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Valente Lecture: A Collaboration to Remember – Giacomo Meyerbeer, Pauline Viardot, and ‘Le Prophète’

Presented by guest lecturer Hilary Poriss, an Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University. Hilary received her bachelor’s from Bates College and her master’s and doctorate in music history from the University of Chicago. Her primary research interests reside in the 19th-century Italian and French opera, performance practice, diva culture, and musical culture aesthetics. She is

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Pence Gallery Art History Lecture Series: Elaine O’Brien

Art History Lecture Series: Elaine O’Brien (via Zoom) She Laughs Back: Feminist Wit in 1970s Bay Area Art   Join us for the next talk in our free, virtual Art History Lecture Series on March 5! Elaine O’Brien, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art at California State University, Sacramento, explores feminist wit and humor in

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Art History Lecture Series: Caitlin Schwarz (via Zoom)

‘Til Death Do Us Part: How the Victorians Kept Love Alive from Beyond the Grave Join us for the next talk in our free, virtual Art History Lecture Series on February 5th! Caitlin Schwarz (MA’ 19, UC Davis), Curatorial Assistant at the Crocker Art Museum, explores Victorian mourning culture with a focus on how the

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Nature & You Lecture Series: Changes on the Eel River Watershed

The Eel River watershed covers a large section of Northwestern California, encompassing parts of 6 counties, from Lake County in the southeast to Humboldt County in the northwest.  The headwaters of the mainstem of the Eel River are in the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument. This lecture by Alicia Hamann, Executive Director of Friends of the

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