PBK - Phi Beta Kappa

A lecture by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black, Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies Studies at UCLA. Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black will offer a public lecture on the relationship between migration and art. In introducing the lecture, Charlene Villaseñor Black writes: Can art effect political change, and if so, how? Can it move us to action, empathy, andhope? I consider these questions as I investigate Chicanx (Mexican American) artists’ responses to global migration, in particular, Los Angeles artist Sandy Rodriguez (born1975).

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, Professor Laurence C. Smith, Brown University

Please join us for Prof. Smith’s lecture entitled” Rivers of Power: How an Ancient Force Rules us Still.”

Laurence C. Smith is the John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies in the Institute at Brown for Environment & Society and the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. His research interests include the Arctic, water resources, and satellite remote sensing technologies.

“Political Polarization and the Road to the Trump Presidency”

As this year’s Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecturer, Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and CNN Political Analyst, will explore the roots of our turbulent political scene. Professor Zelizer is one of the country’s leading political historians and the author and editor of more than a dozen books.