May Meeting the Moment Movie Nite: Saving Mr. Banks

Wednesday, May 5, 2021.

6:00 – 8:30 pm PST

Each month, two Fellows from the Meeting the Moment Program will screen a movie + and host a short, post-film discussion on the monthly theme. We’ll use the movie as a prompt to lean into what it means to meet the monthly theme. May’s theme is Play, and our movie is SAVING MR. BANKS. The evening will be hosted by Meeting the Moment Fellows DeeSoul Carson ’21 and JJ Kapur ’22.


April Meeting the Moment Movie Nite: Minari

Weds, April 6th, 2021. 6 – 8:30 PM PST.

Each month, two Fellows from the Meeting the Moment Program will screen a movie + and host a short, post-film discussion on the monthly theme. We’ll use the movie as a prompt to lean into what it means to meet the monthly theme. April’s theme is Ancestry, and our movie is MINARI. The evening will be hosted by Meeting the Moment Fellow Elaine Lai, PhD candidate and Program Associate Emma Master ’19.


June Meeting the Moment Movie Nite: Paris is Burning

Wednesday, May 24, 2021.

6:00 – 8:30 pm PST

Each month, two Fellows from the Meeting the Moment Program will screen a movie + and host a short, post-film discussion on the monthly theme. We’ll use the movie as a prompt to lean into what it means to meet the monthly theme. June’s theme is Joy as Resistance, and our movie is PARIS IS BURNING. The evening will be hosted by Meeting the Moment Fellow Kory Gaines ’21 and Senior Producer Allie Wollner. Register here.

 


March Meeting the Moment Movie Nite: Stand and Deliver

Wednesday, March 10, 2021. 6:00 – 8:30 pm PST.

Each month, two Fellows from the Meeting the Moment Program will screen a movie + and host a short, post-film discussion on the monthly theme. We’ll use the movie as a prompt to lean into what it means to meet the monthly theme. March’s theme is Reimagining Genius, and our movie is STAND AND DELIVER. The evening will be hosted by Meeting the Moment Fellows DeeSoul Carson ’21 and JJ Kapur ’22. 


February Meeting the Moment Movie Nite: Whale Rider

Wednesday, Feb 20th, 2021. 6:00 – 8:30 PT.

Each month, two Fellows from the Meeting the Moment Program will screen a movie + and host a short, post-film discussion on the monthly theme. We’ll use the movie as a prompt to lean into what it means to meet the monthly theme. February’s theme is Intimacy, and our movie is WHALE RIDER. The evening will be hosted by Meeting the Moment Fellow Luciana Frazao MS ’21 and Elaine Lai, PhD Candidate.


January Meeting the Moment Movie Nite: City of God

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021. 6:00 – 8:30 pm PST.

Each month, two Fellows from the Meeting the Moment Program will screen a movie + and host a short, post-film discussion on the monthly theme. We’ll use the movie as a prompt to lean into what it means to meet the monthly theme. January’s theme is Anger & Justice, and our movie is CITY OF GOD. The evening will be hosted by Meeting the Moment Fellows Luciana Frazao MS ’21 and Kory Gaines ’21.


Doing Environmental History

HISTORY 200B
Spring 2019
Tues/Thurs, 1:30-2:50
Instructors: Jake Warga, Richard White
5 units, WAYS-CE, WAYS-SI

This will be a hands-on course that will emphasize how to do environmental history. It will be multidisciplinary, but will emphasize the different formats — photography, film, podcasts, digital representations, and writing — in which the history can be analyzed and presented. This course forms part of the “Doing History” series: rigorous undergraduate colloquia that introduce the practice of history within a particular field or thematic area.


Tools for a Meaningful Life

LIFE 101
Instructors: Jonah Willihnganz, Andrew Todhunter, Fred Luskin, Farshid Oshidari
Fall 2018, Tues/Thurs, 3 pm-4:20
3 Units

Explores the foundational skills for a meaningful life. Features lectures by faculty from across the university and labs for experiential practice. Draws on research and practices from fields related to psychology, philosophy, literature, and neuroscience, as well as wisdom traditions from around the world. Focuses on developing human capacities necessary for a meaningful life including; attention, courage, devotion, resilience, imagination, and gratitude. Exposure to these capacities influences personal growth and its development in communities.


Neil Gaiman in Conversation

Thu, November 15, 2018 | 8:00pm
Dinkelspiel Auditorium

One of the most celebrated writers of our time, Neil Gaiman’s popular and critically acclaimed books bend genres while reaching audiences of all ages. Gaiman’s best-selling works range from the groundbreaking Sandman graphic novels, to  fantasy novel-turned-television-series American Gods, to beloved children’s literature such as Coraline and The Graveyard Book. At this reading and conversation event, Gaiman will share some of his latest work, explore the cultural role of  ancient and modern myths, and discuss his own ranging literary imagination, where childhood’s loss of innocence plays out on a mythic scale.