Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Feature by: Banyan Moss ’24 and Aziz Sahbazovic ’24, Event Organizers

Dragtastica is coming your way on Saturday, March 30 at 8 p.m. in the Reid Campus Center Young Ballroom. (Flyer attached.)

Not sure what this is? It is a drag show, filled with fun, class, sass and pizzaz, hosted by the Cosmic Drag Collective student affinity group.

Everyone is welcome! This is an all ages event open to students and members of the community. We encourage you to come dressed up as well and have fun with us. During intermission there will be a people’s runway where everyone can join and strut the catwalk. Come support your kings and queens from Whitman and the community.

Doors will open at 7 p.m. and there will be a special appearance from DJ R³!

Associate Professor of Art History Matt Reynolds has published a book titled “Maya Lin, Public Art, and the Confluence Project.” The first scholarly monograph devoted exclusively to this vital work of contemporary public art, this book examines Maya Lin’s Confluence Project through the lens of environmental humanities and Indigenous studies. Reynolds provides a detailed analysis of each earthwork, along with a discussion of the proposed final project at Celilo Falls near The Dalles, Oregon. The book assesses the artist’s longtime engagement with the region of the Pacific Northwest and explores the Confluence Project within Lin’s larger oeuvre.

Associate Professor of Sociology Álvaro Santana-Acuña recently published an article in the New York Times titled “Would It Really Be Better to Never See Gabriel García Márquez’s Final Book?” Santana-Acuña, who has published two books on the late author and his works, reflects on the controversial decision made by García Márquez’s heirs to posthumously publish his unfinished novel, “Until August.” Santana-Acuña was also recently interviewed by the BBC (starting at 17:41), NPR and other international media on the same topic.

All students are invited to an information session on Wednesday, March 27 at 6 p.m. in the Stanton Hall main lounge. Enjoy free pizza, while Krista Timm, a health educator with the Walla Walla County Department of Community Health and recent college graduate, talks about and answers questions on the health effects and laws around smoking, vaping and cannabis use. (Flyer attached.)

José Jorge Mendoza, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, will deliver a lecture titled “Crimmigration and the Ethics of Migration” on Thursday, March 28 at 4 p.m. in Olin Auditorium. Mendoza will examine how states deploy coercion on a population that has neither given its consent nor been given proper legal protections. (Flyer attached.)

Cassandra Extavour, the Timken Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will deliver a lecture tilted “Alien Invasion: Discovering Chimeric Genes Birthed by DNA Fusion Across Kingdoms of Life” on Thursday, March 28 at 7 p.m. in Maxey Auditorium. Extavour will discuss laboratory research on the evolution of animal reproduction and the genes that govern it. (Flyer attached.)

Author Mia Mask will talk about her book “Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western” on Friday, March 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Olin Hall, room 129. (Flyer attached.) A first-of-its kind, the book illuminates the figure of the Black cowboy while examining the intersection of African American film history and the western. “Black Rodeo” is available for purchase in the Whitman College Bookstore.

From visiting Los Angeles (pictured) to backpacking in Utah to networking in New York City, Whitman students made the most of their time off for Spring Break. See more photos on Instagram or LinkedIn.

Noon

Information Session: Peace Corps

Baker Center, Board Room

Noon

Information Session: Summer Whitman Internship Grant Application

Reid Campus Center, Room 240 (RSVP)

Noon

Microlesson: How to Promote Talk About Hot Topics Without Getting Burned

Reid Campus Center, Room 207

12:10–12:50 p.m.

Movement That Matters: Stretch & Strength

Sherwood Athletic Center

1–5 p.m.

Thesis Support Time

Penrose Library

3–5 p.m.

Open Office Hours: Off-Campus Studies

Memorial Building, Room 205

4 p.m.

Workshop: Work Abroad

Olin Hall, Room 129

4:30 p.m.

Z-Fit!

Reid Side Lawn or Sherwood 114 (weather dependent)

5 p.m.

Finding the Children: Using Archaeology To Search for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential School Sites in Canada

Maxey Hall, Room W42 (via Zoom)

6 p.m.

Information Session: Smoking, Vaping and Cannabis

Stanton Hall, Main Lounge

7 p.m.

Collaboration and Big Data in Neuroimaging: Advancing Research and Education

Hall of Science, Room 100

7 p.m.

Mindful Communication Workshop (Dialogue & Dignity)

Olin Auditorium

8 p.m.

Housing Week Open House

Stanton Hall, Main Lounge

8–10 p.m.

Open Kayak

Harvey Pool

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