Each semester, Oldenborg collaborates with faculty and invites noted scholars, writers, activists, and professionals to speak on topics of cultural and international interest. To suggest a speaker, email Oldenborg co-directors, Carolina De la Rosa Bustamante and Eileen Cheng .
Talks are added throughout the year. Check back often for updates to our schedule and sign up for Friends of Oldenborg mailing list to stay up to date on talks and events. Dining hall access requires a meal purchase; 5C students swipe in and 7C faculty/staff sign in. Community members should purchase their meal tickets in advance at Café 47.
Fall 2024
September 26
Why Americans Should Care about Governance in Europe, and What it Means for U.S. Security
Robin S. Brooks, State Department Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Co-sponsored with the International Relations Program and the Politics Department at Pomona College
September 30
Debalkanizing the Balkans: New National Cinemas and the Post-Yugoslav Film Industry
Sanja Lacan, Managing Editor, Center for European and Russian Studies, University of California Los Angeles
Co-sponsored with the German and Russian Department at Pomona College
October 17
Transpacific Traces: Cold War Taiwan and its Visual-Material Afterlives
Joseph W. Ho, Associate Professor of History, Albion College
Co-sponsored with the Claremont Colleges Library
October 29
Revisiting the Archive of the Unexpected: Lettered Incursions in the Borderlands, The Case of “La Vorágine” and the Border Studies Program
Diego Bustos, Director of the Spanish Program, Border Spanish Program, Earlham College
Co-sponsored with the International and Domestic Programs Office at Pomona College