mountain is a New Jersey-based band that has worked for nearly a decade to weave together Jewish culture and spirituality with bluegrass music (as well as folk, Americana, and other styles).  A long-time collaborator with Puget Sound, the Swope lecture will present Nefesh Mountain in a new format - blending interview, storytelling, and performance.