Events

Bettina Love is an award-winning author and hip-hop scholar. In her new book, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, the University of Georgia associat

This event is sold out. Tickets may become available on the day of the program. Please visit the Scripps Presents Box Office at Garrison Theater beginning at 6:30 pm on the day of the program to have you name added to the wait list

Geneva Griswold's work as the associate objects conservator at the Seattle Art Museum is both an art and a science. The 2007 Scripps graduate oversees the installation, storage, display, and preservation of the mus

Liz Lerman's history of sly, grotesque, sensual, and wildly creative women debuts as a work in progress on the Scripps stage. Inspired, in part, by the College's Denison Library's Witches and Healing archiv

Sally Wen Mao's poetry collection Oculus is an eerie, yet powerful, exploration of technology. The 2017 Pushcart Prize winner deploys sharp wit and a speculative imagination to confront the spectacle

When it comes to parsing the rapidly changing online media landscape, readers look to Andrew Marantz. The New Yorker writer has explored the topic from a variety of angles, investigating social media trolls

Gaby Dunn's podcast Bad with Money features episodes like "Screaming Into a Jar (aka Student Loans)," "It's Not Just a Few Feet of Sea Level Rise (aka Climate Change is an Economic Issue)," and "Who Can Affo

Morgan Parker and Nicole Sealey mine the personal and political in their poetry, both reveling in and revealing the issues at the heart of contemporary life. Parker's most recent collection, Th

Heartland politics: rather than a monolithic "flyover country," the midwestern voting public can be—as both parties learned during the last presidential election—stubbornly elusive. Who better to make that point than an

Mindfulness, self-care, and "positive thinking" are all touted as panaceas for negative emotions. But according to University of California, Berkeley, researcher Iris Mauss, if you're feeling down, the self-imposed