A Biography, on Monday, March 10, at 10 a.m. in Samuelson Chapel and at 8 p.m. in Preus-Brandt Forum. He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly and serves as judge for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize in Dublin, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award given by the Claremont Graduate School. Miles has served as executive director of the University of California Press and is a past president of the National Book Critics Circle. Before joining the Claremont Graduate School faculty, Miles was with the Los Angeles Times for 10 years, serving as book editor and as a member of the editorial board. They will be joined by Rabbi Steven Cohen, director of UCSB Hillel.
Admission is free to both lectures.
The Chinese Art Association of Southern California will display art work in the foyer of California Lutheran University's Pearson Library from March 3 through March 14 featuring Chinese ink and brush paintings. On Wednesday, March 12, a variety of cultural events will be held in CLU's Preus-Brandt Forum. A discussion of the film, which has English subtitles, will be led by Dr. Xiang Chen, CLU assistant professor of philosophy. These CLU Asian Festival activities are free and open to the public. In 1942 as a young music student at Oslo University, Dittmann joined the underground movement to resist the Nazi occupation.