To encourage dialogue and connection around They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us before the official seminar-style discussion on campus during Orientation Week (led by faculty and staff from across the college), the Pomona Center for Speaking, Writing, and the Image (the CSWIM—Pomona's writing center) gathers together a team of Orientation Book Partners. These current students kick off the year's orientation book events with a series of casual book club meet-ups. Join to connect with current and incoming Pomona students, and get a sense of what academic discussion can look like in a college environment!
Zoom link for the discussions is here.
Here are the session dates with the essays students can expect to chat about:
- Desire and Yearning: Sunday, July 27th, 12:00pm PST
- Carly Rae Jepsen Loves You Back
- The Weekend and The Future of Loveless Sex
- Carly Rae Jepsen And The Kingdom Of Desire
- Performance and Spectacle: Friday, August 1st, 11:00am PST
- A Night In Bruce Springsteen’s America
- The Night Prince Walked on Water
- Ric Flair, Best Rapper Alive
- Black Life On Film
- Grief and Love: Monday, August 4th, 5:00pm PST
- There Is The Picture Of Michael Jackson Kissing Whitney Houston On The Cheek
- Blood Summer, In Three Parts
- On Future And Working Through What Hurts
- Apocalypse and Alternative Futures: Tuesday, August 12th, 7:00pm PST
- I Wasn’t Brought Here, I Was Born: Surviving Punk Rock Long Enough To Find Afropunk
- Brief Notes On Staying // No One Is Making Their Best Work When They Want To Die
- Searching For A New Kind Of Optimism
- Surviving On Small Joys