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2023-2024
Free Membership Appreciation Event - Taco Party at Kenneth Hahn State Park
National Women's History Museum President Frédérique Irwin and Associate Educator, Digital Learning and Innovation, Emma Rothberg. The event, "The Power of Story: Perspectives from the National Women's History Museum"
VIP Ticket Experience to See the LA Sparks Play the Atlanta Dream
2022-2023
Dr. Benjamin M. Friedman, Harvard Professor, "Religion and the Rise of Capitalism"
Taifha Alexander, UCLA Law CRT Forward Project Director, and Laura Gómez, UCLA professor and co-founder and past director of UCLA's Critical Race Studies Program discussed the founding and contributions of and recent assault on Critical Race Theory (CRT)
2021-2022
Private VIP Tour of SoFi Stadium
Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman, 2022 MacArthur Fellow and Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, "The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century"
2020-2021
Fall Events:
Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas, "Understanding the Great Apes: Fifty Years with Orangutans"
Key Connections: Puzzle Hunt with David Kwong
Spring Program:
"The Search for Life in the Universe." Co-sponsored by Harvard Alumni Club and Phi Beta Kappa in Southern California
2019-2020
Fall Events:
Dennis Byrnes, NASA Consultant speaking on "Personal Stories and Recollections of the Apollo Program"
Vault Tour at the Petersen Automotive Museum
Key Connections: Reception at Pez Cantina
Spring Program:
2018-2019
Fall Event:
Vanda Krefft, Author of The Man Who Made the Movies The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox
In Conversation with Marc Wanamaker, Film Historian
Spring Program:
U.S.S. Iowa Tour
2017-2018
Fall Events:
Key Connections: San Antonio Winery Tour
(En)Lightning Talks Los Angeles
Spring Program:
Luncheon with Emily Lakdawalla (senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist) of the Planetary Society and Frederick M. Lawrence, Secretary and CEO, Phi Beta Kappa Society
2016-2017
Fall Program:
The Broad: An Inside View
Spring Program:
An Inside View: Highlights of the Newly Renovated
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
2015-2016
Fall Program:
Japanese Immigrants and the Legal Struggle for Equality
Dr. Megan Asaka
Winter Program:
Inspiration: A Multimedia Exploration of Composers' Sources of Inspiration and How They Are Translated into Music
Dr. Alan Chapman
Spring Program and Annual Meeting:
Interplanetary Navigation: Hitting a "Hole in One"
Dr. William Owen, Jr.
2014-2015Fall Program: Sing a Song of Ella Dr. Thom Mason, USC Professor of Jazz Studies and Founder of the Jazz Studies Department at the Thornton School of Music, gave a multimedia presentation on on the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald, with rare photos, videos and interviews provided by the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation, to a lively and appreciative audience. Winter Program: Behind the Scenes at the L.A. Opera LA Opera Senior Director of Production Rupert Hemming greeted Alpha Chapter members in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to explain the intricacies of producing world-class opera. Behind him on the stage, the sets for the upcomingGhosts of Versailles were being assembled. Mr. Hemming gave us a fascinating look at the difficulties and rewards of mounting opera productions. Following Mr. Hemming's presentation, the membership was treated to a lively exposition on the "Figaro trio" presented over the 2014-15 season by the LA Opera (Rossini's Barber of Seville, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles). Spring Program and Annual Meeting: How I Killed Pluto Astronomer Michael E. Brown, Professor at CalTech, with his team has discovered many TNOs (Trans-Neptune Objects), including the "dwarf" planet ERIS. He is the author of the 2010 book, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming. In his illustrated talk, he discussed Pluto and its "demotion" and explored in depth several other discoveries and their implications. |
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