Linda Villarosa on Health Inequity and Racism in America

Keynote speaker Linda Villarosa spoke on her book, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America, as part of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences’ Engaging the World series. ETW focuses on a different social issue every year – the theme for 2023 is “Leading the Conversation on Health Equity,” with Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences as a co-sponsor.

Family photograph from Heart Mountain War Relocation Center. 

The Takaragawa Family at Heart Mountain

With the support of a $100,000 grant from the California State Library California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, Dr. Stephanie Takaragawa (Sociology), will utilize the Takaragawa family collection of photographs to understand what life in the incarceration camps looked like and how incarcerees chose to remember their experiences at Heart Mountain War Relocation Center.

Career Corner:
Scholarship Negotiation, An Underused Aspect of Law School Admissions  

Congrats, you’ve been accepted to law school! Most aspiring law school students do not realize that many law schools are open to a dialogue surrounding scholarship offers beyond what they originally offer. Learn how to get the conversation started!

Intern Diya Patel and Registrar for the Escalette Collection Jessica Bocinski working on the Home exhibition. 

Highlights of an Escalette Collection Summer Intern

The Escalette Permanent Collection of Art intern Diya Patel (BA Philosophy; Psychology '26) "lived and breathed" the collection this past summer. She writes, "the highpoint of my internship began when my co-intern, Abigail Stephens (BA English Journalism; History; CCI minor '26), and I curated a display case in Moulton Hall. Settling on the theme of “Home”, we thrifted old postcards and photographs to fill the backdrop... The idea was for Chapman students to find a little corner of Chapman that reminds them of where they came from."

Faculty Books: Design for Emergency Management

Do you know how to handle an emergency? Few do. Tunnel vision occurs at all levels—emergency managers, first responders, tourists, commuters, community leaders, and local residents. This is why Professor Claudine Jaenichen (Graphic Design) and a team of professionals from The Design Network for Emergency Management (DNEM) created Design for Emergency Management, which expands how we define and think about these critical roles and relationship between design and emergencies.

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Tuesday, October 17 at 7 p.m.
Beckman Hall 404

In partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, historian Dr. Daniel Greene and award-winning documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage will discuss the actions of Varian Fry (1907-1967), a New York intellectual who spent a year in the southern port city of Marseilles after France fell to the Nazis. Defying the Nazis, the French Vichy regime, and his own government, Fry led one of the most remarkable and successful rescue efforts of the Nazi era, saving some 2,000 artists, intellectuals, and anti-Nazi refugees.

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Wednesday, October 18 at 7 p.m.
Leatherby Libraries,
Henley Reading Room

On Thursday (Oct. 18) Dr. Norma Bouchard will give a talk titled "The Global Italian Diaspora: Texts and Contexts of Italianness in an Era of Global Migration." She will discuss the presence of migrants in Italy through testimonies and narratives that resonate with generations of Italians. As intertwined networks of "Smaller" and "Greater" Italies resurface, they offer the possibility of imagining a future where civic, social, and political rights are no longer tied to unattainable models of origin and belonging.

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Thursday, October 26 at 6 p.m.
Fowler School of Law, Room 255
Wylie Aitken Trial Courtroom

Hosted by Wilkinson College and the Office of Alumni Engagement, come listen to a panel of current law students and alumni who will discuss navigating the law school admission process and life as a law student. Following the panel will be an alumni networking reception.

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Monday, October 30 at 1 p.m.
Argyros Forum 201

In this Engaging the World event, a panel of four Southern California-based researchers including two UCLA professors, Dr. Regan Patterson and Dr. Megan Mullin, and two Ph.D. candidates from UC Santa Barbara, Timnit Kefela and Sandy Sum. Join these four researchers whose work is at the intersection of environmental and health equity. A Q&A will follow the discussion.