From Wednesday, April 15, to Friday, April 17, monks from the historic Gaden Shartse Monastery in India visited Pomona College’s Benton Museum of Art. Their ceremony centered around a large mandala as well as guided meditations and valuable lessons throughout. On Friday, the mandala was symbolically disassembled, providing a teaching on the impermanence of life.
Author: Shannon Bigelow
Beyond the headlines: Amanda Knox on grief, media and moving forward
When Amanda Knox took the stage at Scripps’ Garrison Theater on Wednesday, March 24, she didn’t just revisit the headlines — she reclaimed her story. Once cast as a global villain after the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, Knox reflected on the trauma of grief compounded by suspicion, media frenzy and a justice system that moved too quickly to judge.
SACSE hosts Ath talk: ‘Who Fuels the Sex Trade?’
On Friday, February 20, the Athenaeum hosted advocate Cristian Eduardo and lawyer Yasmin Vafa for a talk titled “Dismantling Demand: Who Fuels the Sex Trade and at What Cost?”
‘Don’t play God’: Professor Paul Hurley on outcome-centered morality
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, in the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College Professor of Philosophy Paul Hurley delivered a talk titled “Are you Living in a Funhouse Mirror?”
When art inspires science: ‘The Gallery of Hope’ opens at the Clark Humanities Museum
At the Clark Humanities Museum’s Gallery of Hope, artist Hadi Madjid’s paintings explore how imagination can precede calculation, and how art and physics can inform one another in unexpected ways. A part of Stories in Science, this exhibit invites students to think beyond disciplinary boundaries and zoom out on the way in which differing fields can complement one another.