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 Interim Director Paul Cahill.
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.
Upcoming Events
March 7
Connecting Past and Present through Biwa Storytelling
Nobuko Fukatsu, Biwa Musician
Co-sponsored with the Asian Languages and Literatures Department
March 25
TBD
Alessandro Morosin, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Criminology, University of La Verne
Co-sponsored with the Programs in International Relations and Environmenal Analysis at Pomona College
April 1
Metaphors, Mistakes, Mollusks, & Mayonnaise: Translating Giorgio de Chirico
Stefania Heim, Associate Professor of English, Western Washington University
Co-sponsored with the English Department at Pomona College
April 3
TBD
Ibrahim al-Assil, Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University and Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute
Co-sponsored with the International Relations Program at Pomona College
May 6
Conversation Courses: A Roundtable with the Language Residents
Co-sponsored with the Foreign Language Resource Center at Pomona College
2024-2025 Past Events
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 Wig Grant, the Asian Languages and Literatures Department at Pomona College and the Claremont Colleges Library
October 22
2024 Oldenborg Summer Intensive Language Study Grant Recipients
Keli Fisher, PO '25
Matilda Kirk, PO '25
Audrey Strevey, PO '25
October 28
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 Studies Program, Earlham College
Co-sponsored with the International and Domestic Programs Office at Pomona College
November 1
2024 Oldenborg Research and Travel Grant Recipients
Willa Marie Albrecht, PO '25
Katie Stuart, PO '25
November 15
Hidden Child of the Holocaust Shares her Story
Monique Saigal Escudero, Professor Emerita, Romance Languages and Literatures, Pomona College
Co-sponsored with the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at Pomona College
December 3
Oldenborg Cinema: Short Films and Comic Sketches
Oldenborg Conversation Class Students & Language Residents
Co-sponsored with the Foreign Language Resource Center at Pomona College
February 20
New Approaches to Global Health: The Microbiome in the Literary Imagination
Nicole A. Sütterlin, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Co-sponsored with the German and Russian Department at Pomona College
February 21
Whose Planet? Gina Yum ’25 and Selene Li ’25 on Attending the Global Climate Summit (COP29)
Gina Yum, PO ’25 and Selene Li PO ’25
Co-sponsored with the Environmental Analysis Programs at Pomona College and Claremont McKenna College
February 25
Study Abroad in Central Asia: A Panel Discussion by Students and Faculty
Alexandra Runnels (PO ’25), Alexander Assoufid (PO ’26), and Colin Elias (PO ’26)
Anne Dwyer, Associate Professor of German and Russian, Pomona College
Co-sponsored with the German & Russian Department at Pomona College
February 28
Healing Our Truth: Khmer Rouge Survivors and Justice in the Extraordinary Chambers of Cambodia
Leakhena Nou, Professor of Sociology, California State University, Long Beach
Co-sponsored with the Orientation Book Committee at Pomona College